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LiberalMind endorses Rick Crawford

Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, 2026, and voting is already underway in Arkansas. This is the whole race — the records, the claims against each candidate, and what the sources actually show.

The setup

Arkansas's 1st District — the northeast and the Delta, anchored by Jonesboro — is held by Rep. Rick Crawford (R), running for a ninth term. Cook PVI is R+23 and Cook rates the race Solid R (Cook Political Report, via Wikipedia). Three names are on the ballot. A roster note: the Democratic nominee's name appears as "Terri Yarbrough Green" (Wikipedia infobox; University of Arkansas Student Television ballot guide), shortened to "Terri Yarbrough" in one results table and "Terri Green" in a links list — the same person under three forms; we use the full form and flag that the ballot spelling awaits the Secretary of State's certified list.

Rep. Rick Crawford (Republican)

The record: Crawford has represented the district since January 3, 2011 (House History). He chairs the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the 119th Congress, a seat he took on January 16, 2025 after serving on the committee since 2017 and chairing its CIA Subcommittee (Wikipedia; crawford.house.gov). He is a senior member of Agriculture and vice-chair of Transportation and Infrastructure, and sat on both the 2014 and 2018 Farm Bill conference committees. Before Congress: U.S. Army 1985–1989 in explosive ordnance disposal, then a career as a rodeo announcer and ag-news broadcaster who founded the AgWatch Network. He was re-elected with 72.9% in 2024 and holds $1,031,631 cash on hand against $944,302 raised (FEC, via Wikipedia).

Pros: The Intelligence chairmanship is a serious national-security post held by a veteran whose district work runs through the farm economy. Cons: Sixteen years of tenure; no sourced failure in his service is in our file. The flaw, plainly: none documented — the charge available is incumbency itself.

Terri Yarbrough Green (Democratic)

The record: Green is a retired pathologist from Paragould who filed on November 11, 2025 (Wikipedia; Wynne Progress). She raised $65,149 with $11,958 on hand (FEC, via Wikipedia). No prior elected office was located, and beyond occupation and filing, no further record was located at compilation strength.

Pros: A medical career is real-world grounding. Cons: An insufficient record — no service, no documented program detail in our file, and no break toward our values. The flaw, plainly: a name and an occupation against the sitting Intelligence chairman in an R+23 district.

Steve Parsons (Libertarian)

Parsons was the Libertarian nominee for this district in 2024 (Wikipedia; Arkansas Libertarians' 2026 nominations report). No occupation or prior-office record beyond that nomination was located.

OUR CALL

LiberalMind endorses Rick Crawford.

A proven conservative incumbent holding one of the House's most sensitive chairmanships, against challengers whose files contain no exception case and, in the Democrat's case, almost no record at all. Standard geometry.

This race is one of hundreds in LiberalMind's Election 2026 coverage. For the complete breakdown — every race, claim by claim — go to liberalmindhq.com.

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Sources

Election result — November 4, 2026

Winner: Eric Alan Rick Crawford (Republican) — called by the Associated Press. This result was appended on November 4, 2026 (results wave 1); the original article above is unchanged, exactly as published before Election Day.

AI-assisted article — but the sources are human, and the facts are very real.

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