Deja Foxx

Environment / Energy Clean air, safe water, and a livable, toxin-free environment are not luxuries, they are rights. We need a transition to renewable energy that prioritizes frontline communities, especially historically marginalized neighborhoods in the immediate crosshairs of climate change. Climate justice is racial justice. It’s reproductive justice. It’s about our future. Wages / Job Benefits We need to pass the Raise the Wage Act to raise the federal minimum wage to $17/hr and eliminate the tipped minimum wage, while empowering labor and implementing tax reforms that ensure the wealthy pay their fair share. Government Reform Deja will be a loud voice in Congress seeking to reassert Article I prerogatives over questions of war and peace. One step would be repealing the greatly abused and long-outdated 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force passed following the 9/11 attacks. Taxes / Budget Shady tax loopholes allow U.S. companies off the hook and keep them from paying their fair share. We can’t allow billion dollar corporations to hoard wealth in overseas tax havens while working people are trying to make ends meet. If you make money off our communities, you better be investing back into them. Because corporations should pay what they owe, Congress must fully fund the IRS and empower staff to hold the rich who cut corners accountable. Education Deja is a proud product of our Tucson Unified School District’s public schools where she participated in the Red For Ed movement in solidarity with the educators who showed up for her. We need to increase Title I funding and back low-income schools so every kid gets a fair shot, no matter their zip code. Housing She’s fighting for policies to make housing truly affordable: including prioritizing community-driven large-scale investment through the construction of as many as 12 million new units of social housing and allocating funds to maintain and upgrade the existing stock of public housing. Abortion / Contraception Organizations like Planned Parenthood have given millions of women the future they have today – Deja included. Access to comprehensive reproductive health care services is crucial in giving everyone the opportunity to make informed decisions about their bodies and future – this includes accessible birth control, abortion services, and comprehensive sex education. Abortion / Contraception We need leaders who are unafraid to stand up and fight for abortion access. Deja is a part of the first generation of women to have fewer rights than our mothers. She’s been on the front lines of this movement risking arrest on Capitol Hill after the overturn of Roe v. Wade and right here in Arizona supporting our ballot initiative to enshrine the right into our state constitution.