Kincaid for Congress – Washington’s 1st District

The Problem Every few weeks another story breaks. A teacher or coach with a documented history of inappropriate conduct toward a student. Hired by a new school or college that never knew. Sometimes the warning signs were in a personnel file the new employer never asked for. Sometimes an investigation was underway and the employee simply resigned before it finished. Leaving no formal finding for anyone to disclose. Sometimes the law on the books simply did not require anyone to check. This is not a hypothetical. It happened in our own district. Shoreline Community College hired a former Henry M. Jackson High School physics teacher. Who had resigned from Everett Public Schools. While under investigation for a years long inappropriate relationship with a student. Shoreline never called the high school. State law did not require it to. Washington's 2020 disclosure law. The first of its kind in the nation. Required colleges to check with other colleges. Not with K-12 districts.  ...

More Ships, Better Weapons, Smarter Spending: Let Our Allies Help Defend America America spends more on defense than any other country on Earth. Over a trillion dollars a year. I support spending whatever it takes to give the men and women of our military the best weapons and equipment in the world. But here is the uncomfortable truth. Spending the most money does not mean we are getting the best weapons and equipment. In too many cases we are paying double for less. And waiting twice as long to get it. Don't Take My Word for It. Take the Navy's. In June the Secretary of the Navy told Congress that every one of our shipbuilding programs is a mess. And that the best program was six months late and 57 percent over budget. The best one. Meanwhile  China launches warships at a pace some experts estimate at three ships for every one we build. Why? Part of the answer is a set of laws. Some dating back to the 1930s and 1940s.  That restrict where and by whom our weapons an...

In parts of Alaska a gallon of milk costs over $10. A dozen eggs can cost $15. No American should live like this. Alaska Has Been Left Behind Imagine paying twice sometimes three times what the rest of the country pays for the most basic essentials. A gallon of milk for $10. A loaf of bread for $8. Heating fuel that costs a family their entire paycheck. This is not some distant foreign hardship. This is daily life for hundreds of thousands of American citizens living in Alaska. The reason is simple and fixable. Alaska is cut off. No road, no rail, no affordable freight corridor connects it to the rest of the nation. Everything that arrives in Alaska food, medicine, building supplies, clothing and fuel. Must be flown or shipped across thousands of miles of ocean. Every mile of that journey is paid for by Alaskan families at the checkout counter. The people of Alaska are tough. They are resourceful. They are proud. But they have been failed by their federal government and by a co...

Trade Policy · Affordability · Consumer Rights May 30, 2026 Congress wants to ban Chinese cars from American roads. The proposed Protecting America from Chinese Cars Act would make it official. But the truth is the ban is already here. It just does not have that name yet. The tariffs currently imposed on Chinese electric vehicles exceed 100 percent. That is not a trade policy. That is a prohibition with a price tag attached. I am against it. And I want to explain why. You Are Already Driving a "Chinese" Car and Do Not Know It Volvo is owned by Geely  a Chinese company. Most Americans think of Volvo as a Swedish brand. They buy Volvos because they are safe, reliable and well designed. They did not buy a Chinese car. They bought a Swedish car that happens to be owned by a Chinese company. The world did not end. National security was not compromised. Life went on. Just days ago  Volvo had to go to the Trump administration and negotiate a special exemption just to...

Jeff Bezos Is Catching Up to a  Tax Plan I Proposed a Year Ago This week  Jeff Bezos went on CNBC and called for eliminating federal income tax for the bottom half of American earners. He pointed to a nurse making $75,000 a year and asked why she should be sending more than a thousand dollars a month to Washington. He noted that the bottom half of earners pay only about 3 percent of all federal income taxes.  He said that number should be zero. In his words, "I don't want to reduce it, I want to eliminate it." I Proposed This in July 2025 I agree. And I have agreed since July 3rd, 2025  ten months before Mr. Bezos said a word . When I published this exact proposal on my campaign website. My plan eliminates federal income tax for every American earning $61,000 or less. The case I made then is the same case Mr. Bezos is making now. This group already carries its weight through payroll, sales and local taxes. It accounts for only 2 to 3 percent of federal inc...

Washington’s 1st Congressional District  After driving Starbucks to Nashville, Mayor Katie Wilson has set her sights on REI. It’s time for the co-op to do what Starbucks should have done  move across the city line, not across the state line. Washington’s 1st Congressional District  |  May 2026 Seattle has a pattern now. A company is born here, grows here, becomes a symbol of the Pacific Northwest  and then the city’s leadership declares war on it. We watched it happen to Starbucks. We may be watching it happen to REI. Just nine days after winning the Seattle mayoral election, Katie Wilson stood on a picket line outside Starbucks and told the crowd.  “I am not buying Starbucks, and you should not either.” That was her first public act as mayor elect. Not a policy announcement. Not a housing plan. A boycott of a company that employs thousands of Seattleites, offers health care, paid vacation and f...