Welcome to our 2026 Endorsements Pages. Each Endorsed Candidates are
divided by submenus which you'll find above with each election category.
Click on the top menu and a pulldown menu will appear with each of the
categories. For instance when you click on the "Endorsements menu on the
top of the page a list of categories will appear with ie., U.S. House of
Representatives, which will have a more in depth summary of the candidates
running and their link to their webpages and a image of them. They are also
listed above in a blue button where the word Endorsements is in a red button.
Ballots for the June 2nd California Primary Election have been arriving in our mailboxes. Every time an election rolls around, we hear everyone saying that this one is the most important election of our lifetimes. Well, this next election is certainly one of the most. We have one more opportunity to start to undo the creeping Fascism that Trump and his enablers have brought us. We can’t be sure that November’s general election won’t see ICE agents guarding the polls, a corrupt Justice Department confiscating ballots, or even Trump declaring a state of emergency to try to cancel the election altogether. Which is why we have to be vigilant and engaged. We don’t just have an opportunity to take back the House and Senate this next year, we have the opportunity to support actual progressives who stand with us on all the issues in the primary, so they can go to the general election in November and challenge centrist and far-right candidates who are in the pay of Corporate America.
Don’t just cast a vote. Please check out some of the excellent public servants we have endorsed and consider donating to their campaigns, or volunteering. We don’t just have to take back the House of Representatives from the MAGA Republicans - we have to take back the California statehouses from the corporate centrist Democrats who rule there. We have a chance to elect an actual progressive for Governor. Make a plan to get involved and be part of the transformation that we so desperately need!
HOW WE MAKE OUR ENDORSEMENTS
ADA Southern California is very proud of the work we do in endorsing candidates and ballot measures. As soon as the candidate filing period ends, we send out endorsement questionnaires to the candidates running. We ask questions about our own values as a progressive organization: their stances on single-payer healthcare, reproductive choice, affirmative action, etc. We also ask the candidates pointed questions about the responsibilities of the office they're seeking. Often a completed questionnaire is sufficient for us to make an endorsement. But when there's a crowded field of candidates, we will hold candidate forums to give our membership a chance to hear from those running.
We don't typically endorse a candidate unless we receive back an endorsement questionnaire. If a candidate neglects to respond to our request, it sometimes indicates that they're not seeking the support of progressives in the race they're in.
We seek candidates who are both credible as progressives, and viable as candidates. There are times when the candidate who is very likely to win is someone we'd never endorse, and then, we consider an outsider who may not be viable, but truly embraces ADA's values.
We have helped a lot of our elected officials to get elected. And once in office, these are people that we have a relationship with, people whom we can lobby on issues about peace and justice. That's why our endorsements are so important. And that's why it's so important that ADA members and supporters get out to vote in every election!
You can download a pdf file having all the endorsements to print out. Click here to download.
Some of the pages will have explanations of preferable candidates.