Steve Parsons
LIB
Advanced from the Libertarian Party's February 22, 2026 state convention.
Steve Parsons (Steven Gene Parsons) is the Libertarian Party nominee for Arkansas's 1st Congressional District, running on cutting inflation through deregulation and tariff elimination, immigration reform, and reducing incarceration.[4]
Basic profile — the most important sourced facts we found.
Positions on the issues
- OpposesBroad tariffs on imported goods
Campaign website calls for eliminating trade tariffs, citing the cost of the 2018 U.S.-China trade war.[4]
“Eliminate trade tariffs (the 2018 trade war with China alone costs America $50 billion a year and 166,000 jobs).”
In their words — priorities
- Cut inflation by eliminating trade tariffs, cutting federal regulations, reducing bureaucracy in visa/green-card processing, and cutting federal spending.[4]
- Reform immigration by cutting green-card and work-visa bureaucracy, eliminating tariffs on Latin American goods, and creating a clearer path to legal permanent residency.[4]
- Reduce incarceration by shifting resources from prisons to substance-abuse and mental-health treatment.[4]