Election 2026
Independent, source-first accountability
Issue record
In short
Miller-Meeks's official border page lists her votes for the SAVE Act, on proof of citizenship to register to vote, and the Laken Riley Act. Bohannan's campaign site has no border section; in a post she writes that she has always said we must secure the border. Bridgford's issues page has no immigration section; in a TV answer posted on his site he says he believes we need a secure border.
Campaign positions
Her official border security page sets out a series of figures on the previous administration's border record and lists her votes for the SAVE Act requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote and for the Laken Riley Act requiring ICE to arrest people charged with theft offences, and her cosponsorship of a bill making it a crime to flee a pursuing officer.
Her position is in her own posts rather than on her campaign site. On July 6, 2026, quoting a post of her opponent's about border policies, she wrote "Miller-Meeks knows I disagreed with Biden on immigration and that I have always said we must secure the border." and said her opponent had heard it directly from her, sitting across a table, on live television during their last debate. That is the only post on the subject among the 179 posts and replies her account published from July 1, 2026 to the retrieval on September 13, 2026, collected in full and exhausted rather than stopped at a cap; immigrat, border, deport, migrant and asylum return nothing in the other 178, and ICE never appears there as the agency's name. Her site carries nothing on it: no section on immigration or the border appears among the eight sections of her campaign priorities page, and this desk read her whole site through its own content interface, all 45 items it serves, 29 posts that are its news archive, 8 pages and 8 priorities, where immigrat, border and deport return nothing and ICE never appears as the agency's name either. The campaign's own framing of freedom covers speech, property, education, health care decisions and reproductive rights rather than immigration.
His campaign issues page carries no immigration panel, but his site's News page carries his own words on the border: it reproduces his answer on WHBF's 4 The Record of August 23, 2026: "I believe we need a secure border. I think that's a policy that Republicans support." The same answer pairs that with stepping away from the trade wars, which he calls a policy Democrats support. A second item on that page, a WHO 13 interview of April 16, 2026, lists immigration among the subjects he discussed. The eleven issue panels themselves name neither immigration nor the border; the closest thing in them is a pledge in his agriculture panel to ban foreign adversaries, naming China and Russia, from buying American farmland.
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Office of Representative Mariannette Miller-Meeks · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Sets out border figures attributed to the previous administration and lists her votes for the SAVE Act and the Laken Riley Act, with the claim that the latter passed the House and was signed into law.
official office record
For: Mariannette Miller-Meeks: campaign position
Christina Bohannan for Congress · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Eight sections: lowering costs, restoring faith in government, health care, education, family farms and natural resources, seniors and Social Security, freedom, and a family friendly economy. Read directly from the live site; no archive was needed. The government section carries the sentence "I take no corporate PAC money.", which is the statement side of the money card on her.
candidate statement
For: Christina Bohannan: campaign position
Christina Bohannan for Congress · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Her biography and reasons for running, read directly from the live site. Uses curly apostrophes throughout, which the quotations on this desk reproduce.
candidate statement
For: Christina Bohannan: campaign position
Christina Bohannan for Congress · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
The site serves its own content through a public interface, which this desk read in full rather than page by page: 29 posts, 8 pages and 8 priorities, 45 items in all, each with its date and its address, the posts and priorities read from their own endpoints of the same interface. Cited as the scope of every search behind a silence recorded against her. Across all 45 items, immigrat, border and deport return nothing, and the letters ICE appear only inside the word PRICES in an all-capital headline, never as the agency's name; veteran appears in two posts and nowhere else.
candidate statement
For: Christina Bohannan: campaign position
X · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Handle confirmed through the link in the campaign site's own footer, read live on September 13, 2026. Its posts and replies were collected in full for the window July 1, 2026 to September 13, 2026, 179 items, the account exhausted rather than stopped at a cap.
social profile
For: Christina Bohannan: campaign position
X · Published Jul 6, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Her own post, quoting a post of her opponent's about border policies. Collected from her declared account on September 13, 2026 and re-read against the platform the same day before it was written down: unchanged, the same author, and one entry in its edit history. Its text is quoted in full for the sentence this desk carries; the post is her own words and not a record of any official action.
social profile
For: Christina Bohannan: campaign position
Bridgford for Iowa · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
His campaign's news page. Like every other route on the site it answers a plain request with HTTP 200 and the same client-rendered shell, so its items were read from the site's own JavaScript bundle, which carries the text of every page. The page holds press releases and media items, each with a source line and a date, among them his August 23, 2026 appearance on WHBF's 4 The Record, which is where the words this desk quotes on the border come from, and a WHO 13 item of April 16, 2026 that lists immigration among his interview subjects. The word veteran appears nowhere on it, and nowhere in the bundle's 587,449 bytes.
candidate statement
For: Michael Bridgford: campaign position
Bridgford for Iowa · Reviewed Sep 13, 2026
Eleven issue panels. The site is a client-rendered application: it answers a plain request with HTTP 200 but serves the same shell for every route and has no content API, so the panels were read twice, once rendered in a browser with each panel expanded and once extracted verbatim from the site's own JavaScript bundle. This is not a block and no archive was used.
candidate statement
For: Michael Bridgford: campaign position