[2] She failed several times in her candidacy for state chairmanship of AfD Bavaria, and also ran unsuccessfully for the Bundestag.

In 2018 she was elected to the Bavarian state parliament on the AfD Party list.

[2] Under Ebner-Steiner, the AfD faction in the state parliament increasingly split into two hostile camps.

In 2021, she and her colleague Ingo Hahn were voted out as parliamentary group leaders.

[2][3] Ebner-Steiner belongs to the völkisch fraction within AfD, formerly organized in "Der Flügel".