Valerie Thomason

I am a single mother, a community organizer, and a Teamster member. In 2019, I found myself facing every mother’s worst nightmare. I lost my work-from-home job, and shortly after I was facing eviction. I quickly discovered how little help was really available. Childcare assistance would take a year or more to come through, shelters for mothers were completely full, and no one would hire a mother who didn’t have childcare immediately available. We lost everything, and it would take 3 years to come back from the loss and begin to rebuild.

During that time, and since, I devoted myself to organizing my community around housing justice, tenant protections, workers rights, and childcare. As a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, I collected thousands of emails and testimonies in support of bills that would help workers and tenants. While testifying, it became clear to me that our concerns were being ignored in favor of corporate interests and that no bill related to childcare would be written at all.

I’m running for Assembly District 10 to continue my work and build a Nevada that works for the working class, not just the wealthy. To me, that means Universal Childcare, Housing for All, a living wage, union protections, and tenants rights. I have committed to not accepting any corporate money and working to end the influence of money in local politics.

• As a working class single mother - I am committed to uplifting families through universal policies like Housing for All, Rent Control, Tenants rights, Universal Childcare, and a Living Wage.
• Corporate greed must end - this state has invested billions of dollars into uplifting corporations while leaving working families behind.
• The root of most problems is money in politics. When our legislature is beholden to corporate interests and landlords, they cannot work for you. I will work to get money out of local politics and ensure a real "citizen legislature"

I am a housing justice organizer and will support Housing for All which would include rent control, limits on app fees, limits on deposits, second chance housing for evictions, housing for the homeless, the right to renew your lease, an end to no cause evictions, and the right to a 2 and 3 year lease.

I became an activist during the Bernie 2016 election and worked for Bernie in 2020, before moving forward to join the Democratic Socialists of America and the Left in general.

The cost of childcare has been one of the largest burdens I've ever faced. The average cost of childcare for one child is around $1500 a month, meaning that single parents are spending as much or more on childcare than they are on rent.

Housing for All

Las Vegas Democratic Socialists of America, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, Nevada NOW, Nevada State Education Association, Migrantes De Uruapan, People's Action, Run for Something, Gun Sense Candidate