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Angel Oakley

U.S. House District 3

2026 Illinois U.S. House District 3 — General Election · November 3, 2026

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Last reviewed September 18, 2026

Overview

Current race
2026 Illinois U.S. House District 3 — General Election on November 3, 2026
Official candidacy
U.S. House District 3 · Republican · Candidate
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Election: GENERAL ELECTION - 11/3/2026

Name: Angel Oakley

Phone Number: 630-765-5743

Office: 3RD CONGRESS

Party: REPUBLICAN

Filed: 10/27/2025

Write-In: No

Objection Pending: No

Former Name: None

Date Name Changed: N/A

Campaign Web Site: http://libertyangel.us/

Status: Active 10/27/2025 11:37 AM

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Election: GENERAL ELECTION - 11/3/2026

Name: Angel Oakley

Phone Number: 630-765-5743

Office: 3RD CONGRESS

Party: REPUBLICAN

Filed: 10/27/2025

Write-In: No

Objection Pending: No

Former Name: None

Date Name Changed: N/A

Campaign Web Site: http://libertyangel.us/

Status: Active 10/27/2025 11:37 AM

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About Angel Oakley

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We are living through an era of deep national division, driven by a political system that often rewards fighting over fixing. Millions of Illinoisans feel underrepresented by politicians who prioritize party loyalty over the people they were elected to serve. Angel Oakley is running for Congress to change that. She isn't a career politician looking for a fight; she is a mother, an entrepreneur, a former village official, and a dedicated community leader who believes Washington has too many "deal-makers" and not enough visionary problem solvers. Angel is a conservative moderate who leads with American values, love, and compassion—seeking to bring people together around common-sense solutions.

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We are living through an era of deep national division, driven by a political system that often rewards fighting over fixing. Millions of Illinoisans feel underrepresented by politicians who prioritize party loyalty over the people they were elected to serve. Angel Oakley is running for Congress to change that. She isn't a career politician looking for a fight; she is a mother, an entrepreneur, a former village official, and a dedicated community leader who believes Washington has too many "deal-makers" and not enough visionary problem solvers. Angel is a conservative moderate who leads with American values, love, and compassion—seeking to bring people together around common-sense solutions.

Her career blends corporate expertise with local civic duty:

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The Entrepreneurial Spirit: As the owner of a successful marketing and communications firm, Angel has partnered with hundreds of small to mid-sized businesses and non-profits, as well as several large businesses right here in the 3rd District, earning the "Innovator’s Award" from local Chambers of Commerce. She served on two chamber boards and spent several years engaged in the tech start-up community. She's a fierce advocate for Main Street USA (a.k.a. small businesses).

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The Entrepreneurial Spirit: As the owner of a successful marketing and communications firm, Angel has partnered with hundreds of small to mid-sized businesses and non-profits, as well as several large businesses right here in the 3rd District, earning the "Innovator’s Award" from local Chambers of Commerce. She served on two chamber boards and spent several years engaged in the tech start-up community. She's a fierce advocate for Main Street USA (a.k.a. small businesses).

Her career blends corporate expertise with local civic duty:

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Proven Governance: As a former Winfield Village Trustee, Angel built a solid reputation for building consensus, cutting through gridlock, and finding realistic, fiscally responsible compromises, without compromising her core principles. She also served on the Village Communications Commission.

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Proven Governance: As a former Winfield Village Trustee, Angel built a solid reputation for building consensus, cutting through gridlock, and finding realistic, fiscally responsible compromises, without compromising her core principles. She also served on the Village Communications Commission.

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Core Governing Principles

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Government should be guided by liberty, accountability, justice, and the rule of law, with a focus on repairing broken institutions and rebuilding trust between citizens and government.

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America’s strength comes from the principles that shaped our Republic: liberty, accountability, justice, and the rule of law. These are not abstract ideas. They affect families, communities, and everyday life.

Restoring Integrity to Our Institutions

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Argues that closed-door decision-making, lobbyists, unaccountable agencies, and political insiders have weakened public trust in government.

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Too many decisions are made behind closed doors, driven by lobbyists, unaccountable agencies, and political insiders. Trust in government collapses when citizens feel shut out.

Restoring Integrity to Our Institutions

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Increase oversight of House-allocated funds and strengthen whistleblower protections.

  • Require clear objectives, performance measures, spending plans, responsible oversight offices, periodic financial/performance reports, audits, corrective actions, and the ability to withhold or redirect future funds; provide confidential whistleblower reporting, anti-retaliation protections, timely investigations, remedies, and ongoing legislative oversight.
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Require clear objectives, performance measures, and spending plans for each allocation. Assign a responsible office or entity to monitor implementation and expenditures. Require periodic financial and performance reports to the appropriate House committee. Conduct audits or reviews to verify that funds are being used appropriately and producing intended results. Establish corrective-action measures, and, where appropriate, the ability to withhold or redirect future funds when goals are not being met.

Empowering Citizens and Modernizing Participation

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Democratic participation should be accessible to every eligible citizen rather than primarily to people with money or political connections.

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America’s democracy should be accessible to every eligible citizen, not just the well-funded or politically connected.

Empowering Citizens and Modernizing Participation

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Expand civic participation, ballot access, election transparency, and voter verification.

  • Create a digital civic-engagement platform for electronic petition signatures, legislation tracking, public feedback, and civic commissions; simplify candidate ballot access; ban foreign influence and dark money; strengthen political-spending disclosure; create a national voter-ID standard with free accessible verification.
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A Digital Civic Engagement Platform allowing citizens to: Sign ballot petitions electronically Track legislation Submit public feedback Participate in civic commissions

Rebuilding an Economy That Works for Everyone

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Economic policy should expand opportunity for working families, small businesses, and entrepreneurs rather than impose unnecessary burdens.

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Working families, small businesses, and entrepreneurs deserve policies that boost, not burden, their ability to thrive.

Rebuilding an Economy That Works for Everyone

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Pursue lower federal waste and regulatory burdens while supporting domestic production, workers, and workforce training.

  • Reduce inflationary spending and federal waste; cut small-business red tape; support American manufacturing and supply-chain independence; lower taxes on working families; promote fair trade; expand workforce training and apprenticeships.
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Support American manufacturing and supply chain independence

Safety Is Not Partisan, It’s Fundamental

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Every person should be able to feel safe in their neighborhood, on public transit, and at home, with law enforced fairly and consistently.

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Every American deserves to feel safe in their neighborhood, on public transit, and in their home.

Safety Is Not Partisan, It’s Fundamental

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Strengthen accountable policing, local public-safety efforts, violent-crime enforcement, and border security.

  • Support strong accountable policing; local community-safety initiatives; federal support against violent crime, drugs, and trafficking; fair enforcement of existing law; stronger border security against cartels, trafficking, and illegal entry.
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Strengthening border security to stop cartels, trafficking, and illegal entry

Empowering Parents, Supporting Teachers, Preparing Students

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Schools should equip students with knowledge, skills, and civic understanding while limiting bureaucracy, inefficiency, and ideological indoctrination.

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Our education system should equip students with knowledge, skills, and civic understanding, not bureaucracy, inefficiency, and indoctrination.

Empowering Parents, Supporting Teachers, Preparing Students

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Increase parental transparency, limit federal overreach, expand career and civic education, and audit federal education programs.

  • Expand parental involvement and curriculum transparency; limit federal overreach in local schools; promote STEM, trades, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy; strengthen civics and constitutional education; audit federal education programs for effectiveness and waste.
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Promote STEM, trades, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy

The Constitution Is Not an Opinion, It’s the Supreme Law

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Constitutional rights should be protected consistently, including speech, religion, privacy, due process, equal justice, and the Second Amendment.

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Due process and equal justice under the law

The Constitution Is Not an Opinion, It’s the Supreme Law

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Defend constitutional liberties against government infringement.

  • Protect free speech and open debate; freedom of religion and conscience; privacy from government surveillance; due process and equal justice
  • Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.
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The Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens

Protecting the Next Generation from Today’s Irresponsibility

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Describes federal spending practices as unsustainable and a threat to future generations.

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Washington’s spending habits are unsustainable and dangerous.

Protecting the Next Generation from Today’s Irresponsibility

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Pursue balanced-budget efforts, agency audits, fewer unfunded mandates, lower debt burdens, and sustainable Social Security and Medicare reform.

  • Balanced-budget efforts; end unfunded mandates; audit major federal agencies; reduce the interest burden and national debt; uphold Social Security and Medicare obligations while developing sustainable reforms.
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Uphold Social Security and Medicare obligations, while developing sustainable reforms for both.

A Strong America Is a Safe America

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The United States should deter threats and protect its interests without relying on endless wars.

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We must deter threats abroad, defend our borders, and protect our interests without endless wars.

A Strong America Is a Safe America

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Maintain military strength, protect infrastructure, preserve useful alliances, secure the border, reform immigration, and reduce dependence on hostile regimes.

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Reducing dependence on hostile foreign regimes for energy and goods

Healthier Americans. Better Science. More Choice.

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Healthcare policy should emphasize outcomes, prevention, transparent science, informed patient choice, and personal medical freedom.

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Protect medical freedom and the ability of individuals to make informed healthcare decisions

Healthier Americans. Better Science. More Choice.

Candidate position
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Expand prevention, patient information, provider competition, price transparency, lower drug costs, telehealth, and rural healthcare access.

  • Prioritize preventative care, nutrition, exercise, and measurable outcomes; support reproducible research; give patients usable health information and records; protect medical choice; expand provider competition; increase price transparency; lower prescription costs; expand telehealth, direct primary care, and community-based models; strengthen rural and underserved access.
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Expand telehealth, community-based care, direct primary care, and other innovative models

Innovation with Freedom. Technology with Responsibility.

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Argues that AI and emerging technologies offer major economic and social benefits but also create risks to privacy, liberty, security, and human autonomy.

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Technology and artificial intelligence are transforming nearly every part of American life. They have enormous potential to improve healthcare, education, productivity, scientific discovery, and economic opportunity—but they also create new risks to privacy, individual liberty, security, and human autonomy.

Innovation with Freedom. Technology with Responsibility.

Candidate position
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Create limited rules for AI and emerging technology that protect rights and accountability while preserving innovation.

  • Strengthen personal-data safeguards; limit unnecessary government/corporate surveillance; create a legal framework for AI harms and accountability; require transparency in consequential AI decisions; protect lawful speech; support U.S. leadership in advanced technology; strengthen cybersecurity; protect children online; expand individual control over personal data; prevent mass-surveillance systems; prefer clear rules over regulation that entrenches incumbents.
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Protect citizens' privacy by strengthening safeguards for personal data and limiting unnecessary government and corporate surveillance

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Campaign finance

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FEC candidate totals August 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026.

Total receipts
$8,079.52
Total disbursements
$4,341.26
Cash on hand
$3,738.26
Committee debt
$600.00
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Candidate ID: H6IL03163

Name: OAKLEY, ANGEL

Office: House

State: IL

District: IL03

Coverage start: 2025-08-01

Coverage end: 2026-06-30

Total receipts: $8079.52

Total disbursements: $4341.26

Cash on hand: $3738.26

Debts owed by committee: $600.00

Candidate contributions: $0.00

Loans made by candidate: $0.00

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  1. Election record

    2026 Illinois current general-election candidate — Angel Oakley

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  2. Government website identity record

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  3. Candidate-owned primary source

    Angel Oakley — candidate-owned primary source

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  4. Campaign-finance record

    Angel Oakley — official FEC candidate totals

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