Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Democrat · WA-3 · U.S. House
WA-3 — U.S. House
Lean D 68%Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is on the ballot. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez vs. John Braun.
R +9 points of win probability since July.
Bio
Kristina Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is an American politician serving as the United States representative for Washington's 3rd congressional district since 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, she is a co-chair of the Blue Dog Coalition. Gluesenkamp Perez was first elected to Congress in 2022, defeating Republican nominee Joe Kent in an upset, and was re-elected in 2024 in a rematch. She is seeking a third term in the 2026 election, in which she faces Republican John Braun, the minority leader of the Washington State Senate.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.7 years
- First took office
- 2023 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 356 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 38
- Kelso, WA
- Vancouver, WA · 360-695-6292
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
- Assets
- $595k – $1.3M
- Liabilities
- $750k – $1.5M
- Net worth
- −$905k – $500k
- Since 2022
- −$418k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 5 assets reported
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)
Issue profile
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
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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.
Do you vote like Perez?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Perezsits 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
- Blue Dog Coalitionleft · 10 members
- Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
- Congressional Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Perez'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.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Is This the Oddest Democrat in Congress?You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free.Inside Washington Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has made quite the reputation for herself …
The New Republic · October 7, 2026
As Trump's approval rating drops, Republicans begin to lose confidence in midtermsThe US Capitol Building is seen on October 1, in Washington, DC. - Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Four weeks to Election Day, a growing number of House Republicans privately fear their chances of holding onto the majority are vanishing and have begun focusing…
CNN · October 3, 2026
How Worried Should Dems Be About the GOP’s Huge Cash Advantage?You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free.Inside Washington How worried should Dems be about the GOP’s huge cash advantage?Late Wednesday nig…
The New Republic · October 2, 2026
Democrat Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez's Financial Disclosures Raise Questions After She Backed Trading BanRep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) has repeatedly called for members of Congress to be barred from trading individual stocks, but a series of financial disclosure filings from her 2022 campaign and first years in office show changes and omissions involving R…
Breitbart News · September 22, 2026
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