Sarah Sanders

3 years as Governor in Arkansas

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Governs One of the Worst-Ranked States in the Country and Hasn't Moved the Needle in 3 YEARS
Is Destroying Our Public Schools
Presides Over One of the Worst Health Systems in the Country
Lies to Our Faces
Let Elon Musk and DOGE Cut Funds from Arkansas
Has Been Spending Our Tax Dollars on Her Own Lavish Lifestyle
Tried to Force A Mega Prison on a Community That Doesn't Want It
Supports America's Secret Police Force, ICE
Is Trying to Take Away OUR Power as Citizens
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Oct 23, 2026

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Oct 15, 2026

Sarah Sanders Is Making Weekly Taxpayer-Funded 'Capital for a Day' Trips in the Final Weeks of Her Campaign. She Signed the Law That Hides What Her Travel Costs.

With weeks to go before she's on the ballot, Gov. Sarah Sanders has stepped up her 'Capital for a Day' tours to roughly once a week, bringing cabinet secretaries along on the state's dime. A former aide to her father says his administration stopped the trips at election time because it 'would be using taxpayer dollars to campaign.' The public can't see what they cost: Sanders signed a 2023 law shielding her travel records.

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Oct 11, 2026

Sarah Sanders Promised Longer Prison Sentences Would Fix Arkansas's Violent Crime. Three Years Later, It's the Fifth-Least-Safe State in America.

In 2023, Gov. Sarah Sanders signed a law keeping violent offenders locked up longer and said Arkansas's crime rate was 'no mistake.' A new WalletHub report ranks Arkansas the fifth-least-safe state in the country, and FBI data still puts it 47th for violent crime.

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Governs One of the Worst-Ranked States in the Country and Hasn't Moved the Needle in 3 YEARS

Sarah Sanders has run Arkansas since 2023 — long enough to own the results. And on nearly every measure of how we actually live — whether we're safe, healthy, fed, educated, or able to get ahead — Arkansas sits near the rock bottom of all 50 states.

Arkansas ranks #49 out of 50 states overall. Under Sarah Sanders, that hasn't budged.

We're not safe. Arkansas ranks #47 for violent crime, #44 of 49 for murder, #43 for firearm deaths, and #48 for incarceration — we lock up more of our own people than almost any state, and we're still less safe.
We're not healthy. Arkansas ranks #49 of 50 for overall health, #44 for life expectancy (we die younger), and #47 of 48 for obesity.
We're the most food-insecure state in America. Arkansas ranks dead last — #50 of 50 — for food insecurity. No state struggles to put food on the table more than we do.
Our moms and kids are paying the price. Arkansas ranks #46 for women's health, #43 for child well-being, #49 for teen birth rate, #36 of 39 for maternal mortality, and #49 for infant mortality — our babies die at nearly the highest rate in the country.
We can't get ahead. Arkansas ranks #47 for household income, #45 for poverty, and #37 for public education.
And we're shut out of our own democracy. Arkansas ranks #48 for voter turnout — near the bottom for the share of us who actually get to have a say.

Add it all up and Arkansas ranks #49 out of 50 states overall. These aren't abstract numbers — they're whether we're safe, whether we can see a doctor, whether our kids have a future, and whether we can pay our bills. Sarah Sanders has had years to change our trajectory, and on issue after issue we're still near dead last. We deserve better.

Is 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 ate more than $309 million of our taxpayer dollars in a single school year — 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 voucher tax credits.
Research shows that kids who use vouchers actually get worse educations.
Voucher money has been used to subsidize activities that include horseback riding lessons and ninja warrior training — and a $92.55 cake-decorating class at a Fayetteville bakery.

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.

Presides Over One of the Worst Health Systems in the Country

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. The last time Arkansas tried this, as many as 18,000 Arkansans were kicked off the rolls in 10 months before the courts blocked it.
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.

Lies to Our Faces

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?

A few examples:

She made up a claim and admitted it to federal investigators. After Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, Sanders told reporters that "countless" rank-and-file FBI agents had lost confidence in him. The Mueller report revealed she had no evidence for it — she told investigators it was a "slip of the tongue" that was "not founded on anything."
She defended ripping families apart as "very biblical." Asked from the briefing room podium to justify the Trump administration taking migrant children from their parents, Sanders said "it is very biblical to enforce the law."
She wildly inflated a terrorism scare. Sanders claimed nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists were caught crossing the southern border in a single year. The administration's own data showed that over the first half of that fiscal year, the number of people in the terrorism database stopped at the southern border was six.
She pushed a doctored video to punish a reporter. To justify revoking CNN reporter Jim Acosta's press pass, Sanders tweeted a misleadingly altered video — sped up to make a routine exchange look like he assaulted a White House intern — that had been promoted hours earlier by the conspiracy site Infowars.

We deserve leaders who aren't constantly gaslighting us.

Let 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.

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 farm commodities annually to distribute to impoverished countries. And some of that money usually comes to Arkansas, which produces more than 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 $237 million dollars worth of grants and leases from Arkansas, and completely failed to make the government more efficient. We deserve better.

Has Been Spending Our Tax Dollars on Her Own Lavish Lifestyle

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 and, without the prison board's approval, handed him a $40,000-a-year raise that took his salary to $210,000. When the board fired him, she put him straight back on our payroll as a "senior advisor" at $201,699 a year.
Bought a mysteriously expensive $19,029 lectern from a company owned by a friend of hers, and then tried to hide it.
Went to the 2024 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.

Tried to Force 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. On Halloween 2024 she announced that the state had already bought 815 acres in Franklin County for a 3,000-bed prison — the largest in Arkansas history — without involving a single local official, utility, or community member. The people who live there found out when the rest of us did.

"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

She hid the purchase. Emails pried loose by public records requests showed state officials had intentionally concealed the land deal — and were passing around South Park clips to mock the residents who objected. The 815 acres cost us $2.9 million.
She lowballed the price. The first public figure Sanders gave was $470 million. Emails showed the initial estimate from an architectural firm was $1.2 billion — more than two and a half times what she told us. By the time her allies asked the Legislature for the money, the total had climbed to $825 million.
The community showed up, and she ignored them. More than 1,800 people packed the Charleston High School gym a week after the announcement to tell the state no. It did not change her mind. The site also proved unsuitable for a prison geologically, hydrologically and infrastructurally.
Her own Republican Senate killed it — five times. Spending bills need 27 of the 35 state Senate votes. On the fifth and final try in 2025, the $750 million appropriation got 21 votes — six short, with seven of the nine "no" votes cast by Republicans. Sen. Bryan King (R-Green Forest) called the project "fiscally irresponsible" and said the "only winners" would be the contractors hired to build it.
Then she tried to purge the Republicans who stopped her — and went 0 for 3. In the March 2026 primaries she hand-picked a challenger against Sen. Ron Caldwell, who had voted against the prison money all five times; Caldwell won with about 70% of the vote. She backed a challenger against Bryan King, who took 60%. And she backed Sen. Blake Johnson, who lost his seat outright.
She still won't admit she was wrong. The project has been on hold for months with no work done beyond routine upkeep, and she didn't request construction money in her budget for the coming year. But she still says she has "yet to see a better alternative than the Franklin County location." The land sits empty.

Two years, $2.9 million of our money, and an empty field. Sarah Sanders picked this fight with a rural county the state never bothered to consult, lost it inside her own party, then tried to punish the Republicans who beat her and lost that too. Today one of the men who led the opposition, Colt Shelby, is on the ballot against her in November.

If Sarah Sanders can do this to the citizens of Franklin County, what could she do to your community? We deserve better.

Supports 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.

Is Trying to Take Away OUR Power as Citizens

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 didn't 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 ratified a decision making Arkansas the first state in the country to sever ties with PBS — this despite 78% of Arkansans supporting PBS content, according to a board member who voted against it.
She has kept cutting the top personal and corporate income tax rates. Arkansas now loses about $1.8 billion a year in general revenue to those cuts. So... Tax breaks for the 1%, nothing for everyone else, and this is why we can't have nice things.
She tried to leave 30,000 Arkansans in House District 70 — and the whole of Senate District 26, home of Franklin County — without a representative through the Legislature's spring session, scheduling the special elections for those vacant seats 152 days past the deadline state law sets. She moved them up only after the courts ordered her to, and called those orders "unlawful" while complying.

Sarah Sanders doesn't work for you and doesn't want YOU telling HER what to do. We deserve better.

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