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 November 3rd General 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 we 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, so they can go to Washington and challenge Corporate America. 

There are some very important races in Southern California. Randy Villegas is a stellar progressive working to change Kings, Kern and Tulare Counties blue. Angela Gonzales-Torres, another bold progressive, is seeking to replace an incumbent whose top donor is AIPAC and who is under investigation  for sexual assault. Jane Kim, who was one of Bernie’s California campaign chairs, is seeking to bring a vision of how the Insurance Commissioner can truly help Californians to state government. And in the LA City Council, Beri Worth Girvan and Estuardo Mazariegos have a chance to help expand the progressive bloc in the city council. 

There are some very important ballot measures this year. Prop. 40 would impose a 5% tax on the wealth of Billionaires. Passage of Prop. 40 will show the nation that the Billionaires aren’t invincible. If this succeeds, other efforts to tax them will too. The Billionaires are not happy at the prospect of paying taxes that could instead go to building Data Centers, or speculating in Cryptocurrency, so they put on the ballot Props. 41 and 42, which if they get more votes than Prop. 40 will make it impossible for California to ever tax the Billionaires’ wealth. 

Don’t be deceived by the manipulative ads you see. Don’t just check the claims being made, but then, check to see who’s funding the ads. For example, if a candidate is opposed by the Police Protective League, you can bet that they’re more likely to hold cops accountable when someone innocent gets killed by them. If a candidate is opposed by some anodyne, generic-sounding organization like: Californians for a Happier Tomorrow, you can bet that the actual funders of the ad aren’t people you’d want to stand with! 

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. 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.

 

US CONGRESS

District 22 - Randy Villegas

District 28 - Judy Chu

District 29 - Angelica Maria Dueñas

District 30 - Laura Friedman

District 34 - Angela Gonzales Torres

District 37 - Sydney Kamlager-Dove 

District 38 - Hilda Solis

District 41 - Linda Sanchez

District 42 - Robert Garcia

District 43 - Maxine Waters

District 44 - Nanette Diaz Barragan

District 45 - Derek Tran 

District 47 - Dave Min

District 48 - Marnie Von Wilpert For Congress

 

GOVERNOR:

Xavier Becerra

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR:

Fiona Ma

 

 

 

Seat 2 - Steve Veres
Seat 4 - Nancy Pearlman
Seat 6 - Gabriel Buelna