The candidates and ballot details for this 2026 U.S. House race, with the original election records attached.
The Stated Record analysis: Tilt Democratic
Updated September 3, 2026
Who is running?
Printed ballot candidates
John BraunPrefers Republican Party
Marie Gluesenkamp PerezPrefers Democratic Party
Source: Washington Secretary of State candidate certification
Checked September 2, 2026
Voter guide
The candidates, side by side
Background comes from government or official office records, and from the campaign's own biography where the bullet says so. Goals are summarized from each campaign's own platform page and stay attributed to the campaign. The record lines are official votes, sponsorships, and filings with the government source attached. Money is shown as filed, by the type the FEC records for the contributing committee, and is not evidence of why any position was taken. Money rows are itemized receipts from political committees; transfers from joint fundraising committees and the conduit entries for earmarked individual contributions sit on their own rows and are not additive with the rest; other memo entries, reimbursements, and receipts from organizations that are not political committees are excluded; each candidate's note gives the filing window and the reconciliation to the FEC summary.
The Legislature's sponsor roster first lists him as the 20th district's senator in the 2013-14 biennium, consistent with his campaign's statement that he was first elected in 2012. Washington State Legislature, John Braun for Congress
His Senate biography says he served on active duty in the Navy. His campaign says he served 31 years, seven on active duty and the rest in the Reserve, retiring as a captain after directing the submarine force's reserve component. Washington State Senate Republican Caucus, John Braun for Congress
His campaign says he is president of Braun Northwest, the emergency-vehicle maker in Chehalis his family founded in 1986, with 350 employees. John Braun for Congress
Energy from every market source, hydropower, solar, oil, natural gas and nuclear, with no return to dependence on foreign suppliers. John Braun for Congress
More money for removing sea lions that prey on Columbia River salmon, and for hatcheries, culverts and habitat. John Braun for Congress
What the official record shows
Prime sponsor of Senate Bill 5954, "Reducing tuition", which the Senate passed 48 to 0 and the House 98 to 0; it became Chapter 36, Laws of 2015, 3rd Special Session. Washington State Legislature, Washington State Legislature
Sole sponsor of Substitute Senate Bill 5883, the 2017-19 operating budget, which passed the Senate 39 to 10 with his Yea and became Chapter 1, Laws of 2017, 3rd Special Session. Washington State Legislature, Washington State Legislature
Receipts from political committees on lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees) of his committee's 2025-2026 cycle filings through July 15, 2026, grouped by the FEC's recorded organization type or designation of the giving committee. There are no line 11B receipts. The joint fundraising row is $169,972.49 reported on line 12 plus $5,000 a joint fundraising committee gave on line 11C; the other rows, $274,845.01, are the rest of line 11C. Each line's itemized rows sum to the committee's own summary total for that line to the cent, and the table totals $449,817.50. Memo entries are left out because they restate money counted elsewhere: 78 on line 12 itemize what the joint fundraising committees passed on, and 16 on line 11C. Not in the table: contributions from individuals, including any made through WinRed or ActBlue, which are individual contributions and not committee money. The rows sum to 449,817.50 dollars.
Her campaign says she and her husband built an independent auto repair shop to six bays, and that she is a fifth-generation Washingtonian whose father immigrated from Mexico. Marie for Congress
Congress.gov lists 57 bills and resolutions she has sponsored across two Congresses. One became law under its own number, naming the post office in Bucoda, Washington. The one change her Protecting Moms and Infants Reauthorization Act (H.R. 4092) proposed, $38,931,000 a year for residential treatment of pregnant and postpartum women, became law with the years moved in section 201 of Public Law 119-44 in December 2025; she voted for that bill. Her other bills were not matched against later laws. Congress.gov, Congress.gov, Congress.gov, GovInfo, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives
Social Security strengthened for the long run without raising the retirement age or cutting benefits. Marie for Congress
What the official record shows
Sponsored two farm-equipment right-to-repair bills, the Agricultural Right to Repair Act (H.R. 5604) in 2023 and the FARM Act (H.R. 5857) in 2025; each was referred to committee and went no further. Congress.gov, Congress.gov
Sponsored the Shrinkflation Prevention Act of 2024 (H.R. 7825); it was referred to a subcommittee and went no further. Congress.gov
Sponsored the Lowering Energy Costs for Manufactured Homeowners Act (H.R. 9935), a tax bill referred to the Ways and Means Committee. Congress.gov
Voted for the Stop Insider Trading Act (H.R. 7008), which bars members of Congress from buying stocks and, as passed, also requires photo ID to vote. It passed the House 232 to 198 on July 22, 2026. Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, Congress.gov
Campaign money from other committees, by type
Transfers and contributions from joint fundraising committees 10 committees
Receipts from political committees on lines 11B (party committees), 11C (other political committees) and 12 (transfers from joint fundraising committees) of her committee's 2025-2026 cycle filings through July 15, 2026, grouped by the FEC's recorded organization type or designation of the giving committee. The party row is line 11B, $2,905.31. The joint fundraising row is $2,788,314.63 reported on line 12, most of it from her own MGP Victory Fund, plus $10,000 two joint fundraising committees gave on line 11C; the other rows, $851,810.91, are the rest of line 11C. Each line's itemized rows sum to the committee's own summary total for that line to the cent, and the table totals $3,653,030.85. Memo entries are left out because they restate money counted elsewhere: 6,218 on line 12 itemize what the joint fundraising committees passed on, and 20 on line 11C. Not in the table: contributions from individuals, including those made through ActBlue, which are individual contributions and not committee money. The rows sum to 3,653,030.85 dollars.
Race outlook
How election analysts rate this race
Categories are ordered judgments, not win probabilities.
The Stated Record analysisTilt Democratic
Based on 2 verified rating sources. 1 stale or missing rating was excluded.
DemocraticToss-upRepublican
Cook Political ReportToss Up
Cook Political Report assessed this Aug 25, 2026; checked Sep 3, 2026.
Inside ElectionsToss-up · stale
Inside Elections assessed this May 21, 2026; checked Sep 3, 2026. Stale ratings are shown for transparency but excluded from our synthesis.
Sabato's Crystal BallLeans Democratic
Sabato's Crystal Ball assessed this Aug 26, 2026; checked Sep 3, 2026.
Our synthesis uses the median-style ordinal rule described in Methodology. It is our analysis, not another independent rating.
What to know
The race in context
Primary results positioned Marie Gluesenkamp Perez and John Braun to meet in November, Oregon Public Broadcasting reported.
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Issue comparison
What each campaign says
These are attributed platform positions, not promises The Stated Record has verified or endorsed.
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.
His campaign says he will complete high-priority border barriers, hire and equip more agents, tighten asylum rules and go after cartel supply chains, and that at home he would shut down open-air drug markets, support local camping bans where shelter is available and fund detox and mental-health beds.
Her campaign says state and local police need the resources to keep fentanyl and illegal guns off the streets, that federal money should go to officer and firefighter pay, and that the drug crisis calls for border security, stricter punishment for sale and possession, and wider access to treatment.
His campaign says he will champion market-based production from hydropower, solar, oil, natural gas and nuclear power, citing demand from AI data centers, and that the country must never again depend on foreign despots for energy. It states no position on climate change.
Her campaign says climate change is real and man-made and falls hardest on working people, that she has championed tax rebates for efficiency upgrades such as skirting for mobile homes, and that abundant, cheap energy from traditional and renewable sources will help hold down prices.
His campaign says parents, not bureaucrats, should know what happens in their children's classrooms and that he supports a federal Parents Bill of Rights. It says he will fight to rein in tuition and expand skilled-trades training.
Her campaign says many good jobs do not need a four-year degree, and that she is working to widen apprenticeships and technical training, cut degree requirements for jobs and let Pell Grants pay for job training.
Her campaign says every woman should be able to see a doctor whenever she wants and for whatever reason, and that she will do whatever it takes to prevent a national abortion ban.
His campaign says he will defend the Second Amendment and Washington's hunting traditions, and that he opposed the state's 2023 rifle ban because it punishes the law-abiding rather than criminals.
Her campaign's only statement on firearms is that state and local police need resources to keep illegal guns, along with fentanyl, off the streets. Her issues page states no position on gun rights or on gun laws beyond that.
No position on campaign money, lobbying or trading by members of Congress was found on his campaign's home, about or issues pages. The nearest is a promise to apply submarine discipline to federal budgets, which is about spending.
Her campaign says it takes no money from special interests, naming drug companies, and that members of Congress should be banned from trading individual stocks.
The number of cards varies with what each candidate's official record supports, and every card carries the same required parts: what they say, what the official record shows, one label from the fixed list, and its limit. Each card is labeled narrowly, by rule. A single vote, sponsorship, or filing can match one claim without proving a candidate's whole record, and a card never says why someone did something.
Senate Bill 5954 of 2015, titled "Reducing tuition", names him as its prime sponsor, first of seventeen senators. The Senate passed it three times that year, the last on June 29 by 48 to 0, with his Yea each time; the House passed it 98 to 0 the next day, and it became Chapter 36, Laws of 2015, 3rd Special Session.
Limit: The record settles authorship and enactment. It does not settle the superlative: no legislature publishes a ranking of tuition cuts across the states, and his biography words it differently again, as "the first and largest". Testing it would take national tuition data for a defined year and sector, which this desk has not read. Sixteen other senators sponsored the bill with him.
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.
“as chairman of the Senate Ways & Means Committee, he led the 2017–19 state operating budget”
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.
His campaign says that in his legislative races he opposed Olympia's 2023 rifle ban, because it punishes the law-abiding and does not target criminals.
“In my legislative races I opposed Olympia's 2023 rifle ban because it punishes the law-abiding and doesn't target criminals.”
The 2023 ban is House Bill 1240, which became Chapter 162, Laws of 2023. He voted Nay on its Senate final passage on April 8, 2023, when it passed 27 to 21, and Nay again on April 18, when the Senate receded from its first amendments and passed it 28 to 21.
Limit: His sentence is about his campaigns; the record is his votes in office, which are the stronger evidence of opposition. Two votes on one bill are not a record on firearms generally.
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.
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.
His campaign says he championed legislation to create criminal penalties when children are harmed by fentanyl exposure, and that it passed the Senate with bipartisan votes four years running.
“legislation to create criminal penalties when children are harmed by fentanyl exposure (passed the Senate bipartisanly four years running)”
Two bills carried it. Senate Bill 5010, with Senator Lynda Wilson as prime sponsor and him fourth of fifteen sponsors, passed the Senate 47 to 0 on March 1, 2023 and 48 to 1 on January 24, 2024. Senate Bill 5071, with him as prime sponsor and Democratic Senator Manka Dhingra second, passed 42 to 7 on February 5, 2025 and 40 to 9 on January 21, 2026; Senator Dhingra voted Yea all four times. Each year the House referred it to committee and it went no further.
Limit: Exact on Senate passage, on the four years, and on votes from both parties. Neither bill became law, which the campaign acknowledges in saying these causes struggled for traction in the House; the 2023 bill did get a House committee hearing on March 14, 2023. The bills extend an existing crime, endangerment with a controlled substance, to fentanyl and synthetic opioids. On the first bill he was a cosponsor rather than its author.
Under the heading "Ending the influence of Corporate Money", her campaign says it does not take money from special interests, and gives drug companies as its example.
“Her campaign doesn’t take money from special interests (like drug companies).”
Through July 15, 2026 her committee reported $861,810.91 this cycle from political committees other than parties (line 11C). None is the committee of a drug manufacturer. One is recorded by the FEC as a corporation's PAC: Edward Jones PAC, $2,500 in December 2025. One is from the drug trade: the National Community Pharmacists Assoc PAC, the committee of an association of independent pharmacies, gave $1,000 in June 2025 and $2,500 in June 2026. Seventy-seven of the committees that gave, together $305,500.01, are ones the FEC designates as lobbyist or registrant PACs, among them medical, dental, insurance and auto-care trade groups. Most of her committee money, $2,798,314.63, arrived as transfers from joint fundraising committees, chiefly her own MGP Victory Fund.
No filing defines a special interest, so the record cannot say whether the claim holds. Her page puts the sentence under a heading about corporate money. The one giver the FEC types as a corporation PAC is Edward Jones PAC, $2,500. Other business-tied PACs gave too: a sugar cooperative's, American Crystal Sugar Company ($7,500), and two law firms', K&L Gates and Holland & Knight ($1,000 each). The record can also test the example she gives: no drug manufacturer's committee has given, and a pharmacists' association has given $3,500. Whether any of these is the kind of special interest she means is a judgment this desk leaves to the reader.
Limit: Committee money only. Donations from individuals, including those made through ActBlue, are not special-interest money on any reading and are not counted. The lobbyist or registrant designation is the FEC's classification of a committee connected to a registered lobbyist, not this desk's. Joint fundraising committees pass on money they raised themselves; their memo entries on her reports were read for drug-industry names and found none among committees, but their own full filings were not read.
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 is working to stop manufacturers of farm and consumer equipment from gouging their customers by forcing them 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.
She is an original cosponsor of the No Corruption in Government Act (H.R. 358), introduced January 13, 2025 by Representative Zach Nunn; its section 102 would bar members of Congress and their spouses from holding, buying or selling securities and commodities while in office, with exceptions for diversified funds, Treasury securities and blind trusts. She was also an original cosponsor of the TRUST in Congress Act, which would require members and their families to put covered investments in a blind trust, in both Congresses (H.R. 345, January 12, 2023; H.R. 396, January 14, 2025), and later joined the Prohibit Insider Trading Act (H.R. 1138, 118th Congress) and the Restore Trust in Congress Act (H.R. 5106, 119th Congress). None of those five has had a floor vote. On July 22, 2026 she voted for Rep. Bryan Steil's Stop Insider Trading Act (H.R. 7008), which passed the House 232 to 198 (Roll Call 280). She was one of 13 Democrats who voted yes. Just before, she voted for Rep. Seth Magaziner's motion to send it back to committee, which failed 211 to 218 (Roll Call 279). The bill bars members, spouses and dependent children from buying stocks and requires public notice 7 to 14 days before a sale. It does not make them sell what they hold. As passed, it also requires photo ID to vote. It is on the Senate calendar.
Limit: Cosponsorship is support, not passage. The five bills are every stock-trading bill on her cosponsored list on Congress.gov, searched by title on September 23, 2026; she joined two after they were introduced. The House Clerk's roll-call lists for 2023 to 2026, searched by title on September 24, 2026, show no other vote on members' stock trading.
She joined the JOBS Act of 2023 (H.R. 793), officially a bill to extend Pell Grant eligibility to certain short-term programs, as a cosponsor on May 24, 2023; it had no floor vote. Workforce Pell Grants became law in 2025 as section 83002 of Public Law 119-21, the reconciliation act, which she voted against on passage on May 22, 2025 (Roll Call 145) and on the final House vote on July 3, 2025 (Roll Call 190).
Limit: Her cosponsorship shows the direction she states. Her votes against the act that created Workforce Pell Grants were votes on a reconciliation bill of several hundred pages, not on that section, and a vote against a vehicle is not a vote against each of its provisions. They are still the only recorded votes she has cast on a law that did what her campaign says she is working toward, and a reader should see both.
Her campaign says she has worked in Congress against unfair business practices, including by opposing mergers of major grocery chains and deceptive shrinkflation packaging.
“like opposing mergers of major grocery chains and opposing deceptive “Shrinkflation” food 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.
“Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez, Sen. Cantwell, and Sen. Murray co-led a bipartisan Washington delegation letter in August in support of the states’ Mega grant application.”
What the record shows ·
On August 29, 2023 she signed a letter to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg supporting the joint Washington and Oregon application to the federal Mega grant program for the Interstate Bridge Replacement Program; all twelve members of Washington's congressional delegation signed it, and her name is third, after the two senators. The program was awarded $600 million on December 15, 2023. Its announcement credits the two states and their congressional delegations; Washington's governor thanks Senators Murray and Cantwell by name.
Limit: A letter of support is what "worked to secure" can be checked against, and it holds; it does not measure her share of the result. The Department of Transportation awarded the grant on the states' application, and every member of the state's delegation signed the same letter. That she co-led it is the account of a joint release by her office and Senators Cantwell and Murray, which the Senate Commerce Committee also published; the letter shows only the order of signatures. The program's announcement lists toll revenue, which both states had authorized, among the sources that will pay for the bridge alongside the grant, so the grant does not by itself avoid tolls. And an award is not a finished bridge.
The Bipartisan Index, published by the Lugar Center and Georgetown University's McCourt School, ranked her 12th in the House for 2023, the first year of her first term, in rankings released May 14, 2024. The index scores how often a member's bills draw cosponsors from the other party and how often the member cosponsors the other party's bills.
Limit: One year's ranking, by a private publisher's formula rather than an official record. The publisher's Bipartisan Index page, read September 23, 2026, carries no House ranking later than 2023, so the present tense of the claim rests on that year.
The Secretary of State's certified results give her 160,314 votes (50.14 percent) to Joe Kent's 157,685 (49.31 percent), with 1,760 write-ins: a margin of 2,629 votes, or 0.82 percentage points of the 319,759 cast.
He is the prime sponsor of Senate Bill 5821, filed for Washington's 2026 session. It would have the state Commerce Department, if it gets outside funding, write a nuclear power plan for the state energy strategy by December 15, 2026. It had a committee hearing on January 16, 2026, and its history shows no later action.
On October 4, 2024 she introduced the Lowering Energy Costs for Manufactured Homeowners Act (H.R. 9935). It would give a refundable tax credit of 20 percent of the cost of adding weather-resistant skirting to a manufactured home, up to $500. It was sent to the Ways and Means Committee and went no further. In July 2025 the House Appropriations Committee's report on the 2026 energy and water bill encouraged the Energy Department to favor skirting and awnings in its weatherization grants. Her office called that her provision in February 2026.
Limit: Her record shows one skirting bill, and it never left committee. The report language asks the Energy Department to favor skirting in its grants; it is not a tax rebate.
Her campaign says she will do whatever it takes to prevent a national abortion ban, which it says would override the will of the people of Washington State.
“Marie will do whatever it takes to prevent a national abortion ban, which would override the will of the people of Washington State.”
She was an original cosponsor of the Women's Health Protection Act in 2023 and again in 2025 (H.R. 12 both times). It would give patients a right to end a pregnancy before viability, and providers a right to provide abortions, free of bans. She was also an original cosponsor of the Ensuring Women's Right to Reproductive Freedom Act both times (H.R. 782, H.R. 4099), which would stop anyone acting under state law from blocking travel to another state for a legal abortion. In 2023 and again in 2024 she voted against House amendments to the defense bill that barred the Pentagon from paying abortion-related expenses (Roll Call 300 in 2023, Roll Call 263 in 2024). Both passed, and each time she then voted for the whole defense bill with the amendment in it (Roll Calls 328 and 279). Neither amendment is in the final law (Public Laws 118-31 and 118-159).
Limit: Cosponsoring is support, not passage: none of the four bills has had a House vote. Both defense bills she voted for carried an abortion amendment she had voted against the day before.
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Campaign finance
FEC snapshot through Jul 15, 2026
Principal campaign committees only. Receipts and disbursements are the election-cycle-to-date figures, Column B on each filing's summary page; cash on hand and debt are period-end figures. All are carried by reports covering the same period. Money is not a score of candidate quality or voter support.
John Braun: Pre-Primary 2026, coverage Jul 1, 2026 to Jul 15, 2026, received Jul 23, 2026, file 2001697, image 202607239894444778.
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: Pre-Primary 2026, coverage Jul 1, 2026 to Jul 15, 2026, received Jul 23, 2026, file 2001655, image 202607239894443494.
Retrieved from OpenFEC on Sep 23, 2026. FEC amendments can revise these committee-reported figures.
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Chronology
How the field took shape
The tuition bill passes the Legislature
The House passed Senate Bill 5954 98 to 0, a day after the Senate passed it 48 to 0. Braun was its prime sponsor. It became Chapter 36, Laws of 2015, 3rd Special Session.
Braun placed first with 85,064 votes and Gluesenkamp Perez second with 78,025, of 214,491 cast. Both advance to the November 3 general election, with Braun listed first.
John Braun for Congress. 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.
John Braun for Congress. 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.
John Braun for Congress. 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.
Marie for Congress. Campaign-controlled source, confirmed by its line "Paid for by Marie for Congress" and by the website her committee filed with the FEC. The www. form of the address refused a secure connection when read on September 23, 2026; the bare domain serves the same site. It links her X, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube accounts.
Washington State Legislature. The Legislature's own leadership page, which lists John Braun, 20th district, as Republican Leader. Used for his current office. How and by what vote the caucus chose him is not on this page.
Washington State Senate Republican Caucus. The caucus release of December 12, 2024. It lists Braun among the leaders elected or re-elected on Tuesday, December 10, 2024. It gives no vote count.
Washington State Senate Republican Caucus. His official Senate biography, undated. It says he served on active duty in the Navy. It gives no rank or length of service.
Washington State Legislature. The Legislature's web service roster of members who can sponsor bills. It lists him (member 17289) as the Senate's 20th district member in 2013-14; the 2011-12 roster does not list him. Used for when he took his seat.
Washington State Legislature. The Legislature's roll-call page for the bill: three Senate final-passage votes in 2015 and the House vote of June 30, 2015. The Legislature's web service carries no roll calls; this page does.
Washington State Legislature. 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.
Washington State Legislature. History of the 2023 firearms bill, including the Senate's second passage after it receded from its first amendments, and Chapter 162, Laws of 2023.
Washington State Legislature. Every recorded vote on the bill, amendments included. The final-passage rolls are the ones cited; amendment rolls are not.
Washington State Legislature. 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.
Washington State Legislature. 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.
Washington State Legislature. 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.
Washington State Legislature. 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.
Washington State Legislature. 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.
Washington State Legislature. Sponsor list (Senator Lynda Wilson first, Braun fourth of fifteen) and history: Senate passage in 2023 and 2024, a House hearing on March 14, 2023, and return to the Senate Rules Committee each year.
Washington State Legislature. Sponsor list (Braun first of twelve) and history: Senate passage in 2025 and 2026, referral to the House Community Safety committee each year, and return to the Senate Rules Committee.
Washington State Legislature. State law putting the primary's first-place finisher first on the general election ballot. Used for the order in which this desk lists the candidates.
Washington Secretary of State. Official results, marked final by the Secretary of State and last updated September 11, 2026, read through the results site's own data service. John Braun 85,064 and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez 78,025 of 214,491 votes; seven other candidates and write-ins. Washington's top-two primary sends both to the November ballot.
Congress.gov. Her member record: two terms, beginning in 2023, for Washington's 3rd district. Her identifier was resolved from the listing and name-checked; an earlier guess, P000618, returns Katie Porter's record.
Congress.gov. All 60 items she has sponsored in the 118th and 119th Congresses, read September 23, 2026, with each one's latest action: 57 bills and resolutions and three floor amendments (H.Amdt. 67 and 152 in the 118th Congress, H.Amdt. 187 in the 119th).
Congress.gov. 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.
Congress.gov. 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.
Congress.gov. 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.
Congress.gov. 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.
Congress.gov. 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.
Congress.gov. 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.
Congress.gov. Sponsored by her with Rep. Young Kim, introduced June 14, 2023. Its introduced text, read on GovInfo, has one operative clause: it raises the authorization in section 508(s) of the Public Health Service Act, for residential treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women, from $29,931,000 to $38,931,000 a year.
GovInfo. The SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act of 2025, approved December 1, 2025. Section 201 makes the same change to section 508(s) as her H.R. 4092, at $38,931,000 a year for fiscal years 2026 through 2030 instead of 2024 through 2028.
Congress.gov. Introduced January 13, 2025 by Rep. Zach Nunn with her as an original cosponsor; referred to committee. The introduced text, read on GovInfo, is used for what section 102 would prohibit.
Congress.gov. Introduced January 12, 2026 by Rep. Bryan Steil. Passed the House July 22, 2026; placed on the Senate calendar August 6, 2026 (Calendar No. 548). As passed, section 2 bars members, spouses and dependent children from buying covered investments and requires public notice 7 to 14 days before a sale. Section 3 requires photo ID to vote in federal elections.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of July 22, 2026 on Rep. Seth Magaziner's motion to send the bill back to committee. It failed 211 to 218; she voted Yea.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of July 22, 2026, 232 to 198; she voted Yea, one of 13 Democrats who did. Found by searching the Clerk's roll-call lists for 2023 to 2026 by title; it and roll 279 are the only votes there on members' stock trading.
Congress.gov. All 550 measures she had cosponsored in the 118th and 119th Congresses, read September 23, 2026 and searched by title for bills on trading and holding stocks by members of Congress.
Congress.gov. Introduced January 12, 2023 by Rep. Abigail Spanberger with her as an original cosponsor; referred to the Committee on House Administration. It would require members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children to place certain assets in blind trusts.
Congress.gov. Reintroduced January 14, 2025 by Rep. Seth Magaziner with her as an original cosponsor; referred to the Committee on House Administration.
Congress.gov. Introduced February 21, 2023 by Rep. Zach Nunn; she joined as a cosponsor on April 17, 2023. It would prohibit transactions in certain financial instruments by members of Congress and their spouses. Referred to committee.
Congress.gov. Introduced September 3, 2025 by Rep. Chip Roy; she joined as a cosponsor on October 8, 2025. It would prohibit members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning or trading stocks. Referred to the Committee on House Administration.
Congress.gov. Official title: to extend Federal Pell Grant eligibility of certain short-term programs. She joined as a cosponsor on May 24, 2023. No floor vote.
The Lugar Center. The publisher's Bipartisan Index page, read September 23, 2026. It carries the full 2023 House table, which ranks her 12th with a score of 1.65187, and links no House table for a later year.
The Lugar Center. The index's publisher, with Georgetown University's McCourt School. Release of May 14, 2024, naming her among three first-year members in the top twenty House members for 2023. The index is a formula applied to sponsorship and cosponsorship, not an official record.
Interstate Bridge Replacement Program (WSDOT and ODOT). The two states' bridge program's own announcement of the award, published December 15, 2023: the amount, the joint state application of August 2023, and toll revenue among the planned funding sources.
Office of U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell. The letter itself, dated August 29, 2023, supporting the joint WSDOT and ODOT application to the Mega program. All twelve members of Washington's congressional delegation signed it; her name is third, after Senators Cantwell and Murray. Linked from Senator Cantwell's July 2024 summary of her work on the bridge.
U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. The committee's release of December 18, 2023. It says Senators Cantwell and Murray and Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez co-led the August delegation letter. The same words appear in a joint release of the three offices, so this is their shared account, not an independent one.
Office of Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. Her congressional office's release of December 15, 2023, describing what she did toward the grant. Her own account, used as an earlier statement, not as evidence of her role.
Federal Election Commission. Principal campaign committee, covering July 1 to July 15, 2026, received July 23, 2026, file 2001655. The most recent report both committees have filed for a common period, read from OpenFEC on September 23, 2026.
Federal Election Commission. Principal campaign committee, covering the same July 1 to July 15, 2026 period, received July 23, 2026, file 2001697. His is one of four authorized committees; the other three are nominee funds and are not included.
Federal Election Commission. Read from OpenFEC on September 23, 2026 by line: 13 rows on line 11B, 437 on line 11C (20 of them memo entries) and 6,248 on line 12 (6,218 memo entries itemizing what joint fundraising committees passed on). Each line's itemized total equals the committee's own summary total to the cent.
Federal Election Commission. Read from OpenFEC on September 23, 2026 by line: no rows on line 11B, 109 on line 11C (16 memo) and 84 on line 12 (78 memo). Each line's itemized total equals the committee's own summary total to the cent.
Federal Election Commission. The filing as submitted, covering the second quarter of 2025, file 1902994, the current version. Used for its line-11C entry of June 20, 2025 from the National Community Pharmacists Assoc PAC ($1,000).
Federal Election Commission. The filing as submitted, covering October 1 to December 31, 2025, file 1941898, the current version. Used for its line-11C entry of December 17, 2025 from Edward Jones PAC ($2,500).
Federal Election Commission. The FEC's record of the committee: a corporation PAC, qualified, also designated a lobbyist/registrant PAC. It is the only committee that gave to her campaign this cycle whose FEC organization type is corporation.
Federal Election Commission. The filing as submitted, covering January 1 to March 31, 2025, file 1887382, the current version. Used for its line-11C entries of March 31, 2025 from American Crystal Sugar Company's PAC ($2,500) and Holland & Knight's PAC ($1,000).
Federal Election Commission. The filing as submitted, covering January 1 to March 31, 2026, file 1964440, the current version. Used for its two line-11C entries of February 10, 2026 from American Crystal Sugar Company's PAC ($2,500 each, $7,500 for the cycle).
Federal Election Commission. The filing as submitted, covering April 1 to June 30, 2026, file 1996963. Used for its line-11C entry of June 22, 2026 from the National Community Pharmacists Assoc PAC ($2,500, $3,500 for the cycle).
Washington State Legislature. Sponsor list (Braun first of fourteen) and history: prefiled December 3, 2025, referred to Environment, Energy & Technology on January 12, 2026, public hearing January 16, 2026, no later action.
Washington State Legislature. Section 2 has the Department of Commerce, if it receives outside funds, publish a nuclear power strategic framework as part of the state energy strategy by December 15, 2026.
GovInfo. Section 2 creates a refundable credit of 20 percent of the cost of adding weather-resistant skirting to a manufactured home used as a primary residence, capped at $500, for joint filers with income up to $300,000 and others up to $150,000.
House Committee on Appropriations. Committee report of July 21, 2025 on H.R. 4553. Pages 101 and 102 encourage the Energy Department to prioritize Weatherization Assistance Program grants for manufactured-housing skirting, awnings and other traditional means of energy efficiency.
Office of Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez. Her congressional office's release of February 13, 2026. It calls the House report language her provision and links pages 101 and 102 of House Report 119-213.
Congress.gov. Introduced March 30, 2023 by Rep. Judy Chu, with her as an original cosponsor. Last action: referred to the Subcommittee on Health, April 7, 2023.
Congress.gov. Introduced June 24, 2025 by Rep. Judy Chu, with her as an original cosponsor. Section 5 gives providers a right to provide abortion services and patients a right to end a pregnancy before viability, free of a prohibition on abortion before viability. Last action: referred to committee the same day.
Congress.gov. Introduced February 2, 2023 by Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, with her as an original cosponsor. Last action: referred to the Subcommittee on Health, February 10, 2023.
Congress.gov. Introduced June 24, 2025 by Rep. Lizzie Fletcher, with her as an original cosponsor. Section 2 bars anyone acting under state law from stopping a person from travelling across a state line for an abortion that is legal where it is provided. Last action: referred to committee the same day.
Congress.gov. Amendment No. 5 printed in House Report 118-142, to prohibit the Secretary of Defense from paying for or reimbursing expenses relating to abortion services. Its text, printed in the Congressional Record of July 13, 2023 (page H3504), declares the Pentagon memorandum "Ensuring Access to Reproductive Health Care" of October 20, 2022 of no force or effect. Agreed to 221 to 213.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of July 14, 2023 on the National Defense Authorization Act as amended, 219 to 210; she voted Yea, one of four Democrats who did.
GovInfo. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 as enacted. Its full text does not contain the phrase "abortion services" or the title of the 2022 memorandum the House amendment would have voided.
Congress.gov. Amendment No. 55, to prohibit the Secretary of Defense from paying for or reimbursing expenses relating to abortion services. Agreed to 214 to 207.
Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives. Recorded vote of June 14, 2024 on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025, 217 to 199; she voted Aye.
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