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Calvert for Congress Campaign Raises More than $1.3 Million in the Second Quarter of 2025

CORONA —Today, the Ken Calvert for Congress Campaign announced it raised more than $1.3 million in the second quarter of 2025 and has $2.5 million cash on hand. The Calvert Campaign has raised more than $1.3 million in four out of the past five fundraising quarters.

“Ken Calvert continues to receive extraordinary support and raise the resources necessary to win re-election in the 41st Congressional District,” said Calvert Campaign spokesman Jason Gagnon. “At the same time Congressman Calvert is setting Riverside County fundraising records, he continues to build upon his lengthy history of delivering results for the Riverside County region. Meanwhile, Democrats are in disarray. One of the top DCCC recruits in CA-41, Tim Myers, recently ended his Congressional campaign while another, Brandon Riker, was forced to loan his own campaign money to inflate his fundraising numbers.”

A crowded field of Democrats are queueing up to challenge the Republican incumbent in 2026. Calvert has held the office for three decades.

Making up the field so far are:

• Democrat Abel Chavez, a Nuevo resident who sits on the Nuview Union School District board, announced Tuesday, May 20, that he intends to run in California’s 41st Congressional District, which spans much of Riverside County.
• Riverside lawyer Anuj Dixit
• Coachella Valley entrepreneur Brandon Riker.

Calvert is the Inland Empire’s longest-serving member of Congress.

Democrat Will Rollins, who isn’t running in 2026, came up short in 2022 and 2024 even though he wall-funded.

Formed through 2021 political redistricting, the 41st District includes cities in the Coachella Valley along with Calimesa, Lake Elsinore, Menifee, Norco, Wildomar and parts of Corona, Eastvale and Riverside.