Election 2026

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Issue record

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In short

Hinson's campaign backs barring members of Congress from stock trades and prediction-market bets, plus lobbying limits. Turek's campaign backs a stock-trading ban, corporate PAC limits and term limits. Laehn's campaign would end what it calls the corrupting role of PACs. On the record, Hinson voted for the Stop Insider Trading Act, which passed the House and is not law; Turek's Iowa donation-cap bills did not advance; Laehn has held no office that votes on this.

Campaign positions

What each campaign says.

Ashley Hinson

Her campaign says she supports banning members of Congress from individual-stock trading and prediction-market betting, plus new lobbying restrictions.

Josh Turek

His campaign says he supports a congressional stock-trading ban, corporate-PAC restrictions, the DISCLOSE Act, term limits, and enforceable Supreme Court ethics rules.

Thomas Laehn

His campaign says he would sponsor legislation to eliminate what it calls the corrupting role of PACs and super PACs, and return legislative power from the presidency to Congress.

Evidence timeline

What the record shows.

  1. official action

    Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction

    She answered 309 of the House's 314 roll calls through September 16, about 98.4 percent, a bit under the 99 she gave.

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    In the October 7 debate, Hinson said she showed up for 99 percent of House floor votes this year. The House held 314 roll calls in 2026 from January 6 to September 16, the latest posted when we checked on October 10. She answered 309 of them (308 votes and one quorum call) and missed five: three on January 12, one on April 22 and one on June 8. That is 98.4 percent. Limit: Rounded, that is 98 percent, just under the 99 she gave. Only recorded roll calls count; voice votes record no names.

  2. official action

    Ashley Hinson: Matches stated record claim

    Her husband sold single-company stocks in March 2021, and her reports show no public company stock held at any year's end through 2025; the family still has funds and private company stock.

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    In the October 7 debate, Hinson said her family sold its individual stocks right away in 2021, after she got to Congress. Her stock trade report filed April 5, 2021 shows her husband selling shares of single companies, among them Amazon, Apple and Tesla, on March 31, 2021; it also shows two purchases earlier that month, of Amazon and Tesla, sold on March 31 as well. The same report shows that on March 5, 2021 he sold his interest in an insurance agency and bought a stake in a private insurance firm, High Street Insurance Partners ($250,001 to $500,000). Her yearly reports for 2021 through 2025 show no publicly traded company stock still held at year's end. The 2025 report does list stock funds and ETFs, and his privately held stake in that firm, valued at $1,000,001 to $5,000,000. Limit: Disclosure reports give value ranges, not exact amounts. Funds, ETFs and private company stock are not single-company public stocks.

  3. official action

    Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction

    She cosponsored and voted for the Stop Insider Trading Act, which passed the House in July 2026, and filed a rule to bar members from prediction markets; neither is law.

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    Her campaign says it will ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks and betting on prediction markets. She cosponsored H.R. 7008, the Stop Insider Trading Act, on January 12, 2026 and voted Yea on its House passage on July 22, 2026 (Roll Call 280, 232 to 198). She sponsored H.Res. 1263 on May 7, 2026, a House rule change to prohibit Members from entering into prediction-market contracts; it was referred to committee. Limit: The Senate has not passed H.R. 7008, which also carries a voter-ID section, and the House has not adopted H.Res. 1263. Neither is law. A vote and a sponsorship match the stated direction; they do not measure her full ethics record.

  4. official action

    Josh Turek: Matches stated record claim

    His filings through June 2026 show no money from any committee the FEC lists as tied to a corporation or trade group; many PACs have no type recorded.

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    His campaign says it is not taking any corporate PAC money and would ban corporate PAC money in campaigns. His committee's filings through June 30, 2026 report $378,126.83 from other political committees and $62,000 from a party committee, against $6,276,526.90 in total receipts. By the FEC's recorded type of each contributing committee, that money came from 38 leadership PACs ($274,000), twelve PACs with no organization type recorded ($62,500), the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee ($62,000) and one county party committee ($500), five labor organization PACs ($25,000), four other candidates' committees ($10,401.83), three membership organization PACs ($5,275), and a second county party committee listed without an FEC id ($450). No contributing committee is recorded by the FEC as connected to a corporation or a trade association. Limit: Leadership PACs are sponsored by other politicians, and the FEC's organization-type field is blank for many PACs, so "no corporate PAC money" is tested only against the FEC's recorded types. Individual contributions earmarked through conduits (ActBlue, $2,377,439.49 in memo entries; JStreetPAC and PAC for Good, $43,110) are individual money and are not counted here. Contributions are context, not evidence of why any position was taken.

  5. campaign position

    Thomas Laehn: Not comparable yet

    He has held no office that votes on this; his filings through June 2026 show $31,908 raised, none from PACs or other committees.

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    His campaign says he would sponsor legislation to eliminate what it calls the corrupting role of PACs and super PACs. No like-for-like official action exists. His committee's filings through June 30, 2026 show $31,908 in receipts, none from other political committees. Limit: The absence of PAC money in his filings is consistent with his statement but is not an official action. The dated post and the platform say the same thing.

  6. official action

    Ashley Hinson: Matches stated record claim

    She filed the PURE Executive Act three times, twice with a Democratic cosponsor; it would bar lobbying by former executive branch officials, not members of Congress, and got no vote.

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    Her official House biography says she has introduced and supported bipartisan legislation to root out corruption in Washington through federal lobbying bans, and her campaign platform calls for commonsense lobbying bans. She is the sponsor of the PURE Executive Act in three consecutive Congresses: H.R. 1830 (introduced March 11, 2021), H.R. 5594 (September 20, 2023), and H.R. 8544 (April 28, 2026). Its official title is to amend title 18, United States Code, to establish a 5-year post-employment ban on lobbying by former senior executive branch personnel and to prohibit such personnel from lobbying at any time on behalf of foreign governments or entities controlled by foreign governments; the 2021 version reads "on behalf of foreign clients." Each was referred to the House Judiciary Committee and none received a vote. The 2021 bill had one Democratic and four Republican cosponsors, the 2023 bill one Republican cosponsor, and the 2026 bill one Democratic cosponsor. She has also cosponsored three bills whose titles carry lobbying: H.R. 3049 (2021), which would bar a former Member of Congress from lobbying on behalf of a Communist country, and H.R. 1190 (2024) and H.R. 1883 (2026), which clarify what lobbying registrations must contain; each was referred to the House Judiciary Committee. Limit: The bans in the PURE Executive Act reach former senior executive branch personnel, not Members of Congress; the one cosponsored bill that reaches former Members, H.R. 3049, would bar lobbying for a Communist country only. None of these bills has had a committee or floor vote. The biography sentence bundles three subjects; the child-care part is borne out by H.R. 7498, which she sponsored. "Bipartisan" rests on the cosponsor lists of the 2021 and 2026 bills. An earlier version of this card, checked against short titles only, missed the PURE Executive Act; the check now covers official titles.

  7. official action

    Josh Turek: Matches stated record claim

    He was sole sponsor of three Iowa bills limiting campaign contributions in 2025 and 2026; none advanced.

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    His campaign says he sponsored legislation to cap the amount of money that can be given to individual campaigns and political committees. He is the sole sponsor of H.F. 286 and H.F. 288 (introduced February 10, 2025) and H.F. 2430 (introduced February 12, 2026), each limiting campaign contributions and referred to the State Government Committee. Limit: Introduced and referred; none advanced.

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Sources36 source records

How we use sources

  1. Issueshttps://ashleyhinson.com/issues/

    Ashley Hinson for Iowa · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts.

    candidate statement

    For: Ashley Hinson: campaign position; Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction; Ashley Hinson: Matches stated record claim

  2. Pushing for Changehttps://turek4iowa.com/platform/

    Josh Turek for Iowa · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts.

    candidate statement

    For: Josh Turek: campaign position; Josh Turek: Matches stated record claim

  3. The Issueshttps://laehn4iowa.org/issues

    Thomas Laehn for U.S. Senate · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts.

    candidate statement

    For: Thomas Laehn: campaign position; Thomas Laehn: Not comparable yet

  4. Iowa PBS debate, October 7: Hinson on her attendancehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQXwr856YrI&t=946s

    Iowa PBS · Published Oct 7, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    15:46. The quoted words read the same in YouTube's captions and in Iowa PBS's own transcript.

    candidate statement

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction

  5. Iowa Press Debates: U.S. Senate, transcripthttps://www.iowapbs.org/shows/iowapress/special/14524/iowa-press-debates-us-senate

    Iowa PBS · Published Oct 7, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    The host's own transcript of the October 7 debate, the second copy for quoted words.

    candidate statement

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction; Ashley Hinson: Matches stated record claim

  6. Roll Call 1 of 2026, quorum callhttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026001

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Jan 6, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    The first 2026 roll call; Hinson recorded Present. The attendance card counts all 314 roll calls from this one to Roll Call 314.

    official legislative record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction

  7. Roll Call 13 of 2026https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026013

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Jan 12, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Hinson recorded Not Voting.

    official legislative record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction

  8. Roll Call 14 of 2026https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026014

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Jan 12, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Hinson recorded Not Voting.

    official legislative record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction

  9. Roll Call 15 of 2026https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026015

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Jan 12, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Hinson recorded Not Voting.

    official legislative record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction

  10. Roll Call 130 of 2026https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026130

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Apr 22, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Hinson recorded Not Voting.

    official legislative record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction

  11. Roll Call 208 of 2026https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026208

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Jun 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Hinson recorded Not Voting.

    official legislative record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction

  12. Roll Call 314 of 2026https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026314

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Sep 16, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    The latest 2026 roll call posted when checked on October 10, 2026; Hinson recorded Yea.

    official legislative record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction

  13. Iowa PBS debate, October 7: Hinson on selling stockshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQXwr856YrI&t=979s

    Iowa PBS · Published Oct 7, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    16:19. The quoted words read the same in YouTube's captions and in Iowa PBS's own transcript.

    candidate statement

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated record claim

  14. Periodic transaction report, filed April 5, 2021 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Apr 5, 2021 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Filed as Ashley Hinson Arenholz. Lists her spouse's sales of single-company stocks on March 31, 2021.

    official office record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated record claim

  15. Financial disclosure report for 2021 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published May 16, 2022 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Annual report; all 11 assets coded [ST], the Clerk's code for a stock, show a year-end value of None and are marked no longer held.

    official office record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated record claim

  16. Financial disclosure report for 2022 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Aug 13, 2023 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Annual report; no asset coded [ST], the Clerk's code for a stock.

    official office record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated record claim

  17. Financial disclosure report for 2023 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Aug 12, 2024 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Annual report; no asset coded [ST].

    official office record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated record claim

  18. Financial disclosure report for 2024 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Aug 13, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Annual report; no asset coded [ST].

    official office record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated record claim

  19. Financial disclosure report for 2025 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Aug 13, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Annual report; no asset coded [ST]. Lists funds and ETFs, and her spouse's privately held stock in High Street Insurance Partners ($1,000,001 to $5,000,000).

    official office record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated record claim

  20. Roll Call 280, H.R. 7008 final passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2026280

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Jul 22, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 7, 2026

    Official final-passage roll call. Hinson is recorded Yea; the bill passed 232 to 198.

    official legislative record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction

  21. H.R. 7008 as passed by the House, engrossed texthttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119hr7008eh/html/BILLS-119hr7008eh.htm

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Jul 22, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 7, 2026

    Official engrossed text. Section 3 requires voters to provide photo identification. Cited for the bill's contents, not for the vote.

    official legislative record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction

  22. H.R. 7008 cosponsorshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7008/cosponsors

    Congress.gov · Published Jan 12, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 8, 2026

    Hinson listed as cosponsor from 2026-01-12.

    official legislative record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction

  23. H.Res. 1263, prediction-market rule changehttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/1263

    Congress.gov · Published May 7, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 8, 2026

    Sponsored by Hinson; title: amending the Rules of the House to prohibit Members from entering into certain agreements, contracts, or transactions with respect to prediction markets.

    official legislative record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction

  24. Itemized receipts from committees, Josh Turek for Iowa (C00915645), 2025-2026https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?committee_id=C00915645&two_year_transaction_period=2026&contributor_type=committee

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 8, 2026

    Same method.

    fec filing

    For: Josh Turek: Matches stated record claim

  25. County Attorneyhttps://www.greenecounty.iowa.gov/pview.aspx?catid=0&id=15489

    Greene County, Iowa · Reviewed Sep 7, 2026

    Used for Laehn's current county-office role and, on cards where a county attorney has no comparable legislative action, as the record side.

    official office record

    For: Thomas Laehn: Not comparable yet

  26. Receipts, Thomas Laehn Exploratory Committee (C00872903), 2025-2026https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?committee_id=C00872903&two_year_transaction_period=2026

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 8, 2026

    Committee totals through 2026-06-30 from the OpenFEC totals endpoint.

    fec filing

    For: Thomas Laehn: Not comparable yet

  27. About Ashley Hinsonhttps://hinson.house.gov/about

    U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Sep 7, 2026

    Used for Hinson's current public-office role and for the biography's own claims about her record.

    official office record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated record claim

  28. H.R. 8544 (119th Congress), PURE Executive Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8544

    Congress.gov · Published Apr 28, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 8, 2026

    Sponsored by Hinson; official title establishes a 5-year post-employment lobbying ban on former senior executive branch personnel and a permanent ban on lobbying for foreign governments; one Democratic cosponsor; referred to the House Judiciary Committee 2026-04-28.

    official legislative record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated record claim

  29. H.R. 5594 (118th Congress), PURE Executive Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5594

    Congress.gov · Published Sep 20, 2023 · Reviewed Sep 8, 2026

    Sponsored by Hinson; same official title as H.R. 8544; one Republican cosponsor; referred to the House Judiciary Committee 2023-09-20.

    official legislative record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated record claim

  30. H.R. 1830 (117th Congress), PURE Executive Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1830

    Congress.gov · Published Mar 11, 2021 · Reviewed Sep 8, 2026

    Sponsored by Hinson; official title as H.R. 8544 but 'on behalf of foreign clients'; one Democratic and four Republican cosponsors; referred to the House Judiciary Committee 2021-03-11 and to its Constitution subcommittee 2021-05-18.

    official legislative record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated record claim

  31. H.R. 3049 (117th Congress), No Communist Countries Participating in Lobbying Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3049/cosponsors

    Congress.gov · Published May 7, 2021 · Reviewed Sep 8, 2026

    Cosponsored 2021-05-07; official title: to prohibit a former Member of Congress from making a lobbying contact on behalf of a client which is a Communist country; referred to a Judiciary subcommittee 2021-11-09.

    official legislative record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated record claim

  32. H.R. 1190 (118th Congress), Disclosing Foreign Influence in Lobbying Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1190/cosponsors

    Congress.gov · Published Feb 15, 2024 · Reviewed Sep 8, 2026

    Cosponsored 2024-02-15; official title: to clarify a provision relating to certain contents of lobbying registrations; referred to the House Judiciary Committee.

    official legislative record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated record claim

  33. H.R. 1883, Disclosing Foreign Influence in Lobbying Acthttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1883/cosponsors

    Congress.gov · Published Apr 30, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 8, 2026

    Cosponsored 2026-04-30; official title: to clarify a provision relating to certain contents of lobbying registrations; referred to the House Judiciary Committee 2025-03-05.

    official legislative record

    For: Ashley Hinson: Matches stated record claim

  34. H.F. 286 (2025), limiting campaign contributions to political committeeshttps://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?billName=HF286&ga=91

    Iowa Legislature · Published Feb 10, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 8, 2026

    By Turek; introduced and referred to State Government 2025-02-10, no later action.

    official legislative record

    For: Josh Turek: Matches stated record claim

  35. House File 288 bill history (2025)https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?billName=HF288&ga=91

    Iowa Legislature · Published Feb 10, 2025 · Reviewed Sep 8, 2026

    Limiting campaign contributions; by Turek; referred to State Government. H.F. 286 is the companion for political committees.

    official legislative record

    For: Josh Turek: Matches stated record claim

  36. House File 2430 bill history (2026)https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/billTracking/billHistory?billName=HF2430&ga=91

    Iowa Legislature · Published Feb 12, 2026 · Reviewed Sep 8, 2026

    Limiting individual campaign contributions; by Turek.

    official legislative record

    For: Josh Turek: Matches stated record claim