Carleigh will 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.

Meta spent $25 million on lobbying in 2025. In addition to the millions they’ve spent on lobbying, the social media companies have built their entire legal defense strategy on a federal law called the Communications Decency Act of 1996, specifically Section 230, which protects them from liability for what users post. They’re just a public forum, they say. A gigantic, monopolistic, billion-dollar private corporate public square!?

Congress needs to step in, but how can we get the millions of dollars social media companies are spending on lobbying from jamming up the gears of our democracy?

Here’s what Carleigh would do:

1. Enforce anti-monopoly laws against the social media platforms that use their vast market share to gobble up competitors and degrade their users’ experience.

2. Impose meaningful privacy protections for users, so that social media companies can’t gobble up valuable data and use it to feed us endless streams of content designed to make us miserable and keep us scrolling.

3. Rewrite Section 230 so that social media companies can be held liable when algorithms spread misinformation and foment violence. If there is a cost for boosting blatant lies and misinformation, these companies will design their algorithms to prevent it from spreading.

These proposals have broad support among the American people. Parents and teachers are fed up and demanding action. But, politicians have become so dependent on these platforms and so addicted to the attention they get on them, that they have few incentives to rein them in.

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.

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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.

AI technology developed by for-profit companies is transforming the labor market and the economy in ways we're only beginning to understand. Congress's top priority should be safeguarding constituents — not fast-tracking Big Tech's expansion. We can't trust Big Tech to self-regulate when they have continuously prioritized profits over people. Right now, the people making those decisions are a handful of tech billionaires using their massive wealth to strike corrupt deals with the Trump Administration.

Working people need leverage to prevent rampant speculation and unregulated expansion from destroying our ability to support our families. If there are benefits of this technological revolution, then working people deserve a share in those benefits. That's why I support a moratorium on data center construction until we have legislation that requires these companies to address and offset the impact of new data centers on public health, the environment, and energy prices and these corporations are subject to aggressive anti-trust enforcement and robust data privacy protections.

We have just started to see accountability for social media platforms that have been wreaking havoc on our public health and democracy for decades. These are the same tech companies that designed products to addict children and failed to protect kids from predators on their platforms. Carleigh doesn’t want to wait another twenty years for class action lawsuits against AI companies to finally deliver justice for their victims, when we can act now to prevent these harms from occurring in the first place.

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.

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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.

Medicare for All is a fiscally responsible approach that will relieve pressure on municipal and school budgets that have struggled to absorb rapidly rising healthcare insurance premiums. There are three costs driving increases in public school budgets (and as a result, your property taxes): special education, transportation, and health insurance. Medicare for All is a broadly popular proposal, but we hear very few advocates talking about how it would help lower your property taxes by reducing the gigantic health insurance premiums that school districts and municipalities pay to insurance companies to cover their municipal employees. Carleigh has served on the budget committee, and she has pored over every line looking for ways to save property taxpayers a dime. Taking health insurance premiums out of the budget would help us lower property taxes and ensure that we meet our basic obligation as a society to ensure that every person in this country can access high quality healthcare.

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.

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Last fall, after Hampton’s reassessment, hundreds of residents packed the basement of the town hall where Carleigh chairs the Select Board to talk about their property tax horror stories. The board heard from a retiree who lives in a mobile home and can’t afford to pay an additional thousand dollars a year on her tax bill. They heard from a neighbor who had to choose between paying for his heating oil and his property taxes.  Carleigh hears stories like this every day as a local government official and a candidate for Congress: this system is broken, property taxes are too high, there must be a better way.

Plenty of politicians at the state and federal levels talk about these problems, but do very little to actually fix them. They kick the can down the road until it lands in our basement meeting room.

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 and provide federal funding for critical local infrastructure programs, to lower property taxes and finally give people the partner in Washington they deserve.

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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.

Almost every single day since Carleigh launched this campaign, She’s heard the same thing from families with young kids, college students, and older people: “We love this state, but we’re not sure we can afford to stay.” Even if this is not your story, the housing crisis hurts all of us.

Here’s the situation:

• The median home price in NH has now reached $480,000 — a record high 

• 76% of NH renters cannot afford the median-priced apartment

• 1 of every 2 renters in NH is considered cost-burdened, meaning they spend more than 1/3 of their income just on rent — a rate that’s soared over the past decade

• The annual household income needed to afford the average NH home is now over $150,000, but a typical household only earns $91,000 — leaving a massive gap that is locking out teachers, nurses, police officers, firefighters, and young families

• Starter homes — those under $300,000 — barely exist in most of the state’s communities

• Local builders are struggling to compete with national giants and Wall Street investors, who buy up properties and drive up prices 

There are so many stories behind these numbers—young couples delaying marriage or having kids, recent grads leaving the state, seniors living in their cars off of 101. It’s your grandparents priced out because of ever-higher property taxes and businesses and municipalities unable to hire because workers can’t afford to live here.

In Congress, Carleigh will fight to:

• Empower New Hampshire's Local Builders: She’ll support new federal loan programs and accessible financing so small builders can compete again

• Invest in our Communities: She’ll push for funding that enables cities and towns to build necessary infrastructure like water and sewer systems and roads

• Crack down on Corporate Speculation and Land Hoarding: She’ll work to end tax breaks for hedge funds and private equity firms snapping up single-family homes and support caps on institutional ownership to protect opportunities for ordinary buyers and renters

• Create Pathways to Affordable Housing: She’ll push for support for communities that modernize zoning so we can build the many different kinds of housing we need 

• Encourage Housing First HUD Policy: She’ll work with federal, state, and local partners to prioritize permanent housing solutions for homeless community members

• Support Renters: She’ll work to expand Housing Choice Vouchers and protections for tenants  

Bottom line: We can’t afford more of the same. Solving the housing crisis means standing up to corporate greed and outdated rules—and standing up for the people who make our communities strong. This is what putting people—not corporate interests—first looks like. Together, we can build a movement strong enough to enact real changes so that everyone can have a fair shot at a safe, affordable place to call home.

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When we talk about the foundations of a strong economy, we often point to roads, good schools, and housing. But there’s another form of infrastructure just as critical, one that supports every industry in New Hampshire: child care. As a working mom, Carleigh understands the economic and political imperatives and knows firsthand how hard it is to find and afford childcare. 

Without affordable, reliable childcare, parents can’t work, businesses can’t hire, and children lose out on the early learning experiences that set them up for success. Yet New Hampshire faces a severe shortage. Between 2017 and 2024, the state lost nearly 13 percent of its licensed child care capacity for children under five.  

That’s nearly six thousand kids with nowhere to go when their parents have to go to work. That’s thousands of parents, mostly moms, who have to cut back their hours or quit their jobs to stay home because they have nowhere to bring their kids. That’s thousands of parents and grandparents turning their lives upside down to figure out what to do and where to turn in a state where more and more it feels like no one cares about them. 

The workforce crisis driving this shortage is clear. In 2023, child care educators earned a median wage of $15.62 an hour, less than half the pay of other similar industries. These are the people we depend on to hold our babies when we can’t, to care for our kids while we work to be able to afford to put food on our tables and a roof over our heads. Thanks to the low wages and difficult working conditions, turnover among childcare workers is projected at 17 percent annually. When programs can’t recruit or retain staff, they close classrooms, leaving families without options.

The costs ripple across the economy:

• Families lost up to $178 million in wages in 2023.

• Businesses lost up to $55.5 million from lost productivity and turnover.

• State and local governments lost up to $14 million in tax revenue.

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.

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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.

Carleigh and her family live in Hampton, which is home to the first public school in New Hampshire. The kids in Hampton are part of a tradition of public education that stretches back 376 years. This is because in the 1600s – even before the United States was founded – the people who lived here recognized their obligation to “teach and instruct all the children of or belonging to our town.” 

Despite our proud tradition of public education and generations of public school graduates who have gone on to do incredible things in our communities and our country, our state is last in the nation when it comes to state support for public education. 

The voucher program devised in NH has been taken nationwide by the Trump administration. This scheme takes money from public schools and transfers it to wealthy families, the vast majority of whom already send their children to private and religious schools. The program has blown past its initial budget, leaving public schools with even less than expected – which means that local communities will have to cover the shortfall by raising property taxes. As Chair of the Hampton Select Board, Carleigh sees how irresponsible budgeting downshifts costs to municipalities and harms our communities.

And, as the product of a public education, a mother of two young kids, and the wife of a public school teacher, Carleigh knows the value of a public school system that teaches our children the skills they need to thrive and contribute meaningfully to our society and that encourages them to learn from and alongside people who are different than them. 

In Congress, Carleigh will fight to roll back Trump’s national voucher program, fully fund IDEA, and protect the constitutional rights of every student and teacher.

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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.

As a union organizer, Carleigh proudly fought to form UAW Local 5118—a union of graduate student workers demanding fair pay, paid leave, transparent scheduling, and anti-retaliation policies. Carleigh and her union went on strike twice before securing their first contract.

Walking the picket line in the dead of winter and standing shoulder to shoulder with workers from every department taught her a lesson she will bring with her to the halls of Congress: every worker deserves a union. That’s why she will proudly sign on to the PRO Act and fight to restore collective bargaining rights to 1.5 million federal workers hurt by Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE disaster.

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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.

In February 2026, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists issued a dire warning. They moved the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds until midnight; closer than we have ever been to catastrophe. Our country and our planet have never faced a moment as dangerous as this one, and we all must wake up to the danger and act to prevent disaster.

Living and working in the Marshall Islands has taught Carleigh about how vulnerable communities respond to existential crises like US Nuclear testing and climate change. These struggles shape our past and present, and if we don’t act now, they could end our future.

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.

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The greatest responsibility of our federal government is to protect the welfare of the people who call this country home. As a member of Congress, Carleigh will fight to make sure that no president — Democrat or Republican — can drag the United States into needless wars based on lies or their own capricious arrogance, and she will never relent in her commitment to securing our country and the world from the threats posed by the weaponization of emerging technologies and the continued risk of nuclear war.

The timing of Trump’s attack on Iran poses unprecedented risks to global security. Days before the war began, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth canceled a Defense Department contract with the AI company Anthropic over its refusal to authorize the use of their technology to spy on Americans and direct lethal attacks. Anthropic came under scrutiny earlier this year after reports that its AI chatbot, Claude, was used during Trump’s reckless and unconstitutional invasion of Venezuela.

One of the sticking points in the negotiations was whether AI could be used to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike. Anthropic refused and Hegseth canceled the contract. Within hours, Anthropic’s rival, OpenAI reached a deal with the Pentagon. It’s a profitable deal for OpenAI and its shareholders, and a disturbing development for anyone who cares about peace and the future of humanity.

Congress must immediately pass legislation limiting Trump’s ability to take further military action against Iran. That is just the beginning of the work that must be accomplished with all deliberate speed. Congress must also pass legislation limiting national security agencies from using AI technology to launch lethal strikes, and prohibit the Pentagon from any use of AI in its nuclear weapons program.

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.

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As a scholar of religion and history, Carleigh brings an understanding of the historical roots of today’s conflicts, and she is committed to principled, compassionate, and evidence-based policies that promote peace.

Carleigh believes that the US needs to play a role in stopping the genocide in Palestine, and that our approach should be guided by democracy, freedom of thought and speech, human rights, and just and sustainable peace.

Carleigh joins the Coalition for a Just Peace in the Middle East in their principled call for peace:

“We oppose US support for Israel’s occupation and violent collective treatment of Palestinians. We call for:

• an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza

• the release of all hostages and political prisoners

• massive humanitarian aid to Gaza with the restoration of UNRWA funding at increased levels

• an end to unconditional military aid to Israel”

Carleigh supports restricting the sale of offensive weapons to Israel as long as they continue genocidal policies including the deliberate targeting of civilians, illegal occupation, and the arrest and abuse of political prisoners, including children. She supports H.R. 3565, the “Block the Bombs” bill, to prevent the sale of weapons used specifically to target civilians and critical infrastructure in Palestine. She also opposes efforts to restrict the free speech of people in the United States who acknowledge and oppose apartheid policies in Israel.

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.

ICE is not a broken agency that needs fixing, it is an agency whose design produces the exact outcomes that we are now witnessing. It must be abolished and replaced with a Civil Immigration Enforcement Agency, housed outside of DHS, responsible for enforcing civil immigration law and constrained by strict constitutional parameters requiring warrants, prohibitions against masked agents, mandatory body cameras, and an independent oversight body that reports directly to Congress.

In addition to civil immigration enforcement, Carleigh supports genuine criminal immigration enforcement against human trafficking, smuggling, and border-related organized crime. These functions should be handled by federal law enforcement agencies with established criminal investigative capacity like the FBI, DEA, and a reconstituted border security functions within CBP.

Finally, Carleigh supports a fully funded and truly independent immigration court system modeled on the U.S. Tax Court with judges appointed on merit and insulated from political pressure.

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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, including fighting to enshrine Roe v. Wade as federal law and repealing the discriminatory Hyde Amendment. No politician should stand between a person and their doctor.

Carleigh is running for Congress because everyone deserves to feel seen, heard, safe, and celebrated no matter who they are, where they live, or who they love.

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

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