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National security

In short

Mendoza's campaign says Congress must approve new troop commitments; Ciscomani's campaign says he secured a new Fort Huachuca mission. No campaign site or position was found for Peters; Swing's campaign would cut the military budget 90 percent. Marine Corps reports show Mendoza's rank and training role; other service details are her account. Ciscomani voted for a defense law barring Army electronic warfare testing cuts until a report to Congress, without naming Fort Huachuca's proving ground.

Campaign positions

What each campaign says.

JoAnna Mendoza

Her campaign says Congress must approve any new commitment of troops, that diplomacy should come first, and that the U.S. should honor alliances like NATO.

Juan Ciscomani

His campaign says he advocated for and secured a new military mission for Fort Huachuca.

Jereme Lance Peters

His position is not established: no campaign site, social account or questionnaire of his was found. His FEC committee lists no website, and the Arizona Libertarian Party's candidate page came back empty.

Gary Swing

His campaign calls for cutting the military budget by 90 per cent, closing all foreign bases, ending foreign military aid and abolishing nuclear weapons.

Evidence timeline

What the record shows.

  1. campaign position

    JoAnna Mendoza: record does not settle this

    Marine reports document her gunnery sergeant rank and training role in 2011 and 2014. The enlistment, Navy service, 20-year career and deployment details remain her campaign's account.

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    In the September 10 debate, Mendoza described enlisting at seventeen, serving first in the Navy and then the Marine Corps for twenty years, combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and serving as a Marine drill instructor. Contemporary Marine Corps reporting identifies Gunnery Sgt. JoAnna Mendoza in August 2011 as the staff noncommissioned officer in charge of a Corporals Course at Combat Logistics Regiment 17. January 2014 reporting identifies her as a company gunnery sergeant in the same regiment. Her campaign biography supplies the Navy-to-Marines sequence, enlistment age, twenty-year career, drill-instructor role and Iraq and Afghanistan deployments. Why there is no verdict: Marine service and named leadership roles are independently corroborated. The complete service chronology, specific deployments and recruit drill-instructor assignment are not established by the reviewed public military reports. Limit: The two military reports corroborate Marine service and those leadership roles. They do not independently date enlistment at seventeen, Navy service or transfer, the full twenty-year duration, each deployment or its combat characterization, or a recruit drill-instructor billet. A Corporals Course assignment and close-order drill are different roles. Those specific details remain her attributed account; the absence of a public service record is not evidence against them.

  2. campaign position

    Juan Ciscomani: record does not settle this

    His roles include national-security appropriations, not the current House Intelligence roster. His intended committees, debate-date roles and record Mexico sharing remain unsettled.

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    In the September 10 debate, Ciscomani described service on intelligence committees and said intelligence sharing with Mexico was greater than ever before. The Clerk and his office list Appropriations and Veterans’ Affairs. His appropriations subcommittees include Homeland Security and National Security, Department of State, and Related Agencies. The current formal House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence roster does not list him. These are different committee structures. Why there is no verdict: Formal committee structures are documented, but the intended intelligence-committee reference and historical Mexico-sharing superlative remain unresolved. No classified material is requested or inferred. Limit: The plural intelligence-committees wording may refer informally to funding oversight or briefings; formal roster records do not resolve his intended meaning. They do not show he never receives intelligence briefings or lacks access. A defined public measure and consistent historical series establishing more sharing with Mexico than ever before were not identified. Current rosters also do not reconstruct every assignment at the September 10 debate date.

  3. official action

    Juan Ciscomani: Matches stated direction

    He voted for the 2026 defense law, which bars the Army from cutting its electronic warfare testing until it reports to Congress but does not name the Electronic Proving Ground.

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    His House office says the 2026 defense bill secured wins for the district, starting with language for Fort Huachuca's Electronic Proving Ground. He voted Aye when the House passed its 2026 defense bill, H.R. 3838, 231 to 196 on September 10, 2025 (Roll Call 262), and Yea on the final version, S. 1071, which passed the House 312 to 112 on December 10 (Roll Call 320). It became Public Law 119-60 on December 18, 2025. Section 1546 bars the Army from closing, merging or cutting back its electronic warfare testing until it reports to Congress. Section 1047 lets the Air Force give five retired T-37B trainers to the Arizona Aviation Historical Group. Section 2608 lets it acquire 10 acres for an earlier project at Tucson International Airport. Limit: The law does not name the Electronic Proving Ground, and it does not show who asked for each section. His votes were on the whole bill.

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Sources20 source records

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  1. National Security and Standing with Our Allieshttps://www.joannamendoza.com/issues/national-security/

    Mendoza for Congress · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Campaign issue page.

    candidate statement

    For: JoAnna Mendoza: campaign position

  2. Resultshttps://juanciscomani.com/results

    Juan Ciscomani for Congress · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    The campaign's list of what it says he has done: veterans, taxes, community projects, Fort Huachuca, health care and cancer research. Every card on his column starts from this page or the home page.

    candidate statement

    For: Juan Ciscomani: campaign position

  3. PETERS, JEREME LANCE, candidate overviewhttps://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H6AZ06214/

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Libertarian candidate for this seat, Tucson. His committee, JEREME LANCE PETERS FOR CONGRESS (C00946525), lists no website and names him as treasurer.

    fec filing

    For: Jereme Lance Peters: campaign position

  4. Candidateshttps://azlp.org/candidates

    Arizona Libertarian Party · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Searched for a statement from him. The page redirects to a candidate directory that returned an empty page on October 1, 2026.

    endorsement

    For: Jereme Lance Peters: campaign position

  5. Gary Swing for Progresshttps://theswingvote.wixsite.com/unity

    Gary Swing · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    His campaign site, headed 'Green Party of Arizona, 6th Congressional District', with his campaign message. It carries no paid-for line (he has no committee). Its social bar links one account, the Facebook page RunFromCongress.

    candidate statement

    For: Gary Swing: campaign position

  6. AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: servicehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=305s

    Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026

    Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 05:05.104 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.

    candidate statement

    For: JoAnna Mendoza: record does not settle this

  7. AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: drill instructorhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=331s

    Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026

    Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 05:31.296 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.

    candidate statement

    For: JoAnna Mendoza: record does not settle this

  8. Marine reporting: Mendoza leads a Corporals Coursehttps://www.dvidshub.net/news/75941/corporals-course-gives-ncos-leadership-tools-success

    Defense Visual Information Distribution Service / U.S. Marine Corps · Published Aug 25, 2011 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026

    Contemporary Marine Corps reporting names Gunnery Sgt. JoAnna Mendoza as staff noncommissioned officer in charge of Corporals Course, CLR-17. This is not proof of recruit drill-instructor assignment.

    official office record

    For: JoAnna Mendoza: record does not settle this

  9. Marine reporting: Mendoza as company gunnery sergeanthttps://www.dvidshub.net/news/119944/always-fight-wounded-warrior-overcomes-challenges

    Defense Visual Information Distribution Service / U.S. Marine Corps · Published Jan 31, 2014 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026

    Names Gunnery Sgt. Joanna Mendoza as company gunnery sergeant. The twenty-year retirement and deployment narrative in the article concerns Pedro Aquino, not Mendoza.

    official office record

    For: JoAnna Mendoza: record does not settle this

  10. Meet Johttps://www.joannamendoza.com/meet-jo/

    Mendoza for Congress · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Campaign biography. Her military service is as the campaign describes it; no service record was read.

    candidate statement

    For: JoAnna Mendoza: record does not settle this

  11. AZ-06 Clean Elections debate: intelligence committeeshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxRgt6zIqo&t=2239s

    Arizona Clean Elections Commission and Arizona Media Association · Published Sep 10, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026

    Paraphrase from native publisher captions, beginning at 37:19.136 in the original window. The original and surrounding/repeat context were reviewed; no audio-authenticated verbatim quotation is claimed.

    candidate statement

    For: Juan Ciscomani: record does not settle this

  12. Clerk: Juan Ciscomani committee assignmentshttps://clerk.house.gov/Members/C001133

    Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026

    Current formal House assignments list Appropriations and Veterans’ Affairs; intelligence-related funding responsibilities are distinct from the select intelligence committee.

    official office record

    For: Juan Ciscomani: record does not settle this

  13. Ciscomani office: committees and subcommitteeshttps://ciscomani.house.gov/about/committees-and-caucuses

    Office of Representative Juan Ciscomani · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026

    Includes Homeland Security and National Security, Department of State, and Related Agencies appropriations subcommittees.

    official office record

    For: Juan Ciscomani: record does not settle this

  14. Clerk: House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence membershiphttps://clerk.house.gov/committees/IG00

    Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 7, 2026

    Complete current roster reviewed; it does not list Ciscomani. A roster is not proof that he lacks briefing access or intelligence-related duties.

    official legislative record

    For: Juan Ciscomani: record does not settle this

  15. Ciscomani Secures Wins for District in Annual Defense Authorization Billhttps://ciscomani.house.gov/media/press-releases/ciscomani-secures-wins-district-annual-defense-authorization-bill

    Office of Congressman Juan Ciscomani · Published Dec 12, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    House office press release of December 12, 2025, listing what it says the fiscal 2026 defense bill does for the district.

    official office record

    For: Juan Ciscomani: Matches stated direction

  16. H.R. 3838, 119th Congress, the House's fiscal 2026 defense authorization billhttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3838

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Passed the House 231 to 196 on September 10, 2025 (Roll Call 262). The final text moved as S. 1071.

    official legislative record

    For: Juan Ciscomani: Matches stated direction

  17. Roll Call 262, H.R. 3838, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025262

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Recorded vote of September 10, 2025, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. He voted Aye.

    official legislative record

    For: Juan Ciscomani: Matches stated direction

  18. S. 1071, 119th Congress, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1071

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Passed the House 312 to 112 on December 10, 2025 (Roll Call 320); the Senate agreed December 17. Became Public Law 119-60 on December 18, 2025.

    official legislative record

    For: Juan Ciscomani: Matches stated direction

  19. Roll Call 320, S. 1071, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025320

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Recorded vote of December 10, 2025, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. He voted Yea.

    official legislative record

    For: Juan Ciscomani: Matches stated direction

  20. S. 1071, Public Law 119-60, National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-119publ60

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Enacted text. Used for sections 1047 (T-37 trainers), 1546 (Army electronic warfare testing) and 2608 (Tucson International Airport land). A search of the full text finds no mention of the Electronic Proving Ground by name.

    official legislative record

    For: Juan Ciscomani: Matches stated direction