U.S. House · Connecticut's 1st District

• action2017 · As Mayor of Hartford (2016–2024), oversaw the city's finances during a 2017 fiscal crisis in which the city considered filing for bankruptcy before a state bailout kept it from doing so.[6]

• ✓SupportsProtect legal access to abortion

  Says reproductive freedom is a basic human right and that Congress must pass federal protections for abortion access nationwide.[3]

  “Reproductive freedom is a basic human right. Congress must pass federal protections for abortion access nationwide.”

• ✓SupportsStricter gun laws

  Supports universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, safe-storage laws, and red-flag laws.[3]

  “I'll fight for common-sense gun laws like universal background checks, an assault weapons ban, safe storage laws, red-flag laws, firearms education, accountability for repeat violent offenders, and serious consequences for gun dealers and gun manufacturers who break the law.”

• ✕OpposesExpand immigration enforcement and deportations

  Calls for abolishing ICE and says he wants to stop what he describes as the agency's lawlessness in the short term while working to eliminate it in the long term.[3]

  “We must end the cruelty and lawlessness of the Trump Administration immediately. I've outlined a plan to stop ICE's lawlessness in the short term while working to abolish ICE from the ground up in the longer term.”

• ✓SupportsLoosen zoning rules to build more housing

  Says making the federal government 'get serious about housing' will be one of his top priorities in Congress.[3]

  “As a member of Congress, one of my top priorities will be making sure that the federal government gets serious about housing.”

• ✓SupportsExpand public health coverage

  Says Congress should protect and strengthen Medicare and Medicaid, negotiate down prescription drug prices, and push for universal, affordable healthcare.[3]

  “We need to protect and strengthen Medicare and Medicaid, negotiate down the price of prescription drugs, and push for universal, affordable healthcare.”

• ✓SupportsRaise taxes on high earners or corporations

  Says the tax code should be more progressive, closing loopholes so the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations 'actually pay their fair share.'[3]

  “We need a tax system that is progressive, fair, simple, and enforced. That means closing ridiculous loopholes, making it harder to shield huge fortunes from taxes for generation after generation, and ensuring the wealthiest Americans and biggest corporations actually pay their fair share.”

• Says high costs of housing, healthcare, electricity, groceries, childcare, and eldercare are 'crushing almost everyone but the wealthiest Americans' and that he will focus on bringing down costs as a member of Congress.[3]
• Says the federal government needs to 'get serious about housing' and calls the housing crisis one of the biggest issues facing Connecticut.[3]
• Says the country needs 'new energy, new ideas, and new perspectives in Washington' and emphasizes building a political movement to defeat the Trump administration's agenda.[3]

• Served two terms as Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut, from 2016 to 2024.[2]
• Ran for Governor of Connecticut in 2018 and suspended that campaign on April 16, 2018.[2]
• Defeated incumbent Rep. John Larson, Jillian Gilchrest, and Ruth Fortune in the August 11, 2026 Democratic primary for Connecticut's 1st District, winning 53.5% of the vote.[1][2]

Raised $3.1M · spent $2.5M · $601K cash on hand (through 2026-07-22) FEC filing ↗

• ~MixedExpand public health coverage

  Says the Affordable Care Act drove up costs and blames for-profit ownership of medical practices by investors; proposes capping the profits investor-owners can extract rather than expanding public coverage directly.[5]

  “With passage of the ACA, the costs of healthcare skyrocketed and doctors worked harder and faster to crank people through the office like sausage in a grinder... With caps on profits for VCs that own healthcare conglomerates, we can immediately put the next 2.6 trillion back in your pocket.”

• ~MixedRaise taxes on high earners or corporations

  Wants to eliminate the self-employment tax and shift taxation toward the financial industry, while also opposing what she calls unfair regulation of small businesses relative to larger companies.[5]

  “I would eliminate the self-employment tax. I would shift taxation towards the financial industry and away from earned income.”

• Says her top priority is preventing mental illness and addiction, citing her medical specialty in addiction medicine.[5]
• Wants to eliminate the self-employment tax and shift taxation away from earned income toward the financial industry.[5]
• Wants to restrict for-profit ownership of healthcare practices, saying investor ownership drives up costs more than insurance-company profits do.[5]

• Earned a bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins University (1985), an M.D. from Indiana University School of Medicine (1989), and completed training at the University of Michigan Medical School (1992); she is board certified in internal medicine and addiction medicine.[4]
• Spent roughly a decade home-educating her children before returning to medical practice; says she received a U.S. Presidential Teacher award for that work.[5]
• Previously ran for Connecticut's 3rd Congressional District in 2022 as an Independent Party of Connecticut candidate, finishing third with 1.7% of the vote.[4]

Raised $21K · spent $16K · $344 cash on hand (through 2026-06-30) FEC filing ↗