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COMING SOON!¶ How To Win Against Doug Mastriano
Doug Mastriano would not fight for Pennsylvanians, but instead would continue to further his and Trump’s extreme agenda. Mastriano could not be trusted to protect Pennsylvanians’ access to health care due to his opposition to the Affordable Care Act and plans that threatened Medicaid funding. Mastriano previously called for the suspension of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and threatened the confidentiality protections of medical patients. Mastriano supported Trump’s devastating tariffs that were harming Pennsylvania small businesses and increasing costs. He wanted to create a Pennsylvania DOGE, even as Trump’s DOGE cuts were affecting Social Security recipients; defunding Pennsylvania universities, farmers, and food banks; and federal workers in Pennsylvania were losing their jobs. Mastriano opposed clean energy tax credits that were meant to support clean energy jobs in Pennsylvania, and he supported legislative measures that harmed Pennsylvania’s environment. Mastriano was an anti-abortion extremist, sponsoring an extreme abortion ban without exceptions that would charge women with murder for abortions later in pregnancy. Mastriano, who spread baseless claims of voter fraud, supported measures to restrict voting rights that could result in the disenfranchisement of many Pennsylvanians. Mastriano faced several scandals over his election denialism, far-right extremism, and academic integrity. Mastriano was a January 6 insurrectionist who was investigated and subpoenaed for his involvement in the insurrection, sending fake electors, and trying to overturn the 2020 election. Mastriano was a Christian Nationalist and far-right extremist who made antisemitic remarks, posted Islamophobic content, and promoted QAnon conspiracies. Mastriano’s doctoral research was scrutinized for being “atrocious” and “dishonest,” historians criticized his published book for being inaccurate, and he received backlash over his academic papers justifying civilian deaths.
¶ Mastriano Opposed The Affordable Care Act And Threatened Medicaid Funding
- Mastriano mocked the Affordable Care Act, even though it allowed Pennsylvania to expand Medicaid and increase access to health care. Mastriano compared the federal health care law to socialism and shared a post claiming it “fined” Americans “for not buying health insurance.” More than 496,000 Pennsylvanians were enrolled in Affordable Care Act Marketplace health insurance plans.
- Mastriano previously announced a plan to cut Medicaid funds in order to pay for the expansion of nursing homes, even though nearly 3 million Pennsylvanians rely on Medicaid.
Message: Mastriano could not be trusted to protect Pennsylvanians’ access to health care.
¶ Mastriano Threatened The Privacy Rights Of Medical Patients
- Prior to becoming a COVID-19 skeptic, Mastriano threatened the privacy rights of medical patients. In March 2020, Mastriano proposed for the state and federal government to roll back medical privacy protections for COVID-19 patients. Mastriano proposed a measure to suspend HIPAA, chastised the federal government for “not proactively” rolling back medical privacy protections, and called HIPAA a “dangerous policy.” He also urged Trump to suspend the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and called for legislation to eliminate confidentiality protections in Pennsylvania.
Message: Mastriano threatened the confidentiality protections of medical patients.
¶ Mastriano Supported TRUMP’S Devastating TARIFFS
- In 2025, Mastriano supported Trump’s tariffs, which were dooming Pennsylvanians to a trade war and rising prices.
- Tariffs are contributing to higher food prices and are hurting Pennsylvania small businesses and families. From January to May 2025, Pennsylvanians faced an estimated cost of $1.6 billion in tariffs. Despite this, Mastriano called Trump’s tariffs “‘reciprocal’ to level the playing field,” even as the U.S. stock market crashed due to Trump’s escalating global trade war.
Message: Mastriano supported Trump’s disastrous tariffs that harmed Pennsylvania small businesses and ensured Pennsylvanians will pay more for groceries.
¶ Mastriano stood by while trump attacked social security and fired hard-working Pennsylvanians
- In 2025, Mastriano praised Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency” as DOGE-driven cuts and downsizing were affecting the federal government’s ability to deliver services to seniors. Nearly 3 million Pennsylvanians relied on Social Security benefits.
- Mastriano promoted DOGE, even sponsoring legislation to create a Pennsylvania DOGE, despite it resulting in federal funding cuts to Pennsylvania agencies and universities, and impacting food banks and farmers. Mastriano supported DOGE cuts as Trump threatened the livelihoods of approximately 75,000 federal workers in Pennsylvania.
Message: While Social Security lines grew and Pennsylvania workers were laid off, Mastriano did nothing to help them.
¶ Mastriano Threatened Clean Energy Jobs In Pennsylvania
- Mastriano opposed the Inflation Reduction Act’s clean energy tax credits, calling the law a “misnomer, at best, to distract from the billion in handouts it awards to green energy.” In 2025, Trump and Congressional Republicans repealed clean energy tax credits and made them harder to access, threatening clean energy jobs in Pennsylvania. Since the beginning of the Trump administration, clean energy projects that were projected to create hundreds of jobs in Pennsylvania were cancelled, such as the Mineral Basin Solar Power and Pennsylvania’s biggest solar array on the site of an old coal mine.
- Mastriano also denied climate change, claiming it was a theory based on “pop science,” and voted to prevent Pennsylvania from joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. Mastriano also introduced legislation calling for new energy plants to be exempt from EPA regulations and voted for legislation that would ease restrictions on polluters.
Message: Mastriano was a threat to Pennsylvania’s environment and supported killing clean energy job opportunities and clean energy initiatives.
¶ Mastriano Was An Anti-Abortion Extremist
- Although Doug Mastriano tried to soften his tone on abortion during his 2022 gubernatorial run, Mastriano was an anti-abortion extremist.
- Mastriano said he wanted “abortion to end, period,” and sponsored legislation to ban abortion at six weeks without any exceptions. Mastriano admitted his abortion ban would charge women with murder if they got abortions later in pregnancy. He also voted to create a constitutional amendment that denied Pennsylvanians of the right to an abortion, and scrutinized Governor Wolf’s legal challenges to the amendment.
- Mastriano celebrated the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and called the day Roe v. Wade was first decided “one of the darkest days in American history.” He claimed that life began at conception, and called abortion a “barbaric Holocaust.” Mastriano dismissed bodily autonomy, claiming that “my body my choice is ridiculous nonsense.”
Message: Mastriano threatened the reproductive freedoms of Pennsylvanians.
¶ Mastriano Threatened The Voting Rights Of Pennsylvanians
- Mastriano, who made baseless claims about election fraud, supported measures that threatened the voting rights of Pennsylvanians.
- Although he voted for Act 77 in 2019, which expanded mail-in voting in Pennsylvania, Mastriano supported legislation to repeal no-excuse mail-in voting.
- Despite it violating federal law, Mastriano said he wanted every Pennsylvanian to re-register to vote.
- Mastriano introduced legislation to purge Pennsylvania’s voter rolls, and voted for a constitutional amendment to mandate voter I.D. in Pennsylvania.
- Mastriano co-sponsored and voted for legislation to ban the use of ballot drop boxes and co-sponsored and voted for legislation to ban private funds for elections administration.
- Mastriano sponsored and voted for the Poll Watcher Empowerment Act, claiming reforms to partisan election observers would “restore trust and integrity in elections.”
Message: Mastriano’s threats to voting rights would disenfranchise many Pennsylvanians.
¶ Mastriano Was An Insurrectionist And Threat To Democracy
- Mastriano was an election denier who tried to overturn Pennsylvania’s 2020 election results and was Trump’s “point person” in Pennsylvania to help organize fake electors in the commonwealth. The FBI questioned Mastriano over his involvement at the insurrection, and the January 6th committee subpoenaed Mastriano for sending fake elections, trying to overturn the election, and participating in the insurrection. Mastriano repeatedly lied about his involvement and connections to the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
- Mastriano claimed he left the riot when it no longer became peaceful but stayed long enough to see rioters breach the Capitol building.
- Mastriano claimed he did not “go beyond police lines” but was recorded crossing police lines as rioters threw police barricades to the side.
- Mastriano claimed he did not condone the violence at the Capitol building but spent more than $3,000 in campaign funds to pay for rioters to travel to the Capitol, one of whom was later arrested for carrying a weapon.
- Mastriano denied knowing Sam Lazar, an Ephrata man who was arrested for assaulting police officers at the Capitol with pepper spray, but Mastriano had been photographed several times with Lazar.
Message: Mastriano was a danger to democracy and repeatedly lied about his involvement in the January 6 insurrection.
¶ Mastriano Made Anti-Semitic Remarks And Was At Odds With Pennsylvania’s Jewish Community
- After his failed 2022 gubernatorial bid, Mastriano compared the churches that did not publicly endorse him to enablers of the Holocaust. During his 2022 run for Pennsylvania governor, Mastriano faced several scandals that put him at odds with the Jewish community.
- Mastriano’s consultant and GAB CEO, Andrew Torba, said he did not want Jews or atheists in his movement, and Mastriano pushed back against criticism for his ties to the social media platform GAB.
- Mastriano’s campaign paid $5,000 to GAB, the same website that the Tree of Life shooter frequently used, for “consulting services.” A few days after the payment, the Founder and CEO of GAB, Andrew Torba, endorsed Mastriano’s campaign.
- Mastriano downplayed criticisms after he called Josh Shapiro’s children’s Jewish day school “privileged, exclusive, and elite.”
- At a campaign event, Mastriano said “we are starting to look like East Germany.”
- At another campaign event, Mastriano supporters were instructed to salute similar to the “Heil Hitler” salute.
- After Mastriano’s campaign event appropriated Jewish symbols, a group of Jewish organizations in Pennsylvania urged Mastriano to apologize and denounce Christian efforts to appropriate Jewish rituals.
Message: Mastriano disrespected Pennsylvania’s Jewish community.
¶ Mastriano Was A Christian Nationalist And Far-Right Extremist
- Although he denied it, Mastriano embodied the Christian Nationalist movement and called the separation of church and state a “myth.”
- Mastriano was an extremist who ran a memes Facebook group and posted offensive and Islamophobic content.
- In 2022, Mastriano also promoted QAnon conspiracies on his social media, attended a far-right conference promoting QAnon, and touted the endorsement of Rabbi Joseph Kolakowski, who spoke favorably of the QAnon movement and claimed Hitler was part lizard.
- In 2017, Mastriano posed in a Confederate uniform for a faculty photo at the Army War College. In 2022, Mastriano thanked pro-Confederate armed men for supposedly defending a General Lee statue.
Message: Mastriano is too extreme and far-right for Pennsylvania.
¶ Mastriano Earned His Doctorate On “Shaky Grounds”
- In 2024, Mastriano sued the University of Brunswick due to the criticism his academic research received. In 2022, University of Brunswick Professor Jeffrey Brown, Mastriano’s doctoral program advisor, said Mastriano earned his PhD on “shaky grounds.” Brown argued Mastriano’s doctoral research was “atrocious,” “dishonest,” and “sloppy,” and described Mastriano as a “dangerous religious zealot.” Following Brown’s allegations, the University of Brunswick said they would review internal processes for awarding doctorates. Additionally, historians scrutinized Mastriano’s book about World War I Sgt. Alvin York for being incorrect.
- In 2002, Mastriano wrote an academic paper that called the U.S. military’s “hypersensitivity to civilian deaths” an “enormous weakness.” He further added that U.S. war strategies were predictable and claimed Saddam Husein took advantage of their “reluctance to bomb civilian targets.”
- In 2001, Mastriano published his thesis which warned that the U.S. would be vulnerable to a left-wing “Hitlerian Putsch” that would dismantle the military and further destroy democracy. He further described how the future collapse of the U.S. military would lead to the rise of a left-wing leader obsessed with “political correctness” in a struggle that would ultimately kill millions of Americans.
Message: Mastriano lacked integrity in academia and lacks integrity to fight for Pennsylvanians.
¶ Issue Back-Ups
¶ Doug Mastriano's Policies Have Hurt Everyday People
| Mastriano Would Threaten Pennsylvanians’ Access To Health Care
| Mastriano Threatened The Privacy Rights Of Medical Patients
| Mastriano Backed Trump's Tariffs, Endangering Pennsylvania’s Economy
| Mastriano Won't Defend Pennsylvania Jobs Or Social Security From Trump
| Mastriano Opposed Protecting Pennsylvania’s Clean Energy Jobs
| Mastriano Was An Anti-Abortion Extremist
| Mastriano Threatened The Voting Rights Of Pennsylvanians
¶ Doug Mastriano Used His Power To Benefit The Powerful And Himself
¶ Doug Mastriano’s Extremism And Scandals
- | Mastriano’s Ties To Anti-Semitism
| Mastriano Was A Christian Nationalist And Far-Right Extremist
| Mastriano Faced Backlash Over His Doctoral Research, Published Book, And Academic Papers
| Mastriano’s Key Votes As A Member Of The Pennsylvania Senate