Majordomo. Engineer. Strategist. Future Mayor.

Nadeem Adam Khan helped engineer the Obama presidency and now wants to rebuild DC, the city that Presidency calls home.

Khan has called the District home for 20 years, but he spent the last 20 months in the driver’s seat. He’s the only candidate who signed up for a rideshare app specifically to hear the unfiltered truth from every Ward. From the 5 AM commute to the late-night hustle, Khan has seen our 'Tale of Two Cities' through his windshield. He doesn’t just see the pain points—he’s felt them.

Khan isn't here just to diagnose problems; he’s built to solve them. An engineer by trade, he led digital strategy for the AFL-CIO during Obama’s 2008 campaign and scaled global innovators like Accenture, L’Oreal, and Volkswagen. He looks at DC’s toughest challenges and sees a system that needs a major upgrade.

Running as an Independent—and the only candidate in this race refusing every single dollar in donations—Khan isn't beholden to wealthy donors or backroom politics. He’s not here for the money. He’s here to deliver the solutions:

• Making Economic Mobility Great Again: Building 100,000 homes with 1-bedroom rents and mortgages capped at $900 for 1-bedrooms and $1500 for 3-bedrooms while raising minimum wage for skilled trades (construction, sanitation, transportation, childcare, healthcare) to $50/hour —because affordable homes and stable families are the best crime prevention tool.

• Infrastructure for Life: Khan is committed to replacing DC's lead pipes to ensure no child drinks toxic water, and cleaning up the "filthy air" that triggers respiratory diseases, cancers and violent crime.

• A Glittering Future for ALL Our Kids: Introducing 36 weeks paid parental leave, universal/no-cost childcare, $100,000/year base salary for teachers, plus $25/day stipend for students in grades 6-12, and revitalizing our schools by ending the vicious cycle of teacher turnover and student absenteeism.

Khan’s blueprint for a better DC? Safety Through Stability: By addressing the root causes of the surge in crime—lack of affordable housing, poor nutrition and health, devastating pollution, and systemic neglect—Khan will make DC safe for everyone, especially in historically underserved areas like Wards 7 and 8. He isn't asking you to vote for him—he’s asking you to vote for the blueprint. It’s time to stop treating decades old, chronic problems in DC like historical landmarks. It’s time to make "Bold" our default setting. Let’s roll 🫶🏻

Khan’s roadmap is here: khan4dc.org.

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Nadeem Adam Khan is running as an Independent for D.C. Mayor in 2026 with a platform that is significantly more progressive—bordering on radical—compared to traditional candidates.

His campaign, Khan for DC, is centered on being "unbossed and unbought," highlighted by his unique refusal to accept any donations and a pledge to spend no more than $500 total on the race.

Khan's platform includes several aggressive economic and social proposals because he believes that DC’s extreme problems require radical solutions, instead of incremental, “baby missteps” of the past:

• Extreme Affordability: Plans to add 100,000 permanently affordable housing units with rents capped at $900 for one-bedroom apartments.

• Wage & Labor: Proposes raising the minimum wage to $50/hour for skilled trades and setting a $100,000 base salary for teachers.

• Family & Social Support: Advocates for 36 weeks of paid parental leave, universal no-cost childcare, and making all public transit (buses and 24/7 Metro) free.

• Youth Investment: Proposes a $10 billion investment in youth and a "$5 Billion Creative New Deal" to bolster the city's arts and tech sectors.

Online Buzz & Strategy

Khan's "buzz" comes from his unconventional background and outsider status:

• Driver’s Perspective: Instead of hiring expensive consultants and staff, Khan moonlighted for 20 months as a rideshare driver in D.C. to build his platform directly from resident feedback.

• National Security Frame: He argues for his high-cost proposals by framing D.C.'s stability as a national security priority, suggesting the federal government, the financial steward of DC, should fund these initiatives, similar to military spending.

• Grassroots Focus: Because he accepts no money, and has pledged to spend less than $500 on the entire race, he relies heavily on social media and volunteer engagement to get the word out, positioning himself as the only truly independent voice against wealthy developers and corporate PACs bankrolling his rivals who have accumulated millions of dollars in their war chests.