Valentina Gomez Noriega is an American politician (Republican Party) and real estate investor. She is running for election to the U.S. House of Representatives to represent Texas’s 31st congressional district in the 2026 election cycle.
In August 2024, Gomez lost her bid for Secretary of State of Missouri, coming in sixth in the state’s GOP primary with 7.4% of the vote. Missouri state Sen. Denny Hoskins won with 24.4% and faced Missouri state Rep. Barbara Phifer, a Democrat, and Carl Herman Freese, a Libertarian, in November.
Valentina Gomez, a Latina immigrant, first made national headlines in February 2024 when she set LGBTQ-inclusive books on fire with a homemade flamethrower, pledging to ban such books if she were elected Missouri’s secretary of state.
Gomez posted videos to Instagram and X, formerly Twitter, showing her using a flamethrower to burn at least two LGBTQ-related books outside. In the video, she said: “This is what I will do to the grooming books when I become secretary of state.” She added: “These books come from a Missouri public library; when I’m in office they will burn.”
The torched books are “Queer: The Ultimate LGBTQ Guide for Teens” by Kathy Belgs and Marke Bieschke, and “Naked: Not Your Average Sex Encyclopedia” by Myriam Daguzan Bernier.
Gomez’s inflammatory campaign has also affected the political career of her brother, Jonathan Gomez, who made multiple donations to his sister’s campaign, according to publicly available information. After the donations became public, Jonathan Gomez was fired as an aide to Mayor Steven Fulop of Jersey City, New Jersey; he was also a member of the mayor’s LGBTQ+ Task Force.
In response to a video message on X from Gomez — where she threatened to sue Fulop for firing her brother and said the mayor sounds “like a dictator” — Fulop wrote, “your brother WAS an ‘at-will’ employee for the city — as of tomorrow he no longer works there bc he doesn’t reflect the values of the city.”
Prior to the social media spat between his sister and Fulop, Jonathan Gomez shared a message on X saying that he loves his sister but does not agree with everything she says and added that he does “not support any hateful remarks directed toward the LGBTQ+ community or any individual.”
Missouri Republican Valentina Gomez was born on May 8, 1999.
She is a Republican.
Valentina Gomez is of Hispanic descent.
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