Senator J.D. Mesnard is a key architect of voter suppression and anti-LGBTQ+ laws, with close ties to a national hate group.

• State leader of Alliance Defending Freedom, a group that supports criminalizing same-sex relationships and sterilizing trans people; Mesnard has backed bans on abortion, gender-affirming care, and LGBTQ+ rights.
• Authored numerous voter suppression bills while admitting there is no evidence of fraud; his proposals would purge voter rolls, restrict mail voting, and make municipal elections partisan.
• Sponsored legislation to limit faculty governance, weaken unions, block mask mandates, and suppress discussions of race and gender in schools.
• Played a sonogram during debate to distract from a vote maintaining Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban; supported numerous anti-abortion bills targeting providers and patients.