Ashley Hinson

Ashley Hinson was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1983, and lives in Marion, Iowa. Hinson earned her bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Southern California. Her career experience includes working as a news anchor, reporter, and producer with KCRG-TV9. Hinson has served with the NCSML, Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance, March of Dimes, Young Parents Network, National Council on Youth Leadership, The History Center, and Junior Achievement of Eastern Iowa. From 2017 to 2020, she was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives.[1][2][3]

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Campaign websiteHinson's campaign website stated the following:Lowering Costs & Growing the EconomyAshley has always believed it is YOUR money, not the government’s money. She has been laser focused on lowering taxes for working families and empowering all Iowans with opportunities.Help more families become homeowners by allowing first-time homebuyers to save tax-free for a down payment through the First Home Savings Opportunity Act and ensuring large institutional investors cannot buy up single-family homes in Iowa neighborhoods.Make child care more affordable and accessible by expanding tax relief for working families, supporting parents who work nontraditional hours, and encouraging employers to invest in child care solutions.Make life more affordable by cutting wasteful spending, lowering inflation, and creating an economy where small businesses can grow and create good-paying jobs.Prepare the next generation for success by expanding career and technical education and connecting students with good-paying Iowa jobs.HealthcareNo matter where you live in Iowa, you should be able to access quality healthcare without driving hours or worrying about the cost. A medical decision shouldn’t be a financial decision. Ashley has worked across the aisle to improve rural healthcare, lower prescription drug costs, and support moms, seniors, veterans, and patients across Iowa who deserve better care.Lower prescription drug costs by increasing transparency and holding pharmacy benefit managers accountable. Ashley has also been a champion for expanding over-the-counter birth control access.Strengthen rural healthcare by supporting community hospitals, expanding the rural health workforce, and improving access to providers.Improve the health of Iowa families by expanding maternal healthcare access, supporting cancer research, and expanding access to preventive care.Agriculture & Rural IowaAgriculture is the lifeblood of Iowa’s economy. Farmers don’t need Washington telling them how to run their operations and handing down regulations, they need an advocate who understands the challenges they face. That’s why Ashley has consistently worked across the aisle to support family farms, strengthen rural communities, and champion Iowa biofuels.Protect family farms by pushing back against burdensome regulations, improving voluntary conservation programs, and fighting policies like California’s Proposition 12 that hurt Iowa family farmers.Create certainty for Iowa agriculture by expanding export markets and passing a Farm Bill.Keep Iowa at the forefront of American energy by championing year-round E15, strengthening biofuels, and investing in homegrown energy production.Border Security & Public SafetyEvery family deserves to feel safe in their home and community. Ashley believes public safety starts with enforcing our laws, supporting law enforcement, and securing our border. She’ll continue fighting for commonsense policies that protect Iowa families while ensuring our immigration system is fair, lawful, and secure.Secure the southern border by enforcing America’s immigration laws and deporting dangerous criminal illegal immigrants.Combat fentanyl and violent crime by cracking down on traffickers, strengthening partnerships with law enforcement, and holding violent offenders accountable.Government AccountabilityAshley has been fighting to restore integrity to public service and ensure the government works for the people, not the other way around.Ban Members of Congress from trading individual stocks and betting on prediction markets.Clean up Washington by enacting commonsense lobbying bans, moving government agencies out of DC and closer to the people they serve, and rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse of tax dollars.VeteransThe men and women who wore our nation’s uniform kept their promise to America. Ashley believes America must keep its promise to them. She has worked across party lines to improve veterans’ healthcare and mental health services, and she’ll continue making sure veterans receive the care, respect, and benefits they’ve earned.Ashley will:Expand access to healthcare and mental health services, particularly for veterans living in rural communities.Fully fund the Department of Veterans Affairs and directly advocate for Iowa veterans who need assistance.Protecting Iowa ValuesIowa values are built on faith, family, freedom, and personal responsibility. Ashley believes those values are worth protecting here at home and against growing threats abroad. She’ll continue standing up for parents, defending our constitutional freedoms, and ensuring America remains the world’s largest super power.Protect parents’ rights by giving families a stronger voice in their children’s education and increasing transparency in schools, especially as some Iowa schools have pushed policies that allow kids to secretly change their gender identity at school.Hold Communist China accountable for ripping off American jobs and innovation, purchasing American farmland, and implementing unfair trade practices that hurt Iowa farmers, workers, and businesses.Defend Social Security and Medicare benefits that vulnerable Iowans depend on, while rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse that deplete these programs.— Ashley Hinson's campaign website (August 6, 2026)Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.

Campaign ads

"Believe" – Hinson campaign ad, released May 11, 2026

"Fighting for working families in Iowa" – Hinson campaign ad, released March 27, 2026

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Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

As a news reporter, Ashley Hinson shared the stories of countless Iowans. Now running for Congress in Iowa's 1st district, Ashley is honored to share hers.

Ashley is a current Iowa House representative, a former award-winning journalist and a proud mom. An Iowa native, Ashley is the first woman to represent Iowa's 67th district. Ashley has worked successfully to balance the budget, cut taxes and protect the most vulnerable in her community. A firm believer in common sense leadership, she has worked across the aisle to help fund school infrastructure while providing direct property tax relief to Iowans. Her tireless advocacy for Iowa families has also helped secure increased aid for K-12 education and additional funding for rural hospitals and mental health facilities.

Prior to serving in the IA House, Ashley was a reporter for KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids. For more than a decade, she had the opportunity to connect with Iowa's small business owners and community leaders. Ashley's extensive reporting on rising health care costs, devastating flooding and other critical issues impacting Eastern Iowa drove her to want to serve her community.

Ashley currently belongs to the Antioch Christian Church. Together, Ashley and her husband Matt are raising their two sons. Her children drive her every day to fight for a better community and stronger economy for all Iowa families.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Fighting for Iowa Family Values Creating Jobs and Growing Iowa's EconomyFighting for Affordable, Accessible Healthcare

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Ashley Hinson: Small Business Owners need a Champion, Count Me In

My husband Matt and his partners own a small insurance agency in Waterloo called Elliott-Hartman Insurance Services.  Elliott Hartman has provided insurance coverage for local homeowners and businesses for over 50 years.  Small business leaders make up the fabric of our communities.  Your local community business owners sponsor little league teams, canned food drives, toy drives over the holidays and countless other local teams and charities.  When a crisis hits our community, it is the small businessmen and women that show up to put us back together again.

Unlike big corporations, small businesses don't have endless budget resources to protect their interests with expensive lobbyists and lawyers. This is why legislative action and political posturing in the Iowa legislature and in Washington D.C. matters immensely to small businesses - it means jobs, investment in our communities, and growth for Iowa. Those of us in public service need to remember that.

I'm running for Congress so that I can fight the red-tape, over-regulation and make life easier for these community businesses.  Policy matters.  In Washington, I will work to pass the "Main Street Tax Certainty Act" which will permanently extend the provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.  With seemingly endless regulations small businesses have to navigate, we must provide certainty so that they can grow, develop, and succeed.

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

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Campaign website

Hinson’s campaign website stated the following:

Creating Jobs and Improving Iowa’s Economy

Ashley’s goal is simple—help American taxpayers keep more of their own money. We need economic growth now more than ever. Throughout her time representing families in the Iowa House, Ashley voted for tax cuts that increased take-home wages for Iowa workers while achieving something Congress finds impossible—balancing a budget. Ashley wants to take some of this Iowa common sense to Washington.

Ashley supports making middle-income tax cuts passed by Republicans permanent. Iowa families and businesses are benefiting from these tax cuts. The average middle-class family increased their take home pay by over $1,600 a year—that’s a family vacation or a much-needed home repair.

Ashley will fight to make sure Democrats don’t have the votes to repeal them or do worse—pass trillions in tax hikes to support radical plans like the Green New Deal that would destroy Iowa’s economy.

Healthcare

For years’ healthcare has been at the center of heated political debate, but that’s all it’s been—part of a debate, rather than the center of meaningful action.

Ashley will work to make sure families have the power to make decisions about their healthcare—not bureaucrats in Washington. She opposes a Medicare For All bill that would cost $32 trillion dollars nationwide.

Instead, Ashley will fight to deliver patient-centered health care with the choice and control people want, the affordability they need, and the quality they deserve. This includes protecting coverage for Americans with pre-existing conditions.

Affordable

Ashley also knows we need to focus on targeted fixes to improve the current system, such as getting rid of surprise medical billing and lowering the cost of co-payments, deductibles, and prescription drugs. Ashley will take on big Pharma to put an end to out of control prices of prescription drugs affecting all Iowans, and especially seniors. She will work to increase competition in the marketplace and close loopholes that allow bad actors to take advantage of the system.

Accessible

Additionally, the federal government needs to improve access to healthcare, especially for families in rural areas, women and our mental health system. In the Iowa house, Ashley supported critical access to rural hospitals, fought for funding for local women’s health centers and worked across the aisle to increase funding for our mental health system. Ashley will take these same fights to Washington.

Holding China Accountable

China has been a bad actor for many years; however, Congress has not done enough to hold them accountable for their lies, theft and cover-up. China has trampled on human rights and religious freedoms while polluting our planet, stealing our intellectual property and ripping off of American innovation.

Politicians in Washington must take immediate action and put China in their place. Ashley will fight in Congress to bring back manufacturing jobs and lessen our dependence on China. Ashley knows that China is full of empty promises that threaten the livelihoods of Americans each and every day.

Ending the Immigration Crisis

Washington politicians have made immigration about politics when immigration is about security. Our system has been overwhelmed by illegal immigrants coming across our southern border.

Now we have a humanitarian crisis, rampant human trafficking and drugs like fentanyl pouring across our border and fueling the opioid crisis. Washington has been trying to solve the immigration issue for decades and they have done close to nothing. Ashley would go to Congress to work across the aisle to strengthen the border and find solutions.

She supports increasing funding for border security and fixing our legal immigration system so places like Iowa can have their workforce needs met. Ashley knows we can no longer pass the buck.

Agriculture

Agriculture is at the heart of Iowa’s economy and rural communities. That’s why in the Iowa House, Ashley fought tirelessly to protect Iowa’s farmers and agriculture.

In Washington, Ashley will continue to be a friend of agriculture. Iowa’s farmers feed the world and fuel our economic engine. Ashley understands that socialist initiatives like the Green New Deal which Congresswoman Finkenauer calls “creative”, would completely destroy Iowa’s agricultural industry and put thousands of farmers out of business.

Farmers in eastern Iowa are experiencing extreme hardship due to the coronavirus pandemic. Ashley will work in Congress to ensure that Iowa farmers have the resources and tools they need in order to remain prosperous.

Improving Infrastructure

Repairing our infrastructure is a priority for politicians on both sides of the aisle. With the right leadership, taxpayer dollars will go toward meaningful infrastructure legislation that will upgrade our nation’s roads and bridges and expand rural broadband.

As a member of the Iowa House of Representatives, Ashley did things differently. She led the charge to secure funding to strengthen Iowa’s buildings and roads and successfully worked to pass SAVE—legislation that provides schools with the funding and tools they need to make important improvements for modern facilities, safe classrooms, and state of the art technology that enhance students’ educational experience. She also shepherded through legislation to help our communities pay for long-term infrastructure for flood protection. Additionally, as the House Transportation Chair, she worked to help ensure equity for the road use tax fund, which funds our roads and bridges.

In Congress, Ashley will work in a bipartisan manner to ensure the strength of our country’s infrastructure.

Growing Our Energy

When it comes to our energy sector, affordability, sustainability, and energy independence are critical to the future of Iowa and America. But it’s clear that some politicians have ignored this cause while others have put forth expensive, unrealistic proposals that would destroy our economy.

Ashley believes Iowa can remain a leader in renewable energy and biofuels without stifling our economic growth with unfair taxes and onerous regulatory burdens on Iowa producers. In the Iowa House, Ashley supported a law ensuring that biosecurity and our food supply are not put at risk by foreign agents or extreme activists who use deception to gain access to agricultural facilities.

Ashley will work to increase American-made energy, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, protect the environment, and bring down energy costs for Iowans.

Veterans

The heroism of veterans is sacred to the identity of America. Our government must protect those who have sacrificed everything to keep us safe at home.

Ashley believes in reforming the VA by supporting legislation that increases access and quality while protecting medical benefits. Ashley will support programs that work to end veteran suicide that focus on mental health rehabilitation for veterans who suffer from anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction.

Ashley will fight for veterans to ensure they are protected for their heroism and service to their country.

Supporting Education and Our Kids

Iowa is facing a workforce crisis. Study after study shows employers are struggling with shortages because they can’t find the skilled workers they need to grow and innovate. It’s clear Americans need post-secondary credentials to prosper in today’s competitive and technology-driven economy.

That’s why Ashley supported Governor Reynolds’ Future Ready Iowa initiative, which invests in workforce training to close the skills gap and ensure Iowa remains a haven for jobs and opportunity. Ashley will continue this fight at the federal level, supporting funding for vocational schools and training programs to expand access and career options for our children.

As the mother of school aged children, Ashley has been a fierce advocate for protecting Iowa kids. Ashley’s bill signed into law by Governor Reynolds, closed a loophole in Iowa law and enacted a 30-day reporting requirement for those who violate misconduct rules as school employees. Ashley has fought every day to make our children safer and she’ll do the same in Washington.

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—Ashley Hinson’s campaign website (2020)[22]

Hinson's campaign website highlighted the following issues:

Economy: Iowa is Open for Business

Iowa will continue to be a beacon for job growth. From 2004 to 2013, Iowa outpaced the nation in the growth of middle and high-skilled jobs. We’re producing more STEM related graduates, and need to support job growth and our workforce. We can do that with a three-pronged approach with our policies: Encouraging innovators and entrepreneurs, growing our existing industries, and attracting and training our workforce.

World Class Education

The students of today are the leaders of tomorrow. We need to have a funding model for our schools that supports innovation in the classroom and accountability for those who are leading our students to the future. An open line of communication between our policymakers and those who serve our school districts and in our classrooms will help us make the grade for Iowa’s students.

Your Money, Your Pocket

We have to live within our means. The state should too. Your money is better spent by you, than by the government. We need to carefully look at how we can spend wisely, and find ways to be more efficient with taxpayer resources. Your resources. We need to make sure we are funding things in a sustainable and fiscally responsible manner to preserve the future of our great state.

Belief in Community

I believe in the value of community. I have spent the past decade getting to know my community by giving of my time and support to dozens of non-profits and community organizations. I proudly serve my community, and know the value of what can happen if you contribute your time to the place you live, work, and play.

Respect and making sure your voice is heard

As a journalist, it was my job to listen, analyze, and present facts in a balanced way. I plan to take this approach to Des Moines. It’s important to me that no matter who I work with, I treat them with respect. That foundation will help me as your representative to find common ground when possible. Then as policymakers, we can serve the best interests of Iowans, and those in District 67. Throughout my career, I have helped tell the stories of our community. Now, I want to make sure that everyone feels heard and is heard by serving as your state representative.[21]

—Ashley Hinson[23]