Insurance companies made 53 million prior authorization decisions last year. They approved 92% of them, meaning the process existed to exhaust you, not protect you. Of the denials that were appealed, 80% were overturned. The system is designed to separate people from the care they need. Carleigh supports Medicare for All: a single-payer system covering medical, dental, vision, and mental health. No one should choose between prescriptions and groceries, and getting communities out from under private insurance premiums would lower property taxes across NH-1.

And, good health demands clean air, inside and out. Carleigh will fight to restore the EPA’s clean air standards and champion a bold new plan to promote indoor air quality by fighting for updated building codes, air quality monitoring, and the use of high quality personal protective equipment to prevent the spread of airborne disease.

New Hampshire ranks dead last in state funding for public schools. When the federal government cuts funding, the costs don’t disappear. They land on towns, and towns push them onto families. Here’s where it gets specific: Congress passed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act over fifty years ago and promised to cover 40% of special education costs. It has never come close. Special education is now one of the single largest cost drivers in local school budgets, and these costs are federally mandated and almost entirely paid by local property taxpayers. Hampton’s budget just failed for the second time in four years because residents can’t take another increase. The problem isn’t with the people. It’s with leaders who pass laws and then pass the buck. Carleigh will fight to fully fund IDEA, lowering property taxes and getting kids the education they deserve.

A woman in Hampton bought her trailer in 1994 for $27,000. It’s now assessed at $130,000, and she doesn’t know how she’s going to pay her property taxes. Carleigh will stand up to corporate speculation, support local builders, modernize zoning for workforce and affordable housing, and fund the water and sewer infrastructure towns need to accommodate density so families can afford to stay in the communities they love.

Carleigh is a millennial who can count on one hand the number of friends who can afford to have kids because the cost is so impossibly high. She’ll fight to cap childcare at 7% of family income and ensure every childcare worker earns a living wage. You shouldn’t have to get another job to afford to send your kids to daycare so you can afford to feed them.

Carleigh’s husband is a public middle school teacher. Their kids go to public school. She will fight voucher schemes that drain resources from the schools our communities depend on and work to ensure every child, including students with disabilities, gets the education they deserve. When politicians in Washington defund public schools and push voucher programs, it’s our classrooms and our kids who pay the price.

New Hampshire’s minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, but it costs $8.50 to do a load of laundry in the big machine on Route 1 in Hampton. Carleigh will fight for a livable wage and always stand with workers organizing for fair pay, fair schedules, and the right to bargain. People should make enough money that they have the time to sit around the table with the people they love, give back to their communities, run for office, and participate in local government.

Carleigh is the only candidate for federal office in America not on social media. She knows political consultants and D.C. insiders think she’s crazy, but she doesn’t care. She isn’t putting a penny in the pockets of tech billionaires who want our kids addicted to screens and the rest of us doomscrolling ourselves into fascism. You can’t take their money, depend on their platforms, and then credibly claim to want to take away their power. She’ll ban Congressional stock trading, get dark money out of politics, enforce anti-monopoly laws against Big Tech companies that function like tollbooths between small businesses and their customers, and push for real privacy protections, especially for kids.

Our lives have become beholden to the priorities and profits of technology corporations, and we never had a say in it. You can’t pay for parking, get into a movie, or do basic tasks without your phone. AI is accelerating this problem: it is being used to deny people healthcare, replace workers, surveil communities, and make military decisions that should require human judgment. The Pentagon is integrating AI into operations faster than lawmakers can provide oversight, and the companies building these systems have amassed so much power that they can pay for whatever laws they want.

Carleigh will fight for comprehensive AI regulation that protects workers, patients, and consumers. That means prohibiting AI in the nuclear weapons program, requiring transparency when AI is used to make decisions about people’s healthcare or employment, enacting real data privacy protections, and ensuring that Congress has meaningful oversight before these technologies are deployed in ways that affect people’s lives. Kids’ health should always be prioritized over profits. Workers deserve to know when AI is being used to monitor, evaluate, or replace them. And no algorithm should stand between a patient and the care their doctor prescribed. Regular people deserve as much say in the way our government is run as Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.

Climate change makes governing a seaside community increasingly complicated and expensive. Saltwater from flooding corrodes fire trucks. Sea walls get battered by storm surges. In Hampton, the town planned solar on its capped landfill to lower energy bills and ease pressure on property taxes, but when federal incentives get pulled back, projects everyone supports become harder to make work. Carleigh will hold corporate polluters accountable and restore the federal investments that help towns lower costs and build resilience.

Only one thing can destroy the planet faster that global warming: nuclear war. Carleigh will fight to renegotiate arms control treaties and pull us back from the brink of global catastrophe. She won’t rest until we all live in a world free from nuclear weapons.

Nobody voted for war. Carleigh has spent her career studying the consequences of U.S. military action and has lived in communities still scarred by nuclear testing. She will fight to constrain any president’s ability to drag the country into needless wars, champion back-from-the-brink legislation so no single person has unilateral authority to launch nuclear weapons, and demand that Congress meet its constitutional responsibility to authorize the use of military force.

Business owners across NH-1 can’t find workers to keep their doors open. Families are being snatched from their homes on the way to work. The system is broken, and cruelty is not a plan. Carleigh will fight for a real immigration system: a fair path to citizenship for people who have built their lives here, a functioning asylum and refugee process, and border security rooted in competence and humanity, not chaos and fear.

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Reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy are not negotiable. Carleigh will fight to protect the right to abortion, defend access to contraception, and oppose any attempt, state or federal, to roll back reproductive healthcare. No politician should stand between a person and their doctor.

As a mom, teacher, and local elected official, I know that representation matters. I also know that all too often, the rights we’ve fought for are the subject of debate and attack. That’s why I promise to fight for the LGBTQ+ community in Congress. Not just during Pride month, every single day.