Ashley Hinson
Her campaign says she supports banning members of Congress from individual-stock trading and prediction-market betting, plus new lobbying restrictions.
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Campaign positions remain attributed. Official actions are shown separately, with narrow relationship labels and limits.
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Campaign positions
What each campaign says.
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.
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Evidence timeline
Where statements meet the record.
official action
Ashley Hinson: Matches stated direction
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.
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Josh Turek: Matches stated record claim
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.
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Thomas Laehn: Not comparable yet
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.
official action
Ashley Hinson: Matches stated record claim
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.
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Josh Turek: Matches stated record claim
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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