Derek Tran

Democrat · CA-45 · U.S. House

Bio

Derek Truyen Tran is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the U.S. representative from California's 45th congressional district since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, Tran is the third Vietnamese American to be elected to Congress and the first to represent California.

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Record of service

In office: 1.6 years
First took office: 2025 (1 terms)
Seniority: 378 of 437 by time served
Age: 45

District offices

Cypress, CA · 714-960-6483

FEC filings ↗OpenSecrets ↗GovTrack ↗Ballotpedia ↗Vote Smart ↗

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

2024

$1.9M

2025

$689k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $2.0M – $7.6M
Liabilities: $1.8M – $6.5M
Net worth: −$4.5M – $5.9M
Since 2024: −$1.2M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 46 assets reported

Nguyen Win, Inc.$1.0M – $5.0M

Nguyen Win, Inc. Cash Balance Plan - John Hancock ⇒ DFA US Large Company Portfolio (DFUSX)$250k – $500k

Bank of America bank account$50k – $100k

Pacific Life (fixed annuity)$50k – $100k

LPL Financial Rollover IRA ⇒ Harbor ETF Trust Harbor Long-Term Growers ETF (WINN)$50k – $100k

LPL Financial Rollover IRA ⇒ Pacer US Cash Cows 100 ETF (COWZ)$50k – $100k

LPL Financial Rollover IRA ⇒ Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)$50k – $100k

Nguyen Win, Inc. 401(k) - John Hancock ⇒ BlackRock LifePath Index 2045 Port Insti Cl (LIHI$50k – $100k

Nguyen Win, Inc. Cash Balance Plan - John Hancock ⇒ Hartford Schroders US MidCap Opportuni$50k – $100k

Nguyen Win, Inc. Cash Balance Plan - John Hancock ⇒ John Hancock Income Fund Class R6 (JSN$50k – $100k

Nguyen Win, Inc. Cash Balance Plan - John Hancock ⇒ Nuveen Small Cap Blend Index Fund R6 ($50k – $100k

Nguyen Win, Inc. Cash Balance Plan - John Hancock ⇒ The Bond Fund of America, Class R-6 Sh$50k – $100k

Chase bank account$15k – $50k

The Tran Firm, Inc.$15k – $50k

Binance cryptocurrency wallet ⇒ Bitcoin$15k – $50k

Coinbase cryptocurrency wallet ⇒ Ethereum$15k – $50k

E*Trade Brokerage 1 ⇒ Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN)$15k – $50k

E*Trade Brokerage 2 ⇒ CVS Health Corporation (CVS)$15k – $50k

LPL Financial Rollover IRA ⇒ Pacer US Small Cap Cash Cows 100 ETF (CALF)$15k – $50k

LPL Financial Rollover IRA ⇒ Vanguard Growth ETF (VUG)$15k – $50k

Nguyen Win, Inc. 401(k) - John Hancock ⇒ JHF III U.S. Growth Fund Class R6 (JSGTX)$15k – $50k

Nguyen Win, Inc. 401(k) - John Hancock ⇒ John Hancock Variable Insurance Trust 500 Index T$15k – $50k

Nguyen Win, Inc. 401(k) - John Hancock ⇒ Vanguard International Growth Fund (VWIGX)$15k – $50k

Nguyen Win, Inc. Cash Balance Plan - John Hancock ⇒ Fidelity International Index Fund (FSP$15k – $50k

The Tran Firm, Inc. 401(k) (Principal) ⇒ Principal Fds, Inc. LargeCap S&P 500 Idx Fd Instl$15k – $50k

The Tran Firm, Inc. 401(k) (Principal) ⇒ Principal Fds, Inc. SmallCap S&P 600 Index Fd Ins$15k – $50k

The Tran Firm, Inc. 401(k) (Principal) ⇒ Principal Funds, Inc. - Equity Income, Class J (P$15k – $50k

The Tran Firm, Inc. 401(k) (Principal) ⇒ Principal Funds, Inc. -SmallCap Growth Fund I (PC$15k – $50k

The Tran Firm, Inc. 401(k) (Principal) ⇒ Principal Funds, Inc. -SmallCap Value Fund II (PS$15k – $50k

Binance cryptocurrency wallet ⇒ Ethereum$1k – $15k

Binance cryptocurrency wallet ⇒ Shiba Inu$1k – $15k

Coinbase cryptocurrency wallet ⇒ Bitcoin$1k – $15k

E*Trade Brokerage 1 ⇒ American Express Company (AXP)$1k – $15k

E*Trade Brokerage 1 ⇒ Apple Inc. (AAPL)$1k – $15k

E*Trade Brokerage 1 ⇒ Heico Corporation (HEI)$1k – $15k

E*Trade Brokerage 1 ⇒ NVIDIA Corporation - Common Stock (NVDA)$1k – $15k

E*Trade Brokerage 1 ⇒ Realty Income Corporation Common Stock (O)$1k – $15k

E*Trade Brokerage 1 ⇒ Starbucks Corporation (SBUX)$1k – $15k

E*Trade Brokerage 1 ⇒ Visa Inc. (V)$1k – $15k

E*Trade Brokerage 2 ⇒ Apple Inc. (AAPL)$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+0.54

Healthcare

D+0.84

Immigration & Border

D+0.42

Guns

D+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.63

Crime & Policing

D+0.09

Defense & Veterans

D+0.70

Economy & Labor

D+0.61

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.59

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.96

Education

D+0.81

Government & Democracy

D+0.41

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+0.33

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

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

Democratic Party

89%Closest

Green Party

87%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

83%

Communist Party USA

82%

Libertarian Party

61%

Republican Party

34%

On the political map

Derek Tran (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 Transits 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
Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
Readiness Intelligence and Special Operations
House Committee on Small Businesscenter · 24 members
Contracting and Infrastructure Oversight, Investigations, and Regulations (Ranking Member)

Most and least aligned members

Treating Tran'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.