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Zach Dembo earned a bachelor's degree in history from Stanford University and a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School. He is married. 

Zach is a teacher at a public school in an underserved community. He previously served as a military lawyer in the U.S. Navy’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps and as a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Zach previously served as a Federal Prosecutor for over six years, as a legislative director and policy advisor for over one year for Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, and as a Judge Advocate in the U.S. Navy for over four years.

After receiving an honorable discharge and re-entering civilian life, Zach continued his public service as a federal prosecutor at the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice in Washington D. C.After graduating from law school, Zach commissioned as an officer in the United States Navy Judge Advocate General’s (“JAG”) Corps and served on active duty for over four yearsIn 2020 he found his way home when Governor Andy Beshear appointed Zach to be his policy advisor and eventual legislative directorIn 2021, he rejoined the Department of Justice as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Eastern District of KentuckyZach is currently seeking the nomination to be a candidate for Kentucky’s Sixth Congressional District“The overt hostility toward all these hard-working men and women I knew in the F. B. I. and D. O. J. was really galling and unpatriotic for me,” said Zach Dembo, 40, a former Justice Department prosecutor who is running as a Democrat in Kentucky’s Sixth Congressional District.

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For Candidate Zach Dembo on Issue economy: Advocates for ending tariffs, arguing they act as taxes on businesses and consumers, harm small businesses, and contribute to rising costs for families.

Advocates for ending tariffs, arguing they act as taxes on businesses and consumers, harm small businesses, and contribute to rising costs for families.

Supports protecting farmers through crop insurance, expanding water resources, reforming the tax code for family farms, and ensuring fair and open trade.

Thinks the Republican Congress is making affordability worse and worse.

- Advocates for ending tariffs, arguing they act as taxes on businesses and consumers, harm small businesses, and contribute to rising costs for families.
- Supports protecting farmers through crop insurance, expanding water resources, reforming the tax code for family farms, and ensuring fair and open trade.
- Thinks the Republican Congress is making affordability worse and worse.
- Supports unions.

Economy

Supports reversing cuts and fully funding Medicaid to ensure working families and seniors can access necessary care.

Advocates for reversing Medicaid cuts and fully funding Medicaid to ensure working families and seniors can access necessary care.

Supports making drug prices more affordable by aligning them with overseas costs, implementing price transparency for medical procedures, capping out-of-pocket expenses, reducing administrative waste in the insurance system, and advocating for a public healthcare option.

- Advocates for reversing Medicaid cuts and fully funding Medicaid to ensure working families and seniors can access necessary care.
- Supports making drug prices more affordable by aligning them with overseas costs, implementing price transparency for medical procedures, capping out-of-pocket expenses, reducing administrative waste in the insurance system, and advocating for a public healthcare option.

Healthcare

As of March 10, 2026, Zach Dembo’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Public Safety

Condemn's the Trump Administrations actions in Iran.

Advocates for ensuring veterans get the jobs, care, and assistance "they deserve."

Believes Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are not being held accountable for their actions.

- Condemn's the Trump Administrations actions in Iran.
- Advocates for ensuring veterans get the jobs, care, and assistance "they deserve."
- Believes Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are not being held accountable for their actions.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Energy & the Environment

Supports banning stock trading for members of Congress, imposing a lifetime lobbying ban for former members, and eliminating dark money in politics.

Supports banning stock trading for members of Congress.

Believes in imposing a lifetime lobbying ban for former members of Congress.

Advocates for eliminating "dark money" in politics.

- Supports banning stock trading for members of Congress.
- Believes in imposing a lifetime lobbying ban for former members of Congress.
- Advocates for eliminating "dark money" in politics.

Voting & Elections

Facebook

Promises to stand and fight for teachers.

- Promises to stand and fight for teachers.

Education

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Zach Dembo

Aims to end the trade war and support free and open trade to help farmers and lower prices for consumers.

- Your US Representative represents the interests of your district in the US House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress. Kentucky currently has 6 US Representatives.
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- Representatives may serve on congressional committees. Committees focus on certain areas of policy, such as transportation, education, or labor. They may also run for higher positions within their party, such as the Speaker of the House or Majority/Minority Leader.
- Representatives are elected to two-year terms and there are no term limits. US Representatives are paid a salary of $174,000/year.
-  Representatives must be at least 25 years old, a United States citizen for seven years, and an inhabitant of the state from which he or she is elected. 