Senate Scorecard

The LibGen Action Scorecard rates candidates on their policy positions so that you can make informed decisions about the policies that directly impact your economic liberation.

We have analyzed select senate races that are 1) competitive according to the Cook Political Report, 2) taking place in states with significant (more than 20%) populations of people of color over the age of 18.

How we score candidates

Toss-up races

Maine

Susan Collins, Credit: Public Domain — Public Domain

Susan Collins (r) Incumbent

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D Criminalization of People of Color

9/14 Marjuana legalization, expungement, and end sentencing disparity among drug offenses
9/15 Police, ICE, and BPCl abolition by defunding and demilitarizing law enforcement
9/14 Decriminalize immigration violations
9/15 Comprehensive plan to close all prisons (public and private), jails, and immigration detention facilities by 2030 (public and private)
9/14 Ending the practice of charging the incarcerated and their families for core human needs, such as food, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, and phone calls to family
9/14 End debtors prisons, cash bail, and municipal fines and fees
9/14 End penalties and prohibition to immigrants and formerly incarcerated who receive public benefits

63/100 Total Score

F Dual financial system

9/35 Postal Banking
9/30 Strengthen the CFPB to regulate lenders and credit reporting agencies
/35 Ban payday, car title, and other predatory small dollar loans

27/100 Total Score

C Curbing corporate power

9/13 Institute a Wealth Tax
9/12 Raise rates of capital gains and dividends
9/12 Raise corporate tax rate and close offshore loopholes
9/12 End Right to Work
9/13 Support Sectoral Bargaining
9/12 Protecting rights of workers to bring employment violations to court (ending arbitration)
9/13 Create new regulatory antitrust agency
9/13 Break up Big Tech, Pharma, Agriculture, and Banks

72/100 Total Score

D Political suppression of People of Color

9/15 Electoral college and congressional representation for DC and US territories
9/14 Voting enfranchisement for the currently and formerly incarcerated
9/14 Improve voter access (automatic voter registration, expand early voting and simplify absentee voting, and modernize voting systems)
9/14 Promote integrity (prohibit voter purges, end partisan gerrymandering)
9/14 Ensure security (make paper ballots available and implement a national strategy to protect our elections from foreign influence)
9/14 Public financing of elections
9/15 Reverse Citizens United

63/100 Total Score

F Basic needs of People of Color are met

9/30 Green New Deal
9/10 Mitigate climate change impact on frontline communities by dedicating a fund
9/30 Create a Universally Targeted Guaranteed Income
9/30 Support Medicare4All

36/100 Total Score

F Safety and Security of People of Color

9/30 Support a Homes Guarantee
9/10 Homeownership down payment assistance and low/no interest loans to people who grew up in formerly redlined communities or in reservation communities
9/10 Provide federal funds for community ownership models, such as community land trust and cooperative housing
9/10 Reform the Community Reinvestment Act to affirm banks responsibility to build the wealth of people of color
9/30 Support universally targeted baby bonds
9/10 Require all federal agencies undergo an annual racial wealth audit to determine the extent to which government policy either expands or closes the racial wealth gap

54/100 Total Score

F All People of Color are valued and compensated

9/30 Support a federal jobs guarantee
5/5 Increase the minimum wage
9/10 Universal paid sick days and paid family and medical leave
9/30 Universal debt free college
9/20 Universal student loan forgiveness
5/5 Ending for-profit colleges and enforcing rigorous student achievement standards for federal financial aid

46/100 Total Score

F All People belong

9/20 Creating clear, timely, and unobstructed pathways to citizenship for all immigrants currently living in the US and for those entering the US in the future. This includes expanded protections and benefits for immigrants under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Temporary Protection Status (TPS), and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED)
9/20 Ending the lifetime ban on public benefits
9/20 Require that anyone released from federal prison receives a photo ID, birth certiﬁcate, and Social Security card
9/20 blank yet
9/20 Amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Housing Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Jury Selection and Services Act, and all laws regarding employment with the federal government—to explicitly include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected characteristics

45/100 Total Score

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Sara Gideon (d)

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D Criminalization of People of Color

9/14 Marjuana legalization, expungement, and end sentencing disparity among drug offenses
9/15 Police, ICE, and BPCl abolition by defunding and demilitarizing law enforcement
9/14 Decriminalize immigration violations
9/15 Comprehensive plan to close all prisons (public and private), jails, and immigration detention facilities by 2030 (public and private)
9/14 Ending the practice of charging the incarcerated and their families for core human needs, such as food, pharmaceuticals, toiletries, and phone calls to family
9/14 End debtors prisons, cash bail, and municipal fines and fees
9/14 End penalties and prohibition to immigrants and formerly incarcerated who receive public benefits

63/100 Total Score

F Dual financial system

9/35 Postal Banking
9/30 Strengthen the CFPB to regulate lenders and credit reporting agencies
/35 Ban payday, car title, and other predatory small dollar loans

27/100 Total Score

D Curbing corporate power

8/13 Institute a Wealth Tax
8/12 Raise rates of capital gains and dividends
8/12 Raise corporate tax rate and close offshore loopholes
8/12 End Right to Work
8/13 Support Sectoral Bargaining
8/12 Protecting rights of workers to bring employment violations to court (ending arbitration)
8/13 Create new regulatory antitrust agency
8/13 Break up Big Tech, Pharma, Agriculture, and Banks

64/100 Total Score

F Political suppression of People of Color

8/15 Electoral college and congressional representation for DC and US territories
8/14 Voting enfranchisement for the currently and formerly incarcerated
8/14 Improve voter access (automatic voter registration, expand early voting and simplify absentee voting, and modernize voting systems)
8/14 Promote integrity (prohibit voter purges, end partisan gerrymandering)
8/14 Ensure security (make paper ballots available and implement a national strategy to protect our elections from foreign influence)
9/14 Public financing of elections
9/15 Reverse Citizens United

58/100 Total Score

F Basic needs of People of Color are met

9/30 Green New Deal
9/10 Mitigate climate change impact on frontline communities by dedicating a fund
9/30 Create a Universally Targeted Guaranteed Income
9/30 Support Medicare4All

36/100 Total Score

F Safety and Security of People of Color

9/30 Support a Homes Guarantee
9/10 Homeownership down payment assistance and low/no interest loans to people who grew up in formerly redlined communities or in reservation communities
9/10 Provide federal funds for community ownership models, such as community land trust and cooperative housing
9/10 Reform the Community Reinvestment Act to affirm banks responsibility to build the wealth of people of color
9/30 Support universally targeted baby bonds
9/10 Require all federal agencies undergo an annual racial wealth audit to determine the extent to which government policy either expands or closes the racial wealth gap

54/100 Total Score

F All People of Color are valued and compensated

9/30 Support a federal jobs guarantee
5/5 Increase the minimum wage
9/10 Universal paid sick days and paid family and medical leave
9/30 Universal debt free college
9/20 Universal student loan forgiveness
5/5 Ending for-profit colleges and enforcing rigorous student achievement standards for federal financial aid

46/100 Total Score

F All People belong

9/20 Creating clear, timely, and unobstructed pathways to citizenship for all immigrants currently living in the US and for those entering the US in the future. This includes expanded protections and benefits for immigrants under Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), Temporary Protection Status (TPS), and Deferred Enforced Departure (DED)
9/20 Ending the lifetime ban on public benefits
9/20 Require that anyone released from federal prison receives a photo ID, birth certiﬁcate, and Social Security card
9/20 blank yet
9/20 Amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Fair Housing Act, the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Jury Selection and Services Act, and all laws regarding employment with the federal government—to explicitly include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected characteristics

45/100 Total Score