LGBTQ+ Rights
Does not seek to legislate on same-sex marriage
“Same-sex marriage is currently the law of the land, and I do not have any interest in legislating the relationships of consenting adults.”
Republican
Illinois
Key dates
Full six-year term
Republican
Illinois
Key dates
Full six-year term
LGBTQ+ Rights
“Same-sex marriage is currently the law of the land, and I do not have any interest in legislating the relationships of consenting adults.”
Government Operations
“I do not support eliminating the filibuster. The Senate was designed to encourage debate, compromise, and stability.”
Reproductive Health
“Like Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, therefore, I believe we must abide by the US Constitution and leave it to states to decide abortion issues.”
Immigration
“We need to secure the border, stop illegal crossings, and end taxpayer-funded benefits for non-citizens. From there, Congress should pursue common sense reforms, such as streamlining legal pathways, enforcing workplace laws, and ensuring our economy has the workforce it needs without undercutting American workers.”
Business & Economy
Don supports an all-of-the-above, common sense energy approach that lowers costs, protects energy independence, and supports a responsible clean energy future.
Health Care
Families need relief from rising insurance premiums and prescription prices. Don supports greater price transparency, more competition, and reforms that bring down health care costs for everyday Illinoisans.
LGBTQ+ Rights
“Same-sex marriage is currently the law of the land, and I do not have any interest in legislating the relationships of consenting adults.”
Government Operations
“I do not support eliminating the filibuster. The Senate was designed to encourage debate, compromise, and stability.”
Reproductive Health
“Like Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, therefore, I believe we must abide by the US Constitution and leave it to states to decide abortion issues.”
Immigration
“We need to secure the border, stop illegal crossings, and end taxpayer-funded benefits for non-citizens. From there, Congress should pursue common sense reforms, such as streamlining legal pathways, enforcing workplace laws, and ensuring our economy has the workforce it needs without undercutting American workers.”
Business & Economy
Don supports an all-of-the-above, common sense energy approach that lowers costs, protects energy independence, and supports a responsible clean energy future.
Health Care
Families need relief from rising insurance premiums and prescription prices. Don supports greater price transparency, more competition, and reforms that bring down health care costs for everyday Illinoisans.
The government holds the investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking of children: who paid, who flew, who knew, and which prosecutors decided back in 2008 that a plea deal was enough. Every release so far has landed late, partial, and with the redactions falling in suspiciously convenient places. The survivors have spent two decades being told to wait while the people they named kept their board seats and their reputations. There is exactly one legitimate reason to withhold any of this, and that is protecting victims who never chose to be in it; every other black box is someone being shielded who shouldn't be. Force the full release of the Epstein files with victim-identifying information redacted and nothing else, and open an independent review of how the 2008 deal was allowed to happen.
The National Archives holds the founding documents and the receipts, the records that let a citizen check what the government actually did. The Smithsonian and the national museums hold the version of the American story that outlasts whoever is in office. None of that survives being run by whoever currently holds power. We are watching boards replaced with loyalists, exhibits rewritten to flatter one man, collections put at risk, and a Pearl Harbor hero's name scraped off a ship to make room for an ego. A country that lets its record be edited by the people the record is about has no way to hold anyone accountable later. Write independence for the National Archives, the Smithsonian, and the national cultural institutions into statute, with fixed board terms, protection from political removal, and no rewriting or renaming without public process.
Federal law already makes it a crime to order or keep troops or armed men at a place where an election is being held, punishable by up to five years in prison and disqualification from federal office. That line has held through every contested election in living memory, because a voter who has to walk past armed federal agents to reach a ballot box is not voting freely, whatever their status. This year the signals have been mixed about whether federal personnel will be near polling places, and a draft executive order declaring a national emergency and asserting federal power over the election has circulated among the president's allies. Elections here are run by states and counties, counted in public, and certified locally. That is the design, not a loophole. Oppose any emergency federal takeover of the 2026 election and any deployment of armed federal personnel at or near polling places, and back enforcement of the ban already on the books.
The government holds the investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking of children: who paid, who flew, who knew, and which prosecutors decided back in 2008 that a plea deal was enough. Every release so far has landed late, partial, and with the redactions falling in suspiciously convenient places. The survivors have spent two decades being told to wait while the people they named kept their board seats and their reputations. There is exactly one legitimate reason to withhold any of this, and that is protecting victims who never chose to be in it; every other black box is someone being shielded who shouldn't be. Force the full release of the Epstein files with victim-identifying information redacted and nothing else, and open an independent review of how the 2008 deal was allowed to happen.
The National Archives holds the founding documents and the receipts, the records that let a citizen check what the government actually did. The Smithsonian and the national museums hold the version of the American story that outlasts whoever is in office. None of that survives being run by whoever currently holds power. We are watching boards replaced with loyalists, exhibits rewritten to flatter one man, collections put at risk, and a Pearl Harbor hero's name scraped off a ship to make room for an ego. A country that lets its record be edited by the people the record is about has no way to hold anyone accountable later. Write independence for the National Archives, the Smithsonian, and the national cultural institutions into statute, with fixed board terms, protection from political removal, and no rewriting or renaming without public process.
Federal law already makes it a crime to order or keep troops or armed men at a place where an election is being held, punishable by up to five years in prison and disqualification from federal office. That line has held through every contested election in living memory, because a voter who has to walk past armed federal agents to reach a ballot box is not voting freely, whatever their status. This year the signals have been mixed about whether federal personnel will be near polling places, and a draft executive order declaring a national emergency and asserting federal power over the election has circulated among the president's allies. Elections here are run by states and counties, counted in public, and certified locally. That is the design, not a loophole. Oppose any emergency federal takeover of the 2026 election and any deployment of armed federal personnel at or near polling places, and back enforcement of the ban already on the books.