Chris Henry

His platform calls for a federal minimum wage of $21 an hour indexed to inflation, and his voters' pamphlet statement calls for tripling the $7.25 minimum wage.^5,8

1. Keep at $7.25 or leave to states
2. Raise it to less than $15, such as $10 or $12
3. Raise to $15 or more

His platform supports card-check union recognition, penalties for union busting, first-contract procedures and repealing provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act.⁸

1. Make it easier to form a union (for example, the PRO Act)
2. Keep current rules
3. Add requirements such as a secret-ballot election before every union is recognized

His platform says gig workers and independent contractors should be protected from sham classifications.⁸

His platform calls for reviewing the effects of NAFTA and USMCA and requiring enforceable labor and environmental standards in future trade deals, and his voters' pamphlet statement opposes tariffs and free-trade deals that it says let corporations override those protections.^5,8

His platform calls for universal, publicly financed health care through Medicare for All or an equivalent system, including mental health, dental, vision and long-term care.^5,8

1. One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
2. Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
3. Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
4. Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals

His platform calls for negotiating prices on all prescription drugs, not just a select few.⁸

1. Repeal or scale back negotiation
2. Keep the program as it is
3. Expand it to more drugs and to people with private insurance

His platform calls for publicly financed federal elections, banning corporate treasury spending in elections as far as the Constitution allows, and a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.⁸

1. Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
2. Keep spending unlimited but require groups to name their major donors
3. Keep current rules
4. Raise or remove limits on donations to candidates and parties

His platform calls for banning members of Congress, executive and judicial branch officers, and their spouses from trading individual stocks while in office.⁸

1. Ban members and their spouses and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks
2. Ban members themselves from trading individual stocks
3. No ban; keep the reporting rules, with stronger penalties for late reports

His platform calls for STAR voting or ranked-choice voting in federal elections and for multi-member congressional districts.⁸

1. Use ranked-choice voting in more elections
2. Let each state or city decide
3. Ban ranked-choice voting

His platform calls for independent redistricting processes for congressional and legislative districts.⁸

1. Have independent commissions, not lawmakers, draw district lines
2. Let legislatures draw the lines, but only once a decade after the census
3. Let legislatures draw and redraw the lines when they choose

His platform calls for term limits for Supreme Court justices.⁸

1. Set fixed terms, such as 18 years
2. Keep lifetime appointments

His platform calls for a progressive wealth tax, ending stepped-up basis and closing offshore tax shelters.⁸

1. No tax on wealth or on gains from assets that haven't been sold
2. A minimum tax on the very wealthy that counts unsold gains as income
3. A yearly tax on net worth above a high threshold (such as $50 million)

His platform says he would consider substantially higher tax rates on the highest incomes and lower rates on lower incomes, and his voters' pamphlet statement calls for ending tax breaks for billionaires.^5,8

His platform calls for expanding paid family and medical leave, paid sick leave and affordable child care.⁸

His platform calls for expanding school meals and food assistance.⁸

1. Undo the 2025 changes or expand benefits and eligibility
2. Keep the program as changed in 2025
3. Tighten eligibility and work rules further

His platform supports free or much more affordable community college and public higher education, and relief from unsustainable student debt.⁸

His platform opposes new nuclear power development and nuclear subsidies.⁸

1. Build no new reactors and rely on other energy sources
2. Support new reactors under the current licensing process
3. Speed up licensing further and expand federal support to build many new reactors

His platform calls for data centers to disclose their power and water use, pay fairly for grid upgrades, keep costs off residential ratepayers and be subject to local control over where they are built.⁸

1. Encourage new data centers with tax breaks and faster approvals
2. Require data centers to pay the full cost of the power plants and lines they need
3. Pause or limit new data centers

His platform calls for expanding passenger and freight rail, with electrified track to replace diesel engines.⁸

1. Expand funding for passenger rail, including new high-speed lines
2. Fund repairs and current routes, without major new lines
3. Cut federal rail funding or move Amtrak toward private operation

His platform proposes two dedicated federal disaster-resilience funds, including one to prepare Oregon for a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake.^5,8

1. Shift most disaster costs and response to states, and shrink or close FEMA
2. Keep FEMA's role, with changes to speed up aid
3. Expand FEMA's funding and role, including more help preparing before disasters

His platform calls for a fair path to citizenship for long-term undocumented residents and protection for Dreamers and mixed-status families.⁸

1. No new legal status, including for people brought here as children
2. Legal status only for people brought here as children, such as DACA recipients
3. Legal status, but not citizenship, for most who pass background checks and pay a fine
4. A path to citizenship for most who meet requirements such as background checks

His platform calls for replacing ICE's current enforcement model with a humane system of immigration administration and due process, with less reliance on detention.⁸

His platform opposes expanding the border wall and supports reviewing existing barriers for removal or modification.⁸

1. Build walls or fencing along much more of the border
2. Add barriers only in selected places, relying mainly on technology and agents
3. Build no new barriers and spend the money on other border security

His platform calls for preserving access to asylum and refugee protection and for more immigration courts, judges, interpreters and legal representation.⁸

His platform supports universal background checks for gun sales.⁸

1. Require checks for all gun sales, including private sales (with exceptions such as gifts between family members)
2. Require checks for private sales at gun shows and online, but not other private sales
3. Keep current law, with checks required only for sales by licensed dealers

His platform supports extreme-risk protection orders with due process and opportunities for review.⁸

His voters' pamphlet statement calls for cutting U.S. military spending and ending what it calls pointless wars, and his platform supports closing overseas bases that no longer serve a security purpose.^5,8

1. Increase military spending
2. Hold it near current levels, adjusted for inflation
3. Cut military spending

His platform calls for ending unauthorized wars and strengthening Congress's control over the use of force.⁸

His platform supports recommitting to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and opposes attacks on Iran that bypass lawful authorization.⁸

1. Tighten sanctions further and use military force if needed to stop Iran's nuclear program
2. Keep sanctions in place, easing them only if Iran ends all uranium enrichment
3. Negotiate a deal that eases some sanctions in exchange for verified limits on Iran's nuclear program

His platform calls for ending U.S. military assistance that facilitates serious violations of international humanitarian or human rights law, and for unimpeded humanitarian aid.⁸

1. Increase military aid to Israel
2. Keep military aid at current levels, without new conditions
3. Attach conditions, such as limits on how US weapons are used and requirements to let humanitarian aid into Gaza
4. Reduce or end military aid to Israel

His platform supports strengthening tribal jurisdiction and self-determination in line with treaties and federal law, and returning land to tribal nations where appropriate.⁸

1. Expand tribal governments' authority, including over crimes by non-Native people on tribal lands
2. Keep the current division of authority
3. Give states more authority over crimes, taxes and regulation on tribal lands