Carleigh Beriont

Official election context

Carleigh Beriont is recorded as candidate for U.S. House — CD-1 in New Hampshire State Primary on 2026-09-08. Filing provenance: imported.

Reviewed evidence

• Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026 — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  I serve as Chair of the Hampton Select Board, where I see how fully funding our public schools and Medicare for All would deliver property-tax relief to NH residents, and support raising the minimum wage, banning Congressional stock trading, and restoring Congressional war powers.

• Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026 — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  I support creating a new civil immigration agency housed outside of the DHS that is governed by due process and has mechanisms for meaningful accountability. Criminal immigration enforcement related to things like human trafficking, smuggling operations, and organized crime with a relationship to the border should be handled by existing organizations like the FBI and DEA.

• Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026 — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  We fix this by pursuing aggressive antitrust enforcement to break up the monopolies that function like tollbooths between businesses and customers; enacting a federal anti-price-gouging law and putting meaningful caps on price increases by the largest corporations in essential sectors like food, fuel, and pharmaceuticals; pursuing targeted, strategic trade policy in place of blanket tariffs that pass costs to consumers; and serious investment in housing, energy, and care.

• Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026 — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  We should cut wasteful spending where it does exist, including at the Pentagon: I support cutting at least $100 billion as called for in the People Over the Pentagon Act. And we should pay for the public investments that reduce costs by ensuring corporations and the people with more money than God pay their fair share, not by raising taxes on working people.

• Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026 — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Absolutely not. I will fight every effort to impose a federal abortion ban at any stage of pregnancy. Reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy are not negotiable. In NH, providers like the Lovering Health Center care for patients despite a hostile state government and a Supreme Court that has eviscerated federal protections for people seeking an abortion. I will fight to make Roe v. Wade the law of the land, abolish the Hyde Amendment, ensure abortion is covered as healthcare, and win federal grants for family planning services at Lovering and around the district.

• Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026 — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  To ensure that we all have access and can afford to take care of ourselves and our families, I will push for a single-payer universal healthcare system that includes coverage for mental health, your eyes, and your teeth (which are not currently covered under Medicare). Automatic enrollment is essential because it dramatically increases the federal government’s bargaining power to negotiate lower prices on prescription drugs, medical devices, and hospital services — savings that get passed back to patients and taxpayers.

• Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026 — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  No. Public lands and waters belong to all of us, and they should not be used to facilitate further fossil fuel dependence. The federal government should be putting its resources into developing renewable energy sources, modernizing the grid, and accelerating the build-out of wind, solar, and storage. The cheapest, most secure energy of the 21st century is clean energy, and that is where our public investments belong.

• Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026 — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Designed correctly, a carbon tax can be one of the most efficient tools we have to drive the transition to clean energy, but only if it is structured to put the burden on corporate polluters rather than working families. The tax should be levied on producers, escalate predictably over time to give markets a clear price signal, and use a significant share of the revenue to send dividends back to working- and middle-class households. The remainder should be invested in renewable energy, public transit, helping consumers weatherize our homes and conserve energy, and help transition workers in fossil fuel industries to new jobs.

• Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026 — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Social Security is one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history, and itʼs a promise to the American people. Right now, someone making $300,000 stops paying into Social Security partway through the year, while a teacher, a nurse, or a shipyard worker making under $186,000 a year pays Social Security tax on every single dollar they earn. Eliminating the cap on income subject to the Social Security tax is the most straightforward way to extend the program's solvency for generations. I oppose every form of "reform" that is really just a benefit cut in disguise. I will not support raising the retirement age; I will not support means testing, which turns Social Security from a universal earned benefit into a welfare program politicians can chip away at over time; and I will absolutely not support privatization, which would turn the retirement security of millions of Americans into a Wall Street gamble.

• Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026 — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  Millions of eligible U.S. citizens don't have ready access to a passport or birth certificate. Many UNH students, who just lost the right to use their student IDs to vote under Governor Ayotte's HB 323, and who already face New Hampshire's 2024 documentary-citizenship requirement, would be effectively shut out of voting where they live, study, and pay rent. I will fight to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, support automatic voter registration, and oppose every federal effort to dress up voter suppression as election integrity.

• Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026 — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  I support a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and limit corporate and dark money contributions to campaigns. I have signed End Citizens United's Unrig Washington pledge, my campaign accepts no corporate PAC money, no AIPAC money, and no dark money, and I will fight to pass the Democracy for All Amendment.

• Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026 — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  No. Federal funds for local police, schools, hospitals, and infrastructure should never be held hostage to make municipalities do something that is the federal governmentʼs responsibility: immigration enforcement. The federal government needs to stop downshifting costs onto local municipalities. Federal courts have repeatedly ruled that local jurisdictions can be held liable for unconstitutional detentions when they honor them without due process, and mandating local police act as immigration agents makes communities less safe: when residents fear that calling 911 could lead to deportation, they stop reporting crimes, stop testifying as witnesses, and stop seeking emergency care.

• Citizens Count Issue Survey, 2026 — citizenscount.org (date not supplied)

  I support federal decriminalization of marijuana and expunging prior federal convictions for non-violent marijuana offenses as well as rescheduling marijuana so that medical research can proceed and legal businesses can access banking. Veterans canʼt access medicinal marajuana because of how itʼs currently scheduled, the VA and DOD canʼt proscribe, dispense, or cover its cost, and this needs to change.

Profile summary

Carleigh Beriont is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House in New Hampshire’s 1st District. The provided profile identifies her as Chair of the Hampton Select Board, a lecturer at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and an organizer with UAW Local 5118. It lists prior work as a public high-school teacher in the Marshall Islands and education including an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School and a Ph.D. from Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.