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Meet Tom

Tom Cotton was born and raised on his family’s cattle farm in Arkansas, served as an Army infantry officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, and is fighting for working Americans in the U.S. Senate.

“We are living in unmistakably troubling times. We must meet them with unmistakable strength and resolve.”

The tragic attacks of September 11, 2001 occurred during Tom’s final year of law school and changed his life’s trajectory.

After clerking on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and spending a short time in private law practice, he joined the United States Army as an Infantry Officer, spending nearly five years on active duty.

Called to serve.

Tom completed combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan, where he served with the 101st Airborne and a Provincial Reconstruction Team.

Between his two combat tours he served as a platoon leader with the Old Guard at Arlington National Cemetery, the unit responsible for military honors funerals.

Tom’s military decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, Combat Infantry Badge, and Ranger Tab.

Your United States Senator

Tom Cotton has served Arkansas in the U.S. Senate since 2015 and is a sixth-generation Arkansan who was born and raised on his family’s cattle farm in Yell County. He graduated from Dardanelle High School before going to Harvard and Harvard Law School.

Prior to his decisive election to the Senate, Tom worked as a management consultant and served one term in the House of Representatives.

“We will govern with strength, pride, and honor, just as Reagan did.” — Sen. Tom Cotton

Delivering for America.

From day one, Tom has fought the tough battles for Arkansans and Americans, and he’s delivered real results in the Senate.

Stopping CRT

Tom Cotton was the first U.S. Senator to put forward a plan to stop toxic critical race theory, the 1619 Project. And he is the only Senator to have an anti-CRT provision pass the Senate.

Rebuilding America’s military strength

When the Army rolled out its initiative to weaken physical fitness standards for our troops, Tom took action, and the plan has been reversed. And he’s been pivotal to passing laws that give our troops pay raises and our veterans the critical care they deserve.

Stopping radical nominees

In 2021, Joe Biden nominated David Chipman — a gun-grabbing radical and conspiracy theorist — to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. Tom led the fight to stop this nomination, just as he’s led the opposition to other extreme Biden nominees.

Abandoning the Iran nuclear deal

Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran was a disaster from the beginning. One of the first things Tom did in the Senate was expose it — and he was instrumental in the decision to withdraw from the deal once President Trump took office.

Keeping criminals in jail

Tom knows that we need to put hardened, career criminals where they belong — behind bars. While other Republicans joined Democrats in pushing for reduced sentences, Tom stopped a plan that would have freed sex offenders from prison.

Repealing Obamacare’s mandate

Obamacare’s individual mandate was a tax on 60,000 Arkansas families and countless others across America. In 2017, Tom led the fight to repeal the individual mandate, and he succeeded, saving working families from costly IRS tax penalties.

At a time when America is under assault and our way of life is under attack…

We must never retreat. We must never surrender. We must never back down.

Only the strong can survive in a dangerous world. Only the strong can preserve their freedom. Only the strong can protect the weak. Only the strong can afford to be merciful.

I’m fighting for policies that put Arkansas first and make America strong again.

  • Securing our border and changing our immigration system to put America’s workers first.
  • Getting anti-American propaganda out of our schools and military.
  • Declaring a new war on crime that won’t stop until our streets are safe.
  • Ending our dependence on China and getting tough on the Chinese Communist Party.

On the Issues

Learn more about where Tom stands on the issues that matter to families in Arkansas and across America.

China

Communist China is our most dangerous enemy, and no country has been harmed by its crimes more than our own.

We must end our economic dependence on China, decouple our supply chains, ban American investment in strategic Chinese industries, protect American intellectual property rights, and punish offshoring American jobs to China. And we must hold China’s communist regime accountable for the virus it unleashed on the world.

Immigration

Joe Biden opened our border and created a crisis. I fully support what President Trump has done to surge resources to our border and end this invasion. Our policy is simple: The right amount of illegal immigration is zero.

Now, we need to keep getting criminal illegals out of our country, and we need to end chain migration and move to a system that selects immigrants with valuable skills.

I’ve put forward a plan to overhaul our legal immigration system, called the RAISE Act.

Inflation

Joe Biden drove up inflation by spending trillions we don’t have and declaring war on American energy. President Trump and Senate Republicans are undoing the damage.

I was proud to vote for the Big Beautiful Bill that delivered the largest tax cut in American history and unleashed American energy.

Defending Life

The Supreme Court has sent Roe v. Wade to the dustbin of history, but the work continues. We must support and elect conservatives who will defend life, and we must advocate for policies at all levels of government that protect the rights of the unborn.

Law and Order

Our Founders knew that one of the government’s main roles is protecting our people from crime and the breakdown of law and order. But liberals who support policies like defunding police, ending cash bail, releasing violent drug traffickers, and refusing to prosecute crimes have unleashed a crime wave across our country.

It’s time to declare a new war on crime that doesn’t stop until our streets are safe. We need to lock up violent criminals, strengthen sentences, and enforce the law.

Rebuilding Our Military

Our troops have been hamstrung by years of budget cuts and social engineering. It’s time to rebuild an American military that’s second to none.

We need to reverse the Democrats’ budget cuts, revive our shipyards and industrial base, and bring the Arsenal of Democracy roaring back to life. And we need to refocus our military away from liberal obsessions and back to defeating America&s enemies.

Second Amendment

We don’t need more gun control laws. We need to lock up violent criminals. The Second Amendment is a critical Constitutional right that must be protected — be it from Democrats in Congress, overreaching executive orders, or radical nominees.

Critical Race Theory

Just as anti-American propaganda has infiltrated our military, it’s also infiltrated our schools. We need to stamp out all forms of indoctrination, including Critical Race Theory, the 1619 Project, and so-called “equity” policies that discriminate against kids on the basis of race. America cannot survive if liberals succeed in raising a generation of kids who hate our country.