Independent
Rhode Island
On the ballot · 2026
Key dates
Full six-year term
LGBTQ+ Rights
“But clearly, biological males should not compete in women's or girls' sports. Title IX was created to give girls a safe, fair and equal chance to excel - we must honor that purpose and keep women's sports for women.”
International Affairs & Trade
“This does not excuse Putin's aggression. Europe finds a way to make peace with Russia. As for the United States, I believe it's time to withdraw from NATO.”
Immigration
“We're spending billions on mass deportations while our legal immigration system stays broken. Rhode Islanders want a compassionate solution - not the removal of good hardworking people. We must secure our border to stop human and drug trafficking.”
Elections & Campaigns
Peace and Term Limits Counters massive incumbency advantages: With reelection rates often above 90-95% despite Congress's abysmal approval ratings, term limits break the cycle of financial dominance, name recognition, and office perks that make it nearly impossible for challengers to win leading to more competitive, responsive elections.
Independent
Rhode Island
On the ballot · 2026
Key dates
Full six-year term
LGBTQ+ Rights
“But clearly, biological males should not compete in women's or girls' sports. Title IX was created to give girls a safe, fair and equal chance to excel - we must honor that purpose and keep women's sports for women.”
International Affairs & Trade
“This does not excuse Putin's aggression. Europe finds a way to make peace with Russia. As for the United States, I believe it's time to withdraw from NATO.”
Immigration
“We're spending billions on mass deportations while our legal immigration system stays broken. Rhode Islanders want a compassionate solution - not the removal of good hardworking people. We must secure our border to stop human and drug trafficking.”
Elections & Campaigns
Peace and Term Limits Counters massive incumbency advantages: With reelection rates often above 90-95% despite Congress's abysmal approval ratings, term limits break the cycle of financial dominance, name recognition, and office perks that make it nearly impossible for challengers to win leading to more competitive, responsive elections.
The government holds the investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking of children: who paid, who flew, who knew, and which prosecutors decided back in 2008 that a plea deal was enough. Every release so far has landed late, partial, and with the redactions falling in suspiciously convenient places. The survivors have spent two decades being told to wait while the people they named kept their board seats and their reputations. There is exactly one legitimate reason to withhold any of this, and that is protecting victims who never chose to be in it; every other black box is someone being shielded who shouldn't be. Force the full release of the Epstein files with victim-identifying information redacted and nothing else, and open an independent review of how the 2008 deal was allowed to happen.
On September 15, Rep. Thomas Massie filed eight articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and the House can be forced to vote on them. The Constitution gives Congress, not the executive branch, the power to take the country to war, and it gives the House the power to remove officials who ignore that limit. Keeping American forces in combat in Iran without authorization from Congress is exactly the kind of abuse impeachment exists to answer. Impeachment is not a criminal trial. It is how Congress enforces the oath every official swears to the Constitution. Vote to impeach and remove him.
Federal law already makes it a crime to order or keep troops or armed men at a place where an election is being held, punishable by up to five years in prison and disqualification from federal office. That line has held through every contested election in living memory, because a voter who has to walk past armed federal agents to reach a ballot box is not voting freely, whatever their status. This year the signals have been mixed about whether federal personnel will be near polling places, and a draft executive order declaring a national emergency and asserting federal power over the election has circulated among the president's allies. Elections here are run by states and counties, counted in public, and certified locally. That is the design, not a loophole. Oppose any emergency federal takeover of the 2026 election and any deployment of armed federal personnel at or near polling places, and back enforcement of the ban already on the books.
The government holds the investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking of children: who paid, who flew, who knew, and which prosecutors decided back in 2008 that a plea deal was enough. Every release so far has landed late, partial, and with the redactions falling in suspiciously convenient places. The survivors have spent two decades being told to wait while the people they named kept their board seats and their reputations. There is exactly one legitimate reason to withhold any of this, and that is protecting victims who never chose to be in it; every other black box is someone being shielded who shouldn't be. Force the full release of the Epstein files with victim-identifying information redacted and nothing else, and open an independent review of how the 2008 deal was allowed to happen.
On September 15, Rep. Thomas Massie filed eight articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and the House can be forced to vote on them. The Constitution gives Congress, not the executive branch, the power to take the country to war, and it gives the House the power to remove officials who ignore that limit. Keeping American forces in combat in Iran without authorization from Congress is exactly the kind of abuse impeachment exists to answer. Impeachment is not a criminal trial. It is how Congress enforces the oath every official swears to the Constitution. Vote to impeach and remove him.
Federal law already makes it a crime to order or keep troops or armed men at a place where an election is being held, punishable by up to five years in prison and disqualification from federal office. That line has held through every contested election in living memory, because a voter who has to walk past armed federal agents to reach a ballot box is not voting freely, whatever their status. This year the signals have been mixed about whether federal personnel will be near polling places, and a draft executive order declaring a national emergency and asserting federal power over the election has circulated among the president's allies. Elections here are run by states and counties, counted in public, and certified locally. That is the design, not a loophole. Oppose any emergency federal takeover of the 2026 election and any deployment of armed federal personnel at or near polling places, and back enforcement of the ban already on the books.
