Priorities

Maggie was born on Election Day in Nashua – her hometown today and the city her family has called home for more than one hundred years. No one does democracy better than New Hampshire and no one takes freedom more seriously than Granite Staters. New Hampshire has made Maggie who she is today and growing up here taught Maggie that democracy isn’t something you watch from the sidelines – it is something you participate in.

Today, our democracy is under threat by an extreme movement in our politics, and Maggie has dedicated her career to protecting our democracy. She has served in all three branches of our government – as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve; as a lawyer in the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump; as a law clerk on the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Stephen Breyer; as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice; and in the Biden White House, where she led the Unity Agenda for the Nation. The Unity Agenda is centered around solving big challenges that unite all Americans and matter deeply to our democracy and here in the Granite State, including beating the opioid epidemic, tackling our mental health crisis, and fulfilling our sacred obligations to veterans.

Maggie is banned from Russia because of her work on a landmark sanctions law designed to impose sanctions on Vladimir Putin and his regime. And here at home, she has served as a professor of constitutional law at the University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth, as a lawyer in the fight for voting rights with the New Hampshire Campaign for Voting Rights, and on the boards of New Hampshire Legal Assistance, the New Hampshire Campaign for Legal Services, the New Hampshire Women’s Foundation, the New Hampshire World Affairs Council, and the Warren B. Rudman Center at UNH School of Law.

Maggie believes deep in her bones that no politician is above the law and that no corporation is above the law. She is proud to be the only candidate in this race who has never taken a dime of corporate PAC money. And on day one in Congress, Maggie is ready to fight for voting rights, campaign finance reform, fair maps, and critical reforms to ensure accountability across our federal government, including in our federal courts and in Congress where critical reforms to protect our democracy and restore faith in our government are urgently needed.

No one believes more deeply in freedom than we do here in the Live Free or Die Granite State. In Congress, Maggie will fight to restore, defend, and expand our basic freedoms – from the freedom to access the reproductive healthcare you need to the freedom to live as your authentic self. Because of her experience over the past 15 years, Maggie knows how to fight these fights and deliver for New Hampshire. She clerked on the U.S. Supreme Court; she has worked in both houses of the U.S. Congress; and she served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice.

The day Roe v. Wade was overturned, Maggie was working at the Justice Department and helped launch its Reproductive Rights Task Force to ensure patients and providers across America had access to the legal assistance they needed in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs. Like so many across New Hampshire and our nation, the fight for reproductive freedom is deeply personal for Maggie. Last year, she was almost 20 weeks pregnant when she and her husband Jake lost their son and struggled to access the healthcare they needed because of delays caused by the Dobbs decision. In Congress, Maggie will fight like hell to defend access to the full range of reproductive healthcare, including abortion, contraceptives, and IVF. You can read about Maggie’s reproductive freedom agenda here.

Maggie will stand up against discriminatory laws and make sure that no one is targeted because of who they love, how they identify, or the color of their skin. She has been proud to defend voting rights in New Hampshire and she believes deeply that our democracy depends on giving our kids a solid education. In Congress, Maggie will fight against book bans and for our teachers and our students.

Maggie believes deeply that Congress can and must be on the frontlines of the fight for ensuring a fair deal for all Granite Staters. The fight for a fair deal means protecting Social Security, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act. It means expanding access to affordable healthcare and prescription drugs, and making childcare, elder care, and housing more affordable. It means building a tax system that works for hardworking Granite Staters by delivering tax breaks for working families – not handouts to billionaires and big corporations. It means protecting the rights of workers, including to collectively bargain, and raising the minimum wage. It also means legalizing marijuana at the federal level and delivering meaningful and much-needed criminal justice reforms.

Maggie believes that healthcare is a right, not a privilege, and that mental healthcare is healthcare. Period. In Congress, Maggie will fight to make healthcare more affordable and accessible for all Americans, including by taking on big health insurers and Big Pharma.

The fight for a fair deal also means combating climate change, standing up to Big Oil, and working to make America the world’s clean energy superpower. Maggie believes deeply in advancing environmental justice and was proud to help to launch the Justice Department’s first-ever Office of Environmental Justice dedicated to protecting overburdened and underserved communities across America from the harm caused by pollution, environmental crimes, and the climate crisis. In Congress, Maggie will be on the frontlines of the fight against our climate crisis and work to close the tax loopholes that have allowed Big Oil to make record profits while hardworking people are facing record prices at the pumps.

The fight for a fair deal also requires taking on corporate special interests to lower costs for Granite Staters. As a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department, Maggie was on the frontlines of the fight against corporate monopolies that are making life harder for hardworking Granite Staters by jacking up the prices of housing, healthcare, prescription drugs, groceries, and airline tickets. Maggie is ready to bring that fight to Congress to restore competition across the American economy and to protect consumers, workers, small businesses, and family farmers across New Hampshire.

American companies are the most innovative in the world. Advancements in artificial intelligence and blockchain technology carry enormous promise. Artificial intelligence could help us meet some of our country’s biggest challenges – from the climate crisis to deadly diseases like cancer. Blockchain technologies and their applications could help empower Americans to be the true owners of our own data and be true stakeholders in the digital economy. But like most Granite Staters, Maggie is deeply concerned about the ways in which some in the tech industry have exploited sensitive personal data, put our children, consumers, and workers at risk, violated civil rights, and tilted the playing field to undermine competition and crush small businesses. We need to modernize our laws and regulations to empower the innovation that America needs to remain the global leader in the development of these important technologies – not countries like China or Russia.

In Congress, Maggie will be a leader in seizing the promise and managing the risks of these critical technologies, including by working to ensure federal laws and regulations are updated for the modern economy to protect American workers, consumers, and small businesses while ensuring that competition is protected across these industries so that innovation and economic opportunity for all Americans is possible.

Maggie is ready on day one in Congress to fight for a fair deal and deliver results on the priorities that matter most for New Hampshire. She is an independent leader who knows how to get things done. As a senior advisor in the United States Senate, Maggie was proud to help craft the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” comprehensive immigration reform bill that passed the Senate in 2012 and continues to be the framework for legislation to deliver a fairer immigration system that provides a path to citizenship for those already here, secures our borders, and curbs the flow of fentanyl across our border. We are facing the deadliest drug threat in our history – more Americans between the ages of 18 and 49 die from opioid overdoses than any other cause. In Congress, Maggie will fight to stop fentanyl from flowing into our communities, to bring to justice those who put it there, and to deliver life-saving medication and care across New Hampshire and our nation.