FL-10: Maxwell Alejandro Frost (D)

REPLACING:

Val Demings (D)[i]

WORK HISTORY:

March for Our Lives (National Organizing Director); Bernie Sanders for President (National Advance Manager); ACLU (National Organizing Specialist); Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival (Production Dispatch); ACLU of Florida (Field Manager); Floridians for a Fair Shake (Deputy Communications Director); Margaret Good for Florida House – District 72 (Field Director); Brian Cunningham for NYC Council (GOTV/Special Projects); Democracy Spring (Florida State Organizer); MoveOn.org (Deputy State Director); Hillary for America (Field Organizer); Organizing for Action (Fellow)[ii]

EDUCATION:

Diploma, Osceola County School for the Arts; Attending, Valencia College[iii] [iv]

CAMPAIGNED ON:

Medicare for All; Ending Gun Violence; Pandemic Preparedness; The Climate Crisis; Reimagining Justice; Housing & Transit[v]

ON THE ISSUES

REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS:

Frost is pro-choice and believes abortion is healthcare.[vi] [vii] He opposed a Florida bill that would ban abortion after 15 weeks and supports expanding the US Supreme Court in order to protect reproductive freedom and the right to choose.[viii] [ix] While working for the ACLU in 2019, he reportedly played a part in helping to pressure Joe Biden to reverse his support for the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funding for abortion services through Medicaid.[x]

ECONOMY, JOBS & TAXES:

Frost supports a living wage and helped mobilize Florida voters to pass an amendment that would raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour while working for the ACLU.[xi] [xii] He also opposed a Florida measure that would remove the ability of local governments to enact wage protections for workers.[xiii] Frost will work to crack down on corporate greed, which he blames for rising costs and stagnant wages.[xiv]

HEALTHCARE & SOCIAL SAFETY NET:

Frost believes healthcare is a human right and has called employer-based private health insurance “cruel and irrational,” arguing the industry deliberately keeps people sick “to line their pockets.”[xv] [xvi] [xvii] He advocates for a “Medicare for All” system that ensures every American has comprehensive healthcare, with no co-pays, deductibles, or premiums. He also supports allowing the federal government to negotiate prescription drug prices, expanding healthcare to cover eyes, ears, dental, and mental health, and investing more in rural healthcare services.[xviii] Frost supports passing President Biden’s Pandemic Preparedness Plan and advocates for investing more in research, vaccine development, early detection technology, and other measures to minimize the economic harm and loss of life in a potential future pandemic.[xix] [xx] He also believes housing is a human right and supports the Rent Stabilization Act.[xxi]

IMMIGRATION & BORDER SECURITY:

Frost believes the US currently has a “racist” and “immoral” immigration system.[xxii] He supports “bold” immigration reform that provides a “very speedy and inexpensive” pathway to citizenship for all undocumented immigrants living in the US. He also supports the DACA program and advocates for expanding the refugee and asylum system.[xxiii] [xxiv] [xxv]

CRIME & PUBLIC SAFETY:

Frost believes the US criminal justice system is racist and hopes to help build a future “without prison.”[xxvi] [xxvii] He argues that the billions of dollars in federal grants for state prisons and law enforcement exacerbates what he calls “the policing and prison crisis” and encourages “more arrests, more aggressive prosecution, and unnecessary incarceration.” In Congress, Frost will work to end all federal subsidies that contribute to mass incarceration, legalize recreational marijuana and expunge all marijuana convictions, and end mandatory minimums, cash bail, and coercive plea-bargaining.[xxviii] He also advocates for fully decriminalizing sex work, demilitarizing the police, and abolishing the death penalty.[xxix] Frost supported Florida’s Amendment 4, which restored voting rights to more than 1.6 million residents who had previous felony convictions.[xxx] According to his campaign website, he helped secure billions of dollars in funding for community-based violence prevention programs in President Biden’s budget proposal.[xxxi]

GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS & ELECTION SECURITY:

Frost supports expanding the size of the Supreme Court.[xxxii] He also supports ending Citizens United and will work to pass election reform in Congress.[xxxiii]

EDUCATION:

Frost believes student loan debt is an economic issue that impacts “every facet of our society” that “punishes students for doing what society has pushed them to do,” and has called on President Biden to “cancel every penny of it.”[xxxiv] He supports tuition-free public college and increasing funding for music and arts education in schools. [xxxv] [xxxvi]

CLIMATE CHANGE, ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT:

Frost believes the greatest challenge facing the US and the world is climate change and argues that we cannot allow “big-oil, big-business, and the 1% decide our fates for us.” He advocates for moving to a system of 100% clean energy and supports the Green New Deal and the Thrive Act.[xxxvii] [xxxviii] In Congress, he will work to establish a civilian climate corps to provide good-paying jobs and build the “robust no-carbon infrastructure we need to combat climate change.” He also advocates for cracking down on corporate polluters and ensuring every community has clean water, access to food, and clean air.[xxxix]

BIG TECH & DATA PRIVACY:

Frost will work to ensure Congress and the US Department of Justice investigate potential antitrust behavior, particularly by large real estate investment companies.[xl]

GUN SAFETY:

Frost supports a “holistic approach” to gun violence and will work to ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, pass universal background checks for all gun sales, fund local community violence intervention programs, ensure Congress fully funds public research on gun violence, and end the “corruption” of the gun lobby and “dismantle the NRA.”[xli] Frost has been endorsed by Brady: United Against Gun Violence, Giffords PAC, and Ban Assault Weapons NOW![xlii] He received an “F” rating from the NRA.[xliii]

FOREIGN POLICY:

Frost has called for “swift and severe consequences” for Russia after invading Ukraine.[xliv] Notably, Frost criticized a Biden political ad during the 2020 presidential election that claimed President Trump “rolled over” for the Chinese by initially praising their response to the COVID-19 pandemic, calling the ad “racist” and saying that promoting “anti-Chinese messaging furthers the xenophobia in this country.”[xlv]