Joshua Bristol is committed to tackling the affordability crisis, advocating for a 70% marginal tax rate, reforms to capital gains and inheritance taxes, and tax hikes on earnings or valuations over $1 billion to address wealth inequality.

Bristol supports a federal Green New Deal to rapidly transition off fossil fuels, create jobs, fully fund NYCHA retrofits for energy efficiency and resilience, invest in grid modernization and community solar, expand federal transit funding, and enforce aggressive pollution standards on major emitters, with polluters paying for cleanup.

Bristol advocates for Medicare for All, arguing that healthcare must be guaranteed and not tied to employment, based on his personal experience with a brain tumor and subsequent health issues.

Bristol supports repealing the Faircloth Amendment to build high-quality public housing, strengthening tenant protections against unjust evictions and rent hikes, fully funding and modernizing NYCHA, expanding Section 8 vouchers and rent controls, and preventing property owners from leaving properties empty to end homelessness.

Bristol supports abolishing ICE as a deportation force, ending private immigration detention, creating a more accessible pathway to citizenship, protecting Dreamers and TPS holders, guaranteeing due process in immigration courts, and ending programs that turn local police into immigration agents.

Bristol supports passing the PRO Act, cracking down on union-busting, making it easier for workers to organize, a four-day work week, minimum wage increases, closing contractor/employee loopholes in the gig economy, requiring standardized rest breaks, and imposing penalties on businesses hostile to unionization.

Bristol plans to release a policy on putting checks and balances back into government; the campaign page indicates a policy is coming soon.

Bristol plans to release a policy on affordable and accessible transportation; the campaign page indicates a policy is coming soon.

Bristol supports enforcing the War Powers Resolution, boycotting, divesting, and sanctioning to end the genocide in Palestine, an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, rights and safety for Israelis and Palestinians, and Palestinian right to self-determination. He also supports Puerto Rican self-determination through a ballot initiative including statehood, independence, or sovereignty in free association.

Bristol plans to release a universal childcare policy; the campaign page indicates a policy is coming soon.