Five years ago, a defective Boeing 737 MAX crashed in Ethiopia and killed my daughter Samya, along with everyone else on board. That tragedy threw me into the fight for corporate accountability, and what I found changed everything I thought I knew about how our democracy works. I helped pass the bipartisan Aircraft Certification, Safety, and Accountability Act unanimously through Congress, and traveled to Illinois to strengthen state law so corporations can be held criminally responsible when they knowingly cause deaths. I know how to get things done. I also know exactly who has been blocking progress for everyone else.

Boeing used its money and political connections to get whatever it wanted from Congress in a matter of hours, skating through the criminal justice system and the civil justice system with barely a scratch. Meanwhile, voters like you and me can’t get a hearing or a floor vote on legislation like Medicare for All that would help millions of families. This is the two-tiered system that has been in place for too long: one set of rules for powerful corporations, another for the rest of us.

Nadia supports an outright ban on corporations participating in elections. Corporations should not be allowed to buy candidates, write the rules they’re supposed to follow, or drown out the voices of ordinary voters. She also supports a Federal Charter for large corporations, requiring them to be transparent, accountable, and to pay their fair share as a condition of doing business in this country.

Real representation means showing up, answering calls, doing the work, and using power responsibly. It means passing single-subject bills so voters know what they’re getting. It means term limits so Congress doesn’t become a career for insiders. And it means a Congress that answers to the people of Massachusetts, not to corporate donors writing checks from Washington boardrooms.