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Candidates › NY-13 race › 2025–2026
Darializa Avila Chevalier
D Democratic nominee for U.S. House, NY-13
Has not served in Congress
- On the ballot
- On the general election ballotNov 3, 2026 · New York US House 13
- Where to vote
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- Top priorities
- Day 1 Agenda
- Abolish ICE
- Babies, Not Bombs
- Housing for All
- Medicare for All
- Money
- $1.6M raised, $1.4M spent, $154.6K cash on hand (through Oct 14, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 31% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 43% from New York · largest committee giver A NEW POLICY PAC, $6.4K
- Outside groups
- $1.9M supporting, $1.5M opposing Chevalier
- Backed by
- NYC Democratic Socialists of America · Zohran Mamdani · Robert Jackson and 53 more. As the campaign lists them
8 priorities from darializaforcongress.com, in the order they are listed there. Every heading and the text under it is copied exactly, as one passage for each page it is from, and links to that place on the page; hover a source to see which passage it opens.
On Day 1, I will sign onto the:
- Homes Act to build deeply affordable public housing, cooperatives, and community land trusts with rent caps and other protections for tenants
- Tenants Right to Organize Act so renters receiving housing vouchers are protected from landlord retaliation
- Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act to build union density and give everyone who wants to form a union the fair chance to exercise that right
- Raise the Wage Act to raise the federal minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 an hour
- Green New Deal to transition to a 100% clean energy economy with high-wage union jobs and a livable world for everyone
- American Dream & Promise Act to provide a path to citizenship for millions of DREAMers and immigrants with Temporary Protective Status (TPS)
- Child Care for Every Community Act to create universal child care nationwide
- Social Security Expansion Act to increase benefits so our seniors live in dignity
- Prescription Drug Price Relief Act so corporations can’t charge Americans more for a drug in the U.S. than they would overseas
- Ultra-Millionaire Tax Act and Equal Tax Act so millionaires and billionaires pay their far share
- College for All Act to guarantee tuition-free community college for working class students
- Block the Bombs Act to ban the U.S. from sending weapons to Israel that are used to bomb Gaza
- Medicare for All Act so everyone has health insurance including dental, vision, and hearing aids
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · darializaforcongress.com/issues/day-1-agenda
As the daughter of Dominican immigrants, Darializa has seen firsthand how unnecessarily chaotic and complicated our immigration system can be. As a PhD student, she studies how this system criminalizes Afro-Latino and Black New Yorkers.
Congress has given ICE an unprecedented budget of $27.8 billion annually — larger than the entire national budget of many entire countries. This agency exists to control our communities, not to keep us safe. It was created in 2002: we can return to a world where it does not exist.
Darializa will fight to:
- Abolish ICE and the deportation machine
- Expand pathways to citizenship, including for DREAMers and undocumented immigrants
- Mandating free legal representation for immigrants’ interactions with DHS, and to support them through the immigration process
- Funding programs to ensure immigrants get free, quality immigration support
- Enshrine in law protections for pre-schools, places of worship, and other sensitive sites
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · darializaforcongress.com/issues/abolish-ice
For decades, both establishment Democrats and Republicans alike have used billions of our taxes to fund senseless wars abroad. The U.S. sends more than $3 billion to Israel in military aid each year. We spend $1 billion per day in the U.S. war in Iran.
Meanwhile, more than 100,000 children in New York City’s public schools are homeless.We must stop funding the bombing of children and families overseas, and start funding the programs here at home that can support our children reaching their full potential instead.
Darializa will fight to support our families with:
- Child tax credits ($800 per child)
- Baby boxes with a mattress, clothing, and other basics for newborns
- A federally-funded savings account for each child known as baby bonds
- Free breakfast and afterschool programs
- Paid family leave
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · darializaforcongress.com/issues/issue-2
Housing is a fundamental human right: everyone deserves dignity and stability in their homes.
For too many families across our community, the decades of rising rents have meant they’ve either had to leave the neighborhoods where they were raised, or they are teetering on the brink of eviction, barely able to make ends meet.
We all deserve basic things like heat, hot water, lead-free paint, and homes free of roaches and rats. Darializa will fight to:
PROTECT TENANTS & HOMEOWNERS ↗ (opens darializaforcongress.com/issues/issue-1 at this heading)
- Create national protections for all tenants
- Increase federal funding for rental vouchers like Section 8
- Cap rent increases on existing units at 5% annually for large landlords
IMPROVE NYCHA ↗ (opens darializaforcongress.com/issues/issue-1 at this heading)
- Fully fund NYCHA to make decades-overdue investments
- Protect NYCHA and ensure Section 9 public housing buildings are not converted to market-rate housing
- Install cheaper, reliable and eco-friendly heat pumps and appliances
BUILD HOUSING ↗ (opens darializaforcongress.com/issues/issue-1 at this heading)
- Create more affordable housing through programs like the Northern Manhattan Community Land Trust
- Preventing deed theft to help homeowners remain in their homes
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · darializaforcongress.com/issues/issue-1
Healthcare is a human right: access to care should not depend on one’s employment, age, or income.
The United States is the only country in the world that does not guarantee health care to everyone. We spend more on healthcare than any other country.
As your Congresswoman, Darializa will fight for everyone – no matter their race, gender or sexuality – to receive high quality physical and mental healthcare without discrimination.
Darializa will fight for Medicare for All: free, universal healthcare system with primary care, mental health services, substance abuse treatment, dental, vision, and hearing aids.
Medicare for All also includes:
- Lower prescription costs
- Reproductive care, including abortion
- Long-term care for our seniors and people with disabilities
- Gender affirming care for everyone, especially LGBTQ+ communities
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · darializaforcongress.com/issues/medicare-for-all
Darializa will fight to protection workers' rights, increase union density, raise the minimum wage, fund social security, to create and protect job opportunities, and more.
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · darializaforcongress.com/issues
As the cost of rent, groceries and utilities go up and up and up, the amount on our paychecks stay the same. That’s because our leaders in Washington are bankrolled by the same billionaires and corporations raising our prices every day.
We need leaders who reject corporate greed and their lobbyists, and fight for working people across our district. As your Congresswoman, Darializa will fight for workers to have power over their bosses.
Darializa will fight to:
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · darializaforcongress.com/issues/economic-security-for-all
- Pass the PRO Act, so that everyone who wants a union can form one
- Make it easier for workers to secure a first collective bargaining agreement after forming their union
- End attacks on federal workers and their unions
- Fully fund the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to hold union-busting bosses accountable
- Ensure that federal funding isn't going to union busting companies
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · darializaforcongress.com/issues/economic-security-for-all
- Raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour
- Enshrine cost of living adjustments, paid sick and paid family leave in federal law
- Establish a universal basic income
- Fund social security and secure pensions for all
- Create a four-day 32-hour work week with no loss in pay
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · darializaforcongress.com/issues/economic-security-for-all
- Establish federal jobs guarantee to ensure those able to work can find employment
- Issue a federal moratorium on AI data centers to ensure the technology benefits workers, not just tech oligarchs
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · darializaforcongress.com/issues/economic-security-for-all
Darializa has been a student and taught at Columbia University and CUNY: she knows that our public schools are getting the short end of the stick.
Trump's education agenda distorts the truth and excludes Black, Latino, and LBGTQ histories. He and his billionaire friends want to privatize the Department of Education and restrict academic freedom in higher education.
Everyone has a right to free, quality public education, no matter their zip code. Darializa will fight to:
OUR YOUNGEST LEARNERS ↗ (opens darializaforcongress.com/issues/quality-education at this heading)
- Establish free universal childcare and Pre-K
- Create more childcare centers in communities with too few options
- Increase wages for early childhood educators
- Expand access to Head Starts and Early Head Start
K-12 ↗ (opens darializaforcongress.com/issues/quality-education at this heading)
- Fully fund our schools and programs for children with disability and kids living in poverty
- Protect and expand students’ civil rights especially for undocumented, Black and brown, and LGBTQ+ students
- Keep our public schools open, halt charter school expansion, and hold charter schools accountable
- Increase wages and improve working conditions for all educators and school staff
HIGHER EDUCATION ↗ (opens darializaforcongress.com/issues/quality-education at this heading)
- Make public colleges tuition-free
- Cancel $1.7 trillion of student debt
- Create quality certification and training programs for teachers at public universities
- Protect academic freedom, including free speech
- Defend international workers and students from the federal government’s crackdown
- Oppose cuts to critical federal funding for medical research that will save lives
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · darializaforcongress.com/issues/quality-education
Our political system is corrupt: it rewards the wealthy elite, corporations, and political machines over working people.
The federal government allows big businesses to flood our elections with unlimited dark money. It looks the other way when companies inflate prices on basic necessities like groceries to increase their profits.
With Trump and his billionaire friends in power, the threat is at a higher level than ever before.
It’s time to reclaim our power and put an end to this corruption. Our community deserves a leader for the people who is powered by the people — nothing less.
Darializa will never take a dime from corporate PACs. She will fight to:
- Criminalize corporations that price gouge consumers
- Break up monopolies like Facebook and Amazon
- Ban super PACs money from our elections
- Prohibit Congress members from trading stocks
source ↗ (opens the page at this passage) · darializaforcongress.com/issues/fighting-corporate-greed