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Candidates › VA-08 race › 2025–2026
I Independent nominee for U.S. House, VA-08
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9 priorities from timsharmanforcongress.com, in the order they are listed there. Every heading and the text under it is copied exactly, as one passage for each page it is from, and links to that place on the page; hover a source to see which passage it opens.
America is getting richer, but too many Americans are being left behind.
Housing has become astonishingly expensive. Childcare can cost as much as a mortgage. Healthcare, education, insurance, transportation, food and everyday expenses are putting enormous pressure on families.
I will make affordability a priority every day I serve in Congress. We need to attack the underlying costs of housing, childcare, healthcare, education and everyday life — not simply accept that everything keeps getting more expensive.
But the answer isn't simply to tax and spend more. We need greater efficiency, smarter regulation, an end to abusive corporate practices, higher wages, and economic growth that reaches more Americans. We should also ask hard questions when corporations, executives, universities, nonprofits, and other institutions accumulate extraordinary wealth while the people they employ or serve struggle to get ahead.
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I believe in success. I believe entrepreneurs should build great companies, workers should earn more, and people who create value should be rewarded for it.
But too many people and institutions have prospered enormously and then pulled the ladder up behind them.
We need to reopen the paths to homeownership, education, skills, good jobs, entrepreneurship and financial security.
Prosperity isn't the problem. Prosperity becoming a closed club is.
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Many people and institutions have prospered enormously in America. I don't want to punish their success. I want them to help rebuild the ladders of opportunity for those coming behind them.
Before Day 1, I will begin recruiting Democratic and Republican congressional co-sponsors for the American Opportunity Fund Act. On Day 1, I will introduce it.
The Act will federally charter an independent, transparent, privately funded nonprofit dedicated to expanding opportunity for Americans. The congressionally chartered American Red Cross is a model for this.
America has shown over and over again that we can accomplish astonishing things when we set ambitious goals. It's time for a new moonshot: expanding access to housing, education and skills, childcare, workforce transitions, entrepreneurship, and the other pathways that allow people to build better lives.
The American Opportunity Fund will ask individuals, businesses, universities, foundations, nonprofits, and other institutions that have prospered enormously to help create those opportunities for others.
Participation will be voluntary. Contributions will be public.
Financial success and wealth creation should be celebrated, not punished with added taxes. But extraordinary success comes with a responsibility to the country and society that helped make it possible.
The Fund will be governed independently, operate with radical transparency, and focus relentlessly on measurable results.
America has done this before. From War Bonds to the National Park Foundation, we have repeatedly created ways for Americans to voluntarily contribute to great national purposes. The American Opportunity Fund would bring that tradition to one of the defining challenges of our time: making sure opportunity remains available to the generations coming behind us.
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You may not think of yourself as a customer of the U.S. Government — but you are, and you should expect the best from it.
Government should be efficient, accountable and easy to deal with. We should eliminate waste, simplify unnecessary bureaucracy and measure success by outcomes rather than political announcements.
And in Virginia's 8th District, functioning government has a very particular meaning.
Federal workers, contractors, small businesses and their families should never be bargaining chips in a political fight.
I will never vote to shut down the federal government.
I will also support reforms designed to end government shutdowns as a political weapon.
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Artificial intelligence may be the most consequential technological change of our lifetimes. It can improve healthcare and education, transform government services, drive extraordinary innovation and create enormous economic opportunity.
And we're only at the beginning. If you think AI is a big deal, wait until AI has arms and legs. Humanoid robotics could transform physical work just as AI is beginning to transform office work.
I want America to lead this revolution, not fear it. But we need to make sure the benefits are widely shared and the costs aren't simply passed on to everyone else.
Protect our communities. Local communities should decide whether and where data centers are built. Families and small businesses should not pay higher electricity and water costs because enormous new data centers arrive in their communities.
Build the energy America will need. AI and robotics will require extraordinary computing power and electricity. America should build the energy infrastructure needed to lead the world, while making sure data centers pay the infrastructure costs they create.
Prepare for the transformation of work. Corporations that reap enormous gains in productivity and profitability from AI and robotics should share responsibility for helping workers transition to the new economy. That's why America needs an AI & Robotics Transition Program… something Congress should act on with urgency.
Share the opportunity. AI and robotics could also create extraordinary personal wealth. My proposed America Opportunity Fund would give those who benefit most an opportunity to voluntarily help expand opportunity for everyone else. Great wealth calls for great responsibility.
Governance. We need sensible national rules for AI while preserving appropriate state and local authority. I would abolish the Justice Department's AI Litigation Task Force, which was created to challenge state AI laws.
I don't want America to slow down the AI revolution. I want America to lead it. But AI should work for everyone.
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I believe every American should have access to affordable healthcare. The United States spends far more on healthcare than other wealthy countries, without getting better health outcomes in return. We spend roughly $15,000 per person each year on healthcare, about two and a half times the average among developed OECD countries. Yet American life expectancy is nearly three years below the OECD average. In total, the United States now spends more than $5 trillion a year on healthcare.
I also believe we should try to achieve universal healthcare without imposing new taxes. Before asking Americans to pay even more, we should ask a much harder question: why can a country spending this much still not provide healthcare for everyone?
There isn't a simple answer. Healthcare is an extraordinarily complex part of the American economy. Anyone who claims there is an easy fix isn't being realistic.
I think affordable healthcare for all should be treated as a national moonshot. That means aggressively reducing unnecessary administrative costs, attacking fraud, confronting exploitative business practices and excessive market power, and finding ways to make the enormous amount of money we already spend buy substantially more healthcare.
I also believe we should explore creating a new civilian sister system to the Veterans Health Administration: a United States Health Service that could acquire and operate hospitals and medical practices, particularly where communities are underserved or existing providers are failing.
This would not be starting from an unfamiliar model. The Veterans Health Administration is already the largest integrated healthcare system in the United States, with 170 medical centers and more than 1,100 outpatient sites serving more than 9 million enrolled veterans.
A United States Health Service would compete alongside private and nonprofit healthcare, not replace them. It could provide another option for patients, preserve healthcare in communities where hospitals or practices are struggling, and create genuine competition in markets where consolidation has left patients with too few choices.
And universal healthcare ultimately requires universal participation. We should explore automatic enrollment in basic healthcare coverage, with assistance for people who cannot afford it and protections to ensure that universal participation does not impose unaffordable new costs on working families.
These are ideas to investigate, test and cost carefully, not promises that I've already solved one of the hardest public-policy problems in America. But the objective should be unequivocal… Every American should have healthcare. And before we ask Americans to pay more in taxes, let's find out whether we can make the extraordinary amount we already spend actually deliver it.
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I don't believe Americans should have to choose between compassion and responsibility, security and freedom, or public safety and individual rights.
We need secure borders, safe communities and a strong national defense. We also need equal protection under the law, respect for individual liberty and dignity for people whose lives or views may be different from our own.
A strong America can protect both freedom and responsibility.
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I believe women should have the right to choose whether to terminate a pregnancy, but that right should have reasonable limits. I support allowing states to establish gestational restrictions, with approximately 16 weeks being a reasonable limit, subject to carefully defined and rigorously overseen exceptions for serious medical circumstances. Abortions outside those legal limits, without a qualifying exception, should be unlawful.
We should also do much more to prevent unwanted pregnancies through education and access to contraception, while providing greater support to women and families who choose to have children.
I recognize that abortion raises profound moral questions on which reasonable people disagree. My position seeks to balance a woman's right to choose early in pregnancy with appropriate protections as pregnancy progresses.
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Israel has the right to defend itself, but I believe the actions of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in Gaza constitute war crimes. Whether those actions amount to deliberate genocide should be determined through a full, independent investigation rather than assumed in advance.
I also believe the IDF has fallen far short of the moral and ethical standards that the U.S. military has worked to uphold, particularly in minimizing civilian casualties.
The United States should use its considerable influence to insist on greater accountability and protection of civilians. Restricting the supply of offensive weapons, particularly large ordnance, is one option. However, I would advocate a more fundamental approach: embedding U.S. military personnel within IDF operational command structures, with authority to veto proposed military operations in Gaza.
Their responsibility would be to ask three essential questions: Is this operation necessary? Could its objectives be achieved differently? And could civilian casualties be avoided or substantially reduced?
Israel's security matters. So do the lives of Palestinian civilians. Our military partnership should reflect both principles.
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Congress has enormous power to improve people’s lives. Too often, it chooses politics over solving problems.
Many of America’s biggest political battles now play out between the President and the courts. A President acts. A lawsuit follows. A judge rules. An appeal begins.
There is supposed to be a third player in the room: Congress.
Congress should be leading on the problems people worry about when they wake up in the morning: the cost of housing, healthcare, childcare, education, and everyday life.
It should also be preparing America for what comes next.
Artificial intelligence could transform our economy, improve healthcare and education, and make government work better. It could also disrupt millions of jobs and create risks we are only beginning to understand.
AI isn’t a Republican issue. It isn’t a Democratic issue. It’s an American issue.
Congress doesn’t need to have all the answers. It needs to ask the right questions, act before problems become crises, and work across party lines when the country needs it.
Congress can lead. It should lead. And I believe it can lead again.
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FEC filings, Apr 1, 2026 to Oct 14, 2026 · Official FEC bulk data · committee C00953927
100¢ of every dollar raised has been spent across 3 reports ($45.4K of $45.4K). Cash on hand went from $4.4K on Jun 30, 2026 to $50 on Oct 14, 2026.
| Report | Raised in the period | Spent in the period | Cash on hand at its close |
|---|---|---|---|
| JULY QUARTERLY 2026 through Jun 30, 2026 | $25,000 | $20,562 | $4,438 |
| OCTOBER QUARTERLY 2026 through Sep 30, 2026 | $20,372 | $24,810 | $0 |
| PRE-GENERAL 2026 through Oct 14, 2026 | $50 | $0 | $50 |
Each report’s own period, as filed with the FEC; a report filed again counts once, as its latest copy.
Each loan as the campaign’s report through Oct 14, 2026 lists it, with what is still owed. A loan from an earlier cycle can appear here, and one repaid in full drops off the report, so the list need not add up to the row.
Total reported receipts $45,422
Every dollar the committee reported receiving this cycle, split by the source the FEC filing attributes it to. Open a source marked + to see who gave. FEC filings through Oct 14, 2026.
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Lost · 6,774 votes (2.2%) · 3 of 4 · Full results ↗
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Total itemized disbursements $20,562
Every itemized payment the committee reported this cycle, sorted by what it said each one was for. The categories are ours; the wording they are matched against is the committee’s own. Open a category to read the filed descriptions and who was paid. FEC filings through Oct 14, 2026.
All 1 itemized payments filed this cycle. Spending below the itemization threshold is not filed line by line.
| Name | Amount |
|---|---|
| 1 payment · 45% of all spending | $20,562 |
The people, firms and committees paid the most, across every kind of payment. Each share is of everything the committee reported spending this cycle, not only the itemized payments above. A payee that is itself a committee links to its own profile.