Travis Corcoran

Travis Corcoran


Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from the Hillsborough 44th district
Incumbent
Assumed office December 7, 2022

Personal details
Born	1971^[1]
Political party	Republican

Abortion

Corcoran stated in response to CitizensCount's 2022 candidate survey that he believed "current NH abortion laws make a decent trade off between conflicting interests." He voted against banning abortion after 15 days gestation, against guaranteeing a constitutional right to abortion before 24 weeks, and against repealing civil and criminal penalties for healthcare providers who violate the New Hampshire's 24-week abortion ban.^[15]

Climate change

Corcoran stated in the candidate survey that he opposed what he described as "silly feel-good restrictions" on New Hampshire citizens. He voted against a greenhouse gas reduction goal of net zero by 2050.^[15]

Drug policy

Corcoran voted in support of two bills that provided for the legalization of private cannabis sales with an excise tax. He also voted in favor of a harm reduction bill to exempt some drug checking equipment such as fentanyl test strips from the definition of drug paraphernalia.^[15]

Education

Corcoran stated his support for New Hampshire's Education Freedom Account school voucher program, writing it delivered "great benefits" to families, "at a fraction of the cost of union-controlled public schools". He voted in favor of two bills to increase the household income limit for Education Freedom Account eligibility.^[15]

Corcoran voted in favor of a significant increase to state funding for special education students.^[15]

Corcoran has stated that he supports a ban on teaching certain concepts relating to race, such as the idea that people may be inherently "racist, sexist, or oppressive". He voted in favor of a ban on the teaching of certain sex-related content in schools.^[15]

Euthanasia and assisted suicide

Corcoran voted against a bill allowing medical aid in dying.^[15]

Free speech

In 2023, Corcoran along with three other legislators sponsored an anti-SLAPP bill.^[16] The Institute for Free Speech rates New Hampshire as the worst in the union when it comes to anti-SLAPP protections.^[17] The bill was ultimately defeated.

Gun control

Corcoran opposes stricter gun control laws. He voted against a proposed red flag law, against a requirement that firearms be traded through licensed dealers with background checks, and against the establishment of a system for the State of New Hampshire to report some mental health records to the federal firearm background check system.^[15]

LGBT+ rights

Corcoran stated that he is in favor of banning discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in grades K-3. Corcoran voted in favor of a bill prohibiting students of male biology from playing on female middle and high school sports teams. He also voted for a bill banning gender transition medical care for minors under age 18, and to prohibit teaching about gender identity in public schools (outside of high school psychology courses), and requiring students to use the bathroom corresponding to their sex.^[15]

Employment rights

Corcoran voted to consider the introduction of right-to-work legislation, and voted against two bills that provided for increases to the minimum wage. Corcoran wrote in his 2024 CitizensCount Issue Survey response, "Minimum wages make it illegal to hire low-skill workers, who benefit most from gaining experience."^[15]

Property rights

In response to Kelo v. New London, a 2005 decision in which the Supreme Court held that the Constitution does not prohibit a local government from condemning private property in order to transfer the land to a commercial developer, Corcoran created an online pledge form in which potential patrons would pledge to spend at least one week at a proposed Lost Liberty Hotel, to be built on the site of United States Supreme Court Associate Justice David Souter's house which would be seized for the purpose.^[18]

Public health

Corcoran voted against a bill banning PFAS in a range of consumer products.^[15]

Taxation

Corcoran has stated that he is opposed to the introduction of any new taxes and he supports cutting existing taxes and cutting government spending.^[15]

Tenants' rights

Corcoran voted against a bill requiring landlords to give tenants a notice period ranging from 30 days to six months before rent increases.^[15]

In 2011, police in Corcoran's hometown of Arlington, Massachusetts revoked his firearms license and seized his firearms over a blog post he made after the 2011 Tucson shooting, writing, "1 down, 534 to go." and, "It is absolutely, absolutely unacceptable to shoot indiscriminately. Target only politicians and their staff and leave regular citizens alone." Corcoran was not arrested and did not face any criminal charges.^[7]

In 2020, Corcoran experienced harassment and death threats on Twitter from another author, Lyndon McLeod, who went on to commit the 2021 Denver and Lakewood shootings.^[19]

Corcoran was criticized in NH Journal in 2023 after he encouraged people to use racial epithets as a matter of principle under his official Morlock Publishing Twitter account.^[20]

In 2025, in response to a request to wear an orange shirt to bring awareness to gun violence, Corcoran responded, in part that "All of the data that I read indicates that violence isn’t associated with the presence of guns, but with the presence of African Americans,"...“Blacks commit violent crimes at 5-10x the rate of whites… I will wear a black T-shirt on Friday, June 6, to help make people aware of the fact that crime is predominantly caused by African Americans, and not by guns.” ^[21]

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