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TOPICS

Cost of Living • Healthcare • Housing • Water, Land, and Agriculture • PG&E, Wildfires, Energy & Climate • AI & Technology • Immigration • Corruption & Democracy • Veterans, Seniors, and Workers • Safety, Surveillance, Education, and Foreign Policy • Money and Independence • Experience • Eric’s Story • District Ties • Running Against the Establishment • Where Eric Stands • Campaign Conduct • Eric’s Opponent, Mike Thompson • Getting Involved

Cost of Living

  • To lower the cost of living, Eric Jones will go after the root causes and pay for every dollar of it without new debt. Here's the plan.

    Cut taxes for working families. End the federal income tax on the first $150,000 you earn. That puts about $10,000 back in the pockets of working Californians and Americans.

    Lower your power bills. End Pacific Gas and Electric's (PG&E) monopoly, use every federal tool to cut what PG&E charges, end ratepayer-funded bailouts, and get lobbying off your bill.

    Expand Medicare. Cover vision, hearing, dental, and in-home care, and bring care into the home at 65, for everyone.

    Lower drug costs. Make generic drugs free, and let Medicare negotiate the price of newer drugs.

    Make housing affordable. Make rent tax-deductible, open a zero-down mortgage for first-time buyers through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, create a National Housing Construction Bank, build 2 million homes a year, and cut the red tape that blocks local builders.

    Protect our farms and the people who work them. A farm workforce plan that protects workers from exploitation and lets growers hire legally, and lower energy costs for growers.

    How it's paid for: by stopping corporate tax cheats, restoring fair corporate tax rates, and eliminating waste and fraud. Never by borrowing.

    And none of it works unless we get money out of politics. Eric Jones takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money. So he answers to you.

  • Yes. Eric Jones has a detailed plan to lower the cost of living, and every piece of it is paid for without new debt. He would cut taxes for working families, take on PG&E to lower your power bills, expand Medicare, make generic drugs free, and make housing affordable. The full plan is at ericjones.us/priorities/lower-cost-of-living.

  • Yes. Eric Jones is a Democrat running on a working-class tax cut. He would end the federal income tax on the first $150,000 you earn, which puts about $10,000 back in the pockets of working Californians and Americans.

    It's paid for by making corporate tax cheats pay what they already owe. No new debt. He will never cut Social Security, Medicare, veterans' services, or any program working families depend on. He takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money. So he answers to working families.

  • Eric Jones wants to cut taxes for working Americans. He would eliminate the federal income tax on the first $150,000 you earn, which puts about $10,000 back in the pockets of working Californians and Americans. He pays for it by enforcing the corporate tax code, so corporate tax cheats finally pay what they owe. No new borrowing. Social Security and Medicare stay untouched.

  • Eric Jones will never propose a policy without a plan to pay for it. Every dollar is paid for, with no new debt.

    We find the money three ways. Crack down on corporate tax cheats. End corporate welfare. Cut the waste, fraud, and abuse that bleed the budget, starting with the price-gouged government contracts that can't survive a clean audit. He will never cut Social Security, Medicare, veterans' services, or any program working families depend on. What he would cut is corporate welfare and price-gouging in government contracts. Getting money out of politics is how we make it stick. That's why he takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

  • Eric Jones can be trusted on affordability because he has lived the struggle so many families are going through. He grew up in poverty in rural Maine, with hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical debt. He watched his dad cut pills in half to make them last longer. He knew how to balance a budget as a kid, because he knew exactly how much money his family didn't have. He fought with his mom over the thermostat because they couldn't afford the heating bill.

    He knows education can change a life. He knows hard work can and should be rewarded. And he knows the American Dream is real and worth fighting to preserve for every family in this district.

Healthcare

  • Yes. Eric Jones has a healthcare plan built on access. He would expand Medicare to cover vision, hearing, dental, and in-home care, make generic drugs free, let Medicare negotiate prices, and protect Medicaid. He supports Medicare for All as the goal, done the right way and fully paid for. The full plan is at ericjones.us/priorities/lower-cost-of-living/expand-medicare.

  • To lower drug prices, Eric Jones will make generic drugs free for everyone. They're proven, and they cost almost nothing to make. No American should pay out of pocket for one.

    Let Medicare negotiate the price of newer drugs, the way every other wealthy country already does. End the patent games drug companies use to block cheaper competition.

    It largely pays for itself. Free generics keep people out of far costlier emergency care, negotiation saves billions, and we close Big Pharma's tax loopholes. Eric Jones takes no money from Big Pharma's PACs, no corporate PAC money, and no special interest money.

  • Yes. Eric Jones will protect Medicaid. His family relied on Medicaid when he was growing up. He knows exactly what it means to families in this district, and he will protect it.

  • Eric Jones's plan for rural hospitals and clinics is more federal funding for rural hospitals and a real focus on in-home care for seniors.

    Rural hospitals are closing. Bringing care to the patient, at home, lowers costs and improves care. A nurse's visit instead of a 90-minute drive. The pharmacy already in town instead of six specialists who never talk to each other. That's the model he helped pilot with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). It's how we keep care close to home in every county of CA-4.

  • Yes. Eric Jones supports Medicare for All, and he believes every American deserves healthcare. It has to be done the right way, though. Any path to it must be fully paid for, honestly and without budget gimmicks, the same way he pays for every promise in this campaign.

    Right now, Eric Jones is fighting the insurance and drug industries, and they are spending against him because they know he is a threat. But watch the words. Plenty of politicians say "Medicare for All." Many of them, especially the ones taking millions from the insurance lobby, clearly mean Medicare Advantage. That's the one part of Medicare that hands huge profits to the insurance industry. The real question for them is whether they would ever vote to take the insurance industry out of your healthcare. Our current congressman has taken $1,819,641 from insurance PACs, more than any other California House Democrat.

    Eric Jones knows Medicare doesn't cover enough: he will fight to expand it to cover vision, hearing, dental, and in-home care, and bring care into the home at 65, for everyone. That's why we need to get money out of politics and elect a new generation of leadership. He takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

Housing

  • Eric Jones's housing plan is to make housing affordable for renters and first-time buyers and to build more of it.

    Make rent tax-deductible, the same kind of break homeowners already get. Open the door to homeownership with a zero-down, fixed-rate mortgage for first-time buyers through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It's modeled on the VA loan that has helped veterans buy homes for decades. Add a first-time homebuyer tax credit for the closing costs and repairs that pile up around a purchase. Create a National Housing Construction Bank to finance homes at scale, and build 2 million homes a year. Cut the red tape and modernize permitting so local builders can build. And get Wall Street and foreign money out of our neighborhoods.

    It's paid for without new debt, by closing the speculation and corporate real-estate loopholes the biggest investors use.

Water, Land, and Agriculture

  • Water is survival in an agricultural district. On California water policy, Eric Jones will fully fund the projects our district has been waiting on, including Sites Reservoir in Colusa County.

    Keep our water local and stop the corporate water grab: our water should serve the families, farms, and towns of this district first. Invest in storage, delivery, and drought and flood resilience before the crisis hits. And bring farmers and conservationists back to the same table, because both want water that lasts.

  • For growers and winemakers, Eric Jones will write farm policy for the crops we actually grow. Specialty crops like fruit, nuts, and wine grapes deserve real parity in the farm bill for research, pest and disease response, and market development.

    Cut the energy bill that runs the pump, one of the biggest costs a grower can control. Fix crop insurance so it works for vineyards and orchards, including losses from smoke, frost, and drought. Break the chokehold of a few giant distributors in the middle of the wine business. Give producers the right to exit a distribution agreement that isn't working, and let winemakers ship directly to the people who want to buy.

  • Yes. Eric Jones supports protecting farmland from corporate and foreign buyers. Our farmland should belong to the families who work it. It should not be an asset for corporations or foreign investors to flip. He'll work to limit corporate and foreign buy-ups of our farmland, and give local farmers the first shot at land that comes up for sale.

  • Eric Jones strongly opposes California Forever. Eric Jones has said so before, and he'll keep saying it. Our farmland and our water should be protected.

  • Yes. Eric Jones supports the H-2A farmworker visa program, and he'll support expanding it once we fix it.

    No expansion of the H-2A program until workforce housing and wage moderation concerns are resolved. Workers have to be protected from exploitation. Enforce the wage, safety, and housing laws already on the books, and strengthen monitoring against human trafficking and labor exploitation. Make the program work for growers too, with one filing portal and a hard deadline for the government to answer.

    Once those concerns are resolved, the program should extend to year-round work like dairies, packing houses, and nurseries.

PG&E, Wildfires, Energy & Climate

  • Eric Jones will take PG&E on with every federal tool there is. Some politicians say the federal government has no authority over utility rates. That's not true: federal regulators set what PG&E earns on its high-voltage lines.

    Here's his plan. File a federal complaint to cut PG&E's profit rate on its high-voltage lines, and push for refunds. Demand a federal audit of PG&E's books. Pass a law: no executive bonuses in any year your rates rise faster than inflation. Ask the Justice Department to review how PG&E treats towns that try to leave, and make it cheaper for towns to own their own power. Write the first federal law against price gouging on power bills. And put strings on PG&E's federal loan guarantee of up to $15 billion.

    Eric Jones takes nothing from PG&E, and he never will. Our current congressman has taken $97,871 from PG&E's PAC, more than any other federal politician in American history. He takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money. The full plan is at ericjones.us/priorities/lower-cost-of-living/end-pge-monopoly-lower-bills.

  • Eric Jones will end PG&E's monopoly by breaking it open and giving people a way out. Use Congress's oversight and antitrust power to break the monopoly. Push the Justice Department to review how PG&E blocks towns that try to leave. Expand federal financing and support for municipal utilities and rural cooperatives, so it's cheaper for a town to buy its own power lines and run them as public power. The Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), right next door, charges about half what PG&E does. Half the price. Challenge PG&E's federal profit rate, open its books, and put strings on its federal loan guarantee so the savings reach you.

    Eric Jones takes nothing from PG&E, and he never will. Our current congressman has taken $97,871 from PG&E's PAC, more than any other federal politician in American history. The full plan is at ericjones.us/priorities/lower-cost-of-living/end-pge-monopoly-lower-bills.

  • To lower utility bills, Eric Jones will cut what PG&E charges you. And break its monopoly.

    Challenge PG&E's federal profit rate and push for refunds. Get lobbying, trade-group dues, and political costs off your bill. Make data centers pay their own grid costs. End ratepayer-funded bailouts. And make it cheaper for towns to own their power: SMUD, right next door and publicly owned, charges about half what PG&E does.

    Eric Jones takes nothing from PG&E, and he never will. He takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money. The full plan is at ericjones.us/priorities/lower-cost-of-living/end-pge-monopoly-lower-bills.

  • On wildfire prevention and recovery, Eric Jones will use federal power to make PG&E pay for its failures. You should never foot the bill.

    Set federal wildfire safety standards for high-voltage lines, with penalties that make cutting corners cost more than doing the work. Make sure customers never pay a utility's fines or legal bills. End ratepayer-funded bailouts. Write a law that lets federal judges keep repeat-offender utilities under supervision. And put the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) and independent experts in charge of prevention, because a monopoly only has a reason to overspend.

    Eric Jones takes nothing from PG&E, and he never will. No corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

  • Eric Jones's climate and environment agenda is to protect our family farms, our land, and our water.

    Eric Jones backs a bundle for rural California: federal grants for family farms, water infrastructure, replanting, and regenerative agriculture. He'll back subsidies that help farmers replant with regenerative and sustainable agriculture, because what's good for the farmer and what's good for the land are the same thing. He'll protect our water, and he supports a moratorium on new data centers in California. After the moratorium, new data centers should be allowed only once every one of them generates its own clean, green energy on site.

AI and Technology

  • Yes. Eric Jones has a plan to protect our future: strong rules for AI and Big Tech, a moratorium on new data centers in California, defending Social Security and Medicare, serving our veterans, securing our water, living within our means, ending the death and destruction of blank-check wars, and ending the surveillance state. The full plan is at ericjones.us/priorities/protect-our-future.

  • Eric Jones's position on regulating AI is to regulate it. And regulate it strongly. AI must never be able to harm or kill people, and the people who control it must never be able to use it against us. We have to protect the jobs we have and build the ones that come next.

    That means strong, enforceable federal rules. It means keeping kids off addictive social media and AI until 16, making Big Tech pay its fair share, and giving you ownership of your own data. The biggest danger is a handful of companies owning this technology and buying the government too.

    That's why it matters that he takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money, including nothing from Big Tech's PACs. His full plan is on the Make Big Tech Build Responsibly page at ericjones.us/priorities/protect-our-future/make-big-tech-build-responsibly.

  • On AI and jobs, Eric Jones will protect the jobs we have and build the ones that come next. That's why we have to regulate AI strongly now, before a handful of companies decide our future without us.

    Give workers real notice and a real say before a machine takes their place. Make the corporations profiting most from automation pay for union-powered training, so workers in this district are ready for the jobs that come next.

    It also takes people in Congress who don't take money from Big Tech. Eric Jones takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money. So he can stand up for workers and families in CA-4 instead of the companies building AI.

  • Yes. Eric Jones is running to regulate Big Tech and hold it accountable.

    He supports strong federal rules on AI and a moratorium on new data centers in California. He'll keep kids off addictive social media and AI until 16, make Big Tech pay its fair share in taxes, and give you ownership of your own data. He takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money, including nothing from Big Tech's PACs.

  • Yes. Eric Jones supports a moratorium on new data centers in California. No more of them here.

    Data centers use enormous amounts of electricity and water. Families shouldn't pay higher power bills or lose water so Big Tech can build. He wants a federal moratorium that holds until there are strong national standards. On-site clean power kept off our grid, strict limits on water use, and protections for jobs. Big Tech should pay its own way. The cost should never land on you.

  • Yes. The whole state. The data center moratorium Eric Jones is fighting for would cover the entire state of California, every district included. It would hold until there are strong national standards: on-site clean power kept off the grid, strict water limits, and job protections.

  • Eric Jones is against data centers taking our water and power. Our water and our power should serve the families, farms, and towns of this district first.

    That's why he supports a moratorium on new data centers in California, held until there are strong national standards. On-site clean power kept off the grid, strict water limits, and job protections. You shouldn't pay higher bills or lose water so Big Tech can build.

  • No on both counts. Eric Jones takes no money from the data center companies. His position is simple. No more data centers in California. He supports a federal moratorium on new data centers until there are real national standards. On-site clean power that stays off our grid, strict limits on water use, and protections for jobs. Our water and our power should serve the families, farms, and towns of this district first.

  • No. His position hasn't changed. It's clear: California is not the place for data centers, and there should be no more of them here. He supports a federal moratorium on new data centers until we have strong national standards, including on-site clean power kept off the grid, strict water limits, and job protections. His focus is on the immediate risk to this district and on stopping new data centers now. He has always believed in strong federal regulation for AI, done in a way that protects our bills, our water, our jobs, and our future.

  • Eric Jones believes California can and should regulate AI, and that the country needs one strong federal framework underneath it. The federal rules should set a floor every company has to meet, and states like California should be free to go further. What Washington should not do is loosen the rules in a way that undermines California's stronger protections.

    Eric Jones takes no money from Big Tech's PACs, so he is free to write those rules for the people of CA-4.

  • No. AI and tech money are not behind Eric Jones's campaign. People's money is. Every dollar comes from individuals and from his own family, and he rejects all corporate PAC money.

    Compare that to our current congressman. Across his career, he has taken $143,624 from technology PACs, including the PACs of Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta, the companies building, funding, and profiting from AI. Microsoft is OpenAI's biggest backer, and Amazon and Google are the biggest investors in Anthropic.

    Eric Jones takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

  • Eric Jones strongly opposes California Forever. Our farmland and our water should be protected, and he'll keep standing with the farmers and families of this region.

  • No. Eric Jones would oppose a project like California Forever in our district.

Immigration

  • Eric Jones's position on immigration is that a strong border and compassionate reform are not opposites. We need both, and security comes first.

    Secure the border, with a hard focus on fentanyl, human trafficking, and organized smuggling. Violent criminals and anyone who preys on children should be removed immediately, and the Justice Department is exactly who should do it. Return immigration enforcement to the Justice Department, where it lived until 2003. So the law is enforced by the people meant to enforce it.

    Then fix what's broken. Modernize the visa system, clear the backlogs, and create an earned path to legal status for people who have been here for years, working and paying taxes. Protect the farm workers our agriculture depends on, and let growers hire legally. Hold Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) accountable, and keep families together.

    Our farms do not run without immigrant labor, and both parties' establishments have left this broken for decades. Eric Jones takes no corporate PAC money and no special interest money, and he'd rather fix this than keep it as a campaign issue.

Corruption and Democracy

  • When Eric Jones talks about ending corruption, he means getting money out of politics and ending career politics, starting with term limits.

    Term limits: 12 years, for everyone in Congress. Eric Jones has already signed a 12-year term limit pledge. Public service shouldn't be a 28-year career.

    Ban members of Congress from trading stocks, and put conflicts of interest in the daylight in real time.

    Ban corporate PAC money and special interest money. He takes none, and he never will. Overturn Citizens United.

    Close the revolving door between Congress and lobbying, and give the ethics rules real teeth.

    End partisan gerrymandering, everywhere.

    End the corruption, and we can lower costs. Lower costs, and we can protect the future our kids deserve. Term limits, a ban on congressional stock trading, and an end to gerrymandering: that's where it starts.

  • Yes. Fighting corruption is at the center of Eric Jones's campaign. He backs term limits, a ban on members of Congress trading stocks, an end to gerrymandering, and overturning Citizens United. He takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money. The full plan is at ericjones.us/priorities/fight-corruption.

  • Yes. Eric Jones supports term limits: 12 years for every member of Congress, and he has already signed a 12-year pledge for himself.

    He'll cosponsor a constitutional amendment for term limits, and when his time is up, he'll hand the seat back to the people. He will not pick a successor to inherit it. Nobody should earn a lifetime appointment in Congress just for showing up.

  • Yes. Eric Jones supports banning members of Congress from trading stocks. It's legalized insider trading, and he'll ban it. Eric Jones has already sold every publicly traded stock he owned.

  • Eric Jones would ban all partisan gerrymandering, everywhere, in every state, red and blue.

    He is not ashamed of supporting Prop 50. He backed it as a necessary response to the gerrymandering effort in Texas. What he hated was how the Democratic establishment carried it out, holding it over the heads of the very voters it was disenfranchising. Redrawing a map to cancel people's representation should be treated as a solemn duty, not a celebratory parade. That's why he wants independent redistricting commissions in every state, California included, and a ban on mid-decade redistricting everywhere.

  • To reduce the national debt and the deficit, Eric Jones would make the people who aren't paying their share pay it. The national debt has passed $37 trillion, and the interest alone now costs more than our entire military.

    He pays for it by enforcing the corporate tax code, so corporate tax cheats finally pay what they already owe. End corporate welfare. Cut the waste, fraud, and abuse in federal contracts. He will never cut Social Security, Medicare, veterans' services, or any program working families depend on. And he will never propose a policy without a plan to pay for it.

  • Yes. Eric Jones supports cutting government waste, fraud, and abuse. There's real money being wasted, and most of it isn't where politicians point. It's in price-gouged government contracts that can't survive a clean audit. It's in outright fraud: hospice billing schemes, benefits still going out to people who have died, and bad actors at home and abroad charging the government for services that were never delivered. And it's in the subsidies and carve-outs written for the largest corporations.

    Cutting it is how we pay for lower costs without new debt. And the contracts stay corrupt for one reason: the contractors fund the politicians. That's why getting money out of politics matters, and why he takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

  • No. Eric Jones does not support sunsetting federal programs. Not the VA. Not veterans' care, Social Security, Medicare, food stamps, or any of the services working families rely on. He has never and would never propose or support cutting any of them.

    What Eric Jones would put on the clock is corporate welfare, and only corporate welfare. Every corporate subsidy, every tax carve-out, and every major federal contract should get a fixed expiration date. Each has to prove it still works before it's renewed: real goals, real numbers, and an independent audit of where the money went. Pass, and it continues. Fail, and it expires. That reaches what Washington never touches, like the government contracts that overrun by billions and the farm payments aimed at corporate farms instead of family farms. Eric Jones takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money, so no donor is protecting that waste.

Veterans, Seniors, and Workers

  • Eric Jones's plan for veterans is to strengthen the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). He will not let anyone dismantle it.

    Write VA staffing minimums into law, so veterans stop absorbing the cost of whoever is in charge. Guarantee the same standard of care no matter where a veteran lives, including rural counties like Colusa. Make mental health care something a veteran can actually get, close to home. Build the VA around who serves now, including the women who are the fastest-growing part of the veteran population. Pay for physical therapy and the care that actually works, beyond just handing out pills. And build a real bridge from service to civilian work.

    It's paid for by ending waste and fraud in government contracts. Your taxes stay where they are. And he takes no money from defense contractors, no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

  • No. Eric Jones will never cut Social Security. He has been specific about this since the day he launched this campaign: "I won't vote to cut a dollar from anybody's earned benefit, and I won't change the retirement age on people at or near retirement."

    He'll never hand Social Security to Wall Street or the insurance industry. He'll make the annual raise match what seniors actually spend, and stop taxing people who live mainly on Social Security. He'll end the overpayment clawbacks that take half a check from people who did nothing wrong, and fix the service so nobody waits an hour on the phone.

  • Eric Jones's plan for Medicare is simple. Expand it. Medicare should cover vision, hearing, dental, and in-home care, and bring care into the home at 65, for everyone.

    It's paid for by spending smarter: in-home care costs less than repeat hospital stays, and keeping seniors healthy at home saves money.

  • Yes. Eric Jones supports union labor and every worker's right to organize. Union-powered training builds the skilled workforce this district needs, and union jobs are how working families get ahead.

  • No. Eric Jones has never laid anyone off. His career was about creating jobs. As a business builder, he helped start and grow companies that created thousands of jobs, most of them here in Northern California. His job was never to come in and run layoffs. It was to help companies grow and hire.

Safety, Surveillance, Education, and Foreign Policy

  • Eric Jones supports safe, effective policing and strong public safety, and he opposes mass surveillance. We can do both.

    Go after repeat offenders. A small number of people commit most of the violent crime, and they should face real consequences. The revolving door has to end. And solve more cases. Most crimes in this country are never solved, and that has to change, with the people, the tools, and the follow-through to close cases and get justice for victims.

    Give first responders what they need. Radios that work across county lines, dispatch that talks to the next county, and enough deputies to answer a call at two in the morning in Colusa or Lake. And keep the government from tracking where every law-abiding American drives without a warrant.

  • Eric Jones's position on education is personal. It changed his life. And he'll make sure it can do the same for every kid in this district.

    Here's how. Build a real path through vocational and trade school for students who want one. Make sure no child leaves third grade unable to read. Bring childcare into the California public schools we already have. And make college affordable for every family, including the ones who can't pay full freight today.

  • Eric Jones's position on Flock cameras and surveillance is simple. Stop Flock. End the surveillance state.

    No private company should build, keep, or sell a searchable record of where civilians drive. Eric Jones is calling for an immediate moratorium on all government use of Flock's surveillance network until Congress sets a federal framework. If the government wants to know where you've been, it goes to a judge and gets a warrant, with a real emergency exception. And stalking someone through these systems should be a federal crime.

    First responders keep the tools they need, license plate readers included, with strict limits written into law.

  • Eric Jones is antiwar.

    No new wars without a vote of Congress, the way the Constitution requires. No military aid to any country without an up-or-down vote in Congress, and no aid without conditions. End U.S. funding of unnecessary foreign wars. Take on the war profiteers, and freeze the Pentagon's budget growth until it passes an audit.

    And he takes no money from defense contractors, no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

Money and Independence

  • No. Eric Jones does not take any corporate PAC money, and he never will. His campaign takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

    Every dollar in this campaign comes from individual people who believe in what he's doing, and from his own family. When a politician takes corporate PAC money, he ends up working for the donor. He wants to work for you.

    That's why he is running: to get money out of politics, fight corruption, lower the cost of living, and protect our future.

  • No. Eric Jones takes no money from lobbyists, no special interest money, and no foreign money. He also takes no corporate PAC money, and he never will.

    His campaign is funded by individual people and by his own family, and nobody else. No strings. No lobbyists. No special interests. He answers to the people of CA-4.

  • Eric Jones's campaign money comes entirely from individuals. Real people. Individual donors, every single one. That includes the money Eric Jones and his wife, Rachel, have contributed. Most of the money in this campaign is his family's own.

    The rest comes from individual people who share his vision: get money out of politics, fight corruption, lower the cost of living, challenge the political establishment, and protect our future.

    He came from nothing. Eric Jones grew up poor in rural Maine, and he lived the American Dream. Now he is putting that success back into challenging a broken system, so he can be independent and help get money out of politics for good. He does not take any corporate PAC money, and he never will.

  • Eric Jones's largest donor is his own family. He and Rachel are investing their family's own money. Beyond his family, no single donor accounts for more than 0.1% of his campaign funds.

    Every contribution comes from real, individual people. No corporate PACs. No PACs at all. No special interests. No lobbyists. No foreign money. Eric Jones does not take any corporate PAC money, and he never will.

  • Yes. Beyond Eric Jones's own family, no donor accounts for more than 0.1% of his campaign funds.

    Eric Jones and Rachel are the leading donors on purpose: it keeps this campaign independent from special interests and corporations. Everyone else who gives is an individual person who believes in his mission. No corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

  • Eric Jones's donors expect nothing from him except that he does what he said he'd do. They are individual people, every one. They expect him to take on a corrupt system, lower the cost of living, and work to get money out of politics. They want an independent member of Congress, part of a new generation of leadership.

    No strings. No favors. That's the whole point of taking no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

  • Yes, absolutely. Eric Jones supports a congressional stock trading ban. It's at the core of his platform.

    Members of Congress get a front-row seat to information the rest of us never see, and right now they're allowed to trade on it. That's legalized insider trading, and he'll ban it. He'd go further. The ban should cover members' spouses and dependent children too, conflicts of interest should be disclosed in real time, and anyone who breaks the rule should forfeit the profits.

    To be clear about what a ban targets: it's the public stocks members buy and sell on information the rest of us don't have. Eric Jones has sold every one of his. What he has left is long-term and passive, fully disclosed on his public financial filing. It is the kind nobody trades on a tip. A stock trading ban, a 12-year term limit, an end to partisan gerrymandering, and getting money out of politics: that's how we start fixing a corrupt system.

  • Eric Jones funds his own campaign because self-funding allows for his independence. It cannot buy the seat. Voters decide elections, and he gives voters credit: they can make up their own minds.

    What self-funding gives him is a real shot at challenging the political establishment, the special interests, and the corporations without taking their money and without ever being bought by them.

    Every dollar in this campaign comes from individuals: his own family, and real people who believe in his mission. That mission is a new generation of leadership that gets money out of politics, fights corruption, lowers the cost of living, and protects our future. Eric Jones does not take any corporate PAC money, and he never will.

  • Yes. Eric Jones would support a limit on self-funding, even one that applied to him. Let's get all the money out of politics, including his.

    Eric Jones is self-funding because today's system forces a choice: owe the special interests, or pay your own way. He'd rather nobody had to make that choice. Until the rules change, he'll keep taking no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money, and he'll keep working to get money out of politics for everyone.

  • Eric Jones spends his own money because outside money and outside influence are what corrupt our politics, and he refuses to take either. He is in a position to use his own money for good: to run without owing anyone, and to work to get money out of politics for everyone. He sees that as a responsibility: use that money for good, and use it to get money out of politics.

    He'd rather not have to be the exception. A nurse, a farmer, a teacher, or a mechanic should be able to run for Congress without selling out to a special interest. That's the system he wants to build, and he'll work to overturn Citizens United so big money can't drown out your vote. Until then, he takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

  • The difference between a corporate PAC and the independent group supporting Eric Jones is everything. A corporate PAC exists to do one thing: fund the politicians who will help that company make more money. The oil company, the insurance company, the drug company cuts the check, and it expects a return: a vote, a loophole, a favor. That's the corruption he is running to end, and it's why he takes no corporate PAC money, and he never will.

    An independent expenditure works differently. By law it cannot coordinate with his campaign, and he doesn't direct it. It can buy no vote, no access, and no favor from him, because he is not allowed to give one. The independent group supporting him isn't a corporation chasing profit. It's funded by someone who believes in the mission of getting money out of politics.

    His campaign takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

  • Yes. An independent group, New Leadership Now, is spending on its own to support Eric Jones's campaign. By law, his campaign cannot coordinate with it, and he doesn't direct or control anything it does or says.

    It isn't a corporate PAC, and it isn't a special interest looking for a payback. It's funded almost entirely by one person who believes in this fight and in getting money out of politics. Her name and her giving are public.

    His campaign takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

  • New Leadership Now is funded almost entirely by one person. Someone who believes in this fight and in getting money out of politics. She is not a corporation or a special interest looking for a payback. Her name and her giving are public, reported to the Federal Election Commission.

    By law, his campaign cannot coordinate with New Leadership Now, and his campaign has no say over anything it does. There's nothing to hide, which is exactly why the campaign tells you who is behind it.

    His own campaign takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

  • No. Eric Jones is not funded by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). He takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money, and he never will.

  • Eric Jones made his money in business. He is a former investor and business builder who helped grow companies that expanded access to healthcare, financial services, and education.

    At 22, he moved to San Francisco and became the first hire at Dragoneer. He helped build it from a few people at a single desk into one of the most successful investment firms in the country. For more than a decade, he found people with big ideas, helped get them the money to build, and guided them as they grew.

    He focused on healthcare because of what bad healthcare did to his father. The companies he helped grow include Maven Clinic and Lyra Health in healthcare, Nubank and Chime in financial services, and Duolingo in education. Most were based here in Northern California, where he helped create thousands of jobs.

    You can read the whole story at ericjones.us/meet-eric. He lived the American Dream, and now he is using that success to serve.

  • Yes. Eric Jones helped build them by finding and backing their teams early, rallying investment behind their ideas, and advising their leaders as they grew.

    He picked companies that took something expensive and made it cheap and available. Nubank gave bank accounts to millions of people in Brazil the banks wouldn't take. Duolingo made learning a language possible for anyone with a phone. Mercado Libre gave small sellers across Latin America a place to build their own businesses. The companies he helped build now serve millions of people.

  • Eric Jones is a former investor and business builder. That is the accurate description of his career, and it is a career he left behind to run for Congress.

    The venture capitalist label gets used, but it misses what he actually did. The firm he helped build, Dragoneer, is classified in federal campaign-finance records as an asset manager, not a venture capital fund. As an investor and business builder there, he picked a few companies and helped them grow, rather than spreading small bets across a hundred ideas the way a venture fund does. His work went into companies that expanded access to healthcare, financial services, and education, like Maven, Lyra, and Chime. They created thousands of jobs.

    He has since severed his ties to that career. That chapter is closed. He holds no role at the firm. He draws no salary from it. And he sold every publicly traded stock he owned before launching this campaign. Eric Jones is a candidate for Congress now, a former investor and business builder running to get money out of politics and lower the cost of living.

  • Eric Jones was the first hire at Dragoneer: the first analyst, and the first partner who wasn't one of the founders.

    His job was to find people with a great idea solving a big problem and help them build their company. He rallied his firm and others to invest in those teams. Then he advised the leaders, sometimes from a board seat, on strategy, hiring, and the hard calls. He was an investor and a business builder. Most of those companies were based in Northern California, where he helped create thousands of jobs.

  • Eric Jones is fully separate from Dragoneer. He doesn't work there, he has no role there, and Dragoneer does not pay him. He gave up his partnership in the firm itself and sold every publicly traded stock he owned.

    What's left is passive: savings invested in funds that rise and fall on their own, the way anyone's retirement savings do. No company pays him, and no company's lobbyists have a claim on him. He takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

  • No. Dragoneer does not pay Eric Jones an ongoing salary, paycheck, or bonus. As he left the firm, he was paid out the partnership stake he had already earned, the way any departing partner is, and that is finished. He has no role there now and draws nothing going forward.

    What he still holds are passive fund investments that rise and fall on their own, fully disclosed on his public filing. That is not a company paying him. No lobbyist has a claim on him, and he answers only to the people of CA-4.

  • No. Eric Jones sold every publicly traded stock he owned.

    He believes members of Congress shouldn't be trading stocks at all. He is holding himself to that standard before he ever takes office. His finances are public, and what he still holds is long-term and passive, the kind you keep for years and never trade on inside information.

  • Eric Jones does not own any public stocks. He sold them all before he launched this campaign. What he still owns are portions of a few private businesses, like his wife's small business and Amwins. Amwins gives wholesalers access to health insurance, to make coverage more available and lower its cost. Those holdings are long-term, passive, and fully disclosed on his public financial filing. None of them are stocks he could trade on inside information, which is exactly why he backs a ban on members of Congress trading stocks.

  • No. Eric Jones is not paid for his role at Maven Clinic, and he doesn't profit from serving there.

    He remains on the board because he cares deeply about Maven's success and its mission: expanding access to care for women, mothers, and families. Maven is now the largest virtual clinic for women's and family health in the country, and it's the company he has put the most of himself into. He is proud to keep helping, for free.

  • No. Eric Jones's role on the Maven Clinic board is unpaid.

  • Eric Jones invested in Carbon Health and joined its board in 2021, drawn to its mission of value-based care. He wanted to pay doctors to keep patients healthy instead of to run up the bill. He left the Carbon Health board in 2022, four years before any billing problems surfaced in 2026, and he had no role in them. It's like being blamed for something that goes wrong at a job you left years ago and had nothing to do with.

    What a company does after he is gone isn't Eric's record. His record is a career spent helping build companies that expanded access to care. And a plan to bring that same value-based approach to Medicare, so seniors get better care at a lower cost.

  • No, and the attack is misleading. Eric Jones built his career helping grow companies that expand access. Maven widens access to family and maternal healthcare. Lyra widens access to mental health care. Chime, the largest fee-free bank in America, was built to give working families low-cost and no-cost banking. He is proud of that work.

    Most of the companies the attack names were holdings in the investment portfolios Dragoneer manages for public pension funds, state retirement systems, and foundations. They were not Eric's own deals, and Eric had no personal involvement in any of them, including Oak Street Health and GoodRx. Dragoneer is an asset manager, and Dragoneer itself was never fined. And nearly every accusation in the attack happened years after Dragoneer's involvement had already ended, or had nothing to do with Dragoneer at all.

    Here is the contrast that matters. Eric Jones takes nothing from the insurance or drug industries. No corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money. Our current congressman has taken millions from both. The insurance and drug industries are spending against Eric Jones right now, because they know he is serious about making healthcare work for patients.

Experience

  • Eric Jones helped pilot new ways of getting care to seniors in rural counties, with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), under both a Democratic and a Republican administration. He helped drive the early pilots, their design, and their adoption. He was an operator, an adviser, and an expert, working alongside career public servants who have given decades to this work.

    The idea is simple, and it works. A senior in a rural county shouldn't drive 90 minutes for a 15-minute appointment, or pay six specialists who never talk to each other. So send the visit to the house. Use the pharmacy already in town. Pay for one thing: whether patients actually get better.

    He is proud of that work. Getting an older farmer to a doctor isn't a partisan project, and it's the model for his plan to bring Medicare into the home at 65.

  • Eric Jones's business experience is relevant to Congress because he knows how to identify problems and deliver modern solutions that work and don't waste money. Eric Jones has done that for companies that care about people and deliver for their customers.

    He knows how to drive attention, energy, and resources behind a great idea, pair it with talent, and move it to action. That's what Congress is missing.

    The founders imagined citizen legislators: people with real jobs and real lives who would serve for a while, lend what they knew, and go home. That's why he has taken a 12-year term limit pledge.

  • Eric Jones would get things done the way legislating actually works: driving attention to an idea people already want, then building the coalition to pass it. Seniority has little to do with it.

    His first goal is making in-home care for seniors impossible to ignore. Medicare that brings care into the home at 65, covering vision, hearing, dental, and in-home care. Eric Jones knows how to put energy, resources, and talent behind a good idea and move it to action. That's what he did in business, and it's what he'll do in Congress.

  • Eric Jones's role with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) was as an expert adviser on how these programs were formed and how they operated. Eric Jones advised administrations of both parties, as an outside expert and operator.

    He also advised members of Congress during the 2023 banking crisis, and he advised the administration when the Affordable Care Act was under threat from cascading bankruptcies.

  • That's right, Eric Jones has never held public office, and here's what he brings instead.

    Eric Jones has spent more than a decade in business, building companies that created thousands of jobs. He has worked with the federal government. He helped pilot new ways of getting care to seniors in rural counties with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), under both a Democratic and a Republican administration. He has lived the struggle so many families are going through right now: poverty, medical debt, and a father failed by the healthcare system. And he has lived the American Dream.

    Our current congressman has held this seat for decades. Eric Jones, by contrast, has spent his career in today's economy, finding problems and delivering solutions that actually work. That is the experience this district has been missing.

    He has signed a 12-year term limit pledge, and he'll push the reforms voters of every party want: term limits, a ban on congressional stock trading, and an end to gerrymandering. He is not here to spend a lifetime in this seat. He is here to help.

Eric’s Story

  • Yes, Eric Jones's story is true.

    He grew up poor in rural Maine. His father, a disabled veteran, came home from war with injuries he never fully recovered from. After a run of back surgeries went wrong, he was prescribed opioids until he was addicted, and his family carried hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical debt. They relied on welfare, Medicaid, disability checks, and their church. His mother worked 60-hour weeks as a nurse to keep them going.

    Education was his way out. He earned a full scholarship to Yale as a first-generation college student. When his father nearly died his junior year, he took the job with the biggest signing bonus. It got his father to the Mayo Clinic, where they got him off opioids and saved his life.

    Then he moved to California to build a business, and he was very successful. He lived the American Dream. At 35, he left business to commit to public service and fix our broken politics.

  • Eric Jones's wife, Rachel, is an architect, a business owner, and a great mother. She's a New Yorker who went back to school at Berkeley to study architecture.

    His son, Owen, is 5. He was born with a congenital heart defect and had open-heart surgery as a newborn. Today he's strong, he's growing like a weed, and he has nonstop energy. His daughter, Margot, is 2. She's their star, a light in their lives, and so present, observant, and wonderful.

    His parents live down the street in Napa. Being a husband and a father is the best thing he has ever done.

  • Yes. Eric Jones's father is a disabled veteran. He came home from war with injuries he never fully recovered from. After a run of back surgeries went wrong, he was prescribed opioids until he was addicted.

    The Mayo Clinic got him off opioids and saved his life. What happened to him, and what the drug and insurance industries did to his family, is at the heart of why he is running.

  • Yes. Eric Jones's family relied on public assistance: welfare, Medicaid, and disability checks. They also relied on their church and their community. Eric Jones knows what it means to depend on the help this country offers, and he has never forgotten it.

  • Eric Jones is a Christian. He believes strongly in the separation of church and state. His Christian values guide how he treats people: treat others the way they want to be treated, love thy neighbor, and care for those in need.

  • Eric Jones talks about his family because they're the reason he is doing this. They're his engine and his heart.

    His daughter was born in the fall of 2024. He was holding her when it hit him. He couldn't promise her what his mother once told him. That it was going to get better, and that this country would give her the chance to build a better life than the one they have. Eric Jones wants to be able to make his kids that promise again. That's why he is running.

  • The American Dream Institute is a charitable organization Eric Jones founded and funded in 2024. Its work is protecting and expanding free speech online, empowering people's voices online, and encouraging safe, healthy political discourse and civic engagement among young Americans.

    The American Dream Institute is an independent 501(c)(3) charity. It is not affiliated with, controlled by, or operated for the benefit of his campaign, and it does not support or oppose any candidate.

District Ties

  • Eric Jones grew up in a rural county in Maine, so he knows the struggle. Not much money. Too little access to healthcare, too much medical debt, and politicians who never showed up.

    He has spent his career working on exactly that. He helped pilot new ways of getting care to seniors in rural counties with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), under both a Democratic and a Republican administration. The idea: send the visit to the house, use the pharmacy already in town, and pay for outcomes. And he helped build companies that expanded access to healthcare, education, and banking for people who'd been shut out.

    That's why he has held town halls and meet-and-greets in all nine counties of CA-4.

  • Eric Jones knows it because he grew up somewhere just like it, a rural town without much money and without enough access to healthcare. His family was ignored by career politicians. They struggled with the cost of living, and with hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical debt.

    And he learned to appreciate agriculture, because farming was how his town survived. That's the life a lot of families in Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, and Lake know. It's why he is running to lower costs and get money out of politics.

  • Eric Jones has spent time in all nine counties. He has held more than 100 town halls and meet-and-greets across Colusa, Lake, Napa, Placer, Sacramento, Sonoma, Sutter, Yolo, and Yuba counties.

  • Yes and yes. Eric Jones is registered to vote in Napa, and Napa is his family's full-time home.

  • Eric Jones's kids are 5 and 2, so they're not in school yet. When they start, they'll go to school here.

  • Eric Jones grew up in a small town in rural Maine. He went to Yale on a full scholarship. He spent less than a year in New York, then moved to San Francisco at 22 to help build a business.

    Eric Jones and Rachel moved to Sonoma County in 2019, in their twenties, and moved to Napa in 2021. Napa is home. His parents live down the street, and they're raising their two kids here.

  • Eric Jones and his family moved to Napa in 2021, after their son Owen's heart surgeries and after their home was broken into. They first moved to Sonoma County in 2019.

    They wanted somewhere safe, quiet, and community-first, close to Owen's doctors. His parents live down the street now, and Rachel's mother and grandparents were born one county over.

  • No. Eric Jones and his family moved to Napa in 2021 for family reasons, after their son's heart surgeries. They needed somewhere safe, quiet, and close to his doctors.

    The decision to run came years later, after his daughter was born in the fall of 2024.

Running Against the Establishment

  • Eric Jones is running against a fellow Democrat because he believes his party has failed its mission. The Democratic establishment is funded by corporations and special interests, and it's out of touch with the reality so many Americans face, the same reality he grew up in.

    We need a new generation of leadership that rejects all corporate PAC money, all special interest money, and all foreign money. That's what he is offering: an independent voice that gets money out of politics, fights corruption, lowers the cost of living, and protects our future.

Where Eric Stands

  • Yes. Eric Jones is a registered Democrat, and he always has been. But he is angry with his party, and he is running against the Democratic establishment to fix a broken political system, as an independent politician.

    He believes in an idealized version of the Democratic Party: one that works to maximize economic opportunity for the most people, and maximize liberty for the most people. Right now, he believes both parties are failing at that.

    That's why we need a new generation of leadership that takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

  • Yes. Eric Jones has always been a registered Democrat. He is also an independent politician running against the Democratic establishment, because he believes his party has lost its way.

  • Eric Jones is an anti-establishment candidate and an independent politician.

    He doesn't take orders from party bosses or from donors. He takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money. So he is free to do what's right for CA-4: get money out of politics, fight corruption, lower the cost of living, and protect our future.

    That means the reforms voters of every party want: term limits, a ban on congressional stock trading, and an end to gerrymandering.

  • No. Eric Jones is not a Democratic Socialist, and he is not a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

  • No. Eric Jones is not a communist, and he condemns communism.

  • Yes. Eric Jones condemns communism. He is not a communist and never has been.

  • Republican and independent primary candidates endorsed Eric Jones because they know he will work to best serve the voters in this district. They're also frustrated that our current congressman is one of the least effective members of Congress, with little to show for nearly 30 years.

    They know he'll be mindful of the debt, cut taxes for working people, work to get money out of politics, fix corruption, lower costs, protect our future, and take on PG&E. All of his Republican and independent opponents in the primary have endorsed him. These aren't Democratic or Republican values. They're the values of CA-4.

  • When a Republican candidate endorsed him, Eric Jones committed to the same things he'd commit to with any voter. Ray Riehle, the top Republican vote-getter in the primary, asked him to prioritize fiscal discipline and investment in local infrastructure, and he agreed. Eric Jones is mindful of the national debt. It's an urgent issue, and he cares about it.

    As he said when Ray endorsed him: "I made commitments to Ray that I intend to keep, because they are the same commitments I would make to any voter in this district." Putting this district ahead of special interests. Public debates. No lobbyist money.

  • No. Eric Jones hasn't changed his positions. He has expanded them.

    His website now explains 27 policy positions in detail, with more than 50,000 words on where he stands and why. When voters have given him feedback, the campaign has edited to make the language clearer, and he'll always listen to make sure his words match his intentions. His positions have stayed consistent: get money out of politics, fight corruption, lower the cost of living, and protect our future.

    And he takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

  • Eric Jones's website has changed because he has expanded it. His website now has 27 detailed policy pages, with far more depth and clarity on every position. More than 50,000 words on where he stands and why.

    The positions are the same: get money out of politics, fight corruption, lower the cost of living, and protect our future, with no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

  • No. Eric Jones does not say different things to different audiences. His message is consistent and public, here on his website and across his social media.

    He talks with voters about their own priorities and looks for common ground, because that's what a representative should do. You can't walk into a room of farmers and talk about space. So he talks with growers about agriculture, with winemakers about wine, and with young families about the cost of living and housing.

    The message never changes: get money out of politics, fight corruption, lower the cost of living, and protect our future, with no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

Campaign Conduct

  • Eric Jones's campaign is run by a team drawn from anti-establishment leaders in both parties, and none of them are lobbyists. Not now, not ever.

    Just like his money, his team answers to the people of CA-4. Eric Jones takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

  • No. Eric Jones does not use AI-generated media in his ads. They feature Eric Jones, real actors, real props, and classic animation.

  • Eric Jones went on the air with contrast ads only after his opponent went negative, with lies and false accusations. Eric responded with his opponent's record. Just the record.

    There's a bigger reason, too. For the first time in nearly 30 years, our current congressman has a real opponent, and voters finally get to see his record side by side with a choice. Telling you who funds him, and what he has and hasn't done in Washington, isn't a personal attack. It's information voters deserve. Eric Jones takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money. So he can tell you the truth about that record with no donor holding the other end of the leash.

  • Yes, and Eric Jones asked for many more. He called for a full series of 9 real debates across CA-4, so voters could see the choice for themselves. Our current congressman agreed to exactly one: a single 30-minute debate. After nearly 30 years in the seat, the people of this district deserve far more than half an hour to see the two candidates answer for their records side by side.

  • No. Eric Jones did not know about it, and he would never condone it. As soon as he found out, he ensured this behavior ended and the campaign took action immediately. He immediately took responsibility and apologized publicly in the Napa Valley Register. This campaign is about ideas and the future of this district.

Eric’s Opponent, Mike Thompson

  • Eric Jones's opponent is Rep. Mike Thompson, the Democrat who has held this seat since 1999 and has sat on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee since 2005. This is the first time in nearly 30 years he has faced a serious challenge. It's the first time in nearly 30 years voters get a real look at his record.

  • Mike Thompson has taken $97,871 from PG&E's PAC over his career, the most of any federal politician in American history. He has taken PG&E money in every one of the 15 election cycles of his career. Eric Jones takes nothing from PG&E. Not ever. (Source: Federal Election Commission (FEC), PG&E Corporation Employees ENERGYPAC, C00177469.)

  • Yes. After PG&E pleaded guilty in 2020 to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter for the Camp Fire, Mike Thompson kept taking its money, $29,519 more, with the first check arriving 43 days after the plea. He also kept taking PG&E's money after its 2016 federal felony conviction, and after the 2017 wildfires that killed dozens of people in his own district. Eric Jones takes nothing from PG&E, and he never will. (Source: FEC filings, and PG&E's guilty plea, U.S. District Court, 2020.)

  • More than half of every dollar Mike Thompson has ever raised came from a PAC, over $14.5 million across his career. Among California's House Democrats running for re-election, no one has taken more PAC money than he has. Eric Jones takes no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money, and he never will. That's the whole difference: one of them answers to the PACs, and one of them answers to you. (Source: FEC, all cycles 1998–2026.)

  • Yes. Mike Thompson has taken more corporate PAC money than any other Democrat in California's House delegation. He has taken $1,819,641 from insurance PACs, more than any other California House Democrat. He has also taken $470,110 from pharmaceutical PACs and $143,624 from technology PACs, including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta, the companies building, funding, and profiting from AI. Eric Jones takes none of it. (Source: FEC filings.)

  • Yes. Mike Thompson has taken technology PAC money from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Meta, four of the largest data center builders in the country. That money has risen every cycle. Their data centers are a big reason power demand and electric bills keep climbing in California. Eric Jones supports a moratorium on new data centers until each one generates its own clean power on site, and he takes nothing from these companies. One candidate takes the data center money. The other wants the data centers to stop raising your bills. (Source: FEC filings.)

  • Yes. Mike Thompson has taken $143,624 from technology PACs over his career, including Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta, and that money has risen every cycle. Eric Jones takes nothing from Big Tech's PACs. (Source: FEC filings.)

  • Yes. Mike Thompson has taken technology PAC money from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta. They are the companies building, funding, and profiting from AI. Microsoft is the biggest backer of OpenAI, and Amazon and Google are the biggest investors in Anthropic. Eric Jones takes nothing from them. (Source: FEC filings.)

  • Yes. Mike Thompson has taken $470,110 from pharmaceutical PACs over his career. Eric Jones takes nothing from the drug industry, which is how he can fight to make generic drugs free and let Medicare negotiate prices. (Source: FEC filings.)

  • Yes. Mike Thompson has taken $1,819,641 from insurance PACs, more than any other California House Democrat. Eric Jones takes nothing from the insurance industry. (Source: FEC filings.)

  • Since 2007, the only bills Mike Thompson has authored and signed into law are six post office renamings and one congressional gold medal. He has sat on the committee that writes the nation's tax code since 2005. He ranks near the bottom of the House in federal money brought back to this district. (Source: Congress.gov and federal spending data.)

  • Just about. Since 2007, the only bills Mike Thompson has authored and gotten signed into law are six post office renamings and one congressional gold medal, which he handed out in 2020. That is the whole list from nearly two decades on the committee that writes the nation's tax code. You can check it yourself on Congress.gov, filtered to bills he sponsored that became law. (Source: Congress.gov.)

  • Yes. Mike Thompson brings back less federal money to this district than his neighbors do. Federal spending data shows this district has received billions of dollars less since the 2022 redistricting than California's 1st, 2nd, and 3rd districts, parts of which are now folded into CA-4. After nearly 30 years in Washington, this district still ranks near the bottom for money brought home. (Source: USAspending.gov, federal awards excluding Social Security.)

  • It comes from federal spending data. The measure is the federal money that actually reaches a district: contracts, grants, and direct federal awards, pulled from USAspending.gov. It excludes Social Security, because those benefits are paid to individuals everywhere no matter who holds the seat. So the comparison reflects the dollars a member of Congress actually helps steer home. By that measure, this district trails its neighbors by billions since the 2022 maps took effect. (Source: USAspending.gov, federal awards excluding Social Security.)

  • No. Mike Thompson ranks near the bottom of Congress, and near the bottom among California's members, in the Center for Effective Lawmaking's rankings. He also ranks below his peers in federal money brought back to his district. That counts the contracts, grants, and awards a member actually helps steer home, setting aside Social Security, which is paid everywhere no matter who holds the seat. Nearly 30 years in Washington, and very little to show for it. (Source: Center for Effective Lawmaking, and USAspending.gov.)

  • Mike Thompson has been in Congress since 1999, nearly 30 years. Eric Jones has signed a 12-year term limit pledge, because public service should be a duty. It was never meant to be a career. Nobody should earn a lifetime appointment just for showing up.

  • It comes straight from the government's own public records. Campaign finance comes from the Federal Election Commission (FEC.gov). The legislative record comes from Congress.gov. Federal money brought back to the district comes from USAspending.gov. When Eric compares what a member brings home, he sets Social Security aside, since it is paid to people everywhere no matter who represents them. That way, the number reflects what a member actually helps deliver.

  • No. Eric Jones uses only public government records, from FEC.gov, Congress.gov, and USAspending.gov. When he measures federal money brought home, he sets Social Security aside on purpose. It is paid to people everywhere regardless of their representative, so the comparison is apples to apples. Despite what you may read in a letter to the editor, the numbers come straight from the government's own sites.

Getting Involved

  • You can volunteer for Eric Jones at ericjones.us/volunteer. You can make calls, knock doors, put up a lawn sign, or join the campaign's student fellowship.

  • You can donate to Eric Jones at ericjones.us by clicking Contribute. Every dollar comes from individual people, and the campaign accepts no corporate PAC money, no special interest money, and no foreign money.

  • Eric Jones has earned an unusually broad coalition. It spans local leaders from both the left and the right, elected officials and grassroots activists alike, a handful of voices from across California, and a building trades union.

    That starts with all of his Republican and independent opponents from the primary, led by Ray Riehle, the top Republican vote-getter. His endorsements also include local progressive leaders and activists, and Democratic and nonpartisan officials in Petaluma and elsewhere in California. They include Republican elected officials in Yuba and Sutter counties, former local party chairs from around the district, and groups like Our Revolution and Indivisible Yolo. We're also proud to be backed by the Pipefitters and Steamfitters, a building trades union.

  • You can contact Eric Jones's campaign or invite Eric to an event by emailing info@ericjones.us. For press inquiries, email press@ericjones.us.

  • All of Eric Jones's upcoming town halls and events are at ericjones.us/events.