Candidate · November 3, 2026
Julia Letlow
On the ballot for U.S. Senate · Louisiana
- raised through Oct 14, 2026
- $7.1M
- cash on hand
- $443K
- issues with public statements
- 26
- outside spending for or against
- $24M
§1On the ballot
Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.
| Office | U.S. Senate · Louisiana1, |
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| Party on the ballot | Republican1, |
| Status | Open seat — Currently serves in the U.S. House, representing Louisiana's 5th District.4 |
| Also on the ballot |
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§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.
Julia Letlow is a native of Monroe, Louisiana, who earned bachelor's and master's degrees in speech communication from the University of Louisiana Monroe and a doctorate in communication from the University of South Florida.5,
Why they say they're running
Her campaign website says she launched her Senate campaign with a promise to fight for a better future for the next generation and that in the Senate she would work to carry out a conservative, America First agenda.6 It says she would work with President Trump to keep the border secure, lower costs for working families, expand American energy production, protect parents' rights and defend election integrity.7
Service in Congress since 2023
Websites and accounts
- Official websiteletlow.house.gov4
- X (Twitter)x.com/RepJuliaLetlow8
- Facebookfacebook.com/repjulialetlow8
- Campaign websitejulialetlow.com9,
10 - Facebookfacebook.com/julialetlow10
- X (Twitter)twitter.com/jbletlow10
- Instagraminstagram.com/julialetlowla0510
- YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCOwFFI7RR__hc67BdW6gUMA/featured10
§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.
Immigration
Her campaign website says she would finish construction of the border wall.7
Her campaign website says she would deport immigrants in the country illegally who are criminals or gang members and end catch-and-release policies.7
Her campaign website says she would defund sanctuary cities.7
- Require full cooperation, with penalties for places that limit it
- Let each state, county or city decide
- Cooperate only in cases involving people convicted of serious crimes
- Bar police and jails from helping without a judge's warrant
Her campaign website says she would require E-Verify nationwide.7
- Keep it optional for most employers
- Require it only for larger employers or certain industries
- Require all employers to use it
Her campaign website says she would end taxpayer-funded benefits for immigrants in the country illegally.7
Crime, Policing and Prisons
Her campaign website says she would increase penalties for fentanyl trafficking.7
Taxes and Budget
Her campaign website says she would permanently extend the Trump tax cuts.7
Her campaign website says she would make the One Big Beautiful Bill's no-tax-on-tips and no-tax-on-overtime provisions permanent.7
- Make the tax break permanent or expand it
- Keep it as passed, with its current limits and end date
- Let it end, or replace it with tax relief not tied to tips or overtime
Her campaign website says she would reduce government spending that it says fuels inflation and write the DOGE spending cuts into law.7
- Increase overall federal spending
- Hold overall spending near current levels
- Cut overall federal spending
- Cut spending enough to balance the budget within 10 years
Family and Social Policy
Her campaign website says she would expand and protect the child tax credit for working families.7
Elections and Government Reform
Her campaign website says she would reduce the size and scope of the federal bureaucracy and strengthen oversight of federal regulators.7
Her campaign website says she would ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks and strengthen financial disclosure rules.7
Her campaign website says she supports passing the SAVE America Act and requiring proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections.7
- Require documents proving citizenship to register
- Check citizenship against government records instead of requiring documents
- Keep relying on applicants' sworn statement, under penalty of perjury, that they are citizens
Energy and Climate
Her campaign website says she would expand oil and natural gas production, including offshore energy development in the Gulf.7
- Stop or sharply limit new leases
- Continue leasing, but keep some coastlines and wildlife areas off-limits
- Lease more federal land and offshore areas for drilling
Her campaign website says she would streamline federal permitting and speed up approvals of liquefied natural gas exports.7
Education
Her campaign website says she would expand school choice.7
Her campaign website says she supports a national Parents' Bill of Rights, more transparency in curriculum, keeping political activism out of classrooms and parental warning labels on transgender content.7
Her campaign website says she would keep athletes born male out of women's sports and write protections for women's athletics into Title IX.7
- Require teams based on sex at birth
- Let each state decide
- Let schools or sports organizations set rules case by case
- Teams based on gender identity
Courts, Rights and Civil Liberties
Her campaign website says she would penalize educational institutions that hide DEI programs.7
Health Care
Her campaign website says she would ban gender transition procedures for minors.7
- Ban these treatments for minors
- Allow some with limits, such as minimum ages, waiting periods or no surgery
- No legal limits; leave decisions to patients, parents and doctors
Agriculture and Rural Life
Her campaign website says she would pass a strong farm bill, protect crop insurance and expand disaster assistance for farmers.7
- Expand price supports, crop insurance or emergency aid
- Keep the programs at current levels
- Cut payments, such as with tighter limits for the largest farms
- Phase out price-support payments and rely on crop insurance
Her campaign website says she would ban Chinese ownership of American farmland.7
- Ban farmland purchases by all foreign buyers
- Ban purchases by buyers tied to China, Russia, Iran or North Korea
- Require more reporting and national security reviews of purchases, but no outright bans
- Keep current reporting rules, with no new limits on foreign buyers
Technology, Privacy and AI
Her campaign website says she would expand access to rural broadband.7
Veterans
Her campaign website says she would reduce VA wait times and expand veterans' access to community care.7
Infrastructure and Transportation
Her campaign website says she would reform FEMA and speed up disaster assistance payments.7
- Shift most disaster costs and response to states, and shrink or close FEMA
- Keep FEMA's role, with changes to speed up aid
- Expand FEMA's funding and role, including more help preparing before disasters
§4Popular bills that never got a vote
Why this matters: Many bills with wide support from both parties never reach a vote, so no member of Congress is ever on record for or against them. Signing on as a sponsor or cosponsor is the only public record of support.
While Julia Letlow served, these bills had broad support from both parties but never reached a floor vote. No officeholder ever had to vote on them. Julia Letlow sponsored or cosponsored 14 of the 52. How bills die without a vote.
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- Lets combat-disabled veterans get full military retirement pay plus disability pay (H.R. 2102, 119th Congress · 340 cosponsors)11Cosponsored
- Ends pay reductions for combat-disabled military retirees with under 20 years of service (H.R. 1282, 118th Congress · 326 cosponsors)12Cosponsored
- Allows Medicare to cover multi-cancer early detection screening tests (H.R. 2407, 118th Congress · 319 cosponsors)13Cosponsored
- Sets electronic prior-approval and reporting rules for Medicare Advantage plans (H.R. 3514, 119th Congress · 308 cosponsors)14Cosponsored
- Requires new vehicles to include AM radio as standard equipment (H.R. 3413, 118th Congress · 270 cosponsors)15Cosponsored
- Extends the parks maintenance fund and adds higher park fees for foreign visitors (H.R. 9250, 119th Congress · 263 cosponsors)16Cosponsored
- Sets electronic prior-approval and reporting rules for Medicare Advantage plans (H.R. 8702, 118th Congress · 231 cosponsors)17Cosponsored
- Requires health plans to cover birth defect care for the eyes, ears, teeth, mouth or jaw (H.R. 3277, 119th Congress · 214 cosponsors)18Cosponsored
- Sends False Claims Act fraud recoveries to the Crime Victims Fund through 2029 (H.R. 8061, 118th Congress · 210 cosponsors)19Cosponsored
- Keeps paying military members and support staff during a shutdown in fiscal 2026 (H.R. 5401, 119th Congress · 210 cosponsors)20Cosponsored
- Expands Medicare coverage to all services chiropractors provide (H.R. 1610, 118th Congress · 180 cosponsors)21Cosponsored
- Requires FHA mortgage notices to compare costs with VA home loans (H.R. 4335, 118th Congress · 169 cosponsors)22Cosponsored
- Extends U.S.-Israel defense, energy and development cooperation programs (H.R. 3792, 118th Congress · 163 cosponsors)23Cosponsored
- Directs a Justice Department grant to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (H.R. 3381, 118th Congress · 156 cosponsors)24Cosponsored
- Expands and revises the low-income housing tax credit for affordable rental housing (H.R. 3238, 118th Congress · 273 cosponsors)25Did not cosponsor
- Ends waiting periods for disability benefits and Medicare for metastatic breast cancer (H.R. 549, 118th Congress · 272 cosponsors)26Did not cosponsor
- Ends disability benefit and Medicare waiting periods for metastatic breast cancer (H.R. 2048, 119th Congress · 271 cosponsors)27Did not cosponsor
- Expands federal anti-soring rules for show horses and raises penalties (H.R. 3090, 118th Congress · 248 cosponsors)28Did not cosponsor
- Expands Medicare telehealth coverage by removing location limits and other restrictions (H.R. 4206, 119th Congress · 248 cosponsors)29Did not cosponsor
- Bans slaughtering horses and other equines for human food (H.R. 1661, 119th Congress · 238 cosponsors)30Did not cosponsor
- Sets new federal care standards for dogs kept by commercial dog dealers and breeders (H.R. 1624, 118th Congress · 237 cosponsors)31Did not cosponsor
- Permanently bans slaughtering horses and other equines for human food (H.R. 3475, 118th Congress · 236 cosponsors)32Did not cosponsor
- Requires employer health plans to allow exceptions to step-therapy drug rules (H.R. 2630, 118th Congress · 235 cosponsors)33Did not cosponsor
- Targets crimes against postal workers; authorizes money for more secure mailboxes and keys (H.R. 1065, 119th Congress · 231 cosponsors)34Did not cosponsor
- Adds Medicare coverage of blood tests to screen for early Alzheimer's disease (H.R. 6130, 119th Congress · 231 cosponsors)35Did not cosponsor
- Bans most animal testing of cosmetics and sales of cosmetics developed with it (H.R. 5399, 118th Congress · 227 cosponsors)36Did not cosponsor
- Bars insurers from discriminating against living organ donors (H.R. 2923, 118th Congress · 225 cosponsors)37Did not cosponsor
- Lets businesses deduct research costs right away instead of over five years (H.R. 2673, 118th Congress · 223 cosponsors)38Did not cosponsor
- Restores fines for charging veterans unauthorized fees for help with VA claims (H.R. 1139, 118th Congress · 221 cosponsors)39Did not cosponsor
- Raises Medicare physician fee schedule payments by 6.62% for April through December 2025 (H.R. 879, 119th Congress · 198 cosponsors)40Did not cosponsor
- Orders a study of Holocaust education in public schools across the states (H.R. 603, 118th Congress · 183 cosponsors)41Did not cosponsor
- Lets surviving military and veteran spouses keep benefits after remarrying (H.R. 1004, 119th Congress · 183 cosponsors)42Did not cosponsor
- Raises the tax credit for maintaining short line railroad track (H.R. 516, 119th Congress · 183 cosponsors)43Did not cosponsor
- Expands U.S.-Israel military cooperation on counter-drone and emerging technology (H.R. 1229, 119th Congress · 178 cosponsors)44Did not cosponsor
- Authorizes CIA payments to former Air America employees and survivors for 1950-1976 work (H.R. 2192, 119th Congress · 178 cosponsors)45Did not cosponsor
- Expands Medicare coverage to all services chiropractors are licensed to provide (H.R. 539, 119th Congress · 174 cosponsors)46Did not cosponsor
- Ties yearly Medicare physician payment increases to the Medicare Economic Index (H.R. 2474, 118th Congress · 172 cosponsors)47Did not cosponsor
- Adds military spouses to a tax credit for employers who hire from certain groups (H.R. 1277, 118th Congress · 170 cosponsors)48Did not cosponsor
- Gives new-car dealers through 2025 to restock 2020-21 inventory without triggering tax (H.R. 700, 118th Congress · 169 cosponsors)49Did not cosponsor
- Requires employer health plans to offer exceptions to step therapy drug rules (H.R. 5509, 119th Congress · 169 cosponsors)50Did not cosponsor
- Expands and revises the low-income housing tax credit for affordable rentals (H.R. 2725, 119th Congress · 168 cosponsors)51Did not cosponsor
- Counts recovery from organ donation surgery as a serious health condition for family leave (H.R. 4582, 119th Congress · 168 cosponsors)52Did not cosponsor
- Bars insurers from discriminating against living organ donors (H.R. 4583, 119th Congress · 168 cosponsors)53Did not cosponsor
- Lets 529 education savings plans pay for aviation mechanic and pilot training (H.R. 1818, 118th Congress · 162 cosponsors)54Did not cosponsor
- Requires nursing homes and similar facilities to let essential caregivers see residents (H.R. 6766, 119th Congress · 160 cosponsors)55Did not cosponsor
- Requires annual VA reports and studies on preventing veteran suicide (H.R. 4157, 118th Congress · 159 cosponsors)56Did not cosponsor
- Doubles the amount of profit from selling a primary home that is exempt from tax (H.R. 1340, 119th Congress · 159 cosponsors)57Did not cosponsor
- Requires VA clinicians to certify a veteran's death within 48 hours (H.R. 4398, 119th Congress · 158 cosponsors)58Did not cosponsor
- No-down-payment, federally insured mortgages for first responders and teachers (H.R. 2094, 119th Congress · 154 cosponsors)59Did not cosponsor
- Lets 529 education savings pay for job certifications and other credentials (H.R. 1477, 118th Congress · 150 cosponsors)60Did not cosponsor
- Funds research on firefighter protective gear made without PFAS chemicals (H.R. 3184, 119th Congress · 150 cosponsors)61Did not cosponsor
- Bans betting on animal fights and allows private lawsuits over animal fighting (H.R. 3946, 119th Congress · 150 cosponsors)62Did not cosponsor
§5Money
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, 2026.63
| Raised | $7,062,069 |
|---|---|
| Spent | $6,618,899 |
| Cash on hand | $443,170 |
Where the money came from
Outside spending
Groups spending independently reported $12,828,735 supporting and $10,861,766 opposing Julia Letlow this cycle, primary and general combined, in the 24- and 48-hour reports the law requires for larger expenditures, filed through October 26, 2026.64
| Group | Supporting | Opposing |
|---|---|---|
| LOUISIANA FREEDOM FUND | — | $10,816,741 |
| ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC | $9,922,193 | — |
| AMERICAN MISSION | $1,173,386 | — |
| SAVE AMERICAN FREEDOM | $863,442 | — |
| HIGH PLAINS PAC | $365,000 | — |
| FELLOWSHIP PAC | $350,000 | — |
| HOPE IN ACTION PAC | $74,130 | — |
| COMMON SENSE FOR AMERICA PAC | $63,879 | — |
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.
§6Financial 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.
- Amended financial disclosure report65filed Aug 13, 2026
- Annual financial disclosure report66filed Aug 13, 2026
- Amended financial disclosure report67filed Jan 13, 2026
- Annual financial disclosure report68filed Aug 13, 2025
- Periodic transaction report (stock and other trades)69filed Mar 12, 2026
- Periodic transaction report (stock and other trades)70filed Jan 13, 2026
Senate candidates and senators file with the Senate's own disclosure system, which asks each visitor to agree to its terms before searching, so we can't link straight to a filing. You can search for Julia Letlow at efdsearch.senate.gov71.