[ { "id": "nga-tinubu-2027", "name": "Bola Ahmed Tinubu", "office": "President (seeking re-election, running mate Kashim Shettima)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "Nigeria", "countryCode": "NGA", "year": "2027", "level": "presidential", "party": { "name": "All Progressives Congress", "abbr": "APC" }, "purpose": "A second term to continue the Renewed Hope agenda, built on the economic reforms already under way and a stronger security footing.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign points to the subsidy removal and exchange-rate unification carried out since 2023 as the foundation to build on, with further commitments to non-oil revenue growth, improved tax compliance, and support for manufacturing and agro-processing.\n\n[Infrastructure] Infrastructure pledges include continued road rehabilitation and rail modernisation, port reforms, highway reconstruction, and expansion of power-sector investment, alongside gas infrastructure growth and rural electrification through solar mini-grids.\n\n[Security] On security, the agenda promises increased funding and equipment for the armed forces, better intelligence coordination, stronger border control, and community-based security frameworks. Social investment commitments cover education reform and student loan schemes, healthcare upgrades, vocational training, and entrepreneurship grants aimed at youth unemployment. Aides close to the campaign say political reforms are planned to follow once the economy and security situation stabilise.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "2027 election: President Tinubu outlines second-term agenda — Legit.ng", "url": "https://www.legit.ng/politics/1711047-2027-election-tinubu-speaks-what-ll-second-term-office/" }, { "title": "Renewed Hope Agenda 2027: Tinubu's Roadmap Toward Re-Election", "url": "https://www.felixomoko.ng/renewed-hope-agenda/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-22T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "nga-atiku-2027", "name": "Atiku Abubakar", "office": "President (running mate Amaechi Chibuike Rotimi)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "Nigeria", "countryCode": "NGA", "year": "2027", "level": "presidential", "party": { "name": "African Democratic Congress", "abbr": "ADC" }, "purpose": "A 12-point plan for his 2027 campaign focused on cost of living, trade infrastructure, and devolving power away from the centre.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the cost of living, he proposes restoring a targeted petroleum subsidy to ease transport and living costs, alongside a review of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund with possible debt forgiveness for students, and reformed electricity tariff classifications to end what he calls discriminatory billing.\n\n[Infrastructure] On infrastructure and trade, the plan calls for reviving the eastern ports at Port Harcourt, Calabar and Warri, developing a new deep-sea port at Uyo to ease pressure on Lagos, and reopening land borders for legitimate cross-border commerce.\n\n[Governance] On governance, Atiku pledges to implement the Supreme Court judgment on direct local government funding, devolve more power to states and localities by amending the Exclusive and Concurrent Legislative Lists, implement the long-shelved Oronsaye Report on restructuring government agencies, and reserve 40% of government appointments for youth and women.\n\n[Security] Further commitments include a $10 billion startup and entrepreneurship financing programme for young people and women, expanded security recruitment and improved welfare for personnel, and institutional healthcare reforms to address shortages of medical staff and improve access to basic care.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "2027: Atiku Releases 12 Points Plan for Nigeria — Politics Nigeria", "url": "https://politicsnigeria.com/2026/09/13/2027-atiku-releases-12-points-plan-for-nigeria/" }, { "title": "Full Text of Atiku's Speech After Emerging ADC Presidential Candidate for 2027 Election — Legit.ng", "url": "https://www.legit.ng/politics/1711961-full-text-atikus-speech-emerging-adc-presidential-candidate-2027-election/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-22T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "nga-obi-2027", "name": "Peter Gregory Obi", "office": "President (running mate Rabiu Kwankwaso)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "Nigeria", "countryCode": "NGA", "year": "2027", "level": "presidential", "party": { "name": "Nigeria Democratic Congress", "abbr": "NDC" }, "purpose": "A four-year, single-term reform agenda built around hands-on governance, redirected subsidy savings, and visible presence in affected regions.", "manifesto": "[Infrastructure] On infrastructure, his position is direct: existing roads and facilities should be fixed before new ones are built. On the fuel subsidy, he proposes redirecting the roughly ₦16 trillion in disclosed savings from its removal into agriculture, small businesses and job creation, while working to remove corruption from the subsidy system rather than reinstating it.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] For northern Nigeria specifically, the agenda includes transforming the use of arable land and supporting young people — including almajiri children — with skills training and employment in farming.\n\n[Security] On security, Obi says he would appoint competent security chiefs immediately, visit affected regions in person rather than direct operations from Abuja, and reject paying ransoms to kidnappers and insurgents.\n\n[Governance] He has also proposed deploying real-time electronic transmission of election results from polling units to a central collation centre as an electoral reform, without creating a parallel electoral body. On spending, the agenda calls for cutting excessive government expenditure and redirecting resources toward healthcare, education and reviving domestic manufacturing, alongside a pledge to spend vacations in Nigeria and remain visible in communities across the country.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "2027: Obi unveils four-year reform agenda — Vanguard News", "url": "https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/09/2027-obi-unveils-four-year-reform-agenda/" }, { "title": "Obi launches bold 2027 campaign agenda, targets national renewal — The Guardian Nigeria", "url": "https://guardian.ng/news/obi-launches-bold-2027-campaign-agenda-targets-national-renewal/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-22T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "nga-makinde-2027", "name": "Oluseyi Abiodun Makinde", "office": "President (running mate Musa Lawal Daura)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "Nigeria", "countryCode": "NGA", "year": "2027", "level": "presidential", "party": { "name": "Allied Peoples Movement", "abbr": "APM" }, "purpose": "A 'Reset Agenda' centred on insecurity, economic hardship and food security, with the full policy document still to come.", "manifesto": "[Governance] Makinde has framed his campaign around accountability, urging Nigerians to judge every candidate, including himself, on their actual record rather than campaign rhetoric. He has committed to engaging directly with workers, business owners, farmers, youth and families across all six geopolitical zones before finalising his platform.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Makinde Unveils 'Reset Agenda' As Fulcrum Of 2027 Presidential Campaign — Leadership", "url": "https://leadership.ng/makinde-unveils-reset-agenda-as-fulcrum-of-2027-presidential-campaign/" }, { "title": "2027: Makinde challenges Nigerians to judge presidential candidates by records, not rhetoric — Vanguard News", "url": "https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/08/2027-makinde-challenges-nigerians-to-judge-presidential-candidates-by-records-not-rhetoric/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-22T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-peltola-2026", "name": "Mary Peltola", "office": "U.S. Senator", "region": "Alaska", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Mary Peltola, the former U.S. Representative for Alaska, is challenging Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan for the Senate seat on a platform of affordability, fisheries protection, and congressional ethics reform.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, Peltola's campaign says \"Alaskans are being crushed by skyrocketing costs,\" and proposes a federal income-tax cut for residents earning under roughly $92,000 a year, financed by higher taxes on top earners, alongside a ban on price gouging and restrictions on out-of-state corporate purchases of Alaska housing.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] On fisheries, she blames out-of-state factory trawlers for depleting stocks and squeezing subsistence and commercial fishing communities, framing the fight as defending \"our Alaska way of life,\" and calls for a ban on factory bottom-trawling, fully funded stock assessments, and guaranteed tribal seats on fishery management councils.\n\n[Infrastructure] On energy, she supports refining more Alaska oil in-state to lower fuel costs and create local jobs, paired with federal permitting reform and restored tax credits for wind, solar, and hydropower projects.\n\n[Governance] She backs a 12-year congressional term limit, a ban on members trading stocks, mandatory blind trusts, and a constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United, arguing federal officials \"should be held to the highest ethical standards.\"", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Affordability — Mary Peltola for Alaska", "url": "https://marypeltola.com/affordability/" }, { "title": "Fish — Mary Peltola for Alaska", "url": "https://marypeltola.com/fish/" }, { "title": "Energy — Mary Peltola for Alaska", "url": "https://marypeltola.com/energy/" }, { "title": "Fixing the Rigged System — Mary Peltola for Alaska", "url": "https://marypeltola.com/fixing-system/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-hinson-2026", "name": "Ashley Hinson", "office": "U.S. Senator", "region": "Iowa", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Ashley Hinson, a sitting U.S. Representative, is running for Iowa's open Senate seat as a Trump-aligned conservative focused on cutting costs, farm policy, and border enforcement.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, her campaign frames the core message as \"it is YOUR money, not the government's money,\" with proposals for tax-free first-time-homebuyer savings, blocking institutional investors from buying single-family homes, and expanded childcare tax relief.\n\n[Health] On healthcare, she calls for pharmacy benefit manager transparency to lower drug prices, expanded over-the-counter birth control access, and more support for rural hospitals and maternal care.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] She opposes regulations she describes as burdensome to family farmers, naming California's Proposition 12 specifically, while backing expanded agricultural export markets, a new Farm Bill, and year-round E15 biofuel sales.\n\n[Security] Her platform calls for stronger border enforcement, deportation of immigrants with criminal records, and a crackdown on fentanyl trafficking, paired with general support for law enforcement.\n\n[Education] She emphasizes parental rights and school transparency, and opposes school policies that would let a student change their gender identity at school without parental notice.\n\n[Governance] She calls for banning members of Congress from trading stocks or betting on prediction markets, tighter lobbying rules, and relocating some federal agencies out of Washington, D.C.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Issues — Ashley Hinson for Iowa", "url": "https://ashleyhinson.com/issues" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-turek-2026", "name": "Josh Turek", "office": "U.S. Senator", "region": "Iowa", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Josh Turek, a state legislator and two-time Paralympic gold medalist, is running for Iowa's open Senate seat on healthcare, farm-policy, and cost-of-living issues.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, his platform backs middle-class tax cuts financed by closing loopholes for corporations and the wealthy, a federal ban on food price-gouging, an inflation-indexed minimum wage increase, and blocking private equity firms from buying up single-family homes and farmland.\n\n[Health] He frames healthcare as \"a human right,\" with commitments to restore Medicaid funding cut for roughly 110,000 Iowans, protect ACA coverage for about 118,000 subscribers in the state, cap insulin costs, and add a public healthcare option.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] He backs a stable multi-year Farm Bill, federal right-to-repair rules for farm equipment, mandatory country-of-origin labeling on meat, and antitrust action against agricultural consolidation, while opposing tariff policy he says has hurt commodity exports.\n\n[Security] Separately from his immigration stance, he commits to expanded PACT Act coverage and homelessness and mental-health services for veterans.\n\n[Immigration] He supports pairing border-security funding with an earned pathway to citizenship, while opposing what he calls ICE abuses, and wants enforcement focused on stopping fentanyl trafficking.\n\n[Education] He calls for ending Iowa's school-voucher program, increasing public school funding, and protecting the state's Area Education Agencies, which provide services to students with disabilities.\n\n[Governance] He proposes refusing corporate PAC money, banning congressional stock trading, holding annual town halls, and imposing term limits on members of Congress and Supreme Court justices.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Platform — Josh Turek for Iowa", "url": "https://turek4iowa.com/platform" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-collins-2026", "name": "Susan Collins", "office": "U.S. Senator (seeking re-election)", "region": "Maine", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Susan Collins, the five-term incumbent, is seeking re-election in Maine on a record built around Senate appropriations wins, healthcare research funding, and infrastructure investment.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Her campaign credits her as an author of the Paycheck Protection Program, which she says protected more than 250,000 Maine jobs during the pandemic, and cites her authorship of the Social Security Fairness Act, which restored full benefits and back pay to roughly 25,000 Mainers previously affected by a public-pension benefit offset.\n\n[Health] On healthcare, she highlights making Medicare telehealth flexibilities permanent, co-chairing the congressional Alzheimer's task force, founding the Senate Diabetes Caucus, and securing a large increase in federal diabetes and Alzheimer's research funding.\n\n[Infrastructure] She points to close to $1.5 billion in directed federal spending across all 16 Maine counties over the current term, covering projects like fire stations, roads, bridges, and water systems.\n\n[Education] She cites investment in Maine's community colleges, nursing programs, and career and technical education pipelines.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Track Record — Susan Collins for Maine", "url": "https://susancollins.com/track-record/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-jackson-me-2026", "name": "Troy Jackson", "office": "U.S. Senator", "region": "Maine", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Troy Jackson, a former Maine Senate president and logger from Allagash, is challenging Susan Collins on Medicare for All, taxing the wealthy, and campaign finance reform.", "manifesto": "[Health] On healthcare, Jackson's priorities page backs a single-payer \"Medicare for All\" system and lower prescription drug costs as top legislative goals, and separately supports codifying a federal right to abortion.\n\n[Economy] On the economy, he calls for taxing billionaires and corporations to fund tax cuts for working-class families.\n\n[Immigration] He calls for dismantling and abolishing ICE outright, a notably harder line than most Democratic Senate nominees this cycle.\n\n[Governance] He backs banning members of Congress from trading stocks, overturning Citizens United, and eliminating dark money from campaign finance.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Priorities — Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate", "url": "https://www.jacksonformaine.com/priorities" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-rogers-2026", "name": "Mike Rogers", "office": "U.S. Senator", "region": "Michigan", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Mike Rogers, a former U.S. Representative and FBI agent making a second Senate bid, is running for Michigan's open seat on lower costs, housing access, and healthcare price transparency.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, Rogers frames his pitch around \"bringing manufacturing jobs back home\" and lowering gas, grocery, and prescription-drug costs, with a housing plan built around expanding tax-free 529 accounts to cover first-time down payments, letting on-time renters build mortgage-qualifying credit, and tax incentives for new home construction.\n\n[Health] His healthcare plan calls for requiring hospitals and insurers to publicly post prices — \"you deserve to know the price before you get the bill\" — expanding a bulk drug-purchasing program he calls Trump Rx, and requiring insurers to publicly report claim-denial rates with penalties for excessive denials.\n\n[Education] His site briefly states a priority of \"prioritizing education not indoctrination,\" without elaborating further.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Mike Rogers for Senate", "url": "https://rogersforsenate.com/" }, { "title": "Housing Plan — Mike Rogers for Senate", "url": "https://rogersforsenate.com/housingplan" }, { "title": "Healthcare Plan — Mike Rogers for Senate", "url": "https://rogersforsenate.com/healthplan" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-el-sayed-2026", "name": "Abdul El-Sayed", "office": "U.S. Senator", "region": "Michigan", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Abdul El-Sayed, a physician and former Michigan health department director, is running for the state's open Senate seat on Medicare for All, wealth taxation, and campaign finance reform.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, his Money in Your Pocket platform calls for targeted tariffs aimed specifically at protecting Michigan manufacturing, a bigger role for unions in economic decision-making, stronger antitrust enforcement, and a wealth-tax package that includes taxing capital gains over $1 million as ordinary income, in pursuit of what he calls \"an economy that works for everyone.\"\n\n[Health] His \"Medicare for All\" platform is built around universal coverage, breaking up large healthcare-industry consolidation, negotiating down prescription drug prices, and expanding reproductive and veterans' healthcare access.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] He proposes redirecting farm subsidies away from large agribusiness toward family farms, capping individual farm subsidy payments at $250,000 a year, trade protections specifically for Michigan specialty crops, and a federal right-to-repair law for farm equipment.\n\n[Immigration] He calls for abolishing ICE entirely rather than reforming it, redirecting its funding toward immigration courts, and creating a pathway to citizenship for people currently in immigration limbo.\n\n[Security] On foreign policy, he opposes military action against Iran in favor of a negotiated nuclear deal, opposes \"blank-check\" military aid to foreign governments, and calls for an arms embargo tied to the war in Gaza.\n\n[Education] He calls for tying future education-funding increases to defense-budget increases, universal pre-K and childcare, a $60,000 minimum teacher salary, and debt-free college pathways.\n\n[Governance] His \"Money Out of Politics\" platform calls for banning corporate money in elections, ending gerrymandering, Supreme Court reform, abolishing the legislative filibuster, and expanding voting access.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Priorities — Abdul El-Sayed for Michigan", "url": "https://abdulforsenate.com/priorities/" }, { "title": "Money in Your Pocket — Abdul El-Sayed for Michigan", "url": "https://abdulforsenate.com/priority/money-in-your-pocket/" }, { "title": "Medicare for All: The Path to a Healthier America — Abdul El-Sayed for Michigan", "url": "https://abdulforsenate.com/priority/medicare-for-all-the-path-to-a-healthier-america/" }, { "title": "Money Out of Politics — Abdul El-Sayed for Michigan", "url": "https://abdulforsenate.com/priority/money-out-of-politics/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-brown-2026", "name": "Sherrod Brown", "office": "U.S. Senator", "region": "Ohio", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Sherrod Brown, a former U.S. senator, is seeking to return to the seat in a special election, campaigning on worker protections, lower drug prices, and Social Security.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, Brown's homepage emphasizes worker protections, fair-trade policy, and Wall Street accountability, continuing the pocketbook-populist framing of his prior Senate tenure.\n\n[Health] He highlights past fights to cap insulin costs and lower prescription drug prices, and separately raises expanded healthcare coverage for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits.\n\n[Governance] He also references past work restoring Social Security benefits for public-sector retirees.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Sherrod Brown — Fighting for Ohioans", "url": "https://www.sherrodbrown.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-paxton-2026", "name": "Ken Paxton", "office": "U.S. Senator", "region": "Texas", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Ken Paxton, the sitting Texas Attorney General, is running for the state's open Senate seat after defeating incumbent John Cornyn in the GOP runoff, campaigning on the Trump agenda, border enforcement, and drug and food industry accountability.", "manifesto": "[Governance] On government reform, Paxton's campaign frames his candidacy around advancing the Trump administration's agenda in the Senate, including cutting spending against a cited $36 trillion national debt and \"draining the Swamp.\"\n\n[Health] He frames pharmaceutical and food-industry accountability as a \"Make America Healthy Again\" priority, calling for more transparency from both industries.\n\n[Immigration] He calls for completing the border wall and assisting with mass deportation efforts, citing his record of more than 100 lawsuits against the prior administration's immigration policies as Attorney General.\n\n[Security] He backs an \"America First\" foreign policy built around prioritizing U.S. interests over foreign aid commitments, alongside strong Second Amendment protections domestically.\n\n[Economy] He calls for further tax cuts, reduced federal spending, rolling back energy-sector regulation, and reshoring manufacturing.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Issues — Ken Paxton for U.S. Senate", "url": "https://www.kenpaxton.com/issues" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-talarico-2026", "name": "James Talarico", "office": "U.S. Senator", "region": "Texas", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "James Talarico, a state representative and former middle-school teacher, is running for Texas's open Senate seat on healthcare access, public education funding, and rural investment.", "manifesto": "[Governance] On government reform, Talarico's campaign is framed around fighting \"billionaire mega-donors\" and restoring public trust.\n\n[Economy] On taxes and cost of living, he calls for higher tax rates on billionaires and large corporations, closing the carried-interest loophole, raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, and taxing companies with extreme CEO-to-worker pay gaps.\n\n[Health] He calls for expanding Medicare access to all ages, capping insulin costs, protecting the ACA, and codifying Roe-era abortion protections, framing healthcare as \"a human right.\"\n\n[Education] He opposes private-school voucher programs — saying he has \"gone toe-to-toe with billionaires\" funding them — and points to state-level work capping Pre-K class sizes, with a Senate agenda built around teacher recruitment and universal Pre-K.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] His \"Rural Investment\" platform calls for eliminating tariffs on farm equipment and fertilizer, repealing a beef-import buyout policy he says hurt Texas ranchers, and strengthening rural hospital financing.\n\n[Immigration] He calls for modernized port-of-entry screening technology, focusing enforcement on serious criminals rather than broad sweeps, and creating a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers, long-term residents, and spouses of citizens.\n\n[Infrastructure] Tied to his rural-investment agenda, he calls for meeting the full $3.3 billion federal broadband commitment to rural Texas and expanding low-interest loans for water-system upgrades.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Issues — Talarico for Texas", "url": "https://jamestalarico.com/issues" }, { "title": "Taxes & Cost of Living — Talarico for Texas", "url": "https://jamestalarico.com/issues/taxes-cost-of-living" }, { "title": "Health Care — Talarico for Texas", "url": "https://jamestalarico.com/issues/health-care" }, { "title": "Public Education — Talarico for Texas", "url": "https://jamestalarico.com/issues/public-education" }, { "title": "Rural Investment — Talarico for Texas", "url": "https://jamestalarico.com/issues/rural-investment" }, { "title": "Immigration & Border Security — Talarico for Texas", "url": "https://jamestalarico.com/issues/immigration-border-security" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-marshall-2026", "name": "Roger Marshall", "office": "U.S. Senator (seeking re-election)", "region": "Kansas", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Roger Marshall, the incumbent, is seeking re-election in Kansas on his record on farm policy, rural healthcare, and border security.", "manifesto": "[Agriculture/Food] On agriculture, Marshall's record page cites his sponsorship of the Lowering Input Costs for American Farmers Act, the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, and the DIRECT Act allowing state-inspected beef into interstate commerce, alongside work on Ogallala Aquifer water-conservation funding for irrigation-dependent farms in western Kansas.\n\n[Health] On healthcare, he points to work protecting Kansas's rural \"critical access\" hospitals, a bill capping insurance prior-authorization decisions at 72 hours, and legislation making COVID-era telehealth flexibilities permanent.\n\n[Immigration] He cites cosponsoring the Laken Riley Act and the Build the Wall Act as evidence of a border-security record, alongside multiple site visits with Kansas law enforcement.\n\n[Infrastructure] He backs an \"all of the above\" energy policy covering oil, gas, wind, and ethanol, year-round E15 fuel sales, and points to Fort Riley infrastructure funding and a Boeing investment in Wichita tied to defense manufacturing.\n\n[Economy] He frames his cost-of-living record around supporting a permanent extension of the 2017 tax cuts.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "The Record — Kansans for Marshall", "url": "https://kansansformarshall.com/record" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-hamilton-2026", "name": "Adam Hamilton", "office": "U.S. Senator", "region": "Kansas", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Adam Hamilton, a United Methodist pastor, is challenging incumbent Roger Marshall in Kansas on affordability, healthcare access, and congressional ethics reform.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On affordability, Hamilton calls for ending current tariffs, banning algorithmic pricing tools he says drive up grocery and rent costs, blocking large investors from bulk-buying single-family homes, and banning \"junk fees\" across travel, ticketing, and telecom industries.\n\n[Health] He calls for expanding Medicare's drug-price negotiation power to cover private insurance plans too, adding dental and vision coverage to Medicare, reversing recent Medicaid cuts, and capping interest on medical debt.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] He proposes eliminating tariffs affecting farm equipment and crop exports, doubling USDA export-promotion funding, funding a faster response to livestock disease outbreaks, and passing a full five-year Farm Bill.\n\n[Governance] He calls for banning members of Congress and their households from trading individual stocks or cryptocurrency, an 18-year term-limit amendment for Congress and the Supreme Court, and ending dark money in campaigns, framed around \"restoring decency and humanity in government.\"", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Issues — Hamilton for Kansas", "url": "https://hamiltonforkansas.com/issues" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-cooper-2026", "name": "Roy Cooper", "office": "U.S. Senator", "region": "North Carolina", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Roy Cooper, North Carolina's former two-term governor, is running for the state's open Senate seat on a single branded affordability message covering groceries, healthcare, and energy bills.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On groceries and everyday costs, his campaign blames both tariffs and corporate price-gouging for rising food prices, saying \"the middle class feels like a distant dream,\" and calls generally for making groceries cost less.\n\n[Health] On healthcare, he calls for controlling insurance premiums and ending surprise medical bills, pointing to his record expanding Medicaid as governor through a bipartisan deal with the state legislature.\n\n[Infrastructure] On energy, he cites a 22% rise in North Carolina electricity bills since 2020 and calls for holding utilities, naming Duke Energy specifically, accountable for costs passed on to ratepayers.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Roy Cooper for North Carolina", "url": "https://roycooper.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-whatley-2026", "name": "Michael Whatley", "office": "U.S. Senator", "region": "North Carolina", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Michael Whatley, the former Republican National Committee chairman and Trump's endorsed candidate, is running for North Carolina's open Senate seat on public safety, border enforcement, and energy production.", "manifesto": "[Security] On public safety, Whatley's issues page criticizes Cooper's record on bail reform and prison-release policy, framing his own approach as backing law enforcement and \"law and order.\"\n\n[Immigration] He describes himself as \"100% supportive\" of border security and deporting immigrants with criminal records, criticizing Cooper for having vetoed legislation that would have required local cooperation with ICE.\n\n[Economy] He frames his economic message as an \"America First Economy\" built around expanded domestic energy production and energy independence.\n\n[Infrastructure] He cites service on a federal FEMA Review Council and claims credit for securing greater Hurricane Helene disaster-recovery funding for North Carolina than in any prior state recovery effort.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Issues — Michael Whatley for Senate", "url": "https://michaelwhatley.com/issues/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-pappas-2026", "name": "Chris Pappas", "office": "U.S. Senator", "region": "New Hampshire", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Chris Pappas, a sitting U.S. Representative, is running for New Hampshire's open Senate seat on affordability, healthcare costs, and a balanced approach to immigration.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On affordability, Pappas says \"Granite Staters are working harder than ever just to make ends meet,\" and calls for cutting regulatory barriers to home construction, tax incentives for first-time buyers, opposing current tariffs, and restoring the expanded Child Tax Credit.\n\n[Health] On healthcare, he points to expanding Medicaid while on the New Hampshire Executive Council, restoring ACA premium tax credits, and legislation capping insulin costs at $35 a month.\n\n[Immigration] He frames his position as balancing enforcement and integration: more border technology and agents, support for a pathway to citizenship, and opposition to what he calls ICE \"overreach,\" including blocking a proposed ICE detention facility in Merrimack, NH.\n\n[Education] He calls for expanded Pell Grants and community-college affordability, loan forgiveness for people entering high-demand fields like nursing, and says he helped restore $27 million in federal education funding withheld from New Hampshire.\n\n[Governance] He highlights forcing a floor vote on banning stock trading by members of Congress as part of a broader anti-corruption message.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Priorities — Chris Pappas for Senate", "url": "https://chrispappas.org/priorities" }, { "title": "Affordability and the Economy — Chris Pappas for Senate", "url": "https://chrispappas.org/priorities/affordability-and-the-economy" }, { "title": "Immigration — Chris Pappas for Senate", "url": "https://chrispappas.org/priorities/immigration" }, { "title": "Education — Chris Pappas for Senate", "url": "https://chrispappas.org/priorities/education" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-flanagan-2026", "name": "Peggy Flanagan", "office": "U.S. Senator", "region": "Minnesota", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Peggy Flanagan, Minnesota's sitting Lieutenant Governor, is running for the state's open Senate seat on a broad progressive platform covering healthcare, immigration, and education.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, Flanagan backs a $17 federal minimum wage indexed to inflation, national paid family and medical leave, universal childcare, and expanding the Social Security payroll tax cap so higher earners pay proportionally more.\n\n[Health] She backs a transition toward Medicare for All, opposes insurance prior-authorization denials, opposes Medicaid cuts, and calls for Medicare to negotiate the price of all prescription drugs rather than a limited list.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] She commits to reversing tariff damage to export markets, passing a full five-year Farm Bill, supporting farmers' right to repair their own equipment, and biofuels development including sustainable aviation fuel.\n\n[Immigration] She takes a critical line on current enforcement, saying \"ICE is out of control,\" while also backing a pathway to legal status for undocumented residents of two decades or more.\n\n[Education] She calls for reversing cuts to Head Start, publicly funded universal Pre-K, full federal funding of special-education law, and loan forgiveness for people entering teaching or healthcare.\n\n[Infrastructure] On housing, she backs federal legislation to spur new construction, a ban on large corporate landlords and hedge funds buying single-family homes, and federal funding to remove lead pipes.\n\n[Security] On public safety, she calls for banning assault weapons, high-capacity magazines, and untraceable \"ghost guns,\" alongside continued police funding paired with re-entry and recidivism-reduction programs.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Priorities — Peggy Flanagan for Minnesota", "url": "https://peggyflanagan.com/priorities/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-tafoya-2026", "name": "Michele Tafoya", "office": "U.S. Senator", "region": "Minnesota", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Michele Tafoya, a longtime NFL sideline broadcaster, is running for Minnesota's open Senate seat on immigration enforcement, law and order, and middle-class tax relief.", "manifesto": "[Immigration] Under a platform section she calls \"Stop the Fraud,\" Tafoya calls for mandatory deportation of immigrants convicted of fraud, minimum sentences for fraud offenses, and withholding federal funding from states with weak anti-fraud enforcement.\n\n[Security] Her Law and Order platform section calls for more law-enforcement funding, opposes efforts to defund police, and criticizes the current system as \"a turnstile\" that enables repeat crime.\n\n[Economy] She opposes further middle-class tax increases, wants to preserve the 2017 \"Working Family Tax Cuts,\" and frames deficit reduction as a spending problem rather than a revenue one.\n\n[Health] She calls for reducing the role of \"middlemen\" in healthcare pricing, lowering prescription drug costs, and giving patients more direct decision-making authority.\n\n[Education] Under a section she calls \"Bring Back Courage and Common Sense,\" she calls for restoring parental involvement in schools and more transparency and accountability for test-score declines.\n\n[Governance] She frames a Senate role as using oversight power to combat government corruption, alongside direct constituent casework.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Issues — Michele Tafoya for U.S. Senate", "url": "https://micheletafoya.com/issues/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-sununu-2026", "name": "John Sununu", "office": "U.S. Senator", "region": "New Hampshire", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "John Sununu, a former New Hampshire senator making a political comeback, is running for the state's open Senate seat on tax relief and government-waste reduction, though his site offers little detailed policy beyond general themes.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On taxes, his About page notes he opposes middle-class tax increases and previously authored the federal ban on internet-access taxes, with a general goal of lowering housing, healthcare, and energy costs to fight inflation.\n\n[Governance] He points to past work on government-waste reduction and surveillance-law reform, arguing \"the people of New Hampshire make better decisions than any Washington bureaucrat ever could.\"\n\n[Health] He briefly cites past bipartisan mental-health reform work, without further detail.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "About — John Sununu for U.S. Senate", "url": "https://www.sununusenator.com/about" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-sullivan-2026", "name": "Dan Sullivan", "office": "U.S. Senator (seeking re-election)", "region": "Alaska", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Dan Sullivan, the incumbent, is seeking re-election against Mary Peltola on his fisheries and appropriations record; this entry is compiled from public news reporting, not the candidate's own site, which could not be accessed.", "manifesto": "[Agriculture/Food] On fisheries, Sullivan's reelection pitch leans on his record over three terms, crediting himself with the first numerical caps on chum salmon bycatch and what his campaign calls \"the most comprehensive trawl bycatch reduction bill,\" along with support for a Russian seafood import ban.\n\n[Economy] He has stood behind the administration's tariff policy generally, framing China's fishing practices as the larger economic threat to Alaska's industry, despite pushback from some in-state industry voices concerned about tariff-driven cost increases.\n\n[Governance] His campaign points to federal funding wins for fisheries science, including money for stock-survey vessels, while also having voiced support for federal spending cuts that his opponent says undercut NOAA's survey capacity.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Pitched battle for Alaska's Senate seat is enveloped in a fight over fish — Alaska Beacon", "url": "https://alaskabeacon.com/2026/09/21/pitched-battle-for-alaskas-senate-seat-is-enveloped-in-a-fight-over-fish/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-kreiss-tomkins-2026", "name": "Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins", "office": "Governor", "region": "Alaska", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "state", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins is running as the leading Democratic-aligned candidate in Alaska's multi-candidate, ranked-choice race to succeed term-limited Gov. Mike Dunleavy.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign centers on energy costs and the state's fiscal balance sheet, calling for all Alaska energy sources — renewables, hydro, and natural gas — to be developed together, for Railbelt utilities to coordinate to bring down electricity prices, and for a long-sought Alaska gas pipeline to be pursued with industry partners. It also commits to protecting the Permanent Fund from being drawn down further and to making sure oil and gas producers, specifically Hilcorp, pay corporate income tax comparable to what ConocoPhillips pays.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign says it would protect Medicaid expansion, work with tribal health organizations to draw down federal health dollars, expand telehealth and the scope of practice for nurse practitioners and physician assistants, grow in-home care for seniors and people with disabilities, and crack down on excessive prescription drug markups.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] Framed around Alaska's fisheries rather than row-crop agriculture, the platform calls for reducing bottom-trawl bycatch, keeping commercial fishing permits in the hands of Alaskans, fully funding the Commercial Fishing Revolving Loan Fund and CFAB for new and young fishermen, restoring crashed Chinook salmon runs on the Yukon and Kuskokwim, and investing in port and harbor infrastructure.\n\n[Security] The campaign pledges more funding for shelters and victim services to address domestic violence and sexual assault, expansion of sexual-assault response teams statewide, dedicated investigative resources for missing and murdered Indigenous people, and full funding for police, fire, and the Village Public Safety Officer program. It also proposes AI-specific measures — a moratorium on new data centers pending legislation, mandatory disclosure of AI-generated political ads, and holding AI companies liable in Alaska courts for harms their products cause.\n\n[Education] The campaign says it would fully fund Alaska's schools, pursue a constitutional amendment for forward-funded education to end annual budget uncertainty, keep funding for sports and electives intact, ban cell phones in classrooms, raise teacher pay, and reinstate a defined-benefit retirement plan to stop teachers leaving the state.\n\n[Infrastructure] On infrastructure, the platform favors essential maintenance of roads, airports, bridges, and ports over \"wasteful megaprojects,\" and calls for rebuilding the Alaska Marine Highway ferry fleet through general-obligation bonds under a new, non-political governing board. On housing specifically, it proposes cutting permitting red tape, opening state land for development, easing rules on manufactured and modular homes, and taxing vacant homes owned by nonresidents.\n\n[Governance] The campaign commits to reinstating campaign contribution limits, stripping state corporations of the power to make corporate political donations, appointing qualified rather than politically-connected people to state boards, banning foreign-funded junkets for officials, and protecting reproductive rights, LGBTQ Alaskans, and Alaska Natives from discrimination.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "JKT for Governor — Platform", "url": "https://www.jktforak.com/platform" }, { "title": "JKT for Governor — Official campaign site", "url": "https://www.jktforak.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-bottoms-2026", "name": "Keisha Lance Bottoms", "office": "Governor", "region": "Georgia", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "state", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Keisha Lance Bottoms, former Atlanta mayor, is running as the Democratic candidate to succeed term-limited Gov. Brian Kemp in Georgia's open governor's race.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign proposes restructuring Georgia's Department of Economic Development around small businesses specifically, creating a new Office of Small Business led by a deputy commissioner focused on firms with 0–25 employees, expanding state small-business loan and grant programs, and letting cities and counties suspend local sales tax on groceries and essentials when prices spike. It also proposes a Georgia Housing Fast Track initiative to speed up permitting, expanded down-payment and rental assistance, and an affordable-housing trust fund for workforce housing.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign says it would expand Medicaid and end the state's Pathways program, launch a \"Rural Care First\" initiative to shore up rural hospitals' EMS, mobile health, telehealth, and labor-and-delivery services, create a Georgia Rx Savings Board to tackle drug pricing, and invest more in maternal health and mental-health crisis response, while describing reproductive freedom as something it would protect.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] The platform commits to helping families keep and grow their land, expanding sustainable agriculture and forestry training, encouraging farmer cooperatives to pool resources, making federal farm programs work better for underserved producers, and supporting farmers hurt by tariffs and trade disputes.\n\n[Security] On public safety, the campaign proposes more state support for local police and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, expanded forensic and investigative capacity, targeted violence-reduction programs, universal background checks and a red-flag law, more diversion and treatment options for nonviolent offenses, and a stronger \"Prison to Work\" reentry program.\n\n[Education] On education, the campaign says it would fully fund Georgia's schools and modernize the funding formula, prioritize literacy and early learning, add financial-literacy coursework, provide universal childcare, eliminate the state income tax for teachers, and create a path to free technical and community college.\n\n[Infrastructure] The platform includes investment in flood mitigation and brownfield redevelopment, stronger water infrastructure, and — notably — a call to slow the current pace of data-center expansion given its strain on utility costs and water supply.\n\n[Governance] On governance and democracy, the campaign commits to restoring abortion rights, opposing further voting restrictions, protecting local election officials from political interference, reining in the State Election Board, expanding early and absentee voting, and making Election Day a state holiday. It also proposes a dedicated Governor's Office of Military and Veterans Affairs, a 24/7 veterans support hotline, and expanded license recognition for military spouses.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Keisha for Governor — Issues", "url": "https://www.keishaforgovernor.com/issues" }, { "title": "Keisha for Governor — Official campaign site", "url": "https://www.keishaforgovernor.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-jackson-ga-2026", "name": "Rick Jackson", "office": "Governor", "region": "Georgia", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "state", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Rick Jackson is running as the Republican candidate to succeed term-limited Gov. Brian Kemp in Georgia's open governor's race.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign calls for an immediate property-tax freeze, cutting the state income tax by half over four years, freezing tuition and room-and-board at public colleges and technical schools, using technology and AI to cut wasteful state spending, and a \"Legacy Corridor Initiative\" targeting six historic commercial districts for entrepreneurship and capital investment. It also proposes tying public assistance to work or job training for able-bodied recipients.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign proposes modernizing health-system technology, cutting out cost-driving middlemen, expanding rural health-care availability, negotiating lower pharmaceutical prices, and positioning Georgia as a national model for health-care delivery.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] The platform commits to more affordable capital access for farm operations and helping farmers get better pricing on materials and equipment, plus broader job creation aimed at getting Georgia agricultural products into new markets.\n\n[Security] On public safety, the campaign says it would better resource and train law enforcement, end what it calls \"revolving-door\" justice policies, and launch school-based programs promoting respect for police, while also addressing the criminal-justice system's mental-health dimension. It separately proposes strengthening protections against ideological content in schools, barring transgender girls from girls' sports and facilities, and accelerating foster-care permanency and support.\n\n[Immigration] The platform states a goal of making Georgia the top state for deporting people in the country illegally who have committed crimes, and pledges unambiguous enforcement of immigration law.\n\n[Education] On education, the campaign calls for higher educator pay, making Georgia a national leader in childhood literacy, expanding career pathways for all students, and matching a federal $1,000-per-child education savings account program, with extra support targeted at children in poverty.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the platform proposes term limits for elected officials, comprehensive audits of state programs with the power to shut down ones judged ineffective, what it calls the strongest ethics laws in the country, a ban on DEI programs in state government, universities, and schools, and a ban on taxpayer funding of political activism.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Rick Jackson for Governor — Action Plan", "url": "https://rickjackson.com/action-plan/" }, { "title": "Rick Jackson for Governor — Official campaign site", "url": "https://rickjackson.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-ford-2026", "name": "Aaron Ford", "office": "Governor", "region": "Nevada", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "state", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Aaron Ford, Nevada's attorney general, is running as the Democratic challenger seeking to unseat incumbent Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign frames Nevada's high unemployment and slower tourism recovery as the central problem it would fix, and on housing specifically pledges to push back on tariffs it says are driving up construction costs, crack down on institutional investors pricing families out of neighborhoods, and ease municipal permitting to encourage building on vacant land.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign says it would crack down on pharmacy benefit managers that keep drug-discount savings rather than passing them to patients, stand up a medical-debt relief program, and pursue price gouging and fraudulent medical billing.\n\n[Education] As a former teacher, Ford commits to fighting federal cuts to education funding and says he would sue to protect the roughly $1 billion Nevada receives annually in federal education money.\n\n[Infrastructure] On energy, the platform opposes new \"demand charges\" that raise household costs, prioritizes clean and affordable power with a stronger in-state energy workforce, and would require data centers to bring their own clean energy, grid infrastructure, and water rather than drawing on ratepayer-funded capacity — including holding back tax breaks until data centers show a real commitment to the state.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Ford for Nevada — Issues", "url": "https://www.fordfornevada.com/issues" }, { "title": "Ford for Nevada — Official campaign site", "url": "https://www.fordfornevada.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-lombardo-2026", "name": "Joe Lombardo", "office": "Governor (seeking re-election)", "region": "Nevada", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "state", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Joe Lombardo is running for re-election as Nevada's Republican governor after one term in office.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Running on his first-term record, Lombardo's site cites securing the largest Rainy Day Fund balance in state history, cutting and streamlining business regulation, a 4.3% rise in state employment since 2022, more than $5 billion in new investment generating over 44,500 jobs, and a 15% cut to the Modified Business Tax.\n\n[Health] The site points to support for construction of Nevada's first stand-alone children's hospital, establishment of a \"Nevada Health Authority\" aimed at ensuring access to affordable care, expanded community behavioral-health centers in underserved areas, and pay raises that cut the state workforce vacancy rate in half.\n\n[Security] On public safety, the campaign cites double-digit pay raises for law enforcement, a reported 10% drop in violent crime during his term, increased penalties for fentanyl traffickers and drug dealers, limits on early release for violent offenders, strengthened domestic-violence protections, and more than 160 vetoes he casts as blocking \"soft-on-crime\" legislation.\n\n[Education] The site cites $2 billion in new K-12 funding (over $2,000 per student), permanent teacher pay raises, pay equity for charter-school teachers, expanded school-choice and open-enrollment options, restored funding for the \"Read by Grade 3\" program, and $100 million for 7,500 new charter-school seats.\n\n[Infrastructure] On housing, the campaign cites the Nevada Housing Access and Attainability Act ($183 million for middle-income families), $1 billion in bonding authority supporting more than 5,500 new rental homes and $900 million more for over 3,300 homeowners, and streamlined construction permitting. It also cites $375 million committed to expanding high-speed internet to nearly 50,000 locations, and leadership on Colorado River water-conservation negotiations.\n\n[Governance] The site frames the record as one of efficient government — cutting or streamlining more than 900 regulations, requiring state employees back in the office and cutting the vacancy rate, and a large veto record aimed at blocking legislation the campaign describes as harmful to families and businesses.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Joe Lombardo for Governor — Results", "url": "https://www.joelombardofornv.com/results" }, { "title": "Joe Lombardo for Governor — Official campaign site", "url": "https://www.joelombardofornv.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-acton-2026", "name": "Amy Acton", "office": "Governor", "region": "Ohio", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "state", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Dr. Amy Acton is running as the Democratic candidate to succeed term-limited Gov. Mike DeWine in Ohio's open governor's race.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign says it would conduct a full top-to-bottom review of JobsOhio on day one to add transparency and accountability, and reorient state investment so that public dollars actually create good jobs for Ohio workers rather than, in the campaign's words, \"padding the bottom lines of big out-of-state corporations.\" It criticizes the state's current approach as trickle-down and points to Ohio ranking 16th in unemployment and 41st in GDP growth as evidence it isn't working.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign pledges to protect Medicaid and Medicare from cuts and reduce enrollment barriers, launch an online platform called \"Ohio Rx\" that uses the state's Medicaid purchasing power to bring down drug prices for all Ohioans, require out-of-pocket drug costs to count toward insurance deductibles, push for pricing transparency from hospitals and insurers, and — on day one — direct the state to work toward relieving existing medical debt.\n\n[Security] On public safety, the campaign says Republican-driven tax cuts have starved police departments and emergency services of funding, leading to layoffs and officer shortages, and commits to fully funding police and public-safety agencies while investing alongside them in addiction treatment and mental-health services.\n\n[Education] On education, the campaign commits to restoring school funding to constitutionally required levels under the bipartisan Fair School Funding Plan, ending what it calls a \"corrupt\" school-voucher system that diverts public money to private schools without accountability, modernizing math and literacy instruction, and providing free breakfast and lunch to all Ohio students.\n\n[Governance] The site lists \"cleaning up corruption\" as a named issue area, alongside reproductive freedom and support for seniors aging in place, though the specific proposals under that heading were not accessible in this research.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Amy Acton for Governor — Growing Ohio Jobs and Businesses", "url": "https://actonforgovernor.com/issue/growing-ohio-jobs-and-businesses/" }, { "title": "Amy Acton for Governor — Affordable Healthcare for All Ohioans", "url": "https://actonforgovernor.com/issue/affordable-healthcare-for-all-ohioans/" }, { "title": "Amy Acton for Governor — Building Safer Communities", "url": "https://actonforgovernor.com/issue/building-safer-communities/" }, { "title": "Amy Acton for Governor — Education", "url": "https://actonforgovernor.com/issue/education/" }, { "title": "Amy Acton for Governor — Cleaning Up Corruption", "url": "https://actonforgovernor.com/issue/cleaning-up-corruption/" }, { "title": "Amy Acton for Governor — Official campaign site", "url": "https://actonforgovernor.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-ramaswamy-2026", "name": "Vivek Ramaswamy", "office": "Governor", "region": "Ohio", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "state", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Vivek Ramaswamy is running as the Republican candidate to succeed term-limited Gov. Mike DeWine in Ohio's open governor's race.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign's plan calls for slashing property taxes immediately, phasing out the state income tax starting with capital-gains taxes, cutting government spending and regulatory red tape, and requiring data centers to pay full property taxes (rather than receiving abatements) with the proceeds funding property-tax rebates for homeowners.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] On land use, the plan says new industrial and data-center development should be steered onto vacant brownfield sites rather than productive farmland, and that data centers should face no exemptions from air- and water-quality standards.\n\n[Security] On public safety, the plan calls for stricter bail and sentencing for repeat violent offenders, empowering local police to make arrests without added bureaucracy, and addressing severe psychiatric illness so officers can focus on crime rather than mental-health crises.\n\n[Education] On education, the plan sets academic-standard targets (third-grade literacy, eighth-grade numeracy, twelfth-grade civics), promises more transparency and choice for parents, raises pay for top-performing teachers, and expands career-technical education and apprenticeships.\n\n[Infrastructure] On energy, the plan calls for expanding natural gas and new energy technology to lower electric bills, streamlining permitting for energy projects, and a proposal that residents living near a data center receive free electricity, with any excess power credited back to nearby customers' bills; discharged water from data centers would have to be as clean as the water they draw in.\n\n[Governance] The plan frames its overall approach as \"One Ohio: Unity Over Division,\" casting its proposals as common-sense solutions rather than partisan ones.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Vivek for Ohio — The Plan", "url": "https://vivekforohio.com/the-plan/" }, { "title": "Vivek for Ohio — Official campaign site", "url": "https://vivekforohio.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-crowley-2026", "name": "David Crowley", "office": "Governor", "region": "Wisconsin", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "state", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "David Crowley, Milwaukee County Executive, is running as the Democratic candidate to succeed retiring Gov. Tony Evers in Wisconsin's open governor's race.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign's plan calls for growing the economy through locally-owned business and union labor, expanding a \"Building Bridges\" storefront-revitalization program statewide, modernizing apprenticeship and technical-training programs in trades, health care, and green energy, streamlining permitting and expanding capital access for small businesses (including community lenders reaching business owners underserved by major banks), and capping out-of-pocket childcare costs at 7% of family income — a change the campaign says would save the median Wisconsin family nearly $26,000 a year.\n\n[Health] On health care, the plan calls for expanding mobile outreach and addiction-treatment access statewide and modernizing EMS services to remove barriers to care.\n\n[Security] As part of its local-government section, the plan commits to reliably funding police, fire, and public-works services through local revenue reform.\n\n[Education] On education, the plan calls for universal early-childhood education, increased public-school investment, closing the special-education reimbursement gap, and multiple post-graduation pathways — four-year college, technical school, apprenticeship, or direct-to-career.\n\n[Infrastructure] The plan commits to closing Wisconsin's broadband gap, repairing roads, expanding transit (including for seniors and workers), and building energy-efficient, resilient affordable housing in both rural and urban communities, alongside solar and clean-infrastructure investment the campaign says would create union jobs.\n\n[Governance] On local government and democracy, the plan calls for revenue reform to fund local governments and lower property taxes, restoring local decision-making authority, protecting voting rights, and pursuing nonpartisan redistricting at all levels.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "David Crowley for Wisconsin — Plan", "url": "https://www.crowleyforwi.com/plan-v1" }, { "title": "David Crowley for Wisconsin — Official campaign site", "url": "https://www.crowleyforwi.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-tiffany-2026", "name": "Tom Tiffany", "office": "Governor", "region": "Wisconsin", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "state", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Tom Tiffany, a sitting U.S. Representative, is running as the Republican candidate to succeed retiring Gov. Tony Evers in Wisconsin's open governor's race.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the plan calls for freezing property taxes, a 10% income-tax cut for households earning under $150,000, eliminating state income tax on tips and overtime pay, returning the state budget surplus to taxpayers, repealing Wisconsin's minimum gas-markup law (which the campaign says adds over 30 cents a gallon), and pursuing occupational-licensing reform to remove unnecessary fees and red tape for new businesses. It separately proposes barring institutional and foreign investors from buying single-family homes and streamlining home-construction permitting.\n\n[Health] On health care, the plan calls for mandating clear, upfront pricing from hospitals and insurers, expanding direct-primary-care models and letting the Wisconsin Farm Bureau offer health plans to members, strengthening oversight of pharmacy benefit managers to protect independent pharmacies, cracking down on Medicaid fraud using technology modeled on Indiana's program, and legalizing medical marijuana under a tightly regulated program for veterans and chronic-pain patients.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] The plan proposes banning China and other foreign adversaries from buying Wisconsin farmland, restoring local control over siting large wind, solar, and data-center projects, making it easier for farmers to sell directly to schools and restaurants, and creating a \"Young Farmers Program\" to expand access to land and equipment financing.\n\n[Security] On public safety, the plan calls for supporting law enforcement with more training and tools, opposing early release for violent offenders and sex offenders, banning sanctuary-city policies and requiring local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement on criminal defendants, and new age-verification and parental-consent rules for app stores and social platforms aimed at protecting children online.\n\n[Immigration] The plan calls for a statewide ban on sanctuary-city policies and mandatory local law-enforcement cooperation with federal immigration authorities regarding people accused of crimes.\n\n[Education] On education, the plan calls for tying additional school funding to measurable outcomes, restoring higher academic standards and transparent school report cards, setting a stronger minimum starting teacher salary (citing Wisconsin's current 44th-place national ranking), expanding curriculum transparency and parental-consent requirements around name and pronoun changes, and freezing UW System tuition while eliminating DEI programs.\n\n[Infrastructure] The plan calls for streamlining permitting and approvals for road projects (citing a years-long timeline for a 3.5-mile stretch of I-94 expansion) and reducing regulatory costs that the campaign says add roughly $88,500 to the price of a new home in the Midwest.\n\n[Governance] The plan calls for auditing every state agency and program for waste and fraud, publishing a public spending dashboard, requiring work, volunteering, or training for able-bodied adults without children who receive welfare, and improving the state's veterans' homes. It also proposes several socially conservative measures, including barring transgender athletes from girls' sports.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Tom Tiffany for Governor — Solutions", "url": "https://tomtiffany.com/solutions/" }, { "title": "Tom Tiffany for Governor — Official campaign site", "url": "https://tomtiffany.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-hobbs-2026", "name": "Katie Hobbs", "office": "Governor (seeking re-election)", "region": "Arizona", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "state", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Katie Hobbs is running for re-election as Arizona's Democratic governor after one term in office.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign cites eliminating the state's rental tax, creating down-payment assistance for first-time homebuyers, cutting red tape to make housing cheaper to build, and a tax rebate delivered to more than 750,000 Arizona families.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign cites canceling $2 billion in medical debt for roughly a million Arizonans, repealing the state's 1864 near-total abortion ban in 2024, making birth control available over the counter, protecting patients and doctors from prosecution, and protecting coverage for more than 60,000 Arizonans with autism, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and intellectual disabilities.\n\n[Immigration] On the border, the campaign cites creating a Border Coordination Office inside the state's Department of Homeland Security, delivering more than $100 million in border-security funding to local law enforcement, and deploying the Arizona National Guard to the border.\n\n[Security] On public safety, the campaign cites pay raises for state police and firefighters and a task force (\"Task Force SAFE\") that it says has intercepted more than 19 million fentanyl pills, 6,598 pounds of other illicit drugs, and 237 weapons.\n\n[Education] The campaign cites increased K-12 and higher-education investment and expanded apprenticeship and career-training options for students not pursuing a four-year degree.\n\n[Infrastructure] The campaign cites a water-policy agreement it calls the most consequential change to Arizona water law since 1980, negotiated in part to lower housing costs, along with ending a foreign corporation's groundwater leases in the state.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Katie Hobbs for Governor — Meet Katie", "url": "https://katiehobbs.org/meet-katie" }, { "title": "Katie Hobbs for Governor — Official campaign site", "url": "https://katiehobbs.org/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-biggs-2026", "name": "Andy Biggs", "office": "Governor", "region": "Arizona", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "state", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Andy Biggs, a sitting U.S. Representative, is running as the Republican challenger seeking to unseat incumbent Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs in Arizona.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign calls for eliminating the state income tax, reducing the property-tax burden in partnership with localities, streamlining permitting for home construction, bringing down energy costs (including through nuclear power), reducing dependence on California for fuel supply, blocking corporate purchases of single-family homes, and repealing what it calls \"job-killing regulations.\"\n\n[Health] On health, the campaign's positions center on medical freedom: ending vaccine mandates, making ivermectin available over the counter, allowing SNAP-restricted purchases of soda and junk food to be curtailed, permitting Arizona dairies to sell raw milk, requiring nutrition education in medical schools, and creating naturopathic-provider accreditation standards.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] Overlapping with its health-freedom section, the platform supports allowing raw-milk sales from Arizona dairies and encouraging organic food production.\n\n[Security] On public safety, the campaign proposes reconvening a multi-agency \"Border Strike Force\" targeting human and drug trafficking, better recruitment and retention for law enforcement and corrections officers, full funding for the state's Department of Public Safety troopers, fully funded school-security programs, and participation in the federal 287(g) immigration-enforcement program.\n\n[Immigration] The platform's border and public-safety sections are largely immigration-focused: reviving a multi-level Border Strike Force and enrolling state and local law enforcement in the federal 287(g) program to help enforce immigration law.\n\n[Education] On education, the campaign backs opting into a federal education tax credit, protecting Arizona's Empowerment Scholarship Account school-choice program, prioritizing reading, writing, and math over what it calls diversity-focused instruction, and building stronger links between trade schools, community colleges, universities, and employers.\n\n[Infrastructure] On natural resources, the platform calls for a long-term water strategy and defending Arizona's Colorado River allocation, better measurement and reporting on the state's aquifers, joint state-federal forest management to reduce wildfire risk, and expanded energy supply including nuclear power.\n\n[Governance] On government accountability, the campaign proposes reviewing agencies and programs to cut waste and fraud, requiring companies bidding on state contracts to disclose political contributions, banning foreign contributions to campaigns and ballot measures, and a package of election-integrity measures the campaign says would make Arizona \"the gold standard\" for election administration.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Andy Biggs for Arizona — Issues", "url": "https://biggsforarizona.com/issues/" }, { "title": "Andy Biggs for Arizona — Official campaign site", "url": "https://biggsforarizona.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-sand-2026", "name": "Rob Sand", "office": "Governor", "region": "Iowa", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "state", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Rob Sand, Iowa's state auditor, is running as the Democratic candidate to succeed retiring Gov. Kim Reynolds in Iowa's open governor's race.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign — citing Iowa's ranking of 49th nationally for economic performance and 48th for personal-income growth — proposes a \"Statewide Work, Statewide Jobs\" program letting state employees work from anywhere in Iowa rather than requiring relocation to urban centers, aimed at reviving small towns, and would drop the four-year-degree requirement for state jobs.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign would reverse the privatization of Iowa's Medicaid program by executive order, citing what it calls a \"shockingly high\" rate of illegal care denials, and points to Iowa's cancer rate — the highest in the nation — as a problem needing state attention.\n\n[Education] On education — noting Iowa has slipped from a top-five state to the middle of the pack — the campaign proposes universal all-day pre-K, funded in part by eliminating the state's private-school voucher program, which it argues diverts public money without accountability.\n\n[Governance] On government reform, the campaign backs a public primary system open to all eligible voters, adopting approval voting (letting voters select multiple candidates) in general elections, restoring investigative powers to the State Auditor's office, and breaking what it calls the two-party monopoly by making it easier for independent and third-party candidates to compete. It also proposes legalizing and taxing adult-use cannabis and stronger corporate accountability for data centers.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Rob Sand for Iowa — Priorities", "url": "https://robsand.com/priorities" }, { "title": "Rob Sand for Iowa — Official campaign site", "url": "https://robsand.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-lahn-2026", "name": "Zach Lahn", "office": "Governor", "region": "Iowa", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "state", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Zach Lahn is running as the Republican candidate to succeed retiring Gov. Kim Reynolds in Iowa's open governor's race.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the platform is built around \"Iowa First\" — prioritizing Iowa-owned businesses and local investment over out-of-state or foreign capital — and proposes tax rebates to help young Iowans afford a home down payment, plus a ban on Wall Street hedge funds buying single-family homes. It sets a goal of reversing the state's high rate of young-adult outmigration.\n\n[Health] Branded \"Make Iowa Healthy Again,\" the health plank focuses on clean food, clean water, and what the campaign calls Iowa's cancer crisis — the state has the second-highest rate of new cancer diagnoses in the country — proposing independent state safety testing of products used in Iowa and redirecting University of Iowa medical research toward the state's cancer rates.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] On agriculture, the platform calls for restricting foreign and out-of-state ownership of Iowa farmland (citing more than 25% currently held by outside owners), raising property taxes on institutional land investors, pursuing antitrust action against agricultural monopolies, creating pathways for young farmers to access land and financing, and providing incentives for farmers to reduce agricultural runoff. It also calls for confiscating farmland the campaign says is illegally owned by Chinese interests and reselling it to young families and veterans.\n\n[Immigration] The platform calls for banning public benefits for people in the country illegally and ending H-1B visa sponsorship for jobs in state government and public universities that the campaign says Iowans could fill.\n\n[Education] On education, the campaign proposes revoking teaching licenses over what it calls political indoctrination in classrooms, creating \"innovation zones\" that give superintendents and principals more flexibility, reducing standardized testing in favor of skill mastery, and increasing the share of Iowa-resident enrollment at the state's public universities.\n\n[Governance] The campaign emphasizes that Lahn is self-funding his run to avoid donor influence, framing the whole platform around putting \"Iowans First\" in state decision-making.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Zach Lahn for Governor — Policy", "url": "https://www.zachlahn.com/policy/" }, { "title": "Zach Lahn for Governor — Official campaign site", "url": "https://www.zachlahn.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-benson-2026", "name": "Jocelyn Benson", "office": "Governor", "region": "Michigan", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "state", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Jocelyn Benson, Michigan's secretary of state, is running as the Democratic candidate to succeed term-limited Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan's open governor's race.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign frames its affordability agenda around housing, energy, and general cost of living, proposing to streamline regulations slowing home construction, incentivize starter homes, and crack down on corporate investors it says are driving up rents; it also proposes bringing the state's \"Rx Kids\" child-support program statewide as part of making childcare more affordable.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign describes Michigan's Department of Health and Human Services as broken and proposes a data-driven overhaul, expanded low- or no-cost preventive care, an independent Prescription Drug Affordability Board with power to review price increases, mandatory cost-transparency rules to end surprise billing, and medical-debt relief.\n\n[Education] On education, the campaign describes its approach as building toward a \"world-class North Star\" benchmark for the state's public schools and says it will work with educators, parents, and students on data-driven, results-focused reforms, though the education issue page itself does not lay out specific policy mechanics beyond referencing a fuller plan available as a downloadable PDF.\n\n[Governance] The broader campaign message frames government inefficiency and \"corporate greed\" as the core obstacles to affordability, drawing on Benson's record as Secretary of State reforming Michigan's elections systems as the model for how she says she would fix other state agencies.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Jocelyn Benson for Governor — Affordability", "url": "https://www.jocelynbenson.com/issues/affordability" }, { "title": "Jocelyn Benson for Governor — Healthcare", "url": "https://www.jocelynbenson.com/issues/healthcare" }, { "title": "Jocelyn Benson for Governor — Education", "url": "https://www.jocelynbenson.com/issues/education" }, { "title": "Jocelyn Benson for Governor — Issues", "url": "https://www.jocelynbenson.com/issues" }, { "title": "Jocelyn Benson for Governor — Official campaign site", "url": "https://www.jocelynbenson.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-james-2026", "name": "John James", "office": "Governor", "region": "Michigan", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "state", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "John James, a sitting U.S. Representative, is running as the Republican candidate to succeed term-limited Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan's open governor's race.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Branded \"Make Work Great Again,\" the economic plan commits to eliminating Michigan's state income tax, identifying $3 billion in what the campaign calls waste in year one (citing economic-development slush funds, unspent general-fund balances, and uncollected unemployment-fraud penalties), and phasing out the income tax as spending cuts and growth allow, alongside tax credits for workers in shortage occupations like nursing and the trades.\n\n[Health] Under a named Michigan Family Health and Freedom Plan, the campaign proposes price transparency and direct primary care to lower costs, recruiting more rural providers, requiring independent safety-data review and informed consent for medical interventions, auditing state food purchases to remove synthetic dyes and additives, and a \"toxic load reduction\" plan targeting PFAS and pesticides.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] The health plan overlaps into agriculture, proposing incentives for regenerative agriculture and soil health and promotion of local whole-food supply chains; separately, the campaign notes James's congressional vote for the first new Farm Bill in eight years and for barring foreign governments, including China, from buying American farmland.\n\n[Security] A \"Safety & Public Order\" section commits generally to building safer communities through prevention, mental-health support, and stronger school safety, though without extensive further detail.\n\n[Education] Framed as an Education Freedom Agenda, the plan proposes opting into a federal K-12 education tax credit, expanding charter schools, requiring mastery-based rather than age-based grade promotion, a \"Parents' Bill of Rights\" covering curriculum transparency and parental consent for medical treatment, restoring the Pledge of Allegiance and a civics-test graduation requirement, and reducing the number of school districts (currently near 600) to cut administrative overhead.\n\n[Governance] A named Freedom from Corruption Agenda proposes full financial-disclosure requirements for the governor and senior officials, ending FOIA exemptions for the governor's office and legislature, a ten-year audit of state spending, a four-year post-office lobbying ban for legislators and statewide officials, and an independent audit of voter rolls to remove non-citizens. A separate \"CLEAR Initiative\" would audit and provide relief for COVID-19-era enforcement actions in three phases: review, relief (including fine refunds), and legislative reform requiring legislative approval to extend any future emergency order beyond 14 days.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "John James for Michigan — Freedom Agenda", "url": "https://johnjamesmi.com/freedom-agenda/" }, { "title": "John James for Michigan — Official campaign site", "url": "https://johnjamesmi.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-kotek-2026", "name": "Tina Kotek", "office": "Governor (seeking re-election)", "region": "Oregon", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "state", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Tina Kotek is running for re-election as Oregon's Democratic governor in a rematch of her narrow 2022 race against Christine Drazan.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign proposes expanding access to infant and toddler childcare with a path to universal preschool, cutting red tape to speed home construction while expanding down-payment assistance, creating a new Department of Commerce to strengthen public-private coordination, setting enforceable statewide permitting timelines for businesses, and recruiting jobs in renewable energy and life sciences alongside the state's existing tech, agriculture, timber, and food and beverage sectors.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign commits to strengthening access to mental-health and addiction care, fighting insurance-rate hikes, defending the Oregon Health Plan from federal Medicaid cuts, protecting rural maternal-care access, working with other states to bring down prescription-drug costs, and banning the use of AI to deny insurance claims. It also commits to protecting abortion, birth control, and gender-affirming care access against federal restrictions, including safeguarding Planned Parenthood's ability to operate in the state.\n\n[Immigration] The campaign commits to standing up to ICE and opposing new ICE detention facilities in Oregon, preventing license-plate-reader data from being used for immigration enforcement, and protecting immigrant and refugee families' access to schools and hospitals.\n\n[Education] On education, the campaign proposes increasing classroom instructional time toward the national average, real-time attendance data and support for schools to improve it, continued investment in literacy (high-dosage tutoring and phonics-based instruction), moving away from standardized testing toward real-time assessment, strengthened graduation requirements, and limiting social-media access on school-issued devices.\n\n[Infrastructure] The campaign proposes prohibiting new data-center development until statewide standards are in place governing electricity rates, clean-energy requirements, and water and air protections, alongside continued investment in climate resilience for wildfire, drought, and extreme weather, and a goal of protecting 10% more of Oregon's climate-resilient lands and waters over the next decade.\n\n[Governance] The campaign commits to defending Oregon's vote-by-mail system against federal interference and to protecting LGBTQ+ Oregonians and other groups from what it describes as federal attacks on equity and civil rights.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Tina Kotek for Oregon Governor — Oregon's Future", "url": "https://www.tinafororegon.com/oregons-future/" }, { "title": "Tina Kotek for Oregon Governor — Official campaign site", "url": "https://www.tinafororegon.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-drazan-2026", "name": "Christine Drazan", "office": "Governor", "region": "Oregon", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "state", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Christine Drazan is running as the Republican challenger seeking to unseat incumbent Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek in a rematch of Oregon's 2022 governor's race.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the plan proposes a day-one executive order directing state agencies to identify and suspend rules that raise the cost of housing, energy, food, transportation, childcare, healthcare, or business, an \"affordability review\" before adopting any new rule, repeal of Gov. Kotek's Climate Protection Program executive order, reform of the state's Corporate Activity Tax to reduce hidden consumer costs, and a $200 million fund for site readiness and infrastructure aimed at attracting semiconductor, manufacturing, and other traded-sector employers. It also proposes expanded apprenticeships and career-technical education tied to employer needs.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] The plan commits to protecting farmland from data-center development and prioritizing improved forest management to increase sustainable timber production, treating agriculture and food processing as priority traded-sector industries for economic development.\n\n[Security] On homelessness and addiction, the plan proposes a full audit of state homelessness and addiction spending, prioritizing recovery and long-term sobriety over what it calls enabling harm-reduction programs, increased penalties for drug traffickers, full funding for state police, and declaring a state of emergency on the addiction and mental-health crisis.\n\n[Education] On education, the plan proposes reinstating meaningful graduation requirements, ensuring third-grade reading proficiency before advancement, opting Oregon into a federal scholarship tax-credit program the campaign says could help more than 575,000 students access tutoring and other supports, giving teachers authority to remove persistently disruptive students, and strengthening special-education funding. It also commits to curriculum transparency and parental opt-out rights.\n\n[Infrastructure] On housing, the plan proposes a 120-day maximum decision period for qualifying housing projects, limits on repetitive appeals meant to delay construction, expanded use of private plan reviewers where government permitting is backlogged, a \"Housing Permit Command Center\" to coordinate agencies and enforce permitting deadlines, and a standardized statewide approval process for accessory dwelling units, manufactured, and modular homes. On data centers, it proposes required community-benefit agreements covering wildfire mitigation and infrastructure, and a ban on blanket nondisclosure agreements in data-center deals.\n\n[Governance] The plan proposes a new Office of Government Accountability to audit service delivery and find savings, an annual \"Cost of Government Report\" on agency fees and compliance burdens, reduced influence of unelected boards and commissions, rescinding executive orders it says expanded bureaucracy, and a public scorecard tracking job growth, business formation, permitting timelines, and other economic indicators.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Christine Drazan for Oregon — Drazan Plan", "url": "https://www.christinefororegon.com/drazan-plan/" }, { "title": "Christine Drazan for Oregon — Official campaign site", "url": "https://www.christinefororegon.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-holscher-2026", "name": "Cindy Holscher", "office": "Governor", "region": "Kansas", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "state", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Cindy Holscher, a Kansas state senator, is running as the Democratic candidate to succeed term-limited Gov. Laura Kelly in Kansas's open governor's race.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign frames the cost-of-living crisis as its central concern, proposing relief from rising property taxes, ending what it calls \"sweetheart deals for billionaire CEOs,\" eliminating the sales tax on food, ending the state income tax on Social Security benefits, and — separately — legalizing recreational and medicinal cannabis in part to raise new revenue for schools and public services.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign commits to expanding Medicaid (citing Holscher's record of repeated votes to do so in the legislature), protecting rural hospital funding, expanding mental-health services and telemedicine access, and legalizing fentanyl test strips as a harm-reduction measure.\n\n[Education] On education, the campaign points to Holscher's role in securing $500 million in new public-school funding, commits to protecting teachers' jobs, and opposes further expansion of private-school vouchers.\n\n[Infrastructure] On data centers, the campaign proposes a moratorium on new approvals until stronger guardrails — presumably around utility and grid impact — are put in place.\n\n[Governance] The campaign frames itself broadly as a \"common-sense\" alternative to political extremism and pledges to safeguard Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid for the more than 500,000 Kansans who depend on them.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Cindy for Kansas — Issues", "url": "https://www.cindyforkansas.com/issues" }, { "title": "Cindy for Kansas — Official campaign site", "url": "https://www.cindyforkansas.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-ciscomani-2026", "name": "Juan Ciscomani", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 6) (seeking re-election)", "region": "District 6, Arizona", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Ciscomani is running for a third term to keep this Tucson-area seat in Republican hands, campaigning on his record of delivering federal funding and bipartisan wins for southern Arizona.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the site points to legislation eliminating taxes on tips, overtime pay, and Social Security income as a way for constituents to \"keep more of what they earn.\"\n\n[Health] On health care, the site cites his role in securing \"the largest investment in cancer research in American history,\" record funding for women's health research, and more than $100 million in Alzheimer's research funding, plus expanded rural health access.\n\n[Security] On security, the site credits him with a new military mission for Fort Huachuca that protects regional jobs and defense capacity, and with work to secure veterans' homeownership, education benefits, and survivor benefits for military families. It also cites new vehicles and equipment for law enforcement in Sahuarita, Marana, Tucson, and Cochise County.\n\n[Infrastructure] On infrastructure, the site cites more than $60 million secured for community projects in his first three years, including Bisbee-Douglas International Airport improvements, bridge and roadway repairs across five counties, and water infrastructure upgrades.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the site notes his ranking as \"Arizona's most effective member of Congress\" by the nonpartisan Center for Effective Lawmaking and emphasizes a record of bipartisan work.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "juanciscomani.com", "url": "https://juanciscomani.com/" }, { "title": "juanciscomani.com/results", "url": "https://juanciscomani.com/results" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-mendoza-2026", "name": "JoAnna Mendoza", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 6)", "region": "District 6, Arizona", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Mendoza is challenging Ciscomani for the second straight cycle, arguing southern Arizona needs a representative focused on lowering costs and restoring accountability in Washington.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign lists \"Cost of Living\" and jobs as top priorities, pledging to lower costs and protect families and seniors while bringing good-paying jobs to Southern Arizona and protecting workers, though the issues page states these as headline priorities without itemized proposals.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign lists \"strengthening the healthcare system\" as a distinct priority area, without further detail on the issues page as reviewed.\n\n[Security] On immigration and border security together, the campaign frames its goal as \"safe communities, strong borders, and real immigration solutions.\" Separately, under national security, it says it would stand with U.S. allies.\n\n[Immigration] See Security above — the campaign treats border security and immigration as one combined priority area on its issues page.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the campaign calls for \"restoring trust and accountability in government\" and describes its approach as servant leadership willing to work across party lines, alongside a stated commitment to veterans.\n\n[Infrastructure] The campaign's issues page also lists \"Environment\" (climate, water, and energy security for rural Arizona) as a priority area, though outside this document's topic buckets.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "joannamendoza.com", "url": "https://www.joannamendoza.com/" }, { "title": "joannamendoza.com/issues", "url": "https://www.joannamendoza.com/issues/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-valadao-2026", "name": "David Valadao", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 22) (seeking re-election)", "region": "District 22, California", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Valadao is seeking another term representing the Central Valley, betting that his record balancing border-district politics with bipartisan wins on water and health care can again outrun the district's Democratic lean.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, Valadao's site highlights the San Joaquin Valley's unemployment rate running well above the national average and commits to expanding employment opportunities for valley residents even as broader U.S. economic growth continues.\n\n[Health] On health care, the site supports universal access to affordable medical care while protecting coverage for elderly, low-income, and pre-existing-condition patients, describing this as \"reforms that lower the cost of healthcare while maintaining access.\"\n\n[Agriculture/Food] On agriculture, the site frames California as needing to \"remain an agricultural leader that provides good careers\" for Central Valley farmers and ranchers, tying this closely to a companion water-security priority calling for reliable, clean water supplies for farming, families, and local economies.\n\n[Security] On security, the site commits to supporting military personnel through battlefield safety provisions, healthcare access, and post-service employment and education opportunities for veterans.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, the site — noting Valadao is himself the son of immigrants — calls the current system \"broken and in need of comprehensive repair\" and backs comprehensive immigration reform.\n\n[Education] On education, the site says it prioritizes \"personalized, quality, affordable education\" that accounts for children's differing learning styles.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the site calls for federal budget discipline and government accountability, arguing agencies should serve citizens rather than bureaucratic interests. It also states a position on energy, favoring development of both traditional and renewable resources with fewer regulatory and litigation delays.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "valadaoforcongress.com", "url": "https://valadaoforcongress.com/" }, { "title": "valadaoforcongress.com/issues", "url": "https://valadaoforcongress.com/issues/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-villegas-2026", "name": "Randy Villegas", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 22)", "region": "District 22, California", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Villegas, a local educator and activist, is running to flip this Central Valley seat by pairing pocketbook economic proposals with a call to break up corporate monopolies.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign's Jobs & The Economy page supports protecting oil and gas workers with well-paid, secure jobs and better wages through any transition to renewable energy, opposes tariffs it calls frivolous and says harm farmers and small businesses, calls for progressive taxation targeting the top 1% of earners and wealth holders, and pledges to \"break up monopolies\" while giving small businesses tax incentives. It also lists infrastructure investment in roads, bridges, water systems, and rural broadband as part of its jobs strategy.\n\n[Governance] The issues hub lists \"Fight Political Corruption\" as a named priority area, though its underlying page was not independently reviewed for specifics.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "villegasforcongress.com", "url": "https://www.villegasforcongress.com/" }, { "title": "villegasforcongress.com/issues/jobs-the-economy", "url": "https://www.villegasforcongress.com/issues/jobs-the-economy" }, { "title": "villegasforcongress.com/issues", "url": "https://www.villegasforcongress.com/issues" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-castor-2026", "name": "Kathy Castor", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 14) (seeking re-election)", "region": "District 14, Florida", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Castor is seeking re-election in a newly redrawn Tampa-area district, running on nearly two decades of work on health care, education, and coastal protection.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the site credits Castor with \"spearheading new jobs and investments\" at major regional institutions and driving downtown Tampa redevelopment, and cites her work on the bipartisan JOBS Act to help create new jobs and businesses by cutting red tape.\n\n[Health] The site references her work with Moffitt Cancer Center and support for new and expanded community health centers, though it does not lay out detailed forward-looking healthcare proposals.\n\n[Education] On education, the site states that \"every child deserves a good education\" and cites her support for Pell Grants, student loans, Upward Bound, and Head Start, along with work to fend off Republican cuts to these programs.\n\n[Infrastructure] On infrastructure, the site cites her role championing the I-4 Selmon Crosstown Connector, which it says \"created almost 13,000 local jobs\" and supports Port of Tampa expansion, alongside continued work with transportation agencies on road safety and public transit access.\n\n[Infrastructure] The site also describes environmental and clean-energy work — authoring the Florida Coastal Protection Act banning new offshore drilling and securing $10 million from BP for Florida marine research — outside this document's core topic buckets.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "castorforcongress.com", "url": "https://castorforcongress.com/" }, { "title": "castorforcongress.com/issues", "url": "https://castorforcongress.com/issues/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-beltran-2026", "name": "Mike Beltran", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 14)", "region": "District 14, Florida", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Beltran, a state legislator, is challenging Castor by campaigning on tax cuts, deregulation, and a hard line on border security in the reshaped Tampa-area district.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, Beltran's platform page calls for reducing wasteful government spending to control inflation, tax holidays on gas and everyday purchases, continuing \"the largest tax cut in Florida history,\" and cutting regulatory red tape for businesses so Tampa Bay families keep more of their earnings.\n\n[Health] On health care, the platform calls for expanding telehealth access, removing bureaucratic barriers to opening new clinics, and making quality care available to working families and seniors.\n\n[Security] On security, the platform pledges support for police and first responders, opposition to defunding law enforcement, and a strong national defense \"focused on protecting America.\"\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, the platform calls for completing the border wall, deporting people who commit crimes or immigration fraud, and restoring \"law and order\" at the southern border, aligning with President Trump's approach.\n\n[Education] On education, the platform backs school choice so families can select schools and pledges to protect parental involvement in children's education decisions.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the platform proposes banning members of Congress from trading stocks, strengthening transparency and accountability rules, opposing lobbyist influence on local decisions, and requiring local community approval for major projects such as data centers.\n\n[Governance] The platform also states positions on gun rights (opposing red-flag laws and magazine bans) and voter-ID/citizenship-verification requirements, outside this document's core buckets.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "beltranforcongress.com", "url": "https://beltranforcongress.com/" }, { "title": "beltranforcongress.com/platform", "url": "https://beltranforcongress.com/platform" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-dandiya-2026", "name": "Pia Dandiya", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 22)", "region": "District 22, Florida", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Dandiya, a former educator and Obama-administration alum, is running for this newly drawn, open Palm Beach-area seat on an affordability and public-education platform.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign's priorities page pledges to lower housing costs and property insurance premiums, reduce prescription drug prices, make childcare more affordable, and eliminate what it calls \"illegal and costly tariffs\" that raise consumer prices — framed as helping families get ahead rather than just survive.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign says it would protect Social Security and Medicare from cuts or privatization, reverse Medicaid cuts affecting families, children, seniors, and disabled people, and keep personal healthcare decisions \"between a woman and her doctor\" without government intervention.\n\n[Education] Drawing on her background as a public-school teacher and founding charter-school principal, Dandiya's platform calls for fully funding public schools and supporting teachers, implementing universal pre-K, and expanding job training and apprenticeship opportunities.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the campaign proposes banning members of Congress from trading stocks, ending Citizens United, prohibiting officials from prediction-market betting, and establishing congressional term limits, alongside a stated commitment to working across party lines.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "piaforcongress.com", "url": "https://piaforcongress.com/" }, { "title": "piaforcongress.com/priorities", "url": "https://piaforcongress.com/priorities" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-askar-2026", "name": "Casey Askar", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 22)", "region": "District 22, Florida", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Askar, a Marine veteran and businessman, is running for this open Palm Beach-area seat on a platform combining tax cuts, border enforcement, and military modernization.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, Askar's campaign prioritizes reducing the cost of groceries and gas, calling to \"slash overburdening taxes and regulations\" to address affordability.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign pledges to eliminate the Affordable Care Act and replace it with an alternative, while preserving Medicare and Medicaid and reducing drug and insurance costs and combating government waste and fraud.\n\n[Security] As a Marine veteran, Askar's platform emphasizes military modernization and support for service members' benefits, describing a \"peace through strength\" foreign-policy approach and opposition to Chinese aggression.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, the campaign supports deporting undocumented immigrants who commit crimes, securing the border and ports of entry, moving to a merit-based immigration system, and protecting law enforcement from what it describes as being unfairly targeted; it links illegal immigration to the drug-trade crisis.\n\n[Education] On education, the campaign backs parental rights, requiring civics instruction, and opposing what it calls \"un-American, divisive, and socialist\" curriculum reforms, along with barring transgender girls from girls' facilities.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the campaign proposes banning congressional stock trading and \"full transparency in Congress\" to expose corruption.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "caseyaskar.com", "url": "https://www.caseyaskar.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-moskowitz-2026", "name": "Jared Moskowitz", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 25) (seeking re-election)", "region": "District 25, Florida", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Moskowitz is seeking re-election in a newly renumbered South Florida district, running on his record defending the ACA and Social Security while backing strong support for Israel.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign's priorities page cites Moskowitz's legislation to reduce homeowners' property-insurance premiums, support for restoring the expanded Child Tax Credit, reducing childcare costs, and opposing price gouging on family budgets.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign says it would defend and strengthen the Affordable Care Act, restore enhanced ACA tax credits, fight Medicaid cuts, and pursue a long-term goal of \"moving toward a Medicare for All system,\" alongside opposing cuts to or privatization of Social Security and Medicare and working to reduce prescription drug costs. It also states opposition to Florida's abortion restrictions and support for reproductive-healthcare access.\n\n[Security] On security, the campaign emphasizes staunch support for Israel and continued U.S. security assistance, alongside confronting antisemitism \"from Democrats and Republicans alike.\" Separately, on domestic safety, it cites support for red-flag protections in Florida, raising the firearm purchase age to 21, and school emergency-response measures, plus FEMA process reforms drawn from Moskowitz's prior emergency-management experience.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, the campaign says it supports strong border security paired with humanitarian standards, improved pathways to citizenship, and opposition to defunding border-security agencies.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the campaign backs banning congressional stock trading, releasing the Epstein files, and strengthening anti-corruption oversight.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "jaredforflorida.com", "url": "https://jaredforflorida.com/" }, { "title": "jaredforflorida.com/priorities", "url": "https://jaredforflorida.com/priorities" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-singer-2026", "name": "Scott Singer", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 25)", "region": "District 25, Florida", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Singer, the sitting Mayor of Boca Raton, is challenging Moskowitz by running on his local record of flat taxes, new schools, and ethics reforms.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the site cites Singer's record of holding property tax rates flat and opposing sales-tax and user-fee increases since 2014, adding high-paying local jobs, and requiring developers to fund offsite roadway improvements.\n\n[Education] On education, the site credits him with championing the first new public school built locally in over a decade (adding roughly 1,300 K-5 seats), raising school-facility development standards, and holding summits with school leaders on long-term planning.\n\n[Infrastructure] On infrastructure, the site cites his role initiating Brightline station discussions to improve regional transit connections, supporting a downtown circulator and parking garage, and exploring congestion-reduction measures.\n\n[Security] On public safety, the site cites a 14% crime reduction over two years under his tenure and a commitment to keeping police and fire departments resourced and able to retain talent.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the site cites three ethics-reform packages sponsored in his first three years in local office, full disclosure requirements for ethics inquiries involving elected officials, and a practice of holding regular town halls year-round rather than only during elections.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "scottsingerusa.com", "url": "https://www.scottsingerusa.com/" }, { "title": "scottsingerusa.com/issues", "url": "https://www.scottsingerusa.com/issues" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-miller-meeks-2026", "name": "Mariannette Miller-Meeks", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 1) (seeking re-election)", "region": "District 1, Iowa", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Miller-Meeks is seeking a third term in a rematch against the same Democratic opponent, defending her record on health-care legislation and the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.", "manifesto": "[Health] Miller-Meeks has said she wants to lower premiums and prescription drug costs through her own sponsored legislation, and voted against extending enhanced ACA premium tax credits, calling them \"taxpayer-funded blank checks to large insurance companies\"; her alternative bill is described as reducing premiums by 11% through 2035. She supported the One Big Beautiful Bill Act's Medicaid changes, describing them as intended to preserve the program for those who most need it.\n\n[Economy] She backed the tax cuts included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] Miller-Meeks pushed legislation allowing year-round E15 fuel sales, which the coverage says passed the House.\n\n[Governance] The coverage notes she certified the 2020 election results and voted to create an independent commission to investigate the January 6 Capitol attack — positions her primary challenger had criticized her for.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "drmillermeeks.com", "url": "https://drmillermeeks.com/" }, { "title": "Iowa Public Radio, May 29, 2026", "url": "https://www.iowapublicradio.org/political-news/2026-05-29/iowas-1st-congressional-district-miller-meeks-christina-bohannan-primary-election" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-bohannan-2026", "name": "Christina Bohannan", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 1)", "region": "District 1, Iowa", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Bohannan is running for a third time to unseat Miller-Meeks, campaigning on expanding Medicare, reversing Medicaid cuts, and reinvesting in public schools.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign's priorities page calls for ending tariffs to lower costs, barring hedge funds and private investors from buying up family homes and agricultural land, expanding housing construction and rehabilitation, cracking down on corporate price-gouging, and growing jobs and wages while backing union labor.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign proposes allowing Medicare enrollment at any age, capping insulin at $35/month for all Americans, expanding Medicare's drug-price negotiation power, extending ACA tax credits, reversing Medicaid cuts the campaign says affect more than 100,000 Iowans, adding dental, vision, hearing, and home-health coverage to Medicare, and increasing mental-health resources and rural provider recruitment. It also commits to restoring Roe v. Wade federally and protecting fertility-treatment access.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] On agriculture, the campaign says it would reverse tariffs it describes as harmful to farmers, crack down on agricultural monopolies in seed, fertilizer, and processing markets, pass a new Farm Bill prioritizing family farms, expand renewable-energy investment, reduce PFAS and chemical water contamination, and expand incentives for farmers adopting buffer zones and cover crops.\n\n[Education] On education, the campaign backs reinvesting in public K-12 schools, opposing voucher programs that redirect public funds to private schools, expanding Career and Technical Education, guaranteeing school-lunch access for all children, and investing specifically in rural and small-town schools.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the campaign proposes banning stock trading by members of Congress and Supreme Court justices, a constitutional amendment reversing Citizens United, term limits and age caps for federal officeholders, an independent Congressional Ethics Agency, a permanent lobbying ban for former members, and opening primaries to independent voters.\n\n[Economy] The site also states family-support proposals — paid family leave, an expanded Child Care Tax Credit, and expanded Head Start — and a commitment to protecting Social Security and Medicare from privatization or benefit cuts.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "bohannanforcongress.com", "url": "https://bohannanforcongress.com/" }, { "title": "bohannanforcongress.com/priorities", "url": "https://bohannanforcongress.com/priorities/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-nunn-2026", "name": "Zach Nunn", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 3) (seeking re-election)", "region": "District 3, Iowa", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Nunn is seeking re-election in a perennial swing district, running on reduced government spending, biofuels support for Iowa farmers, and border security.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the site says Nunn would combat inflation by reducing government spending and bureaucracy, described as working to \"rein in government bureaucracy and the liberal wish lists impeding our economy,\" and opposes what it calls tax-and-spend policies while focusing on getting Americans back to work.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] On agriculture, the site backs a Farm Bill to support Iowa farmers and rural communities, advocacy for biofuels and ethanol producers, and promotion of renewable fuels for energy independence.\n\n[Security] On security, the site emphasizes strong military funding and readiness, support for veterans and military families including mental-health resources, and maintaining \"peace through strength.\"\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, the site calls for comprehensive border-security solutions focused on combating drug trafficking and opposing human trafficking and exploitation at the southern border.\n\n[Governance] The site also states positions on gun rights (opposing restrictions from government or tech companies), expanded parental leave for military families, simplified adoption processes, expanded childcare options, and a pro-life stance.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "zachnunn.com", "url": "https://zachnunn.com/" }, { "title": "zachnunn.com/issues", "url": "https://zachnunn.com/issues/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-trone-garriott-2026", "name": "Sarah Trone Garriott", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 3)", "region": "District 3, Iowa", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Trone Garriott, a state senator, is challenging Nunn on an affordability-and-public-schools platform after two of the closest House races in the country.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign frames its approach as \"growing our economy by investing in people, not special interests,\" alongside a separate cost-of-living priority focused on making life more affordable for working Iowans.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign states a commitment to \"health care that's affordable and there when you need it,\" alongside standing up for retirement and health security more broadly.\n\n[Education] On education, the campaign pledges to \"protect great public schools for every child, in every community.\"\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, the campaign calls for \"immigration that's smart, fair, and reflects our values.\"\n\n[Security] The campaign lists \"public safety\" as a top-priority issue heading on its site.\n\n[Governance] The campaign lists \"A Higher Standard for Washington\" as a priority area focused on ethics and accountability.\n\n[Infrastructure] The site also names environmental policy (\"protecting Iowa's land, water, and clean energy future\"), reproductive rights, veterans, and labor-organizing rights as priorities.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "sarahforiowa.com", "url": "https://sarahforiowa.com/" }, { "title": "sarahforiowa.com/issues", "url": "https://sarahforiowa.com/issues/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-barrett-2026", "name": "Tom Barrett", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 7) (seeking re-election)", "region": "District 7, Michigan", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Barrett is seeking re-election on a platform of tax relief, parental rights in education, and hardline border enforcement.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the site opposes taxpayer subsidies for large corporations, arguing that infrastructure, tax reform, and regulatory reform are more effective ways to attract business than direct subsidies, and states support for lowering Americans' overall tax burden (Barrett has signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge) while opposing states holding budget surpluses rather than returning funds to taxpayers.\n\n[Education] On education, the site prioritizes parental involvement in school decisions over what it describes as bureaucratic and union control, opposes \"progressive and woke indoctrination,\" and emphasizes traditional academics and student safety.\n\n[Security] On security, the site backs strong support for police and public-safety personnel and opposes efforts to defund police and prosecutors, citing a \"Legislator of the Year\" award from the Michigan Corrections Officers Organization.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, the site supports completing border-wall construction, backing enforcement tools for the Department of Homeland Security, Border Patrol, and ICE, and supports Title 42 deportation authority for public-health reasons.\n\n[Governance] The site also states a pro-life position opposing abortion access later in pregnancy and supporting parental-notification requirements for minors, and criticizes the Afghanistan withdrawal as part of a foreign-policy section.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "tombarrettforcongress.com", "url": "https://tombarrettforcongress.com/" }, { "title": "tombarrettforcongress.com/issues", "url": "https://tombarrettforcongress.com/issues/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-lawrence-2026", "name": "William Lawrence", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 7)", "region": "District 7, Michigan", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Lawrence, a progressive activist, is challenging Barrett on a platform centered on affordable housing, health care access, and redefining security around economic stability.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Lawrence's campaign focuses on cost-of-living struggles, opposing what he calls \"billionaire tax cuts,\" and leveling the playing field between tenants and landlords; affordable housing is described as central to his platform, including building more affordable units and addressing rental instability.\n\n[Health] He describes \"good health care\" as a basic human right and has criticized incumbent Tom Barrett for voting to remove an estimated 700,000 Michiganders from Medicaid.\n\n[Security] Lawrence reframes security beyond military spending to include food access, employment, wages, and housing stability, saying: \"Real security is knowing that you can afford your groceries next month.\"\n\n[Education] He lists \"good education\" among the fundamental entitlements he says every person deserves, without further detail in the coverage reviewed.\n\n[Governance] Lawrence emphasizes grassroots \"people's power\" as central to achieving his campaign's goals, without a specific institutional-reform proposal in the coverage reviewed.\n\n[Security] The coverage also notes his call to end U.S. military aid to Israel and redirect war spending toward domestic priorities.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Michigan Advance, Aug. 27, 2025", "url": "https://michiganadvance.com/2025/08/27/lansing-activist-joins-the-democratic-fray-for-michigans-7th-congressional-district/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-hines-2026", "name": "Christina Hines", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 10)", "region": "District 10, Michigan", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Hines, a former prosecutor, is running for this open Macomb County-area seat on a platform of lowering costs, expanding health coverage, and rejecting corporate PAC money.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign pledges to \"fight for good-paying Michigan jobs\" while taking on politicians and corporations she says are taking advantage of working families and driving up costs.\n\n[Health] The site's homepage lists \"Universal Healthcare\" as a named priority topic with a link to a more detailed plan; that underlying page was not independently reachable in this research.\n\n[Security] Drawing on her background as a prosecutor handling serious crimes, Hines's site says that in Congress she would fight for safer communities and push for the resources law enforcement needs to \"prevent violent crime and protect kids and seniors online.\"\n\n[Governance] On governance, the site states she is \"the only candidate in this race refusing corporate PAC money,\" and separately pledges to ban members of Congress from trading stocks and clean up corruption in Washington.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "christinahinesforcongress.com", "url": "https://www.christinahinesforcongress.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-bouchard-2026", "name": "Michael Bouchard", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 10)", "region": "District 10, Michigan", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Bouchard, an Army veteran, is running for this open seat on a platform aligned with the Trump administration's economic and border-security agenda.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Bouchard's campaign supports \"President Donald Trump's policies\" and calls for cutting regulations on businesses.\n\n[Security] Drawing on his military background, Bouchard calls to \"finish the border wall, restore the 'Remain in Mexico' policy, end catch-and-release.\"\n\n[Immigration] He proposes deporting \"immigrants who commit crimes.\"\n\n[Education] Bouchard says schools should return to teaching \"the basics.\"", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "bouchardforcongress.com", "url": "https://www.bouchardforcongress.com/" }, { "title": "Gander Newsroom, \"Hines vs. Bouchard: Meet the candidates in Michigan's 10th\"", "url": "https://gandernewsroom.com/news/elections/hines-vs-bouchard-michigan-cd10" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-ager-2026", "name": "Jamie Ager", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 11)", "region": "District 11, North Carolina", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Ager, a local farmer, is running for this open western North Carolina seat on a platform pairing support for small farmers with Medicare expansion and hurricane-recovery funding.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, Ager's platform page supports programs for first-time homebuyers and public-service employees, tax credits for energy efficiency, action against monopolization in food and utility industries, expanded childcare grants and child tax credits, a tax code where \"folks at the top pay their fair share,\" and eliminating taxes on tips.\n\n[Health] On health care, the platform pledges to defend Medicare and Medicaid from cuts, expand Medicare to cover dental, vision, and home- and community-based care, protect Medicare's drug-price negotiating power, implement a public option, and expand mental-health services.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] As a farmer himself, Ager's platform promotes small farmers and entrepreneurial agriculture, backs local grass-fed beef in school meal programs, supports young-farmer initiatives including land ownership and right-to-repair legislation, and pledges to strengthen SNAP and WIC.\n\n[Security] On security, the platform calls for increased funding for firefighter pay and rural fire stations, more investment in law-enforcement training and compensation, and improved crisis preparedness.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, the platform calls broadly for \"comprehensive immigration reform that treats people with dignity,\" without further itemized detail.\n\n[Infrastructure] On infrastructure, the platform prioritizes Hurricane Helene recovery funding, protecting national parks and public lands from sale, and expanding rural broadband and cell coverage.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the platform proposes banning congressional stock trading, campaign-finance reform targeting dark money, stronger ethics and anti-corruption rules, and reducing burdensome regulation.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "agerforcongress.com", "url": "https://agerforcongress.com/" }, { "title": "agerforcongress.com/platform", "url": "https://agerforcongress.com/platform" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-balkcom-2026", "name": "Jennifer Balkcom", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 11)", "region": "District 11, North Carolina", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Balkcom, a state legislator substituted onto the ballot after the original GOP nominee withdrew, is running for this open seat on an agriculture-focused, limited-government platform.", "manifesto": "[Agriculture/Food] Balkcom called the H-2A agricultural guest-worker program \"broken\" and said she wants it made reliable, simple, and affordable; she supports the bipartisan Securing Workforce Act to reform the program, favors more flexible crop-insurance rules, easier federal disaster-relief access for small farms (citing her state-house work on Hurricane Helene recovery), and cutting what she calls unnecessary regulatory burdens on farm labor and food safety while still working to open markets for farmers.\n\n[Immigration] Her support for the Securing Workforce Act — a bipartisan agricultural guest-worker reform bill — is her one stated immigration-adjacent position in the coverage reviewed.\n\n[Governance] Balkcom said at the forum that she opposes one-size-fits-all government programs, stating \"I don't want government running your farms,\" while still supporting reasonable guardrails and accountability for bad actors.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "jenniferbalkcom.com", "url": "https://www.jenniferbalkcom.com/" }, { "title": "Hendersonville Lightning, \"Ager and Balkcom tout ties to farming during candidate forum\"", "url": "https://www.hendersonvillelightning.com/news/16278-ager-and-balkcom-tout-ties-to-farming-during-candidate-forum.html" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-lawler-2026", "name": "Mike Lawler", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 17) (seeking re-election)", "region": "District 17, New York", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Lawler is seeking re-election in a Hudson Valley swing district, running on tax relief, health-care initiatives, and a bipartisan legislative record.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the site cites tax relief for working families, seniors, and small businesses, quadrupling the SALT deduction cap to $40,000, an expanded Child Tax Credit for low-income families, eliminating taxes on Social Security income for seniors, tax credits for school supplies and youth sports equipment, and opposition to congestion pricing.\n\n[Health] On health care, the site cites extending ACA subsidies, securing $3 billion in federal funding for vulnerable hospitals, introducing the IVF Access and Affordability Act, expanded provider access, veterans'-healthcare improvements, expanded emergency-room capacity, and lowering the eligible age for cost-free breast-cancer screenings.\n\n[Security] On security, the site cites tens of millions of dollars in federal funding for law enforcement, opposition to cashless bail laws, tax relief for police and firefighter pensions, tougher penalties for school \"swatting\" incidents, and red-flag laws paired with due-process protections.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, the site cites border-security measures and reversing what it calls Biden-era policies, cosponsoring the Dignity Act, opposing sanctuary policies for criminal migrants, tougher fentanyl-trafficking penalties, and expanding legal immigration tied to workforce needs.\n\n[Education] On education, the site cites opposition to New York's migrant-services spending, cosponsoring the Educational Choice for Children Act, support for career and technical education, a 2% cap on student-loan interest rates, and parental-rights advocacy.\n\n[Infrastructure] On infrastructure and energy, the site cites advocacy to reopen the Indian Point nuclear plant, an \"all of the above\" energy strategy, natural-gas infrastructure expansion, opposition to New York's climate law (CLCPA) mandates, and federal permitting reform for pipelines and transmission lines.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the site cites $2.1 trillion in taxpayer savings the campaign attributes to spending caps, investigations into financial wrongdoing, and a focus on eliminating waste and fraud.\n\n[Infrastructure] The site also cites the NY-NY Watershed Protection Act on environmental policy.\n\n[Security] The site also describes a proposed NATO-like Indo-Pacific alliance, support for Ukraine, and support for Israel under foreign policy.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "lawlerforcongress.com", "url": "https://www.lawlerforcongress.com/" }, { "title": "lawlerforcongress.com/issues", "url": "https://www.lawlerforcongress.com/issues/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-conley-2026", "name": "Cait Conley", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 17)", "region": "District 17, New York", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Conley, a former National Security Council official, is challenging Lawler on a platform of expanding health coverage, tackling utility costs, and congressional ethics reform.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign's policy page calls for fully ending the SALT tax cap, passing the PRO Act and other pro-worker legislation, investing in trade-skills retraining, and supporting small businesses through reduced red tape and expanded access to capital.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign proposes a public health-insurance option people could opt into, defending the ACA and Medicaid, expanding Medicare to cover vision, dental, and hearing, capping insulin at $35, restoring federal funding for Planned Parenthood, and codifying Roe v. Wade to protect abortion, contraception, and IVF access.\n\n[Security] On security and foreign policy, the campaign calls for ending military escalation with Iran through diplomacy, restoring USAID funding, supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression, and pursuing a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, the campaign calls for reining in ICE with body cameras and visible identification requirements, revoking local-police 287(g) agreements with ICE, creating a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants and Dreamers, and modernizing the system to reduce backlogs and speed asylum processing.\n\n[Education] On education, the campaign calls for expanded childcare subsidies and universal pre-K, expanded Career and Technical Education and community-college/apprenticeship programs, a cap on federal student-loan interest rates, and modernizing public-school infrastructure while opposing voucher programs.\n\n[Infrastructure] On infrastructure, the campaign calls for investment in energy, water, sewer, and transportation systems, lowering electric bills by holding utility companies accountable, investing in renewable-energy projects, and addressing PFAS water contamination.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the campaign calls for banning congressional stock trading and requiring divestment, congressional term limits, overturning Citizens United, and a post-office lobbying ban for elected officials. It also proposes restoring CISA's election-security mission and passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.\n\n[Infrastructure] The site also proposes housing measures (public-service housing loans, simplified zoning, corporate-landlord crackdowns) and AI-specific rules on age verification, data privacy, and data-center regulation.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "caitconley.com", "url": "https://caitconley.com/" }, { "title": "caitconley.com/policy", "url": "https://caitconley.com/policy/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-kaptur-2026", "name": "Marcy Kaptur", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 9) (seeking re-election)", "region": "District 9, Ohio", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Kaptur, the longest-serving woman in House history, is seeking re-election in a reshaped northern Ohio district on a platform defending domestic manufacturing, farmers, and Social Security.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the site opposes what it calls unfair trade agreements and tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas, supports tariffs to protect Ohio factories, backs job-training and technical-skills programs as alternatives to four-year degrees, and pledges to defend Social Security and Medicare from cuts or privatization while lowering healthcare, prescription-drug, and grocery costs.\n\n[Health] On health care, the site opposes a national abortion ban, stating reproductive decisions belong \"between a woman and her doctor,\" and opposes criminalizing reproductive health care.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] On agriculture, the site backs small farmers and environmentally sound farming practices, opposes farm consolidation and absentee ownership, and promotes urban agriculture and ecosystem rehabilitation.\n\n[Security] On defense, the site supports modern defense systems and Northern Ohio's defense-industrial base, argues for congressional authority over presidential war decisions, and notes her opposition to the Iraq War authorization.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, the site supports secure borders paired with legal-immigration processes, expanding border-security staffing and technology, opposes family separation at the border, and backs comprehensive immigration reform along the lines of a 2024 Senate proposal.\n\n[Infrastructure] On energy and infrastructure, the site backs an \"all of the above\" energy approach including solar, wind, geothermal, and biofuels, home-weatherization programs, affordable-housing development and rehabilitation, and cites her authorship of the Restoring Communities Left Behind Act. It also prioritizes Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding to address algal blooms and invasive species.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the site backs repealing Citizens United and limiting election spending and expanding ballot access, and separately proposes the Return to Prudent Banking Act to reinstate Glass-Steagall-style bank separation.\n\n[Security] The site also cites her role passing the PACT Act for veterans, securing VA clinic funding, and preserving Toledo's 180th Fighter Wing under veterans' issues.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "marcykaptur.com", "url": "https://marcykaptur.com/" }, { "title": "marcykaptur.com/issues", "url": "https://marcykaptur.com/issues/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-merrin-2026", "name": "Derek Merrin", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 9)", "region": "District 9, Ohio", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Merrin, a former state legislator, is challenging Kaptur in a rematch on a platform of tax cuts, school choice, and lower health-care costs.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the site cites his record on \"lower taxes, simplifying the tax code, and promoting transparency,\" including income-tax cuts and repealing taxes on prescription eyewear and small-business investment.\n\n[Health] On health care, the site cites advocacy for policies to \"reduce healthcare costs, promote price transparency,\" and ensure better patient access through fewer regulations.\n\n[Education] On education, the site cites his record expanding school choice and pushing measures informing school counselors about trade careers and helping GED recipients access in-state tuition.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the site cites his legislative work on voter-ID requirements, property-tax reform, and ballot-transparency measures.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "derekmerrin.com", "url": "https://www.derekmerrin.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-mackenzie-2026", "name": "Ryan Mackenzie", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 7) (seeking re-election)", "region": "District 7, Pennsylvania", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Mackenzie is seeking re-election in the Lehigh Valley, running on tax relief, border security, and an affordable-housing tax-credit expansion.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the site cites tax relief including increasing the standard deduction and eliminating taxes on Social Security for \"nearly 90% of seniors,\" advocacy for tighter control of government spending, and bipartisan support for expanding the Child Tax Credit and childcare tax credits.\n\n[Health] On health care, the site cites work against insurance companies and intermediaries it says inflate prices, legislation described as putting \"patients before profits,\" and a record of voting to increase Medicare funding every year with no cuts, plus initiatives to reduce prescription-drug costs.\n\n[Security] On security, the site cites securing millions of dollars for law enforcement and first responders, attributing record-low local crime rates in part to border security and anti-drug-trade efforts.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, the site claims credit for having \"secured America's border from illegal immigration\" and securing new resources to combat human trafficking and drug smuggling.\n\n[Infrastructure] Under a housing-affordability heading, the site cites passing what it calls the \"largest-ever expansion of affordable housing tax credits,\" projected to create over a million housing units nationwide, plus tens of millions of dollars brought to the Lehigh Valley and Poconos region through federal advocacy.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the site cites leading efforts to restrict congressional stock trading, backing congressional term-limits legislation, and membership in the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus, for which it says he earned a Center Forward Good Governance Award.\n\n[Security] The site also cites veterans'-focused work — raising active-duty pay, expanding childcare access, and quality-of-life measures for service members.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "mackenzieforcongress.com", "url": "https://www.mackenzieforcongress.com/" }, { "title": "mackenzieforcongress.com/issues", "url": "https://www.mackenzieforcongress.com/issues/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-brooks-2026", "name": "Bob Brooks", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 7)", "region": "District 7, Pennsylvania", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Brooks, a firefighter and union leader, is challenging Mackenzie on a platform of Medicare for All, campaign-finance reform, and expanded transit investment in the Lehigh Valley.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, Brooks's issues page calls for repealing Citizens United, banning congressional stock trading, term limits, raising taxes on the wealthy including a billionaire minimum tax, repealing the Trump Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, raising the minimum wage and tying it to inflation, strengthening unions through the PRO Act, and enforcing price-gouging and antitrust rules; it also calls for protecting Social Security and passing a \"Medicare/Social Security Fair Share Act.\"\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign calls for implementing Medicare for All, restoring Medicaid cuts, reducing drug prices for medications like insulin and beta-blockers, expanding provider access in underserved areas, and reducing reliance on private-insurance profits.\n\n[Security] On public safety, the campaign backs fully funding first responders, investing in mental-health and addiction services, and defending collective bargaining for first responders, alongside veterans' healthcare, mental-health services, job training, and housing support and reversing VA funding cuts.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, the campaign calls for securing the border \"while treating people humanely,\" creating pathways to citizenship for law-abiding immigrants, and ending what it calls authoritarian enforcement practices.\n\n[Education] On education and childcare, the campaign calls for repealing Republican Head Start cuts, childcare subsidies, expanded pre-K and universal kindergarten, adequately funding public schools without vouchers, protecting teacher collective bargaining, and expanding vocational training and student-debt relief.\n\n[Infrastructure] On infrastructure, the campaign calls for expanding capacity at Lehigh Valley International Airport, restoring passenger rail service to Philadelphia and New York, improving traffic flow on Routes 22, 33, and 78, and supporting SEPTA expansion; it separately proposes restoring renewable-energy programs and investing in nuclear and natural-gas power.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the campaign calls for a constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United, a ban on congressional stock trading, and stopping the firing of inspectors general.\n\n[Governance] The campaign's issues page also addresses regional concerns specific to Carbon County and the Lehigh Valley — limiting warehouse and data-center growth and preserving farmland — plus LGBTQ+ rights, gun policy, and foreign policy positions on Ukraine and Iran.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "brooksforcongress.com", "url": "https://www.brooksforcongress.com/" }, { "title": "brooksforcongress.com/issues", "url": "https://www.brooksforcongress.com/issues/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-bresnahan-2026", "name": "Rob Bresnahan", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 8) (seeking re-election)", "region": "District 8, Pennsylvania", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Bresnahan is seeking re-election in northeastern Pennsylvania on a platform of tax cuts, border security, and protecting Social Security and Medicare.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the site calls to stop reckless spending, get inflation under control, and cut taxes so people keep more of what they earn, and, drawing on his background running a union electrical-contracting company, pledges policies to get Pennsylvania back to work and create \"good, family-sustaining jobs.\"\n\n[Security] On public safety, the site commits to standing \"with law enforcement\" and ensuring resources to combat the fentanyl crisis, citing his personal record of supporting local police.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, the site calls to \"secure the border, build the wall,\" and reverse policies it blames for the flow of illegal drugs and criminals into local communities.\n\n[Governance] The site's homepage lists Social Security and Medicare protection among its six featured issue areas, pledging no benefit cuts and no increase to the retirement age, framed as the government \"keeping its promise to every American.\"", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "robforpa.com", "url": "https://robforpa.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-cognetti-2026", "name": "Paige Cognetti", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 8)", "region": "District 8, Pennsylvania", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Cognetti, Scranton's sitting mayor, is challenging Bresnahan on an anti-corruption and anti-monopoly platform drawn from her record managing the city's finances.", "manifesto": "[Governance] On governance, the campaign's priorities page centers heavily on what it calls its Anti-Corruption Agenda: banning congressional stock trading, rejecting corporate PAC money, auditing the federal government to \"cut waste, fraud, and abuse,\" and requiring full transparency from data-center developers, including prohibiting non-disclosure agreements.\n\n[Economy] On the economy, the campaign calls for breaking up large monopolies and big-box chains it says harm small businesses and consumer choice, capping credit-card and other hidden fees, and implementing targeted rather than broad tariffs to protect manufacturing; it also says data-center companies should \"pay their own way\" without tax breaks or subsidies.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign calls for preventing insurance intermediaries from denying doctor-prescribed medications and care, and expanding healthcare-marketplace access to support small-business employment.\n\n[Infrastructure] On infrastructure, the campaign calls for reshoring manufacturing jobs — including defense manufacturing — to Northeastern Pennsylvania, streamlining permitting for business growth, accelerating safe-streets, bridge, and passenger-rail projects, and prohibiting data centers near residential areas, schools, and parks.\n\n[Economy] The campaign also calls for strengthening unions and requiring local union labor on data-center construction, and for paid family leave and affordable childcare.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "paigeforpa.com", "url": "https://paigeforpa.com/" }, { "title": "paigeforpa.com/priorities", "url": "https://paigeforpa.com/priorities/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-perry-2026", "name": "Scott Perry", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 10) (seeking re-election)", "region": "District 10, Pennsylvania", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Perry is seeking re-election in south-central Pennsylvania on a fiscally conservative platform of balanced budgets, energy development, and opposition to government-run health care.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the site backs a Balanced Budget Amendment, reduced government regulation, lowering the national debt, and tax cuts for families and small businesses, while opposing what it describes as Biden-Harris spending increases.\n\n[Health] On health care, the site calls for guaranteeing coverage for pre-existing conditions, reducing prescription-drug costs, expanding health savings accounts, and allowing interstate health-insurance purchases, while opposing government-run health care and rejecting \"Medicare for All.\"\n\n[Agriculture/Food] On agriculture, the site calls for reducing what it describes as unnecessary federal farm regulations and supporting Pennsylvania farming families and agribusiness.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, the site calls for securing the border, deporting violent criminals, drug dealers, and terrorists, banning sanctuary cities, and providing Border Patrol with adequate resources, while supporting the legal immigration system.\n\n[Infrastructure] On energy and transportation, the site calls for a \"balanced energy portfolio\" combining clean and traditional sources, advancing Pennsylvania's natural-gas reserves, and promoting hydroelectric and nuclear power toward energy independence; separately, it calls for maintaining safe, efficient roads, bridges, airports, and seaports.\n\n[Governance] The site also states positions preserving Medicare and Social Security without extending them to undocumented immigrants, opposing transgender athletes in women's sports, a pro-life position with exceptions for rape, incest, and maternal danger, Second Amendment protections, and expanded veterans' healthcare and education benefits.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "patriotsforperry.com", "url": "https://patriotsforperry.com/" }, { "title": "patriotsforperry.com/issues", "url": "https://patriotsforperry.com/issues" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-stelson-2026", "name": "Janelle Stelson", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 10)", "region": "District 10, Pennsylvania", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Stelson, a former local news anchor, is challenging Perry for the second straight cycle on an affordability, health-care, and congressional-ethics-reform platform.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign's priorities page calls for tax breaks aimed at the middle class rather than billionaires, permanent \"no tax on tips or overtime,\" repealing tariffs it says raise costs, and cutting wasteful spending to address the national deficit; on housing specifically, it calls for stopping corporate home purchases, cutting building red tape, and expanding small-dollar loans.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign calls for high-quality, affordable care with better urgent- and primary-care access, allowing government negotiation of prescription-drug prices, banning surprise medical billing and ambulance-billing loopholes, removing medical debt from credit reports, and expanding veterans' health benefits.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] On agriculture, the campaign prioritizes passing a five-year Farm Bill, lowering farm input costs, breaking up consolidation in chicken processing, strengthening avian-flu disease-prevention support, and protecting farmers' right to repair their own equipment.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, the campaign supports stronger border security using modern technology, deporting violent undocumented immigrants, opposing taxpayer benefits for undocumented immigrants, and requiring due process and visible identification for federal immigration officers.\n\n[Education] On education, the campaign prioritizes quality public schools, fair compensation for teachers and staff, addressing childcare and elder-care costs, and expanding paid leave for workers.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the campaign calls for a personal 12-year congressional term limit, congressional age limits, a ban on individual stock trading by members of Congress, a lifetime post-service lobbying ban, eliminating first-class flight perks for members, a constitutional amendment reversing Citizens United, and an independent Congressional Ethics Agency.\n\n[Governance] The campaign also opposes uncontrolled local data-center construction, unless communities can approve or reject projects themselves, and supports restoring federal abortion protections under Roe v. Wade and IVF access.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "janellestelson.com", "url": "https://janellestelson.com/" }, { "title": "janellestelson.com/priorities", "url": "https://janellestelson.com/priorities" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-de-la-cruz-2026", "name": "Monica De La Cruz", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 15) (seeking re-election)", "region": "District 15, Texas", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "De La Cruz is seeking re-election in South Texas on a platform of border security, energy deregulation, and support for farmers and ranchers.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the site calls for cutting wasteful federal spending it says is driving inflation, lowering taxes on working families and small businesses, ensuring affordable domestic energy production, and holding China accountable for its impact on the labor market.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] On agriculture, the site calls for reducing regulations on farmers and ranchers, opposing tariffs it says hinder farmers from reaching new customers, compensating ranchers and farmers for damages tied to illegal immigration, and resolving supply-chain issues affecting agricultural exports.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, the site calls for reinstating the \"Remain in Mexico\" policy, ending catch-and-release, building border infrastructure, adding Border Patrol and Customs personnel, expanding immigration-court capacity, and supporting E-Verify.\n\n[Infrastructure] Under an energy heading, the site calls for deregulation to lower energy costs, supporting oil and gas jobs, prioritizing U.S. energy independence, and supporting nuclear power development, while opposing \"Green New Deal\" initiatives.\n\n[Governance] On fiscal governance, the site calls for stopping deficit spending it says is driving inflation, pursuing a constitutional balanced-budget requirement, and creating incentives for federal employees who identify government waste.\n\n[Economy] The site also pledges to safeguard Medicare and Social Security benefits for seniors.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "monicaforcongress.us", "url": "https://monicaforcongress.us/" }, { "title": "monicaforcongress.us/issues", "url": "https://monicaforcongress.us/issues/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-vallejo-2026", "name": "Michelle Vallejo", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 15)", "region": "District 15, Texas", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Vallejo is challenging De La Cruz for a third consecutive cycle on a platform centered on health-care affordability and reproductive rights.", "manifesto": "[Health] On health care, the site describes South Texans as \"one trip to the hospital away from bankruptcy,\" and calls for allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription-drug prices and expanding Medicare benefits generally, along with opposing the incumbent's votes the campaign describes as jeopardizing Social Security and Medicare.\n\n[Economy] On the economy, the site points to wages that have \"been nearly stagnant\" against rising costs for housing, healthcare, food, and other necessities, and frames raising wages as a priority.\n\n[Health] The site also states that \"the government has no business being involved in women's private health decisions,\" opposing Texas's abortion restrictions, including for rape and incest survivors, and warning against threats to birth-control access — grouped here under Health.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "michellefortx15.com", "url": "https://www.michellefortx15.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-gonzalez-2026", "name": "Vicente Gonzalez", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 34) (seeking re-election)", "region": "District 34, Texas", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Gonzalez is seeking re-election in the Rio Grande Valley on a platform of education access, Medicare protection, and economic diversification for the border region.", "manifesto": "[Education] On education, the site calls for protecting Head Start and pre-K programs, increasing technology investment to close the digital divide, providing tuition-free higher learning for the first two years after high school, and expanding graduate programs, particularly in engineering and medicine.\n\n[Health] On health care, the site calls for protecting Medicare and Social Security as \"solemn promises,\" opposing privatizing Social Security or converting Medicare to a voucher system, making child care more affordable, and supporting family medical leave, alongside ensuring affordable healthcare access for working Texans.\n\n[Security] On security, the site calls for maintaining strong military and national defense, investing in first responders, \"smart border security,\" and increased port security, alongside fostering a collaborative relationship with Mexico.\n\n[Economy] On the economy, the site calls for economic diversification across trade, healthcare, agriculture, and manufacturing, promoting trade with Mexico as a job creator, and fighting for higher wages.\n\n[Security] The site also details veterans' priorities: a full VA hospital for South Texas, VA reform and modernization, expanded PTSD treatment and caregiver support, and strengthened GI Bill benefits.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "vicentegonzalez.com", "url": "https://vicentegonzalez.com/" }, { "title": "vicentegonzalez.com/issues", "url": "https://vicentegonzalez.com/issues/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-flores-2026", "name": "Eric Flores", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 34)", "region": "District 34, Texas", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Flores, a former prosecutor and Army officer, is challenging Gonzalez on a border-security and cost-of-living platform after defeating a higher-profile primary rival.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, Flores's priorities page calls for opposing federal spending that it says drives inflation, reducing regulatory burdens, and providing tax relief for small businesses, alongside supporting workforce development for local jobs.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] On agriculture, the campaign calls for protecting South Texas producers through legislation, providing crop insurance and disaster relief for extreme weather, opposing trade policies it says harm agricultural markets, and defending farm and ranch property rights.\n\n[Security] On security, the campaign's homepage lists \"secure the border\" and support for law enforcement among its headline priorities.\n\n[Infrastructure] On infrastructure, the campaign calls for securing federal funding for road, bridge, and port improvements, expanding rural broadband, and advocating for the Ports of Corpus Christi and Brownsville as economic assets; it separately calls for investment in water infrastructure and long-term regional water planning.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the campaign says it would hold federal agencies accountable for project delays that affect local jobs.\n\n[Security] The campaign's priorities page also commits to opposing cuts to seniors' earned benefits, expanding affordable prescription-drug access, and expanding VA care and disability-claims support for veterans.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "ericflores.com", "url": "https://www.ericflores.com/" }, { "title": "ericflores.com/priorities", "url": "https://www.ericflores.com/priorities" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-kiggans-2026", "name": "Jen Kiggans", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 2) (seeking re-election)", "region": "District 2, Virginia", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Kiggans, a nurse practitioner and Navy veteran, is seeking re-election in Hampton Roads on a platform of lower costs, expanded health-care access, and military readiness.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the site prioritizes cutting inflation and the cost of living, reducing federal spending, passing what it calls \"Working Families Tax Cuts,\" and expanding the Child Tax Credit, alongside pro-growth, lower-regulation policies for small businesses.\n\n[Health] As a nurse practitioner, Kiggans's site prioritizes affordability and access, citing a bipartisan effort to renew ACA tax credits, measures to lower prescription-drug costs, expanded mental-health resources and virtual care access, and protecting Medicare and Social Security from cuts.\n\n[Security] As a 10-year Navy veteran, the site commits to a well-funded military, infrastructure improvements at military installations, \"record investments in servicemember quality of life,\" and deterring threats from China, Russia, and Iran; it also cites work fully funding the VA and introducing the COPE Act for veteran-caregiver mental-health resources.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, the site backs the Trump administration's border-security approach, including funding to \"finish the wall,\" and cosponsoring the Laken Riley Act for interior enforcement.\n\n[Education] On education, the site prioritizes student safety and educational quality, opposes Critical Race Theory, backs school choice, and voted for the Parents' Bill of Rights.\n\n[Security] The site also states opposition to defunding police, support for expanded federal organized-retail-crime penalties, a position that abortion law should be set at the state level while opposing later-term abortion, and support for the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "jenforcongress.com", "url": "https://jenforcongress.com/" }, { "title": "jenforcongress.com/issues", "url": "https://jenforcongress.com/issues/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-luria-2026", "name": "Elaine Luria", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 2)", "region": "District 2, Virginia", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Luria, a former member of Congress and Navy veteran, is seeking a rematch against Kiggans on a platform of health-care affordability and anti-corruption reform.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign calls for lowering costs for working families by opposing tariffs and ending policies it says raise energy prices, supporting small-business job creation, campaign-finance reform to reduce dark money's influence, banning congressional stock trading by members and their families, and mandatory jail time for politicians who steal taxpayer funds.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign calls for restoring ACA premium subsidies, expanding Medicare's drug-negotiation authority, capping insulin at $35/month, cracking down on predatory medical-debt collectors and pharmaceutical monopolies, allowing military children to stay on Tricare until age 26, and expanding telehealth and rural health services while restoring Medicaid funding.\n\n[Security] On security, the campaign — drawing on her Navy background — calls for strengthening naval seapower, troop pay raises, and deterring Russia, China, and Iran, while opposing what it calls \"unnecessary and endless military intervention in the Middle East\"; it also calls for strengthening border security alongside a citizenship pathway for immigrants already here legally.\n\n[Immigration] See Security above — the campaign pairs stronger border security with a citizenship pathway for legal immigrants as one combined position.\n\n[Infrastructure] On infrastructure, the campaign calls for combating sea-level rise and funding climate-resilient infrastructure, opposing offshore drilling, and fully funding the EPA's Chesapeake Bay Program at $85 million.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the campaign calls for ending prediction-market insider trading by public servants, reforming the presidential pardon system to prevent favoritism, reversing Citizens United, and supporting the \"For the People Act.\"\n\n[Security] The campaign also calls for reversing federal (\"DOGE\") cuts affecting veterans' care and benefits and reducing VA red tape.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "elaineforcongress.com", "url": "https://elaineforcongress.com/" }, { "title": "elaineforcongress.com/issues", "url": "https://elaineforcongress.com/issues/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-gluesenkamp-perez-2026", "name": "Marie Gluesenkamp Perez", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 3) (seeking re-election)", "region": "District 3, Washington", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Gluesenkamp Perez is seeking a third term in a rural, Trump-won district on a platform of anti-monopoly economics, right-to-repair, and workforce training.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the site opposes grocery-chain mergers and what it calls deceptive packaging, supports workforce training and higher wages, states the campaign \"doesn't take money from special interests,\" backs banning stock trading by members of Congress, advocates streamlining SBA loan applications for small businesses and trades entrepreneurs, and promotes American manufacturing while opposing what it calls unfair trade practices.\n\n[Health] On health care, the site commits to \"ensuring every woman can see a doctor whenever she wants,\" and, on substance abuse, pairs border security with treatment access and job opportunities to address the drug crisis.\n\n[Security] On security and the border, the site backs federal funding to boost police-officer and firefighter pay and fighting fentanyl trafficking and illegal guns.\n\n[Education] On education and workforce training, the site backs expanding apprenticeships and allowing Pell Grants to be used for job training rather than only four-year college, alongside expanding the Child Tax Credit and flexible childcare options for working families.\n\n[Infrastructure] On infrastructure, the site cites securing $600 million in funding for the I-5 bridge replacement to avoid new tolls.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the site repeats the position that members of Congress should be barred from stock trading to maintain public trust.\n\n[Economy] The site also states the campaign's \"right to repair\" position opposing manufacturer restrictions on equipment repair, and commits to protecting Social Security and Medicare without raising the retirement age or reducing benefits.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "marieforcongress.com", "url": "https://marieforcongress.com/" }, { "title": "marieforcongress.com/issues", "url": "https://marieforcongress.com/issues/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-braun-2026", "name": "John Braun", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 3)", "region": "District 3, Washington", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Braun, a state senator, is challenging Gluesenkamp Perez on a platform of border security, education parental rights, and salmon-habitat restoration.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the site calls for cutting wasteful spending it says feeds inflation, reducing red tape on small manufacturers, and protecting the skilled-trades sector.\n\n[Education] On education, the site backs a federal Parents' Bill of Rights and opposes policies that exclude guardians from classroom decisions; it also cites Braun's authorship of a state tuition-reduction program and advocates federal measures to control college costs and expand trades training.\n\n[Security] On crime and homelessness, the site calls for combining \"compassion with enforcement\" — closing open-air drug markets, supporting camping bans where shelter is available, increasing fentanyl interdiction, and funding detox and mental-health services.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration and the border, the site calls for completing border barriers, hiring more agents, deploying technology, tightening asylum loopholes, and targeting cartel supply chains, criticizing his opponent's vote against the 2023 Secure the Border Act.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] Under a natural-resources heading, the site calls for funding sea-lion removal operations, hatcheries, culverts, and habitat restoration to support salmon recovery — a priority tied closely to the district's fishing and farming communities.\n\n[Infrastructure] On energy, the site backs \"market-based\" energy production spanning hydropower, solar, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, and rejects foreign energy dependence.\n\n[Security] The site also states defense-and-veterans positions — supporting a modernized military, faster veteran-care access, and rebuilding the industrial/manufacturing base — and governance positions on gun rights and women's sports under Title IX.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "votebraun.com", "url": "https://www.votebraun.com/" }, { "title": "votebraun.com/issues", "url": "https://www.votebraun.com/issues" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-van-orden-2026", "name": "Derrick Van Orden", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 3) (seeking re-election)", "region": "District 3, Wisconsin", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Van Orden is seeking a third term on the House Agriculture Committee's strength in dairy country, running on health-care reform, border security, and rural infrastructure funding.", "manifesto": "[Health] On health care, the site says the goal is to replace the Affordable Care Act with a more competitive system to reduce costs while protecting people with pre-existing conditions during any transition; it also cites securing $1 billion annually for Wisconsin's BadgerCare program, $600,000 for ambulance services, and $500 million for rural-hospital infrastructure.\n\n[Economy] On the economy, the site backs the \"Working Family Tax Cuts\" to help families keep more of their earnings and frames its record against what it describes as four difficult years under the prior administration.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] On agriculture, the site cites Van Orden's seat on the House Agriculture Committee — described as the first Wisconsin member on the committee in over a decade — his sponsorship of the Dairy Business Innovation Act supporting Wisconsin's dairy sector, and his Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, which the site says has been signed into law.\n\n[Security] On security, the site backs strong support for law enforcement and Border Patrol resources and backs classifying fentanyl as a controlled substance.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, the site states \"without borders, we are, by definition, not a nation\" and backs the Trump administration's border policies and deportation of immigrants convicted of crimes.\n\n[Infrastructure] On infrastructure, the site commits to safe drinking water, road and bridge maintenance, and rural broadband, citing millions secured for water-safety projects and $350 million for PFAS-related firefighting-foam alternatives.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the site backs \"term limits on all legislators.\" Separately, on data centers, it requires local community consent before development, prohibits converting farmland for data-center use, and mandates utility agreements covering infrastructure costs and water-protective cooling technology before construction.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "vanordenforcongress.com", "url": "https://www.vanordenforcongress.com/" }, { "title": "vanordenforcongress.com/issues", "url": "https://www.vanordenforcongress.com/issues" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-cooke-2026", "name": "Rebecca Cooke", "office": "U.S. Representative (District 3)", "region": "District 3, Wisconsin", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Cooke is challenging Van Orden for a third straight cycle on a platform of lower costs, expanded Medicare, and anti-corruption reform.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On the economy, the campaign's priorities page calls for raising the federal minimum wage to $15/hour, tax credits for first-time homebuyers, expanded tax deductions and credits for small businesses, cutting permitting and licensing red tape, addressing corporate price-gouging at gas pumps and grocery stores, and community block grants for rural affordable housing.\n\n[Health] On health care, the campaign calls for capping out-of-pocket prescription-drug costs at $30/month for essential medications, expanding Medicare to cover vision, dental, and hearing, reversing Medicaid and ACA cuts, funding rural hospitals, addressing healthcare-sector antitrust issues, and gradually lowering the Medicare eligibility age. It also backs upholding Roe v. Wade, federal funding for Planned Parenthood, and ending the Hyde Amendment.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] On agriculture, the campaign calls for expanding export markets for commodities, enforcing antitrust laws against large agricultural conglomerates, protecting farmland from foreign purchases, ending tariff-driven trade tensions, tax incentives for small and midsize farms, and establishing rural cooperatives to boost farmer profits.\n\n[Security] On security, the campaign calls for fully funding law enforcement to maintain community safety and for protecting the border, without further itemized detail.\n\n[Education] On education, the campaign calls for increased early-childhood education funding (Head Start and preschool), teacher pay raises and signing bonuses, refinancing student loans at mortgage-like rates, doubling Pell Grant values for low- and moderate-income families, and expanding student mental-health resources.\n\n[Infrastructure] On infrastructure and energy, the campaign calls for expanding wind, solar, and hydro projects using union labor, supporting small modular nuclear research, investing in mass transit including high-speed rail, addressing PFAS water contamination, and regulating major corporate polluters.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the campaign calls for banning stock trading by members of Congress and the White House, ending Citizens United and dark money in politics, enforcing congressional term limits, and establishing constituent-focused district offices with dedicated caseworkers.\n\n[Economy] The campaign also calls for passing the PRO Act, protecting prevailing-wage rules, and a moratorium on unchecked data-center construction.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "cookeforwisconsin.com", "url": "https://cookeforwisconsin.com/" }, { "title": "cookeforwisconsin.com/priorities", "url": "https://cookeforwisconsin.com/priorities/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-27T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-bass-la-2026", "name": "Karen Bass", "office": "Mayor of Los Angeles", "region": "Los Angeles, California", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Karen Bass, the incumbent mayor of Los Angeles, is seeking a second term in the November 2026 runoff on a record of falling crime and declining street homelessness, set against the city's ongoing affordability and housing-production challenges.", "manifesto": "[Security] On public safety, her campaign points to citywide crime reductions during her tenure, including homicide levels it says are the lowest since the 1960s, alongside increased LAPD hiring after years of department attrition, a new Office of Community Safety for non-police response to mental-health and homelessness-related crises, and expanded community violence-intervention programs.\n\n[Economy] On housing and homelessness, the campaign cites the city's first back-to-back annual decreases in street homelessness, work moving people from encampments into interim and permanent housing, nearly 40,000 housing units advanced during her term, and the city's first update to its rent-stabilization rules in roughly four decades, aimed at limiting rent increases and expanding tenant protections. On jobs, it points to a new city film czar position, reduced permitting fees for businesses, and an expanded state film and television tax credit meant to bring production work back to Los Angeles.\n\n[Infrastructure] On infrastructure, the campaign cites the city's first dedicated plan for repairing streets, sidewalks, and streetlights after years of deferred maintenance, alongside breaking ground on a long-delayed downtown convention center expansion.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, Bass has been a vocal opponent of federal immigration-enforcement actions and military deployments in the city, organizing with other mayors around protections for immigrant residents.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Karen Bass for Mayor of Los Angeles", "url": "https://www.karenbass.com/" }, { "title": "Why I'm Running — Karen Bass", "url": "https://www.karenbass.com/why-im-running" }, { "title": "How We Changed LA — Karen Bass", "url": "https://www.karenbass.com/how-we-changed-la" }, { "title": "2026 Los Angeles mayor voter guide — LAist", "url": "https://laist.com/news/politics/voter-guides/2026-election-california-general-los-angeles-mayor" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-raman-la-2026", "name": "Nithya Raman", "office": "Mayor of Los Angeles", "region": "Los Angeles, California", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Nithya Raman, a Los Angeles City Councilmember, is challenging incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in the November 2026 runoff on a platform of faster housing construction, stronger renter protections, and greater accountability for homelessness spending.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On housing, her campaign calls for roughly tripling the citywide pace of housing construction across affordable, market-rate, social, and shelter housing, pointing to Los Angeles as having among the fewest homes per adult resident of any major U.S. city. On renters, who make up roughly two-thirds of Angelenos, she points to her own council record — capping rent increases, expanding \"just cause\" eviction protections citywide, requiring faster notice of eviction filings, and passing a Right to Counsel policy for tenants facing eviction — as a model for a citywide renter-protection agenda. On small business, she proposes treating City Hall as a partner with firm permitting deadlines and a single point of contact, and on the film industry, a dedicated City Hall film office with faster, cheaper permitting to help recover production jobs lost to other states and countries.\n\n[Governance] On homelessness, she argues current spending lacks accountability, citing figures suggesting a large share of people moved indoors under the current administration's flagship program have since returned to the streets, and proposes a citywide Bureau of Homelessness Oversight modeled on one she created in her own council district, with published performance metrics for shelters and outreach programs. On the 2025 Palisades fire recovery, she has criticized the pace of rebuilding and turnover in the city's recovery leadership, calling for a single accountable point of authority.\n\n[Security] On public safety, she describes her approach as rejecting a \"binary choice of defunding the police or defending business as usual,\" proposing instead to scale up unarmed crisis-response teams integrated into 911 dispatch, set weekly mayoral performance reviews of LAPD deployment, strengthen oversight through the Police Commission and Inspector General, and fund community violence-intervention programs.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, Raman says she authored the city's sanctuary ordinance limiting local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, campaigns under the slogan \"Immigrants in, ICE out,\" and has pledged to make Los Angeles the strongest sanctuary city in the country.\n\n[Infrastructure] On transportation, she points to voter-approved transit funding under Measures R, M, and HLA and argues the city has been slow to deliver on it, citing her council district's bike-lane record as a model; on climate, she frames public transit and infill housing as the city's main levers for cutting emissions, alongside investment in parks, shade, and preparation for wildfire, heat, and drought.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Nithya Raman for LA Mayor", "url": "https://www.nithyaforthecity.com/" }, { "title": "2026 Los Angeles mayor voter guide — LAist", "url": "https://laist.com/news/politics/voter-guides/2026-election-california-general-los-angeles-mayor" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-lee-oakland-2026", "name": "Barbara Lee", "office": "Mayor of Oakland", "region": "Oakland, California", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Barbara Lee, Oakland's incumbent mayor since 2025 and a former longtime U.S. Representative, is running for a full four-year term on a record of public-safety, homelessness, and City Hall reform initiatives.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Lee points to a series of steps meant to make Oakland easier to do business in, including faster permit reviews for downtown small businesses, a same-day permit-approval option, and a multimillion-dollar investment in modernizing the city's permitting system. She also highlights passing a balanced city budget and creating the One Oakland Fund, a philanthropic vehicle she says has already drawn hundreds of thousands of dollars in outside commitments to support city priorities.\n\n[Security] On public safety, Lee cites funding for five new police academy classes, added money to crack down on illegal sideshows, and a new corps of community safety ambassadors deployed to commercial corridors in partnership with business owners and police leadership. She frames these steps as part of a broader push to reduce gun violence and stabilize neighborhoods that struggled under previous administrations.\n\n[Infrastructure] Lee created a new Office of Homelessness Solutions and says she has lined up county and state funding for housing assistance, framing homelessness as a problem to be solved by building capacity rather than relying on enforcement alone. She also touts a citywide cleanup effort her campaign calls \"Keep the Town Clean,\" which it says has hauled away thousands of tons of illegally dumped debris, alongside wildfire-prevention work that cleared more than a thousand acres of brush in high fire-risk zones and secured state CAL FIRE grant funding.\n\n[Governance] Lee has convened a charter reform working group tasked with recommending changes to how Oakland's city government operates, with findings expected around November 2026, and points to a partnership with the League of Women Voters aimed at making City Hall more transparent and efficient. She presents this institutional-reform push as central to restoring public trust after a period of scandal and turnover at the top of city government.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Meet Mayor Barbara Lee — Barbara Lee for Oakland Mayor | Official Campaign Website", "url": "https://barbaralee4oakland.com/about" }, { "title": "100 Days — Barbara Lee for Oakland Mayor | Official Campaign Website", "url": "https://barbaralee4oakland.com/100days" }, { "title": "Four Candidates, Including Incumbent Barbara Lee, Qualify for Oakland Mayor's Race", "url": "https://www.postnewsgroup.com/four-candidates-including-incumbent-barbara-lee-qualify-for-oakland-mayors-race/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-grisham-oakland-2026", "name": "Brenda Grisham", "office": "Mayor of Oakland", "region": "Oakland, California", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Brenda Grisham, an East Oakland business owner and public-safety advocate who led the recall of former District Attorney Pamela Price, is challenging the incumbent on a platform of crime prevention, accountability, and neighborhood-focused governance.", "manifesto": "[Security] Grisham's central pitch is public safety, and she describes the race as being about \"the people, the fight for our neighborhoods, and the future of Oakland.\" Her site says she supports pushing for stricter gun-control measures in coordination with local, state, and federal partners, alongside community violence-intervention programs meant to address crime at its roots rather than only after it occurs.\n\n[Governance] She frames her candidacy around government accountability and transparency, arguing that Oakland's dysfunction comes from no one being clearly responsible for solving specific problems, and pledges to put a single person in charge of tackling each major issue facing the city. She casts this kind of administrative discipline, more than any single policy program, as her core qualification for the job.\n\n[Economy] On the economic side, Grisham says she wants to support local businesses and spur economic development, alongside efforts to stabilize housing costs for existing residents. She has offered fewer specifics here than on public safety, but consistently ties economic revival to the same neighborhood-by-neighborhood approach she applies to crime.\n\n[Infrastructure] Grisham also emphasizes basic city upkeep, including improving street conditions and other core services, and argues that durable change in Oakland requires building a solid institutional foundation first. As she put it, \"you have to build a foundation to make a difference.\"", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Meet Brenda Grisham - Brenda For Oakland 2026", "url": "https://www.brendaforoakland.com/meet_brenda" }, { "title": "Community advocate Brenda Grisham announces plans to run for Oakland mayor", "url": "https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/brenda-grisham-plans-to-run-for-oakland-mayor/3938526/" }, { "title": "Four Candidates, Including Incumbent Barbara Lee, Qualify for Oakland Mayor's Race", "url": "https://www.postnewsgroup.com/four-candidates-including-incumbent-barbara-lee-qualify-for-oakland-mayors-race/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-pechenuk-oakland-2026", "name": "Mindy Pechenuk", "office": "Mayor of Oakland", "region": "Oakland, California", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "Mindy Pechenuk, an Oakland educator and registered Republican making her third bid for local office, is running on a hardline public-safety, anti-tax, and pro-development platform pitched as a common-sense alternative to the political establishment.", "manifesto": "[Security] Pechenuk's platform centers on a sharp increase in police staffing, from roughly 500 officers toward a target of 800, paired with a more aggressive approach to shutting down open-air drug markets; her site also expresses support for deploying the National Guard and aligns her homelessness and crime approach with federal initiatives pushed by the Trump administration. She opposes Oakland's civilian police commission and the MACRO alternative-response program, arguing both function as obstacles to conventional law enforcement rather than complements to it.\n\n[Economy] On the economy, she wants Oakland to court manufacturing and industrial employers, including by keeping the city's coal export terminal open and resisting restrictions on new data centers, arguing the city needs to \"bring Oakland into the 21st Century.\" She opposes new revenue measures such as parcel taxes and real-estate transfer taxes, casting her fiscal approach as growth-first rather than tax-first, and specifically opposes a parcel-tax measure and a data-center moratorium championed by a sitting council member.\n\n[Infrastructure] She has proposed a hard 30-day deadline for the city to act on complete building-permit applications, arguing that \"if the paperwork is complete, the city has one month\" to approve it, as part of a broader push to speed up construction and cut red tape for developers and small businesses alike.\n\n[Education] On schools, Pechenuk points to Mississippi's literacy-based grade-promotion policy as a model, arguing Oakland should stop advancing students to the next grade before they can read at grade level.\n\n[Immigration] Pechenuk also opposes a state bill, AB 2624, that would expand protections for people who report immigration-related fraud, arguing it complicates enforcement, and generally aligns her positions on immigration-adjacent issues with the more restrictionist wing of national politics.\n\n[Governance] She has also spoken out against a \"Strong Mayor\" charter-reform effort pushed by the current administration, arguing it would concentrate too much power at City Hall, and frames her own candidacy as an outsider correction to what she calls status-quo leadership.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Mindy Political Campaign | Elect Mindy", "url": "https://electmindy.com/" }, { "title": "News — Paid for by Pechenuk for Oakland Mayor 2026", "url": "https://electmindy.com/news" }, { "title": "Four Candidates, Including Incumbent Barbara Lee, Qualify for Oakland Mayor's Race", "url": "https://www.postnewsgroup.com/four-candidates-including-incumbent-barbara-lee-qualify-for-oakland-mayors-race/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-robinson-oakland-2026", "name": "Julius Robinson", "office": "Mayor of Oakland", "region": "Oakland, California", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Julius Robinson, a longtime banking and community-development executive making his first run for office, is campaigning on performance-based city management, expanded police staffing, and streamlined housing permitting.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Robinson wants Oakland's contracting process opened up to more local and minority-owned firms, proposing supplier-diversity programs and a new Oakland Opportunity Fund aimed at business development, alongside simplified access to city contracts for smaller companies. He argues that residents care less about ideology than about results, saying \"what I hear consistently from Oakland residents is less ideological\" than commonly assumed, and pointing instead toward practical concerns like safety, cost of living, and accountable spending.\n\n[Security] On public safety, he backs staffing the police department to at least 700 sworn officers while preserving existing civilian roles, and wants violence-prevention work tracked against clear, structured metrics rather than run as an open-ended program. This echoes an earlier public comment of his, made during coverage of the campaign to recall former mayor Sheng Thao, that \"there is a lack of infrastructure and leadership\" behind Oakland's public-safety problems.\n\n[Infrastructure] Robinson's housing platform calls for streamlining the city's permitting timelines, pairing new affordable-housing requirements on development with stronger protections for existing tenants. He frames faster, more predictable permitting as a way to get more housing built without abandoning affordability goals.\n\n[Governance] He also proposes performance-based budgeting tied to measurable results for individual city departments, along with a 100-day fiscal-transparency plan meant to give residents an early, concrete look at how a Robinson administration would run city government. This emphasis on management discipline is consistent with his framing of himself as a pragmatic outsider rather than a career politician.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Julius Robinson in His Own Words - by M. Ballard", "url": "https://citeline.substack.com/p/julius-robinson-in-his-own-words" }, { "title": "Oakland mayoral race: Here's who qualified", "url": "https://www.ktvu.com/news/oakland-mayoral-race-heres-who-qualified" }, { "title": "Four Candidates, Including Incumbent Barbara Lee, Qualify for Oakland Mayor's Race", "url": "https://www.postnewsgroup.com/four-candidates-including-incumbent-barbara-lee-qualify-for-oakland-mayors-race/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-cowell-raleigh-2026", "name": "Janet Cowell", "office": "Mayor of Raleigh", "region": "Raleigh, North Carolina", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan (previously registered Democrat)" }, "purpose": "Janet Cowell is the incumbent Mayor of Raleigh seeking a second term in the officially nonpartisan 2026 race, campaigning on managing the city's rapid growth through more affordable housing, transit and infrastructure investment, and continued public-safety funding.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Cowell frames housing affordability as the city's central economic challenge, arguing that Raleigh's rapid population growth has pushed home prices and rents up faster than local wages, squeezing out teachers, firefighters, and police officers who work in the city but increasingly cannot afford to live in it. Her plan leans on diversifying the housing stock, including duplexes, accessory units, and smaller-footprint homes alongside traditional single-family construction, and on deepening partnerships with nonprofit developers such as DHIC to build income-restricted units for lower-wage workers. She has also pointed to tax-increment financing, used in Charlotte and Durham, as a tool to direct new development revenue toward affordable housing rather than relying solely on the general fund.\n\n[Infrastructure] On growth and building, Cowell supports a comprehensive citywide rezoning process, carried out through public hearings and staff review rather than case-by-case fights, to set clearer rules for where and how new housing and commercial space get built. She backs continued construction of the city's Bus Rapid Transit corridors and additional water, sewer, and road investment to keep pace with new development and ease traffic congestion, and she has championed adding shelter beds and permanent supportive housing, developed with service partners, for Raleigh's unhoused population. She also lists protecting the tree canopy and building flood and storm resilience into new infrastructure as priorities as the city keeps growing.\n\n[Security] Cowell's public-safety approach centers on fully staffing the police and fire departments, citing reduced vacancy rates and competitive pay increases achieved during her first term, alongside continued investment in equipment, facilities, and training. She has pushed to broaden the city's response to behavioral-health emergencies by building partnerships with Wake County and the state so that mental-health crisis teams, not only police officers, can respond to some 911 calls. Her campaign also points to flat violent-crime rates during her first two years as evidence the current strategy is working and should continue.\n\n[Governance] Cowell describes her governing style as building partnerships, with Wake County, state government, nonprofits, and the business community, rather than having the city act alone on major problems, and her campaign has held community forums, including one focused on the Latino community's priorities around housing and safety in September 2026. She points to a new city hall project and the ongoing Smoky Hollow park redevelopment as examples of the kind of long-term, collaboratively planned public projects she wants to keep steering as mayor, while acknowledging pushback from some neighborhood groups over denser approvals, such as a 27-story tower on Peace Street, as a tradeoff of managing the city's growth.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Janet Cowell for Raleigh Mayor: Leadership, Community, Partnership", "url": "https://www.janetcowellformayor.com/" }, { "title": "FAQ - Janet Cowell for Raleigh Mayor", "url": "https://www.janetcowellformayor.com/faq" }, { "title": "Raleigh's 2026 Mayoral Election Explained", "url": "https://caro.news/raleighs-2026-mayoral-election-explained/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-greenberg-louisville-2026", "name": "Craig Greenberg", "office": "Mayor of Louisville", "region": "Louisville, Kentucky", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Incumbent Mayor of Louisville Metro seeking a second term in the city's first nonpartisan mayoral election, running on his first-term record of falling violent crime and major downtown redevelopment deals.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Greenberg points to job growth and a string of downtown redevelopment deals as evidence his approach is working, citing several thousand new jobs added in the past year. His 2026 state legislative agenda seeks hundreds of millions of dollars in additional funding to build on roughly $100 million in downtown investment already secured, covering projects such as the Community Care Campus, the Belvedere, a waterfront amphitheater, conversion of the former Humana headquarters building, and a fund to redevelop vacant downtown properties.\n\n[Security] Public safety is the centerpiece of Greenberg's re-election pitch, and he credits his administration with a meaningful drop in shootings and homicides during his term. He is pushing the state legislature for universal background checks on gun sales, a waiting period for first-time buyers, tighter concealed-carry rules for people under 25, and a ban on illegal automatic-fire conversion devices, alongside stable funding for community violence-intervention programs, tougher penalties for assaulting transit workers, and automated traffic enforcement in high-crash corridors. He is also seeking state funding for a new regional first-responder training facility in southwest Jefferson County.\n\n[Infrastructure] On housing supply, Greenberg is asking the state legislature to cut sales tax on building materials used for below-median-price homes, expand access to low-income housing tax credits, grow the pool of historic-preservation tax credits, enlarge the city's landbank board, and create new local housing-development districts to speed affordable projects. He also wants permanent state funding for the regional bus system (TARC), a dedicated fund for infrastructure tied to new housing, and a fresh master plan and added amenities for Jefferson Memorial Forest, plus investment in athletic facilities meant to draw tournaments to the city.\n\n[Health] Greenberg's agenda includes shielding Medicaid and food-assistance programs from state or federal cuts, expanding utility bill assistance for heating and cooling, and pushing for bans on utility shutoffs during extreme weather, framing these as protections for the city's most financially vulnerable residents.\n\n[Education] He is also seeking expanded state funding for early-childhood education through the city's Thrive by Five initiative and broader child-care assistance eligibility for public employees, positioning early learning access as part of his economic and family-support agenda.\n\n[Governance] Greenberg frames his leadership style around transparency and steady follow-through on commitments made in his first term. His legislative wish list also includes automatic restoration of voting rights for people who have completed felony sentences and modernized state eviction laws that would allow eligible tenants to have old eviction filings expunged from their records.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Craig Greenberg Mayor 2026", "url": "https://www.greenbergformayor.com/" }, { "title": "Louisville mayor outlines funding push ahead of 2026 legislative session", "url": "https://spectrumnews1.com/ky/louisville/news/2025/11/25/greenberg-unveils-2026-legislative-priorities" }, { "title": "2026 General Assembly Agenda | LouisvilleKY.gov", "url": "https://louisvilleky.gov/government/mayor-craig-greenberg/2026-general-assembly-agenda" }, { "title": "Mayor, Metro Council incumbents win big in Louisville primary", "url": "https://www.lpm.org/news/2026-05-19/mayor-metro-council-incumbents-win-big-in-louisville-primary" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-parrish-wright-louisville-2026", "name": "Shameka Parrish-Wright", "office": "Mayor of Louisville", "region": "Louisville, Kentucky", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Louisville Metro Council member for District 3 and longtime community organizer challenging incumbent Craig Greenberg for mayor, campaigning on affordable housing, anti-displacement protections, and government accountability to working-class neighborhoods.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Parrish-Wright's housing agenda centers on preventing displacement, including creating a city Department of Anti-Displacement and Equitable Development, expanding community land trusts, and stabilizing property tax bills for fixed-income seniors so they are not taxed out of their homes. She also proposes mediation and rental-assistance programs to help both renters and landlords avoid evictions, and wants to expand career pathways, apprenticeships, and paid internships in the arts, tech, and trades to give young Louisvillians more reason to build their futures in the city rather than leaving.\n\n[Infrastructure] She has called for redesigning bus routes around actual worker commute patterns, improving on-time reliability at the regional transit authority, and piloting micro-transit service in underserved parts of the county, alongside a search for more sustainable long-term transit funding. Her platform also includes expanding public amenities such as the undersized Shively branch library, additional swimming pools, and 24-hour community centers, plus installing modular public restroom units in busy commercial areas through public-private partnerships.\n\n[Health] For older residents, Parrish-Wright proposes expanded home-repair and accessibility assistance, better senior transportation options, and more neighborhood-based senior services in addition to the property-tax relief noted above. She also wants to strengthen the city's Commission for Persons with Disabilities, conduct regular ADA compliance audits of public facilities, build an accessibility tracking dashboard, and add workforce incentives to encourage hiring of people with disabilities.\n\n[Immigration] Parrish-Wright is pushing what her campaign calls a \"Louisville for All\" approach that would expand multilingual city services and improve access to city programs for immigrant, refugee, LGBTQ, unhoused, and other vulnerable residents, framing inclusion of these groups as core to how the city should function rather than an afterthought.\n\n[Governance] She is campaigning on making metro government more transparent and responsive, proposing stronger neighborhood-level coordination structures, public dashboards tracking spending and accountability, and streamlined delivery of basic city services, arguing that residents should be able to see and feel the effects of public investment in their own neighborhoods.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Shameka Parrish-Wright for Louisville Mayor", "url": "https://shamekaforlouisville.com/" }, { "title": "Louisville progressive Shameka Parrish-Wright discusses run for mayor", "url": "https://www.lpm.org/news/2026-01-06/louisville-progressive-shameka-parrish-wright-discusses-run-for-mayor" }, { "title": "Who's running for Louisville mayor, Metro Council in 2026?", "url": "https://www.lpm.org/news/2026-01-12/whos-running-for-louisville-mayor-metro-council-in-2026" }, { "title": "Mayor, Metro Council incumbents win big in Louisville primary", "url": "https://www.lpm.org/news/2026-05-19/mayor-metro-council-incumbents-win-big-in-louisville-primary" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-gorton-lexington-2026", "name": "Linda Gorton", "office": "Mayor of Lexington", "region": "Lexington, Kentucky", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Linda Gorton is the incumbent mayor of Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government seeking a third term in the November 2026 general election on a platform of economic growth, public safety gains, and continuity in city leadership.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Gorton's campaign points to regional job-creation efforts that she says have brought new employment across Fayette and neighboring Bluegrass counties, alongside a city budget she describes as fiscally sound. She also cites growth in the local housing supply, framing expanded affordable housing production as part of the same economic push that has drawn new investment and visitors to Lexington in recent years.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] On food access, her administration has backed a mobile market program intended to bring fresh groceries to neighborhoods that otherwise lack a nearby grocery store. She also points to continued protection of Fayette County's farmland, an effort to keep agricultural and horse-farm land outside the city's core from being lost to new development as Lexington grows.\n\n[Security] Gorton highlights a decline in crime rates during her tenure as evidence her public-safety approach is working, and she pairs that record with reentry-focused programs such as expungement clinics, which she says help people with past convictions clear barriers to employment, schooling, and housing.\n\n[Infrastructure] Her campaign also points to new parks and park facilities built during her time in office, alongside continued investment in city infrastructure and tourism promotion, even as her administration faced local criticism over how quickly roads were cleared during a severe ice storm.\n\n[Governance] Gorton frames her bid for a third term around continuity and experience, casting herself as a leader focused on practical, technology-enabled problem-solving rather than a change in direction; her site describes the goal as \"leading Lexington into the future,\" pointing to her wide reelection margins in 2019 and 2022 as evidence of public support for that approach.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Reelect Linda | Mayor Linda Gorton", "url": "https://lindagorton.com/reelect-linda/" }, { "title": "Gorton, Carter to face off in Lexington mayoral race", "url": "https://www.weku.org/lexington-richmond/2026-05-20/gorton-carter-to-face-off-in-lexington-mayoral-race" }, { "title": "Primary election results: It's Gorton vs Carter. Plus, other local race outcomes", "url": "https://news.civiclex.org/primary-election-results-its-gorton-vs-carter-plus-other-local-race-outcomes/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-carter-lexington-2026", "name": "Raquel Carter", "office": "Mayor of Lexington", "region": "Lexington, Kentucky", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Raquel Carter is a Lexington real estate broker and first-time candidate challenging incumbent Linda Gorton in the November 2026 general election on housing affordability, road and storm-response infrastructure, and a call for new city leadership.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Carter's platform centers on affordability, arguing that a widening gap between local wages and housing costs is pushing people who work in Lexington out of the city itself. Her campaign frames more homes and higher-paying job opportunities as linked goals, one plank of a broader platform her site organizes around the idea that \"Lexington Deserves more HOMES.\"\n\n[Infrastructure] She has made winter-weather preparedness and basic road maintenance a central complaint against the current administration, pointing to potholes in warmer months and roads left icy and hazardous for extended periods after storms. For Carter, keeping streets passable in all seasons is a baseline test of whether city government is doing its job.\n\n[Security] On public safety, Carter argues that residents' own sense of security in their neighborhoods, not official crime statistics alone, should be the real measure of success. She has also raised questions about the expansion of the city's networked license-plate camera system under the current administration, suggesting the buildout deserves more public scrutiny.\n\n[Governance] Carter casts her candidacy as a break from long-tenured incumbency, telling voters her campaign is about new leadership rather than continuing the status quo. Alongside housing and jobs, her platform calls for greater public investment in essential city services and more opportunity generally, positioning those as the deliverables of a change in who runs city hall.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Raquel Carter for Lexington Mayor — home page", "url": "https://raquelforlexingtonmayor.com" }, { "title": "Raquel Carter for Lexington Mayor — Issues", "url": "https://www.raquelforlexingtonmayor.com/issues" }, { "title": "Who is running for LFUCG offices in 2026?", "url": "https://news.civiclex.org/who-is-running-for-lfucg-offices-in-2026/" }, { "title": "Gorton, Carter to face off in Lexington mayoral race", "url": "https://www.weku.org/lexington-richmond/2026-05-20/gorton-carter-to-face-off-in-lexington-mayoral-race" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-aitken-anaheim-2026", "name": "Ashleigh Aitken", "office": "Mayor of Anaheim", "region": "Anaheim, California", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Ashleigh Aitken is the incumbent mayor of Anaheim running for re-election in 2026 on public safety, housing affordability, and continued government transparency reforms.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Aitken points to housing and affordability as central to her term, citing rental assistance reaching more than 6,300 households and continued production of affordable units. She frames her priorities going forward around what she calls \"kitchen table issues like affordability, public safety, housing, and road repair,\" and highlights expanded outreach efforts aimed at reducing homelessness in the city.\n\n[Security] On public safety, Aitken cites a reported 14% drop in crime during her term along with faster emergency response times, and says continuing to invest in policing and prevention will remain a priority if re-elected.\n\n[Infrastructure] She also points to infrastructure investments made during her tenure, including revitalization work along Beach Boulevard and the addition of new fire stations, and pledges continued attention to basic services like road repair across neighborhoods.\n\n[Governance] Aitken's campaign centers on restoring public trust in city hall, citing governance and ethics reforms enacted during her first term and pledging to remain, in her words, \"honest, responsive, and focused on residents first.\"", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Candidate Statement of Qualifications – Ashleigh Aitken (City of Anaheim)", "url": "https://www.anaheim.net/DocumentCenter/View/72045/Statement_Mayor_Aitken-Ashleigh" }, { "title": "Mayor Ashleigh Aitken — City of Anaheim (campaign site)", "url": "https://ashleighaitken.com/" }, { "title": "2026 Candidate List – City of Anaheim, CA Official Website", "url": "https://www.anaheim.net/3321/2026-Candidate-List" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-sharief-anaheim-2026", "name": "Imran Sharief", "office": "Mayor of Anaheim", "region": "Anaheim, California", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Imran Sharief, a physician and small business owner, is challenging for Anaheim mayor in 2026 on public safety, economic development, and government accountability.", "manifesto": "[Security] Sharief pledges to make neighborhood safety a top priority, backing law enforcement and expanding prevention programs across the city rather than concentrating resources in select areas.\n\n[Economy] On the economy, he wants Anaheim to attract new investment and support small businesses so that enterprises can \"start, grow, and stay,\" while also expanding attainable housing options to ease cost pressures on working families.\n\n[Infrastructure] Sharief also emphasizes routine city upkeep, promising cleaner streets, better-maintained parks, and more reliable infrastructure and services delivered evenly across all of Anaheim's neighborhoods.\n\n[Governance] His campaign's central argument is that \"trust in City Hall must be earned,\" and he pledges greater transparency, fiscal discipline, and stronger ethics standards to keep taxpayer dollars from benefiting political insiders. His campaign site does not detail specific positions on homelessness, education, or immigration policy.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Dr. Imran Sharief for Anaheim Mayor | A Brighter Tomorrow (campaign site)", "url": "https://imranforanaheim.com/" }, { "title": "2026 Candidate List – City of Anaheim, CA Official Website", "url": "https://www.anaheim.net/3321/2026-Candidate-List" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-rodriguez-anaheim-2026", "name": "Alfredo Rodriguez", "office": "Mayor of Anaheim", "region": "Anaheim, California", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Alfredo Rodriguez, a business general manager, is challenging for Anaheim mayor in 2026 on public safety, homelessness policy, business-friendly reform, and fiscal transparency.", "manifesto": "[Security] Rodriguez says strong neighborhoods built on public safety are the foundation of his platform, pledging attention to keeping residents, families, businesses, and visitors safe.\n\n[Economy] On homelessness, Rodriguez calls for an approach that combines \"compassion with accountability,\" paired with efforts to strengthen opportunities for families and youth.\n\n[Economy] On business, he promises to cut regulatory friction for employers, summarized in his campaign material as wanting \"less red tape\" and easier navigation of city hall, alongside support for job creation and local hiring.\n\n[Infrastructure] He commits to regular maintenance of streets, parks, and public spaces, paired with longer-term infrastructure planning and public reporting on outcomes rather than one-off promises.\n\n[Governance] Rodriguez frames fiscal responsibility and transparency as core to his pledge to \"protect taxpayer dollars,\" saying city decisions should be accessible and understandable to residents, with progress measured and reported publicly over time.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Rodriguez for Anaheim (campaign site)", "url": "https://rodriguezforanaheim.com/" }, { "title": "Candidate Statement of Qualifications – Alfredo Rodriguez (City of Anaheim)", "url": "https://www.anaheim.net/DocumentCenter/View/72040/Statement_Mayor_Rodriguez-Alfredo" }, { "title": "2026 Candidate List – City of Anaheim, CA Official Website", "url": "https://www.anaheim.net/3321/2026-Candidate-List" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-amezcua-santaana-2026", "name": "Valerie Amezcua", "office": "Mayor of Santa Ana", "region": "Santa Ana, California", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Incumbent Mayor of Santa Ana since 2022 seeking re-election in November 2026, campaigning on continuity in homelessness outreach, public-safety partnerships, and infrastructure investment.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Amezcua points to creating two seven-day-a-week Quality of Life Teams that pair city outreach workers with people experiencing homelessness as a signature first-term achievement, and describes her broader approach as \"expanding workforce housing and reducing homelessness\" rather than relying mainly on enforcement. Her campaign also credits her with supporting local businesses and job growth, though it offers few new specifics beyond continuing these existing programs.\n\n[Security] She frames public safety as a partnership between residents and first responders, noting endorsements from Santa Ana's firefighters, paramedics, and police officers unions as evidence that her community-trust approach to policing has support from the people who deliver those services.\n\n[Infrastructure] Amezcua credits her first term with securing funding for road repairs, public-transit improvements, and upgrades to city facilities, and presents continued investment in aging infrastructure as a central reason for voters to grant her a second term.\n\n[Governance] Amezcua describes herself as a bridge builder in city hall and says she aims for \"responsive, equitable, and transparent governance,\" pointing to her earlier school-board leadership on graduation rates and campus safety as evidence of the collaborative style she says she would carry into a second mayoral term.\n\n[Education] Beyond city hall, she highlights her earlier tenure on the Santa Ana Unified school board, where she says she worked to raise graduation rates, expand student mental health services, and strengthen parent engagement — experience she presents as shaping her continued attention to youth and family services as mayor.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Valerie Amezcua for Santa Ana Mayor (campaign homepage)", "url": "https://www.mayoramezcua.com/" }, { "title": "Meet Valerie — Valerie Amezcua for Santa Ana Mayor", "url": "https://www.valerieamezcua.com/about" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-shipp-santaana-2026", "name": "Dwayne Shipp", "office": "Mayor of Santa Ana", "region": "Santa Ana, California", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Community Development Commissioner and community organizer challenging the incumbent mayor in November 2026 on a neighborhood-listening \"L.O.V.E.\" platform of opportunity, safety, and government accountability.", "manifesto": "[Governance] Shipp's central pitch is procedural: he pledges to \"hear residents before decisions are made, in every neighborhood,\" and pairs that commitment with calls for fairer, more respectful city services and greater accountability from local government, framing his candidacy as a corrective to what he portrays as an unresponsive city hall.\n\n[Economy] Under the \"Opportunity\" pillar of his platform, Shipp says he would focus on advancement pathways for youth, workers, and small businesses, lists affordable housing among his community priorities, and calls for practical, root-cause-focused responses to homelessness and mental health needs rather than relying solely on policing.\n\n[Security] He also calls for cleaner, safer streets with improved lighting and better pedestrian safety as part of a broader neighborhood-quality push.\n\n[Infrastructure] Shipp commits to repairing streets, sidewalks, and crosswalks, and to investing in parks, libraries, and other neighborhood services, along with prioritizing local hiring and workforce development on city projects.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Dwayne Shipp for Santa Ana Mayor | Building Our Future", "url": "https://shippforsantaanamayor.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-shimell-santaana-2026", "name": "Dan Shimell", "office": "Mayor of Santa Ana", "region": "Santa Ana, California", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Attorney and first-time candidate running for Santa Ana mayor in November 2026 on affordable housing, immigrant protections, and basic city-service repairs.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Shimell's top stated priority is affordable housing: he says he would protect and expand existing affordable-housing policies, encourage new development near transit and job centers, and enforce habitability standards and rent-stabilization rules for current tenants.\n\n[Immigration] He also centers immigrant protections, pledging that the city would \"use all lawful means to deter future immigration raids\" and adopt policies meant to shield residents from what his campaign calls unreasonable detention or arrest, regardless of immigration status.\n\n[Infrastructure] His third stated priority is basic city services — repairing roads, streetlights, sidewalks, and crosswalks — paired with investment in the municipal workforce and a stated preference for local hiring and union labor on city-funded construction projects.\n\n[Governance] Shimell frames his overall approach around accountability and collaboration with residents, businesses, and community organizations, casting his central message as \"putting the people of this city first\" rather than special interests, and describing his professional background in advocacy as the basis for a listening, consensus-building style of leadership.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Dan Shimell for Santa Ana Mayor 2026", "url": "https://danshimellforsantaana.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-agran-irvine-2026", "name": "Larry Agran", "office": "Mayor of Irvine", "region": "Irvine, California", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Larry Agran is the incumbent Mayor of Irvine seeking re-election in the November 2026 nonpartisan general election, campaigning on continued affordable-housing subsidies, fiscal caution and independence from developer money, and expansion of Great Park and city services, against first-time challenger Maksim Egorov.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Agran's economic pitch centers on fiscal caution and independence from developer money: he says he does not accept donations from land developers or corporate interests, and points to Irvine's \"Rainy Day\" reserve fund as a taxpayer safeguard. He has also criticized the regional Orange County Power Authority program some residents were automatically enrolled in, calling it marked by gross mismanagement, deception, and financial instability, and says the city should keep addressing housing costs by subsidizing existing apartments toward a goal of roughly 10,000 affordable units by 2030.\n\n[Security] On public safety, Agran points to his record of pushing the Irvine Police Department toward what he describes as \"the nation's highest standards,\" alongside efforts to diversify the force. He presents this as part of a broader case for experienced, steady leadership rather than a list of new public-safety proposals for the coming term.\n\n[Infrastructure] Agran's infrastructure agenda leans on projects begun in his current term: continued build-out of the Great Park, including new museums, restaurants, and a Veterans Memorial Park, plus expansion of Irvine's free shuttle-bus service and the earlier creation of school bus routes. He also cites a large, long-standing open-space preserve and a 2025 Urban Forest Master Plan calling for large-scale tree planting as part of the city's longer-range environmental and recreational planning.\n\n[Governance] Agran frames his independence from big-money donors as a governance argument, with supporters describing him using the line \"Larry Agran can't be bought and he can't be bossed!\" His record also includes authorship of Irvine's Human Rights Ordinance and a role in blocking a proposed regional airport, which his campaign presents as evidence of a consistent governing approach across multiple decades in city government.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Larry Agran for Mayor — official campaign site", "url": "https://larryagran.com/" }, { "title": "Meet Larry — larryagran.com", "url": "https://larryagran.com/meet-larry/" }, { "title": "Meet the 2026 Candidates for Mayor — The Vine", "url": "https://www.vinecitynews.com/latest/mayor-2026" }, { "title": "Mayoral election in Irvine, California (2026) — Ballotpedia", "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Mayoral_election_in_Irvine,_California_(2026)" }, { "title": "Election Information — City of Irvine City Clerk", "url": "https://cityofirvine.gov/government/city-clerk/election-information" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-egorov-irvine-2026", "name": "Maksim Egorov", "office": "Mayor of Irvine", "region": "Irvine, California", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Maksim Egorov is a first-time candidate and Irvine resident challenging incumbent Mayor Larry Agran in the November 2026 nonpartisan general election, campaigning on managing growth and traffic, protecting remaining open space, and increasing fiscal transparency and independent oversight at City Hall.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Egorov's central economic argument is that the city should scrutinize its own finances before cutting programs, proposing that officials compare \"recurring city spending versus recurring revenue\" and look first at trimming the mayor's office budget rather than reducing funding for police or parks if savings are needed. He presents this as a more fiscally cautious approach than the incumbent's.\n\n[Infrastructure] Egorov names managing Irvine's continued growth without eroding residents' quality of life as the central issue of the race, pointing specifically to worsening traffic on corridors such as Jamboree and Michelson and to rising concern over e-bike safety on city streets. He also argues that protecting remaining open space, including undeveloped land in the Irvine Business Complex, should be weighed carefully against further development.\n\n[Governance] Egorov's platform emphasizes transparency and independent financial oversight, calling for \"greater transparency around contracts, competitive bidding, and major expenditures\" and for an independent audit function rather than resistance to outside review. He says he would judge his own performance on whether the city stays financially strong, protects open space, maintains services, and whether residents feel city hall actually listens to them.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Meet the 2026 Candidates for Mayor — The Vine", "url": "https://www.vinecitynews.com/latest/mayor-2026" }, { "title": "Maksim Egorov — Voice of OC author page", "url": "https://voiceofoc.org/author/maksim-egorov/" }, { "title": "Egorov: Before Irvine Decides The Future Of Oak Creek, Residents Should Know, The Land Is Subject To A Public Open Space Easement — Voice of OC", "url": "https://voiceofoc.org/2026/04/egorov-before-irvine-decides-the-future-of-oak-creek-residents-should-know-the-land-is-subject-to-a-public-open-space-easement/" }, { "title": "Mayoral election in Irvine, California (2026) — Ballotpedia", "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Mayoral_election_in_Irvine,_California_(2026)" }, { "title": "2026 Irvine City Council Candidates and Election Preview (May Update) — Irvine Watchdog", "url": "https://irvinewatchdog.org/featured/2026-irvine-city-council-candidates-and-election-preview-may-update/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-tamayo-chulavista-2026", "name": "Francisco Tamayo", "office": "Mayor of Chula Vista", "region": "Chula Vista, California", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Democratic Party", "abbr": "D" }, "purpose": "Francisco Tamayo, a Chula Vista Elementary School District trustee and an IT/security director at Calbright College, is challenging incumbent Mayor John McCann in the November 2026 runoff on a platform centered on housing affordability, jobs, and public safety.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Tamayo's economic agenda centers on raising wages and expanding opportunity for local workers, including support for Latino-owned small businesses and easier access to capital through streamlined city permitting. He has proposed workforce-development partnerships with community colleges to train residents for jobs in healthcare, technology, and skilled trades, and has pledged to hold down utility costs while expanding assistance programs for seniors and low-income households, including new childcare support.\n\n[Infrastructure] To address the region's housing shortage, Tamayo has floated using roughly 383 acres of city-owned land near a planned university innovation district to build housing aimed at teachers, nurses, firefighters, and other essential workers rather than market-rate buyers. He also supports raising income-eligibility limits for first-time homebuyer assistance and pre-approving standard building plans so new housing can move through city review faster, pointing to the city's roughly $750,000 median home price as evidence current supply is out of reach for most residents.\n\n[Security] Tamayo lists public safety among his top priorities alongside affordability, arguing that residents' sense of security and the cost of living have to be addressed together rather than treated as competing goals. He has said the city should reconsider how it allocates resources so that policing and other core services keep pace with growth, without laying out a specific staffing or budget plan.\n\n[Immigration] Tamayo has criticized the city's response to federal immigration enforcement activity, saying fear has grown in Chula Vista's Latino community after reports of immigration agents operating near local schools. He argues the McCann administration has not done enough to reassure affected families, though he has not proposed specific sanctuary-city or non-cooperation policies of his own.\n\n[Education] Drawing on his current seat on the Chula Vista Elementary School District board, Tamayo highlights efforts to get all students reading at grade level by third grade, expand early intervention for special education, and fund campus renovation and new construction through bond dollars. He also emphasizes competitive teacher pay, professional development, and wraparound \"Community Schools\" services, though these reflect actions in his school-board role rather than formal mayoral proposals.\n\n[Governance] Tamayo has been endorsed by two sitting city councilmembers and describes his run as a personal commitment to represent longtime residents rather than newer, wealthier arrivals. He has emphasized grassroots outreach over big-money campaigning, contrasting his approach with an incumbent who entered the race with a considerably larger campaign war chest.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "2026 Primary Election: Meet the candidates for the Chula Vista mayoral race | KPBS Public Media", "url": "https://www.kpbs.org/news/politics/2026/04/21/2026-primary-election-chula-vista-mayor-race-explainer" }, { "title": "Live election results: McCann advances in Chula Vista Mayor race | KPBS Public Media", "url": "https://www.kpbs.org/news/politics/2026/06/02/live-election-results-chula-vista-mayor" }, { "title": "Chula Vista Mayoral Challenger Leads with Immigration, Affordability | Voice of San Diego", "url": "https://voiceofsandiego.org/2026/04/08/chula-vista-mayoral-challenger-leads-with-immigration-affordability/" }, { "title": "Cash-Rich Mayor Faces Two Long-Shot Challengers In Chula Vista Showdown | Hoodline", "url": "https://hoodline.com/2026/04/cash-rich-mayor-faces-two-long-shot-challengers-in-chula-vista-showdown/" }, { "title": "Focused on Housing and Jobs | Chula Vista Today", "url": "https://www.chulavistatoday.com/local-news/focused-on-housing-and-jobs/" }, { "title": "Incumbent McCann leads Chula Vista mayor's race after first drop of election results | NBC San Diego", "url": "https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/chula-vista-mayoral-candidates-focus-on-safety-affordability/4029896/" }, { "title": "Francisco Tamayo for Chula Vista Mayor (official campaign site)", "url": "https://www.franciscotamayo.com/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-mccann-chulavista-2026", "name": "John McCann", "office": "Mayor of Chula Vista", "region": "Chula Vista, California", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Republican Party", "abbr": "R" }, "purpose": "John McCann, the incumbent mayor of Chula Vista and a former longtime city councilmember, is seeking re-election in the November 2026 runoff on a record of public-safety, homelessness-reduction, and development initiatives paired with a no-new-taxes fiscal stance.", "manifesto": "[Economy] McCann points to continued growth under his tenure, including bayfront redevelopment, new subdivisions, and additional housing supply, alongside a city budget he describes as balanced without drawing down reserves. He has resisted new taxes and fees as a matter of fiscal philosophy, arguing the city should live within existing revenue rather than raise costs on residents and businesses, and is promoting an \"Innovation District\" concept meant to attract technology employers and higher-paying jobs to the eastern part of the city.\n\n[Infrastructure] McCann's housing record includes converting the Citrus Bay project, built on a former Sears site, from planned rental apartments into 244 for-sale townhomes, which he frames as expanding homeownership rather than rentals in a lower-income neighborhood. He has generally favored ownership-oriented housing over rental development citywide and cites new parks and a four-story library among his infrastructure investments in office.\n\n[Security] Public safety is McCann's stated top priority, and he credits his administration with declines in major violent crime categories since 2022. On homelessness, he backs a no-camping ordinance paired with a sobriety- and self-sufficiency-focused shelter model, including the Otay Bridge shelter and a dedicated outreach team, crediting these measures with cutting the city's unsheltered population by roughly a quarter over the past year.\n\n[Immigration] McCann has said his military background informs a cautious stance toward sanctuary-city policies he believes could conflict with federal law, while describing Chula Vista as welcoming toward legal immigrants. He has opposed a neighboring city's lawsuit against California's sanctuary-state law.\n\n[Governance] McCann has secured endorsements from the city's firefighters' and police officers' unions, and points to steady population growth and city management during his tenure as the basis for a second term.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "2026 Primary Election: Meet the candidates for the Chula Vista mayoral race | KPBS Public Media", "url": "https://www.kpbs.org/news/politics/2026/04/21/2026-primary-election-chula-vista-mayor-race-explainer" }, { "title": "Live election results: McCann advances in Chula Vista Mayor race | KPBS Public Media", "url": "https://www.kpbs.org/news/politics/2026/06/02/live-election-results-chula-vista-mayor" }, { "title": "Chula Vista's Mayor Is Suddenly Fighting on All Fronts to Win Re-Election | Voice of San Diego", "url": "https://voiceofsandiego.org/2026/05/14/chula-vistas-mayor-is-suddenly-fighting-on-all-fronts-to-win-re-election/" }, { "title": "Cash-Rich Mayor Faces Two Long-Shot Challengers In Chula Vista Showdown | Hoodline", "url": "https://hoodline.com/2026/04/cash-rich-mayor-faces-two-long-shot-challengers-in-chula-vista-showdown/" }, { "title": "Incumbent McCann leads Chula Vista mayor's race after first drop of election results | NBC San Diego", "url": "https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/chula-vista-mayoral-candidates-focus-on-safety-affordability/4029896/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-marshall-reno-2026", "name": "Kate Marshall", "office": "Mayor of Reno", "region": "Reno, Nevada", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Kate Marshall, Nevada's former state treasurer and lieutenant governor, is running for Reno mayor on a platform of fiscal accountability, downtown revitalization, and public safety reform.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Marshall wants to revive downtown Reno by establishing a permanent arts district and expanding support for small businesses, building on her creation of a state office for small-business advocacy while she was lieutenant governor. She has said she would meet directly with owners of vacant downtown buildings to understand what is blocking redevelopment, pledging to \"use all tools and resources to eradicate blight.\" On housing, she favors smart infill and redevelopment over restrictive zoning, but says incentive tools such as tax-increment financing should be used cautiously, with clawback provisions if developers fail to deliver the benefits they promised.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] To address food access, Marshall points to her past involvement with a White House conference on hunger and nutrition, and proposes expanding urban agriculture and community gardens around Reno. She also wants the city to use incentives to draw grocery stores and fresh-food vendors into neighborhoods that currently lack them.\n\n[Security] On public safety, Marshall has been blunt about turmoil inside the police department, at one point saying that \"leadership at our police department is in crisis.\" She proposes working directly with police leadership on data-driven, community-oriented strategies, and coordinating with the Washoe County Sheriff's Office to cut emergency response times in underserved parts of the city, including the North Valleys.\n\n[Infrastructure] Marshall's infrastructure agenda centers on climate resilience and mobility, including planting trees and adding shade and reflective surfaces to counter urban heat islands, along with expanding public transit service. She frequently invokes Reno's old civic nickname, arguing the city needs to live up to being the \"Biggest Little City of Trees\" as it continues to grow.\n\n[Governance] Her central governance pledge is a full operational audit of city government before any service cuts or new taxes are considered, an approach she has summarized as wanting to \"audit first, cut waste second, protect core services.\" She warns Reno could face insolvency by around 2030 if current deficit spending continues, and says she would publish city budget data online and hold town halls to widen public input into spending decisions.\n\n[Health] For older residents, Marshall's platform calls for expanded senior center programming and better transportation access, including on-demand shuttles coordinated with the regional transit authority, along with expanded rental assistance to help seniors remain housed.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "2026 Reno mayoral election - Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Reno_mayoral_election" }, { "title": "Kate Marshall for Reno Mayor (official campaign site)", "url": "https://kateforreno.com/" }, { "title": "Kate Marshall - This Is Reno", "url": "https://thisisreno.com/election2026/mayor-council/kate-marshall/" }, { "title": "Reno's Spending Problem: Marshall's Mayoral Solution - This Is Reno", "url": "https://thisisreno.com/2026/05/reno-mayor-kate-marshall/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-taylor-reno-2026", "name": "Kathleen Taylor", "office": "Mayor of Reno", "region": "Reno, Nevada", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Kathleen Taylor, Reno's sitting Ward 1 city council member and vice mayor, is running for mayor on a platform of budget discipline, managed growth, and downtown revitalization.", "manifesto": "[Infrastructure] On development, Taylor argues growth must be paired with responsible environmental planning, and has proposed public-private partnerships to convert underused paved lots into mixed-use space combining housing, retail, and dining as part of downtown revitalization. She also supports streamlining the city's permitting process to reduce delays for builders. As chair of the Reno Housing Authority, she cites that role in pushing for more affordable housing and better-coordinated senior services and recreation programs.\n\n[Economy] Taylor's budget approach favors keeping city spending aligned with actual revenue rather than relying on short-term patches; she has pointed to her opposition to a recent Waste Management franchise fee increase as an example of a quick fix that shifts costs onto residents. She has also criticized large developer incentive packages that, in her view, shift financial risk onto taxpayers rather than the businesses receiving the benefit.\n\n[Security] Taylor's public-safety priority is ensuring adequate police staffing across every part of the city, including under-resourced areas like the North Valleys, and she has called for strengthening partnerships between Reno police and neighboring law-enforcement agencies.\n\n[Governance] On labor costs, Taylor supports giving the city more room to manage union negotiations, including possible state legislative changes that would give local governments, in her words, \"more flexibility in managing their budgets.\" She also says she wants more transparent city decision-making, with clearer opportunities for public input and easier public access to meeting materials.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "2026 Reno mayoral election - Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Reno_mayoral_election" }, { "title": "Kathleen Taylor - This Is Reno", "url": "https://thisisreno.com/election2026/mayor-council/kathleen-taylor/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-romero-henderson-2026", "name": "Michelle Romero", "office": "Mayor of Henderson", "region": "Henderson, Nevada", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Michelle Romero is the incumbent Mayor of Henderson, Nevada, seeking a second term in the November 2026 runoff on a platform of continued economic growth, public safety, and expanded civic engagement.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Romero frames her economic agenda around what her campaign calls smart, sustainable growth, arguing that diversifying the employer base and pairing new development with responsible land use will make Henderson's economy more resilient the next time growth slows. She points to pandemic-era small-business grants issued under her administration as evidence of a track record supporting local employers, and casts continued business recruitment as central to funding city services without raising taxes.\n\n[Security] Public safety is a signature theme of her re-election bid, built around continuing Henderson's standing as one of the country's safer mid-size cities. She emphasizes community policing that keeps officers embedded in the neighborhoods they serve, paired with expanded use of data analytics to direct patrols, and pledges continued support for police and fire department staffing and pay.\n\n[Education] Romero backs expanded school-choice options for Henderson families and wants local schools to have more say over curriculum rather than deferring entirely to the county district. She has floated the idea of Henderson eventually becoming its own independent school district, and points to a city-created education advisory board and marijuana-tax and redevelopment funding streams as tools for building closer ties between local schools and employers.\n\n[Infrastructure] Her platform folds housing into a broader quality-of-life agenda that also covers water conservation, mental-health services, transportation upgrades, and support for the arts, arguing these amenities need to keep pace with the growth she is courting economically. On housing specifically, she points to redevelopment-era work reviving the Water Street District and creating new redevelopment zones in Eastside and Lakemoor as a model for expanding affordable options within existing neighborhoods rather than only on the city's edges.\n\n[Governance] Romero touts Henderson's 2024 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, a federal recognition for organizational performance, as validation of a data-driven, continuous-improvement approach to city management. She points to regular constituent-facing programming, including monthly council meet-ups and quarterly community conversations, as her answer to transparency concerns.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "2026 Henderson, Nevada mayoral election", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Henderson,_Nevada_mayoral_election" }, { "title": "Michelle Romero - Ballotpedia", "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Michelle_Romero" }, { "title": "About - Vote Michelle Romero", "url": "https://votemichelleromero.com/about/" }, { "title": "Priorities - Vote Michelle Romero", "url": "https://votemichelleromero.com/priorities/" }, { "title": "Four challengers seeking to oust Henderson mayor - Nevada Current", "url": "https://nevadacurrent.com/2026/05/14/four-challengers-seeking-to-oust-henderson-mayor/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-chadwick-henderson-2026", "name": "Hollie Chadwick", "office": "Mayor of Henderson", "region": "Henderson, Nevada", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Hollie Chadwick, Henderson's former police chief, is challenging incumbent Mayor Michelle Romero in the November 2026 runoff on a platform centered on government transparency, public-safety investment, and more affordable housing.", "manifesto": "[Security] Public safety remains central to her campaign given her law-enforcement background. She calls for modernizing crime-prevention strategy and building partnerships across city departments and community groups so problems are addressed before they escalate into crime, alongside continued investment in officer training and staffing levels.\n\n[Economy] Chadwick argues Henderson should prioritize attracting employers and helping existing small businesses stay competitive rather than concentrating incentives on large luxury projects. On housing, she opposes adding more high-density, upscale development while the city faces an affordability crunch, instead favoring policies that expand single-family and workforce housing options longtime residents can actually afford.\n\n[Infrastructure] She has questioned recent city capital spending, including a roughly $32 million purchase of a former casino parking lot, arguing the money could have gone toward employee wages or other priorities instead. She also warns that redevelopment and beautification work along Water Street risks displacing lower-income residents and businesses, and has proposed a second, climate-controlled animal shelter as an additional infrastructure priority.\n\n[Education] Chadwick's education platform focuses on school safety and youth programs, building partnerships between the city and local schools to keep Henderson family-friendly, though she has offered fewer specifics than Romero on curriculum or district structure.\n\n[Governance] Transparency is her core message. She has criticized the sitting council's newly adopted policy of coordinating public statements before members speak individually, calling it an attempt to control the narrative rather than engage residents directly. She wants city budgets presented in clearer, more understandable terms and more direct opportunities for residents to shape council decisions.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "2026 Henderson, Nevada mayoral election", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Henderson,_Nevada_mayoral_election" }, { "title": "On the Issues | Hollie Chadwick for Mayor of Henderson", "url": "https://www.hollieformayor.com/on-the-issues/" }, { "title": "Meet Hollie | Hollie Chadwick for Mayor of Henderson", "url": "https://www.hollieformayor.com/meet-hollie/" }, { "title": "Fired Henderson Police Chief Hollie Chadwick announces run for mayor - Las Vegas Review-Journal", "url": "https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/henderson/fired-henderson-police-chief-hollie-chadwick-announces-run-for-mayor-3376066/" }, { "title": "Four challengers seeking to oust Henderson mayor - Nevada Current", "url": "https://nevadacurrent.com/2026/05/14/four-challengers-seeking-to-oust-henderson-mayor/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-black-northlasvegas-2026", "name": "Scott Black", "office": "Mayor of North Las Vegas", "region": "North Las Vegas, Nevada", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Scott Black, a longtime North Las Vegas city councilman and mayor pro tem, is running for mayor on a platform of continuing the city's economic turnaround through industrial development, fiscal discipline, and expanded public safety and health services.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Black points to the city's recovery from a roughly $83 million budget shortfall in the early 2010s to a multimillion-dollar surplus as evidence his approach works, and he's asking voters to trust that record going forward. He frames his priority as steady continuity rather than a dramatic new direction, saying he wants the city to \"stay focused on our opportunity.\" His growth strategy centers on drawing warehouses, distribution and data centers, and light manufacturing to expand the tax base, including through the large Apex Industrial Park project he says could bring thousands of jobs paying roughly $32 an hour on average.\n\n[Health] Black highlights a crisis-response team embedded with the fire department that connects residents dealing with behavioral health issues or addiction to services rather than relying solely on emergency response, part of a broader push against overdose deaths. He also backs plans for a freestanding hospital and wellness campus on a roughly 135-acre site near the VA hospital, arguing the growing city needs more health infrastructure to match its population.\n\n[Security] Black supports continued investment in police and fire staffing and facilities, pointing to a 2024 voter-approved funding measure as a foundation to build on. He also touts the fire department's behavioral-health crisis team as a public-safety tool, framing it as a complement to traditional enforcement rather than a replacement for it.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, Black has emphasized following federal law and cooperating with federal enforcement efforts, positioning himself as more supportive of a strict enforcement posture than his opponent. He has pointed to community successes such as the reopening of the Broadacres Market as evidence the city can manage growth and change without destabilizing existing neighborhoods.\n\n[Infrastructure] Beyond industrial projects, Black wants to expand parks and recreation amenities and attract more restaurants, shops, and services for the growing population, alongside continued affordable-housing construction — he cites roughly 1,400 units built since 2017 with 500 more in the pipeline. He opposes a one-size-fits-all rent-control approach, preferring that housing-cost measures be handled at the state or regional level rather than city by city.\n\n[Governance] Black casts himself as an accessible, communicative leader at City Hall, arguing that nine years on the council have prepared him to be \"ready to go on day one\" as mayor. He has argued that a four-year mayoral term is enough time to keep the city's current momentum going without a steep learning curve for a newcomer.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "North Las Vegas mayor race features city councilman and state legislator", "url": "https://nevadacurrent.com/2026/05/21/north-las-vegas-mayor-race-features-city-councilman-and-state-legislator/" }, { "title": "North Las Vegas is on the rebound. But who will lead it next?", "url": "https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/north-las-vegas-is-on-the-rebound-but-who-will-lead-it-next" }, { "title": "Got a Minute? Current councilman Scott Black running for North Las Vegas mayor", "url": "https://www.fox5vegas.com/2026/05/21/got-minute-current-councilman-scott-black-running-north-las-vegas-mayor/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-monroe-moreno-northlasvegas-2026", "name": "Daniele Monroe-Moreno", "office": "Mayor of North Las Vegas", "region": "North Las Vegas, Nevada", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Daniele Monroe-Moreno, chair of the Nevada Assembly Democratic caucus representing North Las Vegas and a retired law enforcement officer, is running for mayor on a platform of housing affordability, a city spending audit, and community-centered public safety, arguing the city's growth has not translated into enough opportunity for current residents.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Monroe-Moreno argues that despite new industrial projects, the city is \"going in the wrong direction\" on jobs, pointing to an unemployment rate she says remains too high. She wants local residents — rather than out-of-state workers she says fill many of the new positions — hired first, and proposes partnerships with colleges and labor unions to build apprenticeship pipelines into the warehouses and data centers moving into the city. She has also called for reviewing city spending to find efficiencies rather than assuming growth alone will fix the budget.\n\n[Health] On housing-related hardship, she has pushed to protect seniors, veterans, and working families on fixed incomes from being priced out, and as a legislator she sponsored a bill directing $30 million to the Nevada Housing Division for permanent supportive housing aimed at residents facing homelessness and related health needs.\n\n[Security] Monroe-Moreno favors a prevention-oriented approach to public safety, emphasizing youth programs and diversion efforts alongside traditional policing, and wants to rebuild trust so residents again see officers as \"part of the neighborhood.\" She has said this community-policing focus matters more, not less, as the city keeps adding new residents and development.\n\n[Immigration] She has criticized aggressive federal immigration enforcement in the region, saying it risks \"ripping families apart,\" while stating she supports deporting people convicted of violent crimes. She has specifically criticized enforcement carried out by masked or unidentifiable officers, arguing it undermines residents' civil rights.\n\n[Infrastructure] Monroe-Moreno wants tighter limits on corporate ownership of single-family homes, arguing it squeezes out first-time buyers, and she favors a rent-stabilization approach over strict caps, saying she wants residents to budget predictably without driving out smaller landlords. She also touts her role in preserving and developing Ice Age Park and wants to build out amenities near assets like the VA hospital to make the city more of a destination rather than a pass-through community.\n\n[Governance] As an immediate step if elected, she has proposed an \"audit of city government\" to find gaps and redundancies in service delivery, arguing this transparency effort should come before major new spending decisions. She has also pointed to her state budgetary experience and legislative relationships as an advantage in securing state resources for the city.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "North Las Vegas mayor race features city councilman and state legislator", "url": "https://nevadacurrent.com/2026/05/21/north-las-vegas-mayor-race-features-city-councilman-and-state-legislator/" }, { "title": "North Las Vegas is on the rebound. But who will lead it next?", "url": "https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/north-las-vegas-is-on-the-rebound-but-who-will-lead-it-next" }, { "title": "Got a Minute? Nevada assemblymember Daniele Monroe-Moreno wants to be North Las Vegas mayor", "url": "https://www.fox5vegas.com/2026/05/21/got-minute-nevada-assemblymember-danielle-monroe-moreno-wants-be-north-las-vegas-mayor/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-welch-stpetersburg-2026", "name": "Ken Welch", "office": "Mayor of St. Petersburg", "region": "St. Petersburg, Florida", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Ken Welch is the incumbent, nonpartisan Mayor of St. Petersburg seeking re-election in the November 2026 runoff, campaigning largely on his first-term record on housing affordability, crime reduction, and storm resilience.", "manifesto": "[Economy] On housing and jobs, Welch points to steps his administration has already taken rather than untested proposals. He cites expanded down-payment assistance for first-time buyers, additional loan forgiveness for lower-income households, and hundreds of affordable and workforce units brought online during his term, alongside job-training partnerships such as St. Pete Works and a workforce program aimed at construction and technical trades. He has also directed small-business support toward minority- and women-owned firms in south St. Petersburg. Defending continued high-rise development against critics who blame it for rising costs, he told one candidate forum, \"High rises are not the problem,\" arguing dense projects help fund city services.\n\n[Security] Welch's public safety pitch rests heavily on crime statistics from his tenure: city data he cites shows homicides falling to their lowest level since the late 1960s and overall crime dropping by roughly a sixth in a single year. He frames this less as a story of heavier policing than of combining conventional law enforcement with community investment, health-oriented outreach, and faster emergency response, describing the approach as built on accountability and public trust rather than any single tactic.\n\n[Infrastructure] Recovery from recent hurricane seasons is a recurring theme of Welch's case for re-election. He points to the rapid clearing of storm debris, accelerated permitting for residents rebuilding their homes, and relief funneled to renters, homeowners, and small businesses after the storms. Looking ahead, his campaign points to a five-year, roughly $750 million resilience program covering stormwater and drainage work, including more than $200 million in capital projects aimed specifically at reducing flood risk citywide.\n\n[Health] Health-related investment appears in Welch's platform mostly through neighborhood-level initiatives layered onto his public-safety work, and through his continued push to land a long-sought institutional anchor: a Moffitt Cancer Center research and treatment presence in the city's Historic Gas Plant District redevelopment. Welch shelved an earlier version of that deal in 2022 and has faced criticism for it since, but as of early 2026 he maintained that talks with Moffitt were continuing and that the institution still intended to locate in St. Petersburg.\n\n[Education] Welch's youth agenda, organized under what his administration calls a \"Whole Child\" framework, spans early-childhood literacy and swim-safety instruction through teen job programs, a youth-farm leadership initiative, and a Future Ready Academy that trains young adults for city and public-safety careers. The stated goal is to connect city services to residents from early childhood through their first jobs, treating youth development as a mayoral responsibility rather than one limited to the school district.\n\n[Immigration] St. Petersburg police signed a 287(g) agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement during Welch's term. He has described the decision as compelled by the state, saying it was \"not a choice at the local level.\"\n\n[Governance] Welch describes his overall approach through a self-styled \"Pillars for Progress\" framework covering housing, resilience, economic development, education, and neighborhood health and safety, guided by principles he sums up as staying in touch with residents, inclusive, and results-focused. On at least one utility matter, he notes his administration is negotiating a renewed franchise agreement with Duke Energy as it comes up for renewal, one of the few levers city hall has over local electricity rates otherwise set by state regulators.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Keep Ken Welch for St. Petersburg Mayor", "url": "https://kenwelch.com/" }, { "title": "Progress and Priorities — Keep Ken Welch for St. Petersburg Mayor", "url": "https://kenwelch.com/progress/" }, { "title": "Meet Mayor Ken Welch — Keep Ken Welch for St. Petersburg Mayor", "url": "https://kenwelch.com/about/" }, { "title": "Mayor's Education & Youth Opportunities Agenda", "url": "https://www.stpete.org/government/pillars_for_progress_/city_of_education/index.php" }, { "title": "St. Pete mayoral candidates trade policy, not punches, in second forum", "url": "https://www.wusf.org/politics-issues/2026-06-21/st-pete-mayoral-candidates-trade-policy-not-punches-in-second-forum" }, { "title": "In debate, Mayor Ken Welch says St. Pete Police agreement with ICE is mandatory. It's not", "url": "https://www.cltampa.com/news/in-debate-mayor-ken-welch-says-st-pete-police-agreement-with-ice-is-mandatory-its-not/" }, { "title": "Moffitt plants flag in St. Petersburg's Innovation District, as partner in Gas Plant proposal", "url": "https://www.wusf.org/health-news-florida/2026-02-05/moffitt-cancer-center-plants-flag-in-st-petersburg" }, { "title": "2026 St. Petersburg, Florida, mayoral election", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_St._Petersburg,_Florida,_mayoral_election" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-crist-stpetersburg-2026", "name": "Charlie Crist", "office": "Mayor of St. Petersburg", "region": "St. Petersburg, Florida", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Charlie Crist, a former Florida governor, attorney general, and congressman, is running in the nonpartisan 2026 St. Petersburg mayoral runoff on a platform centered on affordability, government responsiveness, and retaining the Tampa Bay Rays.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Crist has made affordability his central message, arguing that city hall should focus on bringing costs down rather than adding new spending. On housing specifically, he has proposed speeding up permitting for new construction, using city-owned land to support affordable development, and shielding longtime residents from being priced out of their neighborhoods as the city grows, pledging to act as what he calls \"an honest broker\" between developers and neighborhoods. He has also argued that the mayor's office should take a more direct hand in courting and retaining local businesses.\n\n[Infrastructure] Two infrastructure-adjacent issues dominate Crist's public remarks: storm recovery and the fate of Tropicana Field. On hurricanes, he argues the city can do better at both preparing for and rebuilding after major storms than it has so far. On the Tampa Bay Rays, whose stadium sits on city land and whose future in St. Petersburg has been in doubt, Crist argues that losing the team would mark a failure of mayoral leadership and points out that, unlike Tampa, St. Petersburg already has a ballpark in place, telling one interviewer, \"We have a stadium. Tampa doesn't yet.\"\n\n[Education] Crist's education message is broader philosophy than detailed program so far, framing schooling and youth opportunity as the surest route to the city's long-term economic success, though his campaign has released comparatively few specifics on city-level programs compared with his opponent's existing youth initiatives.\n\n[Immigration] On St. Petersburg police's 287(g) immigration-enforcement agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Crist has said he believed the police chief \"probably did the right thing\" in signing it.\n\n[Governance] Crist frames better communication between city hall and residents as a governing priority, saying he wants every resident to be able to tap into the services local government already provides. He has also said he would look for budget efficiencies that would allow a reduction in the city's property-tax rate without cutting police or fire service, and has said he intends to review city operations closely before taking office if elected, drawing on his prior experience leading a state government as governor and attorney general.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Home - Charlie Crist for Mayor", "url": "https://charliecrist.com/" }, { "title": "If Charlie Crist is St. Petersburg's next mayor, what's his plan?", "url": "https://www.tampabay.com/news/st-petersburg/2026/08/30/charlie-crist-mayor-ken-welch-plan-platform-rays-moffitt/" }, { "title": "St. Pete mayoral candidates trade policy, not punches, in second forum", "url": "https://www.wusf.org/politics-issues/2026-06-21/st-pete-mayoral-candidates-trade-policy-not-punches-in-second-forum" }, { "title": "Charlie Crist on why he's running to be St. Petersburg's mayor, the Rays and more", "url": "https://www.wusf.org/politics-issues/2026-07-27/florida-matters-charlie-crist-on-why-running-to-be-st-petersburgs-mayor-tampa-bay-rays" }, { "title": "In debate, Mayor Ken Welch says St. Pete Police agreement with ICE is mandatory. It's not", "url": "https://www.cltampa.com/news/in-debate-mayor-ken-welch-says-st-pete-police-agreement-with-ice-is-mandatory-its-not/" }, { "title": "2026 St. Petersburg, Florida, mayoral election", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_St._Petersburg,_Florida,_mayoral_election" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-guajardo-corpuschristi-2026", "name": "Paulette Guajardo", "office": "Mayor of Corpus Christi", "region": "Corpus Christi, Texas", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Paulette Guajardo, the three-term incumbent mayor of Corpus Christi, is seeking a fourth term on a platform of tax cuts, street repairs, and continued pursuit of a seawater desalination plant.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Guajardo points to her fiscal record as a core argument for another term: two property-tax rate cuts during her tenure, a doubled homestead exemption, a raised senior and disability exemption of $62,500, and budget reserves she says are held at 20 percent with the city carrying an AA credit rating. Her campaign material describes her as \"the only candidate who voted to lower the property tax rate,\" and she pairs that record with a pitch to keep recruiting employers in the military, energy, and industrial sectors that anchor the local economy.\n\n[Infrastructure] On infrastructure, Guajardo highlights a roughly $695 million street-improvement program and a Rapid Pavement Program she says can resurface residential roads about five times faster than prior methods. She also continues to champion a seawater desalination plant as the city's long-term answer to water security, telling KRIS 6 News the project is \"moving forward to build this water supply\" after years of study.\n\n[Health] She frames several public-health concerns as extensions of public safety, including outreach aimed at homelessness, a review of how the local Health District operates, and a partnership with the Coastal Bend Food Bank to address food insecurity in the city.\n\n[Security] Guajardo's public-safety agenda includes ending what she describes as a two-decade-long freeze on police hiring, restarting a Fire Department training academy, and working to bring EMS response times down. She has also proposed more frequent police news conferences to improve transparency after critical incidents, and touts more than $2 million in new funding for Animal Care Services, including the city's first dedicated spay-and-neuter funding.\n\n[Governance] On day-to-day city management, Guajardo backs a dedicated business-parking manager position, converting the former Caller-Times building site into public parking, and expanding an RTA shuttle system for major downtown events. She also points to reviving Corpus Christi's Art Walk, Farmers Market, and other community events, including a large mural project at Norma Urban Park, as evidence of hands-on engagement with neighborhoods.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Re-Elect Paulette Guajardo for Corpus Christi Mayor – Strong Leadership. Proven Results.", "url": "https://pauletteguajardo.com/" }, { "title": "Paulette Guajardo - America Votes", "url": "https://www.kristv.com/news/national-politics/america-votes/paulette-guajardo" }, { "title": "Corpus Christi mayor returns to city hall after 30-day suspension, eyes Inner Harbor desalination", "url": "https://www.kristv.com/news/local-news/in-your-neighborhood/corpus-christi/corpus-christi-mayor-returns-to-city-hall-after-30-day-suspension-eyes-inner-harbor-desalination" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-hernandez-corpuschristi-2026", "name": "Gil Hernandez", "office": "Mayor of Corpus Christi", "region": "Corpus Christi, Texas", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Gil Hernandez, a Corpus Christi City Council member for District 5 since 2018, is running for mayor on a platform of curbing city debt, expanding the water supply through desalination, and speeding up residential street repairs.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Hernandez has made the city's debt levels a signature issue, noting that annual taxpayer-supported debt payments have climbed from about $55 million to roughly $70 million and telling KRIS 6 News that \"the debt payment is now 21% of the General Fund revenues.\" He voted against a 10-percent pay raise for the city manager, calling it out of step with comparable cities, and pairs that fiscal caution with support for a new industrial district agreement and continued backing for the Naval Air Station and Army Depot as major local employers.\n\n[Infrastructure] On water, Hernandez backs building a desalination plant at Harbor Island sized to eventually expand past 100 million gallons a day, alongside brackish-groundwater treatment and wastewater-reuse projects, paired with cost-sharing partnerships with the Port of Corpus Christi and state agencies. He also supports a Rapid Pavement Program for faster residential street repairs and park-and-ride style parking to ease congestion around downtown events.\n\n[Security] His public-safety positions include favoring rescue-organization partnerships over euthanasia for stray-animal control, pushing for clearer police communication after critical incidents, and supporting community-policing efforts such as National Night Out.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Gil Hernandez - America Votes", "url": "https://www.kristv.com/news/national-politics/america-votes/gil-hernandez" }, { "title": "Corpus Christi voters sound off on what they want from city council candidates", "url": "https://www.kristv.com/news/local-news/in-your-neighborhood/corpus-christi/corpus-christi-voters-sound-off-on-what-they-want-from-city-council-candidates" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-paxson-corpuschristi-2026", "name": "Kaylynn Paxson", "office": "Mayor of Corpus Christi", "region": "Corpus Christi, Texas", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Kaylynn Paxson, the District 4 city councilwoman and mayor pro tem, is running for mayor as 'The Honest Choice,' emphasizing fiscal restraint, infrastructure maintenance, and public-safety transparency.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Paxson opposes large pay increases for top city officials, saying she would not have approved the city manager's roughly $37,200 raise, and wants more non-essential debt items put to a public vote rather than approved administratively. She also wants business fees kept low and says the city needs to keep working to \"improve the environment and our support for local small businesses.\"\n\n[Infrastructure] Her infrastructure platform centers on a coordinated maintenance plan covering streets, drainage, and freshwater pipelines, naming Pharoah Street, Caribbean, and Suntan as roads she considers priorities for repair. She supports exploring treated effluent water for non-drinking uses and counts desalination among the options the city should keep evaluating for its long-term water supply.\n\n[Security] On public safety, Paxson wants the police department to publish regular incident overviews and crime-trend data on its website, and supports converting the city's animal shelter into a no-kill facility while expanding partnerships with local rescue groups.\n\n[Governance] More broadly, Paxson frames her candidacy as a shift toward day-to-day city priorities over top-down spending, and wants to partner with local colleges and universities on community programming while expanding events such as Art Walk, Día de los Muertos, and the St. Patrick's Day Festival.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Kaylynn Paxson for Mayor of Corpus Christi | Vote for Change", "url": "https://www.kaylynnpaxson.com/" }, { "title": "Kaylynn Paxson - City Council District 4 | Vote for Change", "url": "https://www.kaylynnpaxson.com/about" }, { "title": "Kaylynn Paxson - America Votes", "url": "https://www.kristv.com/news/national-politics/america-votes/kaylynn-paxson" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-trevino-laredo-2026", "name": "Victor Treviño", "office": "Mayor of Laredo", "region": "Laredo, Texas", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Victor Treviño is the physician-mayor of Laredo seeking reelection in 2026 on a record of infrastructure investment, public safety gains, and fiscal restraint, while pushing to bring pediatric hospital care to the city.", "manifesto": "[Security] Treviño's reelection pitch credits his administration's investment in police staffing, equipment, and technology for Laredo's standing as one of the safer large cities in Texas, and highlights the police department's handling of a March 2025 active-shooter incident as evidence his approach is working. He has pointed to expanded officer wellness programs as part of that same strategy.\n\n[Health] A signature goal for a second term is recruiting a pediatric hospital to Laredo, which the mayor argues would close a long-standing gap in specialized medical care for children in the region and reduce families' need to travel out of town for treatment.\n\n[Infrastructure] Treviño's campaign centers heavily on street and water-system repair, an area he says has been neglected for generations. His administration has already directed roughly $111 million combined toward replacing old waterlines and repaving roads, and he has been candid that the underlying problem took decades to build up, saying the city's pipes and streets \"has been deteriorating for decades.\"\n\n[Economy] The mayor also campaigns on Laredo's position as the country's busiest inland port, backing federally approved expansion work at the World Trade Bridge and Columbia Solidarity Bridge crossings. He frequently cites freight volume to make the case, noting that \"more than 22,000 commercial trucks move through Laredo daily.\"\n\n[Governance] On fiscal management, Treviño touts a 22-year run without a property-tax-rate increase, including a further rate cut this year despite rising property values, alongside a $1.10 billion city budget he says was adopted without sacrificing services. He frames his leadership style around cooperation and problem-solving, describing his approach as centered on \"how we work together, how we solve problems.\"", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Laredo mayor announces re-election bid - KGNS", "url": "https://www.kgns.tv/2026/07/03/laredo-mayor-announces-re-election-bid/" }, { "title": "Laredo Mayor Highlights Growth, Safety, and $1.10 Billion Budget in State of the City Address - Texas Border Business", "url": "https://texasborderbusiness.com/laredo-mayor-highlights-growth-safety-and-1-10-billion-budget-in-state-of-the-city-address/" }, { "title": "Mayoral election in Laredo, Texas (2026) - Ballotpedia (race facts only)", "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Mayoral_election_in_Laredo,_Texas_(2026)" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-cigarroa-laredo-2026", "name": "Alyssa Cigarroa", "office": "Mayor of Laredo", "region": "Laredo, Texas", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "Alyssa Cigarroa is a two-term Laredo city council member from District 8 running for mayor in 2026 on promises of stronger emergency preparedness, expanded housing options, and tighter fiscal oversight of city hall.", "manifesto": "[Governance] Cigarroa's central pitch is that city hall reacts to emergencies instead of planning for them, and she has pledged to put formal crisis-preparedness planning in place before disaster strikes rather than after. She has also promised to oppose any future pay raises for elected officials unless the community is consulted first, presenting it as a test of accountability to voters. She has pointed to her own six years on the council, during which she has directed her entire council salary to community causes, as evidence of that commitment.\n\n[Infrastructure] Housing is another plank of her platform: Cigarroa has said the city needs to do more to address housing availability and support new development to meet demand, though she has not yet detailed a specific program for doing so.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Alyssa Cigarroa launches Laredo mayoral bid - KGNS", "url": "https://www.kgns.tv/2026/08/23/alyssa-cigarroa-launches-laredo-mayoral-bid/" }, { "title": "District 8 - Laredo, TX (official council bio)", "url": "https://www.cityoflaredo.com/government/mayor-city-council/district-8-cm-alyssa-cigarroa" }, { "title": "Mayoral election in Laredo, Texas (2026) - Ballotpedia (race facts only)", "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Mayoral_election_in_Laredo,_Texas_(2026)" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "usa-gonzalez-laredo-2026", "name": "Jose David Gonzalez", "office": "Mayor of Laredo", "region": "Laredo, Texas", "country": "United States", "countryCode": "USA", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Nonpartisan" }, "purpose": "JD Gonzalez, a longtime customs broker and Navy veteran, is running for Laredo mayor in 2026 to apply his international trade background toward modernizing city infrastructure and expanding small business opportunity.", "manifesto": "[Infrastructure] Gonzalez has singled out Laredo's aging water system as a priority, arguing the city needs sustained investment to modernize pipes and treatment capacity rather than continuing to patch an outdated network.\n\n[Economy] Drawing on his customs-brokerage career, Gonzalez wants Laredo to capture more local economic benefit from the freight and trucking traffic that passes through its border crossings, and has pitched supporting small business growth as a companion goal alongside that trade-driven agenda.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "JD Gonzalez launches Laredo mayoral bid, citing trade expertise and military service - KGNS", "url": "https://www.kgns.tv/2026/08/16/jd-gonzalez-launches-laredo-mayoral-bid-citing-trade-expertise-military-service/" }, { "title": "JD Gonzalez becomes Laredo broker on world trade stage - NCBFAA", "url": "https://www.ncbfaa.org/news-advocacy/ncbfaa-in-the-news/2023/12/19/jd-gonzalez-becomes-laredo-broker-on-world-trade-stage" }, { "title": "Mayoral election in Laredo, Texas (2026) - Ballotpedia (race facts only)", "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Mayoral_election_in_Laredo,_Texas_(2026)" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T09:00:00Z" }, { "id": "isr-netanyahu-2026", "name": "Benjamin Netanyahu", "office": "Prime Minister candidate (Likud)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "Israel", "countryCode": "ISR", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Likud", "abbr": "" }, "purpose": "Netanyahu is seeking re-election as Likud leader in the October 27, 2026 Knesset election, campaigning to lead what he calls a 'broad national government' built around continued security control in Gaza, a rightward judicial and governance agenda, and rejection of Palestinian statehood.", "manifesto": "[Security] Netanyahu has rejected the Trump administration's 15-point Gaza framework, saying Israel demands \"real disarmament, not fictitious disarmament\" of Hamas, including removal of all weaponry down to light arms. He has stated Israeli forces will not withdraw from their current lines in Gaza until Hamas is genuinely disarmed, and has pledged to keep troops in place to continue deterring threats to Israeli forces and citizens rather than accept the plan's proposed transition to a technocratic Palestinian administration overseen by an international Board of Peace.\n\n[Governance] Netanyahu's coalition has advanced a judicial overhaul package, described by observers as \"Judicial Reform 2.0,\" that would limit the Supreme Court's power to strike down Knesset legislation, narrow who may petition the court, and replace the current judicial-appointments process (which allows sitting justices and the Bar Association a veto) with a system requiring coalition-opposition agreement, or letting each side name its own pick when deadlocked. Because roughly two-thirds of the 15-seat court's positions could turn over in the next term, the reform would let the next government reshape the bench substantially.\n\n[Governance] On ultra-Orthodox military conscription, Netanyahu backed a July 2026 law pausing arrests of Haredi draft evaders, but has since told Likud colleagues that law \"did not work\" and pledged that after the election he would form a broad national government that would immediately pass a full draft law to meet the military's manpower needs, while also pursuing legislative changes preserving exemptions for full-time yeshiva students.\n\n[Immigration] Netanyahu has said that \"as long as I am prime minister, no Palestinian state will arise,\" rejecting the statehood component of international post-war frameworks for Gaza. He has also been pursuing normalization agreements with Saudi Arabia (and, with lower expectations, Indonesia) ahead of the election, aiming to expand the Abraham Accords framework.\n\n[Immigration] Netanyahu has campaigned on continued West Bank settlement growth, telling a settler gathering that his government has established or legalized \"104 communities... and 160 farms, with more to come,\" and framing continued settlement construction as preparation for a future wave of Jewish immigration to the area.\n\n[Economy] Netanyahu's coalition passed Israel's largest-ever state budget for 2026, totaling roughly NIS 850.6 billion, with Defense Ministry funding exceeding NIS 142 billion. Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, presenting the budget as coalition economic policy, described it as one that \"fights the cost of living\" and said it would move to open up the banking market and break up existing monopolies.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Netanyahu rejects Trump's Gaza peace plan, demands Hamas disarm first - NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2026/08/09/nx-s1-5926459/netanyahu-rejects-trump-gaza-peace-plan-israel-hamas" }, { "title": "What now as Israel rejects Trump's 15-point plan for Gaza? - Al Jazeera", "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/9/what-now-as-israel-rejects-trumps-15-point-plan-for-gaza" }, { "title": "Judicial reform 2.0: How Netanyahu's plans to reshape the courts could affect Israel's democracy - Jewish Telegraphic Agency", "url": "https://www.jta.org/2026/09/18/israel/judicial-reform-2-0-how-netanyahus-plans-to-reshape-the-courts-could-affect-israels-democracy" }, { "title": "Opposition pans Netanyahu 'spin' as he distances himself from Haredi draft evasion law - Times of Israel", "url": "https://www.timesofisrael.com/opposition-pans-netanyahu-spin-as-he-distances-himself-from-haredi-draft-evasion-law/" }, { "title": "Netanyahu's vow to build 'broad national government' marks familiar attempt at pre-election rebrand - Times of Israel", "url": "https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-vow-to-build-broad-national-government-marks-familiar-attempt-at-pre-election-rebrand/" }, { "title": "Netanyahu Vows More West Bank Settlements, Defying International Pressure - Asharq Al-Awsat", "url": "https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5311305-netanyahu-vows-more-west-bank-settlements-defying-international-pressure" }, { "title": "Netanyahu seeking Saudi Arabia, Indonesia deals before elections - The New Arab", "url": "https://www.newarab.com/news/netanyahu-seeking-saudi-arabia-indonesia-deals-elections" }, { "title": "Knesset approves 2026 budget, Israel's largest ever, sending billions to Haredi institutions - Times of Israel", "url": "https://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-approves-2026-budget-israels-largest-ever-sending-billions-to-haredi-institutions/" }, { "title": "Smotrich says proposed budget will open banking market, break monopolies - Times of Israel", "url": "https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-says-proposed-budget-will-open-banking-market-break-monopolies/" }, { "title": "Likud submits final candidate list as Netanyahu warns 2026 election will decide Israel's future - Jerusalem Post", "url": "https://www.jpost.com/israel-election-2026/article-907902" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "isr-eisenkot-2026", "name": "Gadi Eisenkot", "office": "Prime Minister candidate (Yashar)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "Israel", "countryCode": "ISR", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Yashar", "abbr": "" }, "purpose": "Eisenkot is running as leader of Yashar on a platform of security-establishment reform, government accountability, and national unity, seeking to govern for all Israeli citizens.", "manifesto": "[Security] Eisenkot's Yashar platform calls for moving from what he describes as a reactive security posture to \"a proactive policy,\" including strengthening the IDF, fortifying Israel's borders, and expanding the military's ranks to ease the burden on conscripts and reservists. He has proposed capping mandatory annual reserve duty at roughly 50 days. He has said he would establish a state commission of inquiry into the October 7 Hamas attack to determine accountability and draw lessons for the future, and has criticized sitting cabinet ministers other than former defense minister Yoav Gallant for seeking re-election without having taken responsibility. On the West Bank, he has said he would reverse the current government's arrangement by placing the Civil Administration and policing activity back under military coordination.\n\n[Governance] Eisenkot has framed his candidacy around governing for all Israelis rather than through what he calls divisive coalition politics, and has ruled out a rotation-style premiership, saying Israel needs one prime minister serving a full four-year term. He has set conditions for any coalition he leads: partners must accept Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, commit to the values of the Declaration of Independence, and agree that all citizens should take part in national service; he has said he would not partner with parties that do not recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization. His platform also calls for prime ministerial term limits, protection of judicial independence, and safeguards for minority rights.\n\n[Economy] The Yashar platform proposes restructuring tax policy to \"reward those who bear the economic and security burden,\" centering economic policy on the working middle class, young people, and active-duty and reserve service members. It calls for prioritized government assistance and civil benefits for reservists, and public investment in transportation, healthcare access, and development of Israel's periphery. The platform also commits funding to repair war-related property damage and to support personal and communal resilience for affected families.\n\n[Education] Eisenkot's platform calls for a core national curriculum tied to the values of Israel's Declaration of Independence, aiming to combine \"national identity and deep roots in Judaism and Israel's heritage\" with a broad democratic and civic worldview. It proposes decentralizing some educational authority, expanding technological and scientific study, and equipping graduates with AI literacy and independent learning skills. The platform also states that schools outside the state education system would not receive state funding.\n\n[Immigration] On immigration, the Yashar platform sets a goal of bringing one million new immigrants to Israel over ten years, with a longer-term target of two million by 2048, aimed at reversing the emigration of Israelis abroad. It proposes a new immigration absorption system addressing language training, employment, and housing, including a hybrid-residency option for partial immigration, while preserving the Law of Return and its grandchild clause. On foreign relations, Eisenkot has criticized the current government for bringing Israel's standing with American society to what he called its \"lowest point,\" and has said Israel's peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan should not be taken for granted.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Exclusive interview: Gadi Eisenkot lays out vision of change and repair for Israel - The Jerusalem Post", "url": "https://www.jpost.com/israel-election-2026/article-909543" }, { "title": "Gadi Eisenkot launches Yashar! Knesset election campaign, vows to govern for all Israelis - The Jerusalem Post", "url": "https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-901008" }, { "title": "Eisenkot launches election campaign, vows to unify after 'chaos' wrought by current government - The Times of Israel", "url": "https://www.timesofisrael.com/eisenkot-launches-election-campaign-vows-to-unify-after-chaos-wrought-by-current-government/" }, { "title": "Yashar (political party) - Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yashar_(political_party)" }, { "title": "120 Project - Israel Policy Forum", "url": "https://israelpolicyforum.org/onetwenty/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "isr-bennett-2026", "name": "Naftali Bennett", "office": "Prime Minister candidate (B'Yachad)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "Israel", "countryCode": "ISR", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "B'Yachad", "abbr": "" }, "purpose": "Naftali Bennett is seeking to become Israel's prime minister at the head of B'Yachad, a joint Knesset list formed with Yair Lapid's Yesh Atid ahead of the October 27, 2026 election, running on security reform, a lower cost of living, and constitutional change.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Bennett's platform centers on lowering Israel's cost of living by increasing market competition rather than imposing price controls. He has pledged to break up monopolies, cut regulation, and open the domestic market to imports, and would let new businesses register in a single day. He points to his 2021-2022 government's record of moving the state budget \"from a huge deficit to a surplus\" as evidence the approach works. The platform also calls for doubling the population of Israel's peripheral regions within a decade through tax incentives and development grants, and for pushing Israel to the front of global artificial-intelligence development.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] To address high grocery prices, the platform commits to cutting food costs by roughly 30 percent within three years by breaking up large food-industry conglomerates and increasing competition in the retail sector. It also proposes replacing existing agricultural import tariffs with direct subsidies paid to farmers, aiming to lower consumer prices while still supporting domestic agriculture.\n\n[Security] The platform calls for universal military conscription applying to all citizens, ending the exemptions currently available to ultra-Orthodox men, and would redirect state benefits away from draft evaders toward those who serve, on the reasoning that \"incentives work.\" It proposes adding 20,000 additional soldiers to the armed forces, giving the military freedom to operate throughout Gaza without outside restriction, and replacing Qatari and Turkish involvement in Gaza's governance with an Egyptian role instead. Reservists and IDF veterans would receive benefits under a proposed Servants Law benefits program, including housing grants of up to one million shekels, free university degrees, and fifty-percent discounts on utility bills. The plan also names rehabilitation of northern Israel, amid the continuing threat from Hezbollah, as a national priority.\n\n[Immigration] On foreign policy, Bennett has vowed to \"immediately declare Qatar an enemy state\" if elected, citing intelligence he says shows Qatar funded Hamas, Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, and Syria's al-Nusra Front. He has also urged the sitting government to make the same declaration at the United Nations, describing Qatar's global media holdings and university funding as an organized influence operation against Israel.\n\n[Education] The education platform would require a fixed national curriculum, covering mathematics, Hebrew, English, civics, Zionist heritage, and Torah studies, to make up 60 percent of instructional time in every school, with individual schools choosing the remaining 40 percent from options such as Talmud, music, cyber studies, or entrepreneurship. School funding would be conditioned on teaching the full mandated curriculum, and the plan calls for bringing the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) education system under state and municipal academic oversight within eight years.\n\n[Governance] Bennett's central governance pledge is that the first matter taken up by his cabinet would be a quasi-constitutional Basic Law limiting future prime ministers to two terms or eight years in office, whichever is longer, followed by an eight-year cooling-off period before a former premier could seek the office again. He has also pledged to establish a state commission of inquiry into the failures surrounding the October 7, 2023 attack, to draft a written constitution grounded in the principles of Israel's Declaration of Independence, and to require broad political consensus before any future changes to judicial review authority. On coalition-building, he has ruled out partnering with Prime Minister Netanyahu as well as with Arab and Haredi religious parties, saying he would govern only with Zionist opposition parties. The platform additionally proposes recognizing civil unions regardless of religion or sex, banning conversion therapy, ending the state-backed kosher-certification monopoly, and letting individual municipalities set their own Sabbath public-transportation rules.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Former PM Naftali Bennett registers new political party ahead of 2026 elections – The Times of Israel", "url": "https://www.timesofisrael.com/former-pm-naftali-bennett-registers-new-political-party-ahead-of-2026-elections/" }, { "title": "Naftali Bennett says first move as PM would be setting term limit for the post – The Times of Israel", "url": "https://www.timesofisrael.com/naftali-bennett-says-first-move-as-pm-would-be-setting-term-limit-for-the-post/" }, { "title": "Anti-Netanyahu leaders Bennett and Liberman unveil their parties' Knesset election slates – The Times of Israel", "url": "https://www.timesofisrael.com/bennett-liberman-unveil-byachad-yisrael-beytenu-knesset-slates-for-upcoming-election/" }, { "title": "Bennett vows to declare Qatar enemy state, says he's seen intel it funded IRGC – The Times of Israel", "url": "https://www.timesofisrael.com/bennett-vows-to-declare-qatar-enemy-state-says-hes-seen-intel-it-funded-irgc/" }, { "title": "Naftali Bennett calls to establish Israeli constitution, lays out political vision – The Jerusalem Post", "url": "https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-899883" }, { "title": "Former PMs Bennett, Lapid hold press conference, launch unified party for Knesset elections – The Jerusalem Post", "url": "https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/article-894194" }, { "title": "Former PM Naftali Bennett pitches economic reforms, security, education overhaul ahead of Israeli elections – All Israel News", "url": "https://allisraelnews.com/former-pm-naftali-bennett-pitches-economic-reforms-security-education-overhaul-ahead-of-israeli-elections" }, { "title": "B'Yachad, 2026 candidates and platform – The Petek", "url": "https://www.thepetek.com/party/beyachad" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "isr-smotrich-2026", "name": "Bezalel Smotrich", "office": "Party Leader (Religious Zionism)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "Israel", "countryCode": "ISR", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Religious Zionist Party", "abbr": "RZP" }, "purpose": "Smotrich is running to lead the Religious Zionist Party list into the October 27, 2026 Knesset election on a platform of applying Israeli sovereignty over most of the West Bank, restructuring the judiciary, and consolidating the religious-nationalist right within a Netanyahu-led coalition.", "manifesto": "[Immigration] The party's central platform commitment is applying Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank, built on Smotrich's own plan to annex roughly 82% of the territory while carving out Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarem, Jericho and Hebron as separate Palestinian population enclaves surrounded by Israeli-controlled land. The stated goal, in the plan's own framing, is \"maximum territory and minimum Arab population,\" explicitly intended to foreclose any future Palestinian state. Smotrich has said the time has come to apply Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria and end discussion of dividing the land. The platform continues the settlement expansion carried out under his tenure overseeing the Settlements Administration, including dozens of new settlement approvals.\n\n[Security] On Gaza, the party's platform calls for renewed Israeli military and civilian presence in the territory, abolishing the Oslo Accords framework, and dismantling the Palestinian Authority in favor of direct Israeli military governance as a step toward eventual sovereignty. Smotrich has framed the approach as treating the West Bank the way Israel \"did in Gaza,\" and has also called for annexing captured Gaza territory and a security buffer in southern Lebanon.\n\n[Security] On military conscription, the party's platform conditions any haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft law on a clear commitment that men not enrolled in full-time Torah study must enlist, which Smotrich has called \"the minimum required\" to move forward. The party has pushed this position even where it has strained relations with haredi coalition partners.\n\n[Governance] The platform includes a judicial-reform agenda to limit the Supreme Court's ability to strike down government decisions, shift responsibility for judicial appointments toward the Knesset (including via an override clause), and split the attorney-general's role from the state prosecutor while ending the binding legal force of attorney-general opinions. On coalition strategy, Smotrich has ruled out any government reliant on Arab parties and has joined forces with Moshe Feiglin's list ahead of the election to consolidate right-wing votes behind a Netanyahu-led government, saying the alliance is meant to ensure \"no right wing vote is lost.\"\n\n[Economy] The party's economic platform calls for liberalizing the economy and encouraging private enterprise, including measures to increase market competition in the dairy sector to bring down milk and cheese prices as part of a broader cost-of-living agenda.\n\n[Immigration] The platform also calls for increasing aliyah (Jewish immigration to Israel) and expanding benefits and incentives for Diaspora Jews to move to Israel.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Israel Election 2026: What does Bezalel Smotrich's Religious Zionist Party stand for? - The Jerusalem Post", "url": "https://www.jpost.com/israel-election-2026/article-905686" }, { "title": "Religious Zionist Party - The Israel Democracy Institute", "url": "https://en.idi.org.il/israeli-elections-and-parties/parties/religious-zionist-party/" }, { "title": "Smotrich proposes annexing 82% of West Bank in bid to prevent Palestinian state - The Times of Israel", "url": "https://www.timesofisrael.com/smotrich-proposes-annexing-82-of-west-bank-in-bid-to-prevent-palestinian-state/" }, { "title": "Smotrich sets condition: 'Draft law must ensure those who don't study enlist' - Israel National News", "url": "https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/427254" }, { "title": "Smotrich, Feiglin sign on joint run ahead of October elections, call for broad right wing alliance - The Jerusalem Post", "url": "https://www.jpost.com/israel-election-2026/article-907259" }, { "title": "Smotrich-Feiglin alliance submits final list for Oct. 27 vote - JNS", "url": "https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/smotrich-feiglin-alliance-submits-final-list-for-oct-27-vote" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "isr-bengvir-2026", "name": "Itamar Ben-Gvir", "office": "Party Leader (Otzma Yehudit)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "Israel", "countryCode": "ISR", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Otzma Yehudit", "abbr": "" }, "purpose": "Itamar Ben-Gvir is leading Otzma Yehudit's list in Israel's October 27, 2026 Knesset election on a platform centered on military escalation against Hamas, Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank, and hardline immigration and judicial policies.", "manifesto": "[Security] Ben-Gvir's platform calls for shifting Israeli policy in Gaza from containment to sustained offensive pressure, opposing any ceasefire arrangement that would leave Hamas intact, and easing the open-fire regulations that govern Israeli security forces. As National Security Minister, he has said he will demand the Defense Ministry portfolio in the next coalition, arguing that someone from outside the military establishment is needed to overhaul the IDF's rules of engagement, which he views as overly restrictive. Otzma Yehudit sponsored the 2026 law establishing the death penalty for convicted terrorists, which the Knesset passed 62-48. Ben-Gvir has also called for the \"immediate application of sovereignty\" over the West Bank alongside the full dismantling of the Palestinian Authority, presenting it as a response to Western governments' recognition of a Palestinian state.\n\n[Immigration] The party's signature proposal for the 2026 campaign, a plan named Disengagement 710, calls for a new government Emigration Ministry to facilitate the emigration of Gaza's population to third countries such as Turkey, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and unspecified Arab states. Otzma Yehudit's stated targets are roughly 250,000 departures in the plan's first year, rising to about 1.86 million within seven years, with departing residents offered an absorption package covering travel, temporary housing, vocational training and employment support for up to 24 months. The plan would be financed by an initial NIS 10 billion Israeli government outlay intended to draw matching contributions of up to NIS 50 billion from international donors. Separately, the party has proposed creating a national immigration authority whose mandate would include identifying and expelling people it designates as \"enemies of the state\" from Israel.\n\n[Governance] On judicial policy, Otzma Yehudit backed the 2023 judicial overhaul and has pushed for further changes, including giving elected officials greater control over the Judicial Selection Committee, narrowing the scope of High Court review, and eliminating the evaluation course currently required of Supreme Court candidates. Party No. 2 Tally Gotliv has proposed dismissing the sitting Attorney General immediately upon formation of the next government, and the platform calls for incorporating elements of Jewish religious law into the judicial system. Ahead of the 2026 vote, the party also petitioned Israel's Central Elections Committee to bar the Arab-led Ra'am party and its leader from running, describing them in campaign materials as supportive of terrorism.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Israel Election 2026: What does Itamar Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit stand for? - The Jerusalem Post", "url": "https://www.jpost.com/israel-election-2026/article-909348" }, { "title": "Ben Gvir unveils 'voluntary emigration' plan aimed at removing 1.86 million Palestinians from Gaza - The Times of Israel", "url": "https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ben-gvir-unveils-voluntary-emigration-plan-aimed-at-removing-1-86-million-palestinians-from-gaza/" }, { "title": "Ben Gvir demands role of defense minister in next government, Gotliv as justice minister - The Times of Israel", "url": "https://www.timesofisrael.com/ben-gvir-demands-role-of-defense-minister-in-next-government-gotliv-as-justice-minister/" }, { "title": "Ben Gvir says he will propose 'immediate' West Bank annexation in response to Western recognition of Palestine - The Times of Israel", "url": "https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ben-gvir-says-he-will-propose-immediate-west-bank-annexation-in-response-to-western-recognition-of-palestine/" }, { "title": "Otzma Yehudit - The Israel Democracy Institute", "url": "https://en.idi.org.il/israeli-elections-and-parties/parties/otzma-yehudit/" }, { "title": "Otzma Yehudit issues request for Ra'am, Abbas to be barred from 2026 Knesset elections - The Jerusalem Post", "url": "https://www.jpost.com/israel-election-2026/article-908077" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "twn-chiang-taipei-2026", "name": "Chiang Wan-an", "office": "Mayor of Taipei (seeking re-election)", "region": "Taipei, Taiwan", "country": "Taiwan", "countryCode": "TWN", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Kuomintang", "abbr": "KMT" }, "purpose": "Chiang Wan-an is running for a second term as Taipei mayor on the strength of his first-term record, campaigning to continue and expand his administration's initiatives on housing, transit, family support, education, and public safety.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Chiang is campaigning on continuing an economic strategy built around public-private partnerships, citing a roughly NT$30 billion private-investment target for Taipei in 2026 concentrated in urban renewal, transit-oriented development around new MRT lines, and long-term care facilities built through joint ventures with private operators. He has framed the approach as channeling private capital into projects that deliver \"tangible benefits to citizens\" rather than relying solely on public funding.\n\n[Health] Chiang's re-election platform includes an expanded package of family and maternal-health benefits: a NT$30,000 postpartum meal subsidy per birth (available without income restrictions to residents registered in Taipei for at least 10 months), a companion NT$30,000 childbirth payment, and IVF subsidies raised from a NT$20,000 to a NT$40,000 ceiling with new coverage for egg-freezing storage. He said the postpartum benefit is meant \"to help mothers maintain their physical and mental well-being\" during recovery. The city has also subsidized a seven-hour workday option for employees with children 12 or younger, covering 80 percent of the resulting wage loss, and Chiang has expanded the senior jinglao elderly card, raising its monthly transit points to 600 and adding free electric-bikeshare time and broader hospital fee deductions to encourage seniors to stay active.\n\n[Education] Chiang's platform includes six education initiatives: free public-school weekday lunches for roughly 186,000 elementary and junior-high students starting in the 2026 school year, a phased reduction of class sizes to 25 students per elementary class by 2030, teacher-exchange and overseas-sabbatical programs, new vocational robotics workshops, and expanded continuing-education vouchers. He has separately committed NT$9.2 billion over four years to an AI-education initiative supplying AI-equipped computers to every teacher, GPU-based labs to senior high schools, and a new AI-education center in the Shilin Science Park, saying the goal is to cultivate \"digital citizens with critical thinking abilities.\"\n\n[Infrastructure] To address what he calls Taipei's aging-people, aging-buildings problem, in which roughly two-thirds of housing stock is over 30 years old, Chiang raised elevator-installation subsidies to cover 80 percent of costs (up to NT$4.8 million) for buildings housing seniors, young children, or residents with disabilities, eliminated a parking-space replacement fee that had blocked retrofits, and streamlined renovation permitting. His broader urban-renewal package pairs redevelopment incentives with continued construction of social housing offering newlyweds and families with children a 20 percent rent discount.\n\n[Infrastructure] On transit, Chiang has partnered with Nvidia to apply AI simulation tools across all 24 stations of the MRT Brown Line, covering platform-evacuation planning, service-disruption response, and ridership-capacity management, with signaling and rolling-stock upgrades targeted for completion by 2036. He has framed the project as an early step toward building an \"AI-driven smart city.\"\n\n[Security] Chiang has campaigned on Taipei's anti-fraud enforcement record, citing roughly NT$942 million in blocked fraudulent transfers in the first half of 2026, the highest total of any Taiwanese city, achieved through police cooperation with banks whose staff are trained to question customers before suspicious transfers complete. His administration has given cash awards to bank employees who intercept scams, describing financial institutions as a \"critical line of defense\" against fraud rings.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Taipei mayor and Puma Shen clash over postpartum subsidies - Taipei Times", "url": "https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/08/20/2003862808" }, { "title": "Taipei to introduce Taiwan's first postpartum meal allowance - Focus Taiwan", "url": "https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202608190022" }, { "title": "Taipei initiative to subsidize flexible hours for parents - Taipei Times", "url": "https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2026/02/26/2003852901" }, { "title": "蒣萬安推6項教育新政 國小每班人數逐年降至25人 - CNA", "url": "https://www.cna.com.tw/news/aloc/202606060096.aspx" }, { "title": "蒣萬安：4年92億元推AI教育 培育學生成數位公民 - CNA", "url": "https://www.cna.com.tw/news/aloc/202607030126.aspx" }, { "title": "人屋雙老 蒣萬安四大新制加碼解困 - 聯合新聞網", "url": "https://udn.com/news/story/7323/9601412" }, { "title": "蒣萬安宣布敬老卡下月加碼至600點 - 聯合新聞網", "url": "https://udn.com/news/story/7323/9580525" }, { "title": "Taipei, Nvidia to partner on AI-driven MRT upgrades - Taipei Times", "url": "https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/06/01/2003858355" }, { "title": "Taipei Targets attract NT$30 Billion in Investment in 2026 - Taipei City Government", "url": "https://english.tpedoit.gov.taipei/News_Content.aspx?n=9DE3AECE53F4FA2B&sms=DFFA119D1FD5602C&s=8A007C6422BED2C8" }, { "title": "北市上半年攜阻詐骗8.4億全國最多 蒣萬安表揚銀行關懷提問 - 聯合新聞網", "url": "https://udn.com/news/story/124490/9711535" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "twn-shen-taipei-2026", "name": "Puma Shen", "office": "Mayor of Taipei", "region": "Taipei, Taiwan", "country": "Taiwan", "countryCode": "TWN", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Democratic Progressive Party", "abbr": "DPP" }, "purpose": "Puma Shen is campaigning for Taipei mayor on a five-pillar 'HEART' platform aimed at making the city more livable, resilient, and opportunity-rich for young people and families.", "manifesto": "[Infrastructure] Under the Habitat pillar of his HEART platform, Shen has pledged to build affordable rental housing aimed at young people and newlyweds, expand riverside parks along the Tamsui and Keelung rivers, and connect a citywide network of mountain and cultural trails. Drawing on a U.S. study trip, he has proposed adopting a \"3-30-300\" urban forestry standard, reviewed by a panel including urban planners, arborists, residents and insurers. He has also criticized Taipei's practice of selling development density outright, proposing instead that added building density be granted only in exchange for including affordable units from a project's outset, citing similar programs in New York and Washington.\n\n[Infrastructure] On transportation, Shen has proposed folding shared electric scooters into the TPASS commuter pass and giving riders 30 minutes of free trips on YouBike 2.0E during peak commuting hours, alongside new bike infrastructure such as a Keelung River bridge linking Yingfeng Riverside Park to the Neihu Technology Park. He wants to expand dedicated school-commute safety zones from four to all of Taipei's more than 150 elementary schools within eight years, noting most pedestrian deaths occur while \"students are traveling to school.\" He has also proposed bus-system reforms including driver salary subsidies, ergonomic seating and turnaround rest stations, plus lockers, changing rooms and showers at MRT stations for commuters who bike or run.\n\n[Economy] Under the \"Empower\" pillar, Shen has proposed a municipal fund letting young Taipei residents draw NT$500,000 at age 22 to help launch a business, pursue training, or support an international work-experience grant. He has also proposed subsidizing AI-related courses for youth, creating career-transition support for workers aged 45 and older, and establishing a municipal research institute in the Beitou-Shilin Technology Park intended to draw researchers and startups to the city. He has tied these measures to reversing Taipei's population decline, citing a loss of roughly 270,000 residents over the past decade.\n\n[Health] Responding to Mayor Chiang Wan-an's postpartum subsidy package, Shen argued the incumbent's approach was \"overly focused on births\" and pledged instead to support families across the full lifecycle, from infancy to 45 years old, plus elder care. His platform includes subsidized childcare hours, temporary childcare service points at cultural venues, and Family One-Stop centers pairing households with family-education mentors. For seniors, he has proposed replacing what he calls inefficient elevator-installation subsidies with door-to-door assistance, fitness minibuses, upgraded Senior Citizen Cards, and expanded community care centers.\n\n[Security] Under the \"Resilience\" pillar, Shen has pledged to build Taipei into a branded disaster-resilience city, citing a New York Times assessment ranking Taipei tenth among cities most lacking in climate resilience. He has argued that infrastructure alone is not enough, saying that even strong flood-prevention hardware fails if drainage systems go unmaintained, and has proposed strengthening citizen emergency-notification systems alongside efforts to rebuild neighborhood-level community bonds, which he describes as a form of resilience in themselves.\n\n[Governance] Shen has proposed restructuring city hall by creating new cross-departmental positions, including a chief design officer to coordinate urban design decisions and a night mayor to oversee nightlife, commerce and safety coordination after dark. He has also proposed workplace policies for city employees, including more flexible scheduling and an employee assistance program, as part of an effort to make city government itself more responsive.\n\n[Education] On youth and schools, Shen has proposed a formal school bullying reporting mechanism and a secure digital portal giving young people vetted access to large language models. He has also called for improvements to school nutrition programs and bilingual education initiatives, framed alongside his talent and entrepreneurship measures as ways to keep young people and families in Taipei.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Puma Shen unveils 'HEART' policy vision for Taipei - Taipei Times", "url": "https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/08/11/2003862310" }, { "title": "Taipei mayor and Puma Shen clash over postpartum subsidies - Taipei Times", "url": "https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/08/20/2003862808" }, { "title": "DPP's Puma Shen proposes Taipei commuting policies - Taipei Times", "url": "https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2026/09/17/2003864415" }, { "title": "首政見發佈！沈伯洋「心」主軸 TPASS納共享機車、捷運設換衣沖洗設備 - 聯合新聞網 (UDN)", "url": "https://udn.com/news/story/124652/9683613" }, { "title": "訪美帶回四大城市治理解方 沈伯洋：建立專屬「台北防災韌性城市」品牌 - 三立新聞網 (SETN)", "url": "https://www.setn.com/news/1881069" }, { "title": "《紐時》評台北最缺乏韌性排第十 沈伯洋：五大方向之一就是韌性城市 - 自由時報", "url": "https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/politics/breakingnews/5567885" }, { "title": "政見 — 沈伯洋台北市長競選官方網站", "url": "https://puma.taipei/policies" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-28T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "srb-vucic-2026", "name": "Aleksandar Vučić", "office": "Prime Minister candidate (SNS)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "Serbia", "countryCode": "SRB", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Serbian Progressive Party", "abbr": "SNS" }, "purpose": "Aleksandar Vučić resigned as President of Serbia on September 27, 2026 to run for Prime Minister on the SNS list in the snap October 25, 2026 parliamentary election, campaigning on a platform to continue and accelerate his government's economic and development agenda.", "manifesto": "[Governance] Vučić has proposed a drastic reduction in the size of government — cutting the number of ministers, state secretaries and assistant ministers along with their supporting staff — and eliminating what he calls numerous agencies, offices and administrative bodies that he says exist \"with no substantial reason\" for continuing. He has also called for further deregulation, including removing product-certification requirements he argues needlessly duplicate EU standards and raise consumer prices, and has said reform must also address bureaucratic arrogance within public administration.\n\n[Economy] Vučić has campaigned on a wave of wage and pension increases, including raising Serbia's minimum wage from 457 euros toward 500 and then 550 euros, pushing the average salary to roughly 1,147 euros by the end of 2026 and 1,400 euros in 2027, and tying future pension increases to wage growth so pensions rise in step with salaries rather than through periodic one-off adjustments; he set December 1, 2026 raises of 8% for public-sector wages, 12% for social-protection sector wages and 7.5% for pensions. Under a longer-range Serbia 2030-2035 strategy he unveiled in September 2026, he projects GDP growth to roughly 133 billion euros by 2030, an average salary of 1,320 euros by 2030 rising to 1,700 euros by 2035, and roughly 48 billion euros in cumulative capital investment through 2035 built partly around continued foreign direct investment, together with a push for longer working hours — arguing Serbia must \"work more, not less\" to compete with China, the United States and a Germany he says is moving in the same direction — and aggressive investment in robotics, artificial intelligence and data centers, including a domestic humanoid-robot factory and new state data centers in Niš and Novi Sad by 2030.\n\n[Education] Vučić has called for \"greater openness to the world\" at Serbian universities and colleges, and for expanding a dual-education model that pairs classroom instruction with practical, employer-based training so schooling better matches labor-market needs and prepares young people directly for jobs.\n\n[Infrastructure] His energy program calls for a comprehensive build-out of nuclear, gas and hydroelectric capacity, including small and large nuclear power plants he has targeted for completion by 2042 (with construction beginning before 2035 and roughly 3 billion euros required for the first plant), a network of new oil and gas pipelines and interconnectors, two additional pumped-storage hydroelectric plants, and roughly 2.4 billion euros for power-grid modernization; he has described nuclear power as \"the cleanest and safest energy\" available to Serbia. The wider 2030-2035 strategy also commits to 578 additional kilometers of highways and expressways and roughly 1,019 kilometers of new or modernized railway (including lines linking Zemun Polje, Belgrade Airport and the new National Stadium, and lines from Niš to Brestovac and Dimitrovgrad), plus 1.5 billion euros for roughly 30,000 kilometers of new water pipes and 1.2 billion euros for sewage networks.\n\n[Health] Vučić has announced that innovative cancer treatment drugs for breast, lung, liver and bladder cancer will begin reaching Serbian hospitals in October 2026, alongside plans for a new dedicated oncology clinic developed with international medical experts, and has pointed to recently completed clinical centers in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Niš plus the roughly 150-million-euro Tiršova 2 children's clinic now under construction. He has also promised further reductions in the retail price of common medicines, through expanded state cost coverage, and has set target dates for eliminating hospital waiting lists for procedures including MRI scans, cataract removal, heart procedures and orthopedic surgery.\n\n[Security] On defense, Vučić has emphasized modernizing the armed forces with robotic and unmanned systems and drone capability, framing the goal as Serbia being able to \"protect our own sky and our own land\" without depending on outside forces, while maintaining formal military neutrality; the 2030-2035 strategy sets minimum defense spending of 15 billion euros over the period. He has said Serbia will continue to rely on NATO's KFOR mission to guarantee the security of Kosovo Serbs, and has directed the army to help secure the northern border town of Šid and migrant reception facilities amid renewed migrant transit through Serbia.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Vučić reveals 5-point plan for Serbia - Serbian Monitor", "url": "https://www.serbianmonitor.com/en/vucic-reveals-5-point-plan-for-serbia/" }, { "title": "He also wrote the text: Vučić's five points for the future of Serbia - Vreme", "url": "https://vreme.com/en/vesti/aleksandar-vucic-plan-za-srbiju-kurir/" }, { "title": "Prva tačka Vučićevog plana za Srbiju - autorski tekst za Kurir", "url": "https://www.kurir.rs/vesti/politika/9988431/prva-tacka-vucicevog-plana-za-srbiju-autorski-tekst-za-kurir" }, { "title": "Četvrta tačka Vučićevog plana za Srbiju (energetika) - autorski tekst za Kurir", "url": "https://www.kurir.rs/vesti/politika/9988916/cetvrta-tacka-vucicevog-plana-za-srbiju-autorski-tekst-za-kurir" }, { "title": "Serbia's 2030-2035 national strategy: Vučić campaigns to extend his rule - EU Alive", "url": "https://eualive.net/serbias-2030-2035-national-strategy-vucic-campaigns-to-extend-his-rule/" }, { "title": "Vučić: Srbiju 2035. vidim kao članicu EU i jednog od lidera u AI, prosečna plata biće tada 1.700 evra - N1", "url": "https://n1info.rs/biznis/vucic-strategija-srbija-2035/" }, { "title": "Nacionalna strategija do 2035. godine: Veštačka inteligencija, stotine kilometara auto-puteva, hiljade robota-kučića - Nova Ekonomija", "url": "https://novaekonomija.rs/vesti-iz-zemlje/nacionalna-strategija-do-2035-godine-vestacka-inteligencija-stotine-kilometara-auto-puteva-hiljade-robota-kucica" }, { "title": "New economy: The average salary of 1400 euros promised by Vučić is not realistic - Vreme", "url": "https://vreme.com/en/ekonomija/nova-ekonomija-prosecna-plata-od-1400-evra-koju-obecava-vucic-nije-realna/" }, { "title": "Vucic: Pensions to Rise Like Salaries, 100 Billion Set Aside - Srpske Novine", "url": "https://srpske.rs/en/news/ekonomija/2026/08/24/vucic-pensions-to-rise-like-salaries" }, { "title": "Ahead of elections Serbia's President and PM-candidate promises increase of salaries, pensions, social allowances, one-time aid", "url": "https://dtt-net.com/ahead-of-elections-serbias-president-and-pm-candidate-promises-increase-of-salaries-pensions-social-allowances-one-time-aid/" }, { "title": "Vučić: \"Moramo da izgradimo nuklearne elektrane do 2042. godine\" - B92", "url": "https://www.b92.net/biz/srbija/vesti/233234/vucic-moramo-da-izgradimo-nuklearne-elektrane-do-2042-godine/vest" }, { "title": "U OKTOBRU U BOLNICE STIŽU INOVATIVNI LEKOVI ZA LEČENJE KANCERA - Kurir", "url": "https://www.kurir.rs/vesti/politika/10079522/vucic-u-oktobru-u-bolnice-stizu-inovativni-lekovi-za-lecenje-kancera" }, { "title": "Jeftini lekovi: Od bakalina do predsednika-apotekara - Radar/Nova.rs", "url": "https://radar.nova.rs/politika/jeftini-lekovi-liste-cekanja/" }, { "title": "Serbia's President Aleksandar Vučić resigns to run for prime minister in snap elections - Euronews", "url": "https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/28/serbias-president-aleksandar-vucic-resigns-to-run-for-prime-minister-in-snap-elections" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-29T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "srb-studentlist-2026", "name": "Ilija Srdanović", "office": "Lead candidate / list holder (Student List citizens' electoral list)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "Serbia", "countryCode": "SRB", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Student List", "abbr": "SL" }, "purpose": "This entry documents the policy platform of the Student List — a 250-candidate citizens' electoral list headed by cardiologist and university professor Ilija Srdanović — for Serbia's October 25, 2026 snap parliamentary election.", "manifesto": "[Governance] The Student List's platform, titled \"Serbia or the Mafia,\" centers on rebuilding judicial and prosecutorial independence. It proposes an independent Special Prosecutorial Police tasked with investigating corruption free of political interference, along with disciplinary action against judges, prosecutors, and police officials found to be shielding criminal structures. The plan also calls for an asset-origin law and a lustration process to verify how public officials acquired their property, paired with a strengthened Tax Administration mandated to trace and recover stolen public funds.\n\n[Governance] A second strand of the program targets transparency in state spending and media. It calls for opening all public procurement contracts and tenders to public scrutiny, strengthening the State Audit Institution, and reviewing past infrastructure contracts that were awarded without competitive, transparent bidding. It also pledges to depoliticize the broadcasting regulator (REM) and state broadcaster RTS, review editorial accountability at state and private outlets, and replace party-based hiring and appointments in the public sector with open, competition-based recruitment of qualified staff.\n\n[Education] Under the \"Knowledge is Power\" section of the plan, the Student List commits to free textbooks for all primary and secondary school students nationwide, alongside a curriculum overhaul aimed at emphasizing critical thinking. It also proposes closer links between universities and industry to retain graduates and research capacity in the country.\n\n[Economy] The \"Serbia Grows with Us\" section proposes startup grants intended to help move the economy away from low-wage production toward higher-value output, alongside grants for farmers making a similar transition. It also pledges to amend labor law to cut the maximum duration of fixed-term employment contracts from 24 months to 12, framed as increasing job security for workers kept on repeated short-term contracts.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] The program designates farmland and water resources as protected national assets, to be shielded from further sale or exploitation. It also commits to abolishing existing import monopolies and other market-distorting arrangements affecting food, with the stated aim of ensuring fairer pricing between producers and retailers and safeguarding domestic food security.\n\n[Health] On healthcare, the platform calls for state controls to bring down medicine prices, the reopening and renovation of rural health clinics that have closed or fallen into disrepair, and the hiring of new young doctors to restore basic medical services in underserved areas.\n\n[Infrastructure] The Student List also proposes affordable rental and purchase housing programs targeted at young couples and at professionals in occupations facing staff shortages, combined with tax relief measures for these groups.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Ilija Srdanović - Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilija_Srdanovi%C4%87" }, { "title": "Student List - Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_List" }, { "title": "Serbian students present all 250 candidates on the Student List; Professor Srdanović tops the slate – EUalive", "url": "https://eualive.net/serbian-students-present-all-250-candidates-on-the-student-list-professor-srdanovic-tops-the-slate/" }, { "title": "Studenti objavili 11 tačaka programa Studentske liste: „Srbija ili mafija“ - Rešetka", "url": "https://resetka.rs/studenti-objavili-11-tacaka-programa-studentske-liste-srbija-ili-mafija/" }, { "title": "Student-Led Movement Launches Election Challenge to Serbian Government - Balkan Insight", "url": "https://balkaninsight.com/2026/09/11/student-led-movement-launches-election-challenge-to-serbian-government/bi/" }, { "title": "Serbia's Vucic Calls Early Parliamentary Elections for October 25 - Balkan Insight", "url": "https://balkaninsight.com/2026/09/09/serbias-vucic-calls-early-parliamentary-elections-for-october-25/bi/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-29T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "gha-bawumia-2028", "name": "Mahamudu Bawumia", "office": "Presidential candidate (NPP)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "Ghana", "countryCode": "GHA", "year": "2028", "level": "presidential", "party": { "name": "New Patriotic Party", "abbr": "NPP" }, "purpose": "This entry documents Mahamudu Bawumia, who won the New Patriotic Party's internal primary on January 31, 2026 and was confirmed as the party's presidential flagbearer for Ghana's December 2028 general election, following his previous run as the NPP's 2024 presidential candidate.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Bawumia's platform commits to sustaining economic growth in the range of 6 percent annually through an independent Fiscal Responsibility Council and a rule capping yearly government spending at 105% of the prior year's tax revenue. It proposes abolishing the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy) and pairs this with a business-incentive package that includes Investment Tax Credits for start-ups in strategic sectors, a flattened import-tariff structure, harmonizing Ghana's port charges with regional competitors, a dedicated SME Bank for businesses that employ most of the workforce, reduced mineral-export taxation for small-scale miners, digitized land titling to let property serve as loan collateral, and new special economic zones at border towns such as Aflao and Paga. A currency-anchoring measure Bawumia calls the \"Gold for Oil\" programme is also cited among his recurring economic pledges.\n\n[Economy] On jobs and digitalization, the platform pledges to train one million young people in digital skills, expand employment tied to private-sector-led infrastructure projects, and raise internet penetration to 90 percent. Related proposals include a Digital Residency scheme for technology businesses, five-year Digital Nomad Visas intended to attract international talent, and a designated Digital Ambassador tasked with promoting Ghanaian exports in overseas markets.\n\n[Health] The manifesto commits to completing all outstanding Agenda 111 district hospitals, recruiting additional doctors, nurses and allied health workers, and scaling up telehealth services nationwide. It also proposes expanding drone-based delivery of medical supplies to further sites, including Funsi and Kintampo, and ensuring interoperability across e-pharmacy platforms.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] Food-security proposals center on stabilizing local food prices through financing channeled via the Development Bank Ghana and the GIRSAL guarantee facility, expanding production of staple crops, and investing in post-harvest storage and preservation infrastructure. Bawumia has said an inclusive \"blue economy\" component, covering sustainable fishing and aquaculture supported by a World Bank-backed coastal-management program, marine tourism, and mitigation of coastal erosion, would feature prominently in the platform.\n\n[Security] Security commitments include completing 15 Forward Operating Bases along Ghana's land borders, recruiting 20,000 additional security personnel, and deploying an estimated 50,000 CCTV and body-worn cameras to support policing and law enforcement.\n\n[Education] The platform pledges to continue the free Senior High School and free TVET programmes, establish an Open University, expand tertiary student housing, integrate existing scholarship databases into a single system, and exempt employed university graduates from mandatory national service.\n\n[Governance] Governance proposals include capping the number of government ministers at 50, restoring the election of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives by universal adult suffrage, separating the process of creating new districts from that of creating new constituencies, and allocating a direct share of the Common Fund to electoral areas. The platform also references an Affirmative Action Plan aimed at expanding opportunities for women and girls.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "NPP's 2024 Manifesto [Full Text] - Citi Newsroom", "url": "https://www.citinewsroom.com/2024/08/npps-2024-manifesto-full-text/" }, { "title": "NPP Manifesto Launch: Dr. Bawumia unveils 9 incentives for economic growth - Graphic Online", "url": "https://www.graphic.com.gh/news/politics/npp-manifesto-launch-dr-bawumia-unveils-9-incentives-for-economic-growth.html" }, { "title": "Dr. Bawumia highlights 14 policy commitments under his presidency - GhanaWeb", "url": "https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/business/Dr-Bawumia-highlights-14-policy-commitments-under-his-presidency-1947540" }, { "title": "Blue Economy will feature prominently in NPP's 2024 manifesto - Bawumia - MyJoyOnline", "url": "https://www.myjoyonline.com/blue-economy-will-feature-prominently-in-npps-2024-manifesto-bawumia/" }, { "title": "Bawumia elected NPP flagbearer - Citi Newsroom", "url": "https://www.citinewsroom.com/2026/01/bawumia-elected-npp-flagbearer/" }, { "title": "Dr Bawumia declared NPP flagbearer for 2028 general elections - GhanaWeb", "url": "https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Dr-Bawumia-declared-NPP-flagbearer-for-2028-general-elections-2019691" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-29T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "zaf-zille-joburg-2026", "name": "Helen Zille", "office": "Mayoral candidate (DA)", "region": "Johannesburg", "country": "South Africa", "countryCode": "ZAF", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Democratic Alliance", "abbr": "DA" }, "purpose": "Candidate for Johannesburg mayor in South Africa's November 4, 2026 local government elections.", "manifesto": "[Economy] As the Democratic Alliance's mayoral candidate, Helen Zille has pledged to attract 200,000 new jobs to Johannesburg by revitalizing the city's business districts and restoring investor confidence in reliable municipal services. She has argued that stabilizing water and electricity supply is a precondition for private investment, pointing to Cape Town's job creation record under DA governance as a template, and stating simply that \"That is just the rules of economics.\"\n\n[Infrastructure] Zille has committed to ring-fencing revenue collected from water and electricity tariffs so that it is spent exclusively on maintaining those services, and to partnering with the private sector to help close an estimated R300-billion infrastructure backlog. On roads, she has pledged to repair potholes within 72 hours of being reported, restore 95% of traffic lights to working order, repaint road markings, and install modern monitoring technology at major intersections, warning that \"Right now, drivers are sitting in chaos.\"\n\n[Security] Zille has promised a zero-tolerance approach to corruption and organized crime within the municipality, declaring \"There will be no mercy for corruption syndicates.\" Her plan includes deploying honest metro police officers in every ward, firing and prosecuting corrupt officials, reclaiming hijacked buildings, preventing further land invasions, addressing illegal immigration, and protecting whistleblowers who expose wrongdoing.\n\n[Governance] To reform city administration, Zille has pledged to hire competent professionals on merit, reward good performance and punish poor performance, and overhaul the municipality's billing systems with more user-friendly, modern technology platforms for residents to resolve account disputes.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "'No mercy' for syndicates: Helen Zille unveils five-point plan for Johannesburg", "url": "https://www.ewn.co.za/no-mercy-for-syndicates-helen-zille-unveils-five-point-plan-for-johannesburg/" }, { "title": "Zille pledges 200 000 new jobs in Johannesburg", "url": "https://mg.co.za/news/south-africa/2026-03-07-zille-pledges-200-000-new-jobs-in-johannesburg/" }, { "title": "Zille launches Joburg campaign pledges", "url": "https://www.da.org.za/2026/03/zille-launches-joburg-campaign-pledges" }, { "title": "Zille reveals bold rescue plan as DA commits to 'get Joburg working' at manifesto launch", "url": "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-03-08-zille-reveals-das-bold-rescue-plan-to-get-joburg-working-at-manifesto-launch/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-29T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "zaf-mashaba-joburg-2026", "name": "Herman Mashaba", "office": "Mayoral candidate (ActionSA)", "region": "Johannesburg", "country": "South Africa", "countryCode": "ZAF", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "ActionSA", "abbr": "ActionSA" }, "purpose": "Candidate for Johannesburg mayor in South Africa's November 4, 2026 local government elections.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Herman Mashaba has pledged to relaunch and expand Johannesburg's Inner-City Revitalisation Programme, reduce delays in business licensing and municipal approvals, and prioritize support for township economies, small businesses, and informal traders through formalization initiatives.\n\n[Infrastructure] Mashaba has proposed an \"Operation Fix Joburg\" infrastructure recovery plan prioritizing water, electricity, roads and sewer networks, committing to double the pace of pipe replacement and road resurfacing achieved by the current administration, which recorded more than 200 kilometres of water pipe, 160 kilometres of sewer pipe, and 938 lane-kilometres of resurfaced roads over three years. The plan includes a triage-based system directing resources to the highest-risk infrastructure failures first.\n\n[Security] Mashaba has committed to recruiting an additional 2,500 Johannesburg Metro Police Department officers on top of 1,500 recruited previously, while continuing to reclaim hijacked buildings, restore order in the inner city, and reinstate functioning municipal courts to enforce city by-laws.\n\n[Immigration] As part of ActionSA's nine-point local government plan, Mashaba has pledged to address illegal immigration in Johannesburg through closer coordination with national law-enforcement and home affairs agencies, tying enforcement to the party's broader public-safety and building-reclamation efforts.\n\n[Governance] Mashaba's manifesto, titled a \"Declaration of War on Broken Municipalities,\" commits to a comprehensive financial health audit of Johannesburg within his first 100 days in office, redirecting more than R2-billion in wasteful expenditure toward infrastructure, requiring lifestyle audits for senior officials, and increasing transparency in tenders and contracts, alongside merit-based appointments free of political patronage.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "ActionSA 2026 Manifesto: A Declaration of War on Broken Municipalities", "url": "https://www.actionsa.org.za/actionsa-2026-manifesto-a-declaration-of-war-on-broken-municipalities/" }, { "title": "Manifesto: ActionSA ready to govern and build a prosperous SA – Herman Mashaba", "url": "https://www.politicsweb.co.za/news/manifesto-actionsa-ready-to-govern-and-build-a-prosperous-sa-herman-mashaba" }, { "title": "Mayoral Candidate, Herman Mashaba Delivers The Real State of the City Address", "url": "https://www.actionsa.org.za/mayoral-candidate-herman-mashaba-delivers-the-real-state-of-the-city-address/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-29T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "zaf-mofokeng-joburg-2026", "name": "Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng", "office": "Mayoral candidate (EFF)", "region": "Johannesburg", "country": "South Africa", "countryCode": "ZAF", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Economic Freedom Fighters", "abbr": "EFF" }, "purpose": "Candidate for Johannesburg mayor in South Africa's November 4, 2026 local government elections.", "manifesto": "[Health] Tlaleng Mofokeng has proposed expanding access to 24-hour clinics and maternal and obstetric units across Johannesburg, introducing a digital patient-management system that would let residents access care records across different facilities, and improving healthcare accessibility for people with disabilities and language barriers, framing comprehensive primary healthcare as a core city priority.\n\n[Economy] Mofokeng has pledged to insource municipal workers currently employed through outsourced contracts, providing them permanent positions with medical aid and leave benefits, and to direct city supply-chain spending toward black-owned, women-led, LGBTQ-led, and disability-led businesses. She has also proposed writing off historical municipal debt owed by indigent households, introducing progressive tariffs based on income, and providing free basic services to unemployed residents and SASSA beneficiaries, asking \"why do we lose so much to profit-making entities?\"\n\n[Infrastructure] She has called for a large-scale, city-wide infrastructure maintenance program, mobilizing partnerships and additional resources to address Johannesburg's water and electricity backlog.\n\n[Governance] Mofokeng has said she would seek an outright 51% majority to avoid dependence on unstable coalition arrangements, pledging to eliminate corruption and to shift the municipality's relationship with residents away from a punitive, enforcement-first posture toward regular consultation, declaring: \"I solemnly swear to serve my community 24 hours a day.\"", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Fresh face, bold policies — EFF's Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng outlines her vision for Joburg", "url": "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-08-16-fresh-face-bold-policies-eff-s-dr-tlaleng-mofokeng-outlines-her-vision-for-joburg/" }, { "title": "Here are the EFF's mayoral candidates and election manifesto", "url": "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-07-26-eff-celebrates-13-years-with-manifesto-focused-on-youth-issues-and-basic-services/" }, { "title": "EFF Joburg mayoral candidate Tlaleng Mofokeng ready to serve residents", "url": "https://www.ewn.co.za/2026/07/27/eff-joburg-mayoral-candidate-tlaleng-mofokeng-ready-to-serve-residents" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-29T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "zaf-kunene-joburg-2026", "name": "Kenny Kunene", "office": "Mayoral candidate (PA)", "region": "Johannesburg", "country": "South Africa", "countryCode": "ZAF", "year": "2026", "level": "local", "party": { "name": "Patriotic Alliance", "abbr": "PA" }, "purpose": "Candidate for Johannesburg mayor in South Africa's November 4, 2026 local government elections.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Kenny Kunene has pledged to write off municipal debt for Johannesburg households with properties valued below R1-million within his first 100 days in office, arguing that \"Most households are not able to pay for services due to high unemployment.\" He has also proposed moving to a flat-rate municipal tariff structure to make basic services more affordable, positioning service delivery and job creation as his campaign's central focus.\n\n[Infrastructure] Kunene has committed to repairing street lighting and electrical infrastructure across the city so that \"Every electric pole, every light must work and give people light,\" alongside continued road maintenance and pothole repairs. He has also proposed formalizing illegal water and electricity connections in informal settlements and occupied buildings to curb revenue losses affecting municipal utilities.\n\n[Security] He has pledged to continue reclaiming hijacked buildings in Johannesburg's inner city, stating \"we are going to reclaim hijacked buildings,\" with unlawful occupants removed and displaced South African families resettled into formal housing.\n\n[Immigration] Kunene's campaign, under the Patriotic Alliance, has linked its building-reclamation and service-delivery drive to stricter action against undocumented migrants occupying reclaimed properties or drawing on municipal services without authorization.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Patriotic Alliance's Kenny Kunene Makes Municipal Debt Relief Promise Ahead of Elections", "url": "https://briefly.co.za/politics/252671-patriotic-alliances-kenny-kunene-municipal-debt-relief-promise-joburg-elections/" }, { "title": "Kenny Kunene tells Joburg, 'God gives light during the day; I will at night'", "url": "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-09-20-kenny-kunene-tells-joburg-god-gives-light-during-the-day-i-will-at-night/" }, { "title": "PA is focused on delivering services, creating employment: Kunene", "url": "https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/pa-is-focused-on-delivering-services-creating-employment-kunene/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-29T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "bra-lula-2026", "name": "Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva", "office": "Presidential candidate (PT)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "Brazil", "countryCode": "BRA", "year": "2026", "level": "presidential", "party": { "name": "Partido dos Trabalhadores", "abbr": "PT" }, "purpose": "Incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is seeking a fourth term in Brazil's 2026 general election, combining his current administration's record with proposals filed in his official government plan.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Lula's government plan, filed with the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), retains Brazil's existing fiscal framework, which limits real spending growth rather than proposing new cuts, and instead emphasizes raising revenue by taxing offshore holdings and closed-end investment funds and by widening income-tax exemptions for lower earners. The document frames this approach as ensuring \"the poor are in the budget and the wealthy in income tax.\" The plan commits to continued real increases in the minimum wage above inflation, to ending the 6x1 work schedule in favor of a 40-hour week without reduced pay, to regulating pay and working conditions for app-based gig workers, and to directing the Nova Indústria Brasil program toward reindustrialization built around artificial intelligence, critical minerals, and domestic processing of raw materials before export. It also proposes a Desenrola Brasil debt-renegotiation program for consumers and expanded credit for small and micro enterprises.\n\n[Health] On health care, the plan commits to expanding the Farmácia Popular program beyond free medication to include free laboratory exams and diagnostic tests for common conditions such as diabetes and hypertension. It pledges to continue the Mais Médicos physician-placement program and to expand the Agora Tem Especialistas initiative, which the campaign credits with 15 million specialist procedures and surgeries performed in 2025. Additional commitments include expanding mental-health care through CAPS centers, continuing the Brasil Sorridente dental-care program, and building out a health-focused industrial complex intended to reduce reliance on imported medicines and equipment.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] The plan pledges continued credit and technical support for family farms, including targeted lines for young and women farmers and organic producers, and commits to directing 45% of school-meal purchases toward family agriculture with a goal that 80% of food served in schools be minimally processed. It calls for reviving government food-acquisition programs and maintaining strategic public grain reserves, alongside continued rural credit, machinery financing, and irrigation support for larger-scale agriculture, and for advancing land-reform settlements. The campaign cites Brazil's removal from the United Nations' hunger map during the current term as a benchmark it intends to sustain.\n\n[Security] Public-security proposals center on creating a standalone Ministry of Public Security, contingent on a constitutional amendment, to coordinate federal, state, and local police forces under a unified public-security system. The plan calls for measures to cut off organized crime's financing, expand enforcement against arms trafficking and cybercrime, and broaden the use of body cameras under national standards. It also commits to continuing the femicide-prevention pact and protective measures against violence toward women, to reforming prison conditions under the Pena Justa plan, and to expanding federal penitentiary capacity.\n\n[Education] The plan sets a target of 80% of children reading at the expected level by the end of the term, up from roughly two-thirds currently, and commits to expanding full-time public schooling and universal school internet access. It pledges to maintain the Pé-de-Meia stipend program for high-school students and to expand federal technical institutes into underserved regions, alongside continued investment in early-childhood daycare.\n\n[Infrastructure] Lula's plan continues the Novo PAC infrastructure program; government figures cited in coverage of the plan show more than 70% of the program's R$944.8 billion three-year allocation for the 2023-2026 cycle had been executed by late 2025, and the plan commits to a further cycle of investment in transportation, logistics, and public works.\n\n[Governance] On governance, the plan commits to maintaining and expanding racial-quota policies in public-sector hiring and public universities, accelerating land-title recognition for quilombo communities, and increasing Black representation in government decision-making. It pledges continued enforcement of equal-pay requirements for women, expansion of the Casas da Mulher Brasileira support-center network, and a broader National Care Policy that funds public laundries, community kitchens, and caregiver-training programs, alongside expanded participatory-budgeting mechanisms.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Lula - Propostas de Governo (Tribunal Superior Eleitoral)", "url": "https://www.tse.jus.br/eleicoes/eleicoes-2026-content/propostas-de-governo-dos-candidatos-ao-cargo-de-presidente-da-republica-eleicoes-2026/lula-propostas-de-governo" }, { "title": "PT registra novo plano de governo de Lula no TSE; veja a íntegra", "url": "https://www.congressoemfoco.com.br/noticia/121121/pt-registra-novo-plano-de-governo-de-lula-no-tse-veja-a-integra" }, { "title": "Lula protocola candidatura e lança plano de governo com palavra 'soberania' em 21 das 84 páginas", "url": "https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/08/08/lula-protocola-candidatura-e-lanca-plano-de-governo-com-palavra-soberania-em-21-das-84-paginas/" }, { "title": "Eleições 2026: conheça pautas do governo Lula para possível novo mandato", "url": "https://exame.com/brasil/eleicoes-2026-conheca-pautas-do-governo-lula-para-possivel-novo-mandato/" }, { "title": "Lula 2026: conheça as propostas do candidato à Presidência", "url": "https://www.em.com.br/politica/2026/08/7490597-lula-2026-conheca-as-propostas-do-candidato-a-presidencia.html" }, { "title": "Brazil's Lula launches fourth-term bid, focuses on national sovereignty (Al Jazeera)", "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/2/brazils-lula-launches-fourth-term-bid-focuses-on-national-sovereignty" }, { "title": "Plano de governo de Lula mantém gastos e não prevê cortes (Gazeta do Povo)", "url": "https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/eleicoes/2026/plano-de-governo-lula-economia/" }, { "title": "Quais são as propostas dos candidatos a presidente para o agro (Gazeta do Povo)", "url": "https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/eleicoes/2026/propostas-candidatos-presidente-agro/" }, { "title": "Eleições 2026: compare os planos de governo de Lula e Flávio (Poder360)", "url": "https://www.poder360.com.br/poder-eleicoes-2026/eleicoes-2026-compare-os-planos-de-governo-de-lula-e-flavio/" }, { "title": "Com R$ 944,8 bilhões em três anos, Novo PAC já executou mais de 70% do programado para o ciclo 2023-2026", "url": "https://www.gov.br/secom/pt-br/acompanhe-a-secom/noticias/2025/12/com-r-944-8-bilhoes-em-tres-anos-novo-pac-ja-executou-mais-de-70-do-programado-para-o-ciclo-2023-2026" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-30T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "bra-flaviobolsonaro-2026", "name": "Flávio Bolsonaro", "office": "Presidential candidate (PL)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "Brazil", "countryCode": "BRA", "year": "2026", "level": "presidential", "party": { "name": "Partido Liberal", "abbr": "PL" }, "purpose": "Flávio Bolsonaro, a sitting federal senator for Rio de Janeiro, is running for president in Brazil's 2026 general election on a platform centered on public security and economic liberalization.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Flávio Bolsonaro's government plan, titled Para o Brasil Vencer o Atraso and filed with the TSE, proposes broad tax cuts on consumption and production, including lower levies on fuel and utility bills, and calls for eliminating cumulative taxation and reducing employer payroll contributions to lower the cost of formal employment. It sets a target of sustained 4% annual GDP growth and proposes using the state bank Caixa Econômica Federal as the primary channel for consumer credit, alongside a Ganha, Ganha program of financial incentives for on-time bill payment and course completion. The plan also calls for selling or granting concessions over state-owned companies to reduce the fiscal deficit, and for a reduced-contribution first-employment contract for workers aged 18 to 24.\n\n[Security] Public security is the plan's central theme, organized under the name Brasil Sem Medo. It proposes designating organized-crime groups such as the PCC, Comando Vermelho, and militias as narcoterrorist organizations, vowing that such groups would be \"pursued with force and intelligence,\" and calls for building five new maximum-security federal prisons modeled on El Salvador's system and adding 500,000 prison beds within four years. The plan proposes lowering the age of criminal responsibility from 18 to 16, with punishment possible from age 14 for serious crimes, ending progressive sentence reductions, and requiring electronic monitoring of domestic-violence offenders. It also calls for a National Border System using military units to interdict drug and arms trafficking, for installing one million surveillance cameras with facial recognition under a program called Muralha Brasileira, and for permanent congressional legislation setting fixed criteria for firearm ownership and carry permits in place of the current regulatory decree.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] The agricultural chapter calls for expanding domestic fertilizer production using Brazil's potassium and phosphate reserves to reduce import dependence, and for enlarging irrigated farmland and grain-storage capacity to stabilize year-round food supply. It proposes completing land-title regularization for small rural properties, expanding the rural-insurance program, and consolidating the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) while extending ecosystem-service payments to farmers who conserve land. The plan states a goal of ending illegal deforestation by 2029 through satellite monitoring and coordinated enforcement among federal agencies.\n\n[Health] On health, the plan proposes a unified electronic health record linked to each citizen's national ID (CPF) to connect public and private providers and reduce duplicate testing, alongside expanded telemedicine and home medication delivery for elderly and disabled patients. It calls for expanding the Family Health Strategy for community-based primary care, correcting SUS reimbursement rates to reflect actual service costs, and creating mobile health units, including adapted boats, to reach riverine and other underserved communities. The plan also proposes a dedicated elderly-care program and expanded treatment access for depression, anxiety, and ADHD.\n\n[Education] The education proposals prioritize phonics-based literacy instruction in early grades and link school funding to measured learning outcomes. The plan proposes an Acolher peer-tutoring initiative that would pay high-performing students to mentor struggling classmates, expansion of the civic-military school model, and a stronger link between technical secondary education and local labor-market needs. It also proposes education vouchers for families in areas where public-school capacity is insufficient and a contingent-income loan model for higher education, under which graduates would repay only once employed.\n\n[Infrastructure] The plan commits to R$900 billion in infrastructure investment over four years across highways, railways, ports, airports, and waterways, and proposes Intelligent Logistics Corridors intended to cut freight transport costs from the current 15.5% of GDP to 8.8%. Named projects include completing the Ferrogrão freight railway linking Mato Grosso to northern ports, finishing the Transnordestina railway, launching a Northeast passenger rail line, and completing the northern axis of the São Francisco River water-transfer project. It also sets a goal of universal water and sewage access by 2033 under Brazil's sanitation legal framework.\n\n[Governance] The governance section proposes eliminating presidential re-election, cutting at least ten federal ministries, and reducing appointed positions and administrative spending. It calls for digitizing all federal services capable of being handled online and creating a unified digital identity tied to the Gov.br platform, along with shortened environmental-licensing timelines and automatic approval if agencies miss stated deadlines. It also proposes a rule of 20-year regulatory stability for major investment projects, with state liability for damages if rules change after a project has been licensed in good faith.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Plano de Governo — Flávio Bolsonaro (official campaign document)", "url": "https://www.flaviobolsonaro.com.br/plano-de-governo/leitura" }, { "title": "Plano de Governo | Flávio Bolsonaro Presidente 22 (official campaign site)", "url": "https://www.flaviobolsonaro.com.br/plano-de-governo" }, { "title": "Leia a íntegra do plano de governo de Flávio Bolsonaro (Poder360)", "url": "https://www.poder360.com.br/poder-flash/leia-a-integra-do-plano-de-governo-de-flavio-bolsonaro/" }, { "title": "Flávio Bolsonaro 2026: conheça as principais propostas do plano de governo", "url": "https://www.em.com.br/politica/2026/08/7490602-flavio-bolsonaro-2026-conheca-as-principais-propostas-do-plano-de-governo.html" }, { "title": "EUA, 'tesouraço' e presídios: o que prevê o plano de governo de Flávio (Congresso em Foco)", "url": "https://www.congressoemfoco.com.br/noticia/121271/eua--tesouraco-e-presidios-o-que-preve-o-plano-de-governo-de-flavio" }, { "title": "Quais são as propostas dos candidatos a presidente para o agro (Gazeta do Povo)", "url": "https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/eleicoes/2026/propostas-candidatos-presidente-agro/" }, { "title": "Plano de Flávio prevê segurança jurídica para donos de armas (Gazeta do Povo)", "url": "https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/eleicoes/2026/plano-de-flavio-preve-seguranca-juridica-para-donos-de-armas/" }, { "title": "Eleições 2026: qual o papel da Amazônia nos planos de governo dos candidatos à presidência? (Portal Amazônia)", "url": "https://portalamazonia.com/amazonia/planos-governo-presidencia-amazonia-26/" }, { "title": "Eleições 2026: compare os planos de governo de Lula e Flávio (Poder360)", "url": "https://www.poder360.com.br/poder-eleicoes-2026/eleicoes-2026-compare-os-planos-de-governo-de-lula-e-flavio/" }, { "title": "Flávio Bolsonaro 2026 presidential campaign (Wikipedia)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fl%C3%A1vio_Bolsonaro_2026_presidential_campaign" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-30T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "bra-caiado-2026", "name": "Ronaldo Caiado", "office": "Presidential candidate (PSD)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "Brazil", "countryCode": "BRA", "year": "2026", "level": "presidential", "party": { "name": "Partido Social Democrático", "abbr": "PSD" }, "purpose": "Ronaldo Caiado, PSD governor of Goiás, is a candidate for President of Brazil in the 2026 general election, running on a platform centered on fiscal adjustment, agribusiness-linked economic development, and a hardline public-security agenda targeting organized crime.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Caiado's registered government plan proposes a fiscal-adjustment program built around what it calls a Budget of Truth, auditing existing subsidies and tax benefits and controlling the growth of mandatory spending below nominal GDP growth while enforcing the constitutional spending cap, explicitly ruling out a strategy built on successive tax increases or across-the-board cuts. The plan sets a goal of raising Brazil's investment rate from roughly 17% to 25% of GDP by lowering the cost of capital and strengthening legal certainty for private investors, with the state's own role concentrated on infrastructure and innovation while private capital finances production.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] On agribusiness, Caiado's platform proposes a strategy it calls biocompetitividade, integrating food production, bioenergy, biotechnology and sustainability into ten-year sectoral plans covering proteins, grains, biofuels and bioinputs, including a dedicated bioenergy program expanding ethanol, biodiesel, biomethane and bioelectricity output. He proposes a five-year pluriannual harvest-financing plan for producer predictability, a National Fertilizer Plan to expand domestic potassium and nitrogen production, and channeling private capital-market instruments such as CRA, Fiagro and CPR alongside public resources reserved for guarantees, insurance, irrigation and storage. The plan also calls for a Brazilian sustainability seal and carbon-credit certification to support export diversification toward Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa, paired with large-scale land-title regularization framed as a foundation for legal security and agricultural credit access.\n\n[Security] Caiado's security plan would create a dedicated Ministry of Public Security and classify criminal organizations and militias with permanent command structures, territorial control, armed capacity and systematic violence — naming the PCC and Comando Vermelho specifically — as domestic terrorist groups; he has said that \"the absence of ideological motivation will not prevent this classification.\" The plan sets minimum sentences of 45 years for association with or recruitment into such organizations and 35 years for financing or money laundering on their behalf, alongside special penitentiary regimes with leadership isolation and progression only after 90% of a sentence is served, and proposes lowering the age of criminal responsibility to 16 for serious crimes including homicide and armed robbery. Along Brazil's borders, he proposes a National Border Command empowered to deploy the Armed Forces without a prior Law-and-Order decree and a transnational police-coordination body for investigating organized crime across South America, alongside a ban on online gambling advertising across mass media and social networks and a new national secretariat for the safety of women, children and minorities.\n\n[Health] Caiado's health platform proposes replacing the SUS's chronological waiting-list system with an intelligent national access and regulation system that orders care by clinical priority, severity and risk of disease progression, backed by interoperable electronic health records feeding a national health-data infrastructure meant to ensure continuity of care across primary, specialist, hospital and emergency services. The plan sets a target of cutting median wait times for high-demand priority procedures by half by 2030, alongside expanded cardiovascular-disease and cancer prevention, pediatric and geriatric care, and an expanded Psychosocial Care Network that includes treatment for gambling-related dependency. On women's health, it targets a 30% reduction in maternal mortality by 2030 along with expanded cancer screening and dedicated endometriosis and menopause care within primary care.\n\n[Education] In education, Caiado proposes a National Pact for Literacy and Mathematics aimed at universal child literacy and math proficiency by the end of second grade, combining teacher training and pay improvements, evidence-based teaching materials, and regular diagnostic assessments with incentives for schools that show measurable progress. The plan also calls for expanded full-time schooling and daycare access alongside continued investment in technical and vocational education.\n\n[Infrastructure] On logistics, the plan proposes a ten-year infrastructure program organizing transport investment around strategic corridors, prioritizing completion of the Ferrogrão and Ferrovia Norte-Sul railways along with regional waterway routes, paired with expanded storage capacity tied to the five-year harvest-financing plan. It also proposes expedited licensing for rare-earth and other strategic mineral extraction paired with requirements for domestic processing, aimed at capturing more value from Brazil's mineral resources rather than exporting them unprocessed.\n\n[Governance] On institutional reform, Caiado commits to submitting a constitutional amendment ending consecutive reelection for president, governors and mayors, applying even to terms beginning in 2027, arguing this would reduce the influence of the electoral calendar on governance and allow longer-term policy planning; he also proposes replacing the current proportional system with a mixed-district model combining territorial districts with party-list seats for legislative elections. The plan additionally proposes a management-by-results system for the federal government, with performance metrics and periodic evaluations for ministers and senior officials, merit-based appointments to federal positions, and greater transparency in how parliamentary budget amendments are allocated and spent.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Ronaldo Caiado — Propostas de Governo (TSE, Eleições 2026)", "url": "https://www.tse.jus.br/eleicoes/eleicoes-2026-content/propostas-de-governo-dos-candidatos-ao-cargo-de-presidente-da-republica-eleicoes-2026/ronaldo-caiado-propostas-de-governo" }, { "title": "Plano de Governo — Eleição Presidencial 2026 — Sou Ronaldo Caiado (full PDF)", "url": "https://static.poder360.com.br/uploads/2026/08/Plano-de-Governo-Ronaldo-Caiado-Presidente.pdf" }, { "title": "Leia a íntegra do plano de governo de Ronaldo Caiado — Poder360", "url": "https://www.poder360.com.br/poder-eleicoes-2026/leia-a-integra-do-plano-de-governo-de-ronaldo-caiado/" }, { "title": "Caiado propõe fim da reeleição e combate a \"terrorismo doméstico\" — Poder360", "url": "https://www.poder360.com.br/poder-eleicoes-2026/ronaldo-caiado-propoe-fim-da-reeleicao-e-combate-a-terrorismo-domestico/" }, { "title": "Plano de Caiado mira facções, ajuste fiscal e fim da reeleição — Congresso em Foco", "url": "https://www.congressoemfoco.com.br/noticia/121321/plano-de-caiado-mira-faccoes-ajuste-fiscal-e-fim-da-reeleicao" }, { "title": "Propostas de Ronaldo Caiado para a presidência destacam segurança pública, economia e gestão — News Rondônia", "url": "https://newsrondonia.com.br/politica/2026/09/19/propostas-de-ronaldo-caiado-para-a-presidencia-destacam-seguranca-publica-economia-e-gestao/" }, { "title": "Plano de governo de Caiado mira crime na fronteira, garimpo ilegal e regularização fundiária — Folha BV", "url": "https://www.folhabv.com.br/politica/plano-de-governo-de-caiado-mira-crime-na-fronteira-garimpo-ilegal-e-regularizacao-fundiaria/" }, { "title": "Eleições 2026: conheça o perfil e as principais propostas de Caiado (PSD) — Band", "url": "https://www.band.com.br/politica/eleicoes/eleicoes-2026-conheca-o-perfil-e-as-principais-propostas-de-caiado-psd" }, { "title": "Eleições 2026: o que Romeu Zema e Ronaldo Caiado propõem para o agro — Canal Rural", "url": "https://www.canalrural.com.br/politica/eleicoes/eleicoes-2026-o-que-romeu-zema-e-ronaldo-caiado-propoem-para-o-agro/" }, { "title": "Quais são as propostas dos candidatos a presidente para o agro — Gazeta do Povo", "url": "https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/eleicoes/2026/propostas-candidatos-presidente-agro/" }, { "title": "Caiado propõe lei para enquadrar facções como terroristas domésticos — Correio Braziliense", "url": "https://www.correiobraziliense.com.br/politica/2026/08/7477000-caiado-propoe-lei-para-enquadrar-faccoes-como-terroristas-domesticos.html" }, { "title": "Saiba quais as propostas dos presidenciáveis para a saúde — Gazeta da Amazônia", "url": "https://gazetadaamazonia.com.br/25/09/2026/propostas-presidenciaveis-saude/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-30T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "bra-zema-2026", "name": "Romeu Zema", "office": "Presidential candidate (NOVO)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "Brazil", "countryCode": "BRA", "year": "2026", "level": "presidential", "party": { "name": "Partido Novo", "abbr": "NOVO" }, "purpose": "Romeu Zema, NOVO governor of Minas Gerais, is a candidate for President of Brazil in the 2026 general election, running on a platform of aggressive fiscal austerity, privatization of state-owned enterprises, and reduced state intervention in the economy.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Zema's government plan, registered with the electoral court under the name Plano Implacável, centers on a fiscal shock program built on the diagnosis that excessive state spending, high taxes and heavy economic intervention are the root causes of Brazil's rising public debt, high interest rates and weak investment. It proposes a pension-system overhaul reaching federal, state and municipal governments as well as rural and military regimes, with retirement ages adjusted automatically as life expectancy rises; controls on the automatic growth of mandatory spending and parliamentary budget amendments; an administrative reform cutting the number of ministries and commissioned positions; and progressive targets for reducing the tax burden that would obligate spending cuts rather than follow them. On monetary conditions, the plan pursues primary fiscal surpluses to bring down the debt-to-GDP ratio as the route to lower interest rates, alongside a reduced Financial Operations Tax (IOF), increased banking competition, gradually falling corporate income tax rates, and automatic tax calculation from electronic invoices to simplify compliance.\n\n[Economy] On the state's economic footprint, the plan calls for privatizing all federal state-owned enterprises, naming the postal operator Correios and the Minas Gerais utility Cemig among the assets to be sold, and has been reported as including a pledge to privatize Petrobras and Banco do Brasil if elected; it also proposes deverticalizing Petrobras into separate production, refining, transport and logistics divisions and letting fuel prices follow market references without political intervention. On labor policy, it proposes an optional negotiated employment regime letting employers and workers set variable compensation, payment frequency, daily hours and vacation division directly, capped at 44 weekly hours, alongside zeroed employer payroll contributions on up to one minimum wage for workers moving out of informal employment and an end to mandatory union membership and dues. On cash-transfer programs, it proposes consolidating existing transfers into Bolsa Família with work requirements for able-bodied adults and a one-time payment of R$5,000 for families that exceed the program's income threshold and exit voluntarily, alongside a new Sócios do Brasil program depositing R$1,000 at birth for every Brazilian into a stock-fund account accessible at age 18.\n\n[Agriculture/Food] On agribusiness, the plan frames its approach around the view that Brazilian agribusiness has grown \"despite the state, not because of it,\" proposing to cut regulatory bureaucracy and licensing requirements for lower-risk rural activities, reorient the state agricultural research agency Embrapa toward applied innovation, and rely on private partnerships to build roads, railways, waterways, ports and storage capacity serving agricultural producers. It proposes a hybrid public-private insurance fund covering climate, pest and market-related losses, expanded rural broadband and 5G connectivity, accelerated land-title regularization paired with satellite-based monitoring against land-grabbing, and expanded gun-ownership rights on rural properties, alongside positioning Brazil as a biofuel-export leader through sustainability and traceability branding.\n\n[Security] On public security, Zema's plan proposes classifying organized criminal factions as terrorist organizations, lowering the age of criminal responsibility to 16 for serious crimes, and authorizing deployment of the armed forces against criminal groups exercising territorial control, alongside construction of additional maximum-security prisons. It also proposes expanding networks supporting victims of domestic violence, integrating public-health and public-security responses to gender-based violence.\n\n[Health] On health policy, Zema's plan proposes expanding partnerships between the public health system (SUS) and private providers for exams, consultations and surgeries under defined quality and volume targets, and strengthening the Family Health Strategy through digital tools and expanded coverage, with priority given to vaccination, chronic-disease management and care for indigenous and elderly populations. It proposes shared federal, state and municipal financing for mental-health services, and for women's health prioritizes strengthening prenatal care and reducing pregnancy complications, alongside integrating health and public-security responses for victims of violence.\n\n[Education] On education, the plan proposes expanding vocational and technical training, moving oversight of higher education to a science-focused ministry, ending the practice of internal elections for university rectors, and legally permitting homeschooling.\n\n[Governance] On judicial and political reform, the plan proposes raising the minimum age for appointment to the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF) to 60, eliminating individual justices' power to unilaterally suspend laws or block public policies, transferring some tax and criminal jurisdiction away from the Court, creating an independent ombudsman's office to investigate justices, and requiring the Senate to formally take up impeachment petitions against justices when backed by a majority of senators or substantial public support. On the political system, it proposes adopting a mixed-district electoral system, ending public party and campaign funds in favor of private financing, permitting independent candidacies, reapportioning congressional seats by population, and reducing the number of ministries to roughly 20 while cutting commissioned positions, ending civil-service perks such as extended leave and tenure bonuses, and ending the 100-year secrecy classification currently available for some public records.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "Zema — Propostas de Governo (TSE, Eleições 2026)", "url": "https://www.tse.jus.br/eleicoes/eleicoes-2026-content/propostas-de-governo-dos-candidatos-ao-cargo-de-presidente-da-republica-eleicoes-2026/zema" }, { "title": "Plano de Zema prevê \"choque fiscal\", limitação ao STF e saída do Brics — Congresso em Foco", "url": "https://www.congressoemfoco.com.br/noticia/121274/plano-de-zema-preve-choque-fiscal--limitacao-ao-stf-e-saida-do-brics" }, { "title": "Fim dos privilégios e privatização de estatais: o plano econômico de Romeu Zema — Exame", "url": "https://exame.com/eleicoes/fim-dos-privilegios-e-privatizacao-de-estatais-o-plano-economico-de-romeu-zema/" }, { "title": "Zema propõe privatizações, saída do Brics e flexibilização da CLT — JOTA", "url": "https://www.jota.info/eleicoes/eleicoes-2026/zema-propoe-privatizacoes-saida-do-brics-e-flexibilizacao-da-clt" }, { "title": "O que diz o plano de governo de Zema para a economia — Gazeta do Povo", "url": "https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/eleicoes/2026/plano-de-governo-zema-economia/" }, { "title": "Romeu Zema: conheça as propostas do candidato à Presidência — Estado de Minas", "url": "https://www.em.com.br/politica/2026/08/7490599-romeu-zema-conheca-as-propostas-do-candidato-a-presidencia.html" }, { "title": "Zema promete privatizar Petrobras e Banco do Brasil se eleito em 2026 — Portal N10", "url": "https://portaln10.com.br/politica/eleicoes/romeu-zema-promete-privatizar-petrobras-banco-do-brasil-349986/" }, { "title": "Eleições 2026: o que Romeu Zema e Ronaldo Caiado propõem para o agro — Canal Rural", "url": "https://www.canalrural.com.br/politica/eleicoes/eleicoes-2026-o-que-romeu-zema-e-ronaldo-caiado-propoem-para-o-agro/" }, { "title": "Quais são as propostas dos candidatos a presidente para o agro — Gazeta do Povo", "url": "https://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/eleicoes/2026/propostas-candidatos-presidente-agro/" }, { "title": "Saiba quais as propostas dos presidenciáveis para a saúde — Gazeta da Amazônia", "url": "https://gazetadaamazonia.com.br/25/09/2026/propostas-presidenciaveis-saude/" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-09-30T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "nzl-luxon-2026", "name": "Christopher Luxon", "office": "Prime Minister candidate (National)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "New Zealand", "countryCode": "NZL", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "New Zealand National Party", "abbr": "National" }, "purpose": "Christopher Luxon is seeking a second term as Prime Minister, leading the National Party into New Zealand's November 7, 2026 general election at the head of the governing National-ACT-NZ First coalition.", "manifesto": "[Economy] National's Budget 2026 projects average GDP growth of 2.7% a year over the next four years, creating an estimated 220,000 jobs, with wages forecast to grow faster than inflation. The government says it has cut $50 billion in spending across three Budgets, redirected to front-line services, under a standing \"no new taxes\" pledge that has ruled out a bed tax and a bank tax; it is instead proceeding with a prudential levy on banks and financial market participants from April 2027 and consulting on capital market reforms across eight areas, including product disclosure, crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending limits, and auditor liability. The party has pledged to cut the compulsory student loan repayment rate from 12% to 10%, and projects a return to budget surplus in 2028/29, a year earlier than previously forecast, alongside $6 billion in reduced government borrowing.\n\n[Health] National has pledged three-day post-natal hospital stays, more palliative care centres for seriously ill children, additional funding for medicines, and lowering the bowel-screening age to 56.\n\n[Education] The party has committed to more funding for maths, reading and writing resources, a new national qualification to replace NCEA, doubling Trades Training Academy places, and more Youth Guarantee places for young people not in education, employment or training.\n\n[Infrastructure] National has proposed low-interest loans for solar panels, batteries, heat pumps and insulation, and easier access to low-deposit mortgages for first-home buyers. It plans to support state-owned generator Genesis Energy to accelerate renewable energy projects and improve backup generation, help businesses move away from gas, invest in new trade networks to grow exports, and replace the Resource Management Act with a new planning system. It has also pledged to split supermarket cooperative Foodstuffs into two separate chains to break up the grocery duopoly, and to restrict commercial fishing in the Hauraki Gulf.\n\n[Security] National has pledged to scrap \"good character\" sentencing discounts for sexual offending, introduce tougher sexual consent laws, fund additional front-line Police and Corrections officers, add prison capacity, and launch initiatives targeting drug smuggling and transnational crime. It has also proposed a dedicated Auckland Transport police team.\n\n[Governance] The party has proposed referendums on adopting a four-year parliamentary term and on the MMP electoral system, and has said it will not work with the Opportunities Party (TOP) even on confidence and supply after the election.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "2026 New Zealand general election — Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_New_Zealand_general_election" }, { "title": "Factbox: The main parties vying to form New Zealand's next government — Reuters via Internazionale", "url": "https://www.internazionale.it/ultime-notizie-reuters/2026/10/12/factbox-the-main-parties-vying-to-form-new-zealand-s-next-government" }, { "title": "National Party Budget 2026", "url": "https://www.national.org.nz/budget2026" }, { "title": "2026 election policy tracker v4 — KPMG New Zealand", "url": "https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmgsites/nz/pdf/2026/09/2026-election-policy-tracker-v4.pdf" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-10-17T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "nzl-hipkins-2026", "name": "Chris Hipkins", "office": "Prime Minister candidate (Labour)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "New Zealand", "countryCode": "NZL", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "New Zealand Labour Party", "abbr": "Labour" }, "purpose": "Chris Hipkins is campaigning to return as Prime Minister, leading the Labour Party's opposition bid in New Zealand's November 7, 2026 general election on a platform centered on living costs, public services and economic stability.", "manifesto": "[Economy] Labour's fiscal plan commits to returning to an OBEGAL operating surplus, reducing net debt below 20% of GDP, and keeping core Crown expenditure and revenue around 33% of GDP in the medium term, alongside creating an independent Parliamentary Budget Office and restoring the Reserve Bank's dual mandate of price stability and maximum sustainable employment. Its headline tax policy is a 28% capital gains tax on profit from selling residential or commercial investment property, applying only to profit made after July 1, 2027 and only on sale — excluding the family home, farms, KiwiSaver, shares, businesses and inheritances — with the party saying nine in ten New Zealanders won't pay it and the revenue ring-fenced for health. A proposed New Zealand Future Fund would invest Crown assets in New Zealand businesses and infrastructure. For small business, Labour proposes a $10,000 instant asset write-off for businesses with turnover below $10 million from July 1, 2027, 15-day payment of invoices up to $25,000, and raising the GST registration threshold to $80,000 from July 1, 2028.\n\n[Health] Labour's \"Medicard\" policy would give every New Zealander three free GP visits a year at their enrolled practice, free cervical screening for ages 25-69 from October 1, 2027, free maternity scans nationwide from July 1, 2028, and remove the $5 prescription fee from July 1, 2027. A Family Doctor Loan Scheme would help GPs buy into local practices from July 1, 2027, which the party says would create 4.5 million new GP visits, and a Graduate Nurse Job Guarantee — costed at $525 million — would offer eligible New Zealand-trained graduate nurses roles of at least 0.8 FTE from 2027.\n\n[Education] Labour has pledged a 10% cut to eligible student loan balances — applied to current graduates on April 1, 2027, and to current and future students after three years of New Zealand residency starting 2031 — with balances of $2,000 or less written off entirely after that track. It has also pledged to make school uniforms more affordable by Term 1, 2028, fund school lunches at $5 per meal ($6.50 for Years 9-13) from Term 1, 2028, and restore rural school bus routes cut by the National government.\n\n[Infrastructure] The party has pledged to cap public transport fares at $20 a week in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch (and $10 elsewhere) from July 1, 2027, freeze fuel tax for three years, restart Kāinga Ora social housing construction, improve more than 2,000 state and integrated schools, clear the hospital repair backlog, and roll out \"SolarSaver,\" a fully funded no-upfront-cost solar programme for homeowners, renters and communities within 12 months of taking office.\n\n[Governance] Labour has proposed banning price gouging by companies with significant market power across groceries, energy, fuel, telecommunications, banking and insurance, enforced by the Commerce Commission; breaking up the Woolworths/Foodstuffs grocery duopoly by creating two new independent wholesalers; a \"Fair Go\" consumer-protection law covering cars, electronics, phone and internet contracts, subscriptions and ticket pricing; a new Office of AI and online safety regulator; and repealing the Regulatory Standards Act within its first 100 days. It has also pledged to restore pay equity legislation within 100 days and a $4-an-hour pay rise for care and support workers from January 1, 2027.\n\n[Immigration] Labour has proposed a citizenship pathway for children of overstayers and a longer permanent residency process, alongside a new corporate homicide offence.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "2026 New Zealand general election — Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_New_Zealand_general_election" }, { "title": "Labour's policies — New Zealand Labour Party", "url": "https://www.labour.org.nz/our-policies/" }, { "title": "Factbox: The main parties vying to form New Zealand's next government — Reuters via Internazionale", "url": "https://www.internazionale.it/ultime-notizie-reuters/2026/10/12/factbox-the-main-parties-vying-to-form-new-zealand-s-next-government" }, { "title": "2026 election policy tracker v4 — KPMG New Zealand", "url": "https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmgsites/nz/pdf/2026/09/2026-election-policy-tracker-v4.pdf" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-10-17T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "nzl-swarbrick-2026", "name": "Chlöe Swarbrick & Marama Davidson", "office": "Co-leaders (Green Party)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "New Zealand", "countryCode": "NZL", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand", "abbr": "Greens" }, "purpose": "Chlöe Swarbrick and Marama Davidson lead the Green Party into New Zealand's November 7, 2026 general election on a platform built around taxing wealth to cut living costs, protecting the environment, and reforming political funding.", "manifesto": "[Economy] The Greens propose shifting taxation from wages to wealth and large corporations, raising an estimated $5.1 billion net. Their plan includes a tiered wealth tax (1.5% on net assets of $2-5 million, 2% on $5-10 million, and 2.5% on assets over $10 million), new inheritance and corporate taxes, a 5% withholding tax on the offshore profits of large technology companies, a tax-free income threshold on the first $10,000 earned, and a higher tax rate on income over $160,000.\n\n[Infrastructure] The party would create \"Kiwipower,\" a new state-owned electricity generator-retailer it says would lower power bills, protect domestic generation, and reduce reliance on fossil fuels; pursue mass electrification; expand home insulation; and offer zero-interest loans for household solar and batteries, plus funding for community-owned renewable energy projects. On housing, the Greens propose building 40,000 new social homes over five years, capping annual rent increases at 2%, and creating a national landlord register. They also propose a publicly owned supermarket chain, \"KiwiMart,\" alongside tougher rules against excessive grocery pricing.\n\n[Education] The Greens would restore the school lunch programme and expand it to 400 more schools, and invest $200 million in Māori-language initiatives, including a $2.4 billion trust for marae.\n\n[Governance] The party's platform includes reforming political donation rules, revoking coal, gold and seabed mining consents, imposing a one-year pause on new AI data centre consents pending a national conversation on resource and environmental impact, and phasing out synthetic nitrogen fertilisers while cutting livestock numbers to protect waterways; it has also pledged to protect 30% of New Zealand's ocean territory.\n\n[Immigration] The Greens propose a settled residency pathway after five years for migrants, and automatic union membership for new employees.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "2026 New Zealand general election — Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_New_Zealand_general_election" }, { "title": "Greens propose wealth, inheritance taxes to fund income tax changes — 1News", "url": "https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/06/21/greens-propose-wealth-and-inheritance-taxes-to-fund-income-tax-changes/" }, { "title": "Green Party launches 2026 election slogan and priorities at Party's AGM — Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand", "url": "https://www.greens.org.nz/green_party_launches_2026_election_slogan_and_priorities_at_party_s_agm" }, { "title": "Factbox: The main parties vying to form New Zealand's next government — Reuters via Internazionale", "url": "https://www.internazionale.it/ultime-notizie-reuters/2026/10/12/factbox-the-main-parties-vying-to-form-new-zealand-s-next-government" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-10-17T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "nzl-seymour-2026", "name": "David Seymour", "office": "Party leader (ACT)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "New Zealand", "countryCode": "NZL", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "ACT New Zealand", "abbr": "ACT" }, "purpose": "David Seymour, Deputy Prime Minister and ACT leader since 2014, is campaigning to keep ACT as the governing coalition's junior partner in New Zealand's November 7, 2026 general election.", "manifesto": "[Economy] ACT has pledged to maintain a \"no new taxes\" policy and opposes the Greens' proposed wealth and corporate taxes, while reversing a law that would tax charity donations before it takes effect. It opposes what it calls $18 billion in unfunded Labour spending promises and $5.5 billion a year in Green Party spending plans, and has proposed restructuring government into a Cabinet of 18 ministers and 19 departments — down from a cited 43 departments, 28 ministers and 267 regulatory bodies — with each department reporting to a single accountable minister and the Public Service Commission abolished in favour of ministers directly choosing department chief executives.\n\n[Health] ACT would let pharmacists manage more conditions, raise Pharmac's medicines budget to 13% by 2033, and build a new National Cancer Centre.\n\n[Education] The party has proposed cheaper school uniforms, allowing teachers to use \"reasonable force,\" and a Working with Children Card.\n\n[Security] ACT would add burglary to the three-strikes sentencing regime and continue a welfare policy — carried over from 2023 — under which people on a work-ready benefit for more than four months would have rent or mortgage paid directly and receive a payment card restricted to staple items; people assessed as not work-ready would be seen by a doctor employed by the Ministry of Social Development.\n\n[Immigration] ACT's immigration plan includes deporting serious non-citizen offenders regardless of how long they have lived in New Zealand, a daily infrastructure surcharge on temporary work visa holders, a five-year exclusion from government benefits for new residence-class visa holders, and abolishing the permanent residency category.\n\n[Governance] ACT's Treaty policy, \"One Law for All with One Future Together,\" would write parliamentary sovereignty, the rule of law, and equality before the law into the Constitution Act, add a property right to the Bill of Rights Act, restrict courts' use of tikanga to cases where Parliament has expressly allowed it, require Cabinet to specify which Treaty interests are engaged before drafting any bill that references the Treaty, and review and remove vague or high-level Treaty clauses from existing law whenever it is amended. The party would also replace the Resource Management Act with legislation based on property rights and dissolve the Waitangi Tribunal once its existing claims are resolved.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "2026 New Zealand general election — Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_New_Zealand_general_election" }, { "title": "David Seymour's Speech At Rally '26 — Scoop", "url": "https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2606/S00205.htm" }, { "title": "ACT releases election Treaty policy - what's in it and what's gone — 1News", "url": "https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/08/23/act-releases-election-treaty-policy-whats-in-it-and-whats-gone/" }, { "title": "Factbox: The main parties vying to form New Zealand's next government — Reuters via Internazionale", "url": "https://www.internazionale.it/ultime-notizie-reuters/2026/10/12/factbox-the-main-parties-vying-to-form-new-zealand-s-next-government" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-10-17T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "nzl-peters-2026", "name": "Winston Peters", "office": "Party leader (NZ First)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "New Zealand", "countryCode": "NZL", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "New Zealand First", "abbr": "NZ First" }, "purpose": "Winston Peters, deputy prime minister until May 2025 and NZ First leader, is campaigning to keep the party as a coalition partner and power broker in New Zealand's November 7, 2026 general election.", "manifesto": "[Economy] NZ First proposes splitting New Zealand's four major energy companies to separate generation from retail, expanding mining and oil and gas exploration through a dedicated Future Fund, offering tax breaks for nationally significant infrastructure (including a reported 14% tax rate for sovereign funds investing in such projects), nationalising the Bank of New Zealand and merging it with Kiwibank, splitting one of the country's largest supermarket operators into two chains, establishing a special economic zone at Marsden Point, and repealing the Regulatory Standards Act. It has also proposed restoring the Reserve Bank's dual mandate covering both inflation and sustainable employment.\n\n[Infrastructure] The party would grant ministers fast-track approval powers for infrastructure projects, open conservation land to mining, curb Department of Conservation enforcement, and commit $15 million toward rebuilding Christchurch Cathedral.\n\n[Immigration] NZ First proposes restricting voting in New Zealand elections to citizens only, ending voting rights for permanent residents; tighter citizenship and visa rules; and a referendum on capping resident visas at 20,000 a year.\n\n[Governance] The party proposes a referendum on the future of Māori electorates, disestablishing the Auckland Independent Māori Statutory Board, and opposing co-governance arrangements between the Crown and iwi. Peters has also called for New Zealand's withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, and the party says superannuation eligibility should be limited to citizens.\n\n[Economy] The party has also pledged a $5,000-a-year \"Kiwi Kids Grant\" for families with up to three children.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "2026 New Zealand general election — Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_New_Zealand_general_election" }, { "title": "Factbox: The main parties vying to form New Zealand's next government — Reuters via Internazionale", "url": "https://www.internazionale.it/ultime-notizie-reuters/2026/10/12/factbox-the-main-parties-vying-to-form-new-zealand-s-next-government" }, { "title": "#election2026: NZ First Sharpens Election Pitch as Winston Peters Unveils Candidates and Policy Agenda — Waatea News", "url": "https://waateanews.com/?p=165473" }, { "title": "2026 election policy tracker v4 — KPMG New Zealand", "url": "https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmgsites/nz/pdf/2026/09/2026-election-policy-tracker-v4.pdf" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-10-17T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "nzl-waititi-2026", "name": "Rawiri Waititi & Debbie Ngarewa-Packer", "office": "Co-leaders (Te Pāti Māori)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "New Zealand", "countryCode": "NZL", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "Te Pāti Māori", "abbr": "TPM" }, "purpose": "Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer co-lead Te Pāti Māori into New Zealand's November 7, 2026 general election on a platform centered on constitutional transformation and enforceable Treaty of Waitangi obligations.", "manifesto": "[Governance] Te Pāti Māori's central policy is a $220 million, four-year Mātike Mai Fund to independently support Māori-led constitutional work, including an independent secretariat, nationwide constitutional discussions, and the start of a Māori Constitutional Convention working toward a 2040 constitutional-transformation target — 200 years after Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed. The party would also create a Te Tiriti Commission with the power to investigate serious Crown breaches of Te Tiriti, require remedial action, and issue binding Te Tiriti Compliance Orders; make Waitangi Tribunal recommendations binding on the Crown rather than advisory as they are today; and restore and resource a national action plan for the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, with work starting within its first 100 days in government.\n\n[Economy] The party's tax policy includes a 48% income tax rate on income over $300,001, a rebate for those earning under $30,000, a wealth tax, a higher company tax rate, and new land-banking, vacant-house and stamp-duty taxes.\n\n[Security] Te Pāti Māori has pledged to abolish prisons by 2040, replacing them with community-based alternatives.\n\n[Infrastructure] The party proposes a $1 billion fund to support Māori and community ownership of renewable energy projects.\n\n[Education] Te Pāti Māori would establish a Māori Education Authority to give Māori communities greater leadership over Māori education, alongside increased investment in kōhanga reo, kura kaupapa Māori, wharekura and wānanga; expanded school lunch programmes; free public transport for all students; free school counselling; and te reo Māori as a core curriculum subject through Year 10.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "2026 New Zealand general election — Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_New_Zealand_general_election" }, { "title": "Election 2026: Te Pāti Māori Unveils $220m Plan to Make Te Tiriti Obligations Enforceable — Waatea News", "url": "https://waateanews.com/?p=167371" }, { "title": "#election2026: Te Pāti Māori Pledges Māori Education Authority to Return Decision-Making to Māori — Waatea News", "url": "https://waateanews.com/?p=165624" }, { "title": "Factbox: The main parties vying to form New Zealand's next government — Reuters via Internazionale", "url": "https://www.internazionale.it/ultime-notizie-reuters/2026/10/12/factbox-the-main-parties-vying-to-form-new-zealand-s-next-government" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-10-17T12:00:00Z" }, { "id": "nzl-wong-2026", "name": "Qiulae Wong", "office": "Party leader (The Opportunities Party)", "region": "Nationwide", "country": "New Zealand", "countryCode": "NZL", "year": "2026", "level": "legislature", "party": { "name": "The Opportunities Party", "abbr": "TOP" }, "purpose": "Qiulae Wong, an Auckland businesswoman who became The Opportunities Party's fifth leader in November 2025, is leading the extra-parliamentary party into New Zealand's November 7, 2026 general election on a platform she describes as \"workable, costed reforms\" from neither the left nor the right.", "manifesto": "[Economy] TOP's central policy is a land value tax — 1.75% a year on residential land and 0.5% on rural land — which the party says would raise about $24 billion a year to fund a means-tested \"citizen's income\" replacing the existing welfare system, including superannuation. The party would also forgive student loan interest for graduates who emigrate and strengthen the powers of the Commerce Commission.\n\n[Governance] TOP proposes \"citizens' assemblies\" to deliberate on major national issues, caps on political donations, and a new anti-corruption body.\n\n[Infrastructure] The party would ban bottom-trawling in New Zealand waters and increase investment in renewable energy.", "archival": true, "sources": [ { "title": "2026 New Zealand general election — Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_New_Zealand_general_election" }, { "title": "Factbox: The main parties vying to form New Zealand's next government — Reuters via Internazionale", "url": "https://www.internazionale.it/ultime-notizie-reuters/2026/10/12/factbox-the-main-parties-vying-to-form-new-zealand-s-next-government" } ], "updates": [], "publishedAt": "2026-10-17T12:00:00Z" } ]