MD-04 Democratic nominee?
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JUN 24, 2026Primary Election
Party selects its nominee.
Overview
Current roleProject Manager, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)
PartyDemocratic
Political ideologyProgressive Democrat
LocationMaryland
BackgroundProject Manager, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA)
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EducationMaster's, University of Maryland, Legal Informatics (2024)
Notable personal detailsShavonne N. Hedgepeth is a Democratic candidate who ran in Maryland’s 4th Congressional District (MD-04) in the June 23, 2026 Democratic primary. She is a project manager at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) and has worked in administrative roles in real estate, legal services, and hospitality. She has earned degrees from the University of Maryland (master’s in legal informatics), Cornell University (master’s in public administration), and the University of Maryland Baltimore County (bachelor’s in history).
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Positions
Economy & Taxes
The candidate emphasizes improving outreach so eligible households claim earned income and child tax credits and says she wants public funds and tax dollars to be traceable; she highlights housing and targeted tax-credit outreach as part of her economic priorities. There is no clear statement on federal tax-rate changes for individuals or corporations in the campaign materials reviewed.
Healthcare
Supports expanding access to affordable healthcare and strengthening public programs to ensure people in Maryland’s 4th District can use and access care. Specifically calls out the need to address an overstretched local healthcare system and to reverse federal immigration-related rules that strip healthcare and nutrition access from lawfully present immigrants.
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Immigration & Border
Supports expanded legal pathways and protections for immigrants, including fair asylum processing, permanent status for DACA recipients and long-term TPS holders, the right to counsel in immigration proceedings, and repeal of provisions that strip lawfully present immigrants of healthcare and nutrition access.
Public Safety & Guns
Supports regulatory measures to reduce gun deaths including a national waiting period for firearm purchases, hospital-based firearm suicide-prevention programs, and stronger enforcement of firearm surrender in domestic-violence cases along with evidence-based violence-prevention funding.
Fundraising
Latest report: Cycle 20262026
LatestCycle 2026
Source: FEC
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