2024 GENERAL ELECTION

Every election, we hear someone say, “This is the most important election of our lifetimes.” Every election is important. We have a modicum of power that we can exert every couple of years. And even if we’re fed up with whomever is at the top of the ballot, there’s always a candidate or a ballot measure that, the passage of which, or the failure to pass, will have a huge effect on our lives.

But this particular election is a very important one. 

We are living in an Oligarchy, but are a hair’s breadth away from ushering in a full theocratic dictatorship. Kamala Harris is good on a number of issues, disappointing in her paying lip service to the United States’ support of the horror that Netanyahu’s government is perpetrating in Gaza, the West Bank and now in Lebanon, but for whatever her flaws are, electing her will allow progressives and leftists a lot more room to organize and fight for those issues we care about: Building a more equitable, just and sustainable world. 

A right-wing dictatorship won’t provide us any room to stand up for these things. If we want to take back the courts that Leonard Leo guided Donald Trump in packing with Dominionist corporatists, we need to defeat Trump. We also need to take back the House of Representatives and keep control of the US Senate. To achieve this, we will have to hold our nose while casting our votes for some of the Democrats running. 

And if you want to prioritize those races that would usher in the kinds of candidates who will work with ADA to achieve our progressive goals, we have designated those candidates as “Progressive Champions.” We link to their websites. There’s only so much time between now and election day, but if you have some time, these are the races that we recommend you volunteer for and donate to.

ADA SoCal offers you our endorsements for General Election. You can see whom we're endorsing. You can click on each name and find out more about them and their campaign. You can also learn why we made many of the endorsements we made and you can learn more about our Endorsement process.

And you can download a printable pdf that you can use to fill out your ballot. Click here to download pdf

Don’t sit this one out, because this is certainly one of the most important elections of our lifetimes!  

• Culver City School BoardDF:
Lindsey Carlson
Sameen Ahmadnia 

• Lomita City Council:
Wade Kyle 

• Pomona City Council:
John Nolte

• Santa Monica City Council:
Dan Hall 
Ericka Lesley
Ellis Raskin
Barry Snell
Natalya Zernitskaya

• West Hollywood City Council: 
Zekiah Wright

CA Ballot Measures:

2: Bonds for Public Schools and Community College Facilities – YES

3: Constitutional Right To Marriage – YES

4: Bonds for Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention - NO

5: Allows Public Infrastructure Bonds with 55% Approval – YES

6: Eliminates Constitutional Provision Allowing Involuntary Servitude – YES

32: Raises Minimum Wage – YES

33: Expands Authority to Enact Rent Control – YES

34: Restricts Michael Weinstein from Putting Rent Control on Ballot – NO

35: Provides Permanent Funding for Medi-Cal Health Care Services - NO

36: Allows Felony Charges and Increases Sentences - NO

Los Angeles County Ballot Measures:

Measure G: Ethics Commission Amendment – YES

Los Angeles City Ballot Measures:

Charter Amendment DD – Redistricting Amendment – YES

Charter Amendment ER – Ethics Commission Authority – YES

Charter Amendment LL -  Redistricting for LA Unified School District – YES