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Nathan M. Berning

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U.S. House District 1

2026 Hawaii U.S. House — District 1 — General Election · November 3, 2026

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Last reviewed September 18, 2026

Overview

Current race
2026 Hawaii U.S. House — District 1 — General Election on November 3, 2026
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Official candidacy
U.S. House District 1 · Nonpartisan · Candidate
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Hawaii Office of Elections — 2026 Candidate Report

Contest: U.S. House, District 1

Party: NONPARTISAN

Ballot Name: BERNING, Nathan M.

Legal Name: NATHAN M. BERNING

Phone: (260) 498-3415

Email: [email protected]

Website: https://righttokeep.org/

Filed: 2026-06-01

Status: In General

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Experience

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BUILT FROM THE GROUND UP

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I co-founded and helped lead a national nonprofit dedicated to helping pregnant women in crisis. Building it required more than conviction—it required fundraising, operations, communications, technology, team leadership, and the discipline to keep showing up.

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I co-founded and helped lead a national nonprofit dedicated to helping pregnant women in crisis. Building it required more than conviction—it required fundraising, operations, communications, technology, team leadership, and the discipline to keep showing up.

Positions and priorities

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Cost of Living & Housing

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Make Hawaiʻi more affordable through housing and infrastructure partnerships, lower-cost federal policy, and tax policy focused on working families.

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I will fight for federal housing and infrastructure partnerships that expand opportunity without erasing community; challenge rules and policies that unnecessarily inflate everyday costs; and make tax policy work for working families rather than only the best-connected interests.

The Right to Keep

Candidate position
FactVote summary · Goal / Priority

Oppose abortion while expanding practical support that makes it financially possible for women who want to continue a pregnancy to do so.

  • Emphasizes support around pregnancy, birth, housing, healthcare, childcare, work, and family stability.
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I oppose abortion. I also believe being pro-life must mean more than telling a frightened woman what she should not do. It must mean standing beside her and making it possible to keep the child she already loves—with practical support surrounding pregnancy, birth, housing, healthcare, childcare, work, and family stability.

Local Jobs & Small Business

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Reduce federal barriers, expand access to capital and opportunity, strengthen trades and technology, support local agriculture and responsible tourism, and help small businesses compete.

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I will fight to reduce needless federal barriers, improve access to opportunity and capital, strengthen trades and technology, support local agriculture and responsible tourism, and help small businesses compete without being crushed by bureaucracy or extracted by distant institutions.

Water, Land & Island Resilience

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Protect clean water, land, infrastructure, local food capacity, and responsible energy policy through transparent, long-term federal decisions accountable to Hawaiʻi communities.

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Clean water, healthy land, reliable infrastructure, local food capacity, and responsible energy policy are essential to Hawaiʻi's future. Federal decisions should be transparent, long-term, and accountable to the communities most directly affected.

Independent & Accountable Government

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Work with either party when it benefits Hawaiʻi, oppose either party when it does not, and prioritize accessible, transparent, technologically competent constituent service.

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I will work with either party when it helps Hawaiʻi and stand against either party when it does not. My office will be accessible, technologically competent, transparent, and relentlessly focused on constituent service. No party leader or political institution should come before the people who sent me.

Public record

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Sources

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  1. Election record

    2026 Hawaii candidate record — Nathan M. Berning

    Hawaii Office of Elections

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  2. Candidate-owned primary source

    Nathan M. Berning — candidate-owned primary source

    Nathan M. Berning campaign

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    Link checked September 15, 2026.

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    Nathan M. Berning campaign source

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