LaMonica McIver

Where McIver stands

What do you perceive to be the United States' greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

The country has a number of great challenges threatening the stability of our economy, our climate and environment, the safety of vulnerable groups and the ability of women to work with their doctors to make decisions about their health and their bodies. But all of those challenges in one way or another stem from efforts on the extreme right to erode our democracy. By stacking the courts with radical conservatives, gerrymandering to create impenetrable majorities in state legislatures, rolling back voting rights and employing violent rhetoric–not to mention actual violence during the Jan. 6 insurrection–the extreme right threatens to undermine our Constitution and our very way of life.