Representative Reagan Paul is a Republican state legislator with a record of targeting LGBTQ+ Mainers, undermining reproductive freedom, and using her platform to inject the worst of the national culture war into rural Maine. Elected in 2022 by just 222 votes and re-elected in 2024 with only 54.6% of the vote, Paul represents a district that’s flipped to Biden, supports abortion rights, and is becoming more progressive every cycle.
Despite this, Paul has aligned herself with the most extreme factions of the Republican Party. She co-sponsored a bill to strip gender identity protections from Maine’s civil rights law. She introduced legislation to ban abortion pills by mail. And she’s repeatedly used inflammatory, misleading rhetoric to push a hard-right agenda—one that her constituents are rejecting at the ballot box.
She may not be up again until 2026, but her campaign has already begun—and so has ours.
She’s exposed. She’s extreme. She’s beatable.
Anti-LGBTQ+ & Anti-Family Record
In 2025, Reagan Paul co-sponsored LD 1432, a bill that would have stripped “gender identity” from Maine’s Human Rights Act, effectively legalizing discrimination against transgender people statewide. This wasn’t symbolic—Paul actively backed the rollback alongside far-right Republicans.
Her record consistently opposes LGBTQ+ rights, including in schools and public life. In a pro-equality district that voted for Biden and supports civil rights, Paul has worked to undermine them.
Extreme Anti-Abortion Agenda
Reagan Paul doesn’t just oppose abortion—she spreads misinformation about it. In 2023, she introduced a bill to ban abortion pills via telehealth or mail, targeting rural and low-income patients.
On the House floor, she smeared medication abortion as a “do-it-yourself” scam by the “abortion industry.” She echoed national anti-choice rhetoric, ignoring the fact that Waldo County voters support abortion rights—including post-viability access.
Paul also backed failed bills to restrict reproductive care, push parental consent mandates, and criminalize telehealth providers. She lost every vote—but her extreme views are clear.
Culture Wars Over Constituents
Paul champions the GOP’s “parental rights” agenda, backing bills to block gender-affirming care, override public health guidance, and undermine inclusive education.
She supported LD 227, a bill that would let parents deny life-saving medical care to children—legislation modeled on extremist proposals from other states. While she claims “family values,” her record shows attacks on vulnerable Mainers, not support for families.
She hasn’t delivered on jobs, healthcare, or education—her focus is importing far-right fights from Florida and Texas, not serving Waldo County.
Key Vulnerabilities
Reagan Paul holds one of Maine’s most flippable seats. She won by just 235 votes in 2022 and only 557 in 2024. These are signs of vulnerability, not strength.
District 37 is trending blue. Biden flipped towns like Searsport and Stockton Springs. The district backed progressive policies like Medicaid expansion and abortion rights. Younger voters and independents are increasingly rejecting far-right candidates.
Paul is out of step with her district—anti-LGBTQ+, anti-choice, and aligned with national extremism. That’s not a winning message in 2026. And Democrats know it.
Reagan Paul has spent the last three years pushing some of the most dangerous and extreme legislation in Maine. She’s tried to erase trans rights, ban access to safe abortion care, and impose far-right social policy on a district that’s moving in the opposite direction.
She has:
A well-documented record of targeting LGBTQ+ Mainers
A public platform built on restricting abortion and spreading disinformation
A shrinking electoral margin in a swing district
No legislative record of helping her constituents—just performative extremism
