Elections · U.S. House, District 37 · California
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Raised for this seat
$10K
Through September 30, 2026
Cash on hand
$2K
Through September 30, 2026
On the November ballot
Mota faces Sydney Kamlager-Dove for this seat on November 3, 2026.
The ballot as filed by the nominee source, recorded August 27, 2026, not a prediction. Minor-party and write-in filers are on the race page.
Where the money comes from
- Small donors
- 30%$3K
- Large donors
- 8%$800
- PACs
- --
- Party
- --
- Self-funding
- 61%$6K
- Other
- <1%$0
Receipts reported through September 30, 2026. Source: FEC.
How to vote in California
- General electionNovember 3, 2026In 10 weeks
Register 15 days before, or same-day through Election Day at your county office or polling place.
The district they want to represent
- People
- 745K
- Median household income
- $70K
- Unemployment
- 9.1%
- Living below the poverty line
- 20.6%
- Without health insurance
- 10.6%
U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Context about the district, not a statement about any candidate.
Against the field for this seat
Each campaign's reported receipts on one shared scale, in ballot order, not money order.
- Samantha Motathis page$10K
- Sydney Kamlager-Dove$1.2M
- Todd Lombardo$89K
Muted rows are campaigns not on the November ballot; their money is still their own filed record.
In their own words
What Mota's campaign says it would work on.
The priorities Mota's own campaign site lists, quoted as written there. They are what the campaign says. Nobody has voted on them.
- “Economic Security”
- “Families”
- “Community-based Projects”
- “Universal Health care”
- “Housing for All”
- “Immigration Reform”
- “Democracy Reform”
- “Student Loan Forgiveness and Tuition Costs”
- “Education Reform”
- “Environmental Justice”
- “Small Businesses”
- “Foreign Policy”
Quoted from motaforcongress.com, read August 14, 2026. A campaign site changes; this is what it said on that date. Curia quotes these and does not check, rate or rank them.
Record in office
Mota has not held this office, so there is no federal voting record, no cosponsorships and no committee service to report.
That absence is not a position for or against anything; it is what a first federal campaign looks like in the public record.
Candidates and financing from the FEC, public domain. Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.