Karishma Manzur

Karishma Manzur advocates for a bottom-up, pro-worker economy that raises wages, strengthens unions, and reduces the influence of money in politics. Her economic plan includes passing the PRO Act, raising the federal minimum wage to a living wage, expanding job training and apprenticeships, and overturning Citizens United to restore campaign finance transparency.

Karishma Manzur advocates a diplomacy-first, restraint-based foreign policy that ends 'blank checks' for war and increases congressional oversight of military action. She supports reducing U.S. involvement in overseas conflicts and prioritizing diplomacy, human rights, and peaceful, lawful solutions over broad military spending.

Civil Rights & Equality: Karishma Manzur positions civil rights and equality as central to her policy agenda, emphasizing defending constitutional rights, expanding democratic participation, and opposing discriminatory practices; she advocates for reducing the influence of money in politics to ensure government serves all Granite Staters.

Karishma Manzur advocates for universal, high-quality public education funded by federal and state partners—from pre-K through K-12, community colleges, and public universities—along with universal childcare to support families. She supports expanding apprenticeships and job-training, maintaining inclusive education policies, expanding the Child Tax Credit, and opposing federal school voucher programs.

Karishma Manzur supports sweeping democracy reform to curb money in politics, including overturning Citizens United, banning corporate PACs, dark money, and super PACs, and restoring public financing for campaigns. She also advocates stronger ethics rules, including banning stock trading by Members of Congress and a five-year cooling-off period before lobbying.

Karishma Manzur will tackle New Hampshire's local affordability crisis by expanding federal housing funding (HUD/Section 8), promoting union-built, energy-efficient housing, and restricting private equity in housing to stabilize rents. She also supports universal, affordable child care by expanding federal subsidies so families pay no more than 7% of income on care, and strengthening the Child Tax Credit to reduce the cost of living.