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The Impossible Dream Is Not So Impossible

I may not be a native son of Alabama, but I did spend my formative years here. Many of the experiences that made me who I am today happened here. While I might not have spent my entire life in Alabama, something has always brought me back, and over the years, I have learned to love and appreciate my home city of Huntsville as a shining beacon of progress in the South. Unfortunately, the politics of this great state do not match the promise of what it is.

We are the home of the Marshall Space Flight center, Red Stone Arsenal, a leader in industry, science and technological advancement, and diversity. But our district is represented by a man who believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are not values we should uplift. Dale Strong believes that those values, that our country was founded on, are detrimental to society. Huntsville was the first city in Alabama to integrate its schools. Diversity is the bedrock of who we are here. North Alabama is a richly diverse community. People of all races, religions, sexualities, ideologies, and gender identities live together, work together, and stand shoulder to shoulder as an example that we are not the barefoot, backwoods state that many believe us to be. Our diversity is our strength, despite what my conservative counterparts may say.

As a Democrat, mentioning Alabama is usually met with a recoil, but those people don’t understand that Democrats exist in Alabama. There are blue dots spread all across this state who, like me, believe in the promise of what Alabama could be if we stopped clinging to “the old ways” of thinking. The Alabama that raised our parents and grandparents isn’t the Alabama that we live in now. Looking to the past, we must acknowledge the mistakes of our forefathers and foremothers. Looking at the present, we must determine what needs to be fixed to move us forward, and we must right those wrongs. Looking to the future, we can show the rest of these great United States that Alabama will no longer be a follower and a punchline. We will show them that we can lead with the strength and determination that we all know is what makes Alabama great.

I believe that Alabama can be better than 45th in education. I believe that we can be better than 31st in opportunity. I believe that we can be better than any ranking. I believe we are better than the hate and the division that the current administration is peddling. I believe that we need someone in Washington who will stand for and with the people of Alabama, not just those in the top 1%. I won’t always be perfect; I have made mistakes in my life, and I will make mistakes in the future. What I can promise is that when I do make mistakes, I will own them, and I will be accountable to the people of Alabama.

I am here today as an out and proud gay man because of the bravery of Marsha P. Johnson. I am here today because of the determination of Harvey Milk. I am here today because of the courage of Black women. I am here because of the work of great Democrats like Shirley Chisholm, John Lewis, Kamala Harris, the Clintons, the Obamas, the Bidens, and so many others. I am here because of the sacrifices my parents made to give me a life better than theirs. I am here because I believe the impossible dream is not so impossible when we fight, when we work hard, and when we make sure that every voice is heard. I am here because I believe it’s time to write the next chapter of Alabama’s story.

I am here because I will be running to be the next representative for Alabama’s fifth US Congressional district

Small Business Owner, Podcast Host, Author, Entrepreneur, and Political Commentator Greg Howard Jr is best known as the creator and host of the hit podcasts: Don’t Make This Weird, This is Not An Endorsement, 30 Questions With…, Your Life: The Mixtape, Headliners, & Bonus Tracks. He is also a co-host on the internationally charting It’s Like This: A Pop Culture Podcast.

Greg is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Your Life: The Mixtape Media. Greg co-produces the smash hit podcasts Voice Memos and Unapologetically She for Rodwarton Productions. He is the executive editor of the free digital magazines Your Life: The Mixtape Magazine and In The Mix Weekly.

In addition to this, Greg is a bestselling author. Having released the Amazon Bestsellers Hi, I’m the Ugly Friend (And Other Tales of Not Living Up to My Potential), Don’t Make This Weird (A Year in the Life), Life, Liberty, and Something Like Happiness, Not So Self-Evident, and If We’re Being Honest: Essays, Observations, and Words of Wisdom From a Life Well-Lived.

Greg has a background in community theater, as well as being an acclaimed drag queen in Atlanta in the mid-2010s. Issues

My first priority as a member of congres is to protect the people of Alabama’s 5th congressional district and our democracy from the Trump regime’s reckles and destructive policies.

One of the core pillars of this campaign is honesty. I will always tell you the truth, even if it is difficult to hear. It would be dishonest of me to tell you that in my first term, I’ll be able to accomplish everything in my platform. As long as Trump occupies the Oval Office, we’ll face the fight of our lives to get legislation that undoes Project 2025 passed. But while it will be tough, it won’t be impossible.

LGBTQIA2S+ Rights

LGBTQIA2S+ initiatives and health research are under attack, our fight remains more important than ever. I’ll work to ensure that the Equality Act is finally passed.

I’ll also fight to ensure that trans people are able to live authentically without fear of harassment or discrimination in school, athletics, the workplace, or healthcare by establishing legal and medical protections for trans people across the country.

Addressing Wealth Inequality

The first step is to address the historical and ongoing discrimination that communities of color face in income, wages, health, housing, and employment. Today, the racial wealth gap is roughly three times larger than the racial income gap. To fix these disparities, we must implement targeted investments in Black communities, reform housing and lending practices, improve access to quality education and healthcare, and enact progressive tax policies.

Ending The Epidemic of Gun Violence

I know very well the importance of the Second Amendment, but I also know the fear of parents, families, teachers, and students across the country. Common-sense gun safety laws aren’t about taking them away from sensible adults; it’s to ensure there isn’t another life lost to preventable violence because we were too scared to do something about it. To accomplish this I will introduce legislation calling for mandatory background checks on all gun sales, banning the sale of assault weapons, implement federal “Red Flag Laws,” and invest in Community Violence Intervention Programs.

Legalization and Decriminalization of Marijuana

We have come to a point, as a nation, where we have to understand that we need to legalize recreational marijuana use at the federal level. As we have seen in states where recreational marijuana is legal, the industry creates hundreds of thousands of jobs and adds billions of dollars to the US economy. Along with legalizing recreational marijuana use, we need to expunge the criminal records of anyone who was a non-violent, low-level offender. As the national cannabis industry takes shape, we must ensure that Black people, who have, for years, been overpoliced for marijuana use, can access wealth and jobs in this new market.

Abolishing ICE

Since it’s creation in 2003, ICE has acted as nothing more than a government-funded, domestic terror group and should be treated as such. If elected, I will immediately introduce legislation to abolish the agency. Additionally, I will introduce articles of impeachment against DHS Secretary Kristi Noem for her complicity.

Ending Corporate Tax Avoidance

Corporate Tax Avoidance occurs because Congress allows it to. The US Tax Code must be rewritten to close corporate tax loopholes, end special breaks for the Top 1% of earners, and finally work for the working people of this country, not against them.

Reproductive Rights

To ensure access to safe, affordable, and comprehensive reproductive healthcare I will work to repeal the Comstock Act, expand Title X to ensure that low-income communities have access to contraception and reproductive healthcare services, and enshrine the right to reproductive healthcare as given in Roe v Wade and Griswold v Connecticut.

Criminal Justice Reform

The first step to reforming our criminal justice system is by address the harmful impact it has had on the Black, POC, and LGBTQIA2S+ communities, this means renouncing and repealing the policies that drove mass incarceration and racial disparities. We must also end the Pentagon’s 1033 and 1122 programs, which funnel battlefield equipment into local police departments, expand and strengthen provisions to limit the use of biometric data by law enforcement, end qualified immunity, end mandatory minimums, and ban solitary confinement.