United States Representative, District 26

Jacqui Irwin is a mother and an engineer. She has served in the State Assembly since 2014 and was once Mayor of Thousand Oaks. She leads the Legislature's climate change committee and has worked on cybersecurity. After the 2018 Borderline shooting in Thousand Oaks, she wrote laws to strengthen gun violence restraining orders. Her laws also required police to have clear rules for using them.

Irwin says her energy for public service has never been stronger, and that is why she is running for this open seat. She says she wants to stand up for the district in Congress. She says she will fight what she calls Trump's assault on democracy. In Sacramento she has also worked on consumer privacy and mental health care for veterans.

Irwin promises to fight for lower costs, protect democracy and civil rights, and expand access to health care. She says she will hold utility companies accountable for high electric bills. She also says she will push back against federal cuts to health care.

Sam Gallucci spent his early career at IBM. He rose to a top executive role at PeopleSoft before he left business behind. He then founded nonprofits and led a church. He founded the Kingdom Center, which has housed thousands of women and children. He later founded a food program for farm workers and a low-cost private school group. He was most recently senior pastor of Embrace Church in Oxnard.

Gallucci says the cost of living is the issue on everyone's mind. He says the dream of owning a home and raising a family is slipping away for many Californians. He has never held elected office. His campaign says he would bring business skill and pastoral care to government.

Gallucci promises to fight for lower costs and to push for immigration reform. He wants long-settled, law-abiding immigrants to be able to stay, while those who commit crimes are deported. He also wants to ban members of Congress from trading stocks and to protect Social Security and Medicare.