We have struggled for centuries to reach our current protections for freedom and equality. Civil and constitutional rights are essential to a healthy democracy, ensuring individual dignity, government accountability, and fair treatment for all. But those hard-earned rights are under attack. I have been on the frontlines of fighting the Trump Administration’s assault on our rights, and as an elected representative will continue that fight, including:

• Ensuring our public institutions respect our first amendment rights to information and prevent politicized and discriminatory censorship in schools and libraries.

•  Preventing racial, ethnic, and other forms of profiling, ensuring due process in the wage of the Supreme Court greenlighting use of racial profiling at the federal level by ICE.

• Protecting healthcare providers that offer abortion access and transition-related healthcare services to our trans community by expanding shield laws and guaranteeing legal representation and financial support.

• Regulating artificial intelligence so that it does not deepen inequality in policing, employment, housing, healthcare, and other sectors and services.

• Increasing damage caps under the state anti-discrimination laws, which currently rely on maximums that were established back in 1991.

• Making sure local law enforcement has tools and civilians have remedies when federal agents conceal their identities, use excessive force to suppress first amendment protected speech, or enter homes without judicial warrants.