Melanie Williams

Melanie Williams was born in Minneapolis and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. Her career experience includes working as a peace, justice, and human rights organizer.[1]

Melanie Williams did not complete [the profile publisher]'s 2026 Candidate Connection survey.

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Campaign websiteWilliams' campaign website stated the following:Tax the WealthyBillionaires and corporations must pay their fair share. Melanie supports a wealth tax on fortunes over $10 million, closing corporate tax loopholes, and ending the era of the ultra-rich rigging the system while working families struggle.No Illegal WarsThe United States must stop waging — or funding — wars that Congress never authorized and the American people never consented to. Melanie opposes any military action against Iran or any other nation without a formal declaration of war from Congress, period. She will fight to claw back the war powers that have been handed to the executive branch over decades, end the blank checks to the Pentagon, and redirect those resources to healthcare, housing, and the needs of the people who actually pay for them.Abolish ICEICE as it currently exists is a instrument of fear, family separation, and racial profiling — not public safety. Melanie supports abolishing ICE and replacing it with a humane, accountable immigration enforcement system that respects due process and the dignity of every person. Tearing families apart and terrorizing immigrant communities is not who we are as a nation.Living WageNo one working full time should live in poverty. Melanie supports raising the federal minimum wage to $20 an hour, indexed to inflation — so workers in Omaha and across the country can afford rent, groceries, and a dignified life.ReparationsThe wealth gap between Black and white Americans is not an accident — it is the direct result of slavery, Jim Crow, convict leasing, redlining, and generations of systemic racism designed to exclude and exploit. Melanie doesn't just support studying reparations — she believes it's time to act. She supports direct reparations payments to descendants of enslaved people, alongside targeted investment in Black communities, as a moral imperative and a down payment on the promise of equality America has never fully kept.LGBTQ+ EqualityMelanie will be an unapologetic champion for LGBTQ+ rights — advocating for the Equality Act, protecting trans youth from cruel anti-transgender legislation, and ensuring every person can live openly without fear of discrimination.Money Out of PoliticsOur democracy is being bought. Melanie supports overturning Citizens United, public financing of elections, and a lifetime ban on members of Congress becoming lobbyists. Government should work for people, not billionaire donors and corporate PACs.Medicare for AllHealthcare is a human right, full stop. Melanie supports a single-payer Medicare for All system that eliminates private insurance premiums, deductibles, and co-pays — covering every American for medical, dental, vision, and mental health care.Reproductive RightsAbortion is healthcare. Melanie will fight to codify Roe v. Wade into federal law, protect access to contraception, and ensure that politicians — not doctors — are never in the exam room. No exceptions, no apologies.Free Palestine - Hands Off GazaMelanie believes unequivocally in Palestinian sovereignty and self-determination. She views the decades-long occupation, blockade, and systematic displacement of the Palestinian people as a profound injustice — and the ongoing military campaign in Gaza as a humanitarian catastrophe that the U.S. must not fund or enable. She supports an immediate and permanent ceasefire, an end to U.S. military aid to Israel until international law is respected, and a genuine two-state solution that guarantees security, dignity, and self-determination for both Palestinians and Israelis. Every people deserves to live in freedom and peace on their land.Green New DealThe climate crisis is an existential threat — and our greatest economic opportunity. Melanie supports a Green New Deal that creates millions of good-paying union jobs in renewable energy, rebuilds our infrastructure, and delivers environmental justice to frontline communities.Cancel Student DebtThe student debt crisis is crushing a generation. Melanie supports broad student debt cancellation and tuition-free public college and trade school — because your zip code and your family's wealth shouldn't determine your access to education.Housing as a RightHousing is a human right, not a commodity for hedge funds to profit from. Melanie supports massive investment in public and affordable housing, a national rent stabilization framework, and cracking down on corporate landlords and private equity buying up homes.Immigration JusticeMelanie supports a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, protecting DACA recipients, ending family detention, and treating asylum seekers with dignity. Immigrants are our neighbors, our coworkers, and the backbone of our communities.Union RightsUnions built the middle class. Melanie strongly supports the PRO Act to make it easier for workers to organize, abolish right-to-work laws, and ensure every worker has the power to bargain collectively for better wages and conditions.Police AccountabilityMelanie supports ending qualified immunity, establishing strong civilian oversight of police, banning chokeholds and no-knock raids, and investing in community-based mental health crisis response as an alternative to armed police for non-violent situations.Expand Social SecurityMelanie will fight to expand — not cut — Social Security benefits and make the program solvent for generations by lifting the payroll tax cap so the wealthy pay the same rate as everyone else. Retirement security is a promise we must keep.End Mass IncarcerationThe United States incarcerates more people than any nation on earth. Melanie supports ending mandatory minimums, decriminalizing marijuana and expunging past convictions, abolishing private prisons, and investing in rehabilitation over punishment.Legalize CannabisThe war on cannabis has always been a war on people — disproportionately targeting Black and brown communities while doing nothing to make anyone safer. Melanie supports full federal legalization of cannabis, automatic expungement of all past convictions, and a tightly regulated industry with strong consumer protections, product safety standards, and guardrails against corporate consolidation — ensuring that the legal market is built with equity at its center so that the communities most harmed by prohibition are first in line to benefit from legalization.Free ChildcareChildcare costs are a second mortgage for working families. Melanie supports universal, free pre-K and subsidized childcare for all families — so parents can work and kids get the strong start they deserve.Family Rights & Due ProcessEvery family deserves due process, dignity, and the right to challenge state power when government institutions overstep. Melanie knows this fight firsthand — it's what drove her to found the Family Advocacy Movement after her own family was harmed by failures in state systems. She supports strong procedural protections for families navigating courts, child welfare, and public institutions — and extends that same commitment to juvenile justice, where young people are too often processed through a system with few safeguards and little transparency. No family, and no child, should be left without a voice, a lawyer, or a fair hearing.— Melanie Williams' campaign website (April 29, 2026)Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.

Melanie Williams did not complete [the profile publisher]'s 2020 Candidate Connection survey.