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Andre Easton
Party for Socialism and LiberationU.S. House · NY · District 15
U.S. House New York District 15
U.S. House · NY · District 15
Delaware State University—B.A. in Psychology, minor in English
Data last updated 10/27/2026
Andre Easton was born to Jamaican immigrants in the Bronx and is a father of three. He worked with youth in after-school programs in the Bronx and Queens, returned to school to become a special education teacher, and has spent 12 of the last 14 years teaching English in Bronx public schools.
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Andre Easton supports a broad universal-healthcare agenda, including single-payer Healthcare for All, free mental healthcare, comprehensive maternal care, reproductive rights, and addiction treatment funded partly through taxes on pharmaceutical corporations. His healthcare platform frames medical care as a right and emphasizes removing cost barriers such as premiums, co-pays, medical debt, and employment-based coverage.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Easton says he would fight for Healthcare for All through a single-payer system not tied to employment so no one faces financial barriers to medical care.
SourceEaston supports taxing pharmaceutical corporation profits and directing the revenue to addiction treatment and healthcare in places like the Bronx.
SourceEaston plans to guarantee free universal mental healthcare without co-pays, premiums, or bills for therapy, psychiatric care, and medication.
SourceAndre Easton’s Economy & Jobs platform emphasizes a socialist, worker-centered agenda: sharply raising wages, expanding tenant and public-housing power, taxing billionaires/Wall Street and corporations, and redirecting public money toward working families. He frames Bronx poverty and affordability as problems caused by corporate landlords, low wages, and billionaire influence rather than a lack of community wealth or work.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Easton says he would fight to raise the federal minimum wage to $30 an hour, arguing that full-time work should not leave NY-15 residents in poverty.
SourceEaston supports a national Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act that would give tenants the first right to buy properties when landlords sell and provide federal financing to keep rents affordable.
SourceEaston calls for repealing the Faircloth Amendment, which his campaign describes as a federal ban that has blocked new public-housing construction for decades.
SourceEaston supports universal childcare from birth through pre-K, with community-run centers staffed by educators earning a fair union wage, and ties the policy to affordability and family economic security.
SourceEaston supports funding rental assistance so households pay no more than 20% of monthly income on rent, financed through higher taxes on billionaires and Wall Street and cuts to military spending.
SourceAndre Easton’s immigration platform is strongly pro-immigrant: he supports full legal status for undocumented immigrants, abolition or dismantling of ICE, equal rights for immigrants, and labor protections against deportation-related exploitation. He frames immigration as a workers’ rights issue and emphasizes solidarity between immigrant and U.S.-born workers.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Easton says he would back full legal status for all undocumented immigrants as a way to end ICE terror in Bronx neighborhoods.
SourceIn an October 9, 2026 campaign statement, Easton called for abolishing ICE, dismantling what he describes as the deportation machine, and redirecting ICE funding to jobs, schools, housing, and healthcare.
SourceEaston’s campaign biography says he participates in demonstrations in solidarity with immigrant rights, along with other anti-war and anti-police-violence causes.
SourceA candidate profile describes Easton’s platform as including granting full legal status to undocumented immigrants.
SourceAndre Easton frames Climate & Energy primarily as an environmental-justice and public-health issue for the Bronx, emphasizing clean air, zero-emission transportation, electrified school buses, safer housing, and penalties for polluters. His broader PSL-aligned politics also support a transition away from fossil fuels toward renewable energy and large-scale public planning.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Easton supports replacing dirty freight trucks with zero-emission fleets, greening the Cross-Bronx, and holding warehouses accountable for pollution affecting neighborhoods such as Mott Haven.
SourceEaston supports electrifying every school bus and upgrading school ventilation to protect youth health from pollution and poor indoor air quality.
SourceEaston supports heavy fines on fossil fuel corporations and other polluters that contribute to dirty air and environmental harm in working-class communities.
SourceEaston's party, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, calls for ending fossil fuel use and building distributed renewable energy infrastructure as part of socialist economic planning.
SourceAndre Easton’s education platform emphasizes expanded federal funding and equal resources for Bronx students, including modern classrooms, counselors, arts education, after-school programs, and schools as support hubs. He also supports universal federally funded childcare/pre-K, tuition-free higher education with student-debt cancellation, and redirecting funds from policing/immigration enforcement toward schools and social needs.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Easton says the federal government should guarantee every student the same resources regardless of ZIP code, including modern classrooms, counselors, art and cultural education, and after-school programs.
SourceEaston supports federally funded universal childcare from birth through pre-K, with safe community-run centers and educators paid fair union wages.
SourceEaston’s platform says higher education is a right and calls for canceling all student debt and making all higher education tuition-free.
SourceEaston supports taxing corporate music-industry profits to fund Bronx arts and culture programs, including school and community programs that guarantee youth access to arts education.
SourceEaston says tens of billions of dollars going to ICE should be redirected to good jobs, schools, housing, and healthcare.
SourceAndre Easton’s public safety platform emphasizes abolishing and defunding ICE, ending mass incarceration, and redirecting enforcement and detention funding toward housing, healthcare, schools, jobs, youth programs, and immigrant rights. He frames public safety as community investment rather than policing, detention, or incarceration.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Easton called for ICE to be abolished, defunded, and expelled from communities after an ICE shooting in the Bronx, saying funds should be redirected to jobs, schools, housing, and healthcare.
SourceEaston’s campaign platform says he would sponsor a bill granting full legal status to all undocumented immigrants, arguing this would end ICE’s terror in neighborhoods.
SourceAfter Jose Chajon-Raxon died while detained at Delaney Hall, Easton said ICE should be defunded and abolished.
SourceEaston responded to Pierre Damas Bel’s death after being shackled with an ICE ankle monitor by calling for ICE abolition and full rights for all immigrants.
SourceAfter Julian Pagan died in city custody, Easton argued that mass incarceration is deadly and that billions should be redirected from incarceration into housing, healthcare, schools, jobs, and youth programs as real public safety.
SourceThe Ballot Brief
https://theballotbrief.com/candidate/andre-easton-nyFetched: biography, education, location
Branch
https://www.branch.vote/races/2026-new-york-general-election-ny-state-us-representative-ny-congressional-15/candidates/andre-eastonFetched: biography, education, location
FEC API
https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/candidate/H6NY15167/totals/Fetched: totalRaised, totalSpent, cashOnHand
Andre for The Bronx - Endorsements
https://www.andreforthebronx.nyc/endorsementsFetched: endorsements
Andre for The Bronx - Kujegi Camara endorsement
https://www.andreforthebronx.nyc/cs-kujegicamaraendorsementFetched: endorsements
Andre for The Bronx - Fordham Graduate Student Workers endorsement
https://www.andreforthebronx.nyc/pr-fgswendorseFetched: endorsements
Andre for The Bronx - Kristin Richardson Jordan endorsement
https://www.andreforthebronx.nyc/pr-krjendorseFetched: endorsements
The Political Group - NY-15 candidate scorecard
https://www.thepoliticalgroup.com/who-should-i-vote-for/new-york/district-15Fetched: ratings
Branch.vote candidate profile
https://www.branch.vote/races/2026-new-york-general-election-ny-state-us-representative-ny-congressional-15/candidates/andre-eastonFetched: issuePositions
Andre for The Bronx campaign platform
https://www.andreforthebronx.nyc/platformFetched: issuePositions
Branch candidate guide
https://www.branch.vote/races/2026-new-york-general-election-ny-state-us-representative-ny-congressional-15/candidates/andre-eastonFetched: issuePositions
Andre for The Bronx childcare statement
https://www.andreforthebronx.nyc/cs-freechildcareFetched: issuePositions
CivicAlign NY-15 race guide
https://www.civic-align.com/races/new-york/15th-congressional-district/2026Fetched: issuePositions
Andre for The Bronx campaign statement
https://www.andreforthebronx.nyc/cs-abolishiceFetched: issuePositions
Andre for The Bronx — Every School Year, We Send Our Students Back Into a System In Crisis
https://www.andreforthebronx.nyc/cs-schoolsbackFetched: issuePositions
Andre for The Bronx — In the Richest City on Earth, Parents Can't Afford Childcare
https://www.andreforthebronx.nyc/cs-freechildcareFetched: issuePositions
Andre for The Bronx — Abolish ICE Now
https://www.andreforthebronx.nyc/cs-abolishiceFetched: issuePositions