LGBTQ+ Rights
Opposes letting boys play on girls' sports teams
“I believe that everyone should be treated equally. Boys shouldn't be playing girls' sports, and I think most reasonable people think the same thing.”
Republican · Incumbent
No legislative record on file yet for James Gallagher.
Republican · Incumbent
No legislative record on file yet for James Gallagher.
On the ballot · 2026
Key dates
Full two-year term
LGBTQ+ Rights
“I believe that everyone should be treated equally. Boys shouldn't be playing girls' sports, and I think most reasonable people think the same thing.”
International Affairs & Trade
“We need to really get strong on trade, negotiate better trade agreements with India and Japan that would help our farmers in the district. I'm thinking of rice, walnuts and almonds. But we also have to get tough on cheap foreign imports that don't meet our labor standards or food safety standards.”
Agriculture & Food
Protect our Farms and Businesses from excessive government regulation
Crime & Policing
Enact tougher laws protect our communities, neighborhoods and homes from crime
Taxes & Revenue
Make life more affordable for North State families through lower taxes, lower fees and fewer regulations
On the ballot · 2026
Key dates
Full two-year term
LGBTQ+ Rights
“I believe that everyone should be treated equally. Boys shouldn't be playing girls' sports, and I think most reasonable people think the same thing.”
International Affairs & Trade
“We need to really get strong on trade, negotiate better trade agreements with India and Japan that would help our farmers in the district. I'm thinking of rice, walnuts and almonds. But we also have to get tough on cheap foreign imports that don't meet our labor standards or food safety standards.”
Agriculture & Food
Protect our Farms and Businesses from excessive government regulation
Crime & Policing
Enact tougher laws protect our communities, neighborhoods and homes from crime
Taxes & Revenue
Make life more affordable for North State families through lower taxes, lower fees and fewer regulations
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.
Since Dobbs, where you live decides what care you can get. A patient in one state gets a routine procedure; a patient four hours away is sent home to get sicker until she qualifies as an emergency, while her doctor calls a lawyer before calling a colleague. Hospitals have closed maternity wards rather than staff them under laws written to be prosecuted, so women in those counties now drive an hour to give birth whether they ever needed an abortion or not. This was never really a state-by-state question, because the people are the same people and the pregnancies are the same pregnancies. Only the county line changed. Pass the Women's Health Protection Act and restore a federal floor for abortion access, so that care stops depending on a map.
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.
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.
Since Dobbs, where you live decides what care you can get. A patient in one state gets a routine procedure; a patient four hours away is sent home to get sicker until she qualifies as an emergency, while her doctor calls a lawyer before calling a colleague. Hospitals have closed maternity wards rather than staff them under laws written to be prosecuted, so women in those counties now drive an hour to give birth whether they ever needed an abortion or not. This was never really a state-by-state question, because the people are the same people and the pregnancies are the same pregnancies. Only the county line changed. Pass the Women's Health Protection Act and restore a federal floor for abortion access, so that care stops depending on a map.
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.