United States Representative and Democratic candidate for U.S. House in New Hampshire's 2nd district.
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The Libertarian Party of New Hampshire's X account said it backs assassinating elected Democrats and that anyone unwilling should vote Republican instead. Officials from both parties condemned the post; the party called its statements legal, and its chair described them as self-defense.
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The Washington Post, citing six anonymous officials, reports at least 22 or 23 service member deaths in the Iran war, against 18 in the Pentagon's public database. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth calls the report fake; the Post says it stands by it.
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An issue tracker recording where members of Congress and 2026 midterm candidates stand on the unauthorized Iran war, based on their votes on war-powers resolutions, campaign statements, and public remarks.
Role at the time: U.S. Representative for New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district
Statement summary
U.S. Representative Maggie Goodlander condemned the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire's post as a call for murder and called for a law enforcement investigation.
“I condemn, with every fiber of my being, the threats of and calls for murder from the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire, ... You can disagree with someone as deeply as humanly possible. But in the United States of America you cannot call for their killing and go unpunished.”
Relative to the fixed reference point, Goodlander condemned the post as an unpunishable call for killing, which condemns the conduct.
Role at the time: U.S. Representative for New Hampshire's 2nd District, on her official X account (@RepGoodlander), with a shorter version on her official Bluesky account
Statement summary
In an X post linking the Washington Post's report, Rep. Maggie Goodlander (D-N.H.) says the matter is a betrayal, not a bookkeeping error, and that she and colleagues are leading a bill that will prevent Hegseth and the Pentagon "from covering up troop casualties".
“This is not a bookkeeping error — it is a betrayal.”
Goodlander, in a post linking the Post's report, rejects a bookkeeping-error explanation, calls the matter a betrayal, and says she is leading a bill to prevent Hegseth and the Pentagon from covering up troop casualties, which expressly denounces the Pentagon's accounting and disclosure. The closest competing label is “Challenged the characterization”, because she rejects the bookkeeping-error description. That loses because she goes on to denounce the conduct itself and to attribute concealment to the Pentagon, rather than only disputing how the discrepancy is described.
Role at the time: U.S. Representative, New Hampshire 2nd district
Statement summary
Maggie Goodlander voted Yea on H.Con.Res. 93, the House resolution directing the President to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.
“On Agreeing to the Resolution: Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.”
A yea vote supported directing the President to remove U.S. Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran, opposing continued U.S. involvement in the war without congressional authorization.
Statement dates: September 15, 2026
Statement dates: September 15, 2026
Statement dates: September 18, 2026
Statement dates: September 18, 2026
Statement dates: September 23, 2026
Statement dates: September 15, 2026 to September 18, 2026
