ISSUES

BAN BIG MONEY

The Ban Big Money Amendment consists of five core principles. They are easy to understand, and hard to object to. The final amendment text is years down the road, but we only need the core principles to get to that point

  1. Only voting-age citizens and political organizations funded solely by them may spend money on politics.
    American politics is for the People, not corporations and Big-Money PACs.

  2. Voting-age citizens may only spend some percentageof individual median income on politics per year
    A 5% cap would be about $2250. This turns the volume of the wealthy way down.

  3. The list of things included in “spending money on politics” is carefully defined.
    This list will get negotiated for sure. The point is that a list is necessary.

  4. Permit campaign spending caps.
    This reverses the mistake the Supreme Court made in the 70s.

  5. People who violate the amendment commit a federal felony. For organizational violators, the organization’s responsible individuals com

You can find a more in-depth explanation of each principle on Josh’s social media:

Threads—@JoshHebertforNevada

YouTube—@JoshHebertforNevada

TikTok—@Josh.Hebert.for.Nevada

Guide for Voters

Ask your state and federal legislative candidates and representatives, “Do you support the Ban Big Money Amendment?” Get an answer on record if you can. Raise the issue and amendment at candidate events and post any videos with the hashtag #banbigmoney. Keep doing it until you get an answer because they won’t know what it is at first. Recruit your friends to help you in this mission! The more people do it, the faster it will spread!

If their answer to the question is “no” (or a non-answer) then that person works for Big Money. Don’t vote for them. Voting based on this will affect close elections. When that happens, momentum will only continue to build.

Search for your candidates using #banbigmoney to see if others have asked and if your candidate has a response!

Guide for Candidates

If you are a state or federal legislative candidate, film yourself saying “I support the Ban Big Money Amendment.” Feel free to explain why when you do! Then post it with the hashtag #banbigmoney.

Encourage your supporters to read the guide for voters. Then, direct them to use the amendment against your opponent(s).

When you get the opportunity at public events, ask your opponents the question yourself if they haven’t answered already, and pin them down when they don’t give a concrete answer. The Ban Big Money Amendment is better than an endorsement: it’s a political weapon.

If your opponent(s) have answered yes, great! You’ve used your political pressure to help advance the amendment!

FIX THE BROKEN SYSTEM

  • When you ask a candidate “will you vote to Ban Big Money from politics,” you’re asking about this general foundation:

    1. Only voting-age citizens and political organizations funded solely by them may spend money on politics.
      American politics is for the People, not corporations and Big-Money PACs.

    2. Voting-age citizens may only spend some percentage (say 5%) of individual median income on politics per year (5% would be about $2250).
      This turns the volume of the wealthy way down.

    3. The list of things included in “spending money on politics” is carefully defined.
       This list will get negotiated for sure. The point is that a list is necessary.

    4. Permit campaign spending caps.
       This reverses the mistake the Supreme Court made in the 70s.

    5. People who violate the amendment commit a federal felony. For organizational violators, the organization’s responsible individuals commit a federal felony.
      Trump has taught Josh that amendments need teeth. 

    You’ll probably have to read this to candidates until the Ban Big Money Amendment catches on. How they respond will be revealing!

  • The Supreme Court has been captured by hypocritical ideologues who hide their partisan agenda behind neutral-sounding masks like “originalism.” They made the President immune to prosecution. They let him wreck our government, steal our personal data, and abuse our tax dollars. We have to check this Extreme Court.

    • Enlarge the Supreme Court to 13 judges, one for each federal district.

    • When a district seat comes open, require that the President choose from a panel of 3 judges selected by the judges of that district.

    • Mandate that justices must obey the same rules that all other federal judges do.

    Pass a constitutional amendment limiting Supreme Court terms to 12 years—lifetime appointments were a really bad idea.

  • Josh wants every American to be faithfully represented. Our gerrymandered, Big Money elections do the opposite. Reforming them is essential to fixing our republic. 

    • End partisan gerrymandering by requiring nonpartisan redistricting for congressional elections. Party leaders use partisan gerrymandering to decide election outcomes before a single vote is cast—that is the opposite of democracy.

    • Expand the House of Representatives. House membership was capped at 435 in 1929 when America was about one-third its current size. Doubling the number of representatives to 870 would help Congress represent the People more faithfully.

    Switch to multi-member districts. Mandate a minimum of two representatives for each district and elections that select the top vote-getters. This would produce more faithful representation and make third parties more viable.

  • It’s time to cut the presidency down to size. Rule-by-decree, corrupt pardons, military adventurism, weaponized government, arbitrary justice, politicized spending: this is exactly what the Founders warned against. Congress must reassert its authority.

    • Overturn the Extreme Court’s indefensible decision immunizing the president. They just made that up—nothing in our Constitution or history justifies it. A president who commits crimes in office should definitely be prosecuted upon leaving it.

    • Require Congress to approve all “emergency” measures taken by the president within 30 days. No more punting to the president because Congress fears a hard vote. Also, review and revise all of the president’s emergency powers to prevent further abuse.

    Restore Congress’ authority over taking America to war by revising the War Powers Act. We must require an affirmative vote of Congress for any military or warlike actions within one week of the initiation of any act of war. The current 60-day window is much too long.

  • This gonzo White House is completely out of control. The list of crazy and terrible things it has done is now so long that it’s impossible to select just a few. It’s like we’re all trapped in some psychotic reality TV show with Trump as the executive producer. Congress needs to cancel it.

    One thing worth singling out is the extraordinary corruption. The Trump family is enriching itself by pimping out the presidency, and their lackeys are all following their example. It’s no coincidence that they fired all of the watchdogs. Congress must investigate their crimes.

    Shamefully, Congressional Republicans are too scared to act. Their courage has been tested, and they’ve failed. We need them gone so that Congress can put this deranged Executive in its place and restore some sanity to America.

PEOPLE FIRST POLICY

  • Childcare is simply unaffordable for far too many Nevadans—it costs as much as tuition at UNR! This isn’t just a Nevada problem: childcare costs are busting household budgets and forcing working families to make impossible choices all over the country.

    The solution is federally-funded universal childcare. Given how hard many parents work just to make ends meet in an economy whose benefits flow ever more to the top, accessible, affordable, quality care for their children while they work is the least they should expect. A system that fails to deliver that has failed its people. We must demand better.


    A key element of universal childcare is generous paid family leave for new parents. The first year of life is critical to a child’s development. A parent able to stay home with their infant delivers lifelong benefits to their child, which benefits us all. We can’t afford not to do it. A system that says it’s “too expensive” is one that puts investor desires before human needs.

  • We need a lot more new housing, and we need to get more existing housing onto the market. The first one’s going to take time. The second one we can act on now by putting people over profits. We do that with taxes and laws.

    • Heavily tax the rental income of large corporate and investor landlords. 

    • Tax foreign-owned vacant property. 

    • Tax income from short-term vacation rentals. 

    • Ban algorithmic rental pricing. 

    These measures would increase supply, lower prices, and encourage more local ownership. As for building, we can do some things quickly.

    • Halt mass deportation: deporting construction workers in the middle of a housing crisis is raising prices.

    • Drop the tariffs on construction supplies, because that’s raising prices too.

    Longer-term, we should invest in publicly-financed nonprofit housing development. The market has shut out many aspiring homeowners in its endless quest for maximum profit. Publicly-financed nonprofit development can deliver housing that ordinary Nevadans can afford because it eliminates the profit motive. We should use this public model to experiment with new ways to build quickly, like modular construction and even 3-D printing.

  • Market-based healthcare has failed us. It’s left us poorer and sicker. Our wealth determines our health, and our health only gets more expensive. That’s not how things should be in America. Let’s use our power to do something about that.

    Medicare for All is the best answer. Everyone pays in, everyone is covered, and the government sets reasonable prices. No more existential dread, no more medical debt, and no more feeling trapped in a job. More affordable prescriptions, a big boost to small business, stable rural hospitals, and a healthier America.

    We know Medicare works. People like it, it’s efficient, and it saves money. It’s time to scale it up!

  • Wages as a share of national income haven’t been this low since the end of the Great Depression. Big Money always wants more, and just keeps grabbing more and more of the pie. Only Congress has the power to restrain its greed and promote a fairer economy.

    One way to do that is by liberating organized labor. Strong unions grow good wages, but our unions have been shackled by restrictive regulations, employer abuse, and weak enforcement. Unchain them by passing the PRO Act. We need organized labor to oppose organized money.

    The Big Money barons value themselves too highly. We need to find creative ways to promote fairness by taxing firms whose executives earn hundreds of times the typical worker’s wage.

    Increase the federal minimum wage to $15/hour and index it to inflation. $7.25/hour is offensive; it’s like having no minimum wage at all, which is precisely the point. Raising it helps everyone near the minimum, and would provide immediate relief to many Nevadans.

EMBRACE HUMANITY

  • Josh knows personally how difficult mental health issues can be. They disrupt your life, the life of your friends and family, and often frustrate, confuse, and anger everyone else. Few people really understand them, and most people are afraid of them. Often, they go undiagnosed.

    When a mental health issue is recognized, access to treatment is often poor, something that is especially true in Nevada. People who need treatment but don’t get it typically get worse. If they lack (or lose) family support, at best they subsist. At worst, they end up addicted, on the streets, in prison, or dead.

    The fix is daunting: many more mental health professionals, universal access to care, appropriate facilities, and better public understanding. That’s expensive and difficult, but the damage of untreated mental health issues—economic and human—is more so.

    Josh hopes to promote better understanding, but that’s a drop in the bucket—only Congress can tackle this problem. Medicare for All would help a lot, but first we need skilled people. Subsidize the education of people entering critical mental health fields, and offer loan forgiveness to those who agree to a period of service in underserved rural areas.

  • The spirit of goodwill, respect, and mutual understanding is a civic virtue in a republic like ours. The more people embrace it, the better our politics and society will be. That's the spirit that Josh brings to his politics and plans to promote forcefully. He hopes others do, too.

    Social media algorithms spread this toxic waste for profit. The worst people are rewarded for displaying their worst selves.

    Adults acting like middle-school bullies are bad enough. Leaders who do it are disgraceful. They destroy trust. They make compromise impossible. They set a horrible example for our children. They dishonor America. You don’t make a country great by dragging it into the gutter.

    Leaders like that spit on goodwill, respect, and mutual understanding; they see those things as weaknesses. They can’t be trusted—you have to fight them. We have to make their toxic behavior and bad character shameful again. Josh will work hard and creatively to do that.

  • Josh has never seen anything close to the gleeful hatred and open bigotry that he sees now.

    • Our president proudly professes his hatred for his opponents

    • Latino-looking people are assaulted and subjected to bigoted abuse by masked federal agents.

    • White supremacist, holocaust deniers are elevated to prominent positions

    • Trump shut down almost all asylum programs but stood up a new one just for White South Africans. Explain that without racism.

    • A government list of undesirable words includes: women, Black, Native American, female, LGBTQ, disability, mental health, minorities, and prejudice.

    • Prominent young Republicans (not kids) participate in racist, homophobic, antisemitic, misogynistic, ableist, pro-Nazi group texts. They really hit all the bases.

    • This regime is demanding that the legal existence of transgender people be erased.

    That list is far from exclusive. To Josh, it feels like the evil spirit of our bigoted past has possessed a new host. It intimidates people with the same aggression, bullying, and violence. It carries the same smug, superior, self-righteous swagger. Josh is eager to confront it.

    He believes that most Americans—many Republicans included—are also disturbed by this. Shamefully, Republican elected officials have mostly enabled it. They fear its power. The best way to punish their cowardice is with electoral defeat.

    Congress must amend our civil rights laws—passed to fight this evil—to make their intent unquestionably clear. This regime’s corruption of our civil-rights laws must not be allowed to continue. Hate must never again be allowed to wield American state power.

  • The Extreme Court made a mess, as usual. Most of America approved of the way things were under Roe v. Wade. We respect freedom of conscience, and there are few questions of conscience more profound than abortion. In America, that’s not the state’s business.

    Roe v. Wade allowed for reasonable restrictions after viability. It was a wise decision, and it worked well for most of us for decades. The people it didn’t work for have been trying to force their beliefs on us ever since.

    Josh respects their point of view, however, he finds their goal unconstitutional, and their tactics often shameful. The “late-term abortion” hysteria was manufactured and offensive. The overwhelming majority of late-term abortions are tragedies.

    It’s time to settle this. Pass a law codifying a federal right to an abortion along the lines of Roe v. Wade. The law should explicitly cite the 9th Amendment as its constitutional basis and dare the Extreme Court to overstep its authority again.

  • The research is undeniable: social media damages our physical and mental health. Big Tech knows this, yet it continues to peddle its addictive and dangerous products. This is no different from what the cigarette companies did. It must be stopped.

    Require Big Tech to turn over all internal research on the health effects of their social media platforms so we can fully understand the problem. Prohibit social media design that promotes engagement at the expense of well-being. Require regular “warning label” posts in the feeds of all platforms not certified as safe according to legally-defined metrics.

    Children are especially vulnerable. Ban social media accounts for kids under age 13. Require Big Tech to develop separate apps for use by kids under age 17 and write strict safety regulations for them. Prohibit the sale or transfer of minors’ personal information, and limit its use to strictly functional purposes.

    Big Tech violators must face severe penalties. Unless the penalties truly hurt, Big Tech will just accept them as the cost of continuing their harmful business.

  • The illegal dismantling of the Department of Education (ED) is another one of this regime’s fanatical right-wing crusades. There’s been a coalition of people on the right obsessed with this for decades, and Trump gave them power. They have bizarre ideas about what the ED does.

    Thanks to these zealots, student loans, Pell grants, Title 1 school funding, funding for students with disabilities, federal grants to schools, educational data collection, education research, Head Start, and civil-rights enforcement are all at risk.

    Once again, the Extreme Court let this happen. The lapdog Republican Congress largely cheers it on; they’re afraid to vote for it, but they’ll stand by and watch. It will take a Democratic Congress to restore the critical programs that many Nevadans and Americans rely on.

    Rebuilding what the Republicans destroyed gives us an opportunity to make program upgrades. Congress should work together with the users of these programs to determine how they can be improved, and then pass legislation putting those improvements into practice.

  • Student debt magnifies the affordability crisis for many younger Americans. It also drags down our economy and society—indebted young people get married, start families, buy homes, and form businesses at lower rates, and their lack of disposable income hurts economic growth.

    The Trump regime enjoys punishing struggling people. It’s increasing what borrowers must pay, taking a hard line on collections, reducing pressure on predatory institutions, and making loan forgiveness much harder to access.

    • Codify student debt relief into law.

    • Restore the income-driven repayment plans eliminated by the regime.

    • Pursue additional solutions, like zero-interest repayment plans, a broader range of forgiveness options, employer-matching programs, and access to bankruptcy relief. 

    Runaway higher-education prices are the real problem. Ever-shrinking state funding, federal student loan policies, administrative bloat, amenity competition, and schools’ lack of accountability have combined to explode costs and place the entire burden on students.

AN ENVIRONMENT FOR EVERYONE

  • The cost of climate disasters has risen almost 700% since 1980. Massive weather systems regularly blanket the country with extreme weather. Reno is the fastest-warming city in America. Nevada’s snowpack, the source of our water and the linchpin of our outdoor recreation economy, grows ever more scarce and inconsistent. Heat domes and droughts punish us with increasing frequency and severity. Wildfires ravage our lands, threatening to make homes uninsurable.

    All of this was predicted. The models were right. If anything, they underestimated the impact. The climate is changing: that’s not a theory, it’s an in-your-face fact. That human activity is responsible is basic physics. Things will only get worse until we literally take our feet off the gas.

    This crisis is an opportunity. We must change and adapt, but that change and adaptation will spawn new industries, create millions of jobs, inspire new technology, revolutionize our economy, prepare us for what’s coming, and help stabilize our precious climate. This is the challenge of our time, and if we meet it, we will be remembered for centuries as the heroic generation that saved the climate for all of Earth’s living things.

    We begin by restoring the green energy incentives and projects that the Trump regime maliciously cut and prioritize green energy development. We invest in public transportation—like high-speed rail—to reduce our need for cars while connecting America and creating good-paying jobs. We improve efficiency, reducing energy demand and ultimately saving money. We invest in climate hardening and adaptation to protect our communities. Finally, we put a price on greenhouse gases to send a clear signal to the market while rebating the cost to American workers.

  • The Trump regime has quietly unleashed a massive assault on our public lands. The Big Awful Bill requires an enormous increase in logging in national forests, prioritizes oil and gas leases over other uses, slashed the budget of BLM and the Forest service, and rescinded funding for wildfire protection and drought resilience. That’s bad for Nevada.

    The regime’s executive orders make matters worse. The “mine everywhere” order prioritizes mining over other uses, opens previously protected lands like the Ruby Mountains to oil and gas development, and virtually eliminates community and Tribal input. Expedited permitting approves projects before the public even knows what the risks are. They’re endangering our land, water, and communities to boost corporate mining profits.

    Republican officials look at our public lands and see just one thing: dollar signs. They’re racing to sell off our natural heritage to the highest bidder, the public be damned. They are hostile to protection and conservation—they hunger for exploitation and profit. They cannot be trusted with this precious inheritance.

    We must undo what the Republican raiders have done, restore protections for our public lands, and block the regime from stripping America bare. The entire legal framework of environmental protection and public input is under attack, so we need to elect leaders prepared to defend and strengthen it. It’s not only our public lands that are at stake—outdoor recreation is a large and growing Nevada industry. Protecting public lands is not just the right choice, it’s the smart one too.

  • The United States is built on lands taken from America’s indigenous peoples. The genocide of the Native Americans is one of America’s original sins. Americans slaughtered them and called them savages, stole their children and called it civilized, and annihilated their culture and called it progress. Then Americans despised them for what Americans did to them.

    We should not hide from these facts. We don’t need to rationalize them. We cannot change what was done, but we can honor the peoples America destroyed and dispossessed by being honest about what was done to them. It’s the least we can do.

    Josh wants to do more. He will take every opportunity to return land to Tribal Nations so that they control their heritage and culture. He promises to defend their sovereignty. He will demand they be included as key stakeholders on any project impacting lands significant to them. He will prioritize BIA reform so that Tribal Nations receive what they are owed. He will partner with the Tribal Nations to identify needs and work to fill them.

    Josh commits to have an indigenous liaison in his office to ensure indigenous people have a direct voice in policy and a direct line for communication.

  • A handful of billionaire tech lords with dangerous ideas are gambling with humanity’s future as they race to spawn AI. The Trump regime is not only letting them, it’s paving the road. Do we really want those people deciding all our not-so-distant futures?

    The People deserve a say. Congress needs to slow things down. Josh understands if you doubt that it’s up to the task. That’s why we need to elect people who understand AI and are committed to controlling it. Congress is the only body with the power to do it right.

    The first thing we need to do is halt new data center approvals. The massive build-out is raising energy prices, straining water resources, and disrupting communities. A halt even helps the tech companies—they’ve overcommitted to a failed strategy but are all afraid to be the first to stop.

UPLIFT NEVADANS

  • About two-thirds of federal agricultural subsidies go to the top 10% of recipients—yet another example of Big Money profiteering. Let’s stop subsidizing large operations and instead do things like help Nevada farmers and ranchers afford drought security and wildfire protection measures.

    • Restore federal funding cut by the Trump regime to the Home Feeds Nevada program. This funding provides healthy, Nevada-grown fresh food to food banks and schools, which helps our farmers, kids, and the 1-in-6 hungry Nevadans.

    • Halt mass deportation. Nevada’s producers face a worker shortage, and the immigration crackdown not only makes that problem worse, it raises food prices. We can fix our immigration system without shock tactics that unjustly hurt producers, their workers, and consumers.

    Restore Country-of-Origin Labeling (COOL). An overwhelming majority of Americans support this—we prefer food from American producers. The main opponents of COOL are the food processing cartel, foreign producers with weak safety standards, and free-trade fundamentalists. It’s time to stop putting their interests above ours.

  • We’re still operating under a mining law written in 1872. That’s great for the foreign mining companies because they pay no royalties, but it’s bad for Nevada. Let’s rewrite our mining law to match the laws found in similar developed nations.

    Western Australia is a favorite of mining companies, but its laws have stronger protections for the environment, safety, and native lands. They also require royalties, and Nevada deserves and needs a share of the wealth extracted from her earth.

    Emulating laws the industry already accepts will benefit Nevada without risking our mining economy in the least. The big mining companies get a sweetheart deal here and they know it.

  • Massive concentration in the meat processing industry has led to four companies controlling over 80% of the market. They abuse that power to low-ball producers, jack up consumer prices, and pocket the difference. As usual, Big Money wins and we lose.

    The Packers and Stockyards Act was passed a century ago to fight Big Meat. Our anti-trust laws empower us to break up cartels. Big Money has used its power and influence to block their enforcement. Let’s give those laws new teeth and resources, and then demand enforcement.

    Industry concentration is a choice, not a destiny, but Big Money has been making that choice for us. Let’s use our power to take that choice back and cut Big Meat down to size.

  • ICE and CBP are outlaw agencies. They violently drag moms from cars in front of their kids. They hold Americans incognito for days. They pepper-spray peaceful protesters in the face. They assault and murder Americans in the streets. They face no consequences.

    The Trump regime shields these outlaws and celebrates their crimes. They slander their victims, calling them “domestic terrorists.” They recruit people who want to beat up immigrants and liberals. The aggression, bigotry, hatred, and violence are features, not bugs.

    Rescind the ICE and CBP budget increase. Require that federal law enforcement be unmasked and clearly identified. Strip ICE and CBP of their paramilitary gear unless they’re close to the border. Enable state and local law enforcement to arrest federal agents for state crimes. Investigate both agencies thoroughly, documenting all violations for future prosecution.

    The cultures of ICE and CPB are toxic. Both agencies are beyond reform. They must be dismantled and replaced with a professional agency that enforces our immigration laws with the same respect for constitutional, civil, and human rights that we expect from local law enforcement. This solution has precedent: ICE itself replaced INS after 9/11 when DHS was created.

  • ICE is arresting 600 people per day nationwide, and 300 per month in Nevada. Undocumented immigrants are our friends, family, and coworkers. 10% of workers in Nevada are undocumented, 10,000 Nevadans have an undocumented spouse, and undocumented people generate 500 million dollars in tax revenue for Nevada every year.

    The solution isn’t to brutalize and deport 10% of our workforce. We need to provide an adequate and expedited pathway to citizenship for the millions of people who live in this country and contribute to it.

    • Invest in processing. Courts are overwhelmed, and the line for visas is decades long.

    • Get rid of naturalization barriers. Invest in overcoming language barriers and reduce application fees. Remove the “entry without inspection” limitation for applicants.

    • Decriminalize undocumented people. Immigrants shouldn’t be afraid to show up for a court date because of ICE. The criminalization of undocumented people leads to their exploitation by employers, landlords, and police officers.

  • The national debt is over 120% of GDP, the budget deficit is nearly $2 trillion, and interest payments devour over 15% of the federal budget—we can’t go on like this! We’re sliding toward a financial meltdown, and Trump is greasing the skids.

    • Raise taxes on the wealthy. They have reaped the rewards of the last 40 years of growth while the rest of us have mostly tread water. They’ve rigged the “free market” in their favor. We use their massive gains to fill the gaping hole in our budget. Banning Big Money would help get that done.

    • Enact Medicare for All. Medical expenses consume over 25% of the federal budget, and are expected to grow faster than inflation. Controlling costs by setting reasonable prices would halt healthcare inflation and bring prices down.

    • Scrutinize the massive military budget. The Pentagon has failed seven audits in a row. A small handful of defense companies charge a fortune for systems that are always late, way over-budget, and increasingly obsolete. Freeze the Pentagon’s budget until it passes an audit. Break up the defense cartel, audit their contracts, and claw back overcharges. Stop using contractors for things we can do more cheaply ourselves.

    Josh is committed to a balanced budget. He will work hard to lower the deficit, and will reject budgets that do not decrease it. Federal fiscal discipline will strengthen the economy and lower interest rates, making our massive debt, and homes, more affordable.

COOPERATIVE FOREIGN POLICY

  • The United States under the Trump regime is currently the biggest threat to global security. The administration has no respect for international law and it has no respect for human life. The M.O. of this government is to shoot first and come up with an excuse later.

    The war in Iran is being waged by Pete Hegseth, an incompetent, drunken racist who believes we are fighting a holy war. It’s no mistake that on the first day of the war, the United States bombed a school and killed over 170 children. The strategy seems to be to cause as much destruction and chaos as possible. It is illegal and it’s unacceptable.

    The United States is conducting an illegal blockade of Cuba. The people of Cuba are dying of starvation and preventable disease because of United States policy. It is the duty of Congress to end the extreme sanctions and the blockade.

    Trump ordered the illegal capture of a foreign head of state, Nicholas Maduro, who is now being tried in a Manhattan court on dubious drug charges all while Trump is flagrantly boasting about how much oil we are stealing from Venezuela. That’s in addition to illegally killing fishermen in the Caribbean who, without any evidence, were accused of drug trafficking and summarily executed.

    Congress needs to update the War Powers Act immediately because Trump has thus far been able to act with impunity. In order for any semblance of legitimacy to return to United States diplomacy, members of the administration including Donald Trump must be investigated for war crimes and charged accordingly.

  • Israel committed genocide in Gaza. Supremacist members of its government celebrate that genocide. It continues to steal Palestinian land using violent, racist settlers to do it. It wields hunger as a weapon. Its leaders should be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

    It pains Josh to say these things. His Jewish ancestors fled pogroms in Ukraine. His mother warned him not to reveal his Jewish heritage. He was raised to see Israel as a refuge. To watch it commit the same crimes that have been inflicted upon Jews throughout history horrifies him.

    Israel treats America with barely disguised contempt. It feels entitled to our money and arms, and its proxies mercilessly attack anyone who dares to oppose it. It cares little for our interests, and mostly tries to manipulate us to serve its own. It is a false friend.

    Josh will not vote to send a single cent or bullet to Israel. America must stop enabling Israel’s crimes. We have much better uses for the billions of dollars we send to our ungrateful “ally.” Israel is a prosperous, modern nation—let it fund its own hateful goals.

    Josh has long condemned Hamas. It has brought nothing but misery to Gaza. All war criminals must stand trial.

  • Trump’s spiteful, erratic, and incoherent tariff policy is raising prices, hurting small business, freezing investment and employment, alienating friends, trashing our reputation, undermining the dollar, and elevating China. It’s an economic, diplomatic, and strategic disaster.

    To make matters worse, Trump is driving away tourists with his contempt for the world. His vicious character is costing Nevada a lot of money.

    The Constitution gives Congress control over trade, and Congress needs to reclaim that power. Repeal Trump’s tariffs and require Congress’ approval of any further “emergency” tariffs. Surrendering power over the global economy to one man is radically un-American.

    Tariffs can play a role, but not in the arbitrary and vengeful way used by the regime. They should be applied in a graduated way to countries that do not meet standards for labor and environmental protection, corruption, and financial transparency. If we allow open trade with countries that do not have those things, then we’re just outsourcing misery in exchange for cheaper goods. This would generate revenue in addition to promoting more humane markets.

  • The world has long respected the quality of our military. We owe much of that to our highly professional commanders—serious students of warfare who are committed to civilian rule. The quickest way to ruin a professional military like ours is to politicize it.

    Now, “merit” is loyalty to Trump. Poseurs and enforcers replace genuine soldiers. JAG watchdogs are mocked and fired. Troops patrol our cities. This is how tyrants control their militaries, and their forces always become corrupt and incompetent.

    Reinstate JAG officers to police corruption and oppose lawless actions. Require congressional approval of deployments in American cities. Prescribe rules for the removal of officers by the Executive branch. We must rescue our impartial, professional military from political corruption.

  • America’s long technological, economic, and military dominance owed a great deal to the strength of our science. It was the envy of the world, but the Trump regime is rapidly destroying it.

    We must halt this assault upon our scientific excellence. Demand that all science funding be restored, and withhold funding for the president’s priorities until it is. Review all of the science-based executive orders and rescind the ones that are not scientifically sound.

    Demand the resignation of RFK Jr. and his crackpot minions. National health decisions cannot be trusted to anti-vax radicals with snake-oil cures and open content for science. If they are not forced out, impeach them just to keep them busy so they can’t do more damage.