Jason Toweh: Candidate For U.S. Congress GA-7

Jayson Toweh for U.S. Congress GA-7

Election Date: May 19, 2026

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Question 1 Topic: Defending Constitutional Rights

Over the past year, federal officers within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have detained individuals without cause and searched homes without a judicial warrant, which violates the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure.

Question: Will you support the Fourth Amendment right to privacy and demand an end to unlawful conduct by DHS and other government agencies?

Answer: Yes

Explanation: As an immigrant, the problems of ICE detentions are a pressing concern for me on a personal level. We are also serving a diverse district with people at all stages on the pathway to residency of the United States. As such we are having a vested personal and professional interest in the upholding of the 4th Amendment.

Question 2 Topic: Defending Constitutional Rights

Public reports estimate that since 2022, President Donald Trump has issued more than 100 threats to investigate, prosecute, imprison, or otherwise punish those who are critical of him, including news organizations and talk show hosts (such as Jimmy Kimmel). In September 2025, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi indicted former FBI director James Comey after Trump publicly called for his prosecution.

Question: Do you agree that the president and other government officials should not attack political enemies or those exercising their First Amendment rights?

Answer: Yes

Explanation: The right to free speech is a fundamental right and a healthy democracy is one where disagreements are able to be hashed out. These restrictions towards free speech represent a terrifying shift away from the foundation of our country. For this reason, it is a necessity that the right to speech, expression, presentation, et. al. must continue to be held in the sanctity of our Constitution.

Question 3 Topic: Defending Constitutional Rights

Videos, court statements, and internal communications show that officers of the Department of Homeland Security, including ICE agents, have knowingly and criminally acted outside of their authority. Since the killing of Renee Good by an ICE agent, the administration has prevented the state of Minnesota from conducting a proper criminal investigation of the perpetrator.

Question: Do you agree that, subject to existing legal precedent, states have the right to prosecute crimes, and will you advocate for the investigation and prosecution of crimes committed by federal officers?

Answer: Yes

Explanation: ICE is a force of terror in every community which it is allowed to operate in. The killings of Renee Good and Alex Purdy, along with the death of Dr. Linda Davis due to ICE's unlawful pursuit, show the extremeness and depravity of this organization and its inability to do its job. The truth is, immigration is something which has always occurred and the exchange of ideas, goods, and culture are a bedrock to the long lasting friendships everywhere in this world. To deny immigrants a pathway to residency is a gross intolerance to the history of the world we live in.

Question 4 Topic: Commitment To Democratic Process

A landmark 2004 Princeton study found that a small group of elites and corporations have the greatest influence on U.S. legislation. This issue was exacerbated in 2010, when SCOTUS’s Citizens United decision paved the way for the creation of SuperPACs, which to date have spent more than $5 billion in anonymous special interest dollars to influence US elections and policy.

Question: In your role, will you work to ensure that corporations and PACs are not able to exert undue influence on the legislative process?

Answer: Yes

Explanation: Yes, Citizens United's case has been a major detriment to the freedom of information within our countries. Under no case can or should a corporation be considered entity on footing remotely comparable to a human. Corporations by their definition are profit-maximizing entities and have taken the academic scrutiny out of our government.

Question 5 Topic: Commitment To Democratic Process

The Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank that authored Project 2025, has catalogued every instance of voter fraud in federal elections since 1982 and found that it occurred exceedingly rarely—about once for every million votes. Still, unfounded claims of fraud are frequently used to cast doubt on election results and to advocate for more restrictive laws. President Trump has even called for Republicans to “nationalize” the elections, and on March 31, 2026, he signed an executive order to restrict absentee ballots.

Question: As an elected official, will you help protect free and fair elections, and refute

unfounded claims of fraud that undermine faith in our electoral process?

Answer: Yes

Explanation: In conjunction with the last question on Citizens United, we believe that fair and free elections are a core facet of the American project. Enfranchisement should be held to the same standards as an unalienable right as the right to a jury of your peers or the right to protection from unwanted searches and seizures. The deterioration of fair and free elections only spells the impending decadence of our nation and its ability to represent its citizens.

Question 6 Topic: Commitment To Democratic Process

Though congressional district maps are usually only redrawn once a decade after the census, several states, including Texas and California, passed new laws in 2025 with the explicitly partisan purpose of gerrymandering to gain more seats in the House of Representatives. In Wisconsin and Illinois, gerrymandering has resulted in the winning party receiving about 25% more House seats than their vote share.

Question: Do you agree that fair representation requires fair maps, and will you advocate for them?

Answer: Yes

Explanation: Gerrymandering creates disenfranchisement, and in its current form it is deliberately biasing partisan politics. Gerrymandering is at its core a perversion of the right to representation of our country. We are in support of creating anti Gerrymandering legislation planning and partnering with Talarico in the Senate for it, co-sponsoring the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, and creating a National Independent Elections Commission to ensure that maps are fairly drawn and give a voice to people in choosing their representatives.

Question 7 Topic: Belief In System of Law

In the case of J.G.G. v. Trump, the administration disobeyed a federal court’s

explicit order on March 15, 2025, to stop a deportation flight of Venezualan

immigrants and to return any flights that were already in the air. The following

year, on February 26, 2026, Federal Court Judge Patrick Schiltz issued an

opinion detailing the Trump administration’s failure to comply with hundreds

of court orders pertaining to Habeas petitions.

Question: In your position, will you follow court orders and hold other officials

accountable for failing to do so?

Answer: Yes

Explanation: Accountability is the backbone of democracy, we believe that no one is above the Constitution. In fact, the Constitution's "Supremacy Clause" outwardly states that this document is the thesis of our country and that nothing can or will ever take precedent over it. To this end, we will "walk with a big stick," and carry out the needful duty of instilling accountability in office. Government Accountability is key tenet of our campaign as we work to eliminate abuse of power and fraud.

Question 8 Topic: Belief In System of Law

Donald Trump has personally profited an estimated $1.2 billion from cryptocurrency in the second term of his presidency while simultaneously acting to deregulate the industry.

Question: Do you believe that a president and other government officials should be required to divest from conflicts of interest during their term in office, and will you commit to doing the same?

Answer: Yes

Explanation: We are in favor of a full-fledged stock trading and prediction market trading ban for Congress members. It is nigh impossible for someone to be a congressional member and to not be engaged in insider trading as dealing in Congress inherently means you are to be dealing with information that is categorically defined as insider information. Additionally we have seen fraud with individuals on betting on real world events in prediction markets. The decision to ban stock trading and prediction market trading for members of Congress is a common sense legislation.

Question 9 Topic: Countering Authoritarianism

On February 20, 2026, the Supreme Court struck down $175 billion of tariffs instituted by President Trump, determining that imposing these tariffs overstepped the bounds of his authority. The administration has also illegally withheld congressionally-appropriated funds from states and government agencies through executive action, per the Government Accountability Office.

Question: Will you commit to supporting Congress’s power of the purse and demand an end to this form of executive overreach?

Answer: Yes

Explanation: Part of Congress' job is to work on the checks and balances of our government. As the powers of the Executive branch have expanded there is a needful expansion to the responsibility. Moreover, drawing on the ruling by Gibbons v. Ogden, the tariffs imposed by President Trump have directly impeded Congress' responsibility to the promotion of interstate commerce. We will ensure that Congress controls the purse and prevents Executive overreach.

Question 10 Topic: Countering Authoritarianism

In 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that the president is immune from criminal liability for “official acts,” making impeachment the only reliable check on presidential power.

Question: Do you believe that Congress has the responsibility to conduct impeachment proceedings, as it did by investigating alleged corruption by President Biden, in order to prevent corruption, abuse of power, and unconstitutional acts for which the president is otherwise unaccountable?

Answer: Yes

Explanation: Congress has a necessity to conduct impeachment hearings. As stated before, within our new age we are seeing new expansions and abilities of all three branches of government. To this end, Congress has a responsibility to bring forth impeachment proceedings as they see fit. To not do so is just unconstitutional as Congress would not be acting in accordance to its most cardinal responsibility of checking the other branches of government. Impeachment is a necessary power Congress must have.

Question 11 Topic: Countering Authoritarianism

During his second term in office, Donald Trump has fired seventeen independent inspectors general and defunded or removed key staff from independent government watchdogs including the Office of Professional Responsibility, the Office of Government Ethics, and the Office of Special Counsel. The administration has also failed to keep adequate records, blocked the release of records (such as the Epstein Files), and claimed ownership of presidential records in violation of legal precedent and ethical standards.

Question: In your role, will you work to ensure transparency and accountability through adequate record keeping and independent inspectors, and will you hold those who do not meet these standards accountable?

Answer: Yes

Explanation: Yes, we are of the belief that transparency is a core duty of the Social Contract between the government and its citizenry. To this end, we would work to become scribes of truth and be patrons of transparency. This will manifest in many ways and definitely we have an intention to work with Representative Khanna to bring all of the Epstein Files to the public's eyes.

Question 12 Topic: Truth in Public Discourse and Decision-Making

Despite overwhelming scientific consensus on the benefits and risks of vaccines, some high-profile critics continue to make claims about vaccines that have been debunked.

Question: Do you believe that RFK Jr.’s choice to staff the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices with people who push easily-refuted pseudoscientific theories is harmful to Americans’ health, and will you advocate for science-based decision-making?

Answer: Yes

Explanation: Healthcare is a core tenet of our campaign, a guaranteed right, and we are working on healthcare for all. Jayson has an extensive background in public health and medical research, and policy work. Our commitment to healthcare is tied in necessity to the dissemination of scientific, fact-based information to the citizenry. Unfounded medical statements put everyday Americans at harm and to this end we are advocates for transparency of healthcare in addition to other matters previously discussed.

Question 13 Topic: Truth in Public Discourse and Decision-Making

Many public officials make false assertions when they believe it is politically useful. Vice President J.D. Vance defended this practice after claiming Haitians were eating cats and dogs, saying “If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.”

Question: Do you agree that lying about the facts voters use to make decisions distracts from the actual issues, and will you commit to accurately representing established facts?

Answer: Yes

Explanation: VP Vance's statements are grossly racist and make a mockery of the factuality necessitated by a member of the government. It is the job of any representative to be an arbiter of truth and for that case hoodwinking voters is something that is antithetical to the structure of democracy. We stand firmly that voters if given complete information will always pick the best candidate, or the most rational candidate. This is a topic of propaganda and an obfuscation of the truth.