Katrina deVille
For United States House of Representatives
America Wins Together
“So many of our current leaders seek office for money and power, quickly abandoning the policies they promised and the people they swore to serve. Citizens deserve transparency, accessibility, integrity, and strength from their representative; a voice which will stand up and fight for the issues affecting people while defending the rights and freedoms we all hold dear. I promise to fight with everything I’ve got for all Wisconsinites and all Americans.”
My Promise
The fleecing of the American people has gone on for as long as I have been alive. Politicians have made promises of making things better, only to continue using their powers of office to self enrich and maintain their seat at the table of government, but not really doing a whole lot to improve the lives of their constituents in a profound positive way. Recently, we’ve seen our government leaders intentionally avoiding the people they represent; office doors locked, no town halls, and refusing to answer questions. This does nothing to instill the faith in our leaders to do the right things; to work toward policies intended to help the majority of who they represent, instead of only the few who make large campaign contributions. The American people deserve far better. The people of Wisconsin deserve far better.
I promise to deliver on this by clearly stating my position on issues you’re concerned about, maintaining integrity with the policies and positions I’ve stated, continuing to be transparent, understandable, and accessible for as long as I serve you, and most importantly, working for you and remaining true to you, the voters who trust me to be your voice, your representative.
I’m not a politician; I’ve never served in government before. I’m a worker like you - a small business owner like you. I’ve been on food assistance and government assisted healthcare before. I’ve scraped by and struggled to make it, just like you, so I understand with crystal clarity how the policies of our government affect each of our lives. As public programs such as food benefits and access to healthcare become threatened, these issues are literally life and death for a great many of us. Too many of our leaders have forgotten what it means to be working class and live paycheck to paycheck. They’ve forgotten what it’s like to have to choose between paying rent and putting food on the table, while using public benefit programs and the people who depend on them as pawns to gain political leverage. This isn’t a game and you’re not some chess piece to be maneuvered around. Your lives are real; your concerns and struggles are real. You deserve a representative who understands how real these struggles are.
I promise to fight for you and all of us like our lives depend on it, because they absolutely do.
I Work For You
Elected officials are supposed to work for the people, not the other way around. Everyday Americans have been forgotten by our current politicians as they continue to prioritize corporations over citizens. Government leaders are supposed to be public servants. This means I Work For You.
I promise to always give 100% of my energy toward making sure your life is better, you come first, and our government works FOR YOU.
These are my crucial starting points.
Visit the Policies page to learn more about each.
HUMAN RIGHTS
As an openly public facing transgender woman in the year 2025, it has been made crystal clear, our human rights are still very vulnerable to those who wish to oppress and discriminate from positions of government or corporate power. I would have never imagined such hate and malicious prejudice to still exist in our country, but I have now seen it with my own eyes and have felt it break my own heart. Evil will not stop until it has destroyed lives. I promise to fight with my life for you and ALL Americans so our basic human rights are guaranteed inalienable, never able to be threatened or stripped away again.
UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE AND A SINGLE PAYER SYSTEM
America’s healthcare system is broken. The cost of medical treatment continues to skyrocket, almost entirely due to the corporate greed of for-profit health insurance companies putting profit over people. Your care shouldn’t be sacrificed for the sake of shareholder dividends, yet this is exactly what happens in our current system. I will tirelessly work to remove health insurance companies from the equation, making Medicare FOR ALL and a single payer healthcare system the reality, so no citizen’s medical care is left behind.
RAISING THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE
We are currently in the longest period of stagnation for the federal minimum wage since the program was started in 1938. Families are living paycheck to paycheck, unable to get ahead or in many cases, to even survive without government assistance. All of this is the result of corporations not paying workers a living wage. I will work to raise our minimum wage to at least $17 an hour, while also enacting legislation which mandates regular minimum wage increases based directly on the rising costs of living.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
There is a housing shortage epidemic happening in our country right now. This isn’t something we’re far removed from; the largest cities in our district and state are distinct examples of this reality. I will work with our city leaders to ensure the current successful programs continue getting the funding they need, while fighting for the resources needed to do so much more. Providing affordable homes to more people directly contributes to a stronger middle class, which results in economy growth and the growing strength of America.
PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATION V2.0
The Public Works Administration was an integral part of FDR’s New Deal. This was the government agency created during the Great Depression which not only built so much of the infrastructure (roads, bridges, damns, etc.) we still continue to use, but it provided thousands of jobs for Americans. Infrastructure projects have become privatized over the last few decades, while much of that infrastructure crumbles and begins to fail. I will work to move public works programs back into the realm of government agency through the reintroduction of the Public Works Administration, thereby creating thousands more jobs, lowering costs, and addressing the immediate issue of our decaying infrastructure system. It would also be this agency’s job to build and maintain more affordable housing alongside and/or with current local government projects.
LOWERING THE COST OF LIVING
There are a great number of factors contributing to the high cost of living in our country, and there are equal number of instances in which our current lawmakers have failed to address the issue. Lowering the cost of prescription drugs, providing free tuition to schools of higher learning, and raising the tax rate for the super wealthy .1% while simultaneously giving tax cuts to middle class Americans are all things I’ll tirelessly work toward achieving.
REMOVING TAX EXEMPT STATUS FROM CHURCHES AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS
I’ll work to remove the tax exempt status of churches and religious groups. A great number of churches run for profit and hide behind the guise of religion to exploit tax exemption. Taxing them all eliminates this possibility, treating them all fairly under the same set of tax code as any other entity. This will achieve quite a few things, not the least of these being churches being required to be contributors to our society, and I would earmark this tax income to fund another of my proposals - one which could immeasurably help our country’s families: Free Child Care For ALL.
FREE CHILDCARE FOR ALL
As this program name implies, I propose a plan to provide free child care for all families with children between the ages of 18 months and 5 years of age; 18 months being an acceptable age to safely care for a child outside their home and 5 years old being when children begin school. This program is to be specifically funded by taxes collected from churches and religious groups. The positive effects this program alone could have on our workforce, our economy, and our nation as a whole are immeasurable, while also creating a real world scenario for children of all ethnicities and backgrounds to be growing up in diverse circumstances and acclimated to one another. Through proper pre-school teaching techniques, this could very much be a long term solution to solving racism, bigotry, and the social isolation epidemic currently plaguing our country.
CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM
Big business and the oligarchs of this nation have been allowed to buy our government officials and the decisions they make by use of lobbying for favor, exploitation of judicial ruling which uncaps contributions donors can make to them (such as under Citizens United), and so on. Millions of dollars go to politicians every day, creating bias in their actions and have managed to lobby the middle class and every day American’s concerns out of relevance. I will fight to end these practices so the public servants holding office remain true to who they’ve supposed to have been this entire time. The American citizens.
Do you have an issue in your life being socially affected or influenced by government you’d like me to work on?
Are you part of a community organization (such as a labor union, LGBTQ+ group, veterans service organization, etc.) you’d like me to come speak to?
I’d like to connect with you and/or your group so I can learn about the real issues impacting you!
Send me an email and I’ll do all I can to help or come meet you and your people!
