Josh Harder

Democrat · CA-9 · U.S. House

Bio

Joshua Keck Harder is an American politician who has served as the U.S. representative for California's 9th congressional district since 2023, after representing the 10th district from 2019 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he was first elected in 2018 by defeating Republican incumbent Jeff Denham. After the 2020 redistricting, he won reelection in the newly drawn 9th district, which covers the majority of San Joaquin County and includes Stockton, Tracy, Lodi, and Manteca.

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Record of service

In office: 7.6 years
First took office: 2019 (4 terms)
Seniority: 194 of 437 by time served
Age: 40

District offices

Stockton, CA · 209-579-5458

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

$2.1M

2020

$3.3M

2021

$3.8M

2022

$3.4M

2023

$3.1M

2024

$4.2M

2025

$4.8M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $2.5M – $8.7M
Liabilities: $515k – $1.1M
Net worth: $1.5M – $8.2M
Since 2019: +$2.7M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 44 assets reported

Charles Schwab Investment Account ⇒ SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)$1.0M – $5.0M

Charles Schwab Investment Account ⇒ SPDR S&P MidCap 400 ETF Trust (MDY)$500k – $1.0M

Bessemer Venture Associates IX L.P. Fund$250k – $500k

Charles Schwab Roth IRA ⇒ SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)$250k – $500k

Bessemer Venture Associates VIII L.P. Fund$100k – $250k

Alex Brown Raymond James brokerage ⇒ Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (RKLB)$100k – $250k

Betterment Brokerage Account ⇒ Schwab U.S. Broad Market ETF (SCHB)$50k – $100k

Charles Schwab Roth IRA ⇒ SPDR S&P MidCap 400 ETF Trust (MDY)$50k – $100k

Bank of America Checking Account$15k – $50k

Alex Brown Raymond James brokerage ⇒ Okta, Inc. - Class A (OKTA)$15k – $50k

Betterment Brokerage Account ⇒ iShares Core MSCI EAFE ETF (IEFA)$15k – $50k

Betterment Brokerage Account ⇒ iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF (IEMG)$15k – $50k

Betterment Brokerage Account ⇒ Schwab International Equity ETF (SCHF)$15k – $50k

Betterment Brokerage Account ⇒ Vanguard Value ETF (VTV)$15k – $50k

Betterment Traditional IRA ⇒ Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF (VEA)$15k – $50k

Betterment Traditional IRA ⇒ Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab Investment Account ⇒ Vanguard Growth ETF (VUG)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab Rollover IRA ⇒ SPDR S&P 500 (SPY)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab Rollover IRA ⇒ Vanguard Growth ETF (VUG)$15k – $50k

Charles Schwab Roth IRA ⇒ Vanguard Growth ETF (VUG)$15k – $50k

Merrill Investment Account ⇒ ACV Auctions Inc. - Class A (ACVA)$15k – $50k

Merrill Investment Account ⇒ Toast, Inc. Class A (TOST)$15k – $50k

Betterment Brokerage Account ⇒ iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (EMB)$1k – $15k

Betterment Brokerage Account ⇒ iShares National Muni Bond ETF (MUB)$1k – $15k

Betterment Brokerage Account ⇒ iShares Russell Mid-cap Value ETF (IWS)$1k – $15k

Betterment Brokerage Account ⇒ State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF (SPYM)$1k – $15k

Betterment Brokerage Account ⇒ Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF (VEA)$1k – $15k

Betterment Brokerage Account ⇒ Vanguard Mid-Cap Value ETF (VOE)$1k – $15k

Betterment Brokerage Account ⇒ Vanguard Small-Cap Value ETF (VBR)$1k – $15k

Betterment Brokerage Account ⇒ Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond ETF (VTEB)$1k – $15k

Betterment Brokerage Account ⇒ Vanguard Total International Bond ETF (BNDX)$1k – $15k

Betterment Traditional IRA ⇒ iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF (AGG)$1k – $15k

Betterment Traditional IRA ⇒ iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (EMB)$1k – $15k

Betterment Traditional IRA ⇒ SPDR Portfolio S&P 400 Mid Cap ETF (SPMD)$1k – $15k

Betterment Traditional IRA ⇒ SPDR Portfolio S&P 600 Small Cap ETF (SPSM)$1k – $15k

Betterment Traditional IRA ⇒ State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF (SPYM)$1k – $15k

Betterment Traditional IRA ⇒ Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF (VWO)$1k – $15k

Betterment Traditional IRA ⇒ Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (BND)$1k – $15k

Betterment Traditional IRA ⇒ Vanguard Total International Bond ETF (BNDX)$1k – $15k

Charles Schwab Investment Account ⇒ Schwab Prime Advantage Money Fund- Investor Shares (SW$1k – $15k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.24

Healthcare

D+0.88

Immigration & Border

D+0.31

Guns

D+0.80

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.76

Crime & Policing

D+0.14

Defense & Veterans

D+0.11

Economy & Labor

D+0.42

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.09

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.87

Education

D+0.52

Government & Democracy

D+0.65

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+0.44

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Josh Harder's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

87%Closest

Green Party

78%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

75%

Communist Party USA

73%

Libertarian Party

61%

Republican Party

44%

On the political map

Josh Harder (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Hardersits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members

Committees

House Committee on Appropriationscenter · 62 members
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies

Most and least aligned members

Treating Harder's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.