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Candidates › MO-04 race › 2025–2026
Jordan Herrera
D Democratic nominee for U.S. House, MO-04
Has not served in Congress
- On the ballot
- On the general election ballotNov 3, 2026 · Missouri US House 4
- Where to vote
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- Top priorities
- Primary Objectives
- Rebuilding America’s Housing Future
- My Housing Plan
- Healthcare Cost Reduction & Pharmaceutical Accountability
- Rebuilding America’s Healthcare System
- Money
- $41.7K raised, $22.7K spent, $19.4K cash on hand (through Jul 15, 2026). Where it comes from
- Who gives
- 47% of individual money from donors at $200 or less · 69% from Missouri
- Backed by
- Springfield Central Labor Council · Greater Kansas City AFL-CIO · State of Missouri AFL-CIO and 16 more. As the campaign lists them
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That every American should be able to afford housing, healthcare, quality education, and food security while working one job.
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I support our nation’s military and our veterans. I will never leave them behind. I took an Oath to our Constitution, but I also made a pact with my team while serving. Similarly, I cannot break that pact either. However, we cannot waste taxpayer dollars.
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The federal government should not be able to regulate your body, your marriage, your religion in schools, or your personal life decisions.
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Investing in our future means confronting the reality that whether you live in a city, a small town, or rural Missouri, the pressures are the same. Housing costs are outpacing wages. Healthcare is unaffordable or too far away. Food prices are rising. Schools and infrastructure are stretched thin. These challenges do not stop at county lines or zip codes, and neither should our solutions.
Today, the two leading drivers pushing Americans into homelessness are housing costs and healthcare expenses. The fastest-growing groups entering homelessness are single mothers with children and seniors living on fixed incomes. This is not about personal failure. It is about systems that no longer match the realities of everyday life. When one medical bill, one rent increase, or one closed hospital can destabilize a family, the problem is structural and it demands a serious response.
Investing in the future means expanding affordable housing in both rural and urban communities, rebuilding local healthcare access, strengthening food systems from farm to table, and modernizing infrastructure so people can live where they work and age with dignity. It means reinvesting in rural hospitals and schools while also addressing urban housing shortages and food insecurity. A country that works only for certain zip codes is not sustainable. When we connect rural and urban America through shared solutions, we stabilize families, strengthen communities, and build an economy that works for everyone.
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Missouri’s 4th Congressional District deserves bold, effective leadership that delivers real solutions and not just empty rhetoric. My commitment is to revitalize our local economy, fight for working-class families, and ensure that every resident, urban and rural, has access to opportunity and prosperity. From affordable housing and infrastructure investments to supporting small businesses and agricultural development, my focus is on economic policies that create jobs, lower costs, and strengthen communities. I will work to secure federal funding for local projects, modernize transportation, and improve public safety while ensuring that Missouri’s farmers, educators, and first responders have the resources they need. This district is the heart of Missouri, and I intend to fight relentlessly for policies that uplift our people, restore trust in government, and make CD-04 a model of progress and prosperity. My vision is clear: deliver results, stand for justice, and build a stronger future for every Missourian.
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America has a housing shortage. We are short between 4 million and 7 million homes nationwide. Missouri families feel it every day through rising rent, higher utility costs, and fewer housing options. Housing is not just about buying a home. It is about whether people can afford to live, stay, and build a future in their own community. We cannot fix this overnight. But we can take clear, deliberate action.
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We need to build more housing. That starts with treating this crisis with the urgency it deserves.
I support declaring a National Housing Emergency to unlock federal coordination and accelerate construction by:
- Reducing the cost of key building materials
- Addressing supply chain bottlenecks
- Expanding large-scale housing development
The goal is simple: build more homes and bring costs down through supply and competition.
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We cannot solve this crisis by only focusing on the lowest income brackets or the luxury market.
I support creating a Middle-Income Housing Tax Credit, building on the existing Low-Income Housing Tax Credit model.
This would:
- Support the construction of workforce housing
- Expand access for families earning moderate incomes
- Ensure housing is modern, safe, and sustainable
This is about building housing that people can actually afford to live in.
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We cannot build our way out of this crisis fast enough to ignore what is happening right now.
Housing costs, especially rent, are one of the primary drivers of financial instability and homelessness.
I support:
- A national cap on annual rent increases, designed to prevent extreme year-over-year spikes while allowing reasonable adjustments. (This already exists in the US in states like CA and OR.)
- Policies that address the full cost of housing, including utilities, not just rent or mortgages
Missouri has seen rents rise sharply in recent years. Families need stability while supply catches up.
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We also need to unlock housing that already exists.
I support grant and incentive programs that allow homeowners to:
- Convert basements, garages, and unused space into livable units
- Build accessory dwelling units within existing zoning and safety codes
In exchange, these units would include clear affordability agreements to keep rents reasonable.
This approach:
- Expands supply without displacement
- Helps homeowners build income and stability
- Keeps housing development local and community-based
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We cannot solve the housing crisis without addressing corporate control of the housing market.
Large institutional investors, hedge funds, and private equity firms are buying up homes at scale, driving up prices and pushing families out.
I support:
- Stronger antitrust enforcement against monopolistic housing practices
- Limits on bulk purchases of single-family homes by large investors
- Increased transparency in corporate ownership of residential property
Housing should be for people, not just portfolios.
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We have seen what happens when housing markets are left unchecked.
I support restoring and strengthening financial regulations that:
- Prevent excessive speculation in housing markets
- Hold large financial institutions accountable
- Protect homeowners and renters from systemic risk
This includes reinforcing key safeguards established after the 2008 financial crisis and ensuring they are not weakened.
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America’s healthcare system is not just expensive. It is unsustainable. I have worked inside this system. I have seen the pricing structures, the procurement chains, and the way profit is prioritized over patients. We can do better. And we must.
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Healthcare costs in America are driven by consolidation, lack of competition, and price manipulation.
I will fight to:
- Enforce antitrust laws
- Investigate and stop predatory pricing practices
- Use federal authority under the Bayh-Dole Act, including “march-in rights,” to ensure taxpayer-funded drugs are accessible
- Allow generic drug production when corporations engage in price gouging
- Cap costs on essential medications where markets fail
When taxpayer dollars fund research, the public deserves a fair return.
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Healthcare is a right. It is my belief that healthcare is an infrastructural need for a dignified American life. My long-term goal is Medicare for All, but the path forward must be practical and achievable.
I support:
- Strengthening and expanding the Affordable Care Act
- Building a true public option within the ACA framework that anyone can buy into at a low cost
- Expanding Medicare to include dental, vision, and hearing
The goal is simple: create a system so strong and affordable that it becomes the standard.
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Rural healthcare is in crisis. Hospitals across Missouri rely heavily on Medicare and Medicaid. When those programs are cut, hospitals close. When hospitals close, communities lose access to care.
I will fight to:
- Protect and expand Medicaid and Medicare funding
- Invest in right-sized healthcare networks, including smaller clinic-based systems
- Expand telehealth and mobile care access
- Provide transportation solutions for seniors and isolated patients
- Strengthen recruitment and retention of rural providers
Healthcare should not depend on your zip code. And it should never be a choice between keeping the lights on, staying fed, or staying healthy.
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As a veteran, this is personal.
I will fight to:
- Expand VA healthcare access
- Strengthen community care networks
- Restore and grow the VA workforce
- Ensure veterans receive timely, high-quality care
We made a promise. We need to keep it. Why is it personal? This is the first year I am paying out of pocket at a 100% permanently and totally disabled veteran, for medication.
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Our system is built around treating people after they get sick. That is the most expensive and least effective model.
Preventive care costs a fraction of emergency care. For example, managing chronic disease early can reduce long-term costs by 30% or more, while preventing hospitalizations that can cost tens of thousands per patient.
I support:
- Incentives for preventative care, including annual checkups and screenings
- Expanded access to mental health, dental, and vision care
- Investment in addiction recovery and rehabilitation programs
- Smoking cessation, counseling, and long-term health support
When people stay healthy, costs go down, and lives improve.
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Healthcare is not just what happens in a hospital.
It includes:
- Childcare
- Elder care
- Disability support
- Home and community-based services
Childcare is essential infrastructure. If we invested in a national childcare workforce, even at an example wage of around $17 per hour for approximately 1 million workers, the cost would be on the order of tens of billions annually, a fraction of what we already spend in other areas of the federal budget. Under the One Big Tax Giveaway Bill last year, Trump returned $450 BILLION to the top 5%, 1%, and corporations, ten times the amount needed to pay for universal childcare.
We have done this before. In 1971, Congress passed the Comprehensive Child Development Act, which would have created a national childcare system. It was vetoed by Richard Nixon. Programs like Head Start, created in 1965, still exist today and continue to serve millions of children, but they have never been expanded to meet the full need. We know what works. We just have to choose to do it.
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Healthcare decisions belong to individuals, not the government.
I will:
- Defend access to safe abortion and contraception
- Protect maternal healthcare
- Expand prenatal and family support programs
Bodily autonomy is fundamental. I will defend it. I will also fight to support life. Make no mistake, after all the restrictive laws went into place last year, they had a negligible impact. I believe in making sure single mothers and new families do not walk out of the delivery room in debt. That will incentivize life. I believe in making sure babies have a system to support them with WIC, SNAP, and fully funded school meals. Providing families with public schools that are clean, well-run, and competitive. I believe in making sure that single parents and young working families can have a home to live in. That’s how you prevent abortions: you support a person’s life.
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Education is not a luxury. It is not a gamble. It is not a debt sentence. Education is an infrastructural need for a dignified life in America. Right now, we are failing that standard.
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It starts with public schools. I will always support:
- Full and fair public school funding
- Higher pay for teachers
- Modern resources and classroom support
In rural communities like the one I grew up in, public schools are not optional. They are the foundation of the entire community. Policies that strip funding from public schools do not create choice; they create collapse.
If public education fails, everything that comes after it fails.
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The student loan system is broken. Borrowers do not choose their servicer. They do not control their interest rates. And many spend decades paying without ever escaping the balance.
I will fight to:
- Cap student loan interest rates
- Eliminate capitalized interest
- Ensure income-based repayment never exceeds 10% of income
- Expand and fix Public Service Loan Forgiveness
- Provide full forgiveness for borrowers paying for 20+ years in good faith
This is not about giveaways. It is about ending a system that traps people in debt for trying to better themselves.
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Previous generations benefited from strong public investment in higher education. Today’s students are being asked to carry far more of the cost.
I will fight to:
- Reinvest in public colleges and universities (previous generations had their higher education subsidized up to 70% – 80%)
- Reduce the cost burden on students and families
- Treat higher education as a public good, not a private burden
When we invest in education, we invest in:
- Doctors and nurses
- Engineers and scientists
- Teachers and public servants
- Highly skilled engineers
- Electrical Engineers
If we choke off access, we choke off our future workforce and innovation.
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A four-year degree is not the only path to success. For millions of Americans, especially in rural communities, a high school diploma IS the terminal degree. That means we must prepare students for success before they graduate.
I support:
- Expanding trade schools and apprenticeships
- Strengthening career and technical education (CTE)
- Building pipeline programs directly from high school into jobs
- Partnering with unions and local industries for workforce training
We should value people who work with their hands just as much as those who pursue degrees.
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The current system concentrates power in a small number of large financial actors. Borrowers have limited choice, limited flexibility, and limited protection.
I will push for:
- Stronger oversight of loan servicers
- Consumer protections for borrowers
- A system that prioritizes students over profits
Education financing should serve the public, not extract from it.
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I reject the idea that the only path to affordable education is military service. I have heard it my entire life: “If you want a free education, join the military.” I did. And I will ask the question I always ask: If someone wants to teach a third grader that three plus three equals six, should they have to risk their life to do it? The answer is no. We can build a system that does better.
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Our government was designed to represent the people. It was never supposed to become so distant, expensive, and politically manipulated that ordinary Americans believe their voices no longer matter.
I believe we can modernize our democracy without abandoning the Constitution. In fact, these reforms are about making our government live up to it.
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The House has been effectively capped at 435 voting members for nearly a century, even as America’s population has grown enormously. Congressional districts have consequently become larger and representatives increasingly distant from the people they serve.
I support ending the arbitrary 435-member cap and expanding the House to create a more representative Congress. Members of the House should be close enough to their communities to know the people they represent, understand their needs, and remain accountable to them.
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Election integrity means making sure every eligible American can vote, every legal vote counts, and politicians cannot manipulate the system to protect themselves.
I support:
- Banning partisan gerrymandering. Politicians should not be choosing their voters. Voters should be choosing their representatives. I support independent redistricting and enforceable national standards for fair congressional maps.
- Publicly financed federal elections. Public service should not require candidates to spend their lives begging wealthy donors and special interests for money. I support creating a voluntary public-financing system that gives ordinary Americans a greater voice in who represents them. I would also support rank choice voting systems as well.
- Ending corporate domination of our elections. Corporations are legal entities, but they are not citizens and they do not vote. I support reforms limiting corporate political spending and pursuing the constitutional and statutory changes necessary to make clear that constitutional political rights belong to actual people. I am inspired by Hawaii and Montana legislatures which have moved to categorize corporations as “artificial entities.”
- Restoring the Voting Rights Act. I support passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and strong federal protections against racial discrimination and unlawful barriers to voting.
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I do not believe millions of Republican votes in California should effectively disappear any more than millions of Democratic votes in Missouri or Texas should.
I support replacing winner-take-all allocation of electoral votes with a system that distributes electoral votes more proportionately to how Americans actually vote. The presidency belongs to the entire country. Every voter should have a meaningful reason to participate whether they live in Missouri, California, New York, Texas, or anywhere else.
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Public service should be service, not permanent employment.
I support a 12-year limit for members of the House and Senate. That provides enough time to develop experience and become an effective legislator without allowing congressional seats to become lifetime possessions.
I also support 12-year terms for future federal judges and Supreme Court justices, structured through the constitutional reforms necessary to preserve judicial independence.
Our courts need experience and independence, but lifetime power should not mean that the direction of American law depends upon which president happens to be in office when a justice dies or retires.
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More representation. Less money in politics. Fair districts. Protected voting rights. Competitive elections. Accountable public servants.
Government belongs to the people. We should build a system where your vote matters regardless of your party, your ZIP code, your income, or who happens to control the legislature.
I do not want government engineered to help Democrats win or Republicans win. I want government engineered so the American people win.
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The United States must lead with strength, but also with restraint, clarity, and moral courage.
I am not a war hawk. I am a veteran. I have seen what war looks like. And I believe war must always be the last option, not the first response.
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