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China & trade:Supports reducing U.S. dependence on foreign supply chains including China.[1]
Crime & policing:Supports mandatory minimum sentences for crimes.[1]
DEI programs:Supports dismantling DEI initiatives in federal policy.[1]
Education:Supports tax credits for parents sending children to private schools and protecting religious expression by students.[1]
Election integrity: voter ID:Opposes partisan efforts to alter election outcomes after votes are cast.[1]
Federal spending & debt:Opposes wasteful government spending and supports reducing the national debt.[1][2]
Gun policy:Strongly supports Second Amendment rights.[1]
Ban on conversion therapy:Supports a nationwide federal ban on conversion therapy for minors.[1][2]
Congressional Term Limits:Pledged to support a constitutional amendment limiting Congress members to three House terms and two Senate terms.[1]
Congressional term limits:Supports a constitutional amendment limiting House members to three terms and Senators to two terms.[1]
Conversion therapy ban:Supports a nationwide federal ban on conversion therapy.[1][2]
Corporate Power & Economy:Criticizes corporate monopolies and PAC-funded politicians, calling for an economy that rewards labor over corporate consolidation.[1][2]
Economic Policy / Corporate Power:Criticizes corporate monopolies and PAC-funded politicians, advocating for policies that support independent farmers and working families over corporate interests.[1][2]
Gender-affirming care:Supports guaranteeing access to safe and affordable gender-affirming care and mental health services for LGBTQIA2S patients.[1]
Government Reform / Term Limits:Pledged support for a constitutional amendment imposing three House terms and two Senate terms as limits on Congress.[1]
Health care:Supports federal emergency infrastructure grants, reversal of safety-net cuts, and revenue floors to stabilize rural hospitals and expand maternal and mental health access.[1][2]
Healthcare:Supports treating healthcare as a human right, expanding Medicaid, and addressing rural hospital closures across Alabama.[1][2][3]
Housing:Advocates for housing as a human right, including expanding affordable housing, preventing homelessness, and strengthening renter and homeowner protections.[1][2]
Housing costs:Supports treating housing as a human right via federal investment in affordable construction, tenant protections, rent stabilization, and community revitalization.[1][2]
Immigration:Opposes aggressive immigration enforcement practices, calling for reform that protects family unity and due process regardless of immigration status.[1][2]
Justice System Reform:Supports reforming the justice system to ensure fairness and accountability for all, not just the wealthy.[1][2]
LGBTQ rights:Supports passing the Equality Act, codifying marriage equality and parental rights, and expanding hate crime enforcement and resources for LGBTQIA2S youth.[1]
LGBTQIA+ Rights:Supports LGBTQIA+ rights and equality as part of a broader human rights platform.[1]
Medical gender transition for minors:Supports access to gender-affirming care and a nationwide ban on conversion therapy.[1][2]
Veterans:Supports strengthening VA healthcare, expanding mental health services, and increasing affordable housing options to end veteran homelessness.[1][2]
Veterans Affairs:Calls for a renewed federal commitment to veteran care and support, describing a 'new contract' for Alabama's veterans.[1]
Broadband/Internet Access:Calls for improved access to internet service for communities in the district.[1]
Crime & policing:Supports addressing crime as a key issue facing the district.[1]
Economic Development:Supports policies aimed at strengthening small businesses and driving economic growth in the district.[1][2]
Economic Growth and Jobs:Emphasizes the need for more jobs and economic growth, citing support for small businesses and working people in the district.[1][2]
Economic development:Supports growing rural Alabama by backing agriculture, timber, job creation, and policies keeping families in communities.[1][2]
Economic growth:Supports growing rural Alabama by backing agriculture, timber, job creation, and policies keeping families in communities.[1]
Economic priorities:Supports putting Alabama first by prioritizing families, workers, small businesses, and local communities over politics.[1]
Education:Supports strengthening education by building a true partnership between educators, parents, and the community.[1][2]
Education & Community Access:Emphasizes the need for better access to quality education, jobs, internet, and healthcare for district residents, drawing on her background as an educator.[1][2]
Education Access:Advocates for improved access to quality education in Alabama's 7th District, drawing on her background as an educator and administrator.[1][2]
Federal spending & debt:Supports fighting wasteful Washington spending and demanding responsible, accountable use of taxpayer dollars.[1][2]
Government Accountability:Campaigns on a platform of government accountability and results-driven leadership rather than partisan politics.[1][2][3]
Government Accountability & Leadership Style:Advocates for 'fresh, productive leadership focused on results, not scoring political points' and greater government accountability.[1][2][3]
Health care:Supports strengthening rural healthcare by improving access to quality care and helping rural hospitals stay open.[1][2]
Healthcare Access:States that residents of the district need better access to healthcare services.[1]
Parents' rights in education:Believes communities are best positioned to decide what education looks like without federal government overreach.[1]
Regulation & permitting:Supports cutting red tape so Alabama businesses can grow, create jobs, and compete.[1][2]
Rural Community Development:Lists support for rural communities as part of her platform for economic growth.[1]
Rural Development & Economic Growth:Emphasizes support for rural communities and economic growth, including job creation and support for small businesses.[1][2][3]
Rural development:Supports growing rural Alabama by backing agriculture, timber, job creation, and policies keeping families in communities.[1][2]
Rural economic development:Supports growing rural Alabama by backing agriculture, timber, job creation, and policies keeping families in communities.[1]
Small business:Supports prioritizing small businesses and local communities over politics.[1][2]
Affordability:Supports lowering grocery and gas prices to address cost of living.[1]
Campaign finance reform:Supports overturning Citizens United to remove unlimited corporate money from politics.[1][2]
Congressional stock trading:Supports prohibiting stock trading for members of Congress while in office.[1][2]
Congressional term limits:Supports term limits for members of Congress.[1][2][3]
Cost of living:Supports lowering grocery and gas prices to make life more affordable.[1]
Economy and Cost of Living:Advocates for raising paychecks and lowering everyday costs for working families, small businesses, farmers, and labor.[1][2]
Education:Supports increased funding for schools and teachers and opposes dismantling the Department of Education.[1]
Education funding:Supports increased funding for schools and teachers.[1]
Election integrity: voter ID:Supports voting rights protections, fair representation and stronger safeguards against racial and partisan gerrymandering.[1]
Free speech & tech censorship:Supports an enforceable code of ethics for the U.S. Supreme Court.[1][2]
Government Reform:Supports congressional reform, transparency, term limits, and campaign finance reform to make Congress more accountable to voters rather than corporate interests.[1][2][3]
Government accountability:Supports reforms to restore congressional balance and accountability to address the trust gap with voters.[1][2]
Health care:Supports more affordable healthcare.[1]
Immigration:Supports comprehensive, humane immigration reform including a pathway to citizenship, ending family separation, restoring asylum protections, and greater ICE accountability while maintaining border security.[1]
Labor:Supports worker protections, collective bargaining rights, and protecting organized labor.[1]
Labor policy:Supports worker protections, collective bargaining rights, and organized labor.[1]
Lobbying moratorium:Supports a minimum five-year moratorium on lobbying after leaving Congress.[1][2]
Lobbying restrictions:Supports a minimum five-year moratorium on lobbying after leaving Congress.[1][2]
Overturn Citizens United:Supports overturning Citizens United to remove unlimited corporate money from politics.[1][2]
Redistricting:Opposes Republican-led congressional redistricting, describing it as unfair gerrymandering that undermines fair representation.[1][2]
Redstone Arsenal and Local Infrastructure:Supports pushing for federal funding to fix staffing and access delays at Redstone Arsenal gates, which he links to prior government funding cuts.[1]
Regulation & permitting:Supports a five-year moratorium on lobbying after leaving Congress.[1][2]
Representation Style:Emphasizes accessible, town-hall style representation and listening to constituents as an alternative to what he calls divisive partisan politics.[1][2]
Supreme Court ethics:Supports an enforceable code of ethics for the U.S. Supreme Court.[1][2]
Trade and Agriculture:Opposes Trump-era tariffs and related agricultural bailout spending, saying they are hurting Alabama farmers, and wants to restore Congress's power over trade policy.[1]
Voting rights:Supports voting rights reforms, independent redistricting, and protections against partisan gerrymandering.[1]
Anti-Establishment Political Stance:Positions himself as an outsider opposing career politicians and the political establishment, aligning with an 'America First' approach.[1][2][3]
Border enforcement & immigration law:Supports stronger border enforcement and reforms to reduce incentives for illegal entry.[1][2][3]
Congressional Term Limits:Pledged to support a constitutional amendment limiting House members to three two-year terms and Senators to two six-year terms, and to self-limit his own time in office.[1][2][3]
Congressional term limits:Supports term limits to ensure fresh leadership and accountability in Congress.[1][2][3]
Economy, Taxes & Small Government:Supports limited government, free-market solutions, keeping taxes low for small businesses, and opposes what he calls overregulation and excessive federal spending.[1][2][3]
Energy Independence:Prioritizes energy independence as part of his platform for economic freedom and national security.[1]
Energy Policy:Supports energy independence as part of his broader economic and national security platform.[1]
Energy production:Supports free-market solutions and energy independence while opposing subsidies for green energy projects.[1][2][3]
Federal spending & debt:Opposes runaway federal spending and supports disciplined budgeting to address the national debt.[1][2]
Fiscal Responsibility & Government Spending:Advocates cutting federal spending, addressing the national debt, curbing lobbyist influence and the 'administrative state,' and ensuring tax dollars are used wisely.[1][2][3]
Fiscal Responsibility & National Debt:Emphasizes reducing the national debt, blaming lobbyists and the 'administrative state,' and calls for stricter fiscal discipline in federal spending.[1][2][3]
Foreign policy:Supports Congress declaring war per the Constitution and cautions against unnecessary foreign interventions.[1]
Health care:Supports market-based approaches to reduce health insurance and other costs.[1]
Healthcare:Favors market-based approaches to lowering health insurance and healthcare costs rather than expanded government programs, and wants to reduce government overreach in the sector.[1]
Judicial Policy:Criticizes what he calls activist federal judges and says he would support confirming judges who adhere strictly to the Constitution.[1]
Judicial Reform:Criticizes what he calls activist federal judges and supports confirming judges who adhere strictly to the Constitution.[1]
Judicial reform:Opposes judicial overreach by activist judges and supports confirming judges who follow the Constitution.[1]
National security:Supports rebuilding the military, securing supply chains, and prioritizing cyber and space defense.[1]
Political Establishment & National Direction:Positions himself as an outsider and 'America First' Republican opposed to career politicians and the political establishment in both parties.[1][2][3]
Regulation & permitting:Supports deregulation to foster competition in insurance markets and reduce costs.[1][2]
Social Security:States a goal to stabilize and secure Social Security, though specific policy details are not elaborated in available sources.[1]
Social Security & Medicare:Supports stabilizing Social Security by cutting waste and fraud without raising payroll taxes or the retirement age.[1][2]
Taxes:Supports keeping taxes low for small businesses and fiscal responsibility.[1]
Taxes & Economy:Supports limited government, free-market solutions, and keeping taxes low for small businesses while opposing overregulation and excessive federal spending.[1][2]
Term Limits:Supports a constitutional amendment to limit Congress to three House terms and two Senate terms, and has pledged to self-limit his own time in office.[1][2][3]
Childcare:Supports expanding access to affordable childcare.[1]
Defense & Aerospace:Supports stable and responsible defense funding to protect local jobs and partnerships between military installations and communities.[1]
Defense & Veterans:Favors stable, responsible defense funding to protect local jobs, improved veteran transition programs, expanded PTSD/mental health resources, and reduced VA wait times.[1][2]
Defense & aerospace:Supports stable defense funding, partnerships with military installations, and STEM pipelines for aerospace and defense careers.[1]
Defense / Veterans:Supports stable defense funding to protect local jobs, improved veteran transition programs, expanded PTSD and mental health resources, and reduced VA healthcare wait times through telehealth and staffing.[1][2]
Economy & Agriculture:Calls for protecting farmers from unstable trade policies and supporting small businesses and veteran-owned businesses.[1]
Economy / Trade:Supports protecting farmers from unstable trade policies and backing federal funding streams (USDA grants, defense/aerospace contracts) that sustain the district's economy.[1][2]
Education:Supports investing in public education from early childhood through career training, with expanded funding for rural schools and fair pay for teachers.[1][2]
Family & Social Support:Supports expanding affordable childcare, paid family leave, food security programs, and investment in maternal health to address Alabama's maternal mortality rate.[1][2]
Family Policy & Labor:Supports expanding paid family leave, affordable childcare, workplace safety protections, and livable wages for working families.[1][2]
Federal spending & debt:Supports strong oversight so taxpayer dollars are used efficiently and responsibly.[1]
Health care:Supports protecting coverage for pre-existing conditions, lowering prescription drug costs, expanding rural health clinics and telehealth, and strengthening mental health support.[1][2]
Healthcare:Supports protecting coverage for pre-existing conditions and lowering prescription drug costs.[1]
Housing:Supports secure housing options for working families.[1]
Housing costs:Supports ensuring working families have secure housing options.[1]
Infrastructure:Supports investing in rural broadband, roads, and clean energy infrastructure.[1][2]
Labor & Workplace Safety:Supports strengthening workplace safety protections (including OSHA enforcement) and expanding paid family leave for workers.[1]
Maternal health:Invests in maternal health to reduce Alabama’s high maternal mortality rate.[1]
Mental health:Strengthens mental health support, including resources for veterans and families.[1][2]
Paid family leave:Supports expanding access to affordable childcare and paid family leave for working families.[1][2]
Rural healthcare access:Supports expanding rural health clinics, telehealth services, and access close to home.[1][2]
Small business:Supports small businesses and entrepreneurs through access to funding and tax incentives.[1]
Small businesses:Supports small businesses and entrepreneurs through access to funding and tax incentives.[1]
Taxes:Supports corporations paying their fair share of property taxes to support schools.[1]
Teacher pay:Supports fair pay and classroom resources for teachers.[1]
Teachers:Ensures fair pay and classroom resources for teachers.[1]
Veterans:Ensures veterans and seniors receive the care they deserve and supports VA access.[1][2]
Veterans & military families:Supports strengthening mental health resources and care for veterans and military families.[1][2]
Veterans healthcare:Supports ensuring veterans and seniors receive the care they deserve and VA access improvements.[1][2]
Workforce development:Champions career and technical programs and STEM pathways tied to local industries.[1][2]
Workforce training:Supports expanding STEM learning, workforce training, and career pathways tied to local industries.[1][2]
AI Data Centers & Corporate Subsidies:Opposes taxpayer subsidies and special regulatory treatment for AI data centers, favoring state/local control and equal permitting standards.[1]
AI Data Centers and Corporate Subsidies:Opposes special tax breaks or regulatory exemptions for AI data center projects, arguing such developments should follow standard permitting and zoning rules and not rely on taxpayer subsidies.[1]
Abortion:Supports a nationwide ban on abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest.[1][2]
Congressional stock trading:Supports banning congressional stock trading by members and their families.[1][2]
Congressional term limits:Supports imposing term limits on members of Congress.[1][2]
Federal Spending & Government Size:Advocates for smaller government and reduced federal spending, criticizing both parties for failing to address the national debt.[1][2]
Federal Spending and Debt:Advocates for smaller government and reduced federal spending, criticizing both parties for failing to address the national debt.[1][2]
Federal spending & debt:Supports cutting reckless spending, rejecting budget gimmicks, and addressing the national debt to protect Medicare and Social Security.[1][2]
Government Ethics & Accountability:Lists ethics reform and protecting liberty as campaign priorities, positioning himself as an accountability-focused outsider candidate.[1]
Gun policy:Supports gun rights and constitutional liberties.[1][2]
Health care:Supports expanding telemedicine, home visits, repealing anti-competition laws, and allowing nurse practitioners full practice authority.[1][2]
Healthcare:Supports expanding telemedicine, home visits, repealing anti-competition laws, and allowing nurse practitioners to practice at the top of their training.[1][2]
Healthcare & Health Freedom:Supports patient and family autonomy in healthcare decisions and has accepted endorsement from a health-freedom advocacy group.[1]
Healthcare and Health Freedom:Supports patients' and families' rights to make their own healthcare decisions and has been endorsed by a health-freedom advocacy group.[1]
Iran Policy:Opposes U.S. military engagement with Iran, citing concerns over cost, escalation risk, and lack of clear justification for intervention.[1]
Iran/Middle East Policy:Opposes U.S. military engagement with Iran, warning of costly, prolonged conflict and lack of clear justification for escalation.[1]
Marijuana legalization:Supports increasing access to cannabis and rescheduling it to respect states' rights.[1][2]
Opposition to war with Iran:Opposes U.S. military engagement with Iran, citing debt, lack of clear national interest, and constitutional requirements for congressional authorization.[1]
Regulation & permitting:Opposes special treatment, subsidies, or exemptions for AI data centers and crony capitalism.[1]
Taxation:Supports tax cuts as part of a broader push for reduced government size and spending.[1]
Taxes:Supports simplifying the tax code, cutting rates across the board, and reforming the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit.[1][2]
War Powers & Venezuela Action:Argues that military action against Venezuela's Maduro required explicit congressional authorization, asserting Congress's constitutional war powers.[1]
War Powers and Executive Authority:Argues that military actions like the Venezuela operation require explicit congressional authorization and that criminal indictments cannot substitute for constitutional war powers processes.[1]
Affordability:Supports policies to lower costs of gas, healthcare, rent, and groceries.[1]
Border enforcement & immigration law:Supports immigration reform with secure borders, limits on ICE quotas, and a path to documentation for law-abiding immigrants.[1][2][3]
Campaign finance:Supports overturning Citizens United and removing corporate money from politics.[1][2]
Campaign finance reform:Supports banning congressional stock trading, overturning Citizens United, and rejecting corporate PAC money.[1][2][3]
Checks and balances:Supports restoring congressional checks and balances on executive power.[1]
Congressional stock trading:Supports banning stock trading by members of Congress.[1][2]
Congressional term limits:Supports a constitutional amendment limiting House members to three terms and Senators to two terms.[1][2][3]
Government Reform / Ethics:Advocates for greater government transparency, ethics reform, and removing stock trading by members of Congress from politics.[1][2][3]
Government Reform/Ethics:Advocates for greater government transparency, adherence to constitutional law, and ending congressional stock trading by members of Congress.[1][2][3]
Government reform:Supports restoring checks and balances, constitutional adherence, and accountability to constituents over parties or corporations.[1][2]
Health care:Supports Medicaid expansion in Alabama and enhanced ACA premium tax credits.[1][2][3]
Healthcare:Supports Medicaid expansion and ACA enhanced premium tax credits to improve access and affordability for Alabamians.[1][2][3]
Immigration:Supports secure borders along with immigration reform providing a clear path to documentation for law-abiding immigrants.[1][2][3]
Immigration reform:Supports secure borders with reform providing a path to documentation for law-abiding immigrants.[1][2]
Livable wages and union rights:Supports a livable wage and the right to unionize for Alabamians.[1]
Redistricting:Opposes racially discriminatory congressional maps and supports fair districting.[1][2]
Restoration of Checks & Balances:Supports restoring congressional checks and balances and holding the executive branch accountable without corporate influence.[1][2]
Restoration of checks and balances:Supports restoring checks and balances in Congress and holding other branches accountable without corporate PAC influence.[1][2]
Veterans:Supports fighting for veterans' earned benefits, care, and respect from leaders with military experience.[1]
Veterans Affairs:Supports strengthening veterans' benefits, care, and respect, drawing on his own military service background.[1]
Veterans affairs:Supports leaders who understand the costs of war and will fight for veterans' earned benefits and care.[1][2]
Veterans/Defense:Supports stronger benefits, care, and respect for veterans, drawing on his own military service.[1]
Wages:Supports a livable wage and the right to unionize for Alabamians.[1]
Wages / Job Benefits:Supports livable wages and the right to unionize for Alabama workers.[1]
Wages and Cost of Living:Raises concerns about wage stagnation relative to cost of living, citing the gap between the federal minimum wage and living expenses in Baldwin County.[1]
Agriculture:Supports Alabama farmers and producers with better access to markets, credit, reliable disaster assistance, and fair federal rules.[1][2]
Border enforcement & immigration law:Supports strong border enforcement, more support for Homeland Security, action against human trafficking, and a serious crackdown on fentanyl and criminal networks.[1][2]
Congressional Redistricting:Argues Alabama's prior congressional map linking Mobile and the Wiregrass did not reflect real communities and favors district lines based on shared local interests.[1]
Crime & policing:Supports law enforcement, rural first responders, and policies that hold criminals accountable.[1]
Criminal Justice & Public Safety:Supports law enforcement, aid for rural first responders, and policies to hold criminals accountable while helping prevent crime.[1]
Criminal Justice / Public Safety:Supports law enforcement, rural first responders, and policies that hold criminals accountable while helping communities prevent crime.[1]
Defense & Veterans:Backs support for military families, housing, schools, health care, and infrastructure for Alabama's defense and aviation communities.[1]
Defense / Veterans:Supports military families with good housing, schools, health care, and mission readiness infrastructure.[1][2]
Defense and Veterans:Backs support for military families, housing, schools, and health care, as well as infrastructure for aviation and defense readiness in the Wiregrass region.[1]
Defense and veterans:Supports military families with good housing, strong schools, reliable health care, and infrastructure to keep aviation and defense strong.[1][2]
Economy:Supports rural jobs, broadband, and investment so families can build a life at home in Alabama.[1]
Education:Supports parental rights, local control, strong academics, safe schools, career training, and trades education.[1][2]
Family Affordability & Taxes:Supports tax relief, lower everyday costs, and policies to ease the financial burden on Alabama families raising children.[1][2]
Family Affordability / Cost of Living:Supports tax relief, lower everyday costs, and policies to ease expenses like groceries, housing, child care, and utilities for Alabama families.[1]
Federal spending & debt:Supports a leaner, accountable government that cuts waste and delivers real results.[1]
Fentanyl & drug enforcement:Supports crackdown on fentanyl and criminal networks at the border.[1][2]
Government accountability:Supports a leaner, accountable government that cuts waste and delivers results.[1][2]
Infrastructure:Supports stronger ports, roads, rail, trucking, warehousing, cold storage, rural logistics, and domestic manufacturing to fix supply chains.[1][2]
Military families:Supports military families with good housing, strong schools, reliable health care, and infrastructure for mission readiness.[1][2]
Military families and mission readiness:Supports military families, good housing, strong schools, reliable health care, and infrastructure for defense.[1][2]
Parents' rights in education:Supports parental rights, local control, strong academics, safe schools, career training, trades, and agriculture education.[1]
Political Alignment:Identifies as a battle-tested conservative aligned with President Trump's America First agenda, citing service in two Trump administrations.[1][2]
Political Identity / Trump Alignment:Identifies as a Trump-aligned conservative citing service in two Trump administrations, while stating he will continue his campaign despite Trump's endorsement of a rival.[1][2]
Regulation & permitting:Supports fixing supply chains through stronger infrastructure and reduced dependence on foreign imports.[1][2]
Religious liberty:Supports protecting religious liberty, free speech, and constitutional freedoms.[1]
Rural economic development:Supports rural jobs, broadband, and investment so families can build a life and economy that lets people stay in Alabama.[1]
Rural economy:Supports rural jobs, broadband, and investment so families can build a life in Alabama.[1]
Small business:Supports small businesses with lower taxes, less paperwork, and easier access to funding.[1][2]
Social Security & Medicare:Supports ensuring the long-term solvency of Social Security.[1]
Supply Chain & Infrastructure:Supports strengthening ports, roads, rail, trucking, and domestic manufacturing to lower costs and reduce reliance on foreign imports.[1][2]
Supply Chain / Infrastructure:Supports strengthening ports, roads, rail, trucking, and domestic manufacturing to reduce costs and reliance on foreign imports.[1][2]
Supply chain:Supports stronger ports, roads, rail, and domestic manufacturing to reduce foreign import dependence.[1][2][3]
Supply chain and domestic manufacturing:Supports stronger ports, roads, rail, trucking, warehousing, rural logistics, and domestic manufacturing.[1]
Supply chain and infrastructure:Supports stronger ports, roads, rail, trucking, warehousing, cold storage, rural logistics, and more domestic manufacturing to cut costs and reduce foreign dependence.[1][2]
Supply chain infrastructure:Supports stronger ports, roads, rail, trucking, and domestic manufacturing to fix supply chains.[1][2]
Taxes:Supports tax relief and lower everyday expenses to make raising a family more affordable.[1][2]
Abortion:Supports protecting the rights of women to make their own choices about their bodies and healthcare decisions, including access to abortion, birth control, maternal healthcare, and family planning services.[1]
Climate Crisis:Supports addressing the climate crisis.[1]
Crime & policing:Supports ending private prisons and reforming the criminal justice system to support successful reentry.[1]
Federal jobs guarantee:Supports creating a federal jobs guarantee program to provide work to anyone who wants it.[1]
Health care:Supports affordable healthcare access and expanding safety net programs for women and families.[1][2]
Investment in Education:Supports investment in education.[1][2]
Marijuana legalization:Supports permanently decriminalizing marijuana, creating pathways for legal sales with priority for formerly incarcerated individuals, and expanding rehabilitation and opioid treatment programs.[1]
Abortion:Supports strict pro-life policies with no exceptions, believing life begins at conception.[1][2]
Agriculture:Supports lowering off-road diesel costs for farmers, expanding crop insurance, and labeling American-grown products.[1]
Birthright Citizenship:Expressed disappointment with a Supreme Court ruling affirming birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment.[1]
Border Security and Immigration:Supports increased border security to address drug trafficking, human trafficking, and illegal immigration.[1][2]
Border enforcement & immigration law:Supports securing the border to protect against drugs, human trafficking, and violent criminals.[1]
Education:Supports moving the Department of Education to the state level.[1]
Federal Spending:Advocates reducing federal spending by targeting waste, fraud, and abuse, including concerns over SNAP benefit fraud.[1]
Federal spending & debt:Supports reducing federal spending by targeting waste, fraud, and abuse.[1]
Gun policy:Supports virtually no restrictions on the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms and opposes red-flag laws.[1]
Military and Veterans:Supports increased resources for veterans and military families, and says he would work to remove 'woke ideologies' from the military.[1][2][3]
Parents' rights in education:Supports parents' rights to direct their children's education and opposes government overreach.[1]
Regulation & permitting:Supports limiting regulations on small businesses.[1][2]
School choice:Supports school choice and moving the Department of Education to the state level.[1]
Support for veterans:Supports strengthening resources for veterans and eliminating woke ideologies in the military.[1][2]
Support for veterans and military:Supports strengthening the military, caring for veterans and their families, and eliminating woke ideologies in the military.[1][2]
Support our military and veterans:Supports strengthening the military, aiding veterans and families, and eliminating woke ideologies in the military.[1][2]
Taxation and Small Business Regulation:Supports lowering taxes and reducing regulations on small businesses to help entrepreneurs.[1][2]
Taxes:Supports lowering taxes on small businesses.[1][2]
Veterans:Supports strengthening resources and care for veterans and military families and eliminating woke ideologies in the military.[1][2][3]
Veterans and Military:Supports increased resources and legal assistance for veterans and opposes what he calls 'woke ideologies' in the military, citing recruitment and readiness concerns.[1][2][3]
Women's Sports / Title IX:Praised a Supreme Court ruling upholding state laws barring biological males from competing in girls' and women's school sports.[1]
Women's Sports and Title IX:Praised the Supreme Court ruling upholding state laws barring biological males from competing in women's and girls' school sports.[1]
Women's sports:Opposes allowing biological males to compete in women's sports.[1]
Abortion:Supports reproductive freedom including access to abortion, birth control, and maternal care with no exceptions.[1][2]
Abortion and Reproductive Rights:Supports unrestricted access to abortion, birth control, and maternal care, opposing any restrictions on reproductive healthcare.[1][2][3]
Border enforcement & immigration law:Supports immigration reform with due process, dignity, and a pathway to citizenship; criticizes current ICE enforcement practices.[1][2][3]
Crime & policing:Supports funding local police departments along with mental health services and community programs to reduce crime.[1]
Economic Policy:Emphasizes economic fairness for working families, addressing rising housing costs, stagnant wages, and disparities between urban growth and rural economic conditions.[1][2]
Economy / Working Families:Focuses campaign on economic fairness, addressing rising housing costs, stagnant wages, and disparities between tech-driven growth and rural economic conditions in North Alabama.[1][2]
Federal spending & debt:Supports accountability in federal spending and reducing waste based on procurement experience.[1]
Foreign Policy/Presidential Accountability:Called for Congress to impeach President Trump following his threats of military action against Iran, citing constitutional concerns.[1]
Government Reform:Supports overturning Citizens United to reduce money in politics and pledges to support impeachment of officials who violate their oath to the Constitution.[1][2]
Government Reform / Campaign Finance:Supports overturning Citizens United to reduce money's influence in politics and increase transparency and accountability in elections.[1]
Government accountability & ethics:Supports breaking the grip of dark money to restore integrity to Congress.[1]
Government integrity:Opposes dark money and corporate influence in Congress; supports restoring integrity and accountability to government.[1]
Health care:Supports universal healthcare as a human right, funded by cutting waste and requiring the wealthy to pay fair share.[1]
Healthcare:Supports establishing universal healthcare, funded by cutting waste, negotiating drug prices, and raising taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations.[1][2]
Housing costs:Supports policies to address rising housing costs and support working families facing economic pressures.[1]
Immigration:Supports immigration reform with due process, dignity, and a pathway to citizenship; opposes current ICE enforcement practices.[1][2][3]
Our Democracy:Opposes corporate and special interest influence in Congress; supports restoring integrity and defending the Constitution.[1]
Presidential Accountability / Impeachment:States he would support impeachment of officials who violate their oath to the Constitution, and called for Trump's impeachment over threats of military action against Iran.[1][2]
Social Security & Medicare:Supports protecting Social Security and Medicare as lifelines for district residents.[1]
Veterans:Advocates for protecting and expanding veterans' benefits, arguing veterans should not have to fight to keep benefits they earned.[1]
Veterans and Defense:Supports protecting veterans' earned benefits and ensuring they do not have to fight to keep them.[1]
Abortion:Supports pro-life policies including life beginning at conception and defunding Planned Parenthood; views abortion as a state issue, not federal.[1][2]
Border Security Funding for Illegal Immigrant Benefits:Criticizes taxpayer-funded benefits such as housing, food assistance, and cell phones going to illegal immigrants amid an unsecured border.[1]
Border enforcement & immigration law:Prioritizes securing the border as a top policy goal.[1]
Budget & COVID Relief Spending:Opposed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act COVID relief bill as excessive federal spending.[1]
Budget & Government Spending:Opposed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act COVID relief bill as excessive federal spending.[1]
Civil Rights / Constitutional Amendments:Supports keeping the ratification deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment and states racism has no place in society.[1]
Crime & policing:Supports mandatory minimum sentences and existing rules for police accountability.[1]
Health care:Supports repealing and replacing Obamacare; opposes universal coverage and elimination of private insurance.[1]
Immigration & Border Security:Supports building a border wall, fully funding ICE, opposing amnesty, and reforming the legal immigration system while cracking down on illegal entry.[1][2][3]
Immigration Enforcement & Public Benefits:Criticizes provision of taxpayer-funded benefits such as housing, healthcare, and food assistance to illegal immigrants under the Biden administration.[1]
Immigration/Border Security:Supports building a border wall, fully funding ICE, opposes amnesty, and calls for fixing the legal immigration system while removing illegal immigrants.[1][2][3]
Israel:Strongly supports Israel and opposes Israel boycotts.[1][2]
Labor & Jobs:Supports keeping Right-to-Work laws and voted against the PRO Act expanding union organizing protections.[1]
Labor/Right-to-Work:Opposes the PRO Act and supports maintaining Right-to-Work laws, voting against expanded union organizing protections.[1]
Support for Trump Agenda:States he will work with the Trump administration to advance an 'America First' legislative agenda in Congress.[1]
Taxation:Supports making Trump-era tax cuts permanent, simplifying the tax code, and eliminating the estate (death) tax.[1]
Ukraine aid:Opposes additional aid to Ukraine without changes from NATO and prioritizes domestic issues.[1]
Agriculture:Supports cutting red tape to protect peanut, cotton, poultry, and timber farmers.[1][2]
Agriculture & Rural Alabama:Supports cutting red tape to protect farmers (peanut, cotton, poultry, timber), investing in rural broadband and storm infrastructure, and opposing foreign ownership of American land.[1][2][3]
Border Security:Supports securing the border with tactical precision to stop cartels and criminal trafficking.[1][2]
Border enforcement & immigration law:Supports securing the border with tactical precision to stop cartels and criminal trafficking.[1][2][3]
Congressional term limits:Supports congressional term limits via constitutional amendment.[1]
Defense / Veterans:Supports reforming the VA to end delays, expand local care, and increase accountability.[1][2][3]
Economy:Supports strengthening agriculture, timber, and rural small businesses.[1][2]
Education:Supports school choice and directing education funding to follow the student rather than bureaucracies.[1]
Energy production:Supports free-market growth and energy independence.[1][2]
Federal spending & debt:Supports cutting wasteful spending driving inflation.[1][2][3]
Gun policy:Defends the Second Amendment without compromise.[1][2][3]
Guns:Supports defending the Second Amendment without compromise.[1][2]
Health care:Supports work requirements for able-bodied adults in Medicaid and market-based reforms.[1][2][3]
Housing costs:Supports keeping American land in American hands by stopping foreign land grabs.[1][2]
Immigration/Border Security:Supports securing the border with tactical precision and stopping cartel and criminal trafficking activity.[1][2]
Infrastructure / Transportation:Invest in rural broadband, storm infrastructure, and hurricane resilience.[1][2]
Medicaid & Healthcare:Supports focusing Medicaid resources on the most vulnerable, implementing work requirements for able-bodied adults, and market-based healthcare reforms.[1]
Parents' rights in education:Supports empowering parents over bureaucrats in education decisions.[1][2]
Regulation & permitting:Supports cutting red tape to protect farmers and small businesses.[1][2]
School choice:Supports expanding school choice so money follows the child.[1][2]
Second Amendment:Supports defending the Second Amendment without compromise.[1][2]
Social Security:Supports protecting Social Security for all generations while ensuring long-term sustainability, including exploring privatization options.[1]
Social Security & Medicaid:Supports protecting Social Security while exploring privatization options for sustainability, and favors work requirements and market-based reforms for Medicaid.[1]
Social Security & Medicare:Supports protecting Social Security with a mix of system preservation and privatization options.[1][2][3]
Taxation:Supports the FairTax Act and abolishing the IRS.[1]
Taxation & Economy:Supports the FairTax Act and abolishing the IRS, cutting wasteful federal spending, and promoting free-market growth and manufacturing jobs.[1][2]
Taxes:Supports the FairTax Act and abolishing the IRS.[1]
VA reform:Supports reforming the VA to expand local care and cut bureaucracy.[1][2][3]
Veterans & National Security:Supports VA reform to expand access to local care and cut bureaucracy, strengthening the military while ending endless wars.[1][2][3]
Veterans Affairs:Supports reforming the VA by expanding access to local care, modernizing scheduling, and cutting bureaucracy.[1][2][3]
Veterans affairs:Supports reforming the VA to expand local care, modernize scheduling, and cut bureaucracy.[1][2][3]
Abortion:Pro-choice; supports right to medical care without government interference and conditions reducing need for abortions.[1]
Abortion/Reproductive Rights:Identifies as pro-choice, favoring policies that keep government out of personal medical decisions while working to reduce the need for abortion.[1]
Cannabis Policy:Supports federal legalization of medical and recreational cannabis, directing resulting tax revenue toward clean water infrastructure.[1]
Corporate Power/Antitrust:Advocates stronger enforcement of antitrust laws against utilities like Alabama Power, arguing this would improve conditions for local residents.[1]
Data Centers:Opposes data centers and supports a federal moratorium on their development along with state-level rules.[1][2][3]
Data Centers & Corporate Power:Opposes the expansion of data centers in Alabama and Alabama Power's business practices, advocating stronger antitrust enforcement to benefit residents.[1][2]
Data center development:Opposes data centers and supports a federal moratorium on their development along with stronger local rules.[1][2][3]
Data centers:Opposes data centers; supports federal moratorium on development and state rules to protect residents.[1][2][3]
Drug Policy / Cannabis:Supports federal legalization of medical and recreational cannabis, directing resulting tax revenue toward clean drinking water and water infrastructure upgrades.[1]
Education:Supports revitalizing and reinvesting in education at all levels.[1]
Health care:Supports healthcare for all, including dedicated focus on healthcare for women.[1]
Immigration:Aligned with fellow Democratic candidates at a district forum in favoring an end to aggressive immigration enforcement.[1]
Immigration Enforcement:Aligned with fellow district Democrats in favoring an end to aggressive immigration enforcement practices.[1]
Marijuana legalization:Supports federal legalization of medical and recreational cannabis, using tax revenue for clean drinking water and water system maintenance.[1]
Reproductive Rights:Identifies as pro-choice and supports policies that reduce the need for abortions while ensuring access to reproductive healthcare without government interference.[1]
Abortion:Supports a woman's right to make her own healthcare decisions while also supporting families, adoption, and care throughout life.[1]
Bipartisan cooperation:Supports bipartisan cooperation to reduce division and solve problems facing working families.[1][2]
Cost of Living / Economic Policy:Supports policies to lower costs for working families, increase competition, strengthen supply chains, and help families keep more of their earnings.[1]
Cost of Living / Economy:Supports policies to lower costs for working families, increase market competition, and strengthen supply chains amid rising prices for groceries, utilities, and healthcare.[1]
Cost of living:Supports policies that lower costs for working families through competition, supply chains, and keeping more of earnings.[1][2][3]
Data Centers:Expresses opposition to data centers, stating constituents are not in favor of them.[1]
Data center regulation:Supports a federal and state pause on data centers to evaluate rules and protections.[1]
Data centers:Supports a pause on data center development to evaluate rules and protections.[1]
Education:Supports strengthening public education and workforce training.[1][2]
Health care:Supports expanding access to affordable healthcare, protecting rural providers, improving mental health services, and increasing drug price transparency.[1][2][3]
Healthcare:Supports expanding access to affordable healthcare, protecting rural providers, improving mental health services, increasing transparency in prescription drug pricing, and supporting small businesses with healthcare options.[1][2][3]
Immigration:Along with other Democratic candidates in the race, favors ending aggressive immigration enforcement.[1]
Lower Costs for Working Families:Supports policies that lower costs for working families through increased competition, stronger supply chains, and helping families keep more of what they earn.[1][2][3]
Lower costs for working families:Supports policies to lower costs for working families through increased competition, stronger supply chains, and helping families keep more of their earnings.[1][2][3]
Lowering costs for working families:Supports policies that lower costs, increase competition, strengthen supply chains, and help families keep more of their earnings.[1]
Public education:Supports strengthening public education and workforce training.[1][2]
Public education and workforce training:Supports strengthening public education and workforce training.[1][2]
Public safety:Supports public safety as a focus of local and federal leadership.[1][2]
Religious liberty:Supports every American's First Amendment right to practice the religion of their choice or no religion at all.[1]
Child Welfare & Education:Prioritizes child safety, calling for stronger school security measures and ensuring all students have access to adequate food.[1]
Child Welfare and Education:Supports increased school safety measures and ensuring all children have access to enough food to eat.[1]
Child nutrition:Supports ensuring every child has access to healthy, reliable food as a basic right.[1][2]
Child protection:Supports strengthening protections, enforcements, and awareness to keep predators away from children.[1][2]
Cost of living:Supports policies that control prices and lower costs for basic goods and services.[1][2]
Criminal Justice / Public Safety:Supports strengthening protections and enforcement against predators to keep children safe at home, school, and online.[1]
Criminal Justice and Public Safety:Supports strengthening protections and enforcement to keep predators away from children at home, school, and online.[1]
Economy / Cost of Living:Advocates for policies to control rising prices and lower costs so families can better manage expenses and build savings.[1]
Economy and Cost of Living:Supports policies aimed at controlling rising prices and lowering costs of basic goods and services for families.[1]
Fair wages:Supports fair wages so every full-time worker can support their family with dignity.[1]
Health care:Identifies health care as the biggest concern for people in the district.[1]
Housing costs:Supports fair housing policies, rent protections, and programs for stable housing.[1][2]
Job security:Supports job security to provide workers stability and allow families to plan for the future.[1]
Protection from predators:Supports strengthening protections, enforcements, and awareness to keep predators away from children.[1][2]
Rising prices:Supports policies that control prices and lower costs for basic goods and services.[1][2]
School safety:Supports investing in stronger measures to ensure schools are safe places of growth.[1][2]
Strong unions:Supports strong unions as the backbone of worker power and collective voice.[1]
Student nutrition:Supports ensuring every student has access to healthy, reliable food.[1][2]
Worker Rights:Supports fair wages, strong labor unions, and greater job security for workers, arguing corporations currently hold too much power.[1]
Worker Rights and Labor:Supports fair wages, strong labor unions, and greater job security for workers, and opposes concentrated corporate power over employees.[1]
Worker rights:Supports protecting and expanding worker rights including fair wages, strong unions, and job security.[1][2]
Agriculture:Supports policies favorable to American farmers, referenced under a 'Farmers Feed America' initiative.[1]
Business Regulation:Opposes burdensome federal regulations on small businesses and supports reducing red tape to help Main Street and manufacturing thrive.[1][2]
Business Regulation & Jobs:Opposes burdensome federal regulations on small businesses and supports slashing red tape to help Main Street businesses and manufacturers thrive.[1][2]
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Programs:Opposes DEI programs and has worked to ban them.[1]
Gender Policy in Sports:Supports policies to keep transgender girls/women out of female sports and locker rooms.[1]
Government Spending:Advocates eliminating wasteful federal spending and reducing government size to lower costs for families.[1]
Immigration:Supports ending unlimited birthright citizenship, increased deportation of criminal illegal immigrants, and stronger border security.[1][2][3]
Manufacturing & Trade:Supports onshoring supply chains and domestic manufacturing, aiming to bring back outsourced manufacturing jobs to Alabama.[1][2]
Manufacturing/Trade:Supports onshoring supply chains and bringing manufacturing jobs back to the U.S., emphasizing a 'Made in America' agenda.[1][2]
Social Issues:Supports banning transgender girls from participating in girls' sports and opposes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.[1]
Taxation:Supports cutting taxes, including halving the state grocery tax, eliminating sales tax on diapers and baby supplies, and providing tax relief for seniors.[1][2][3]
Taxation & Cost of Living:Supports cutting taxes, including reducing the state grocery tax, eliminating sales tax on diapers/baby supplies, and tax relief for seniors, and pledges federal tax cuts to fight inflation.[1][2][3]
Veterans Affairs:Criticizes treatment of veterans by the current system and pledges to prioritize veterans' care and benefits.[1]
Abortion:Opposes elective abortion and supports legal protection of human life from conception until natural death.[1][2]
Border enforcement & immigration law:Supports protecting children from trafficking at the border and within the US with harshest punishments for perpetrators.[1]
Congressional term limits:Supports a constitutional amendment limiting congressional terms to three House terms and two Senate terms.[1]
Crime & policing:Supports harshest punishments for those involved in child trafficking and legislation to rescue victims from cartels or foster care.[1][2]
End Child Trafficking:Supports ending child trafficking at the border and within the US with harshest punishments for those involved.[1][2]
Federal Child Welfare Funding Reform:Supports legislation such as HR 5647 requiring states receiving Title IV-E funds to provide family advocates, aiming to reduce incentives for unnecessary child removals.[1]
Federal spending & debt:Opposes wasteful and fraudulent government spending and requires federal spending to align with the Constitution.[1][2]
Foster Care & Child Welfare System Reform:Supports reforming federal funding incentives (e.g., CAPTA, ASFA) that she says encourage removal of children from families, and backed HR 5647 requiring family advocates for states receiving Title IV funds.[1]
Free speech & tech censorship:Protects First Amendment freedoms including speech from government censorship.[1]
Government Accountability:Supports investigating and stopping wasteful, fraudulent, and unconstitutional federal spending and corruption.[1][2]
Gun policy:Supports Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.[1]
Health care:Supports the right to refuse or choose medical treatments and vaccines, including alternatives, with parental consent and no mandates.[1][2]
Immigration:Expresses concern about the societal costs of illegal immigration and links it to family tragedies, favoring stronger enforcement measures.[1]
Immigration and Public Safety:Highlights costs and harms of illegal immigration, including a case where an illegal immigrant was linked to a family tragedy, and links this to foster system problems.[1]
Medical Freedom:Supports the right to refuse or choose medical treatments and vaccines, including alternative treatments and parental decisions for children.[1][2]
Medical freedom:Supports the right to refuse or choose medical treatments and vaccines, including alternative treatments.[1][2]
Medical gender transition for minors:Opposes medical gender transition for minors, calling the Supreme Court Skrmetti decision common sense.[1]
Parental Rights & Family Protection:Supports strengthening parental rights and opposes government agencies removing children, disabled, or elderly family members without due cause, citing cases of 'medical kidnapping.'[1][2][3]
Parental rights:Supports parental rights legislation and parents' authority over medical and family decisions without government overreach.[1][2][3]
Parents' rights in education:Supports parental rights legislation and opposes government overreach that seizes children or undermines family authority.[1][2]
Abortion:States strong agreement that human life deserves legal protection from conception until natural death, including protection for embryos created through artificial methods.[1]
Abortion / Right to Life:Strongly agrees that human life deserves legal protection from conception until natural death, including protection for embryos created through artificial methods.[1]
Congressional Accountability & Constituent Engagement:Advocates for more active congressional engagement with constituents rather than concentrated power in a single long-serving representative.[1][2]
Congressional Accountability & Engagement:Argues Congress should be more active and engaged with constituents rather than deferring to single leaders, and pledges frequent visits to all district counties.[1][2][3]
Congressional Term Limits:Supports imposing term limits on members of Congress, citing this as a central pillar of his campaign.[1][2][3]
Economic Development:Calls for greater efforts to create high-paying jobs and reduce persistent poverty in Northwest Alabama.[1][2]
Economic Development & Jobs:Calls for greater economic development and creation of higher-paying jobs to address persistent poverty in Northwest Alabama.[1][2]
Federal Representation & Constituent Engagement:Advocates for more active, hands-on federal representation, pledging frequent visits to all counties in the district and closer engagement with constituents.[1][2][3]
Federal Spending / Fiscal Responsibility:Criticizes the incumbent for insufficient fiscal responsibility and calls for more prudent management of federal spending.[1][2]
Fiscal Responsibility:Criticizes the incumbent as not fiscally responsible and positions himself as a more fiscally prudent alternative.[1][2]
Infrastructure & Economic Development:Supports increased federal investment in infrastructure and economic development to address persistent poverty and lack of high-paying jobs in Alabama's 4th District.[1][2]
Infrastructure Investment:Advocates for increased federal investment in infrastructure across Alabama's 4th Congressional District.[1][2]
Border enforcement & immigration law:Opposes current immigration enforcement as illegal, unconstitutional and inhumane.[1]
Campaign Finance & Government Accountability:Pledges to refuse donations from corporate PACs and PACs tied to foreign governments, and commits to holding regular open town halls for constituents.[1][2]
Campaign Finance and Representation:Pledges to refuse donations from corporate PACs and foreign-government-linked PACs, and commits to holding open town hall meetings for constituent accountability.[1][2]
Campaign finance:Accepts no money from corporate PACs or PACs representing foreign governments.[1]
Constituent Engagement:Emphasizes face-to-face listening sessions with residents over closed-door meetings with major donors as a governing approach.[1]
Constituent representation:Commits to holding town hall meetings so everyone in the district can talk to him and hold him accountable.[1]
Economy & Taxation:Supports policies to raise wages and make life more affordable for working families, and calls for the wealthy to pay a fairer share of taxes.[1]
Economy and Taxation:Supports policies to make the economy work for working families, opposes tax policies that favor the ultra-wealthy over average earners.[1]
Education:Lists education as a campaign priority alongside middle-class economic needs.[1]
Health care:Supports healthcare for all Americans and criticizes policies creating healthcare deserts in the district.[1]
Healthcare:Supports expanding healthcare access to address rural healthcare deserts and opposes cuts to federal health care funding, including opposing budget provisions he says would cut $1 trillion from health care support.[1][2]
No corporate PAC funding:Will accept no money from corporate PACs or PACs representing foreign governments.[1]
Representation:Commits to holding town hall meetings so everyone in the district can hold him accountable.[1]
Taxes:Supports making the ultra-rich pay their fair share of taxes to level the field for working families.[1]
Veterans:States his campaign focuses on fighting for veterans' interests, drawing on his own military background.[1]
