Respect builds Common Ground.
Resolve brings Common Sense.
Renewal serves the Common Good.

I am pro-life, and I have written about this in Pro-Dignity: Defending Life with Responsibility and Compassion and My Position on Abortion: A Pro-Life Commitment to Human Dignity. I believe every human life has inherent worth and that human life begins at fertilization. I support meaningful legal protection for unborn life, with clear exceptions for the life of the mother, serious physical harm, rape, incest, fetal non-viability, ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage care, and medical emergencies. My position is grounded in a simple principle: protect human life wherever reasonably possible while exercising government power with responsibility, compassion, and respect for human dignity.

I support school choice, but I also believe Arkansas must protect its constitutional responsibility to provide a strong system of public education. I have written about this in Protecting Public Education While Pursuing Reform. I support targeted Education Freedom Accounts that give families meaningful options, particularly when a child’s needs are not being met, but I have concerns about an unlimited universal program without sufficient accountability, fiscal safeguards, or protections for public schools. Public dollars should come with meaningful standards for transparency and results, along with safeguards against disproportionate tuition increases by participating private schools so that EFAs actually expand educational opportunity rather than simply drive up costs. My position is not to eliminate EFAs, but to reform them so that parental choice, affordability, taxpayer accountability, and the long-term strength of Arkansas public education can coexist.

I do not support socialism. Merriam-Webster defines socialism, among other definitions, as “a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state.” That is not the economic system I believe in. I am a capitalist, and I have written about my economic philosophy in I Do Not Support Socialism: Why I Believe in Rules-Based Capitalism and Common Good Capitalism: A Rules-Based Approach to Prosperity. I believe in private property, entrepreneurship, voluntary exchange, consumer choice, and free and competitive markets operating under fair and predictable rules. Government should protect property rights, enforce contracts, prevent fraud and corruption, preserve genuine competition, and provide legitimate public institutions—but it should not control the economy or use taxpayer dollars to pick winners and losers. My philosophy is rules-based capitalism: economic freedom under fair rules, prosperity through productive value creation, and accountability for results.

I believe Arkansas should pursue an economy where people can afford to build a life, workers have opportunities to earn more and advance, families can build savings and ownership, and businesses can compete and grow. I have outlined this philosophy more fully in Common Good Capitalism: A Rules-Based Approach to Prosperity, and I am putting those principles into practice through a New Square Deal for Arkansas focused on affordability, ownership, enterprise, strong communities, and taxpayer accountability. That means addressing rising costs, encouraging wage growth and homeownership, keeping taxes moderate, exercising fiscal discipline, strengthening competition, investing strategically in infrastructure and workforce development, and reducing unnecessary barriers to entrepreneurship. My proposed Job Creation & Retention Tax Credit Act reflects that approach by tying economic incentives to quality jobs, wages and benefits, and measurable new state revenue. My goal is an Arkansas where families can build security, workers can advance, businesses can prosper on fair terms, and taxpayers can see whether the policies they fund actually work.

I consider myself a fiscal conservative, but fiscal responsibility means more than simply promising to always lower taxes. My position, as outlined in Taxes, Fiscal Responsibility, and the Public Good, is that tax policy should be judged on its merits and by whether it ultimately serves the people of Arkansas. I have also addressed how these principles translate into specific tax, budgeting, and business-incentive policies in my Americans for Prosperity – Arkansas 2026 Candidate Survey. I believe taxes should be kept as low as responsibly possible, government should live within its means, and every dollar collected—or forgone through credits, exemptions, and incentives—should serve a legitimate public purpose by providing protection, security, opportunity, or benefit to Arkansans. Tax policy should not be viewed narrowly through whether a rate goes up or down, but by its effect on the total tax burden, whether it is sustainable within Arkansas’s balanced-budget framework, and whether taxpayers receive real value in return. Before asking Arkansans to pay more, government should control spending, eliminate waste, use existing resources responsibly, and demonstrate a legitimate need; when revenues exceed what is reasonably necessary, taxpayers should benefit through responsible tax relief. My commitment is not to a predetermined tax rate, but to responsible stewardship and tax policies that ultimately leave Arkansas and its people stronger.

I support a healthcare system that is more affordable, more accessible, and more portable, while preserving individual choice and private enterprise. I have outlined my broader approach in Healthcare That Is Portable, Affordable, and Accessible. I do not support a fully government-run healthcare system, but I do believe Arkansas should pursue reforms that make coverage easier to understand, strengthen price transparency, expand direct primary care, improve rural access, and give consumers greater control over their healthcare decisions. Among the reforms I am developing is the Arkansas Health Insurance Market Transparency and Consumer Choice Act, which would require insurers to offer comparable standardized coverage tiers so consumers can more easily compare plans based on price, network, service, and value. I also believe Arkansas must address serious gaps in services for people with disabilities, including the CES Waiver waitlist. My goal is a system where basic health security follows the person, competition works for patients rather than against them, providers are rewarded for quality and value, and public resources are used responsibly to keep necessary care within reach.

I am a Christian, and I believe religious liberty must belong equally to everyone. I have written about this in A Constitutional Commitment to Religious Freedom. The same constitutional rights I claim for myself, I will defend for my neighbor—whether Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, another faith, or no faith at all. Government should neither establish religion nor discriminate among citizens because of their beliefs. Protecting another person’s religious freedom does not require agreeing with their theology; it requires respecting their equal liberty of conscience. My position is simple: religious liberty is either a right possessed equally by everyone, or it becomes a privilege granted by whoever holds power.

I support giving law enforcement legitimate tools to investigate crimes, but I do not support the use of Flock cameras to create a widespread government surveillance network capable of tracking the movements of law-abiding citizens. Under the current framework, I do not support their use until clear legal restrictions and meaningful safeguards are in place. I have outlined my position more fully in Flock Cameras: Public Safety, Privacy, and Constitutional Liberty. Automated license-plate readers can have legitimate public-safety uses, but those uses should require a documented law-enforcement purpose, strong access controls, independent audits, reasonable data-retention limits, strict rules on data sharing, meaningful penalties for misuse, and appropriate judicial oversight. My standard is simple: government should not collect information merely because technology makes it possible. We can protect public safety without sacrificing privacy and constitutional liberty.

I am not opposed to data centers, but I believe communities should have the final say over whether and under what conditions they are built. I have written about this in Data Centers: Local Control, Public Transparency, and Community Consent. If a community wants the investment and economic opportunity a data center may bring, it should be free to pursue it—but local governments must retain reasonable authority over zoning, noise, water and energy use, infrastructure, and other community impacts. I also oppose broad nondisclosure agreements that prevent public officials from being accountable to the people they represent, and I will defend meaningful public access to information through Arkansas’s Freedom of Information Act. Economic development should be a partnership, not a surrender of local control, transparency, or public accountability.

I believe Arkansas should sell the Franklin County prison property and recover as much of the taxpayers’ investment as possible. I have written about this in Statement on Why Arkansas Should Sell the Franklin County Prison Property. Arkansas does have a legitimate need to address correctional capacity, but after five failed appropriations, significant local opposition, unresolved infrastructure and cost concerns, and continued questions about how many additional prison beds the state actually needs, I do not believe taxpayers should remain committed to this particular site simply because the land has already been purchased. The state should obtain an independent appraisal, follow a competitive sale process, and then approach prison expansion in the proper order: determine the need, develop the plan, establish the cost, secure the funding, and only then choose the property and move forward.