California House District 2 2026: the ads, and who's paying for them
Follow Jared Huffman in office
Jared Huffman won. Get what Jared Huffman says in office by email, analyzed for rhetorical techniques, once sworn in. And an email if the result changes: a recount or a call reversed. One-click unsubscribe.
Confirming also makes your free Semblen account, with a 14-day Pro trial. No card.
Jared Huffman (Democrat) and Robin Littau (Republican) are the nominees for California's 2nd congressional district in the November 3, 2026 general election. Jared Huffman is the incumbent. By their latest FEC reports, Jared Huffman's campaign had raised $1.2 million (through October 14, 2026). Outside groups have reported $1,000 for Jared Huffman and $0 against.
Jared Huffman (DEM, incumbent), Robin Littau (REP).
5 others filed with the FEC; any ads they ran are below. 0 ads analyzed, 0 with at least one technique in the copy.
Newest first. The paid-for-by line is the advertiser's own filing.
Also on every California ballot: 14 statewide ballot measures → The ballot wording and the official arguments, read for rhetorical techniques.
How to vote in California
From California's official election office. Each line links to the official page it came from.
Checked October 8, 2026. Rules can change; confirm with the official site before you go.
Something wrong or out of date? Tell us
A person reads every report and fixes errors the same day.
Got a political text?
Paste a campaign text message you’ve received. Semblen marks the persuasion techniques in its wording and lists the factual claims it makes. Take your name out first: what you paste is analyzed and kept like any text.
Semblen is free to read and has no ads. If this page was useful, you can support it.
Money in this race
From FEC filings for 2025–26. Outside spending is money a group spends on its own about a candidate — TV and online ads, mail, canvassing. It is not a donation to the campaign, and the candidate does not control it. Supporting means it was spent to help that candidate win; Opposing means it was spent to defeat them, usually on attack ads. Groups report it within 24 or 48 hours as the election nears. Raised is the campaign's own fundraising, as of its latest quarterly report. Largest donors come from each outside spender's own FEC receipts, with each donor's share of its itemized receipts; donors under $100,000 are not named. People are shown with the employer and occupation they reported. A donor that is itself a political committee is shown with its own largest donors. Companies and nonprofits don't report their funders to the FEC, so the trail ends there, and the page says so.
Jared Huffman (DEM, incumbent)
- Raised
- $1.2M through 2026-10-14
individuals $701K · PACs $438K · party $2,500 · cash on hand $1.2M
- Outside spending
- $1,330 supporting Huffman · latest reported 2026-05-12
- Largest outside spenders
- SONOMA COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY
— $1,320 supporting Huffman
SIERRA CLUB INDEPENDENT ACTION
— $10 supporting Huffman
- Bundled through PACs
- $600 through 1 PAC · FEC bulk data of 2026-11-01
JSTREETPAC
— $600 from 2 gifts
Lobbyist/registrant PAC
98 PACs gave directly — alphabetical; the legal limit is $5,000 per election
- ACADEMY OF RAIL LABOR ATTORNEYS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $3,500
- AECOM (ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, CONSTRUCTION, OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT) PAC $1,000
- AIR LINE PILOTS ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL PAC $7,500
- ALASKA AIR GROUP POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $2,000
- ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE ACTION FUND $4,500
- ALLIED PILOTS ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $10K
- AMALGAMATED SUGAR COMPANY PAC $1,000
- AMALGAMATED TRANSIT UNION COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION VOLUNTARY ACCOUNT $7,500
- AMERICA'S CREDIT UNION PAC OF CREDIT UNION NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, INC. $5,000
- AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $7,500
- AMERICAN COUNCIL OF ENGINEERING COMPANIES ACEC PAC $5,500
- AMERICAN CRYSTAL SUGAR POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $10K
- AMERICAN DENTAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $2,500
- AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY & MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES - PEOPLE $10K
- AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION $5,000
- AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1,000
- AMERICAN POSTAL WORKERS UNION COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION $1,500
- AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ANESTHESIOLOGISTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $5,000
- AMERICAN SPORTFISHING ASSOCIATION PAC (SPORTFISHINGPAC) $1,000
- AMERICAN SUGAR CANE LEAGUE OF USA INC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $3,000
- AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION $1,000
- ANIMAL WELLNESS ACTION PAC $2,000
- ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL FLIGHT ATTENDANTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $2,000
- AT&T INC. FEDERAL PAC $1,000
- BIOMARIN PHARMACEUTICAL, INC. PAC (BIOMARIN PAC) $5,000
- BNSF (BURLINGTON NORTHERN AND SANTA FE) RAILWAY COMPANY RAIL PAC (BNSF RAIL PAC) $5,000
- CALPINE CORPORATION - FEDERAL PAC $2,000
- CARPENTERS' LEGISLATIVE IMPROVEMENT COMMITTEE $5,000
- CLEANPAC $10K
- COMMITTEE ON LETTER CARRIERS POLITICAL EDUCATION NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LETTER CARRIERS $3,500
- COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION ACTION COMMITTEE FOR RURAL ELECTRIFICATION (AMERICA'S ELECTRIC COO $5,000
- CUMMINS INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (CIPAC) $1,000
- DEFEND THE VOTE $2,500
- DRIVE (DEMOCRAT, REPUBLICAN AND INDEPENDENT VOTER EDUCATION) COMMITTEE $5,000
- EDISON INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $3,000
- EDWARD JONES PAC $2,500
- ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND PAC $2,000
- FOLEY & LARDNER POLITICAL FUND, INC. $1,000
- GE VERNOVA INC. PAC $1,000
- GOOGLE INC. NETPAC $1,000
- GREEN DIAMOND RESOURCE COMPANY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $5,000
- HERZOG PAC $2,500
- HOLLAND & HART LLP FEDERAL PAC $1,000
- HOLLAND & KNIGHT COMMITTEE FOR EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT $1,000
- HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL PAC $4,000
- HUMANE SOCIETY LEGISLATIVE FUND PAC $1,000
- INDEPENDENT PILOTS ASSOCIATION PAC $2,500
- INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE FIGHTERS $5,000
- INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SHEET METAL, AIR, RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS POLITICAL A $2,500
- INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SHEET METAL, AIR, RAIL AND TRANSPORTATION WORKERS TRANSPORTAT $7,500
- INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS VOLUNTARY FUND $5,000
- INTERNATIONAL UNION OF OPERATING ENGINEERS POLITICAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE $2,500
- JOINT ACTION COMMITTEE FOR POLITICAL AFFAIRS $1,500
- LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS ACTION FUND $4,000
- MACHINISTS NON PARTISAN POLITICAL LEAGUE $5,000
- MAERSK INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (MAERSK PAC) $1,000
- MATSON, INC. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMITTEE $6,000
- MAXINE FOR CONGRESS $246
- MICHIGAN SUGAR COMPANY GROWERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1,000
- MINN-DAK FARMERS COOPERATIVE SUGAR PAC (MDSPAC) $1,000
- NATIONAL ACTIVE AND RETIRED FEDERAL EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COM (NARFE-PAC) $2,000
- NATIONAL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $7,500
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POSTAL SUPERVISORS PAC $500
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (R.P.A.C.) $4,000
- NATIONAL BEER WHOLESALER ASSOCIATION (NWBA PAC) $5,000
- NATIONAL MARINE MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION AND MARINE RETAILERS ASSOCIATION BOAT POLITICAL $10K
- NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION GOOD GOVERNMENT FUND $2,000
- NORTH AMERICA'S BUILDING TRADES UNIONS POLITICAL EDUCATIONAL FUND $1,000
- NRDC NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL ACTION FUND INC PAC $2,000
- PG&E (PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC) CORPORATION ENERGYPAC $3,000
- POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES $1,000
- PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS IN CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT (PECG-PAC) $10K
- SALT RIVER VALLEY WATER USERS' ASSOCIATION POLITICAL INVOLVEMENT COMMITTEE (SRPPIC) $5,000
- SAN FRANCISCO BAR PILOTS FEDERAL PAC $2,000
- SEIU COPE (SERVICE EMPLOYEES INTERNATIONAL UNION COMMITTEE ON POLITICAL EDUCATION) $2,500
- SIERRA CLUB POLITICAL COMMITTEE $2,022
- SOUTHERN MINNESOTA BEET SUGAR COOPERATIVE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $2,000
- SQUIRE PATTON BOGGS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $2,500
- STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE FEDERAL POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (STATE FARM PAC) $500
- SUGAR CANE GROWERS COOPERATIVE OF FLORIDA (PAC) $1,000
- SUPPORTERS OF ENGINEERS LOCAL 3 ENDORSED CANDIDATES $744
- SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT COALITION PAC (SEEC PAC) $1,000
- T-MOBILE USA, INC POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (T-PAC) $1,000
- THE CENTER FOR FREETHOUGHT EQUALITY FUND PAC $4,000
- THE NEA FUND FOR CHILDREN & PUBLIC EDUCATION $4,000
- THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ACTION FUND POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (PAC) $2,000
- TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION PAC $5,000
- TRANSPORTATION INTERMEDIARIES ASSOCIATION'S TIAPAC $1,000
- TRANSPORTATION TRADES DEPARTMENT AFL-CIO PAC $1,000
- TREASURY EMPLOYEES POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1,000
- UNION PACIFIC CORPORATION FUND FOR EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT $1,733
- UNITED FOOD AND COMMERCIAL WORKERS INTERNATIONAL UNION ACTIVE BALLOT CLUB $2,500
- UNITED PILOTS PAC / UNITED AIRLINES MASTER EXECUTIVE COUNCIL $2,000
- VAN NESS FELDMAN LLP POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1,000
- WAL-MART STORES, INC. PAC FOR RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT $4,500
- WATERFOWL PAC - FEDERAL $1,000
- WINE INSTITUTE POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE $1,500
- WSP USA INC. PAC $2,000
All filings at the FEC ↗
No 2025–26 FEC reports or outside spending found for Robin Littau.
No campaign ads analyzed for this race yet.
What this page is
- An ad is on this page because its own "Paid for by" line is a campaign in this race; or it comes from a national Senate group and ran mostly in CA; or it ran mostly in CA and names a candidate — unless its sponsor is a campaign for some other office. Ads from outside groups appear alongside the campaigns' own.
- Campaigns run one text as many separate ads. Identical text from the same sponsor is one card here, marked with its number of variants.
- A technique is a specific rhetorical move in the wording, found by our model and explained in one line. It is not a claim that the ad is false.
- Claims are checked when a reader asks: press "Check this ad's claims" on a card. Running a check and seeing its verdicts are part of Semblen Pro, because each check costs money to run; anyone can see which claims an ad makes. The ten ads with the most money behind them in each race are checked ahead of time.
- Claim verdicts say what the cited sources say. A verdict that an ad is wrong or misleading is shown only when it cites an established fact-checker or an institutional record — Congress, a federal agency, a court — and its confidence is not low; a weaker one is not shown at all. Each verdict shows what it rests on and how confident it is. If we got one wrong, press Disagree: a verdict that readers dispute and no one defends comes down.
- Video ads come from the campaigns' own YouTube channels; the transcript is analyzed. Meta ads are analyzed on their text; their video and images are not, yet.