Arizona's 3rd District: the race with no Republican on the ballot

Yassamin Ansari (Democrat, incumbent)

Key votes and record items:

• Laken Riley Act: NO (January 7, 2025). She was the only Arizona House member to vote no. Her statement: the murder of Laken Riley "was a horrific tragedy," but the bill "will do nothing to prevent this kind of violence or reform our broken immigration system" and "serves as a license to discriminate against our immigrant communities, including DREAMers;" "someone charged, just charged, not found guilty, could be immediately deported. This is a gross miscarriage of justice, and I voted no."
• One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1): NO on final passage (July 3, 2025). In July 2026 she joined Rep. Stanton in Phoenix warning that the law's Medicaid and SNAP cuts were costing Arizonans coverage.
• ICE and Border Patrol funding bill: NO (June 9, 2026), on the reconciliation bill sending roughly $70 billion to ICE and Border Patrol; all Arizona Republicans voted yes. She called the bill "disgusting" and "one of the most extreme immigration bills we have ever seen."
• SAVE Act: outspoken opponent (April 2025): she co-authored an op-ed against it and spoke against it on the floor. Her final roll call vote is not separately confirmed in the sources reviewed (see Verification notes).
• Crypto, a genuine party-break pair (July 17, 2025): YES on the CLARITY Act (digital asset market structure) and NO on the GENIUS Act (the stablecoin bill, which passed 308 to 122), per Stand With Crypto and the Freedom Index scorecard. She later cosponsored a "Ban Crypto Corruption" resolution.
• Signature action: lead sponsor of H. Res. 1177, articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, filed April 15, 2026, alleging an unauthorized war in Iran, violations of the laws of armed conflict, reckless handling of sensitive military information, obstruction of oversight, and abuse of power. Her statement: "Pete Hegseth broke his oath to the Constitution, put U.S. troops at grave risk through the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, engaged in abuse of office and conduct beneath the dignity of his office, and carried out unlawful military actions despite his obligation to refuse." The resolution was referred to Judiciary and never received a floor vote.
• Bills introduced: the Housing Vouchers Fairness Act (with Sen. Ruben Gallego), a House companion to the Excess Urban Heat Mitigation Act, the Heating and Cooling Relief Act expanding LIHEAP (with Sen. Edward Markey), an orphaned oil wells cleanup bill led with Sen. Michael Bennet, and a bill limiting stays at ICE holding centers to 12 hours; she has repeatedly pressed ICE over conditions at its Mesa facility.

Stated priorities: her campaign homepage leads with "rein in ICE and protect immigrant communities, defend reproductive freedom, and advance a bold agenda to lower costs for Arizonans," plus anti-corruption work on Oversight including demanding "justice for survivors in the Epstein case." Her own summary of her 2026 focus: "an affordability agenda to make housing, health care, and energy bills more affordable." Canvass themes she lists: "getting ICE out of our communities, lowering housing costs, and tackling extreme heat."

Money (FEC, as of September 30, 2026): raised $1,626,664, spent $1,282,755, with $354,320 on hand. She is, by orders of magnitude, the only funded candidate in this race.

Attacks and her answers: there is no personal scandal in the record found; the attacks on her are policy attacks, chiefly over the Laken Riley and immigration votes, answered in her own statement above. The Pentagon answered her Hegseth impeachment by calling it headline-seeking: Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson told USA TODAY Ansari is "just another Democrat trying to make headlines" and called the filing "just another charade in an attempt to distract the American people from the major successes we have had here at the Department of War." Her answer is the impeachment statement quoted above. A televised forum for this race was held with Aversa and Redkey; Ansari did not participate, and no on-record response from her about skipping it was found, so none is invented here. In July 2026 she also called for Barron Trump to testify before Oversight about reported contacts with Andrew and Tristan Tate; the sourcing on that episode is weaker than the rest of this page (see Verification notes).

David Redkey (Green Party)

How he got on the ballot: he won the Green nomination as a write-in in the July 21 primary with 5 votes.

Stated priorities: campaign brand "Build Jobs / Not Bombs," and a platform he calls "Foundation Economics," "putting people over profits and restoring integrity to government," with the stated core belief: "The measure of a country's success is measured by the quality of life of its poorest people." Policy list from his voter guide profile: affordable and accessible health care through a proposed "TRICARE Prime for All" system; economic security for working families; affordable higher education; stronger public schools; housing affordability; progressive tax reform.

Money: no FEC filing over $5,000 was found, and no FEC committee totals for Redkey were located at all. The accurate statement is: no meaningful federal campaign finance record located as of October 27, 2026.

The arrest, and his response: on September 19, 2026, Redkey was arrested for sending what authorities describe as threats of violence to a Superior Court judge and an attorney's office, per azcentral (September 22, 2026), citing the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and court records; MCSO said he "admitted to the communications." He faces felony charges of computer tampering and using electronic communication to intimidate, threaten, or harass, plus a misdemeanor count of threatening or intimidating. At his first court appearance, Deputy County Attorney Stephen Garcia said the emails included references to a gun, "a gun which was never recovered," and argued the threats put the judge's and attorney's children and others in public service in "real danger." Bond was set at $150,000. Redkey, wearing a shirt reading "being against genocide" over American and Palestinian flags, shook his head in disagreement while the prosecutor spoke, and told the judge he did not have the money to post bail and therefore would not be able to campaign anymore. That is the entirety of his on-record response found. No later statement, plea, or case disposition was found as of October 27, 2026, and whether he remains in custody is unknown from available sources. He participated in the televised forum for this race before the arrest.

Alan Aversa (No Labels Party)

Stated priorities (his campaign site): he runs, in his three-line voter guide statement, "to give voters a choice beyond the Republican-Democrat uniparty 'choice,'" "to protect Arizona parents' right to choose how to educate their children," and "to defend the right to life from conception onward." Life: total opposition to abortion, argued from the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble, and the 14th Amendment. Education: parents are children's first educators; he opposes promoting "transgender, CRT (critical race theory), and other scientifically dubious theories and ideologies in schools, especially without parents' knowledge or consent." Economics, in distributist framing: "We must return to the land. Local, sustainable farming is the solution to the unemployment crisis. The means of production (capital) must be equitably distributed and decentralized, not centralized in the hands of the few." Foreign policy: "America first," against U.S. involvement and funding of wars by Israel, Ukraine, Iran, "and elsewhere" (his site's wording and characterizations are his campaign's, not verified fact).

Money: effectively none. One FEC-data aggregator lists $523 raised and $0 cash on hand through July 1, 2026; no filing over $5,000 was found. The safe statement: no significant FEC-reported fundraising.

Attacks and coverage: none found in news coverage. The notable facts are structural, not scandal: he is running under a party label whose own Arizona organization does not list him as endorsed, and he is a repeat candidate who ran on the Green line in 2024. No response from Aversa to the non-endorsement was found.

Jacob Parkman (Republican, write-in only, not printed on the ballot)

Stated priorities (his campaign site, "A Commitment to God, Country, Constitution & Community"): a 16-point conservative platform covering religious liberty and limited government; family and community networks over "permanent government dependency;" education reform including homeschool support and merged high school and community college pathways; health care choice through price transparency, competition, and telehealth; Social Security reform protecting current beneficiaries while giving future generations "greater ownership, investment choice, and retirement assets;" Medicare modernization; small business and deregulation; securing the border and enforcing immigration law while protecting legal immigration; public safety; the Second Amendment; veterans; Arizona water stewardship; energy; science, technology, and AI; foreign policy and defense; and government accountability. Signature line: "I believe public office is a responsibility, not a privilege."

Money: Ballotpedia states that campaign finance information for this candidate is not yet available from the FEC, and no filing over $5,000 was found. The accurate statement: no FEC filing located as of October 27, 2026.

Attacks and coverage: none found. There is essentially no news coverage of his candidacy beyond FOX 10's explainer noting his write-in status.

What the forecasters say

Unanimous and at the safest tier: Cook Political Report Solid D, Inside Elections Solid D, Sabato's Crystal Ball Safe D, Decision Desk HQ Safe D, The Economist Safe D. Ballotpedia News summarized the structure in June 2026: "The 3rd Congressional District is guaranteed to Democrats because no Republicans will appear on the ballot." In a D+22 district where the incumbent won by 44 points in 2024, the live questions on this ballot are not who wins, but how the three printed challengers and one write-in sort out underneath, and what a voter who wants a non-Democratic option is actually choosing among: a Green nominee his own party opposes and who faces felony charges, a No Labels nominee his party does not list as endorsed, or a Republican whose name must be written in.