The Candidates
Dating back to the presidential election of 2012, the Republican Party has been on a steady descent towards dangerous extremism on immigration, among other issues. It’s become a particularly dangerous issue, one that Republicans continue using to fearmonger migrants and push for policies that would harm all of us.
Derrick Anderson (VA-07)
Republican Derrick Anderson is vying to flip Virginia’s 7th Congressional District, a former GOP stronghold that’s been represented by Democrat Abigail Spanberger since 2019. With Spanberger announcing her retirement from Congress in order to run for governor, Anderson has embraced far-right endorsements and fearmongered about immigrants and the border in hopes he can scare up …
Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05)
Republican Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer is seeking to retain her seat after flipping Oregon’s 5th Congressional District in 2022. But while Rep. Chavez-DeRemer made history as one of the first Latinas to represent the state in Congress, she’s repeatedly voted with the most extreme and nativist members of her caucus. Throughout her term, Rep. Chavez-DeRemer has …
Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06)
Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani is hoping to retain his seat in 2024, after narrowly defeating his Democratic opponent to represent Arizona’s Sixth Congressional District in 2022. But while Rep. Ciscomani represents an agricultural region with a proud and rich immigrant history and that highly depends on an immigrant workforce, he’s repeatedly voted with the most …
Monica De La Cruz (TX-15)
Republican Rep. Monica De La Cruz is seeking reelection to Texas’ 15th district. East of San Antonio, running from near Austin straight down to the southern border, this seat is 79% Hispanic. Yet Rep. De La Cruz previously welcomed an endorsement from indicted former President Donald Trump, who has vowed to mass purge undocumented immigrants …
John Duarte (CA-13)
Republican Rep. John Duarte is running for re-election in California’s 13th Congressional District. Rep. Duarte narrowly won in the 2022 elections with a 0.4% margin in a heavily Latino district that makes up 65.4% of its population and was one of just two Republicans that voted against H.R. 2, also known as Child Deportation Act. …
Mayra Flores (TX-34)
In June 2022, Republican Mayra Flores, aided by an extremely low turnout, won a special election to represent Texas’s 34th Congressional District. It would turn out to be one of the briefest terms in recent Congressional history, after losing reelection to a full term the following November. She’s now running again in 2024 for the …
Mike Garcia (CA-27)
Republican Rep. Mike Garcia is vying to keep his seat after being redistricted to California’s 27th Congressional District. But despite representing a diverse region where Latinos make up nearly 44% of residents, Rep. Garcia has echoed the same racist “invasion” conspiracies as the racist mass murderer who attacked El Paso in 2019 and Buffalo in …
Jen Kiggans (VA-02)
Republican Rep. Jen Kiggans is looking to hold onto Virginia’s 2nd district, a purple seat that voted for President Biden in the 2020 election. While she called herself “a little right of center” and emphasized the phrase “I’m not an extremist” during her 2022 campaign, in her first term of Congress, she hasn’t been either. …
Mike Lawler (NY-17)
Republican Rep. Mike Lawler is vying to retain his seat in 2024 after flipping New York’s 17th Congressional District from a 10-year incumbent and the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Despite the fact that the district leans Democratic, has voted Democratic in previous presidential elections since 1992, and is also known for its …
David Valadao (CA-22)
After narrowly losing reelection to California’s 21st Congressional District in 2018, GOP Rep. David Valadao won back the seat in 2020 by campaigning as a different sort of Republican, including featuring Dreamers in his campaign ads. In 2022, he was redistricted to California’s 22nd, another heavily-Latino and agriculture-rich district. But while Rep. Valadao has talked …
