1. United States
2. N.Y.
3. Letter

Governor Hochul, New Yorkers sent Democrats to Albany to deliver bold, progressive governance — not to manage decline on behalf of donors and corporations. Your record is a disappointing betrayal of that mandate. Let's start with New York Health Act. Year after year, this legislation — which would deliver universal, single-payer healthcare to every New Yorker — has died not from lack of public support, but from lack of executive will. You had the power to champion it. Instead, you let insurance industry pressure dictate your priorities while working families continued drowning in premiums, copays, and medical debt. People are rationing insulin. People are skipping doctor visits. This is a crisis, and your inaction is a choice. Then there's your resistance to taxing the wealthy. New York is home to more billionaires than almost anywhere on earth, yet you've repeatedly balked at making them pay their fair share. When progressives in the legislature push wealth taxes, mansion taxes, or closing carried interest loopholes, you retreat to the rhetoric of 'fiscal responsibility' — which, translated, means protecting the rich at the expense of everyone else. That's not responsibility. That's class politics dressed up in centrist language. The resources exist to fund healthcare, housing, and a just transition. What's missing is the political courage to take them from the people who have more than they could ever need. New Yorkers are watching. We're organizing. And we will remember who stood with working people and who stood with the donor class when it mattered. Do better.