Kincaid for Congress – Washington’s 1st District

Proposal to Sunset the Peace Corps and Redirect Funding to POHIPA Executive Summary This proposal recommends the complete shutdown of the Peace Corps and the permanent redirection of its funding to support the Public Option Healthcare Innovation and Pilot Act (POHIPA). The Peace Corps has suffered from decades of systemic failure to protect its female volunteers from sexual assault. Despite legislative efforts. Including the Kate Puzey Act of 2011. Internal reforms have failed to produce transparency, accountability or meaningful protection for vulnerable service members. This is not merely a failure of policy it is a moral failure of the institution. We cannot tolerate government inaction when it comes to sexual violence. The Peace Corps has lost the trust of the public and of the volunteers it claims to serve. It is time to shut it down. I. Justification for Dissolution A. Systemic and Ongoing Failure The numbers come from the Peace Corps' own data. According to a 2...

Before a tech company launches a new product. It runs a beta test. Before a car hits the road. It goes through years of prototyping and safety evaluation. But when it comes to healthcare reform. The political debate has offered Americans only two choices. Leave a broken system untouched or tear down the entire thing overnight. That is why every push for Medicare for All has failed and it will keep failing. This is not a criticism of the goal. The goal is right. The problem has always been the strategy.   Bernie Sanders and others have introduced Medicare for All legislation twelve times since 2003. Every single time it has died in committee. It has never made it to a floor vote not even when Democrats controlled the House, Senate and the White House simultaneously. That should tell us something important. The obstacle is not the idea. The obstacle is the approach. We need a fundamentally different strategy. One that is practical, testable and built to actually pass. That i...

Why Did Paige Bueckers' Stalker Get Probation? Why did the man who stalked Paige Bueckers receive nothing more than probation and a ban from attending games? Why such a light sentence? This individual already had an outstanding warrant for arson. He should have been put behind bars for a very long time. He is clearly dangerous. He is a credible threat to Paige Bueckers' life. And he is not someone who will respect a court-ordered ban. If he shows up at a game one day and opens fire, people will ask why no one saw it coming. They will talk about the warning signs  just as they do after every preventable tragedy. Have we learned nothing? Caitlin Clark. Paige Bueckers. Emma Raducanu. Taylor Swift. All of them have been targeted by stalkers. And they are far from alone. Across sports, music, and public life, women in the spotlight are being hunted, harassed, and threatened by dangerous individuals. These are not isolated incidents. They are warning signs. And the truth is, an...

Proposal for the Creation of a White House Office to Combat Antisemitism Jewish Americans are facing harassment, vandalism, intimidation and violence. And too often the government's response is fragmented, slow and invisible to the public. Despite the documented rise of antisemitism in the United States and around the world. There is no permanent White House office solely dedicated to confronting this growing threat. While agencies like the State Department and the Domestic Policy Council play supporting roles. Their efforts are disconnected, reactive and largely unknown to most Americans. We need a permanent, visible and high level response. That is why I am proposing the creation of a White House Office to Combat Antisemitism. Housed within the Executive Office of the President. This office would serve as the center of gravity for federal coordination setting national priorities. Aligning agency efforts, measuring results and ensuring the federal government responds to antise...

A Real Discussion on Immigration This nation has never had a real conversation on immigration . One that asks how we got here? Why tensions are rising? And what kind of society we want to build. Instead we get sound bites and photo ops. Politicians from both parties offer slogans  not solutions. They tell us these are jobs Americans won't do and that we need immigrants to keep prices low. That is the full extent of the conversation. It is not honest and it is not enough. The Uncomfortable Truth Today in America an estimated 42% of crop agriculture workers are undocumented immigrants. And undocumented workers make up a significant share of the construction workforce as well. This is not a system built on fairness it is a system built on exploitation. We have created an economy that depends on people who live in the shadows. Millions of workers who are essential to our daily lives. Yet remain vulnerable, disposable and frequently abused. The conditions endured by much of ...

Let's Save Olympus Spa I was genuinely shocked when I learned what happened to Olympus Spa in Lynnwood. I kept asking myself. How? Why? How is something like this even possible in America? At first  I assumed this would never hold up in court. I thought there was no way the people of Washington had voted for this. And I was right they didn't. The voters never decided this. The state legislature did. They passed a law declaring that a biological male including one with male genitalia could be legally recognized as a woman by the state. And when Olympus Spa a women only business where patrons are nude declined entry to a biological male who identified as a woman. That person filed a complaint with the Washington State Human Rights Commission. The Commission initiated an enforcement action against the spa. Threatening prosecution unless it changed its women only policy. It did not matter that female customers were deeply uncomfortable being unclothed around biological male...

Gun Safety That Works: Stopping Gun Theft Before It Happens There is a significant gap in the national debate on gun control policy. The overwhelming focus has been on laws that do little or nothing. To protect people from the daily street crime happening in communities across the country. Far too little attention has been paid to stolen handguns and to preventing guns from being stolen in the first place. Home invasions and vehicle thefts happen every day. And in many cases they result in firearms being stolen. A criminal should not be able to smash a car window.  And walk away with a bag full of guns in a matter of minutes. Yet right now in most of America. That is exactly what can happen with minimal consequence for anyone. Only 16 states and the District of Columbia require gun owners to report a lost or stolen firearm. Think about that for a moment. With all of the gun violence happening in America. One or a dozen guns can be stolen. And there is no law that says you hav...