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Marilyn Lands

Two years in office, and her headline campaign promises still haven't become law.

Democrat, incumbent · Opponent: Aaron Thomas (R)

On the record

Big promises, little to show
Won a 2024 special election campaigning on IVF access. Two years later, her bill to protect IVF and contraception (HB 642) was filed with just days left in the 2026 session and did not become law. Her proposal to create citizen ballot initiatives is one she now “plans to reintroduce,” because it didn't pass either.¹²³
Washington Democrats' pick
Backed by the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee, the national Democratic Party's operation for flipping state legislatures. Her race is a Washington target.⁴

Fact check

Grocery tax

What they say

Supports eliminating the state grocery tax.³

The record

Republican leaders are already doing it, and paying for it responsibly. The Legislature cut the state grocery tax in half, from 4% to 2%, between 2023 and 2025, suspended it entirely for May and June 2026, and lawmakers have announced bills for 2027 to eliminate the rest. Promising to do what is already being done isn't a plan. It's a press release.⁵⁶⁷

Medicaid

What they say

Has said Medicaid expansion would create billions in economic growth.⁸

The record

Taxpayers would pick up the tab. Medicaid is already the single biggest line in Alabama's General Fund: about $1.18 billion of a $3.7 billion budget. Expansion would add a new adult population on top of that, with the state paying roughly $225 million a year by PARCA's estimate, every year. Expansion supporters say savings elsewhere would cover it. That is a bet Alabama taxpayers would be placing with their money.⁹¹⁰

Follow the money

Funded through ActBlue
Marilyn Lands raises campaign money through ActBlue, the Democratic Party's fundraising platform. ActBlue is under investigation by three U.S. House committees, whose chairmen said in April 2026 that it “deliberately obstructed” their probe into whether illicit and foreign donations got through its system. In 2025 the President also ordered a Justice Department investigation. ActBlue denies wrongdoing.¹¹¹²¹³

Marilyn Lands

On the record

Big promises, little to show

Washington Democrats' pick

Fact check

Grocery tax

Medicaid

Follow the money

Funded through ActBlue

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