Lydia Christensen

Her campaign website says she would push for federal legalization of cannabis and psilocybin, with worker safety protections.⁴

1. Keep recreational use against the law
2. Reduce penalties for having small amounts, without legal sales
3. Let each state decide, with no federal penalties where a state allows it
4. Make it legal for adults to buy and use

Her campaign website says she opposes the death penalty.⁴

1. Use it more often or for more crimes (for example, child rape or drug trafficking)
2. Keep it as current law allows
3. Pause executions (a moratorium)
4. Abolish it

Her campaign website says she would end qualified immunity so people can hold the government accountable when their rights are violated.⁴

1. End qualified immunity for police officers
2. Keep qualified immunity as courts apply it now
3. Write qualified immunity into federal law

Her campaign website says she would end federal income tax on earnings under $150,000 a year as a step toward eliminating the federal income tax.⁴

Her campaign website says she supports removing tariffs and other government barriers to trade.⁴

1. Lower or remove most tariffs
2. Targeted tariffs on some countries or goods
3. Broad tariffs on most imports

Her campaign website says she would raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.⁴

1. Keep at $7.25 or leave to states
2. Raise it to less than $15, such as $10 or $12
3. Raise to $15 or more

Her campaign website says she supports faster nuclear licensing without cutting safety, and equal tax treatment for every energy source.⁴

Her campaign website says she supports data centers on the condition that Michigan, not the industry, sets the terms.⁴

Her campaign website says she would fight warrantless surveillance of Americans' communications.⁴

Her campaign website says she would restore federal preclearance through the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.⁴

1. Restore and widen protections by law, such as federal approval of voting changes in places with a history of discrimination (for example, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act)
2. Keep current law, as the Supreme Court read it in 2026, without the federal approval requirement
3. Stop applying the law to how district maps are drawn

Her campaign website says she would fight to pass the Equality Act.⁴

1. Pass broad protections such as the Equality Act
2. Add protections with broad exemptions for religious groups and businesses
3. No new federal protections; leave it to the states

Her campaign website says the power to declare war belongs to Congress, and that she would vote for binding resolutions to end unauthorized hostilities and oppose using old war authorizations for new conflicts.⁴

Her campaign website says she would vote against continued military aid to Israel until compliance is independently verified, and would push to enforce existing human rights law.⁴

1. Increase military aid to Israel
2. Keep military aid at current levels, without new conditions
3. Attach conditions, such as limits on how US weapons are used and requirements to let humanitarian aid into Gaza
4. Reduce or end military aid to Israel

Her campaign website says she would end Citizens United.⁴

1. Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
2. Keep spending unlimited but require groups to name their major donors
3. Keep current rules
4. Raise or remove limits on donations to candidates and parties

Her campaign website says she would oppose new voting documentation requirements that most citizens do not have on hand.⁴

Her campaign website says she opposes any national ban on ranked-choice voting and would leave the choice to states and voters.⁴

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

Her campaign website says she supports Medicaid for All, an opt-in public plan for citizens and legal residents with premiums capped by income and free below a set threshold.⁴

1. One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
2. Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
3. Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
4. Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals

Her campaign website says government should get out of licensing marriage and that until then she would defend equal marriage rights for everyone under federal law.⁴

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 the decision to continue or end a pregnancy belongs to the pregnant person and that she would write the right to abortion up to viability into law.⁴

1. Legal only to save the pregnant woman's life
2. Legal only in cases of rape or incest, or to save the woman's life
3. Legal early in pregnancy only, up to a limit such as 6, 12 or 15 weeks
4. Legal until about 24 weeks, as under Roe v. Wade, and later to protect the woman's life or health
5. Legal at every stage, with no limit based on weeks of pregnancy

Her campaign website says she would write a right to abortion up to viability into federal law and protect the right to travel for care.⁴

1. A national law making abortion legal in every state, at least until viability, as under Roe v. Wade
2. Leave abortion law to each state
3. A national law limiting abortion (for example, after 15 weeks of pregnancy)

Her campaign website says she opposes fetal personhood laws that criminalize miscarriage, IVF or contraception.⁴

Her campaign website says she would restore co-management agreements with tribal nations, make tribal consultation mandatory and binding, and protect treaty rights.⁴

Her campaign website says she would push for a permanent solution for Dreamers, including a path to citizenship.⁴

Her campaign website says she would work to abolish ICE and replace it with a fair immigration system.⁴

1. Abolish ICE and move any remaining enforcement work to other agencies
2. Deport only people convicted of serious crimes or who threaten national security
3. Focus on people with criminal records and recent border crossers
4. Deport as many people here without legal permission as possible, with or without criminal records

Her campaign website says she supports federal investment in fiber-optic broadband for everyone.⁴

Her campaign website says she would pass a rapid rehousing program to get people off the streets quickly, funded by capping the Pentagon budget, and fund zoning reform and credits for homebuyers and builders.⁴