
What they campaigned on
Share of their campaign website’s words, by policy area.
- Housing and community development17%
- Immigration15%
- Labor and employment13%
- Health12%
- Education and culture10%
- Everything else32%
Where they stand
44 issues in their own words, then everything else their site says, by policy area.
Housing and community development
Housing costs ›
- Limit how much landlords can raise rents
- Expand housing vouchers and rental assistance
- Strengthen tenant protections against eviction, discrimination and retaliation
“Darializa will fight to protect all tenants, fully fund Section 8, fully fund NYCHA, prevent deed theft, and build affordable housing.”View on their website ↗
“Homes Act to build deeply affordable public housing, cooperatives, and community land trusts with rent caps and other protections for tenants”View on their website ↗
“Tenants Right to Organize Act so renters receiving housing vouchers are protected from landlord retaliation”View on their website ↗
“Increase federal funding for rental vouchers like Section 8”View on their website ↗
“Cap rent increases on existing units at 5% annually for large landlords”View on their website ↗
Affordable housing construction ›
- Build more affordable housing
“Darializa will fight to protect all tenants, fully fund Section 8, fully fund NYCHA, prevent deed theft, and build affordable housing.”View on their website ↗
Other things the site says about housing and community development (11)
“Her work has taken her to many NYCHA developments: she knows firsthand how federal disinvestment in public housing has left thousands of Black and brown New Yorkers to live in unsafe and run-down apartments.”View on their website ↗
“Housing for All”View on their website ↗
“Housing is a fundamental human right: everyone deserves dignity and stability in their homes.”View on their website ↗
“We all deserve basic things like heat, hot water, lead-free paint, and homes free of roaches and rats.”View on their website ↗
“PROTECT TENANTS & HOMEOWNERS”View on their website ↗
“Create national protections for all tenants”View on their website ↗
“IMPROVE NYCHA”View on their website ↗
“Fully fund NYCHA to make decades-overdue investments”View on their website ↗
“Protect NYCHA and ensure Section 9 public housing buildings are not converted to market-rate housing”View on their website ↗
“Create more affordable housing through programs like the Northern Manhattan Community Land Trust”View on their website ↗
“Preventing deed theft to help homeowners remain in their homes”View on their website ↗
Immigration
ICE and immigration agents ›
- Abolish ICE
- Protect schools, churches, hospitals and other sensitive places from enforcement
“This agency exists to control our communities, not to keep us safe. It was created in 2002: we can return to a world where it does not exist.”View on their website ↗
“Abolish ICE and the deportation machine”View on their website ↗
“Enshrine in law protections for pre-schools, places of worship, and other sensitive sites”View on their website ↗
Deportation ›
- End mass deportations
- Abolish ICE
- Guarantee due process before anyone is deported
“Darializa will fight to abolish the deportation machine, expand pathways to citizenship, secure free legal representation for immigrants, and more.”View on their website ↗
“Abolish ICE and the deportation machine”View on their website ↗
Legal status for unauthorized immigrants ›
- Give undocumented immigrants a path to legal status or citizenship
- Protect Dreamers with legal status or citizenship
- Give people with Temporary Protected Status a path to citizenship
“Darializa will fight to abolish the deportation machine, expand pathways to citizenship, secure free legal representation for immigrants, and more.”View on their website ↗
“Expand pathways to citizenship, including for DREAMers and undocumented immigrants”View on their website ↗
“American Dream & Promise Act to provide a path to citizenship for millions of DREAMers and immigrants with Temporary Protective Status (TPS)”View on their website ↗
Other things the site says about immigration (6)
“In the years since, Darializa has successfully fought ICE to release immigrants that were illegally detained, and to reunite families separated by ICE.”View on their website ↗
“While working at Families for Freedom, she helped free Abdikar Mohamed, a U.S. permanent resident from Somalia, from ICE detention.”View on their website ↗
“When ICE kidnapped her friend Mahmoud Khalil outside his Columbia University apartment in 2025, Darializa got to work. She publicly advocated for his support, participated in protests outside Trump Tower, and arranged support for Mahmoud at court.”View on their website ↗
“Mandating free legal representation for immigrants’ interactions with DHS, and to support them through the immigration process”View on their website ↗
“Funding programs to ensure immigrants get free, quality immigration support”View on their website ↗
“Defend international workers and students from the federal government’s crackdown”View on their website ↗
Labor and employment
Job creation ›
- Create good-paying jobs and attract employers
- Protect existing jobs
“Darializa will fight to protection workers' rights, increase union density, raise the minimum wage, fund social security, to create and protect job opportunities, and more.”View on their website ↗
“CREATE JOBS FOR ALL”View on their website ↗
Wages ›
- Raise the minimum wage
“Darializa will sign onto these bills to secure housing as a human right, universal healthcare, union protections, a $15 minimum wage and more.”View on their website ↗
“Darializa will fight to protection workers' rights, increase union density, raise the minimum wage, fund social security, to create and protect job opportunities, and more.”View on their website ↗
“Raise the Wage Act to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour”View on their website ↗
“Raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour”View on their website ↗
Labor unions ›
- Pass the PRO Act
- Make it easier for workers to unionize and bargain
- Protect and strengthen labor unions
- Strengthen enforcement of labor law
“Darializa will fight to protection workers' rights, increase union density, raise the minimum wage, fund social security, to create and protect job opportunities, and more.”View on their website ↗
“Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act to build union density and give everyone who wants to form a union the fair chance to exercise that right”View on their website ↗
“Pass the PRO Act, so that everyone who wants a union can form one”View on their website ↗
“Make it easier for workers to secure a first collective bargaining agreement after forming their union”View on their website ↗
“Fully fund the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to hold union-busting bosses accountable”View on their website ↗
“Ensure that federal funding isn't going to union busting companies”View on their website ↗
Paid leave ›
- Guarantee paid family and medical leave
- Guarantee paid sick leave
“Enshrine cost of living adjustments, paid sick and paid family leave in federal law”View on their website ↗
“Paid family leave”View on their website ↗
Other things the site says about labor and employment (3)
“As your Congresswoman, Darializa will fight for workers to have power over their bosses.”View on their website ↗
“Create a four-day 32-hour work week with no loss in pay”View on their website ↗
“Establish federal jobs guarantee to ensure those able to work can find employment”View on their website ↗
Health
Abortion ›
- Let public money and insurance pay for abortion
“Reproductive care, including abortion”View on their website ↗
Prescription drug prices ›
- Lower prescription drug prices
- Make drug companies charge Americans no more than other countries
“Darializa will fight for Medicare for All: a free, universal system that covers primary and mental health care, dental, vision, hearing, reproductive care, long-term care, and lower prescription costs.”View on their website ↗
“Prescription Drug Price Relief Act so corporations can’t charge Americans more for a drug in the U.S. than they would overseas”View on their website ↗
“Lower prescription costs”View on their website ↗
Medicare ›
- Expand Medicare, such as to cover dental, vision and hearing
- Pass Medicare for All
“Darializa will fight for Medicare for All: a free, universal system that covers primary and mental health care, dental, vision, hearing, reproductive care, long-term care, and lower prescription costs.”View on their website ↗
“Medicare for All Act so everyone has health insurance including dental, vision, and hearing aids”View on their website ↗
“Darializa will fight for Medicare for All: free, universal healthcare system with primary care, mental health services, substance abuse treatment, dental, vision, and hearing aids.”View on their website ↗
Health coverage ›
- Guarantee health care for everyone
- Pass Medicare for All or another single-payer plan
- Cover dental, vision and hearing care in Medicare
- Cover reproductive care under Medicare for All
- Cover gender-affirming care under Medicare for All
- Cover long-term care under Medicare for All
“Darializa will sign onto these bills to secure housing as a human right, universal healthcare, union protections, a $15 minimum wage and more.”View on their website ↗
“Darializa will fight for Medicare for All: a free, universal system that covers primary and mental health care, dental, vision, hearing, reproductive care, long-term care, and lower prescription costs.”View on their website ↗
“Medicare for All Act so everyone has health insurance including dental, vision, and hearing aids”View on their website ↗
“Healthcare is a human right: access to care should not depend on one’s employment, age, or income.”View on their website ↗
“Darializa will fight for Medicare for All: free, universal healthcare system with primary care, mental health services, substance abuse treatment, dental, vision, and hearing aids.”View on their website ↗
“Reproductive care, including abortion”View on their website ↗
“Long-term care for our seniors and people with disabilities”View on their website ↗
“Gender affirming care for everyone, especially LGBTQ+ communities”View on their website ↗
Mental health care ›
- Expand access to mental health care
- Cover mental health care in Medicaid, Medicare and other public programs
“As your Congresswoman, Darializa will fight for everyone – no matter their race, gender or sexuality – to receive high quality physical and mental healthcare without discrimination.”View on their website ↗
Long-term care ›
- Cover long-term care through Medicare or Medicare for All
“Darializa will fight for Medicare for All: a free, universal system that covers primary and mental health care, dental, vision, hearing, reproductive care, long-term care, and lower prescription costs.”View on their website ↗
“Long-term care for our seniors and people with disabilities”View on their website ↗
Other things the site says about health (1)
“Oppose cuts to critical federal funding for medical research that will save lives”View on their website ↗
Education and culture
Education funding ›
- Increase funding for public schools and education
- Fully fund special education
- Fund schools more fairly, with more for poorer districts
“Fully fund our schools and programs for children with disability and kids living in poverty”View on their website ↗
Early childhood education ›
- Provide universal pre-K for every child
- Protect and expand Head Start
- Raise pay for early childhood educators
“Establish free universal childcare and Pre-K”View on their website ↗
“Increase wages for early childhood educators”View on their website ↗
“Expand access to Head Starts and Early Head Start”View on their website ↗
Teacher and school staff pay ›
- Raise pay for teachers and other educators
- Raise pay and protections for school support staff and paraprofessionals
- Improve teachers' working conditions, including smaller classes
“Increase wages for early childhood educators”View on their website ↗
“Increase wages and improve working conditions for all educators and school staff”View on their website ↗
College costs ›
- Make public college and trade school tuition-free
“Darializa will fight for our right to free, quality public education from childcare to college. She will support and defend teachers, graduate students, and other education workers.”View on their website ↗
“College for All Act to guarantee tuition-free community college for working class students”View on their website ↗
“Make public colleges tuition-free”View on their website ↗
School vouchers and choice ›
- Hold charter and private schools accountable
- Halt the expansion of charter schools
“Keep our public schools open, halt charter school expansion, and hold charter schools accountable”View on their website ↗
Student loans ›
- Cancel existing student debt
“Cancel $1.7 trillion of student debt”View on their website ↗
Educational opportunity ›
- Give every child a good education regardless of ZIP code, race or income
“Everyone has a right to free, quality public education, no matter their zip code.”View on their website ↗
School meals ›
- Make school meals free for every student
“Free breakfast and afterschool programs”View on their website ↗
Other things the site says about education and culture (1)
“Create quality certification and training programs for teachers at public universities”View on their website ↗
Government operations and elections
Government ethics and corruption ›
- Ban members of Congress from trading stocks
“Prohibit Congress members from trading stocks”View on their website ↗
Campaign finance ›
- Ban super PACs
- Refuse corporate PAC money for their own campaign
- Refuse campaign money from AIPAC
“Darializa’s campaign is 100% powered by the people: she will never take money from corporate PACs. Unlike Adriano Espaillat, she won’t take a dime from AIPAC or corporate real estate.”View on their website ↗
“Darializa will never take money from corporate PACs, and will fight against monopolies, price gouging, and super PACs.”View on their website ↗
“Darializa will never take a dime from corporate PACs.”View on their website ↗
“Ban super PACs money from our elections”View on their website ↗
Other things the site says about government operations and elections (2)
“End attacks on federal workers and their unions”View on their website ↗
“Our political system is corrupt: it rewards the wealthy elite, corporations, and political machines over working people.”View on their website ↗
Foreign affairs and aid
Use of military force abroad ›
- Cut spending on wars abroad
- Protect civilians in conflicts abroad
“This is why Darializa will fight to invest our tax dollars in programs that support children and their families, instead of spend billions to bomb foreign countries.”View on their website ↗
“Darializa will fight to divest the billions of taxpayer dollars we spend on senseless wars abroad, and invest those funds in child tax credits, baby bonds, and more.”View on their website ↗
“We must stop funding the bombing of children and families overseas, and start funding the programs here at home that can support our children reaching their full potential instead.”View on their website ↗
Israel ›
- Halt sales of offensive weapons to Israel
“Block the Bombs Act to ban the U.S. from sending weapons to Israel that are used to bomb Gaza”View on their website ↗
Israeli-Palestinian conflict ›
- Limit or put conditions on U.S. weapons for Israel
“Block the Bombs Act to ban the U.S. from sending weapons to Israel that are used to bomb Gaza”View on their website ↗
Other things the site says about foreign affairs and aid (1)
“For decades, both establishment Democrats and Republicans alike have used billions of our taxes to fund senseless wars abroad.”View on their website ↗
Energy
Renewable energy ›
- Move to 100% clean energy and phase out fossil fuels
“Green New Deal to transition to a 100% clean energy economy with high-wage union jobs and a livable world for everyone”View on their website ↗
Data centers ›
- Pause new data centers
“Issue a federal moratorium on AI data centers to ensure the technology benefits workers, not just tech oligarchs”View on their website ↗
Energy jobs ›
- Create clean energy jobs
- Ensure clean energy jobs are union jobs
- Pass a Green New Deal to create clean energy jobs
“Green New Deal to transition to a 100% clean energy economy with high-wage union jobs and a livable world for everyone”View on their website ↗
Home and building energy use ›
- Help homes switch to heat pumps or renewable heating
“Install cheaper, reliable and eco-friendly heat pumps and appliances”View on their website ↗
Taxes
Taxes on the wealthy ›
- Raise taxes on the wealthy
- Create a wealth tax on the largest fortunes
“Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act and Equal Tax Act so millionaires and billionaires pay their far share”View on their website ↗
Taxes on low- and middle-income families ›
- Expand the Child Tax Credit
“Darializa will fight to divest the billions of taxpayer dollars we spend on senseless wars abroad, and invest those funds in child tax credits, baby bonds, and more.”View on their website ↗
“Child tax credits ($800 per child)”View on their website ↗
Law, crime and courts
Police ›
“As an investigator at a public defenders office in Harlem, Darializa provides legal aid to victims of police brutality.”View on their website ↗
Civil rights and liberties
Free speech and protest ›
- Protect freedom of speech
- Protect academic freedom and free speech on campuses
“Protect academic freedom, including free speech”View on their website ↗
Other things the site says about civil rights and liberties (1)
“Protect and expand students’ civil rights especially for undocumented, Black and brown, and LGBTQ+ students”View on their website ↗
Economy and the federal budget
Cost of living ›
“KEEP MONEY IN YOUR POCKET”View on their website ↗
Grocery prices ›
“The federal government allows big businesses to flood our elections with unlimited dark money. It looks the other way when companies inflate prices on basic necessities like groceries to increase their profits.”View on their website ↗
Other things the site says about economy and the federal budget (1)
“Economic Security for All”View on their website ↗
Business and commerce
Corporate pricing practices ›
- Crack down on corporate price gouging
- Strengthen enforcement and penalties against price gouging
“Darializa will never take money from corporate PACs, and will fight against monopolies, price gouging, and super PACs.”View on their website ↗
“Criminalize corporations that price gouge consumers”View on their website ↗
Competition and antitrust ›
- Curb monopolies and promote competition
“Darializa will never take money from corporate PACs, and will fight against monopolies, price gouging, and super PACs.”View on their website ↗
Other things the site says about business and commerce (1)
“Break up monopolies like Facebook and Amazon”View on their website ↗
Environment
Climate change ›
- Cut greenhouse gas emissions, including by moving to clean energy
- Pass a Green New Deal
“Green New Deal to transition to a 100% clean energy economy with high-wage union jobs and a livable world for everyone”View on their website ↗
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