Candidate Positions 2026

Incumbents. Elected individually. Running on the same basic platform.

Affordability
Cut taxes more than 7 times
Expanded workforce development programs
Cut child care and education costs
Data Centers
Executive Order demanding data center developers comply with strict requirements and blocking speculative, irresponsible data center projects, establishing strict guardrails for data center development.
See Press release See Executive Order
Introduced accountability (GRID) standards to establish best practices that data centers must comply with to receive support from PA
Energy Affordability
Transparency & Community Engagement
Workforce & Economic Development
Environmental Protection
Healthcare
Exec. Order to safeguard vaccine access
Secured funding for high-quality healthcare/low cost prescriptions
Prioritized funding for recovery support & workforce shortages
Housing
Exec. Order to create PA’s 1st Housing Action Plan to address shortage, homelessness, and expand affordable, accessible housing options
Invested in projects & programs to create >1400 new residential units in PA
Governor Shapiro’s Housing Action Plan
Education
Increased funding to public schools by 35 percent (basic & special education)
Student Teacher Stipend to encourage & enable more educators
Established new State Board of Higher Education to prioritize higher ed
Elections
Executive order brought automatic voter registration to the state, directed PennDOT to change its voter registration process to one where prospective voters are automatically taken through the process unless they opt out.
Appointed Secretary of Commonwealth Al Schmidt, a Republican and the former Philadelphia city commissioner who stood up to Trump’s claims of election fraud in 2020.
Refused to turn over a version of the state’s voter roll that includes driver’s license and partial Social Security numbers to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Reproductive Rights
Supporter of preserving that status quo, promising to veto any legislation that would further restrict access.
Joining a suit against a federal court’s decision to ban the mailing of abortion medication.
Ended the state’s decades-old contract with a nonprofit that counsels women against abortion and directs them to alternatives.

https://joshshapiro.org/
Spotlight PA has published a number of articles comparing Democratic Candidate Josh Shapiro and Republican Candidate Stacy Garrity. Links to those articles on 2026 Election in the Media page

President, PA State Professional Fire Fighters Association, Bethlehem fire fighter for 20 years, retired
Affordability
Raise minimum wage
Billionaire minimum tax and repeal Trump’s billionaire tax breaks
Reduce utility costs by bringing back renewables (wind and solar) cut by Trump, invest in new nuclear and natural gas power plants, and crack down on price-gouging utility monopolies.
Cut cost of child care
Protect social security. Will sign on to the Medicare and Social Security Fair Share Act
Data Centers
Pledges to curb the growth of warehouses and support local elected officials who want to ensure corporations give back to the communities they profit off of and preserve farmland
Education
Supports universal K/Pre-K
Restore / Expand HeadStart funding
Fund public schools not in favor of school vouchers
Bring down college tuition, fund apprenticeships & vocational programs
Elections
Repeal Citizens United and take our elections back from the 1%.
Ban corporate PAC money from politics
Term limits. No more lifetime politicians.
Healthcare
Restore the cuts to Medicaid and provide Medicare for All.
Will work to bring down drug prices, expand coverage, and increase doctors / clinics
Housing
Build more starter homes
Pass the HELPER Act to extend VA-style home loans to teachers, nurses and first responders
Crack down on corporate landlords & rent gouging
Ban private equity from buying up tons of houses
Immigration
Secure the border. Improve the immigration system. Make the citizenship process more efficient.
Reproductive Rights
Codify Roe v. Wade in the constitution and pass legislation to overturn Trump abortion bans in red states. If you need care, everyone deserves the same access, the same protections, and the same rights.

https://brooksforcongress.com/issues/

Incumbent, First elected in 2022 — Senate Democratic Caucus Policy Chair. Chair of Communications & Technology, serves on Community, Economic, and Recreational Development, Rules & Executive Nominations, Transportation, Urban Affairs & Housing committees.

Affordability
Advocates investing in and supporting small businesses and Main Streets. Attracting and retaining businesses of any size by providing a good quality of life for families, supporting initiatives that make life affordable, backing unions, and advocating for wages that sustain families and attracting new economic opportunities to PA.
● Minimum wage increase – $15 by 1/1/29
● Nutrition Assistance, SNAP supplement, universal school breakfast and lunch, Food Bucks, increased commitment to the State Food Purchase Program and PA Ag Surplus Program
● Intervene on utility rate increases
● Fund Public Transit to help with gas costs
● Implement the Lightning Plan to modernize energy efficiency
See PA Senate Democrats Affordability Action Plan for more details.
Community Safety
Supports investing in local law enforcement and expanding mental health and crisis-response resources. Committed to ensuring every resident feels safe at home, at work, and in their neighborhood by focusing on prevention, accountability, and community trust. Has championed a series of grants to promote the development of downtown Allentown, including securing funding to implement new programming and improvements for pedestrian safety.
Data Centers
Has taken a leading role in pressing for statewide guardrails, transparency, and public hearings regarding the rapid growth of AI and industrial data centers and their strain on local energy grids. Has publicly urged Senate leadership to schedule votes on bipartisan data center regulations, emphasizing that unmonitored development should not drive up utility bills or strain resources for everyday Pennsylvanians.
Healthcare
Supports the PA Senate Democrats Affordability Action Plan for Healthcare:
● Enshrine ACA protections
● Protect and expanding access to healthcare (Senate Bill 322)
● Address nursing shortage
See links above for more details
Housing
Supports the PA Senate Democrats Affordability Action Plan for Housing:
● Expand Property Tax & Rent Rebate Program
● Make solar more attainable for homeowners
● Implement Governor Shapiro’s Housing Action Plan
● Implement Governor Shapiro’s Lightning Plan
● Establishing the Put Down Roots PA Pilot Program (Senate Bill 753)
See links above for more details
Education
Ensuring every child has access to a great education starts with providing adequate funding to all public schools in PA. Helped deliver major investments to Lehigh Valley’s historically underfunded public schools. This year’s budget includes $565 million in new adequacy funding—a formula designed to direct more state dollars to school districts that have gone the longest without the resources they need.
Reproductive Rights
Has voted to protect reproductive rights. “Access to all healthcare services—including reproductive services—is essential to ensure equity. In Harrisburg, I will oppose any attempts to limit or infringe on the right to choose.” May 2026, Senator Miller and Senator Pennycuick (R-24) introduced a Measure to Require Insurance Coverage for Fertility Preservation for Women Undergoing Cancer Treatment. (SB1315)

https://nickmillerforpa.com/

Affordability
● Raise minimum wage
● Push to standardize property assessments, ensuring that wealthy homeowners pay their fair share, while easing pressure from school taxes.
● Require every PPL rate increase to justify itself in plain numbers before it takes effect
Data Centers
● Moratorium on data centers to give the State Legislature time to pass laws to require data centers to pay for grid upgrades, force public hearings before electricity rates go up, and make regulators answer to PA families instead of utility shareholders.
Healthcare
● Fight to protect Medicaid and reduce costs by requiring real price transparency from healthcare providers, capping out-of-pocket costs for essential drugs, and cutting out middle men that drive up drug prices
● Use the state budget to protect home healthcare, nursing homes, and rural hospitals
Housing
● Ensure that low-income Pennsylvanians get access to the housing made for them and that middle-income Pennsylvanians can stay in their homes by reducing our reliance on property and school taxes
Education
● Increase funding to our schools so that our children have access to a quality education with enough well-paid teachers, supplies, and safe buildings while easing the pressure of local property taxes
Environment
● Raise clean energy standards and build renewables, battery storage, and grid upgrades with apprenticeship-backed trades jobs.
● Make sure polluters don’t leave communities holding the bill.
Reproductive Rights
● Write reproductive freedom into Pennsylvania law
● Protect access to contraception, and expand access to IVF.
● Codify reproductive and adoption rights for LGBTQ+ Pennsylvanians into law.

https://votemarkpinsley.com/issues/

Incumbent.  House Majority Whip — the number-three position in the House Democratic Caucus. A proven bipartisan problem-solver, not a partisan bystander.
Brought home millions for the Valley — including the Waterfront redevelopment, grants for Coca-Cola Park and the Da Vinci Science Center, affordable housing, trails, and new equipment for first responders.
Affordability
● Raise the minimum wage on a path to $15
● Guarantee paid sick days for workers
● Lower property taxes by funding schools
● Bring down energy and utility bills
● Push back on tariff-driven price hikes
Community Safety
● Universal background checks
● Red-flag protections
● Ban untraceable ghost guns
● Safe storage and school safety
Data Centers
Voted YES on six different bills designed to protect communities. Supports Governor Shapiro’s efforts to enact real restrictions on data-center development.
● Ensuring that data centers must bring their own power and cannot pass along energy costs to the consumers.
● Guaranteeing transparency for water use, environmental standards, labor protections, and more.
● Guaranteeing local governments have the right to enact moratoriums to update their zoning and stop speculative developers from harming communities.
● Increasing the PUC’s ability to regulate these centers.
● Banning the use of non-disclosure agreements.
Healthcare
Reached across the aisle to strengthen Pennsylvania’s vaccination standards and to study and address the state’s looming doctor shortage — so every Pennsylvanian who needs care can get it. Co-founded the Mental Health Caucus, led the push for new state mental-health funding, passed bills removing insurance barriers to care, and co-chaired the Governor’s Suicide Prevention Task Force.
● Lower premiums and drug costs
● Protect Medicaid & the ACA from cuts
● Save our rural hospitals
● Win new funding for mental-health care
Jobs and Wages
● Grow manufacturing and good jobs
● Expand career & technical training
● Protect union wages and organizing
● Crack down on wage theft

Education
Helped secure record state funding for Parkland and Allentown — funding new facilities while restoring expanding full-day kindergarten. Fully funding our schools is the surest way to slow skyrocketing property taxes.
● Close the court-ordered adequacy gap
● Free breakfast & lunch for every student
● Raise teacher pay and shrink classes
● Invest from pre-K through the trades

Elections
● Protect and expand the freedom to vote
● Fair maps & an end to gerrymandering
● Defend honest, accurate elections
● Same-day and automatic registration

Equality
● Full legal protection for LGBTQ Pennsylvanians
● Ban discrimination in jobs & housing
● Protect LGBTQ youth
● Defend hard-won rights

Reproductive Rights
● Protect the right to choose
● Defend access to reproductive care
● Block any abortion ban in Pennsylvania
● Fight for pay equity

Security for Seniors
● Expand the Property Tax & Rent Rebate
● Lower prescription costs through PACE
● Protect public pensions
● Strengthen in-home & community care

https://www.voteschlossberg.com/ “Where he stands” tab

Affordability
● Support our local Main Streets
● Focus on grant-writing to reduce the constant tax hikes we face
● Make the groceries we are growing in our backyards affordable and accessible to our community
Data Centers
● Data centers do not belong in our residential neighborhoods. They cause variety of damage to our community, to our pocketbooks, and to our health.
Healthcare
● Get ahold of our healthcare and make it accessible to us when we need it.
● Improve our healthcare: lower the costs, improve the efficiency, and cull out insurance
Housing
● Fight the big real estate developers who are building houses that are bigger and more expensive
Landlords and HOAs are forcing lower-paying tenants and owners out of their homes through improper means
Education
● Prioritize equitable funding for every public school in the district
● Support teachers and staff
● Ensure that every child has access to a quality education regardless of zip code
Reproductive Rights
● The government does not belong in our homes, our bedrooms, our bodies and our doctors’ offices.

https://www.dkt4pa.com/key-priorities

Rachel’s campaign is about protecting what makes our communities strong while planning responsibly for the future.
Affordability
Every family here should have access to the resources they need to thrive — to succeed, feel secure, and enjoy being part of our community.


Data Centers
Protecting farmland and open space is a priority.
Supports responsible zoning coordination and stronger community engagement in land-use decisions that affect quality of life.
Advocates for traffic planning, infrastructure investment, environmental protections, and local input before large projects move forward.

Healthcare
Committed to protecting access to health care.
Pennsylvania must be prepared to protect patients, support hospitals and nursing homes, and maintain access to care for seniors, children, and working families.
https://voterachelcuevas.com/2026/04/09/healthcare-access-4/

Housing

Education
Supports strong public schools, support for teachers, and practical investments that improve student outcomes while keeping communities informed and involved.
Quality Pre-K, Early Head Start, childcare for working parents.
After-school programs, summer camps, mentoring for children and teens.Support for kids with special needs, tutoring programs, and library reading initiatives.

Elections
Supports creating an independent citizens redistricting commission in Pennsylvania. 

Reproductive Rights

https://voterachelcuevas.com/2026/03/28/i-am-listening/