Republican
California
On the ballot · 2026
Key dates
Full two-year term
Health Care
Steve Cohen will work to lower prescription drug costs, protect coverage for pre-existing conditions, and hold insurance companies accountable for putting profits over patients.
Budget & Appropriations
Steve Cohen spent his career investigating where the money goes — and who benefits. In Congress, he'll bring that same scrutiny to the federal budget: demanding transparency in government spending, opposing wasteful earmarks, and ensuring your tax dollars reach San Diego families.
Housing & Community Development
Steve Cohen will fight for real solutions: expanding housing supply, cracking down on corporate price manipulation, and ensuring that economic policy works for the people who actually live here.
Immigration
Border Security: Supporting strong, effective border enforcement — because San Diego is a border community and public safety starts with knowing who is entering our country — while treating people with dignity and working toward an immigration system that is orderly and lawful.
Seniors & Aging
Seniors: Establishing a new federal Department of Senior Affairs to protect Social Security, Medicare, and veterans’ benefits — and to give older Americans a dedicated advocate in the federal government instead of a patchwork of underfunded programs.
Republican
California
On the ballot · 2026
Key dates
Full two-year term
Health Care
Steve Cohen will work to lower prescription drug costs, protect coverage for pre-existing conditions, and hold insurance companies accountable for putting profits over patients.
Budget & Appropriations
Steve Cohen spent his career investigating where the money goes — and who benefits. In Congress, he'll bring that same scrutiny to the federal budget: demanding transparency in government spending, opposing wasteful earmarks, and ensuring your tax dollars reach San Diego families.
Housing & Community Development
Steve Cohen will fight for real solutions: expanding housing supply, cracking down on corporate price manipulation, and ensuring that economic policy works for the people who actually live here.
Immigration
Border Security: Supporting strong, effective border enforcement — because San Diego is a border community and public safety starts with knowing who is entering our country — while treating people with dignity and working toward an immigration system that is orderly and lawful.
Seniors & Aging
Seniors: Establishing a new federal Department of Senior Affairs to protect Social Security, Medicare, and veterans’ benefits — and to give older Americans a dedicated advocate in the federal government instead of a patchwork of underfunded programs.
The government holds the investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking of children: who paid, who flew, who knew, and which prosecutors decided back in 2008 that a plea deal was enough. Every release so far has landed late, partial, and with the redactions falling in suspiciously convenient places. The survivors have spent two decades being told to wait while the people they named kept their board seats and their reputations. There is exactly one legitimate reason to withhold any of this, and that is protecting victims who never chose to be in it; every other black box is someone being shielded who shouldn't be. Force the full release of the Epstein files with victim-identifying information redacted and nothing else, and open an independent review of how the 2008 deal was allowed to happen.
The National Archives holds the founding documents and the receipts, the records that let a citizen check what the government actually did. The Smithsonian and the national museums hold the version of the American story that outlasts whoever is in office. None of that survives being run by whoever currently holds power. We are watching boards replaced with loyalists, exhibits rewritten to flatter one man, collections put at risk, and a Pearl Harbor hero's name scraped off a ship to make room for an ego. A country that lets its record be edited by the people the record is about has no way to hold anyone accountable later. Write independence for the National Archives, the Smithsonian, and the national cultural institutions into statute, with fixed board terms, protection from political removal, and no rewriting or renaming without public process.
On September 15, Rep. Thomas Massie filed eight articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and the House can be forced to vote on them. The Constitution gives Congress, not the executive branch, the power to take the country to war, and it gives the House the power to remove officials who ignore that limit. Keeping American forces in combat in Iran without authorization from Congress is exactly the kind of abuse impeachment exists to answer. Impeachment is not a criminal trial. It is how Congress enforces the oath every official swears to the Constitution. Vote to impeach and remove him.
The government holds the investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking of children: who paid, who flew, who knew, and which prosecutors decided back in 2008 that a plea deal was enough. Every release so far has landed late, partial, and with the redactions falling in suspiciously convenient places. The survivors have spent two decades being told to wait while the people they named kept their board seats and their reputations. There is exactly one legitimate reason to withhold any of this, and that is protecting victims who never chose to be in it; every other black box is someone being shielded who shouldn't be. Force the full release of the Epstein files with victim-identifying information redacted and nothing else, and open an independent review of how the 2008 deal was allowed to happen.
The National Archives holds the founding documents and the receipts, the records that let a citizen check what the government actually did. The Smithsonian and the national museums hold the version of the American story that outlasts whoever is in office. None of that survives being run by whoever currently holds power. We are watching boards replaced with loyalists, exhibits rewritten to flatter one man, collections put at risk, and a Pearl Harbor hero's name scraped off a ship to make room for an ego. A country that lets its record be edited by the people the record is about has no way to hold anyone accountable later. Write independence for the National Archives, the Smithsonian, and the national cultural institutions into statute, with fixed board terms, protection from political removal, and no rewriting or renaming without public process.
On September 15, Rep. Thomas Massie filed eight articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and the House can be forced to vote on them. The Constitution gives Congress, not the executive branch, the power to take the country to war, and it gives the House the power to remove officials who ignore that limit. Keeping American forces in combat in Iran without authorization from Congress is exactly the kind of abuse impeachment exists to answer. Impeachment is not a criminal trial. It is how Congress enforces the oath every official swears to the Constitution. Vote to impeach and remove him.
