Policy Positions
Positions as of June 6, 2026, extracted from source websites.
Climate(2)
Supports the Green New Deal, including transitioning to clean renewable energy and expanding clean energy jobs.
"Green New Deal. Increase jobs in clean energy and manufacturing, decrease pollution. Transition to clean, renewable energy; public transit expansion."
Supports regulating AI's environmental impact as part of broader environmental concerns.
"Regulate AI. AI is powerful....sometimes too powerful. We can't let it cause more issues than it solves....AND we must minimize its impacts on the environment."
Economy(4)
Supports paid sick, family, maternity, and paternity leave and expanding the duration of each.
"Paid sick, family, maternity, paternity leave and expand duration of each."
Supports establishing a national minimum wage.
"She supports a national minimum wage, targeted relief for unavoidable costs, and ending the tariff whiplash that has made financial planning impossible for NC-10 families and small businesses."
Opposes erratic tariff policy, describing it as 'tariff whiplash' that harms families and small businesses.
"ending the tariff whiplash that has made financial planning impossible for NC-10 families and small businesses."
Supports increasing jobs in clean energy and manufacturing as part of the Green New Deal.
"Green New Deal. Increase jobs in clean energy and manufacturing, decrease pollution. Transition to clean, renewable energy; public transit expansion."
Education(5)
Supports paying teachers higher wages commensurate with their worth.
"Ashley believes in fully funding public schools, paying teachers what they're worth."
Supports paying teachers competitive wages.
"Ashley believes in fully funding public schools, paying teachers what they're worth, and making sure tax dollars go to accountable institutions that serve all students."
Supports accessible pathways including four-year degrees, trade certifications, and professional training for all Americans.
"Every American deserves a path forward — whether that's a four-year degree, a trade certification, or professional training."
Supports loan forgiveness as part of expanded veterans' benefits.
"She supports expanding existing benefits, adding loan forgiveness, strengthening access to mental health care, and providing living stipends and childcare assistance for veterans and their families."
Implies skepticism of unaccountable institutions receiving tax dollars, suggesting conditional opposition to vouchers for non-accountable schools.
"making sure tax dollars go to accountable institutions that serve all students."
Guns(2)
Supports the Second Amendment while also supporting common sense gun reform.
"We support the 2nd amendment, but we don't support gun violence."
Supports common sense gun reform measures.
"Common sense gun reform. We support the 2nd amendment, but we don't support gun violence."
Healthcare(20)
Supports protecting reproductive healthcare and expanding access to contraception.
"Ashley will fight to protect reproductive rights, expand access to contraception, and defend women's voting rights."
Supports universal healthcare coverage and decoupling health benefits from employment.
"Ashley supports universal healthcare coverage, untethering benefits from employment, and putting medical decisions back in the hands of patients and the clinicians who actually treat them."
Supports expanded Medicaid access, particularly for people with disabilities.
"She supports full ADA enforcement, expanded Medicaid access, and employment protections that allow every American to contribute on their own terms."
Ashley opposes insurance company abuses such as prior authorization delays and denials of medically necessary care, advocating for legislative reform.
"Ashley will legislate to end prior authorization abuse, ban coverage denials for medically necessary care, and hold insurance companies accountable to the patients they're supposed to serve."
Supports expanding mental health care access for veterans.
"She supports expanding existing benefits, adding loan forgiveness, strengthening access to mental health care, and providing living stipends and childcare assistance for veterans and their families."
Supports targeted relief for prescription drug costs, noting patients ration insulin due to unaffordability.
"Groceries, rent, prescriptions, childcare — everything costs more, and wages haven't kept up. Ashley sees this in her patients every day. She supports a national minimum wage, targeted relief for unavoidable costs."
Ashley supports targeted relief for prescription drug costs, citing patients who ration insulin as an example of systemic failure.
"Groceries, rent, prescriptions, childcare — everything costs more, and wages haven't kept up. Ashley sees this in her patients every day. She supports a national minimum wage, targeted relief for unavoidable costs"
Supports affordable prescription drug access, referencing patients who ration insulin due to cost.
"As a practicing PA, Ashley has sat across from patients who ration insulin, skip follow-up appointments, or delay care because they can't afford it."
Highlights patients rationing insulin due to cost as a key motivator, implying support for affordable drug access.
"Ashley has sat across from patients who ration insulin, skip follow-up appointments, or delay care because they can't afford it."
Endorsed by 'Mental Health Now' advocacy organization, signaling alignment with mental health policy priorities.
"Mental Health Now — Powered by inseparable action"
Opposes corporate influence shaping the healthcare system at the expense of patients and providers.
"She knows the system isn't failing by accident - it's been shaped by corporate interests at the expense of patients and providers alike."
No explicit position on the ACA is stated; healthcare advocacy is framed around universal coverage and insurance reform rather than the ACA specifically.
"Ashley supports universal healthcare coverage, untethering benefits from employment, and putting medical decisions back in the hands of patients and the clinicians who actually treat them. No one should go broke getting healthy."
No explicit position on the ACA is stated on this page.
"The system isn't failing by accident - it's been shaped by corporate interests at the expense of patients and providers alike."
No explicit position stated on the ACA specifically.
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Immigration(5)
Opposes current ICE enforcement system, citing family separations, detention of US citizens, and inadequate oversight.
"The current immigration enforcement system has failed — separating families, detaining US citizens, and operating without adequate oversight. That is not security. That is dysfunction."
Supports replacing ICE with an accountable agency focused on genuine public safety threats while maintaining secure borders.
"Ashley supports replacing ICE with a professional, accountable agency focused on genuine public safety threats, with full due process protections for everyone. Humane enforcement and secure borders are not mutually exclusive."
Supports full due process protections for everyone in the immigration system.
"Ashley supports replacing ICE with a professional, accountable agency focused on genuine public safety threats, with full due process protections for everyone."
Supports secure borders but through humane enforcement and a reformed, accountable agency rather than current ICE practices.
"Humane enforcement and secure borders are not mutually exclusive."
Endorsed by 'Melt ICE,' a grassroots organization opposed to ICE enforcement, suggesting opposition to aggressive deportation policy.
"Melt ICE — grassroots organization"
Social Issues(5)
Supports full legal equality for LGBTQ+ Americans and opposes legislation that treats them as second-class citizens.
"Ashley will oppose any legislation that treats LGBTQ+ Americans as second-class citizens and support full legal equality under the law."
Supports protecting reproductive rights and expanding access to contraception.
"Ashley will fight to protect reproductive rights, expand access to contraception, and defend women's voting rights."
Supports women's control over their own healthcare decisions and reproductive rights.
"Every woman deserves control over her own healthcare decisions, her own body, and her own future. Ashley will fight to protect reproductive rights, expand access to contraception, and defend women's voting rights."
Implicitly supports LGBTQ+ rights through selling Pride merchandise and receiving endorsement from Equality NC, an LGBTQ advocacy organization.
"LIMITED EDITION RAINBOW GLITTER PRIDE T-SHIRTS! ... Equality NC — ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION"
Ashley's campaign is endorsed by Equality NC, an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, and sells Pride merchandise, signaling support for LGBTQ+ rights.
"LIMITED EDITION RAINBOW GLITTER PRIDE T-SHIRTS!"