Election 2026

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Issue record

Money and power in Washington

In short

Villegas's campaign would ban stock trading by members of Congress, end Citizens United and set term limits; Valadao's says members of Congress should be open and spend their time in the community, not with lobbyists. Villegas's campaign says it takes no corporate PAC money; his filings through June 30, 2026 list 80 donations from other committees, none recorded by the FEC as a corporation. Some of those committees can take corporate PAC money themselves.

Campaign positions

What each campaign says.

Randy Villegas

Would ban members of Congress from trading stocks and from becoming lobbyists, seek to end Citizens United, ban corporate PACs from buying influence, and impose term limits on Congress.

David G. Valadao

His campaign says government agencies should serve every American rather than bureaucrats, and that members of Congress should be transparent and accessible, spending their time in the community rather than with lobbyists and insiders in Washington.

Evidence timeline

What the record shows.

  1. official action

    Randy Villegas: Matches stated record claim

    His FEC filings through June 30, 2026 list 80 contributions from other committees, and the FEC records none of those committees as a corporation.

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    His campaign's home page says it takes no corporate PAC money. His committee's filings for the 2025-2026 cycle through June 30, 2026 list 80 contributions from other political committees on line 11C, totalling 190,098.36 dollars, three transfers from two joint fundraising committees on line 12, totalling 57,917.02 dollars, and nothing from party committees. The FEC records an organisation type for nine of the contributing committees, five labour organisations and four membership organisations, and none as a corporation. The rest are leadership PACs, other candidates' campaign committees and PACs with no sponsoring organisation. The joint fundraising committees' own itemised donors passed through to him are individuals and two political committees, neither recorded as a corporation's PAC. Limit: The test is the FEC's own record of each contributing committee: a PAC a corporation sponsors is registered with organisation type Corporation, and none of his is. The leadership PACs and other members' campaigns that gave to him can take corporate PAC money themselves, which the claim does not address, and spending by outside groups is not money his campaign received. The record runs to June 30, 2026; the October quarterly report is not yet due.

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Sources5 source records

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  1. Issues: Fight political corruptionhttps://www.villegasforcongress.com/issues/fight-political-corruption

    Villegas for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled.

    candidate statement

    For: Randy Villegas: campaign position

  2. Issues: Reforming Washingtonhttps://valadaoforcongress.com/reforming-washington/

    Valadao for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled; undated.

    candidate statement

    For: David G. Valadao: campaign position

  3. Campaign home pagehttps://www.villegasforcongress.com/

    Villegas for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Campaign-controlled source, identified by its "Paid for by Villegas for Congress" line and by the website his committee filed with the FEC (VILLEGASFORCONGRESS.COM). Links X, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Bluesky accounts. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts.

    candidate statement

    For: Randy Villegas: Matches stated record claim

  4. VILLEGAS FOR CONGRESS, receipts from political committees (lines 11B, 11C and 12)https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?committee_id=C00902379&two_year_transaction_period=2026&line_number=F3-11C

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Read with tools/fec-money/money.py on September 23, 2026: 80 line-11C rows, 64 line-12 rows (61 of them memo entries restating the joint fundraising committees' own donors) and no line-11B rows, reconciled to the committee's filed totals. The FEC's committee record for each contributor supplied its organisation type.

    fec filing

    For: Randy Villegas: Matches stated record claim

  5. VILLEGAS FOR CONGRESS, committee recordhttps://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00902379/

    Federal Election Commission · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026

    Principal campaign committee of candidate H6CA22190, a Democratic challenger for California's 22nd district; its filed website is VILLEGASFORCONGRESS.COM.

    fec filing

    For: Randy Villegas: Matches stated record claim