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Austin Dyches

Austin Dyches

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Overview

Current roleProgram manager (U.S. Department of Defense)

PartyDemocratic

Political ideologyDemocratic Socialist

LocationMaryland

BackgroundProgram manager (U.S. Department of Defense)

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Notable personal detailsAustin Dyches is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Maryland’s 3rd Congressional District in the 2026 election cycle. He is a U.S. Army veteran and describes himself as a progressive Democrat and democratic socialist. He has worked as a Department of Defense program manager and has organized with the Frederick Democratic Socialists of America in the Mount Airy area.

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Positions

LiberalConservative

Economy & Taxes

Supports significant tax increases on the very wealthy and policy changes to raise revenue and expand social programs, including an annual wealth tax on fortunes above specified thresholds, taxing capital gains as ordinary income, closing carried interest and stepped-up basis loopholes, and major federal spending on programs such as Medicare for All and a $25 minimum wage.

Healthcare

Supports Medicare for All and universal healthcare; the campaign platform lists Medicare for All and states a commitment to universal healthcare and major public expansion of coverage.

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Immigration & Border

Supports abolishing ICE, creating a clear pathway to citizenship for the roughly 11 million undocumented people, closing private detention facilities, decriminalizing unauthorized border crossing, and repealing 1996 IIRIRA provisions that enable mass detention and expedited removal.

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

Supports codifying the right to abortion into federal law via the Women’s Health Protection Act, repealing the Hyde Amendment to ensure federal insurance covers abortion, protecting access to medication abortion and contraception, and guaranteeing the right to travel across state lines for reproductive care.

Climate & Energy

Supports the Green New Deal, a 100% clean energy target by 2035 with a just transition for fossil-fuel workers, ending fossil fuel subsidies, banning new fossil fuel leases on federal lands and waters, and protecting public lands from drilling and new pipelines.

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