Elections · U.S. House, District 4 · Oregon
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Raised for this seat
$678K
Through June 30, 2026
Cash on hand
$388K
Through June 30, 2026
On the November ballot
DeSpain faces Val Hoyle 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
- 14%$93K
- Large donors
- 33%$224K
- PACs
- 3%$23K
- Party
- <1%$2K
- Self-funding
- 4%$30K
- Other
- 45%$305K
Receipts reported through June 30, 2026. Source: FEC.
How to vote in Oregon
- General electionNovember 3, 2026In 10 weeks
Register 21 days before the election.
The district they want to represent
- People
- 710K
- Median household income
- $69K
- Unemployment
- 6.4%
- Living below the poverty line
- 15.9%
- Without health insurance
- 5.7%
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.
- Val Hoyle$1.2M
- Melissa Bird$76K
- Monique DeSpainthis page$678K
Muted rows are campaigns not on the November ballot; their money is still their own filed record.
In their own words
What DeSpain's campaign says it would work on.
The priorities DeSpain's own campaign site lists, quoted as written there. They are what the campaign says. Nobody has voted on them.
- “Border Security & Immigration Reform”
- “Veterans Issues”
- “Public Safety and Crime”
- “Addressing Homelessness, Addiction, and the Mentally Ill”
- “Affordable Housing for Working Americans”
- “Climate Change & Environment”
- “Education”
- “Economy”
- “Energy”
- “Government Transparency & Accountability”
- “National Security and Foreign Policy”
- “Election Integrity”
Quoted from moniqueforcongress.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
DeSpain 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. Portrait: Campaign photo, campaign's own youtube account, linked from the FEC-filed campaign site (reference use, public og:image). Nothing here is a forecast, a grade, or a ranking of candidates.