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Candidates › CA-07 race › 2025–2026
Mai Vang
D Democratic nominee for U.S. House, CA-07
Has not served in Congress
- On the ballot
- On the general election ballotNov 3, 2026 · California US House 7
- Where to vote
- Find your polling place (opens in a new tab) · More ways to vote
- Top priorities
- Affordability: Fighting for the Working Class
- Stop Endless Wars
- Fight Corruption
- Housing You Can Afford
- Health Care You Can Count On
- Money
- $1.8M raised, $1.4M spent, $388.8K cash on hand (through Oct 14, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 23% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 83% from California · largest committee giver UAW - V - CAP (UAW VOLUNTARY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM) 'INT'L UNION UNITED AUTOMOBILE AEROSPACE & AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA UAW, $10K
- Outside groups
- $1.7M supporting, $1.2M opposing Vang
- Backed by
- Justice Democrats · UAW6 · Sunrise Movement and 15 more. As the campaign lists them
- Polling
- 39% in the latest poll (USC Democracy and Fair Elections Lab). The polls
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Mai will fight to bring costs down: housing families can actually afford and Medicare for All, so no one chooses between rent and seeing a doctor. She'll push for a moratorium on new data centers that drive up our power bills.
Doris Matsui is an out-of-touch politician who takes money from the corporations and billionaires driving up our prices. After serving 21 years in Congress, we're paying more for rent, health care, and child care than ever, while she takes care of her donors.
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Mai is the anti-war candidate. She'll push to ban the sale of weapons used to carry out genocide. Mai will lead the fight to make sure our tax dollars are spent here at home NOT for more foreign wars.
Doris Matsui refuses to acknowledge the Palestinian genocide, while taking hundreds of thousands from AIPAC and weapons manufacturers. She’s consistently voted to send more of our tax dollars to pay for weapons.
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Mai takes no corporate PAC money and won't trade stocks in Congress. She'll fight to ban insider trading by members of Congress and get rid of SuperPACs.
Doris Matsui has traded at least $38M in stocks while sitting on committees that oversee industries she's invested in. She's had 21 years to fix a rigged system. She used it to get rich instead.
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Mai will fight to make housing a human right by building more affordable homes, supporting first time home buyers, stopping rent hikes and neglect, and investing federal dollars in keeping families safely housed.
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Mai will fight to make sure everyone can see a doctor, afford their medicine, and get the care they need. This includes expanding Medicare and prioritizing people over profits for insurance companies.
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Mai will fight to protect public schools, forgive student debt, and support tuition-free higher education. As a parent, she will champion expanded child care and paid family leave.
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Mai will fight for jobs that pay a living wage, stronger unions, and fair workplaces so that every family can earn a good living and corporations are held accountable to our families.
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Mai will fight to end the genocide in Gaza, reject AIPAC money, and invest our tax dollars in health care, housing, and jobs at home—not endless wars abroad.
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Mai will fight to free our neighborhoods from the terror of masked ICE agents and militarized law enforcement. She will work to fix our broken immigration system and protect our freedoms.
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Unlike Doris Matsui, who has received millions in corporate donations, I only answer to you. I refuse money from corporate PACs because you can't fight for working families while taking checks from the corporations making our lives harder. I can't be bought.
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Working families are getting squeezed from every direction — groceries, rent, child care, gas, prescriptions. I know what that’s like. I grew up in a low-income household, helped raise my 15 siblings. Today, I teach and my husband works 12-hour shifts so our family can have a safety net.
In Congress, I’ll take on the corporations and special interests driving up costs to pad their profits.
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Donald Trump’s illegal tariffs acted as a hidden tax on every working family and small business in our region. While local shops struggled to keep the lights on, giant corporations used the chaos to price-gouge our community – padding their record profits while passing the bill straight to us. Now that the courts have ruled these tariffs illegal, it’s time those corporations pay us back. Those refunds belong to the local businesses and families who actually carried the burden, not to corporate shareholders.
In Congress, I’ll fight to break up the monopolies that are crushing our neighborhood shops and put money back into the hands of local employers so they can hire locally, stay open, and keep our economy rooted in the people who live here.
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A handful of people own more wealth than the bottom half of our entire country, yet they’re the ones getting tax cuts while the rest of us struggle to get by. Working families shouldn’t be stretched thin while the ultra-rich use loopholes created by their allies in Congress to avoid paying their fair share.
I'll vote to make billionaires pay their fair share and close corporate loopholes so we can invest that money back into the communities that need it.
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I will fight to raise the minimum wage and tie it to inflation so it keeps up with the real cost of living. I'll also champion paid family leave, paid sick days, and workers' right to organize. As a proud union member (CFA), I'll push to pass the PRO Act and fully fund the National Labor Relations Board so workers have the power to fight back.
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Big Tech is rigging our economy on its own terms, and the costs are landing on us in higher utility bills, lost jobs, and work taken without pay. In Congress, I'll make these companies pay their own way and fight for working families to get a real share of what AI is building. I will protect our communities from massive data centers and make sure our communities have a voice in future decision making.
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Utilities in our region are raising rates to power data centers that use enormous amounts of electricity and water, and working families are covering the difference on a cost nobody voted on. The developers get tax breaks. We get the bill and sacrifice our water and air quality along the way. I am the only candidate that has signed on to Senator Bernie Sanders' moratorium on new data center construction, and in Congress I'll fight to end the tax giveaways for data center developers and require them to cover the rate increases their energy use causes.
The most important voice on this issue is yours—and Doris Matsui has failed to prepare us for the future because she is simply out of touch and takes thousands from big tech companies.
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Most politicians will say something careful about AI and then take the check. I'm the only candidate in this race who has signed the AI Pact, a public commitment to a specific set of rules for these companies rather than a vague promise to look into it. That means no tax giveaways or backroom deals for data centers, independent safety review before a major new AI model goes to market, a real right to sue when these systems cause you harm, and never voting to make taxpayers bail out an AI company when its bets go bad. I don't take corporate PAC money from Big Tech, which is why I can put my name on it.
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Flock Safety cameras are going up across our region, scanning every license plate that passes and building a searchable record of where people drive, work, worship, and take their kids. Most of these contracts were signed without a public hearing, and the data has been shared far beyond the city that collected it, including with federal agencies hunting our immigrant neighbors. I oppose Flock and the expansion of AI surveillance networks in our communities. In Congress, I'll fight to stop government agencies from buying our location data, require warrants before that data can be searched, and set hard limits on how long it can be kept. You shouldn't have to give up your movements to a private company to drive to work.
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The artists, writers, musicians, and designers in our community had their work fed into these systems without permission and without a dime in return. That's a transfer of wealth from working creators straight to the largest companies on earth. I'll fight to protect creators' rights and make sure they're paid when their work trains an AI model, and to hold these companies accountable when their products violate our privacy, with the strongest protections for kids.
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