A UNIVERSAL NEW DEAL FOR ALL
OUR VISION
Imagine a future where every American has what they need to live with dignity. Where we are no longer fighting to just survive, but living. A future with green infrastructure, where the air we breathe is clean, the planet is protected, and all workers are free to unionize. A future with a strong economy, where not one hard-working American has to live paycheck to paycheck while working a full-time job. A future where we all have access to the best medical care in the world, without needing to pay for insurance, co-pays, prescriptions, or ridiculous out of pocket premiums. A world where we do not have to wait for an insurance company to approve life saving care. A world where homelessness, and child hunger are things of the past. We have all been conditioned by those that benefit from the status quo to believe that we cannot reach this future, but we can, through a universal new deal policy package. A future like this is not just possible, it’s within our reach.
DEMOCRACY DEFENSE
In Illinois, we’ve taken steps to strengthen democracy through expanding early voting, implementing automatic voter registration, and protecting access to the ballot box. We’ve shown that when we make voting more accessible, more people participate. Miracle believes there’s still a lot more work to be done. Democracy should not depend on your zip code, your race, or the political leanings of your state legislature. In the United States of America we are building for the future, every eligible voter must be able to cast a ballot easily, safely, and without interference or undue costs or administrative burden.
When this country was founded in 1776, the right to vote was reserved almost exclusively for white, land-owning men. Even after the Civil War, freedom came in stages. The Emancipation Proclamation, issued in 1863, declared enslaved people in Confederate states free, but it did not apply to enslaved people in Union states like Delaware and Kentucky. Slavery persisted in those states until the 13th Amendment was ratified in December of 1865, finally abolishing slavery nationwide. Even then, Black Americans were still denied full citizenship. The 15th Amendment, ratified in 1870, stated that the right to vote could not be denied based on race. However, throughout the South and beyond, voter suppression persisted through poll taxes, literacy tests, and violent intimidation.
In the decades that followed, many states, particularly former members of the Confederacy, resisted the implementation of the Fifteenth Amendment and actively sought to undermine its intent. Through a combination of Jim Crow era legislation, intimidation, and violence, these states introduced a range of barriers to suppress the Black vote. Poll taxes required individuals to pay a fee to vote, which disproportionately affected voters of color and voters in poverty. Literacy tests, often administered subjectively and unfairly, were used to disqualify voters under the pretense of evaluating their reading and comprehension skills. To quell any suspicions that these literacy tests were not about race, some states also implemented what is known as a grandfather clause, which would allow individuals with ancestors who had voted before the Civil War to bypass literacy tests and taxes, which effectively exempted a majority of white voters from this barrier, so it would serve primarily to disenfranchise Black voters.
While the Fifteenth Amendment extended voting rights to Black men, women of all races remained excluded from the democratic process for decades. It wasn’t until the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, after years of tireless advocacy by suffragists, that women finally secured the right to vote nationwide. Yet, even after this milestone, many women, particularly women of color, continued to face discriminatory laws and practices that kept them from the polls.
The fight for equitable access to the ballot continued into the 20th century, culminating in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and it continues even today. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a landmark victory in that struggle, outlawing literacy tests, providing federal oversight in jurisdictions with histories of voter suppression, and helping millions of Black Americans register and vote for the first time. Today, however, the struggle for voting rights is far from over. In recent years, efforts to roll back voting protections, through restrictive voter ID laws, purging of voter rolls, and limitations on early and absentee voting, have once again threatened access to the ballot, particularly for communities of color, women, young people, people with disabilities, and low-income voters.
Miracle will fight for a national expansion of voting rights and democratic reforms that ensure the government is truly by and for the people. That means same-day registration, universal vote-by-mail, including free postage, and a national Election Day holiday. It also means ending voter suppression laws, gerrymandering, and the unchecked flow of dark money that lets billionaires drown out the rest of us. We believe in a United States of America without an electoral college, where every single vote is counted equally. A healthy democracy is the foundation for everything else we care about: justice, healthcare, climate action, and economic security.
That’s why Miracle also supports bold reforms like expanding the Supreme Court, increasing transparency and accountability with an enforceable code of conduct, and abolishing the filibuster so a small minority cannot continue blocking progress the majority of Americans support. Our democracy is worth fighting for, and it’s time to make it work for all of us, for our future.
ABORTION ACCESS
In Illinois, we have shown what it looks like to protect and expand abortion access. Not just in theory, but in practice. We have enshrined reproductive rights into state law, and continue to fund clinics throughout the state, and we treat abortion access as what it is: essential healthcare. In the future that we are building together, Miracle believes that nobody should have to cross state lines for basic care, navigate complicated restrictions, varying from State to State, or wonder if they will be able to make the decision that’s right for them. In many cases, pregnant people are forced to worry if they will even have access to life saving care.
Women have fought for generations to claim full control over their bodies, their futures, and their participation in democracy. From the suffragists of the first wave, to the birth control advocates and labor organizers of the second, to the Roe v. Wade generation that made reproductive freedom a court ordered right, every step forward has been won through organizing, resistance, and vision. The feminist movements of the past century were never just about symbolism, they were about securing tangible rights that allow women and all people who can become pregnant to live with dignity and self-determination. That legacy is under threat. Today, we are watching decades of progress rolled back in real time. Women are being forced to carry pregnancies against their will, even when it puts their lives at risk. People are being arrested for seeking or helping others get care. Countless more are being pushed deeper into poverty by laws that deny them basic bodily autonomy.
Miracle will fight for federal legislation that guarantees abortion access nationwide, using the gold standard we’ve set in Illinois as a starting point. That means repealing the Hyde Amendment, a harmful policy that bans the use of federal funds for abortion care and puts safe procedures out of reach for millions on Medicaid. It also means investing in community clinics, expanding telehealth, and ensuring abortion is available on demand, without stigma, and without prohibitive costs, everywhere in the country. Reproductive justice is racial justice, economic justice, and gender justice. That’s why Miracle supports a broader vision of reproductive care, including: Medicare for All, paid family leave, universal childcare, and comprehensive sex education in all schools, all grounded in the belief that real freedom includes the right to decide if, when, and how to expand a family, with dignity, support, and autonomy.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION DEFENSE
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs are under attack across the country, not because they failed, but because they were working. DEI programs help open doors that were long kept shut, challenge long-standing systems of exclusion, and make our schools, workplaces, and institutions more fair and representative. That progress threatens those who benefit from the status quo, and so the far-right has launched a full-scale assault on DEI, using federal power to strip away protections, silence honest conversations about race and gender, and roll back the hard-fought gains of marginalized communities.
These are targeted attacks on our most vulnerable Americans, which focus on preserving power for a select few who are already at the top of many of our institutions. The goal of their attacks is to erase progress for everyone else, like people of color, women, LGBTQIA+ communities, disabled people, immigrants, religious minorities, and anyone whose existence challenges the status quo. From overturning affirmative action to banning conversations about race and gender in schools, from eliminating inclusive hiring practices to pushing anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, these attacks are meant to strip away the tools we have built, through blood, sweat, arrest, and even death, to foster a more inclusive and just society. They aim to push entire communities out of opportunity, out of power, and out of public life, and roll back our hard fought and sorely earned rights. We cannot allow this to continue.
The fight for DEI is a fight for the soul of this nation. Miracle believes that our country can only thrive when it reflects the strength of its full diversity, which is why he will fight to defend and expand DEI programming in every sector. Miracle is committed to defending and expanding these programs because he knows that real freedom, justice, and democracy can only exist when everyone has an equal chance to thrive. We will not go backward, and we will not stop until every person, regardless of their race or identity, has the dignity, opportunity, and protection they deserve.
CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change is not a distant threat, it is a crisis we are living through in real time. From devastating wildfires and floods to rising food prices and extreme heat, and an increased occurrence of natural disasters, working families across the country are already feeling severe impacts of climate change. Instead of meeting this moment with the urgency it demands, fossil fuel CEOs and the politicians they bankroll are doing everything they can to delay long overdue innovation. They know a clean energy future threatens the old systems of power and profit that keep them in control.
In reality, and in the future we are building together, we do not have to choose between a livable planet and a strong economy. In fact, the path to climate justice is also a path to economic justice. Investing in green infrastructure, through retrofitting buildings, innovating and expanding public transit, upgrading our electrical grid, and building clean energy infrastructure to harness the power of the sun, wind, and water, will create millions of good-paying, union jobs that cannot be outsourced. Jobs that build careers and communities. When equity is centered in this transition, we don’t just reduce emissions, we right historic wrongs. This means ensuring Black and brown workers, young people, formerly incarcerated individuals, and those transitioning from fossil fuel jobs are at the heart of this movement, with access to training, opportunity, and lasting protections.
Miracle knows that climate action is not just about cutting emissions, it is about building a better future. He supports bold federal investments in green infrastructure, strong labor protections, ensuring a just and thoughtful transition that leaves no one behind. We have the tools. We have the workforce. We have the urgency. Now we need the political will. Miracle will fight for a future that’s sustainable, equitable, and powered by the people, not by corporate polluters.
Expanding Veterans Services
Our veterans answered the call to serve. Now it’s our turn to serve them. That means more than just saying "thank you for your service". It means living up to the promises we have made. Far too often, veterans return home only to be met with bureaucratic red tape, inadequate support, and a broken system that fails to meet their physical, mental, and economic needs. That is not gratitude; it’s abandonment.
Miracle believes that honoring veterans is something we should do with actions, not just gestures. That starts with ensuring timely, high-quality healthcare through the Veterans Affairs (VA) office and beyond, including access to mental health care without stigma, delay, or denial. It means expanding affordable housing for veterans and eliminating veteran homelessness altogether. It means ensuring that no veteran has to navigate complex, outdated systems just to access the benefits they have earned. It also means economic opportunity. Miracle supports expanded job training, credential recognition, and pathways to good-paying union jobs, especially in the growing fields of clean energy and infrastructure. Veterans deserve careers with dignity, not just survival.
Universal healthcare will also be part of that promise. A Medicare for All system will not replace the VA, but it will strengthen it by ensuring that every veteran can access care without worrying about red tape, copays, or private insurance loopholes. Every veteran deserves care, without exceptions, and without delays. Miracle will fight for a country that shows up for its veterans. Not just in words, but with policies that will honor their service with dignity, security, and opportunity.
PROTECTING SENIORS
Our elders deserve dignity, security, and care, not uncertainty after a lifetime of work. In retirement, every senior should feel safe. It is our turn to protect them. However, too many of our systems are failing older Americans, pushing them into poverty, out of their homes, and into impossible choices between food, housing, and filling prescriptions. Far too often, they are left to navigate fragmented, understaffed, and unaffordable systems of care all alone. This isn’t just a policy failure, it’s shameful. We can do better, so we must do better.
Miracle believes that protecting our seniors starts with protecting Social Security. Absolutely no cuts. No privatization, and no gambling away benefits on Wall Street. These are earned benefits, not entitlements. Miracle will also fight to strengthen and expand Social Security so that it reflects the real cost of living today. That includes lifting the income cap so the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share, so we can ensure every senior can age with dignity, and with easy access to all the care they need.
We also need to make it easier and more affordable for seniors to stay in their homes and communities. This means investing in home and community-based services, expanding affordable housing options for aging adults, and supporting caregivers with the resources they need. Seniors should never be forced into an assisted living facility just because they cannot afford alternatives. A universal healthcare system will help with some of these problems, but it will not break down all the barriers that exist between our seniors and a peaceful retirement.
Miracle will fight for seniors, and for universal healthcare, which would end the patchwork of coverage that leaves so many older Americans behind, and eliminate the out-of-pocket costs which often push seniors on a fixed-income into poverty, and ensure that no senior has to choose between medication or groceries. In the future Miracle is fighting for, growing old doesn’t mean getting left behind.
EXPANDING GREEN TRANSIT AND RAILWAYS
In the future we are building together, getting from place to place should be fast, affordable, and sustainable. That’s why Miracle supports bold investments in mass transit and green transportation infrastructure. For too long, our country has underfunded public transit and left entire regions disconnected from clean, efficient transportation options. Instead of investing in long-term rail networks, we have subsidized the expansion of highways that pollute our air, divide our communities, and increase our dependence on cars and fossil fuels. It does not have to be this way.
Rail is one of the cleanest and most efficient forms of transportation that we have. Using federal investment and vision, we can create a 21st-century railway system that connects cities, towns, and rural communities, with high-speed trains powered by renewable energy. This kind of infrastructure isn’t just good for the environment; it’s good for working people. It means more union jobs, shorter commutes, and cleaner air. It means freedom to live and work where you want without being locked into car ownership or long drives to opportunity.
Miracle supports a national plan to electrify our railways, expand regional train routes, and invest in zero-emissions buses, subways, and light rail. These infrastructure projects will be built by American workers, with strong labor protections, and they will serve the communities most often left out of infrastructure investments, especially Black, brown, rural, and low-income communities. We have the tools and the talent. We just need the political courage to act. Green transit is a cornerstone of climate justice, economic justice, and mobility freedom. Miracle is ready to fight for a future where everyone, no matter where they live, can get where they need to go; safely, affordably, and sustainably.
SUPPORTING UNION LABOR
Unions built the middle class, and they will be building our future. Miracle believes that every worker deserves dignity, fair wages, and a voice on the job. That’s why he stands unapologetically with organized labor and supports the right of all workers to unionize, strike, and bargain collectively. For decades, corporate interests and anti-worker politicians have attacked unions, driving down wages, weakening protections, and hollowing out the middle class. We cannot let this continue.
Strong unions mean stronger communities. When workers are organized, they win better pay, better benefits, safer workplaces, and protections against discrimination and exploitation. Unions uplift not just their members, but entire industries, through setting standards that benefit everyone, union or not. Miracle supports passing legislation that makes it easier for workers to organize, as well as expanding union rights to gig and contract workers, and ending corporate union-busting tactics once and for all.
Unions will also ensure that our path to the future is a just one; where our clean energy economy, and massive green infrastructure projects are powered by union labor, with strong project labor agreements, apprenticeship programs, and pathways to good-paying jobs. Miracle is proud to stand with workers, with nurses, teachers, teamsters and transit operators, factory workers and farm workers, because when organized labor wins, we all win.
EDUCATION ACCESS
Every person deserves the opportunity to learn, grow, and pursue their dreams, regardless of their income, background, or zip-code. Miracle believes that education is a public good, and he is committed to building a system that works for everyone, not just the wealthy few. That means making education more accessible, more affordable, and more adaptable to the needs of today’s students and working families. At the foundation of it all is K–12 public education. Miracle knows that our schools are still deeply segregated by race and income, and that students in Black, brown, and low-income communities are too often left with underfunded schools, outdated materials, and overcrowded classrooms. He is committed to fully funding public schools, raising teacher pay, investing in school infrastructure, and ensuring every student has access to a safe, inclusive, and high-quality learning environment, no matter their neighborhood.
Miracle supports canceling student loan debt and making higher education free at public colleges and universities. The student debt crisis is a barrier to opportunity and a drag on our economy. It's time we stop asking young people to mortgage their futures just to get an education.
Miracle also understands that access goes beyond affordability. Miracle supports expanding class sizes, and increasing support for part-time and nontraditional students, and investing in flexible programs that meet people where they are, whether they are working full time, raising kids, or returning to school later in life. Everyone should have the opportunity to earn a degree or gain new skills without having to choose between their education and their livelihood. He also believes that this right to education does not end at incarceration. He supports expanding access to quality, accredited educational opportunities for incarcerated individuals because rehabilitation and reintegration should be central goals of our justice system. Education has the power to reduce recidivism, transform lives, and open doors for those who have been shut out for too long.
This also means investing in community colleges, trade schools, and apprenticeship programs, so that no matter your path, you can access quality education and build a future. Miracle believes that an educated public is an empowered public, and he's ready to fight for a future where every student has the chance to succeed. A well rounded education should also be supported by a well rounded diet, which is why Miracle also supports providing free breakfast and lunch to more students living under or near the poverty level, because Miracle knows from experience just how difficult it can be to focus when hungry.
LEGALIZING MARIJUANA
Criminalizing cannabis has devastated communities, especially Black and Brown communities, and wasted billions of dollars on enforcement instead of investing in public health, education, and economic opportunity. The federal prohibition of marijuana has not made us any safer, but served to fueled mass incarceration, disproportionately impacted communities of color, and hinder access to medical care for patients in need. Miracle supports the full federal legalization of both medical and recreational marijuana and the expungement of nonviolent cannabis-related convictions. Legalization is not just a criminal justice issue, it’s a public health, economic, and racial equity issue. He also supports using federal resources to promote equity in the cannabis industry, ensuring that small businesses and entrepreneurs from historically excluded communities have a fair shot at ownership and success. Legalization is not just a justice issue, it’s an opportunity to create jobs, fund community reinvestment, and move our country forward with common-sense drug policy.
immigration Reform
America is a nation of immigrants, and our immigration system should reflect our values of dignity, fairness, and opportunity. Miracle supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, permanent protections for DACA recipients, and an overhaul of our asylum and refugee systems to treat people with compassion and respect. He believes we must modernize immigration processing, reduce backlogs, and stop the criminalization of immigrant communities. Miracle will stand up to xenophobic fearmongering and push for policies that keep families together, honor human rights, and strengthen our economy.
technology and privacy
Technology is evolving faster than our laws, and working families deserve a government that keeps up. Miracle will champion strong data privacy protections so your personal information stays yours. He supports regulating artificial intelligence to guard against algorithmic bias that can reinforce discrimination in housing, employment, and the justice system. He also believes access to high-speed internet is a basic utility in today’s world, not a luxury. That’s why he’ll work to expand broadband infrastructure and ensure no community is left behind in the digital age.
Criminal Justice Reform
The American criminal legal system has never lived up to its name. What we call “justice” has far too often meant surveillance, punishment, and control, especially for Black, brown, Indigenous, poor, and disabled communities. From slavery to mass incarceration, the United States has used systems of policing and imprisonment to dehumanize people, deny them rights, and limit their futures. Miracle believes that we can and must build a new system rooted in healing, accountability, and real community safety. Our current state of mass incarceration did not happen by accident. After the Civil War, the 13th Amendment abolished slavery “except as punishment for a crime,” creating a legal loophole that was immediately exploited. In the decades that followed, Southern states passed ‘Black Codes’ and vagrancy laws that criminalized everyday behaviors, like loitering, or not having proof of employment, specifically to funnel Black people back into forced labor at a new place and under a new name.
Miracle will push to end the cash bail system, eliminate private prisons, and reduce the prison population by focusing on rehabilitation, not punishment. Miracle also supports the federal legalization of marijuana, expunging records, and reinvesting in communities harmed by the drug war. He believes in ending qualified immunity for police, strengthening independent oversight, and demilitarizing law enforcement agencies. Criminal justice reform is not just about reducing incarceration, but ensuring that people who have been incarcerated have the support they need to reintegrate into society. That also means restoring voting rights, expanding access to housing, education, and employment, and providing comprehensive mental health and substance use services to also reduce recidivism.
Health care As A Human Right
Health care is not a luxury or a privilege. It is a fundamental human right. Miracle believes that every person in this country deserves high-quality, affordable healthcare, no matter their income, employment status, or ZIP code. That’s why he supports a universal, single-payer health care system like Medicare for All. Under our current system, too many people are forced to choose between life-saving care and basic necessities. Millions are uninsured or underinsured, burdened by co-pays, deductibles, and surprise bills. Private insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies make record profits while families drown in medical debt. This is not just a policy failure, it’s also a moral failure.
Nowhere is this failure more visible than in the state of mental health care. Illinois has closed nearly all of its state-operated psychiatric hospitals over the last few decades, with little to no investment in community-based care to replace them. Families were promised that care would be closer to home, more accessible, and more humane, but those promises were never fulfilled. Instead, people in crisis are too often left with nowhere to turn, cycling through emergency rooms, jails, shelters, and homelessness. Mental health care should not be a last resort. It should be a core part of our public health system, rooted in dignity, compassion, and early intervention.
Miracle will fight to guarantee comprehensive coverage for every American, including mental health, dental, vision, hearing, reproductive health, gender-affirming care, long-term services, and prescription drugs, with no out-of-pocket costs. He also supports investing in community health infrastructure, rural clinics, mobile units, and culturally competent care rooted in equity and accessibility.
Access to quality healthcare is essential to living a good life, and it is essential to the future we want to build together. Defending abortion access also means protecting the full spectrum of reproductive health care. Protecting seniors means expanding care while reducing costs, ensuring long-term care, and addressing access to essential treatments. Supporting veterans means delivering timely, trauma-informed services that honor their service and meet their physical and mental health needs. Protecting and expanding education access is also a lot easier when every child in America has access to top quality healthcare. Health justice must be at the center of our public policy, and it is the heart of the Universal New Deal policy package that Miracle believes will take us to the future we deserve.
A UNIVERSAL NEW DEAL FOR ALL
The Universal New Deal is not just a policy platform, it’s a promise. Miracle’s campaign is rooted in the belief that the government should work for the many, not the wealthy few. That dignity, justice, and opportunity are not privileges to be earned, but rights to be guaranteed. We know the challenges ahead are steep, but we have met challenges and overcome them in the past because ordinary people stood up and demanded better, often at great personal risk. Now it’s our turn. It’s time to imagine boldly, organize relentlessly, and fight for the future our children deserve. Let’s build it together.
Abortion Access
DEI Defense