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Meet Cristina
HOLT
Hawaiʻi is at a turning point. The old pay-to-play system is failing, and the people of Hilo deserve more than business as usual.
Cristina Holt is a working class small business owner who has spent her years in this community serving local families, organizing neighbors, and fighting for the kind of honest, transparent government that actually works for regular people.
She doesn't take corporate money. She doesn't play political games. She is an open book, and she is ready to say the hard things out loud, even when it is uncomfortable, because that is what this moment demands.
Cristina is running for State House District 2 because the stakes are too high to sit on the sidelines hoping that business-as-usual will suddenly revolutionize itself to meet this moment.
This is What We're Fighting For
Your Government, Your Voice.
Politicians who take corporate money stop working for you the moment they cash the check. It's that simple. Cristina refuses every dollar of corporate money and is committed to weekly office hours and monthly town halls in District 2, because your representative should be someone you can actually find, talk to, and hold accountable. Government isn't a career opportunity. It's a public trust. And it's time we started treating it that way.
One Job Should Be Enough
It is far past time we strengthen our unions, seize the means of production, stop wage theft, and raise the minimum wage to a living wage. We must take back our time. Take back our lives!
Workers fought and died for the eight hour day. They bled for the weekend. They organized, struck, and sacrificed so that future generations wouldn't have to choose between paying rent and seeing their kids. That hard-won progress is being dismantled in real time by a capitalist class that has never been satisfied with enough.
Today working people in Hawaiʻi are juggling two, three, even four jobs just to survive. Cristina knows what that feels like firsthand. She knows what it means to grind, and she knows exactly who benefits when workers are too exhausted to fight back.
Unions built the middle class. Unions protect workers from exploitation. And Cristina will stand with organized labor every single time, because the people who do the work should be the ones who benefit from it.
Homes and Healthcare for Hilo
Every person deserves a roof over their head and the right to be healthy. Not because they earned it. Not because they can afford it. Because they are human. Housing is a human right. Healthcare is a human right. And time is a human right. Time to raise your babies. Time to care for your kūpuna. Time to be present for the people you love without sacrificing your ability to pay rent. The relentless grind of modern working life is not natural and it is not inevitable. It is a choice made by people in power who benefit when the rest of us are too exhausted to demand better.
We cannot wait for the federal government to save us. Washington has made it crystal clear that working people are not their priority. Billionaires are. Weapons manufacturers are. Corporate donors are. The people of Hilo are not. So we build it ourselves. We take care of we.
Hawaiʻi has the resources, the ingenuity, and the community spirit to lead the nation on what it looks like to actually take care of people. Universal healthcare. Housing for all. Paid family leave. Affordable childcare. Elder care that does not bankrupt families. These are not handouts. They are investments in the people who make this place work. The billionaire class did not build Hilo. They do not get to own it, price us out of it, or decide who deserves to be healthy and housed within it.
Enough waiting. Enough hoping. We build the world we deserve right here, right now, together.
Peace Above All
War is a business. A very profitable one. For weapons manufacturers, defense contractors, and the politicians who take their money, endless conflict is a revenue stream.
For working people, it is a death sentence. For the land, it is contamination, destruction, and theft that lasts generations. Hawaiʻi knows this better than most. We have lived under military occupation, watched our land taken, our water poisoned, our sacred places bombed and burned in the name of national security. Enough.
Cristina opposes U.S. military aggression abroad and at home. She opposes the use of our tax dollars to fund violence anywhere in the world, including Gaza. She will fight to end the Military Lease Extensions on stolen crown lands, demand the military clean up every drop of contamination they have left behind at Pohakuloa, Red Hill, and everywhere else they have poisoned this ʻāina, and push them out. Not eventually. Now.
The Pentagon does not get to plant its flag on Native Hawaiian land, poison the water, manufacture community consent through a PR office funded by defense dollars, and call it partnership. We see it. We are naming it. And we are done pretending that militarization and aloha can coexist.
Demilitarize Hawaiʻi. Completely. That is not a negotiating position. It is the only position.
Tax the Ultra Rich.
Fund the Future.
Every single thing we are fighting for, housing, healthcare, free transit, living wages, paid family leave, can be paid for. The money exists. It is sitting in the bank accounts and investment portfolios and empty vacation homes of people who extracted it from working people and this land. We are talking about just-got-their-fifth-yacht rich. Multi-mansion rich. Never-worked-a-day-in-their-life-but-somehow-own-half-the-island rich. We are not asking for charity. We are asking for what was taken.
At the state level, Cristina will fight for a progressive conveyance tax that hits speculation and luxury property sales hard, a vacancy tax on investment properties and empty homes owned by people who do not live here, increased income tax rates on the highest earners in Hawaiʻi, and closing every loophole that lets outside investors and the ultra wealthy profit from our land while local families get priced out.
Cities and states across this country are proving that taxing the ultra rich is not a fantasy. It is a policy choice. Lawmakers who tell you we cannot afford housing, healthcare, and living wages are lying to you. What they mean is they have chosen not to make the people who can afford it pay for it. That is a choice. And it is the wrong one.
Cristina is not comfortable with the status quo. And she is not connected to the people who benefit from it.
The ultra rich did not build this community. The working people of Hilo did. It is time the tax code reflected that.
"The government that forgets it works for the people must be immediatly replaced."
Cristina Holt