Indivisible Hawaiʻi State Network (IHSN) works across a wide range of issues: endorsing candidates, lobbying for legislation, mobilizing voters, fighting federal overreach, and raising awareness about structural problems. Those efforts are grounded in a set of policy positions that tell us what we're working toward, and what we ask of the people who want our support.
Every candidate IHSN endorses must agree to these positions, and they're also the standard against which we hold the people we've already backed. If IHSN were a political party, this would be our platform.
What’s in the document
The PDF covers eight areas:
- Reclaiming democracy from billionaires: Getting dark money out of elections, holding the Supreme Court accountable, fighting public corruption in all its forms, and restoring a free and independent press.
- Defeating authoritarianism: Protecting voting rights, ending qualified immunity for federal law enforcement, and setting strict limits on how AI and surveillance technology can be used against citizens.
- Ending economic tyranny: Breaking up monopolies, reforming the tax code so wealth is taxed fairly, guaranteeing a living wage, and restoring the human services programs that have been hollowed out by budget cuts.
- Taking action for the environment: Ending fossil fuel subsidies, achieving 100% renewable energy (Green New Deal), and delivering environmental justice to the communities that have suffered for decades under industrial pollution.
- Human rights without compromise: Universal healthcare, reproductive freedom, gun safety, housing and education as rights, full LGBTQIA+ protections, and a humane immigration system.
- A moral global presence: Shifting away from a foreign policy built on military spending and corporate interests, and holding Big Tech accountable for the harm it profits from.
- Honoring Hawaiʻi's unique qualities: Policy must reflect Hawaiʻi's geography, culture, and history – and address the racial inequities that continue to affect Native Hawaiians and other marginalized communities.
- Putting the Constitution back to work: Separation of powers, congressional control over military force, and an administration that complies with court orders. Everything else in this document depends on this.
Download our policy positions
You can download the full document with context on each element below.
Read it, share it, and use it to hold your elected officials accountable. We need your help to make things happen.
Download the IHSN Policy Positions (PDF)
Join us
If these positions reflect your values, this is how you can take action:
→ Support our Blue Wave initiative to elect candidates who share these values
→ Help us influence elections through our initiative to replace Rep. Ed Case
→ Shape public policy directly through our Public Policy Action Group.
Find out more about the different ways you can make a difference on this page