Mr. Jones Goes to Washington “Laser-Focused On Delivering Results”

You may re­call that I cen­tered democ­racy re­forms in my cam­paign for Con­gress—es­pe­cially in the gen­eral elec­tion, when the is­sue of court ex­pan­sion be­came even more ur­gent with what is now a 6-3 hy­per-par­ti­san con­ser­v­a­tive ma­jor­ity on the Supreme Court. We have to pass the For The Peo­ple Act, HR-1, that was passed by the 116th Con­gress in 2019. It con­tains things like au­to­matic voter reg­is­tra­tion that would en­fran­chise 15 mil­lion peo­ple na­tion­ally. It would re­place what is cur­rently a process of par­ti­san ger­ry­man­der­ing of con­gres­sional dis­tricts with in­de­pen­dent re­dis­trict­ing com­mis­sions, en­sur­ing that rep­re­sen­ta­tives are re­spon­sive to the elec­torate, where Q-anon ad­her­ents can­not coast to vic­tory in a gen­eral elec­tion cam­paign. HR-1 seeks to root out the cor­ro­sive in­flu­ence of money in pol­i­tics by es­tab­lish­ing a sys­tem of pub­lic fi­nanc­ing of elec­tions. You may re­call that I’ve had my own ex­pe­ri­ence with a can­di­date try­ing to pur­chase an elec­tion. Our poli­cies will be bet­ter for it.  If we don’t have bet­ter peo­ple in Con­gress, which re­quires democ­racy re­forms, then we’re go­ing to con­tinue to see crit­i­cal leg­is­la­tion blocked, in­clud­ing $2,000 sur­vival checks.