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It will be the privilege of my life to earn your partnership and your vote. Tha","detail":"prosperity real for everyone. Mitch McConnell’s 40 year reign is ending. Let’s send him off to retirement the right way. It will be the privilege of my life to earn your partnership and your vote. Thank you for letting me go on this journey with you. The movement in Kentucky is alive, and we will prove it together. Solidarity always, Charles Play Video Donate Now Close Join our campaign. With you on our team, we’re going to build a strong movement across the Commonwealth — uniting Kentuckians across race, religion, and class — to win. Thanks for signing up! You can unsubscribe at any","source_url":"https://charlesbooker.org/why-im-running","source_date":"2026-07-01"},{"topic":"Housing","stance":"Medicare for All","detail":"Healthcare is a human right. Charles supports Medicare for All to create a healthcare system that provides quality, affordable healthcare to everyone. As a Type 1 Diabetic who has rationed his insulin because he could not afford his medication, Charles believes that no one should die because they don’t have money to pay for life-saving medication. As a nation, we pay twice as much for our health care as any other industrialized nation. The current healthcare system is expensive, wasteful, and places profits over people. Every Kentuckian deserves quality healthcare no matter how much money they have in their pocket.","source_url":"https://CHARLESBOOKER.ORG/issues","source_date":"2026-05-12"},{"topic":"Housing","stance":"Housing","detail":"Housing is a human right. Charles is committed to bring much needed affordable housing to Kentucky. Charles will also work to pass a Tenant Bill of Rights that protects renters from unfair practices. He has signed the Tenant’s Union pledge and is committed to ensuring that the priorities of renters are priorities in our housing agenda. As someone who has experienced homelessness firsthand, Charles understands the impact that housing insecurity has on an individual’s ability to lead a productive and dignified life. Too many Kentuckians struggle to pay their rent or mortgage, which is in part due to a national housing shortage that is driving up prices across the country. We must create more affordable housing to meet this vital need, and develop policies that lower the cost of housing overall.","source_url":"https://CHARLESBOOKER.ORG/issues","source_date":"2026-05-12"},{"topic":"Abortion","stance":"Reproductive Freedom and Access to Abortion","detail":"Healthcare is a human right and abortion is healthcare. In the Senate, Charles will be a champion for reproductive freedom and true bodily autonomy. He will fight to ensure that a right to abortion is fully protected and accessible to all people who need it regardless of income. He will work to restore abortion rights, repeal the Hyde amendment, ensure that abortion and contraceptive coverage are fully covered as a form of health coverage.","source_url":"https://CHARLESBOOKER.ORG/issues","source_date":"2026-05-12"},{"topic":"Technology","stance":"LGBTQ Equality","detail":"All people have the right to live with equal rights, access, and dignity regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity, and as Senator, Charles will fight for federal protections for LGBTQ people and families against discrimination and harassment and work to reverse this administration’s harmful attacks on the community.","source_url":"https://CHARLESBOOKER.ORG/issues","source_date":"2026-05-12"},{"topic":"Technology","stance":"Kentucky deserves a new deal for all of us.","detail":"Kentuckians helped build this country. That was part of the deal. But for too long, Washington has been sending politicians to Kentucky to tell us what we need. To tell us they know better, to save us from a problem they created for us. We deserve better. We deserve a new deal. A Kentucky New Deal. We need a bold vision that centers the people of Kentucky in a comprehensive plan to build lasting infrastructure, break down barriers to democracy, end generational poverty, uproot structural inequity, build new statewide coalitions, and redefine the political landscape in Kentucky to ensure victory in 2026 and beyond. It’s time we finally address the deep, lasting challenges that have crippled our Commonwealth, and use innovative, grassroots organizing to meet people where they are — mobilizing Kentuckians around the issues they care about, while catalyzing our common bonds toward the aim of bridging divides of race, class, culture, and geography. 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As a Type 1 Diabetic who has rationed his insulin because he could not afford his medication, Charles believes that no one should die because they don’t have money to pay for life-saving medication. As a nation, we pay twice as much for our health care as any other industrialized nation. The current healthcare system is expensive, wasteful, and places profits over people. Every Kentuckian deserves quality healthcare no matter how much money they have in their pocket.","source_url":"https://CHARLESBOOKER.ORG/issues","source_date":"2026-05-10"},{"topic":"Voting Rights","stance":"General Strike","detail":"Throughout our history, strikes have been a powerful tool of working people to come together in solidarity and demand change. Charles knows the strength of our collective power and unified voice, and he believes now is the time to use it. A general strike is when multiple workers across multiple industries collectively agree to shut down production simultaneously to send a message that the system can’t work without us, so it’s time the system works for us. Charles believes we are in a dangerous moment as we slide swiftly toward authoritarianism. This president has trampled on the rule of law, unleashed a rogue agency to terrorize our communities, threatened to take over elections, and illegally initiated acts of war. We are past the point of needing to save American democracy. We need to restore it. And without an empowered opposition party, we need other mechanisms to make our voices heard and demand accountability and change. 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