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2026 Delaware U.S. Senate — Democratic Primary · September 15, 2026
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Delaware Department of Elections — Primary Election 9/15/2026
Candidate: Jeff Appelhans
Office: U.S. Senate; County: Statewide
Party: Democratic
Status: Qualified
Filed: 2026-07-14
Website: https://www.Union26.com
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FEC committee ID: C00956466
FEC committee name: APPELHANS FOR DE
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Published website: https://union26.com/
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AI will reorganize capital, labor, learning, and public power. Meet it on constitutional ground, not sand or clay.
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AI will reorganize capital, labor, learning, and public power. Meet it on constitutional ground, not sand or clay.
AI can multiply returns to capital while weakening labor’s claim on the gains. Government can work like a clutch—protecting people and bringing productivity gains into sync with pay, bargaining power, and time as we shift into a different future.
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AI can multiply returns to capital while weakening labor’s claim on the gains. Government can work like a clutch—protecting people and bringing productivity gains into sync with pay, bargaining power, and time as we shift into a different future.
If reform does not return time to patients and the people who care for them, it is not finished.
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If reform does not return time to patients and the people who care for them, it is not finished.
Before taking office, I will remove individual securities, commodities, and similar covered instruments from the investment accounts I control. I will keep market exposure in diversified mutual funds and diversified ETFs, and I will support S.1498 or a successor congressional stock-ban bill.
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Before taking office, I will remove individual securities, commodities, and similar covered instruments from the investment accounts I control. I will keep market exposure in diversified mutual funds and diversified ETFs, and I will support S.1498 or a successor congressional stock-ban bill.
I agree with Sanders's principle that the public should share in wealth generated by AI. I will test S.4825's ownership, governance, effects on innovation, and distribution mechanics before endorsing the bill.
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I agree with Sanders's principle that the public should share in wealth generated by AI. I will test S.4825's ownership, governance, effects on innovation, and distribution mechanics before endorsing the bill.
I support Warren and Moreno's objective: remove the Social Security payroll-tax cap, extend solvency, and protect earned benefits without cuts. They are still writing the bill, and I will judge the text when introduced.
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I support Warren and Moreno's objective: remove the Social Security payroll-tax cap, extend solvency, and protect earned benefits without cuts. They are still writing the bill, and I will judge the text when introduced.
Delaware was first to ratify and remains equal in the Senate. The Delaware Plan: a Union Jubilee would use the 250th anniversary to sort repair from theater: what ordinary law can fix, what persuasion and time can erode, and what rights we need to get off the debate floor. Its 2027–2037 horizon is a ten-year constitutional project beyond any one officeholder.
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Delaware was first to ratify and remains equal in the Senate. The Delaware Plan: a Union Jubilee would use the 250th anniversary to sort repair from theater: what ordinary law can fix, what persuasion and time can erode, and what rights we need to get off the debate floor. Its 2027–2037 horizon is a ten-year constitutional project beyond any one officeholder.
Work should buy a life. Learning should enlarge it. AI should return time to and compound capability for human people. Agentic administrators can take care of paperwork so we can get work done. Inferential geniuses can provide the contextual sidecar to solving our biggest problems. We can't push the river, but we can channel it.
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Work should buy a life. Learning should enlarge it. AI should return time to and compound capability for human people. Agentic administrators can take care of paperwork so we can get work done. Inferential geniuses can provide the contextual sidecar to solving our biggest problems. We can't push the river, but we can channel it.
Education cannot become a sorting system between people who direct machines and people directed by them. Give teachers and students tools that expand judgment, authorship, and room to experiment.
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Education cannot become a sorting system between people who direct machines and people directed by them. Give teachers and students tools that expand judgment, authorship, and room to experiment.
Use GLP-1 medicines according to evidence, safety, indication, capacity, cost, and patient choice. Protect old-age security and make financing choices honest.
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Use GLP-1 medicines according to evidence, safety, indication, capacity, cost, and patient choice. Protect old-age security and make financing choices honest.
Close the revolving door. I will support a two-year ban on direct lobbying and a five-year ban on indirect lobbying after service for former members of Congress and senior congressional staff, and apply the same two-year and five-year restrictions to their spouses.
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Close the revolving door. I will support a two-year ban on direct lobbying and a five-year ban on indirect lobbying after service for former members of Congress and senior congressional staff, and apply the same two-year and five-year restrictions to their spouses.
Medicare for All guarantees the care. Break Up Big Medicine breaks the choke points.
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Medicare for All guarantees the care. Break Up Big Medicine breaks the choke points.
No blank checks. No personal bargains. American judgment, lawfully used.
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No blank checks. No personal bargains. American judgment, lawfully used.
Let faith speak in public without letting government decide who belongs.
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Let faith speak in public without letting government decide who belongs.
Build rules fair enough to live under when the coalition holding power changes. A temporary victory is not a durable settlement.
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Build rules fair enough to live under when the coalition holding power changes. A temporary victory is not a durable settlement.
Chips, energy, data, and models are productive infrastructure. Public-interest access—including American open models—can widen who builds, scrutinizes, and benefits.
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Chips, energy, data, and models are productive infrastructure. Public-interest access—including American open models—can widen who builds, scrutinizes, and benefits.
Automation should return time, not turn work and learning into surveillance. The ordinary-life test is whether people gain capability and choice—or concentrated institutions gain new leverage over them.
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Automation should return time, not turn work and learning into surveillance. The ordinary-life test is whether people gain capability and choice—or concentrated institutions gain new leverage over them.
Congress did not authorize this war. It was unauthorized under the Constitution and unlawful under the War Powers Resolution.
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Congress did not authorize this war. It was unauthorized under the Constitution and unlawful under the War Powers Resolution.
Personal leverage is not a substitute for national strategy.
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Personal leverage is not a substitute for national strategy.
Congress decides when America goes to war. American judgment remains our own. America leads as an equal.
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Congress decides when America goes to war. American judgment remains our own. America leads as an equal.
An alliance of equals must be able to say no. Congress decides when America goes to war.
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An alliance of equals must be able to say no. Congress decides when America goes to war.
Care should feel like care. Old age should not become a navigation test. A system this costly should not burn out clinicians, exhaust families, and turn every transition into another administrative maze.
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Care should feel like care. Old age should not become a navigation test. A system this costly should not burn out clinicians, exhaust families, and turn every transition into another administrative maze.
Rip out the payer maze. Till the ground. Plant one public guarantee.
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Rip out the payer maze. Till the ground. Plant one public guarantee.
Use new tools to return time and judgment to patients and clinicians—not to automate the maze.
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Use new tools to return time and judgment to patients and clinicians—not to automate the maze.
Judge the system by whether transitions become reliable and understandable.
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Judge the system by whether transitions become reliable and understandable.
Use automation to return time to patients, families, and clinicians—not to hide denial.
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Use automation to return time to patients, families, and clinicians—not to hide denial.
Faith should be able to speak in public. Government should not decide who belongs.
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Faith should be able to speak in public. Government should not decide who belongs.
Disestablishment is not a command to empty public life of conviction, and free exercise is not a license for government to choose a favored faith. Public reason should be broad enough for citizens to bring moral commitments into argument, and disciplined enough that coercive law answers to shared constitutional standards. The test is neither religious rule nor official unbelief. It is a people capable of disagreeing about first things while preserving equal citizenship.
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Disestablishment is not a command to empty public life of conviction, and free exercise is not a license for government to choose a favored faith. Public reason should be broad enough for citizens to bring moral commitments into argument, and disciplined enough that coercive law answers to shared constitutional standards. The test is neither religious rule nor official unbelief. It is a people capable of disagreeing about first things while preserving equal citizenship.
Coercive law needs shared constitutional standards.
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Coercive law needs shared constitutional standards.
Belonging does not depend on belief.
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Belonging does not depend on belief.
Citizens do not leave moral and religious conviction outside public argument.
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Citizens do not leave moral and religious conviction outside public argument.
Government does not decide citizenship by favored belief or official unbelief.
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Government does not decide citizenship by favored belief or official unbelief.
Public power still answers to constitutional standards shared across disagreement.
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Public power still answers to constitutional standards shared across disagreement.
People can disagree about first things without making one another lesser citizens.
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People can disagree about first things without making one another lesser citizens.
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Candidate ID: S6DE00263
Name: APPELHANS, JEFFERY RYAN
Office: Senate
State: DE
District: Delaware
Party: DEMOCRATIC PARTY
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