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Welcome to Phase 004
Every district in the Union is unique—shaped by its own challenges, strengths, and culture. Yet beneath that diversity lies a shared human struggle: the FRONTLINE.
Here in Virginia’s Third, it's no different.
Building a coalition ready to take on THE BIG THREE is paramount. But first, this campaign must demonstrate a deep understanding of and commitment to the everyday struggles our communities face.
In December 2025, we’ll walk through each of the urgent issues listed below.
Frontline
I s s u e s
We face a Cost of Living Crisis that reflects broader economic trends squeezing working class families.
Our Public Safety apparatus raises foundational questions about how we care for and hold each other accountable.
In the 757, the Military-Industrial Complex isn’t just abstract, federal policy, it’s woven into the economic and cultural fabric of our region.
At the center of it all, Collective Liberation reminds us that our FREEDOM is “all bound up together.”
Cost of Living Crisis
Community & Public Safety
Affordability &
Cost of Living Crisis
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Skyrocketing rents. Declining food quality and increasing prices. Vehicle maintenance. Ballooning insurance premiums. Tariffs.
For decades, corporations have consolidated power and weaponized the economy. Their goal: maximize profits, minimize costs.
Rather than use economic models that benefit everyone, corporations rely on slave labor and price gouging to ensure record profits. In the end, the suits get richer and the working class gets screwed.
Our needs are not commodities.
Addressing the Cost of Living Crisis requires building a new economic model that divorces our needs from profit margins. Main Street must be our economic foundation if we want sustainable, long-term economic stability.
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Sufficient affordable housing in a district like VA-03, where we’ve run out of land, is difficult, but not impossible, to achieve.
Cooperative housing via Urban renewal is an essential ingredient to regulate the housing market and drive down costs.
Waiting years to secure landmark legislation to reorganize and fund the Department of Housing and Urban Authority is not enough. We must organize our communities to raise the capital and build affordable housing units ourselves.
Proposal:
Start a community fund to develop affordable housing.When corporations own housing there is no incentive to stabilize prices for community development. We cannot continue to let housing be a luxury for the highest bidder or wait for the government to do something about it.
Example:
250,000 residents donate $20 a month to fully fund the development of a 200 unit apartment. Stabilized rents would then pay it forward to convert more housing. After several years, hundreds of units across VA-03 will be owned and operated by the community and not landlords. -
The Hampton Roads has the highest levels of childhood food insecurity in the state and the lifelong challenges of malnutrition only hinder our development. Hunger should be a stranger in a country this wealthy.
We don’t lack food, people lack the money to purchase it. Rather than use money to inflate food access, we must build local food infrastructure that feeds our communities.
Proposal:
Fund community gardens in each of the 184 precincts in VA-03.
Replace green spaces in VA-03 with food forests
Partner with cities to add greenhouses to schools, community centers, and libraries
Build a robust network of small businesses, restaurants, and grocery stores to minimize food waste
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Most people in VA-03 have a solo commute of 30 minutes. We all take the same major roadways from the same neighborhoods. Traffic is getting worse, lane expansions are scientifically ineffective, and the Hampton Roads’ future is doomed without comprehensive public transit.
The 64/664 corridor is perfect for high speed transit. Major roadways like Tidewater, Mercury, Jefferson, and Turnpike are perfect for light rails and trolley cars. Neighborhoods and within close proximity to utilize buses for transport to transit stations.
A comprehensive mix of buses, bike lanes, trolleys, and trains would revolutionize transit in the 757, open up more business to traffic, save money, and lower emissions.
Plus, we need to put that $70 million dollar tunnel boring machine to good use.
Proposal:
Work with city leaders, residents, and federal agencies to build a comprehensive public transit systems across the 757. -
Dominion playing games with our utilities while using their overcharges to fund political campaigns.
It’s legalized corruption.
Community &
Public Safety
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Poverty induces crime. Tackling the Cost of Living Crisis will directly address the root causes of crime in the region.
The carceral system does not achieve its intended goal. After decades of mass incarceration, crime continues to fluctuate independent of prison populations. .
Yes, there are some people that should not have access to a general society for a multitude of reasons. However, using a system designed to maximize cruelty achieves nothing.
We must adopt a criminal justice system that prioritizes rehabilitation, not retribution.
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Police have too much power in the United States and over the years the Supreme Court has only strengthened police powers while eliminating avenues for accountability.
Use of force isn't only police killings, it involves the way officers speak to civilians, unnecessarily stop and detain civilians, and ultimately use force in situations is isn’t warranted.
For too long we’ve asked the question, “when is it not okay to use deadly force?” Such questioning makes the standards of force retroactive, allowing harm to be done at the public’s expense.We need a standard of care that clearly defines when force will be used.
How many times can you be asked to comply before being wrestled to the ground? What are the standards for when you must exit a vehicle?
There is no clearly defined code that governs police interactions. We must create one. This will aid this application of qualified immunity as well as enable citizens to make informed decisions.
Policy Proposal:
Work with federal, state, and local law enforcement to create a set of public guidelines governing police interactions. -
Policing communities is not a task to be completed like delivering a package or advising financial decisions. Policing is about maintaining order in a community. Yet, how can officers know what “order” is in any particular community if they are not members of it?
Example:
A group of kids always hangout past curfew. The most illegal thing they do is break curfew. Parents and neighbors regularly tell them to go home. The community knows they pose no threat, but agree they should be inside after 11pm, not hanging on the street. Community policing adequately addresses the situation without severe consequences. That changes when officers outside the community are on patrol neighborhoods.
A family in the neighborhood has a domestic dispute and the police are called. An officer arrives and doesn't know these kids. When officers arrive and see them, they go investigate. Now the children are worried. They scatter. An officer sees those kids running and immediately suspects danger. We know all too well how this story often ends.
Should officers have the power to police communities they are unfamiliar with? That fundamental question is rarely addressed by legislation, but it must.
Policy Proposal:
Require police departments to integrate community outreach into their patrols and prioritize relationship building with community members. -
Gun violence is ubiquitous in the United States. Unfortunately, VA-03 is no exception.
No happy individual, content with life, knowing unconditional love has picked up a gun and committed senseless gun violence. Addressing the problem comes down to building community.
In the Hampton Roads there is an entertainment vacuum and lack of broad connections.
However, the problem doesn't stop there. Advancing technology makes printing guns easy. We need serious safeguards in place to ensure the entire gun safety schema cannot be bypassed with a printed and digital file.
Proposal:
Host weekly events geared toward at risk youth to have an enjoyable time and not;
Fund consistent gun buyback events across the region;
Institute gun safety classes for all ages -
Profiting off incarceration is diabolical. With costs upwards of $40,000/year, the United States spends more money to house prisoners than the average American makes a year.
How is that an economically viable?
More so, states across the country, Virginia included, use prison labor to manufacture a multitude of products for public buildings. The law in Virginia goes so far as to require public institutions to source items from Virginia prisons.
There are millions to be made off incarceration and it continues to occur at the expense of everyday people.
Policy Position:
Ban for profit prisons and fully abolish slavery in the United States.
Military
Industrial
Complex
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“This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence-economic, political, even spiritual-is felt in every city, every state house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.” - President Dwight Eisenhower
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VA-03 is entirely dependent on defense dollars to power its economy. The Hampton Roads broadly is dependent on defense dollars.
That's a problem.
If the impossible happened tomorrow and the world declared peace and committed to disarmament, our economy would crash.
What does that say about hour legacy?
We cannot and should not eliminate the defense budget overnight. However, we must make strides to diversity our economy if this region wants to survive another 400 years.
Hampton Roads residents are divided between those who work in defense, those who service those who work in defense, and those who don’t interact with the Military Industrial Complex at all.
Our economic prosperity cannot be tied to our ability to make war.
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Nearly every military base in the Hampton Roads is a Superfund site. The environmental impacts of these locations have irrevocably damaged the regions ecology.
We should be able to swim, fish, and build our livelihood in the literal Hampton roads. Unfortunately, failure to heed Eisenhower’s warnings allowed the Military Industrial Complex to rob this area of its grandeur.
Policy Proposal:
Work with all waterfront homeowners to stabilize the coast.
Hold the Department of Defense accountable for the decades of environmental harm.
Form a fusion task force to address environmental effects of military bases around the world.
Direct the Department of Defense to create environmental teams in every military branch. -
The Hampton Roads holds one of the largest concentrations of military veterans in the world. With only one medical center in the region, healthcare is inadequate.
Policy Proposals:
Increase funding for VA center
Create staffing pipelines for public school students to gain jobs in veteran clinics
Expand comprehensive healthcare benefits for veterans -
Collective
Liberation
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In the words of so many Black women that have been integral to the social, political, and cultural development of our country: “None of us are free until we are all free.”
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