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Sarah Sanders

Candidate for Governor in Arkansas

Sarah Sanders is running for Governor in Arkansas. She's been our Governor since 2023, so we can judge exactly how she has affected our lives.
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Performance Review

Did Sarah Sanders make our lives better ⭐ or worse ❌?
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Destroying Our Public Schools

We all want what's best for our kids and for them to be set up to succeed in life.

Sarah Sanders' school vouchers program has already used $374 million of our taxpayer dollars on a program that hasn't, doesn't, and won't improve a single public school anywhere in Arkansas.
  • We didn't vote for this. Vouchers were forced on us by Sarah Sanders in the LEARNS Act. In every state where voters actually had a choice, they have rejected school vouchers.
  • Vouchers benefit the wealthy at the expense of low-income and rural communities.
  • Vouchers mostly fund students who are already attending private school.
  • Wealthy families are overwhelmingly the recipients of school vouchers.
  • Research shows that kids who use vouchers actually get worse educations.
  • Voucher money has been used to subsidize activities that include horseback riding, ninja warrior training, cooking classes, and archery.

And she's forcing us to pay for all of it. We're subsidizing the wealthiest families in Arkansas and starving public schools. What a scam.

Sarah Sanders is destroying our kids' futures. They deserve better.
starvoters pov: Sarah Sanders is the reverse Robin Hood: robbing from the poor to give to the rich.
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Want to Die Young? Move to Arkansas.

We all deserve access to quality healthcare so we can live healthy and productive lives. But health outcomes in Arkansas are dismal.

Sarah Sanders:
  • Oversees one of the worst rated states in the country for overall health, women's health and children's health.
  • Supported the "Big Beautiful Bill", which slashed federal healthcare funds and allowed ACA subsidies to expire at the end of 2025. This has driven up all of our healthcare costs in 2026.
  • Wants to implement work requirements on Medicaid, which threaten to kick thousands off coverage, including working people in unreliable industries.
  • Negotiated a 22% increase in healthcare premiums for Arkansans, higher than the national average.
  • Refuses to extend Medicaid coverage for new moms from 60 days to 12 months. Arkansas is the only state in the country that refuses to do this.

Sarah Sanders doesn't care about us, our health or our kids. We deserve better.
starvoters pov: You could live an extra 6-7 years just by moving to another state.
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Gaslighting Us

When did it become okay for our leaders to lie to us? Do they think we're too stupid to check facts? Or do they just think that we're suckers that are easily manipulated and will fall for their con?

As White House Press Secretary, Sarah Sanders lied to the American people ALL. THE. TIME. If we can't trust her to tell us the truth, how can we trust her with our lives and futures?

We deserve leaders who aren't constantly gaslighting us.
starvoters pov: Truth matters.
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Letting Elon Musk and DOGE Cut Funds from Arkansas

We all want a government that works for us as efficiently and effectively as possible. Unfortunately our government doesn't always work that way, so reform is badly needed. Given how big and complicated the government is, it's a tough problem that needs well-thought out solutions, so that we don't make things worse.

That's not what we got.

Sarah Sanders led the cheerleading squad as billionaire and ketamine-addled chaos monkey Elon Musk and his DOGE goons chainsawed their way through the U.S. government, promising to save the government at least $2 trillion annually in waste, fraud and abuse. Because they had no idea what they were doing and no one to stop them, in the end our government suffered, people suffered, Arkansas suffered, government spending actually went UP and Elon Musk became even richer. Sarah Sanders DOGE Tweet Elon Musk and DOGE:
  • Had access to and exfiltrated (stole) all our sensitive personal information.
  • Kneecapped the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which had returned over $26 billion to the American people since 2011.
  • Attempted to cut $4 billion in funding for medical research.
  • Will cost the federal government an estimated $500 billion in lost tax revenue (that could pay for programs for us), due to cuts at the IRS.
  • Disrupted the federal response to the bird flu outbreak, which directly affected Arkansas.
  • Laid waste to the employees at several government departments, removing their top experts and most skilled practitioners, and making their services less effective for all of us. This badly affected veterans, who make up 30% of the federal workforce.
  • Destroyed USAID, which through its Food for Peace Program typically buys around $2 billion of American crops annually to distribute to impoverished countries. And some of that money usually comes to Arkansas, which produces roughly 40% of all rice in the U.S.
  • And the list goes on...

We'd like to thank you, Sarah Sanders, for doing absolutely nothing while an unelected South African big tech billionaire took a chainsaw to vital U.S. government functions, cut an estimated $364 million dollars worth of grants and leases from Arkansas, and completely failed to make the government more efficient. We deserve better.
starvoters pov: This was nothing but a giant con pulled on the American people.
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Grifting

We can all agree that our tax dollars shouldn't be used for our Governor's personal gain or to enrich her friends.

At the same time that Arkansas has the highest food insecurity rate in the entire United States, Sarah Sanders:
  • Has taken Arkansas tax-payer funded vacations boondoggles "trade missions" to Paris, the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, UAE & Israel, and South Korea & Japan with little to no benefit to Arkansans.
  • Hired her crony Joe Profiri as Corrections Secretary with a $210,000/year salary (plus a $40,000 bonus!), then rehired him as a "senior advisor" at almost $200K/year when he was fired.
  • Bought a mysteriously expensive $19,000 lectern that enriched her friends, and then tried to hide it.
  • Went to the 2025 Super Bowl, the most expensive football game of all time (at the time), and won't disclose how it was paid for.

Sarah Sanders treats OUR money like HER own personal piggy bank. We deserve better.
starvoters pov: Honesty and integrity matter. Especially for our elected officials.
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Forcing A Mega Prison on a Community That Doesn't Want It

We should have a voice in important decisions that affect our communities.

Sarah Sanders doesn't believe that. She secretly planned to build a mega prison in Franklin County without involving a single local official, utility, or community member and then sprung it on them. And despite the fact that the community doesn't want it, that all the data shows that it's not a suitable site, and that it will likely cost hundreds of millions of dollars more than she claims, she is still trying to ram it down their throats.

"The community feels a deep sense of betrayal, as they were given no say in a decision that will drastically change their lives, from property values to safety, to the very identity of their community."
- Governor Continues Push for Mega-Prison Plan on Small Arkansas Community

If Sarah Sanders can do this to the citizens of Franklin County, what could she do to your community?
starvoters pov: This prison plan makes absolutely no sense. Whose pocket is Sarah Sanders in?
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Supporting America's Secret Police Force, ICE

Whether white, black, or brown, we should all be able to live in America and exercise our constitutional rights without fear that law enforcement will turn on us.

But the current administration has created a secret police force that is abusing their power against anyone who stands in their way, U.S. citizen or not. They claim to be going after "the worst of the worst", but are taking daycare workers, day laborers, grandmas and kids who are valued members of our communities. And Sarah Sanders, staunch defender of the Second Amendment to fight back against government tyranny, is doing absolutely nothing while the government tyrannizes us. Worse than that, she's actually helping them.
  • ProPublica: They describe the legions of masked immigration officers operating in near-total anonymity on the orders of the president as the crossing of a line that had long set the United States apart from the world’s most repressive regimes. ICE, in their view, has become an unfettered and unaccountable national police force.
  • ProPublica: Accosting people outside of their immigration court hearings where they’re showing up and trying to do the right thing and then hauling them off to an immigration jail in the middle of the country where they can’t access loved ones or speak to counsel. Bands of masked men apprehending people in broad daylight in the streets and hauling them off. Disappearing people to a third country, to a prison where there’s a documented record of serious torture and human rights abuse.
  • New York Times: Masked and heavily armed, ICE agents are sent to cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles and Minneapolis to terrorize immigrant communities and brutalize people who challenge their efforts to stop and detain anyone deemed suspicious. To expand its reach, ICE greatly lowered its recruitment standards, effectively enlisting anyone who cares to sign up. To attract new officers, ICE advertises the chance to do violence to people deemed “enemies” of the United States, likening civil immigration enforcement to a war on a dangerous, alien force. The result is an agency whose agents’ first recourse appears to be violence or the threat of violence.
  • They are executing American citizens. On January 7, 2026 an ICE agent in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a mother of 3, by shooting her in the face as she tried to drive away. Then the killer walked away, and our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened. Decent politicians condemned the murder. What did Sarah Sanders have to say? Nothing.
  • They are executing American citizens: Part 2. On January 24, 2026 ICE agents in Minneapolis murdered an American citizen, a 37 year old ICU nurse, who was filming their activity and trying to help others. Then our government lied and tried to gaslight us about what happened.

If ICE can murder innocent U.S. citizens without repercussions, what could they do to you? ICE is out of control and a danger to us all - no one is safe. What's Sarah Sanders going to do about it? She's going to send the Arkansas National Guard to help them out and require county sheriffs to cooperate with ICE. We deserve better.
starvoters pov: Why are ICE officials at the Franklin County prison site? 🤔 Is Sarah Sanders trying to build a mega-detention center for ICE? Despicable.
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Trying to Take Away OUR Power

Our elected officials are supposed to reflect OUR will.

Sarah Sanders doesn't care about any of that. She thinks she's above the law:
  • She tried to gut Arkansas's FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) by pushing through a bill that would have allowed her and other top state officials to essentially operate in the dark.
  • While that didnt work, she was able to weaken the FOIA so that she could hide the details of her travel, so we can't see how she's wasting our money.
  • Her hand-picked members of the Arkansas Educational Television Commission voted to become the only state in the country to sever ties with PBS, despite that fact that a majority of Arkansans believe that it's important to have access to media that is educational and remains free from commercial influence.
  • She has eliminated billions of dollars of tax revenue by reducing the top-end personal and corporate income tax rates. So... Tax breaks for the 1%, nothing for everyone else, and this is why we can't have nice things.
  • She attempted to eliminate representation for 85,000+ Arkansans in Senate District 26 (home of Franklin County) and 30,000+ Arkansans in House District 70, by delaying the special elections for vacant seats for 5+ months longer than legally allowed, until she was forced to do the right thing by the courts.

Sarah Sanders doesn't work for you and doesn't want YOU telling HER what to do. We deserve better.
starvoters pov: Our elected officials should work for us, not the other way around.
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starvoters pov

Real talk, Arkansas: WTF are we doing even considering Sarah Sanders for another term? She is destroying our public schools, jet setting around the world with our money, bullying local communities and helping ensure that Arkansas is scraping the bottom of the barrel in every single quality-of-life metric. She lies to us and gaslights us, is assisting ICE as they become a threat to all Americans, cheered on Elon Musk as he killed millions in funding for Arkansas, is using our Governor's office for personal gain, and thinks that she's above the law and doesn't need to listen to us.

Do we really want another 4 YEARS of this?

There are candidates who want to make our lives better. For your sake, for your kids sake, for your family, friends, neighbors and fellow Arkansans sake, please vote for one of them. Don't let billionaire-manufactured culture wars and other BS distract you from what really matters. Because we all deserve a better life.
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...it's time for a change!
  • Violent Crime: #47
  • Murder: #44/49
  • Firearm Death: #43
  • Incarceration: #48
  • Overall Health: #49
  • Life Expectancy: #44
  • Food Insecurity: #50
  • Obesity: #47/48
  • Women's Health: #46
  • Child Well-being: #45
  • Teen Birth Rate: #49
  • Maternal Mortality: #36/39
  • Infant Mortality: #49
  • Household Income: #47
  • Poverty Rate: #45
  • Public Education: #38
  • Voter Turnout: #48
Overall Rank: #49
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