Candidate · November 3, 2026

Angela Gonzales-Torres

On the ballot for U.S. House · California's 34th District

DemocraticChallenger
raised through Oct 14, 2026
$510K
cash on hand
$105K
issues with public statements
21
outside spending for or against
$642K

§1On the ballot

Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.

OfficeU.S. House · California's 34th District1
Party on the ballotDemocratic1
StatusChallenger
How it's decidedUnder California's top-two system, only the two candidates who received the most votes in the June 2, 2026, primary, regardless of party preference, appear on this general-election ballot.1,2
Also on the ballot

§2Who they are

Why this matters: Background and experience help you judge how someone might do the job. These come from public records and the candidate's own materials.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Angela Gonzales-Torres was born and raised in Highland Park; after her father was deported, she was raised by a single mother and grew up in Section 8 housing.3,4 She has served as president of the Highland Park Neighborhood Council, worked in the Los Angeles Mayor's Office and served as a regional representative on Metro's Public Safety Advisory Committee.3 She works helping people move from prison into universities and on intergenerational, permanently affordable housing.3

Why they say they're running

Her campaign website says she is running to get corporate money's influence out of politics and because she believes Los Angeles deserves a representative who reflects the courage of its people.3

Websites and accounts

§3What they've said on the issues

Why this matters: These are positions the candidate has stated publicly — on their campaign website or in public statements — summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Issues they haven't spoken about publicly are left out.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Each issue has its own range of views. A position is marked on that range only when the candidate's own statement clearly matches one option; there is no overall left–right score.

Elections and Government Reform

Her campaign website says she would cap donations to Super PACs at $5,000, the same limit as regular PACs, and work to overturn Citizens United.7,8

  1. Limit spending by outside groups, including by amending the Constitution to overturn Citizens United
  2. Keep spending unlimited but require groups to name their major donors
  3. Keep current rules
  4. Raise or remove limits on donations to candidates and parties
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Health Care

Her campaign website says she will cosponsor Medicare for All, a single-payer system covering everyone with no premiums or copays.9

  1. One government plan for everyone (Medicare for All)
  2. Add a government plan that anyone can choose to buy
  3. Keep the current mix of private and public coverage, including the ACA
  4. Fewer federal insurance rules and more private plan choices, with aid paid to individuals
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Taxes and Budget

Her campaign website says she supports a federal wealth tax on the ultra-rich, including the Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share Act.10

  1. No tax on wealth or on gains from assets that haven't been sold
  2. A minimum tax on the very wealthy that counts unsold gains as income
  3. A yearly tax on net worth above a high threshold (such as $50 million)
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Housing

Her campaign website calls for expanding rapid rehousing with mental health, job and family services and early-warning programs to prevent homelessness, and opposes laws that punish unhoused people for sleeping outside.4

Economy, Jobs and Trade

Her campaign website calls for guaranteeing gig workers the right to organize and bargain collectively, portable benefits that follow workers from job to job, and clear worker classification laws.11

Family and Social Policy

Her campaign website calls for a national paid family and medical leave program and universal paid sick leave.11

  1. Create a national paid leave program for all workers
  2. Expand tax credits for employers that offer paid leave, without a national requirement
  3. Keep current federal law, leaving paid leave to employers and states
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website calls for major federal investment in affordable child care, including subsidies, expanded pre-K and fair wages for child care providers.11

Education

Her campaign website calls for canceling up to $50,000 in student debt per borrower, particularly for low- and middle-income borrowers.12

  1. Narrow or end existing forgiveness programs, such as Public Service Loan Forgiveness
  2. Keep current forgiveness programs, with no new cancellation
  3. Add targeted relief, such as more forgiveness for public service workers or through income-based repayment
  4. Broad cancellation of student debt
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website supports moving to tuition-free public higher education, including community colleges and public universities.12

  1. No free tuition program
  2. Free tuition at community colleges
  3. Free tuition at public colleges and universities
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Immigration

Her campaign website calls for a pathway to citizenship, including for DACA recipients, people with Temporary Protected Status and essential workers.13

  1. No new legal status, including for people brought here as children
  2. Legal status only for people brought here as children, such as DACA recipients
  3. Legal status, but not citizenship, for most who pass background checks and pay a fine
  4. A path to citizenship for most who meet requirements such as background checks
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website says she would abolish ICE, end for-profit immigration detention and protect schools, clinics, courthouses and workplaces from enforcement actions.8,13

  1. Abolish ICE and move any remaining enforcement work to other agencies
  2. Deport only people convicted of serious crimes or who threaten national security
  3. Focus on people with criminal records and recent border crossers
  4. Deport as many people here without legal permission as possible, with or without criminal records
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website calls for ending policies that exclude immigrants from federally funded programs and for full access to essential services for mixed-status households.13

Foreign Policy and Defense

Her campaign website calls for an immediate arms embargo and ceasefire in Gaza and says she will never vote to send weapons to the Israeli military.14

  1. Increase military aid to Israel
  2. Keep military aid at current levels, without new conditions
  3. Attach conditions, such as limits on how US weapons are used and requirements to let humanitarian aid into Gaza
  4. Reduce or end military aid to Israel
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website supports repealing the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force so that no president can send troops to war without a vote of Congress.8

  1. Let the president order military action without needing Congress's approval
  2. Let the president act first, but enforce the 60-day limit and end any action Congress doesn't approve
  3. Require Congress to approve military action in advance, except to defend against an attack
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website says she would end what it calls blank checks for war and weapons and redirect that money to housing, health care, education and jobs at home.8,14

  1. Increase military spending
  2. Hold it near current levels, adjusted for inflation
  3. Cut military spending
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Energy and Climate

Her campaign website supports a national moratorium on new data center construction until enforceable federal standards are in place, and says data centers should pay the full cost of the grid capacity they need.15

  1. Encourage new data centers with tax breaks and faster approvals
  2. Require data centers to pay the full cost of the power plants and lines they need
  3. Pause or limit new data centers
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Technology, Privacy and AI

Her campaign website says she would defend California's authority to regulate AI and oppose federal preemption of state safety and civil rights rules.15,16

  1. Override state AI laws with a single national approach
  2. Set national rules as a minimum and let states add stronger ones
  3. Let states keep writing their own AI laws
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website calls for banning AI-generated sexually explicit deepfakes and holding companies accountable, and opposes AI surveillance tools built for immigration enforcement.13,15

Courts, Rights and Civil Liberties

Her campaign website says she supports expanding the Supreme Court.17

  1. Add justices to the court
  2. Keep nine justices under current law
  3. Fix the number at nine in the Constitution
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website says she supports term limits for Supreme Court justices.17

  1. Set fixed terms, such as 18 years
  2. Keep lifetime appointments
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Her campaign website calls for a binding, enforceable code of ethics for justices, including bans on accepting gifts and owning stocks.17

  1. Pass a law setting a binding ethics code, with outside review of complaints and recusal decisions
  2. Keep ethics rules in the court's hands, but have it add its own way to enforce them
  3. Keep the court's current code
Marked: the option their statement matches.

§4Money

Why this matters: Campaigns report where their money comes from and how much they have left. Outside groups that spend on their own, without coordinating with the campaign, report that too.

Reported to the Federal Election Commission for the 2025–2026 election cycle, through October 14, 2026.18

Raised$509,752
Spent$404,933
Cash on hand$104,818

Where the money came from

Individual donors$481K · 94%
PACs and other political committees$28K · 6%
Other receipts (other loans, refunds, interest)$118 · 0%

Outside spending

Groups spending independently reported $441,965 supporting and $200,000 opposing Angela Gonzales-Torres this cycle, primary and general combined, in the 24- and 48-hour reports the law requires for larger expenditures, filed through October 26, 2026.19

Largest independent spenders, as named in their FEC filings.
GroupSupportingOpposing
Guardrails Alliance$300,000—
Nuestro PAC—$200,000
Working Families Party PAC$110,965—
Progress Action Fund$25,000—
Justice Democrats PAC$6,000—

Smaller expenditures that appear only on a group's regular monthly or quarterly report aren't in these totals, so the full amounts can be somewhat higher. When a group amends a report, only its latest version is counted.

§5Financial disclosures

Why this matters: Federal candidates and members of Congress must report their assets, income, debts and outside jobs, and members must report stock trades. These filings show possible conflicts of interest.