Anna Paulina Luna

Anna Paulina Mayerhofer was born on May 6, 1989, to George Mayerhofer and Monica Todd, an elementary school teacher and stay-at-home mother, in Santa Ana, California. Members of her extended family have denied this claim, saying her father was Catholic, and that "they were not aware of him practicing any form of Judaism while Luna was growing up". Her father had Mexican and German ancestry. Her paternal grandmother was born in Hidalgo, Mexico. Her paternal grandfather was born in Germany and was in the Wehrmacht during World War II. Her two maternal great-grandfathers served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II. She attended high school in Los Angeles. By 2020, she (Anna) and her mother (Monica) had chosen the Luna surname as "an homage" to that woman's maiden name. raised by her mother on government assistance with "no family to rely on", and was raised in a "broken home mentality". Luna has said that both she and her mother lacked "a strong extended network of people" who could help care for them, and that she had attended "over six high schools" before graduating. Luna's cousin has said, "The whole family kind of raised her—my dad was a part of her life when she was younger and we all kind of coddled her ... She was always a part of everything, all these family gatherings and activities". Luna's aunt said, "She had everything. What she needed and more ... And not only did [Luna's mother] provide for her, but [Luna's grandfather] did, too." Luna has disputed these accounts, saying that she "barely spent any time with them in her entire life". Luna's mother said that she (Monica) had to rely on welfare for periods of time, especially while she was putting herself through college at the University of California, Irvine, and then at the UCLA School of Law, and that she was the only source of meaningful financial support for the family. Luna's campaign website biography says that throughout her childhood and teenage years, her father "spent time in and out of incarceration", and that she communicated with him "through letters to jail and collect calls". Luna's mother and aunt said that he served several short stints in jail for not paying child support. Luna's mother also said that he spent at least one year in jail for a drug-related charge. Luna's father was sentenced to Orange County jail on at least five different occasions. He was convicted for crimes including carrying a loaded gun in public, violating probation, and driving with a suspended license. He was charged but not convicted for assault and battery and possession of illegal drugs. The drug possession case indicated that Luna's father was in custody around the time of two court appearances. The case information did not specify the length of his confinement; the court proceedings lasted about three months. ==Military service, education, and early career==

Luna served in the U.S. Air Force from 2009 to 2014 as an airfield management specialist, at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri and Hurlburt Field in Florida. Her decorations included the Air Force Achievement Medal. She subsequently joined the Oregon Air National Guard. She later appeared as a swimsuit model in Maxim magazine in 2014. In a November 2018 Fox News segment, she compared Hillary Clinton to herpes, leading the network to cut the segment short and host Rick Leventhal and anchor Arthel Neville to apologize to viewers. In 2020, she appeared at a We Build the Wall event as vice president of Bienvenido, an organization dedicated to conservative Hispanic outreach. ==U.S. House of Representatives==

Rick Scott, then-attorney general Ashley Moody, Hillsborough County sheriff Chad Chronister, then-chief financial officer Jimmy Patronis, and Congresswoman Laurel Lee in the Hillsborough County, Florida Emergency Operations Center, responding to Hurricane Milton Elections 2020 Luna decided to run for Congress in 2018. She entered the Republican primary for Florida's 13th congressional district in September 2019, and Matt Gaetz endorsed her in November 2019. She was also endorsed by Charlie Kirk, Elise Stefanik, Students for Trump, and former mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida, Bill Foster. In July 2020, she and her husband purchased a house in St. Petersburg, near MacDill Air Force Base, where her husband was stationed. 2022 Luna was elected as the U.S. representative for Florida's 13th congressional district in the 2022 election, defeating Democratic nominee Eric Lynn, a former senior advisor for Barack Obama. Before the Republican primary, another Republican candidate privately threatened to have her assassinated by a hit squad. In June 2021, Luna was granted a temporary stalking injunction against her primary opponent, William Braddock, after a friend of Luna's recorded Braddock threatening to make Luna "disappear" and claiming he had "access to a hit squad, too, Ukrainians and Russians". Braddock dropped out of the race after the judge granted the temporary injunction. The judge dismissed the request for a permanent injunction, saying she found one instance of harassment when the law required two. Donald Trump endorsed Luna, and Marjorie Taylor Greene campaigned for her in Florida. She is the first Mexican-American woman elected to Congress from Florida. 2024 Luna was challenged in the general election by Whitney Fox, a moderate Democrat and former communications director for the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority. Though seen as the only Florida house seat being in striking distance for Democrats, Luna won re-election with 55% of the vote, compared to Fox's 45%. Tenure with the U.S. Coast Guard On May 23, 2023, Luna co-sponsored resolutions to impeach Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI director Christopher Wray, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, and U.S. attorney for D.C. Matthew M. Graves. On June 21, 2023, Luna sponsored a resolution censuring Democratic representative Adam Schiff for his past actions as chair of the House Intelligence Committee in leading investigations into then-president Donald Trump. The House agreed to the resolution with a vote of 213–209. On July 10, 2024, Luna brought forward a privileged resolution to have U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland found in inherent contempt of Congress. The resolution would have imposed a fine of $10,000 per day on Garland for defying a congressional subpoena. The measure failed to pass in a 204 to 210 vote. In the 118th Congress she co-sponsored a pair of resolutions meant to expunge the impeachments of Donald Trump. In the 119th United States Congress, she again co-sponsored resolutions to expunge Trump's impeachments. In January 2025, Luna introduced a bill proposing to add Trump's face to Mount Rushmore. and Ilhan Omar during a meeting in the European Parliament, April 2025 In March 2025, Luna worked with Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D), some other Democrats and some Republicans to force a vote on a bill through a discharge petition which would allow new parents to vote by proxy. The petition angered members of the Freedom Caucus, who believe that proxy voting is unconstitutional, and led them to initially vote against a procedural rules vote on Republican supported energy bills. After negotiations with House Republican leadership, the Freedom Caucus would later allow the vote to pass. Freedom Caucus leadership urged Republican leadership to raise the threshold required to force a vote on a bill through a discharge petition. Luna would later resign from the Freedom Caucus. In a letter, she said her decision to resign was due to the loss of "mutual respect that has guided our caucus." On April 1, Republican leadership attempted to pass a rule vote that would prevent Luna's bill from being voted on. Nine Republicans (Luna, Tim Burchett, Mike Lawler, Kevin Kiley, Nick LaLota, Jeff Van Drew, Max Miller, Greg Steube and Ryan Mackenzie) joined all Democrats to block the rule vote. On April 6, Luna and Johnson reached an agreement that would allow absent members to use vote pairing. Their intended vote will still be published in the Congressional Record. In September 2025, Luna criticized the Anti-Defamation League for listing Christian Identity, a white supremacist and antisemitic religious ideology, as extremist. The criticism came after Elon Musk negatively commented on a screenshot of the ADL's page on Christian Identity. Luna claimed the ADL was "intentionally creating a targeted hate campaign against Christians." Following the 2025 Brown University shooting, Luna amplified a theory misidentifying a Palestinian student at Brown University as the perpetrator. A different individual, Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, was subsequently identified as the shooter. In March 2026, Luna hosted a delegation of visiting Russian lawmakers on a tour of the United States Capitol. Luna's hosting was criticized by fellow congressional lawmakers, including her Republican colleagues. Committee assignments For the 118th Congress: • Committee on Natural Resources • Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations • Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries • Committee on Oversight and Accountability • Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation • Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs • Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Caucus memberships • Freedom Caucus (2023–2025) • Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Caucus • El Salvador Caucus, Chair (2024–) ==Political positions==

2020 presidential election In June 2022, Luna repeated false claims that the 2020 United States presidential election was stolen, "I believe that President Trump won that election, and I do believe that voter fraud occurred." The previous month, she attended a red carpet event and screening of 2000 Mules, a film that claims to show evidence of widespread electoral fraud in the 2020 election. She authored the 2023 Christian children's book, The Legend of Naranja, which suggests that Biden stole the 2020 election. Political assassinations In February 2025, Luna was appointed by Speaker Mike Johnson to lead a House Oversight Task Force on declassification of federal secrets, instigated by president Trump's executive order on "Declassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr." During September 2025 the scope of the task force included a hearing on "UAP transparency and whistleblower protection". During her inquiry into the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Luna said she had been handed a report by Alexander Darchiev, Russian Ambassador to the United States, which contained the Russian government's "findings on who assassinated JFK". Luna further said the release of the documents was "of massive historical significance." Conservative columnist Marc Thiessen mocked Luna, sarcastically replying "Zero chance the Russians are laughing at you." She stated during a congressional hearing for the further release of documents related to the JFK assassination that efforts were underway to release a film taken by Dave Wiegman, Jr., of NBC that caught an unidentified person during the assassination dubbed "prayer man", theorized by some to have been Lee Harvey Oswald. She later initiated a lawsuit against the US government for the release of the films taken by Wiegman and James Darnell of WBAP-TV, which also caught the "prayer man". A petition was launched on Openpetition.com and received support from many. Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk in 2025, Luna spoke at Kirk's memorial. Luna said that Kirk had recruited her to work at Turning Point USA, and credited him with launching her political career. Luna wrote a letter calling for a statue of Charlie Kirk to be installed in the United States Capitol. She further shared a meme comparing Kirk to Martin Luther King Jr., Jesus Christ, Abraham Lincoln, and John F. Kennedy, saying these individuals were killed "All because of words". When Kirk was alive, he had condemned King as "awful". King's daughter Bernice King criticized the post, writing, "There are so many things wrong with this. So many. I get tired, y'all." Abortion Luna has expressed strong support for abortion bans, labeling herself a "pro-life extremist". She has said her anti-abortion stance originates from having dissected a chicken egg in college and seeing the chick react to a scalpel blade: "God was using that opportunity to really wake me up." The EATS Act aimed to prevent state and local governments from enforcing regulations on the production of agricultural goods sold across state lines. The letter expressed concern that the legislation would negatively impact American farmers and cede influence over the U.S. agricultural system to entities owned by foreign adversaries, particularly China. It was noted by agricultural industry observers and advocacy organizations for signaling conservative Republican opposition to federal preemption of state-level animal welfare laws such as California's Proposition 12. Congressional stock trading Luna was one of the original 16 cosponsors of the Restore Trust in Congress Act (H.R.5106), introduced on September 3, 2025, by Republican Chip Roy of Texas. The act, a bipartisan effort to ban members of Congress and their spouses and dependents from owning and trading stocks, had 119 cosponsors as of December 2025. Economic issues In an August 2022 interview, Luna said that she would support a ban on U.S. oil exports to increase the domestic oil supply, saying, "The United States has literally one of the biggest supplies of cleanest oil in the entire world. There's no reason why we need to be going to places like Saudi Arabia or even Venezuela to get those oil sources." She said this view belonged to an "America First" platform, adding, "If it means not selling to other countries so that here in the United States, we can literally lower the gas prices, that's what I agree with." Luna was among the 71 Republicans who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the House. In March 2025, Luna and Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez co-sponsored legislation seeking to cap credit card interest rates at 10%. Education Luna's website states that she opposes "radical left-wing gender theory being pushed on our kids". Gun control Luna appeared on the February/March 2020 cover of Ballistic magazine, which called her "DC's Next 2A Warrior". Social media In September 2020, Luna threatened to sue Twitter because the company refused to verify her account, alleging "political prejudice" and calling it "election meddling", and in October 2020, Luna's campaign said it filed a complaint with the FEC over Twitter's refusal to verify Luna's account. The FEC complaint said that Twitter violated the equal time rule by verifying Charlie Crist, but not Luna, and asked the FEC to force Twitter to verify Luna's account. During a combative House Oversight Committee hearing on February 8, 2023, Luna alleged that Twitter, the federal government, "leftist non-profits", and, potentially, the Democratic National Committee had acted jointly to censor Americans in November 2020 through the Jira project management platform, and that it violated the First Amendment. When, early January 2026, Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned that X could be blocked in the United Kingdom because of its ability to generate AI sexualised images of women and children Luna called for sanctions against the country if it went through with a ban. Foreign policy NATO In March 2025 Luna expressed opposition to U.S. membership in NATO. Ukraine Luna is a cosponsor of the Ukraine Fatigue Resolution (H.Res.113), sponsored by Florida representative Matt Gaetz. The bill would suspend all U.S. foreign aid to Ukraine for the war there and demand that all combatants in this conflict reach a peace agreement immediately. In 2023, Luna was among 98 Republicans to vote for a ban on cluster munitions to Ukraine. The same year, Luna voted for a moratorium on aid to Ukraine. In April 2024, Luna again voted against the $60 billion military aid package for Ukraine. In October 2025, amidst the Russo-Ukrainian war, Luna met with Kirill Dmitriev, an envoy of Russian president Vladimir Putin. Regarding the meeting, Luna said that she wished to "foster the relationship and conversations of peace and trade. Our two countries do not need to be enemies. Allies in trade benefit everyone." After Putin said that Donald Trump deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, Luna praised Putin, thanking the Russian government for "backing" the President. On January 9, 2026, Luna claimed that Christians were being persecuted in Ukraine. Luna also proclaimed that the "Vatican has a responsibility to ensure that they are educating the international community on what is happening across the world, specifically with regard to Christian persecution." Romanian presidential candidate George Simion, June 2025 In 2023, Luna was among 47 Republicans to vote in favor of H.Con.Res. 21, which directed President Joe Biden to remove U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days. That same year Luna was among 52 Republicans who voted in favor H.Con.Res. 30, which would remove American troops from Somalia. ==The Age of Disclosure==

Luna is a participant in The Age of Disclosure, a 2025 documentary film about UFOs and claimed government programs involving recovery of alien technology crashed on Earth. ==Personal life==

Luna identifies as a Messianic Jewish Christian. She did this to follow suit from her mother who had first changed her surname to the same, following a finalized divorce. In mid-August 2025, Luna said on The Joe Rogan Experience that she had heard testimony about non-human beings on Earth. She said that "Congress has seen proof of "interdimensional beings." and that "I think that they can actually operate through the time spaces that we currently have". ==Books==