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A vision for a new economic patriotism. Let’s invent it, make it, & buy it in America. Pro-worker, pro-union, pro-family, pro-growth. Text me: (650) 999-9610
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Mark Cuban and I Disagree on the Billionaire Tax. (opens the original)
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From The Washington Posts’s Letters to the Editor.In November, Californians will vote on a one-time 5 percent tax on the state’s roughly 250 billionaires. I debated Mark Cuban last week on the proposal.California’s billionaires are worth more than $2 trillion, which is half of California’s total gross domestic pr
Democrats Lost Our Way — America’s Next New Deal Is the Way Back (opens the original)
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I am a proud Democrat. But I did not come here just to celebrate the Democratic Party. I came to speak from my heart about living up to our values.Our strongest tradition is the fight for economic democracy against oligarchy. It runs from Jefferson’s distrust of concentrated financial power, through Bryan’s defense of producers against Eastern capital, to FDR’s New Deal. It lives in Johnson’s Medicare and Medicaid. It lives in Obama’s Affordable Care Act.This is the tradition that says our party
Rep. Khanna's 14-Point Plan for America (opens the original)
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On June 17, President Trump signed a 14-point memorandum of understanding with Iran. The agreement was intended to end hostilities, reopen the Strait of Hormuz and establish a framework for Iran’s economic recovery, reconstruction, and future investment.The memorandum calls for developing a reconstruction and economic development plan of at least $300 billion for Iran, contingent on a final agreement. President Trump has said the United States will not directly finance the reconstruction, but hi
Reclaiming our Independence on America’s 250th Anniversary (opens the original)
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I am glad to be back home in Philadelphia, where I was born during our nation’s Bicentennial year. Somehow, over the last fifty years of my life, our nation has lost its way. The love of money and the love of power have corrupted our politics, hollowed out communities, and divided us bitterly.So I return to the place that first taught me what this country means. I return with the hope of transforming an unfair economic and political system that is working for a few, not the many, and reversing a
Two Decades of a Clear and Progressive Record (opens the original)
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Matt Diemer published an attack on my record the day I arrived home from the West Bank. He has said for years that America must cherish its relationship with Israel. That is his real grievance. So here is my recordIn October 2022, running for Congress, Matt Diemer told the Cleveland Jewish News that the United States has to <a href="https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/politics/elections/matthew-diemer-us-7th-district-in-ohio/article_976ab05a-4582-11ed-b
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