Election 2026
Independent, source-first accountability
Issue record
In short
Braun's campaign would cut spending and red tape and says he fought the state's 2025 tax package. Gluesenkamp Perez's campaign says she works to cut housing, childcare and health costs and opposed grocery mergers and shrinkflation. Braun voted against the state's 2021 capital gains tax and 2026 millionaires' tax; each passed. Gluesenkamp Perez sponsored a shrinkflation bill; her repair bills are not law, and no record of her opposing a grocery merger was found.
Campaign positions
His campaign says families are being crushed by inflation and proposes cutting wasteful spending, reducing red tape on small manufacturers and protecting the skilled trades. It calls the 2025 Legislature's tax package the largest tax increase in state history and says he fought it.
Her campaign says she is working to bring down the cost of housing and childcare and to cut out the middlemen who raise the cost of health care, and that she has opposed grocery-chain mergers and shrinkflation packaging. It names a better-trained, better-paid workforce and cheap energy as ways to steady prices.
Evidence timeline
official action
She cosponsored it, and it became law in July 2026 inside a housing law; it ties community development grants for cities and counties to housing growth rather than changing permits.
In the October 7 KOIN 6 debate, Gluesenkamp Perez named her Build Now Act as a way to clear the permitting process so building is easier. Later, listing her work, she spoke of using federal housing money as a carrot for cities and counties to free up permitting and build more housing. Rep. Lisa McClain introduced the Build Now Act (H.R. 6363) on December 2, 2025, with Rep. Jim Himes as original cosponsor; Gluesenkamp Perez joined as a cosponsor on January 30, 2026. Its text became section 213 of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act (Public Law 119-101), which became law without the President's signature on July 11, 2026. It changes the community development block grants that cities and urban counties get: places whose housing growth improves at or above the median get a bonus, and those below it lose 10 percent. She voted for the final House version on June 23, 2026 (Roll Call 224). Limit: Congress lists her as a cosponsor, not the sponsor; the site counts both. The law does not change permitting rules itself. It ties grant money to housing growth, starting in the third full fiscal year after it passed.
official action
She is an original cosponsor of H.R.8591. It proposes a qualifying family-farm transfer exclusion and has not become law.
In the October 13 KATU debate, Gluesenkamp Perez said she was leading a bill to end capital-gains tax on family farms. She is an original cosponsor of H.R. 8591, introduced April 30, 2026. It would exclude gains from sales or exchanges of qualified farm property to qualified family members. The bill remains in the House Ways and Means Committee. Limit: Thomas Massie is the named sponsor. This is a proposed income-tax exclusion for qualifying transfers, not an enacted repeal of federal estate tax.
official action
He voted against the millionaires' tax, offered an amendment and spoke against it, though it passed in 2026, not 2025, and other senators opposed it too.
His campaign says he led floor opposition to the 2025 income tax, warning that once the door was opened it would inevitably expand to all residents. The income tax the Legislature passed is Senate Bill 6346, titled "Tax on millionaires", in the 2026 session. On February 16, 2026 the Senate Journal records him moving his own floor amendment, number 692, which failed on a voice vote, speaking for other amendments to the bill, and speaking against passage. He voted Yea on three amendments that failed on roll calls, and Nay on Senate passage, which carried 27 to 22. On March 11 the Journal lists him among ten senators who spoke against concurring in the House amendments; he voted Nay on concurrence and on final passage, each carried 27 to 21. It became Chapter 238, Laws of 2026. Limit: His votes and the Journal match the opposition he describes. The year does not: the campaign dates the income tax to 2025, and the one in the record passed in the 2026 session. This desk reads that as a misdated reference to the same bill and has put the reading to the owner. The Journal shows him offering an amendment and speaking against the bill, alongside other Republican senators who did the same; whether he led the opposition is a characterization it does not settle.
official action
She has sponsored four right-to-repair bills, two for farm equipment, and cosponsored others on consumer electronics, but none has become law.
Her campaign says she is working to stop manufacturers of farm and consumer equipment from forcing customers to pay the original manufacturer for repairs. She has sponsored four right-to-repair bills. Two concern farm equipment: the Agricultural Right to Repair Act (H.R. 5604, introduced September 20, 2023) and the FARM Act (H.R. 5857, October 28, 2025), which would require manufacturers to make documentation, parts, software and tools for farm equipment available. Two concern equipment the military buys: the Servicemember Right-to-Repair Act of 2024 (H.R. 10401) and the Warrior Right to Repair Act of 2025 (H.R. 5155). She was the only original cosponsor of the Fair Repair Act, which covers consumer digital electronic equipment, in 2024 (H.R. 8544) and again in 2026 (H.R. 7404), and of the Wheelchair Right to Repair Act (H.R. 5039, 2025), which covers powered wheelchairs. She was an original cosponsor of the REPAIR Act, on motor-vehicle repair, in both Congresses (H.R. 906, 2023; H.R. 1566, 2025). A subcommittee forwarded each version to the full Energy and Commerce Committee, on November 2, 2023 and February 10, 2026. Limit: "Working to" is what sponsorship and cosponsorship show, and none of these bills has become law. The furthest any has gone is a subcommittee vote on the REPAIR Act, a motor-vehicle bill led by another member, in 2023 and again in 2026; her own farm bills were referred to committee and went no further.
official action
She cosponsors a tips deduction bill with no end date, while the 2025 law's deduction ends after 2028; her bill has not had a vote.
In the October 7 KOIN 6 debate, Gluesenkamp Perez said the 2025 law's no-tax-on-tips break is short-lived and that her bill would make it permanent. She is a cosponsor of the No Tax on Tips Act (H.R. 482), introduced by Rep. Vern Buchanan on January 16, 2025; she joined on October 6, 2025. It would let workers deduct up to $25,000 a year in cash tips and sets no end date. The 2025 law's tips deduction ends after 2028. H.R. 482 has had no committee or floor vote. Limit: Congress lists her as a cosponsor, not the sponsor; the site counts both. The bill was written before the 2025 law passed, and it is still in committee.
official action
She sponsored a 2024 bill against shrinkflation, but no record was found of her opposing a grocery-chain merger.
Her campaign says she has worked in Congress against unfair business practices, including by opposing mergers of major grocery chains and deceptive shrinkflation packaging. She sponsored the Shrinkflation Prevention Act of 2024 (H.R. 7825), introduced March 26, 2024 and referred to a subcommittee. Separately, she sponsored the Fair Prices for Local Businesses Act (H.R. 8184, April 2, 2026), which would strengthen the Clayton Act's prohibition on price discrimination; it concerns pricing, not mergers. No official record of her opposing a grocery-chain merger was found: none of the titles of her 57 sponsored bills and resolutions concerns a merger, and searches of her House office's site and of news coverage of congressional letters on the Kroger and Albertsons merger did not find her name. Limit: The label rests on the shrinkflation half, where her sponsorship matches the direction she states. The merger half is unconfirmed, not disproved: opposition to a merger usually takes the form of a letter or a comment to the Federal Trade Commission, and the FTC's docket for the Kroger and Albertsons merger was not searched.
official action
He cosponsored 2022 and 2023 bills to stop the state fuel tax through the end of each year, but neither got a hearing or a vote.
In the October 7 KOIN 6 debate, asked about pausing the federal gas tax, Braun said he would vote for it and that he has sponsored a bill to get rid of the state gas tax for a time when prices were high. He was one of nine sponsors of Senate Bill 5897 in 2022 and one of seventeen on Senate Bill 5756 in 2023. Each would have stopped the state fuel tax through the end of that year, citing high gas prices. Senators Sefzik and Muzzall were the prime sponsors. Neither went past its first referral to the Senate Transportation Committee. Limit: He was a cosponsor, not the prime sponsor; the site counts both. Neither bill had a hearing or a vote.
official action
He voted against it both times it passed the Senate 25 to 24, offered three amendments that failed, and spoke against it on the floor.
His campaign says that as Senate Republican Leader he opposed the 2021 capital gains tax. Senate Bill 5096, the capital gains excise tax, passed the Senate 25 to 24 on March 6, 2021, and its conference report passed by the same margin on April 25. He voted Nay both times. On March 6 the Senate Journal records him moving three floor amendments, numbers 431, 432 and 434, none of which was adopted, and lists him among sixteen senators who spoke against passage. It became Chapter 196, Laws of 2021. Limit: The roll calls and the Journal show his votes, his amendments and that he spoke against the bill. They do not show caucus strategy or anything he did off the floor.
official action
He was the only sponsor of the 2017 budget bill and chaired Ways & Means; the McCleary and property-tax results his campaign cites are not tested here.
His campaign says that as chairman of Senate Ways & Means he led the 2017-19 operating budget, and that it achieved full state funding of basic education under the McCleary ruling while cutting property taxes for 73 percent of Washington residents. Substitute Senate Bill 5883, the operating budget for the 2015-17 and 2017-19 biennia, lists him as its only sponsor. The Ways & Means Committee's report on the bill lists him as its chair. The Senate passed it 39 to 10 on June 30, 2017, with his Yea; the House passed it 70 to 23 the same day, and it became Chapter 1, Laws of 2017, 3rd Special Session. Limit: Sponsorship of the budget bill is what "led" can be checked against, and it holds. The results the campaign attaches are not tested here. Whether the state met its McCleary duty was for the state Supreme Court to decide, and its orders were not read for this desk. The 73 percent figure was not traced to any official source, and this desk has not established which bill's property-tax changes it measures.
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John Braun for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled source setting out nine subjects. Three of its sentences are about his opponent's votes; a claim about an opponent is outside what this site checks, and those sentences are not used.
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John Braun for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled source, confirmed by its line "Paid for by John Braun for Congress" and by the website the committee filed with the FEC. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts. It links his X, Instagram and Facebook accounts. electbraun.com, which a search returns first, is a different Braun's 2018 city council race in Minnesota and is not used.
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Marie for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled source setting out fourteen subjects. Positions are attributed, not independently verified facts.
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For: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: campaign position; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Matches stated direction
KOIN 6 · Published Oct 7, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
11:01-11:03, and 52:46-52:53 on using federal housing money to free up permitting. Paraphrased, not quoted: the only transcript is the video's English captions, with no second transcript to check the wording against.
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For: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Matches stated direction
Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Introduced December 2, 2025 by Rep. Lisa McClain, with Rep. Jim Himes as original cosponsor. Gluesenkamp Perez joined as a cosponsor on January 30, 2026.
official legislative record
For: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Matches stated direction
GovInfo · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Became law without the President's signature on July 11, 2026. Section 213 is the Build Now Act.
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Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
June 23, 2026; the House agreed to the Senate's changes 358 to 32. She voted Yea.
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For: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Matches stated direction
KATU News · Published Oct 13, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026
Paraphrased from saved English native captions; no second independent transcript. Raw capture association and hash recorded in the dated note.
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Congress.gov · Published Apr 30, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026
GovInfo BillStatus and Congress.gov API checked October 22: Massie sponsor; Gluesenkamp Perez original cosponsor April 30; latest action referral to Ways and Means; no laws on record.
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U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Apr 30, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 22, 2026
Section 2 proposes an income exclusion for qualifying farm-property sales/exchanges to family members, with basis rules.
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John Braun for Congress · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Campaign-controlled source, used for his biography and for the record claims on this page: the tuition program, the 2017-19 budget, the capital gains and income tax opposition, and the fentanyl bills. His Navy rank and years of service are his campaign's account; no Navy record was read.
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Washington State Legislature · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
History of the income tax passed in the 2026 session, ending in Chapter 238, Laws of 2026.
official legislative record
For: John Braun: Matches stated direction
Washington State Legislature · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Senate passage of February 16, 2026 and final passage as amended by the House on March 11, 2026.
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For: John Braun: Matches stated direction
Washington State Legislature · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The Senate's own record of the floor session in which it passed SB 6346: each amendment, who moved it, who spoke for and against it, and who spoke for and against passage.
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Washington State Legislature · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The Senate's record of the session in which it concurred in the House amendments to SB 6346 and gave it final passage, with the senators who spoke for and against concurring.
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For: John Braun: Matches stated direction
Washington State Legislature · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The Legislature's web service list of every amendment offered in 2026, with its sponsor and floor action. Used for his floor amendment 692 to SB 6346.
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Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Sponsored by her, introduced September 20, 2023, referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce.
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Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The Freedom for Agricultural Repair and Maintenance Act. Sponsored by her with Rep. Joe Neguse, introduced October 28, 2025, referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce. Its introduced text, read on GovInfo, would require manufacturers to make documentation, parts, software and tools for farm equipment available.
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Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Sponsored by her, introduced December 12, 2024, referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
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Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Sponsored by her, introduced September 4, 2025, referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
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Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Introduced May 23, 2024 by Rep. Joseph Morelle with her as the only original cosponsor; referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce. Its introduced text covers digital electronic equipment and excludes motor vehicles and medical devices.
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Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Reintroduced February 5, 2026 by Rep. Morelle with her as the only original cosponsor; referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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For: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Matches stated direction
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Introduced August 26, 2025 by Rep. Maxwell Frost with her as the only cosponsor; referred to the Energy and Commerce and Judiciary Committees. Its introduced text covers powered wheelchairs and wearable robotic walking devices.
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For: Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Matches stated direction
Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The earlier version of the REPAIR Act. Introduced February 9, 2023 by Rep. Neal Dunn with her among its three original cosponsors. A subcommittee forwarded it to the full Energy and Commerce Committee by voice vote on November 2, 2023.
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Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Introduced February 25, 2025 by Rep. Neal Dunn with her among its original cosponsors. A bill on repair data, information and tools for motor vehicles. A subcommittee forwarded it to the full Energy and Commerce Committee by voice vote on February 10, 2026.
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KOIN 6 · Published Oct 7, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
17:11-17:22. Paraphrased, not quoted: the only transcript is the video's English captions, with no second transcript to check the wording against.
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Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Introduced January 16, 2025 by Rep. Vern Buchanan; she joined as a cosponsor on October 6, 2025. Referred to Ways and Means; no committee or floor vote.
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GovInfo · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The 2025 reconciliation act. Section 83002 creates Workforce Pell Grants.
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Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Sponsored by her, introduced March 26, 2024, referred to the Subcommittee on Innovation, Data, and Commerce.
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Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Sponsored by her with Rep. Josh Riley, introduced April 2, 2026, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. Its introduced text is a bill to strengthen the Clayton Act's prohibition on price discrimination.
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Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
All 63 items she has sponsored in the 118th and 119th Congresses, read October 10, 2026: 60 bills and resolutions and three floor amendments (H.Amdt. 67 and 152 in the 118th Congress, H.Amdt. 187 in the 119th). Each one's latest action was read on September 23, 2026, when there were 60 items; the three added since include H.R. 10790 of October 9.
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KOIN 6 · Published Oct 7, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
6:03-6:12, answering whether he would pause the federal gas tax. Paraphrased, not quoted: the only transcript is the video's English captions, with no second transcript to check the wording against.
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Washington State Legislature · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Nine sponsors, Sefzik first; Braun is one of them. History: first reading and referral to Transportation on January 18, 2022, nothing after.
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Washington State Legislature · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
No state fuel tax from the effective date through December 31, 2022, citing a 42 percent rise in gas prices since early 2021.
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Washington State Legislature · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
Seventeen sponsors, Muzzall first; Braun is one of them. History: referral to Transportation on February 23, 2023, and reintroduced in place in 2024.
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Washington State Legislature · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026
No state fuel tax from the effective date through December 31, 2023, citing high gas prices.
official legislative record
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Washington State Legislature · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
History of the capital gains excise tax, ending in Chapter 196, Laws of 2021.
official legislative record
For: John Braun: Matches stated direction
Washington State Legislature · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Senate passage of March 6, 2021 and the conference report of April 25, 2021, both 25 to 24.
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Washington State Legislature · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Includes the fifty-fifth day, March 6, 2021, when the Senate passed SB 5096: each amendment, who moved it, and who spoke for and against passage.
official legislative record
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Washington State Legislature · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The Legislature's web service list of every amendment offered in 2021, with its sponsor and floor action. Used for his floor amendments 431, 432 and 434 to SB 5096.
official legislative record
For: John Braun: Matches stated direction
Washington State Legislature · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Sponsor (Braun alone) and history, ending in Chapter 1, Laws of 2017, 3rd Special Session.
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Washington State Legislature · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
The Senate committee's report on the budget bill. Its majority report is signed first by "Senators Braun, Chair". Used for his chairmanship of Ways & Means.
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Washington State Legislature · Reviewed Sep 23, 2026
Senate and House final-passage votes of June 30, 2017.
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