About the Candidate
Kincaid for Congress
A Democrat focused on public safety, affordability, and real accountability not politics as usual.
As Bane says in The Dark Knight Rises: "It doesn't matter who we are. What matters is our plan."
Who I Am
A Different Kind of Democrat
```Kincaid is a challenger to Representative Suzan DelBene in Washington's 1st Congressional District (WA-01). The campaign stands for practical, solutions first leadership focused on measurable results for working families, not ideology or business as usual.
I am a Democrat. I will be challenging fellow Democrat Representative Suzan DelBene, who has held this seat for more than 13 years. This is not a campaign against the Democratic Party it is a campaign to help it find its way back to the people it is supposed to represent.
Our mission is to renew accountability, strengthen communities, and bring rigorous, evidence based policymaking back to Congress. I am a moderate reform Democrat who believes the party must return to results based problem solving and that representation should belong to everyday residents, not entrenched special interests.
Independent ThinkingNot party line politics. I will say what others won't and tackle the issues others avoid.
Focused on ResultsNot ideology, not slogans. What actually works for real people in the real world.
Not Owned by CorporationsI will always look out for the interests of the people not mega-corporations or their PACs.
Telling the TruthEven when it's uncomfortable. Especially then. That's what real leadership looks like.
Platform
Core Policy Priorities
```Homelessness, Addiction, and Severe Mental Illness
Homelessness policy must recognize different root causes addiction, untreated severe mental illness, and economic hardship rather than treating everyone through the same system. The campaign calls for a results driven national framework that balances compassion with accountability. Expanding treatment capacity, restoring neighborhood safety, and tracking outcomes, while moving beyond one size fits all approaches.
→ Read: Kincaid's Strategy to End HomelessnessPublic Safety, Criminal Justice, and Accountability
This campaign is both pro-safety and pro-accountability. Key priorities include reducing street level crime, addressing repeat violent offenders, rebuilding public trust, restoring institutional mental health care for the most severely ill, and modernizing civil commitment laws with strong oversight.
→ Read: The Tragic Failure Behind the Lawrence Reed / Bethany McGee CaseCrime, Guns, and Prevention
The campaign highlights a neglected issue in national debate. The widespread theft and circulation of small handguns used in everyday street crime. Kincaid supports smart, enforceable policies that improve secure storage and prevent illegal firearm trafficking while protecting lawful ownership.
→ Read: Kincaid's Gun Control PolicyTaxes, Cost of Living, and Housing
The plan would eliminate federal income tax liability and filing requirements for Americans earning $61,000 or less, while closing loopholes for high earners and corporations. The platform also calls for expanded federal incentives to increase affordable housing supply and reduce cost pressures on working families.
→ Read: No Federal Income Tax for Persons Earning $61,000 or LessHealthcare Reform and Nurse Safety
Rather than an overnight nationwide system, this campaign supports a Universal Healthcare Pilot Program a real world initiative to test what works before scaling nationally. The campaign also advocates for stronger safeguards for healthcare workers through a proposed Nurse Assault Prevention and Accountability Act.
→ Read: Healthcare Policy Proposal → Read: Nurse Assault Prevention and Accountability ActImmigration and Labor
This campaign rejects both extremes sanctuary-style non-enforcement and mass deportation as unworkable. It supports enforceable guest worker systems that balance fairness, labor needs, and border integrity, and calls for reforming the H-1B program to target genuine skill shortages while protecting American workers.
→ Read: Kincaid's Immigration PolicyWomen's Safety and Fairness Agenda
This campaign supports clear, consistent standards that preserve sex-based privacy in intimate spaces and fairness in women's sports. Women and girls deserve safety, dignity, and a meaningful voice in shaping the rules that directly affect them. Common sense is not transphobic.
Read: Stalking Victim Protection and Accountability Act of 2027
→ Read: Kincaid's Statement on Olympus Spa → Read: Protecting Women's Rights → Press Release: Kincaid Endorses IL26-638Protecting Girls: Ending Child Marriage in America
This campaign supports ending child marriage nationwide by establishing 18 as the minimum legal age without exceptions for parental consent, judicial waivers, or pregnancy. There have been cases where American girls were legally married at 10, 11, or 12. Since 2007, there have been nearly 8,700 spousal or fiancé visa approvals involving a minor including some as young as 13.
→ Read: Ending Child Marriage in AmericaCommunity Outreach and Neighborhood Protection
This campaign stands with local communities in historic neighborhoods such as Chinatown, Japantown, and Little Saigon working to reduce the impacts of crime, addiction, and chronic disorder while protecting small businesses, preserving cultural heritage, and improving public safety and quality of life.
→ Read: Kincaid's Statement to Chinatown, Japantown & Little SaigonEconomy, Jobs, the Future of Work, and Artificial Intelligence
Kincaid believes the economy must work for the people who build it not just shareholders and insiders. Washington is a high cost "company state," and recent tech layoffs are a warning sign that the next wave of disruption will be far larger, driven by artificial intelligence, automation, and rapidly changing labor markets. The campaign supports an evidence based national strategy to protect opportunity and stability for working families.
Rebalancing incentives so corporations invest more in people, innovation, and communities not just stock buybacks and short term share price boosts. Microsoft's $170 billion in buybacks over the past decade is a prime example of capital being prioritized over workers. That must change.
Preparing workers for AI era disruption with large scale, practical career transition pathways into fields like healthcare, clean energy, and advanced manufacturing paired with measurable outcomes, not slogans. The coming wave of AI driven job displacement is not science fiction. It is already here, and it will accelerate. Congress must act now, not after the damage is done.
Modernizing workforce immigration rules by reforming programs like H-1B to prevent downward pressure on wages and to require truly equal pay for the same work, regardless of where a worker comes from. American workers should never be undercut in their own job market.
Building long term resilience by investing in productivity including responsible automation in sectors like agriculture and construction while reducing dependence on unstable labor pipelines that leave both workers and industries vulnerable.
→ Read: Kincaid's Statement on Microsoft Job Cuts and the Future of WorkRejecting Socialism, Antisemitism, and Political Extremism
This campaign flatly rejects political extremism in all its forms including socialism, antisemitism, and the fringe elements that have been allowed to gain a foothold inside the Democratic Party. These are not fringe concerns. They are among the primary reasons the Democratic Party lost the trust of ordinary voters, and they are among the primary reasons Donald Trump is president again.
Antisemitism is racism. It is hate. It has no place in the Democratic Party, in Congress, or in American public life. This campaign stands unequivocally with the Jewish community and with Israel's right to exist and defend itself. Representative DelBene voted against censuring Representative Rashida Tlaib and has failed to speak out forcefully against members of her own party who have spread antisemitic rhetoric and made false accusations of genocide. As one of the top leaders of the Democratic Party, that silence is a failure of leadership. Kincaid will not be silent.
On socialism this campaign believes in markets, innovation, and the entrepreneurial spirit that built Washington State into an economic powerhouse. The answer to corporate excess is accountability and fair rules not government takeover of the economy. The Democratic Party must clearly and confidently reject socialist ideas that alienate working class and middle class voters who believe in opportunity, not dependency.
The Democratic Party will not win back the trust of the American people by tolerating extremism, excusing antisemitism, or flirting with socialism. It wins by being the party of fairness, common sense, and results. That is what this campaign represents.
→ Read: Kincaid's Statement on Antisemitism in SeattleWhy This Campaign
Why Challenge a Member of My Own Party?
```There are two reasons one is Representative DelBene herself, and the other is the direction of the Democratic Party as a whole. Both have been wrong on key issues , issues that contributed directly to our party's devastating loss in the last election. That loss is why Donald Trump is president again.
Washington State ranks among the worst states in the nation for retirees, largely due to the cost of living. But affordability is unlikely to be a personal concern for Representative DelBene. Like so many career politicians, her personal wealth has grown dramatically during her time in office. According to Quiver Quantitative, her net worth has more than doubled from $60 million to $126.34 million. Among the ten wealthiest members of Congress, she currently ranks eighth.
I am not criticizing anyone simply for being wealthy. The point is larger and more troubling. Congress no longer reflects the American people. It does not resemble the government "of the people, by the people, for the people" that Abraham Lincoln envisioned. And in a world where mega corporations wield enormous money, power, and influence over our political system, we must remain vigilant.
If the Democratic Party does not change course, Vice President J.D. Vance could be our next president. We may be able to survive this second Trump term. A Vance presidency is a different matter entirely the damage could last generations. As the saying goes, those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The Democratic Party has not learned. Instead, it has doubled down on the very positions that eroded the trust of everyday voters. That has to stop.
```The Contrast
DelBene's Record vs. My Approach
Representative DelBene has been in Congress for over a decade. Has daily life gotten better or worse? Has crime, homelessness, or the drug crisis improved? The following is a fact based comparison of her record against this campaign's approach.
```| Issue | DelBene's Record | Kincaid's Position |
|---|---|---|
| Housing & Affordability | Has supported federal housing assistance programs but has not introduced major legislation directly aimed at reducing home prices in Washington. | Federal incentives for affordable housing construction in high cost states, plus no federal income tax for Americans earning $61,000 or less to help working families. |
| Tax Policy | Voted for the 2021 Build Back Better package, which included tax increases on high income earners but did not lower the burden for middle class families in high cost areas. | Real Tax Reform and Simplification Act. Eliminating federal income tax for working Americans earning $61,000 or less. |
| Healthcare | Supports the Affordable Care Act and a public option, but not Medicare for All. | Universal Healthcare Pilot Program . A real world, data driven test before any nationwide rollout. |
| Public Safety | Has voted for gun safety measures but has not introduced legislation targeting the theft of handguns most commonly used in everyday street crime. | Secure Storage Laws to prevent theft of firearms. Addressing the root cause of guns flowing into criminal activity. |
| Women's Sports | Voted against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. | Support legislation ensuring that women's athletic competitions are limited to biological females. Fairness in sports is non-negotiable. |
Join the Campaign
If you believe in practical solutions, real accountability, and leadership that puts people first I invite you to be part of this campaign. Together, we can bring genuine change to Washington's 1st District.
Let's chart a new course.
Let's bring honesty back to politics.
Let's fight for a future we can all believe in.
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