Green
Hawaii
On the ballot · 2026
Key dates
Full two-year term
No positions on record yet
Green
Hawaii
On the ballot · 2026
Key dates
Full two-year term
No positions on record yet
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The National Archives holds the founding documents and the receipts, the records that let a citizen check what the government actually did. The Smithsonian and the national museums hold the version of the American story that outlasts whoever is in office. None of that survives being run by whoever currently holds power. We are watching boards replaced with loyalists, exhibits rewritten to flatter one man, collections put at risk, and a Pearl Harbor hero's name scraped off a ship to make room for an ego. A country that lets its record be edited by the people the record is about has no way to hold anyone accountable later. Write independence for the National Archives, the Smithsonian, and the national cultural institutions into statute, with fixed board terms, protection from political removal, and no rewriting or renaming without public process.
In 2001, after more than 600 public hearings and 1.6 million public comments (the largest response to a federal rule in American history), the Roadless Rule protected some 58 million acres of national forest from roadbuilding and industrial logging. Those acres are the headwaters of drinking water for millions of people, the last unfragmented habitat left in a lot of states, and the elk country and trout streams hunters and anglers have defended for a generation. USDA is now moving to erase all of it administratively, which is exactly how it could be erased again by whoever runs the department next. A protection that survived two decades of litigation shouldn't rest on a memo. Write the Roadless Rule into statute, where an appointee can't repeal it.
In most of this country infant care costs more than in-state college tuition, and in many states it runs past $15,000 a year. Families are not budgeting badly. They are being asked to pay a second rent, and when they cannot, someone leaves a job they wanted to keep, overwhelmingly a mother. The federal government's own standard says child care should cost no more than 7% of a family's income. Almost nobody pays that, and Congress has known for years without acting. Fund the 7% standard for working and middle-class families, and pay providers enough to keep the doors open, because the seats do not exist if the workers cannot afford the job.
The National Archives holds the founding documents and the receipts, the records that let a citizen check what the government actually did. The Smithsonian and the national museums hold the version of the American story that outlasts whoever is in office. None of that survives being run by whoever currently holds power. We are watching boards replaced with loyalists, exhibits rewritten to flatter one man, collections put at risk, and a Pearl Harbor hero's name scraped off a ship to make room for an ego. A country that lets its record be edited by the people the record is about has no way to hold anyone accountable later. Write independence for the National Archives, the Smithsonian, and the national cultural institutions into statute, with fixed board terms, protection from political removal, and no rewriting or renaming without public process.
In 2001, after more than 600 public hearings and 1.6 million public comments (the largest response to a federal rule in American history), the Roadless Rule protected some 58 million acres of national forest from roadbuilding and industrial logging. Those acres are the headwaters of drinking water for millions of people, the last unfragmented habitat left in a lot of states, and the elk country and trout streams hunters and anglers have defended for a generation. USDA is now moving to erase all of it administratively, which is exactly how it could be erased again by whoever runs the department next. A protection that survived two decades of litigation shouldn't rest on a memo. Write the Roadless Rule into statute, where an appointee can't repeal it.
In most of this country infant care costs more than in-state college tuition, and in many states it runs past $15,000 a year. Families are not budgeting badly. They are being asked to pay a second rent, and when they cannot, someone leaves a job they wanted to keep, overwhelmingly a mother. The federal government's own standard says child care should cost no more than 7% of a family's income. Almost nobody pays that, and Congress has known for years without acting. Fund the 7% standard for working and middle-class families, and pay providers enough to keep the doors open, because the seats do not exist if the workers cannot afford the job.
