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Our Campaign’s Top Issues

What does Ashley stand for?

Restore our Democracy

Top priority: Washington's system of checks and balances exists to protect every American. When those guardrails are undermined, everyone suffers — regardless of party.

Ashley will fight to restore accountability and institutional integrity to Congress.

Healthcare - Because I've Seen What's Broken

As a practicing PA, Ashley has sat across from patients who ration insulin, skip follow-up appointments, or delay care because they can't afford it. She knows the system isn't failing by accident - it's been shaped by corporate interests at the expense of patients and providers alike.

Ashley supports universal healthcare coverage, untethering benefits from employment, and putting medical decisions back in the hands of patients and the clinicians who actually treat them. No one should go broke getting healthy.

Affordability & Economic Relief

Groceries, rent, prescriptions, childcare — everything costs more, and wages haven’t kept up. Ashley sees this in her patients every day. She supports a national minimum wage, targeted relief for unavoidable costs, and ending the tariff whiplash that has made financial planning impossible for NC-10 families and small businesses.

Economic security isn’t a partisan issue. It’s what every family in this district is trying to hold onto.

Make Insurance Pay

Ashley has spent years fighting insurance denials on behalf of her patients. She’s watched prior authorization delays cost people their health — and sometimes their lives. Insurance companies should never have more authority over a patient’s care than the clinician sitting in the room with them.

Ashley will legislate to end prior authorization abuse, ban coverage denials for medically necessary care, and hold insurance companies accountable to the patients they’re supposed to serve.

Money Out of Politics

Running for office should be accessible to every American. Right now, it’s not — only the wealthy can afford to run a competitive campaign, and that shapes who Congress listens to. Ashley supports banning Congressional stock trading, limiting dark money, and making campaigns accessible to working people.

A Congress that represents everyone starts with a system that lets everyone run.

Education & Opportunity

Every American deserves a path forward — whether that’s a four-year degree, a trade certification, or professional training. Ashley believes in fully funding public schools, paying teachers what they’re worth, and making sure tax dollars go to accountable institutions that serve all students.

Opportunity shouldn’t be determined by your zip code or your family’s income.

Women's Rights

Every woman deserves control over her own healthcare decisions, her own body, and her own future. Ashley will fight to protect reproductive rights, expand access to contraception, and defend women’s voting rights.

These aren’t partisan issues. They’re human rights.

Veterans' Benefits

Ashley believes honoring veterans starts with keeping the promises we made to them. She supports expanding existing benefits, adding loan forgiveness, strengthening access to mental health care, and providing living stipends and childcare assistance for veterans and their families.

Service to this country should never be repaid with bureaucratic neglect.

Disability Rights

As a PA, Ashley has worked directly with patients navigating a system that too often treats disability as an afterthought. She supports full ADA enforcement, expanded Medicaid access, and employment protections that allow every American to contribute on their own terms.

Disability is not a limitation on what someone can give to this country. Our policies should reflect that.

LGBTQ+ Rights

Ashley has treated LGBTQ+ patients who have faced discrimination in the very healthcare system meant to protect them. She knows these aren’t abstract policy debates — they are people’s lives, health, and dignity.

Ashley will oppose any legislation that treats LGBTQ+ Americans as second-class citizens and support full legal equality under the law.

Abolish ICE and New Immigration Laws

The current immigration enforcement system has failed — separating families, detaining US citizens, and operating without adequate oversight. That is not security. That is dysfunction.

Ashley supports replacing ICE with a professional, accountable agency focused on genuine public safety threats, with full due process protections for everyone. Humane enforcement and secure borders are not mutually exclusive.

Ban partisan gerrymandering

Everyone deserves a voice and for their vote to count regardless of whether they live. It's time to stop the games with gerrymandering.

Ashley also supports

Additional policies....

  • Common sense gun reform. We support the 2nd amendment, but we don't support gun violence.

  • Expand Veterans' benefits. Improve all of the existing benefits, add loan forgiveness, expanded mental healthcare, living stipends, childcare assistance....and we've got a start at thanking our Veterans.

  • Expand the Supreme Court and institute term limits for justices.

  • Term limits for lawmakers. Congress isn't supposed to be a career.

  • Ban Congressional stock trading. Congress shouldn't make its members rich.

  • Regulate AI. AI is powerful....sometimes too powerful. We can't let it cause more issues than it solves....AND we must minimize its impacts on the environment.

  • Stop funding Israel's attacks. Israel is committing genocide against Palestine and we should not be paying for it.

  • Support statehood for DC and Puerto Rico. If they're not going to be represented with voting rights in Congress, they shouldn't be taxed.

  • Paid sick, family, maternity, paternity leave and expand duration of each.

  • Green New Deal. Increase jobs in clean energy and manufacturing, decrease pollution. Transition to clean, renewable energy; public transit expansion.

  • Ban partisan gerrymandering. Everyone deserves a voice and for their vote to count regardless of whether they live. It's time to stop the games with gerrymandering.