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At a Glance

Quick Facts

Candidate: Kincaid
Party: Democrat
District: Washington's 1st Congressional District -- portions of King County and Snohomish County, including Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Bothell, Marysville, Arlington and Monroe
Status: Candidate, August 4, 2026 top-two primary
Filing Period: May 4 -- May 8, 2026
Incumbent: Rep. Suzan DelBene (D) in office since 2012
Field: Seven candidates on the primary ballot

Candidate Biography

About Kincaid

Kincaid is a moderate Democrat primary challenger to Representative Suzan DelBene in Washington's 1st Congressional District. The campaign stands for practical, solutions first leadership focused on measurable results for working families. Not ideology, not corporate donors and not politics as usual.

Kincaid has never held elected office. He is a working American with a blue collar job running for the first time. Like most of the field in this race. That is not a gap in the resume. It is the point. Kincaid has worked alongside people from all walks of life including healthcare workers, transgender individuals, immigrants and working class families. That brings a lived experience perspective to policy that career politicians in safe seats often lack.

The campaign is built around one core belief. The Democratic Party has lost touch with ordinary voters and it must find its way back before it is too late.

"It doesn't matter who we are. What matters is our plan." -- Bane, The Dark Knight Rises

Legal Note: This website is operated by the Kincaid for Congress Committee.

Campaign Overview

What Makes This Campaign Different

Kincaid is running as a reform Democrat. Not against the party but to help it return to the principles that once made it trusted by working people. The campaign is distinctive in several ways.

The only Democrat in WA-01 openly addressing the full range of issues voters actually care about

Including homelessness failures, crime and repeat offenders. Women's safety, immigration and corporate corruption inside the Democratic Party. Issues that other Democrats in this race have avoided or dismissed.

A more centrist results driven platform than the incumbent

More innovative than anything the Washington Democratic establishment is currently offering. More connected to lived experience than DelBene's record. More pro woman in a party that is losing suburban women. More honest about homelessness, addiction and mental illness.

Real world pilot programs instead of ideological promises

No other candidate in this race is proposing to test healthcare reform with actual data before scaling nationally. No other candidate has proposed a cause specific, outcome tracked approach to homelessness. These are evidence based proposals not talking points.

A grassroots campaign not a funded operation

Representative DelBene ranks among the top 10 wealthiest members of Congress. With a net worth that has more than doubled during her time in office. She also receives substantially more corporate PAC money than most of her Democratic colleagues. This campaign takes no corporate PAC money and is not built on it.

Policy Positions

Platform Summaries for Press

1. Taxes and Economic Affordability

The flagship proposal the Real Tax Reform and Simplification Act. Would eliminate federal income tax liability and filing requirements for individuals earning $61,000 or less annually. Based on IRS data filers in that range make up roughly 50 to 60 percent of all U.S. tax filers while contributing only 3 to 4 percent of federal individual income tax revenue. The revenue gap can be easily offset by many different ways. It could be done with budget cuts alone.The campaign also critiques corporate stock buyback practices. Citing Microsoft's $170 billion in buybacks over the past decade as a prime example of capital being prioritized over workers and communities.

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2. Healthcare Reform

Kincaid's healthcare proposal is a public option. It is not universal healthcare and it is not the end of private insurance or private hospitals. Medicare for All has been introduced twelve times since 2003 and has died in committee every time. Never reaching a floor vote even with unified Democratic control. Kincaid argues the obstacle was never the goal. It was the strategy.

The Public Option Healthcare Innovation and Pilot Act (POHIPA) applies a beta test instead. Phase One builds two hospitals to prove two things at once. A new federal hospital in Alaska's Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Designed as the state's first Level I trauma center. Tests whether the government can build where care does not exist. Alaska has no Level I trauma center anywhere in its borders and more than eighty percent of the state is off the road system. A second hospital will be acquired through voluntary negotiated purchase from among the 446 facilities.  Public Citizen identified in March 2026 as at heightened risk of closure. Tests whether the government can rescue a hospital before its community loses it. Astria Toppenish Hospital in the Yakima Valley.  Which has already cut its labor and delivery unit is cited as the kind of facility the program is built to save.

Residents within 30 miles of either facility could voluntarily enroll in the Public Option Health Plan (POHP) with no out-of-pocket costs. While keeping private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid or VA benefits. Private hospitals and private insurers are explicitly protected from displacement. The bill authorizes $16 billion for establishment and $1 billion per fiscal year for five years in operations. With annual reports to Congress. A comprehensive evaluation at Year Five and a sunset at Year Six unless reauthorized.

The model can be compared to the VA hospital system opened to everyone.  Also can be compared to Kaiser Permanente run publicly and alongside the private market rather than replacing it. If the public option is good people use it. If private care serves them better they use that. Either way the patient decides. The beta test proves the model. The country decides how far it goes.

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3. Homelessness, Addiction and Mental Illness

The proposed Homeless Recovery and Rehabilitation Act (HRRA) of 2027 rejects one size fits all housing first models and instead categorizes individuals by root cause. Addiction, met with secure rehabilitation campuses and 9 to 12+ months of medical supervision. Severe mental illness met with long term facilities providing 24/7 care. And permanent humane care where a judge and clinicians determine an individual cannot live safely on their own. Economic hardship met with short term housing, job training and rental support. A National Homeless Oversight Board under HUD would track performance with public dashboards. Annual funding of would be tied to measurable results. This platform aligns with what polling consistently shows 70 to 80 percent of Washington voters want but that incumbent Democrats have refused to implement.

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4. Gun Safety and Crime Prevention

With 1.07 million firearms stolen between 2017 and 2021. 80 percent of them handguns used quickly in street crimes. Kincaid's approach targets the theft pipeline rather than focusing on restrictions that do not address everyday violent crime. The proposed federal Secure Storage Law would require handguns to be stored in DOJ-certified steel lock boxes, rifles and shotguns in bolted safes. And would mandate 48 hour theft reporting with annual compliance checks. Retailers would offer discounts and tax credits for compliant storage devices. This approach is designed for bipartisan appeal. Protecting Second Amendment rights while meaningfully reducing gun crime.

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5. Immigration and Labor

Kincaid rejects both sanctuary style non enforcement and mass deportation as politically and practically unworkable. The platform calls for structured guest worker programs modeled on successful international examples in Canada, Germany and South Korea. With legal contracts, housing protections and defined pathways that match labor supply with actual demand. It also supports investing in agricultural and construction automation to reduce long term dependency on undocumented labor. And reforming the H-1B visa program to ensure it addresses genuine skill shortages rather than corporate preferences for lower cost overseas hires. The goal is to restore respect for the law not through mass roundups and spectacle.

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6. Women's Safety and Fairness

Kincaid is the only Democrat in Washington's 1st District publicly and plainly stating that women deserve protected, sex-based spaces. Particularly in intimate settings such as spas, locker rooms, prisons and healthcare facilities. And that biological males should not compete in women's sports. Representative DelBene voted against the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. Kincaid supports that legislation and goes further. Advocating for federal protections for women only spaces. This position is not framed as anti-LGBTQ+. It is framed as pro-woman. And Kincaid notes that many members of the LGBTQ+ community, including prominent figures such as Martina Navratilova share this view.

Statement on Olympus Spa · Statement on Protecting Women's Rights · On Women's Prisons

7. Healthcare Worker Safety

The proposed Nurse Assault Prevention and Accountability Act of 2027 would establish mandatory prison sentences for assaulting healthcare workers. Create a public figure enhancement for attacks on medical personnel, require mandatory psychiatric treatment for unstable offenders and establish a national monitoring system. Nearly three in four workplace violence incidents in the private sector occur in healthcare settings. And in many states assaulting a nurse is still treated as a minor misdemeanor.

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8. Anti-Stalking Legislation

In response to high profile stalking cases involving public figures such as Paige Bueckers, Caitlin Clark and Taylor Swift. Kincaid has proposed the Stalking Victim Protection and Accountability Act of 2027. The bill would mandate a minimum of three years in federal prison for stalkers who cross state lines or make credible threats. Add a five year enhancement when the victim is a public figure. Create a National Stalker Alert System and restrict high risk stalkers' access to air travel and public venues. Current federal law allows stalkers to walk free on probation even after crossing state lines and making explicit death threats.

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Recent Statements

Key Statements and Posts

May 2025 -- Exploratory Committee Announcement
The formal announcement explaining why Kincaid is challenging Representative DelBene and what this campaign stands for.

June 2025 -- Statement on Olympus Spa
On the state's mandate that a women only spa admit biological males and why this is a turning point for the Democratic Party.

June 2025 -- Public Option Healthcare Innovation and Pilot Act
The beta test approach to healthcare reform. Two hospitals one built and one rescued. Tested against real data before anything scales.

July 2025 -- No Federal Income Tax Under $61,000
The Real Tax Reform and Simplification Act. Eliminating filing requirements for the majority of American workers.

July 2025 -- Statement on Antisemitic Attack Against Jewish Student in Seattle
On the attack at Nathan Hale High School and the institutional failure that followed it.

August 2025 -- Statement on Microsoft Job Cuts
On stock buybacks, H-1B visa reform and the coming wave of AI-driven job displacement.

October 2025 -- A Smarter Strategy to End Homelessness
The Homeless Recovery and Rehabilitation Act. A cause specific, outcome tracked alternative to failed housing first models.

November 2025 -- The Lawrence Reed / Bethany MaGee Case
On the failure of civil commitment laws and the case for reforming how America handles violent and mentally ill repeat offenders.

February 2026 -- Statement on Protecting Women's Rights
The case for sex based protections in sports and intimate spaces made as a Democrat.

March 2026 -- Making My Case to the Voters and the Math Behind It
Where the race stands how the top two primary works and the path to November.

May 2026 -- The Chinese Car Ban: Who Is Congress Really Protecting?
On tariffs above 100 percent, consumer choice and who trade policy actually serves.

June 2026 -- Cruel and Unusual Punishment
On female inmates housed with biological males at the Washington Corrections Center for Women.

Media Coverage

In the News

July 15, 2026 -- The Everett Herald
Seven candidates seek District 1 Congressional seat
By Will Geschke. A candidate by candidate look at all seven names on the August 4 primary ballot. Covering taxes, healthcare, homelessness, immigration and climate. Kincaid's positions on tax reform, healthcare, long term care for addiction and severe mental illness, guest worker reform and women's sports are covered at length.

Get in Touch

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