Lance Kruse

Infrastructure / Transportation I will co‑sponsor and fight for the “America First Production Act.” That means a binding, 20‑year plan to close 400 overseas military bases — 20 per year — and reinvest half the savings in American infrastructure. Roads. Bridges. Rail. Broadband. Energy. Not because I’m anti‑military. Because I’m pro‑America. We have 800 bases in 80 countries. We don’t need to project power everywhere to be strong at home. Foreign Policy I will never vote for an immoral, unjustifiable, especially unwinnable war. War is reserved for the worst worst case scenario, only when the worst case scenario isn’t achievable. Article I of the Constitution gives Congress — not the president — the power to declare war. Every president since Truman has ignored this. Every Congress has let them. I will not. Environment / Energy We have plenty of greening of our socioeconomic order to get to, but at the moment, U.S. foreign policy is the number one threat to our ecosystem. Foreign Policy The FIRST thing we can do to reduce our national contribution to Sixth Mass Extinction (or Anthropocene Extinction) is to start drawing down our imperial, globe-astriding, full-spectrum dominance machine, the military industrial complex. Foreign Policy The live-streamed genocide was the last, last, last straw. I’d already stopped voting for, or contributing to, Democrats two cycles before. But the genocide we perpetrated in Gaza was worse than the worst thing I could have possibly imagined that my county could continue to do, times 1,000,000. Of course, now our eyes have been opened to the kinds of inhuman, immoral acts that are unfortunately common in the way that the empire treats the Global South. Never Again was supposed to be our path forward, internationally, It was not reserved for one people or one region. We have the resources, we have the wherewithal. We don’t need to behave like rabid, wild beasts.