Elizabeth Kucinich

04/30/2026

“The House has passed a bill that consolidates power, weakens states’ rights, and accelerates the decline of our farms, our food system, and our land. The removal of the liability shield was hard fought and important, but it does not redeem a bill that remains structurally harmful at every level. The Senate must reject this bill and stand for farmers, for states, and for the future of America.” Elizabeth Kucinich

04/30/2026

Despite today’s vote to remove the chemical liability shield, the Farm Bill currently under consideration in the House remains a devastating failure of policy and responsibility.

This is a moment for caution, not celebration. If we signal victory now, before the full House vote, we risk sending exactly the wrong message to America, that this bill is now safe to support. It is not.

This Farm Bill still erodes states’ rights, limits the ability of communities to protect their citizens, entrenches industrial agriculture, and locks farmers further into dependence on costly chemical inputs and consolidated corporate power.

This bill represents massive federal overreach, overriding constitutionally established protections and preventing states from improving standards beyond federal baselines across agriculture, from pesticide use and spray protocols to animal welfare. It replaces a system in which federal law sets a floor with one that imposes a ceiling, locking in the lowest standards nationwide, stripping states of their authority, and opening the door to the destruction of the very land we call America.

Read more: https://kucinichreport.substack.com/p/house-must-vote-no-on-the-farm-bill

04/01/2026

Dennis sued three Presidents for violating the Constitution’s war powers, Democrat and Republican alike: Bill Clinton over Serbia, George W. Bush over Iraq, and Barack Obama over Libya. There's only one way to stop war. Congress has to cut the funds. Here's what you can do... Please read and share .

Tell Your Member of Congress, House and Senate, to "Vote NO $$$$$ for War!"

03/02/2026

The 2026 Farm Bill mark up starts in committee tomorrow. This guide is written for policymakers clarifying key provisions. Please forward this article with your network and the recommended provision reforms to your Member of Congress.

The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 contains statutory language that restructures federal authority. It expands federal preemption, narrows state and local governance, limits judicial oversight, and concentrates decision making inside federal agencies, which increases the risk of regulatory agency capture and weakens the distributed safeguards that protect farmers, public health, and national resilience.

From pesticide liability shields that restrict state tort authority, to clauses that prohibit counties from regulating pesticide use, to interstate livestock provisions that override state production standards, this bill centralizes authority in Washington in ways that favor large industrial actors while increasing farm level risk, weakening health protections, and externalizing long term environmental and medical costs onto taxpayers, driving higher public expenditures and deeper structural debt.

The draft Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 dismantles state authority and removes local protection, state innovation, court accountability, market differentiation, and independent review. In their place, it installs federal uniformity controlled by a narrow circle of decision makers.

Instead of strengthening America, this bill exposes farmers, landscapes, and rural communities to deeper chemical dependency, greater corporate concentration, and reduced democratic control.

The 2026 Farm Bill mark up starts in committee tomorrow. This guide is written for policymakers clarifying key provisions. Please forward this article to your Member of Congress.

11/26/2025

On this Eve of Thanksgiving, as families prepare to gather at the sacred hearth in love and celebration, farmers are going bankrupt at record rates. The programs that supported healthy local food have been eliminated. And just last week, as we Americans prepared to give thanks for the harvest, the Environmental Protection Agency approved yet another “forever chemical” pesticide, poisoning the land future generations will depend upon.

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This Thanksgiving, let us be grateful to those who grow the food and to the animals and the plants we consume. Please take a moment to support farmers and healthy food policy (petition linked below)

09/11/2025

My reflections on the Commission Report:
The administration must urgently reinstate the USDA programs it has undermined — including the National Organic Program, NRCS and Soil Conservation Service, and vital nutrition education efforts.

MAHA cannot be used as a public relations shield while decades of progress in food and farming are dismantled. The EATS Act and the chemical liability shield moving through Congress form a one–two punch, stripping away protections for farmers, consumers, and the environment, while funneling hundreds of billions to chemical agriculture.

Equally concerning, the administration has placed officials who are actively working to blunt the MAHA agenda inside USDA, EPA, and FDA. If we are serious about protecting children, farmers, and soil health, these programs and safeguards must be restored — and MAHA must be reclaimed as a driver of real reform, not a cover for its destruction.

Elizabeth Kucinich on ​⁠ re MAHA Commission Report, Sept 10, 2025

09/11/2025

Let us all remember the beauty, the mystery and the fragility of life on earth.

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08/08/2025

In 2015, over a decade ago, I visited Gaza with UNRWA and UNRWA-USA, to meet it’s beautiful people and learn first hand of the devastation wrought by the illegal Israeli occupation and blockade.

It was my 8th trip to the Holy Land. There I met this beautiful young student who was such a light that I wrote about her. I’ve been desperate to know how she is. Finally this week I heard from her. Her family of 16 are living on one loaf of bread per day which costs $30. She send me this link seeking support. I recognize names on the donor list so felt confident to d contribute and invite you to please do the same for this family.

https://chuffed.org/project/139714-from-a-home-alive-with-roses-and-vibrant-with-life-to-a-tent-too-fragile-to-hide-a-reality-words-cannot-describe-stand-wi

In the larger context, please also support UNWRA, the UN agency tasked with providing aid to Palestine and her refugees. The same organization that the US has withdrawn support from.

https://www.unrwausa.org/faqs

What does hope look like? Let me show you... Meet my new friend. She's a 19 year old recipient of an UNRWA USA university scholarship, studying English. She's also a Palestinian refugee in Gaza. We bonded as soon as I heard her delightful British accent.

"Where did you get your accent?" I asked
"Oh, I listen to far too much Adele!" was her happy reply

We discussed serious things like her studies, the economy, war and peace, then she shared her dream - and I believe it will come true - to become a politician and work "to change the world". This girl is clear, bright, intelligent and articulate. -- A shining light, as are all of the people I have met today.

Most imagine being able to enjoy simple freedoms, like the ability to take trips away from the 25 x 6 mile strip of land they are held hostage in under the blockade, and see a little of world. Curious, I asked, "Which place is at the top of your bucket list to visit?"

"Oh, I want to go to Spain", she said without hesitation.

"Why?"

"So that I can visit Santiago Bernabéu"

"Who's that", I asked

"It's not a who" she said giggling, "it's Real Madrid's football stadium!"

Would you have guessed all that from her photo? -- Well, perhaps the shoes may have given it away.

So there you have it, a 19 year old shining light who is going to grow up to bring peace to the world, whose travel dream is to see Real Madrid C.F. and meet Adel. Oh, and she also likes listening to Pitbull and Julio Iglesias - something else we have in common :)

Here is a link to UNRWA USA's scholarship fund. https://www.unrwausa.org/scholarship-fund Please help more young shining lights like Hind get a scholarship to change the world.

08/06/2025

Proposed dietary guidelines promote increased animal fat consumption while ignoring a dangerous truth: Nearly 700 pharmaceutical compounds and pesticide residues contaminate America's meat supply, many of which concentrate in fat.

As the 2025 USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans take shape, a serious disconnect threatens public health. Some advocates are calling for higher intake of animal fats and promoting so called ancestral or animal based keto diets, citing traditional wisdom and nutrient density. But these arguments overlook a central fact:

In reality, diets like Keto often rely on meat and dairy from industrial production systems, where contamination with drugs and chemicals is routine. The promise of healing through meat and fat collapses when those foods carry residues of antibiotics, steroid hormones, synthetic preservatives, arsenicals, cocciodiostats, and pesticides. Many of these toxins accumulate precisely in the fats and organs being celebrated as nutrient rich.

There is a stark gap between the idealised narrative of ancestral eating and the toxic burden of modern industrial food. Until the USDA addresses the pharmaceutical and chemical contamination of the meat supply, it cannot credibly recommend increased animal fat consumption in the name of health.

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The FDA has approved nearly 700 drugs for use in food-producing animals, residues of which contaminate America's meat supply and are stored in animal fat.

05/28/2025

This is my latest , a hard hitting, lengthy article on the war being waged in Washington against health by BigChem, BigAg, BigSeed and BigFood who are now receiving billions in additional subsidies while organic suffers a funding freeze and delayed payments. The situation is worse than anyone could imagine.

It’s time to get serious. A call to action particularly for Leadership.

Chemical Shields, the EATS Act, and Washington's War on Organic Agriculture

04/21/2025

“Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is one of the last great wild places. Spanning nearly 17 million acres in Southeast Alaska, it is the largest national forest in the United States and one of the world’s largest remaining temperate rainforests. It is a sanctuary for grizzlies, wolves and salmon, a carbon-storing powerhouse, and home to communities who depend on the forest for their subsistence ways of life; nature-based tourism; and sustainable fishing.

And yet, despite its immense ecological and economic value, the Tongass remains under threat.

For decades, the logging industry and its political backers have tried to chip away at the Roadless Rule, a policy that protects just over half of the forest from road-building and industrial logging. Their argument? That cutting down these ancient trees is an economic necessity. But that claim crumbles when faced with the facts. The timber industry in the Tongass is not only economically unsustainable, it is a drain on the American taxpayer.”

by Hunter H. McIntosh Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is one of the last great wild places. Spanning nearly 17 million acres in Southeast Alaska, it is the largest national forest in the United States and one of the world’s largest remaining temperate rainforests. It is a sanctuary for grizzlie...