We Won’t Let Them Get Away With It.

The executive branch is corrupt and overpowered. The Epstein Class goes unpunished, and AI could cause chaos if we don’t have a thoughtful plan. Jamie is the underdog candidate, living in Berkeley, with both the relevant expertise and the plan we need to meet this political moment.

Jamie Joyce is also your only congressional candidate who:

✔️ Has never taken Pro-Israel PAC money (read more)

✔️ Has never taken Corporate PAC money (read more)

✔️ Has a plan for the district, AI, surveillance, ICE, and to fight the Epstein Class (read more below)

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 Why Jamie Joyce & Why Now

Hey neighbors! We are entering a new territory of politics and of technology. We won’t have many chances to get this right, and we don’t have time for Congress to play catch-up. I happen to be a multidisciplinary expert who has has spent my life dedicated to research, democracy-tech, and charity, and I believe I have exactly the right expertise we need to meet the moment, including:

  • 7 in 10 Americans say the federal government isn't doing enough to regulate AI. Part of the problem is that many members of Congress don't understand the technology, and you can't govern well what you don't understand.

    I do. I've spent years in the AI field, leading projects in autonomous research, fact-checking agents, and AI-powered formal reasoning for evidence-based policy. OpenAI and xAI have invited me to present my work internally. Anthropic researchers have mentioned it in published research on AI and democracy. I'm endorsed by Tristan Harris, one of the world's best-known AI ethicists. My work in AI is respected across the aisle, though no, large AI labs are not funding my campaign, but the current corporate Democrat’s plan is to put AI SuperPAC funded candidates in charge of AI in the new Congress. To me, that is not acceptable. We need people in Congress who will fight for people, not corporations, and this district has the chance to send someone with a proven track record of doing this. See more detail about my work in AI here.

    That's why I wrote the AI section of the MAD Act: 240+ pages of serious policy. It includes immediate red-line regulations, interim safeguards, and hammer provisions. It also requires the government to build a real, evidence-based plan for AI's impact across 19 domains, from jobs to the environment.

    AI is a powerful tool, and people should be allowed to keep building with it to make new discoveries and improve services. But we need guardrails that make sure it works for people, children, the environment, and the economy, not against them. America doesn't need another campaign promise. It needs a plan for AI that actually works, and I've already written one. So I hope you send me to Congress to keep advocating for policy that works - especially as the technology and industry keep rapidly evolving.

  • If you care about this issue, you are not alone. 84% of voters, across party lines, want accountability on the Epstein Files. And Congress isn't delivering it.

    Epstein partied with princes, prime ministers, and presidents - including at least two of our own. This is why this case matters to everyone, and not just survivors: many of those same powerful people write the rules the rest of us live by. This case is one of our best chances at exposing the transnational network of criminals who coordinate with the heads of governments all over the world. Because our own government may be implicated, we may be a nation under the most despicable kind of blackmail. So it's time to take power out of the Epstein Class’s hands - and I intend to.

    How? Uniquely, I've actually worked in the government files field, so I noticed a few gaps when Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The bill Congress drafted never asked for files from agencies like the Treasury, the IRS, and the intelligence agencies. This would be an easier way to see who is in the network - by identifying who was paying Epstein and who Epstein was paying. Worse, a drafting issue exposed survivors' identities, harming the very people the law was supposed to protect. Instead of owning the error, Congress continues to blame the DOJ for what Congress made permissible. It was actually this work pointing out these failures that earned me the endorsement of Epstein survivors, because this should have never happened and we cannot keep tolerating these kinds of oversights. Law deserves meticulous attention. We cannot drop this case. We cannot let them get away with it.

    To fix Congress’ oversights, I went ahead and drafted legislation to close those gaps and sent it to every Senate and House office, including Ro Khanna's. (Read more about it.) We need to protect survivors, root out the rot in our own government, and bring justice to anyone who is complicit in this multi-decade, transnational crime.

  • There are several urgent threats to our democratic system, this includes the overreach of ICE, the expanding surveillance state, and dark money flooding our elections, amidst other issues. As soon as I filed to run in the primary election, I sat down and spent hundreds of hours researching how to address these issues and put solutions into draft legislation. Similar to the topic of the Epstein files, my team then began emailing congressional offices across the country and taking meetings with legislative staff after the incumbent Congresswoman refused to meet me personally.

    If you would like to read about this draft legislation, you can find the text below:

    • Delete the surveillance state (read more)

    • Get ICE off our streets (read more)

    • Shine a light on dark money (read more)

    • Enable election reform (read more)

    • And more (Read MAD Act Website and Full Bill Text / Other Titles)

      However, I have also worked in the climate/ environmental sector, the humanitarian/ sustainable development sector, and the civic tech sector - including teaching students from 30 Universities how to analyze legislation. I am committed to learning what I need to be able to legislate and vote well on the issues this country, and district, will face. To learn more about what I am tracking for the district, see the section at the bottom of this website. To learn more about my background, my community work, my humanitarian work, and professional associations which I believe equip me to be a well-rounded representative, see here.

So What’s Jamie’s Plan?

I did the work to arrive with a legislative plan in hand, a strategy to make Congress act on it, and a long-term vision for a modern Congress that answers to everyday people, not special interests - all the while serving District 12.

My legislation, “The MAD Act,” addresses the critical, triage items including reining in AI, ICE, surveillance, getting more Epstein Files, shining a light on dark money, funding electoral reform, etc. (which can be individual titles, and not an omnibus) so Congress can be reliably responsive in delivering other policies we want, like: healthy food, a clean environment, fair taxes, affordable living, housing, and healthcare, as well as ending war/genocide. Every common sense policy is downstream of a government that actually works for us - so addressing the corruption and unresponsiveness in government is where we need to start. Here are the plans:

  • A representative can’t be in every place at once, but issues across the district need attention and constituents already bring up these issues across various platforms, including: letters to the editor, in council meetings, and online. Instead of waiting for the issues to come to me, I built a tool to monitor conversations online and collect issues which voters are publicly discussing and want addressed. This can be used to inform project appropriations and efforts to finally resolve longstanding issues.

    If you would like to review what we are tracking as needed throughout the district, you can find more information here.

    - You can visit each city directory below. Please tell me if you see a missing need, and we will add it to our list.

  • We face immense power assymetries. Our government was designed to exist in a balance, but our government (and the executive branch in particular) has in their possession the most sophisticated intelligence, surveillance, secrecy, weapons, and military might. People are simple outmatched. We need to balance these powers between the branches, and also rebalance power between the people and government itself. So after Jamie announced she was running for office as a democratic candidate, she spent several hundred hours writing The MAD Act (The Mass Accountability in Democracy Act). The MAD Act is a 750 page omnibus bill that rebalances power between government and the people. It takes aim at the tools that the Epstein class has at their disposal to maintain power and ensures our democracy is prepared for AI impact.

    There is a lot we need to fix:

    This bill does not need to be an omnibus, but each of these power asymmetries needs to be addressed. Introducing each title individually is fine, as long as we get dark money out of our elections, fund electoral reform, delete the surveillance state, reign in ICE, etc., in turn.

    The MAD Act is not “anti-AI,” “anti-security,” “anti-business,” or “anti-government,” it is simply pro-responsibility, safety, accountability, and aggressively defends our rights.

    Jamie has been meeting with members of Congress across the country to build allies to introduce and pass either the individual titles or the full MAD Act.

  • The “Just 12” Strategy

    Jamie is ready to serve as a legislator, but if elected, she's just 1 of 435. She's running as a Democrat, but she refuses to let a "blue wave" become “business as usual.” She's been that disappointed voter too many times.

    So she has a strategy: build a disruptive voting bloc.

    Jamie is recruiting 11 other congressional candidates from across the political spectrum to run as a unified bloc. Why 12 in total? Because neither party can pass legislation in the House without a majority. Twelve members who refuse to rubber-stamp bills that don't serve the people become a critical voting unit if the house is full - which is likely with the most contentious issues.

    Both republicans and democrats answer to special interests. A Democratic majority alone won't guarantee the progress we need. But 12 united members who answer only to voters can help change the game.

    This voting bloc doesn’t need to outnumber anyone, they just need to ensure that every bill to earn their vote by truly representing public interest.

    That's not intending to be disruptive for the sake of disruption. This is leverage. And that's how the game changes. Congress can either come to the table and negotiate or things grind to a halt and the public will become more and more aware of the common-sense, bipartisan demands being made that people across the spectrum agree needs to happen - like getting dark money out of our elections.

  • Congress is an antique institution in the 21st century. It was devised when sending a message required delivering paper on horseback - though now we bounce signals off of satellites in space to talk to people around the world.

    If elected, Jamie aims to map the workflows of Congress and bring technology into offices to ensure staff are able to be more accountable, effective, and transparent in their work for both the American people and their districts. It can start with small updates - like allowing the constituents of District 12 to text Jamie’s office instead of needing to call in order to report their concerns.

    But the overall goal is to bring more transparency and access for constituents. Congress is needlessly a black box. But what’s currently done in the dark can be brought to light - to the benefit of everyone.