Jonathan Nez

Lower healthcare costs and expand healthcare access, especially in rural and Native communities.

• Take on prescription-drug price gouging; crack down on surprise medical bills; require clearer upfront pricing; expand telehealth, mobile clinics, rural/Native medical training, and medical transportation; reverse Medicaid cuts threatening rural hospitals; limit corporate control of doctors' offices.

Reduce housing and utility costs while giving local residents more opportunity to buy homes.

• Prioritize local residents over private equity/corporations in single-family home purchases; increase first-time-homebuyer incentives, including for veterans, public-safety workers, medical professionals, and educators; support local utilities and energy producers that can lower costs and strengthen the grid.

Support rural small businesses, workers, apprenticeships, and access to capital while opposing tariff policies he says raise household costs.

• Reverse tariff policies he says raise grocery and household costs; expand rural apprenticeship and workforce training; streamline small-business access to loans and capital.

Expand support for childcare, eldercare, caregivers, rural teachers, and parental decision-making.

• Use grants, tax credits, and partnerships to reduce childcare/eldercare costs; expand home-based elder services and caregiver funding; recruit and retain rural teachers; support parents' authority over decisions for children and families.

Protect Arizona water supplies and expand rural water infrastructure.

• Secure water-rights settlements; invest in rural water lines, wastewater systems, and treatment facilities; support water-conservation technology; protect groundwater.

Increase access to affordable healthy food and strengthen local food self-sufficiency.

• Shrink food deserts through mobile food access; protect and expand SNAP/nutrition programs and healthy school meals; reduce harmful chemicals in food production and increase nutrition transparency; support communities growing their own food.

Promote children's physical health, outdoor access, and online safety.

• Reinvest in physical education; protect access to parks and public lands for recreation and education; strengthen online child safety.

Use federal community funding and local service hubs to help rural families and young people remain in their communities.

• Ensure community-project funding; invest in one-stop centers that bring government services closer to residents; support afterschool programs and volunteer mentorship.

Expand rural communications and transportation infrastructure.

• Improve emergency/cell coverage; expand broadband; repair aging roads and bridges; support rural airports and expanded freight/passenger rail.

Support Arizona agriculture through disaster mitigation, competition policy, repair rights, local procurement, and trade policy changes.

• Support year-round wildfire mitigation; challenge seed/fertilizer monopolies; protect right-to-repair; prioritize local and Native food producers for government contracts; oppose tariff policies he says disadvantage Arizona agriculture.

Combine border/public-safety enforcement with addiction treatment, anti-trafficking efforts, immigration reform, and law-enforcement resources.

• Combat opioids, fentanyl, and drug trafficking while expanding treatment/recovery and overdose medication; fight child exploitation and trafficking; invest in border technology, agents, and caseworkers while creating a pathway to citizenship for qualifying immigrants; support law-enforcement resources and training.

Protect veterans' healthcare and benefits while expanding workforce and entrepreneurship opportunities.

• Reverse cuts to veterans' healthcare; expand VA specialty and mental-health access; reduce administrative barriers to healthcare, housing, and education benefits; expand education and entrepreneurship pathways.

Increase Arizona's resources and intergovernmental coordination for droughts, floods, wildfires, and other climate-related disasters.

• Seek Arizona's fair share of disaster resources; coordinate response across levels of government; work across party lines on climate-related community protection.

Reduce dark-money influence and strengthen conflict-of-interest accountability for elected officials.

• Reduce the influence of ultra-wealthy donors; hold powerful people to the same standards as other Americans; require conflict-of-interest disclosure and increase penalties for noncompliance.

Protect mail voting and election access while maintaining election security.

• Protect mail-in voting; oppose barriers to eligible voters; support election security while defending Arizona's existing election infrastructure from partisan interference.

Strengthen tribal sovereignty, consultation, public safety, and economic development on Native lands.

• Update policies/regulations to support development on Native lands; honor tribal consultation; improve coordination among federal, state, and local law enforcement on missing and murdered Indigenous people cases.