Candidate · November 3, 2026
Michael Dublin
On the ballot for U.S. Senate · North Carolina
- raised through Oct 14, 2026
- $28K
- cash on hand
- $2,996
- issues with public statements
- 20
§1On the ballot
Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.
| Office | U.S. Senate · North Carolina1, |
|---|---|
| Party on the ballot | Green Party1, |
| Status | Open seat — no incumbent is running for this seat. |
| Also on the ballot |
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§2Who they are
Why this matters: Background and experience help you judge how someone might do the job. These come from public records and the candidate's own materials.
Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.
Michael Dublin is a native North Carolinian and a recently retired public school teacher, and his campaign website describes him as a longtime community activist.4 He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1986 to 1988 and earned an undergraduate degree from North Carolina State University in 1999.5 His campaign website says he has led a prison ministry for more than two decades.4
Why they say they're running
His campaign website says he is running so that North Carolina's working families have a senator who answers to them rather than to corporate donors, and that his campaign refuses all corporate PAC money.4,
Websites and accounts
- Campaign websitedublinforcongress.com6
- Facebookfacebook.com/Dublin4Congress6
- Instagraminstagram.com/dublin4ncgp6
- YouTubeyoutube.com/@DublinForCongress6
§3What they've said on the issues
Why this matters: These are positions the candidate has stated publicly — on their campaign website or in public statements — summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Issues they haven't spoken about publicly are left out.
Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.
Each issue has its own range of views. A position is marked on that range only when the candidate's own statement clearly matches one option; there is no overall left–right score.
Elections and Government Reform
His campaign website calls for overturning the Citizens United decision and passing comprehensive campaign finance reform.7
- Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
- Keep spending unlimited but require groups to name their major donors
- Keep current rules
- Raise or remove limits on donations to candidates and parties
His campaign website says he would work to end gerrymandering.7
Courts, Rights and Civil Liberties
His campaign website says he would protect and expand voting rights and work to end voter suppression.7
Energy and Climate
His platform supports banning new oil and gas drilling and a planned transition to 100% renewable energy.8
- Stop or sharply limit new leases
- Continue leasing, but keep some coastlines and wildlife areas off-limits
- Lease more federal land and offshore areas for drilling
His platform opposes the expansion of data centers and supports a moratorium on building new ones.8
- Encourage new data centers with tax breaks and faster approvals
- Require data centers to pay the full cost of the power plants and lines they need
- Pause or limit new data centers
Health Care
His platform supports free, high-quality health care for all, and bringing drug companies and for-profit hospitals under public ownership so that care costs patients nothing.8
- One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
- Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
- Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
- Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals
Family and Social Policy
His platform supports 12 months of paid parental leave.8
Economy, Jobs and Trade
His platform supports raising the federal minimum wage to $25 an hour, adjusted each year for the cost of living.8
- Keep at $7.25 or leave to states
- Raise it to less than $15, such as $10 or $12
- Raise to $15 or more
Social Security and Medicare
His platform opposes any cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid and supports substantially increasing their benefits.8
- Increase benefits, for example with larger yearly cost-of-living raises
- Keep the current benefit formula
- Slow benefit growth for higher earners or future retirees
Housing
His platform supports universal rent control and a large expansion of publicly owned, permanently affordable housing.8
- Freeze rents or keep yearly increases low, as in traditional rent control
- Cap only large yearly increases, such as those above 10%
- No caps on rent increases
His platform calls for ending the criminalization of homelessness.8
Abortion and Reproductive Health
His platform supports the right to choose whether and when to have children, including free, safe, legal and accessible abortion.8
His platform supports free contraceptives.8
Crime, Policing and Prisons
His platform supports abolishing the death penalty.8
- Use it more often or for more crimes (for example, child rape or drug trafficking)
- Keep it as current law allows
- Pause executions (a moratorium)
- Abolish it
Immigration
His platform supports abolishing ICE and ending immigrant detention and deportations.8
- Abolish ICE and move any remaining enforcement work to other agencies
- Deport only people convicted of serious crimes or who threaten national security
- Focus on people with criminal records and recent border crossers
- Deport as many people here without legal permission as possible, with or without criminal records
His platform supports immediate, unconditional legal status and equal rights for all immigrants who are in the country without permission.8
Foreign Policy and Defense
His platform supports sharply cutting the U.S. military budget and redirecting the money to health care, public education and affordable housing.7,
- Increase military spending
- Hold it near current levels, adjusted for inflation
- Cut military spending
His platform supports abolishing NATO and other alliances it calls imperialist.8
- Keep the full US commitment to defend all NATO allies, and keep US forces in Europe
- Stay in NATO, but tie US support to allies meeting their defense spending pledges
- Stay in NATO, but bring many US troops home and have European allies lead their own defense
- Leave NATO
Agriculture and Rural Life
His platform says he supports animal rights and has signed the Green Party Animal Rights Committee's candidate pledge.8
§4Money
Why this matters: Campaigns report where their money comes from and how much they have left. Outside groups that spend on their own, without coordinating with the campaign, report that too.
Reported to the Federal Election Commission for the 2025–2026 election cycle, through October 14, 2026.9
| Raised | $28,231 |
|---|---|
| Spent | $26,976 |
| Cash on hand | $2,996 |
| Debts owed by the campaign | $20,000 |
Where the money came from
§5Financial disclosures
Why this matters: Federal candidates and members of Congress must report their assets, income, debts and outside jobs, and members must report stock trades. These filings show possible conflicts of interest.
Senate candidates and senators file with the Senate's own disclosure system, which asks each visitor to agree to its terms before searching, so we can't link straight to a filing. You can search for Michael Dublin at efdsearch.senate.gov10.