Lauren Pinkston

Her campaign website says she opposes creating a Tennessee state income tax.⁶

1. Add or raise taxes on the highest incomes (for example, a tax on income over $1 million)
2. Keep current rates
3. Cut rates or move to a single flat rate
4. Phase out the state income tax

Her campaign website says she supports eliminating the grocery tax, paid for by closing business tax loopholes and keeping shoppers in Tennessee's border counties.⁶

1. Lower sales tax rates or stop taxing necessities such as groceries
2. Keep current sales taxes
3. Raise sales taxes or apply them to more goods and services, to replace other taxes or fund state programs

Her campaign website supports fully funding programs that freeze property taxes for low-income seniors and capping how much cities can raise property tax revenue each year.⁶

1. Eliminate property taxes on primary homes
2. Cap yearly increases or expand homeowner exemptions
3. No new state caps or exemptions; leave property taxes to local governments

Her campaign website says she would end the 2025 school voucher program and move its money to early childhood education, while expanding vouchers for students with needs that mainstream classrooms cannot meet.⁶

1. Make them available to every family
2. Offer them only to some students, such as those from low-income families or with disabilities
3. No public money for private school or homeschooling costs

Her campaign website says Tennessee ranks last in per-pupil funding and that she would invest in public schools and better fund teacher and paraprofessional salaries.⁶

1. Increase state funding for public schools
2. Hold funding near current levels
3. Reduce state school funding or slow its growth

Her campaign website says she would add 50,000 daycare and preschool slots by 2030 using money now spent on private school vouchers.⁶

Her campaign website opposes restrictions on using SNAP benefits for foods such as snacks or sodas and supports bringing back summer EBT funding.⁶

Her campaign website supports protecting the right of adults to marry the partner they love, while letting clergy decline to perform weddings that conflict with their beliefs.⁶

1. Keep same-sex marriage legal in every state
2. Let each state decide whether to allow it
3. Recognize only marriages between one man and one woman

Her campaign website says she would work with Tennessee banks to expand loan access and lower down payments for first-time buyers.⁶

Her campaign website proposes pilot housing programs for people experiencing homelessness in up to three communities, modeled on a tiny home community in Austin, Texas.⁶

Her campaign website calls for a statewide moratorium on new data center construction until the Legislature sets siting standards for water use, distance from schools and community input.⁶

1. Encourage new data centers with tax breaks and faster approvals
2. Require data centers to pay the full cost of the power plants and lines they need
3. Pause or limit new data centers

Her campaign website supports a move toward more nuclear power and renewable energy.⁶

Her campaign website says companies that profit from selling Tennesseans' personal data should share that revenue with residents and disclose what they collect, and calls for closing loopholes in the state's data privacy law.⁶

Her campaign website supports the federal Take It Down Act and wants laws banning deepfakes that use someone's name, image or likeness without consent.⁶

1. Require government testing or licenses for the most powerful AI systems before they are released
2. Set rules for specific risks and uses, such as deepfakes, hiring decisions and safety disclosures
3. Rely mainly on existing laws, without new rules written for AI

Her campaign website supports no social media before age 16 and phone-free schools for the whole school day.⁶

1. Bar children under a set age, such as 16, from having social media accounts, with age checks
2. Require safer designs and settings for minors, and parental consent for younger users
3. Leave it to parents, with no new government requirements on apps

Her campaign website supports exploring a statewide passenger rail system connecting Memphis to Bristol and Nashville to Chattanooga.⁶

Her campaign website supports a regulated medical cannabis program.⁶

Her campaign website supports an independent commission to draw district maps.⁶

1. Have independent commissions, not lawmakers, draw district lines
2. Let legislatures draw the lines, but only once a decade after the census
3. Let legislatures draw and redraw the lines when they choose

Her campaign website supports repealing Tennessee's ban on ranked-choice voting so the state and local governments can choose to use it.⁶

1. Use ranked-choice voting in more elections
2. Let each state or city decide
3. Ban ranked-choice voting

Her campaign website says Tennessee should have refused to turn over its voter records to the U.S. Department of Justice in 2026.⁶

1. Give the federal government full voter lists, including private details, for eligibility checks
2. Share only the voter information already open to the public, such as names and addresses
3. Decline federal requests for voter list data and leave list checks to the states

Her campaign website says she would remove barriers that keep new voters, including students and military members, from voting absentee.⁶

Her campaign website says Tennessee should follow states like Hawaii in using public financing of campaigns.⁶

Her campaign website says she wants to close the gap that lets private sellers sell guns without a background check.⁶

1. Require checks for all gun sales, including private sales (with exceptions such as gifts between family members)
2. Require checks for private sales at gun shows and online, but not other private sales
3. Keep current law, with checks required only for sales by licensed dealers

Her campaign website opposes legislation forcing all local law enforcement to join ICE's 287(g) program, and says she will not coordinate with federal agencies that violate the Constitution.⁶

Her campaign website says she would protect LGBTQ+ Tennesseans from discrimination in employment, while letting faith-based nonprofits set hiring policies consistent with their beliefs.⁶

Her campaign website supports repealing Tennessee's abortion ban and replacing it with a law that includes protections in cases such as lethal fetal anomalies, rape, incest and trafficking.⁶

Her campaign website supports full access to contraception and fertility treatments such as IVF, and says she would veto legislation restricting access to contraceptives.⁶

Her campaign website says she affirms the Supreme Court decision that allowed Tennessee to ban transgender surgeries for people under 18, and would repeal the state's registry of people seeking gender-affirming care.⁶