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Sen. Alejandro Padilla

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Map PinForest Knolls, CA

How to win back young voters

Democratic leadership seems still to be imagining that the way to win elections is to back moderate candidates. That policy ignores young people who are the voting block of the future. My grandson and his friends are being turned off by “politics as usual”. Candidates like Randy Villeges inspire t

Map PinPasadena, CA

Oppose the 23% NASA Budget Cut — Protect American Space Science Leadership

Block the White House's proposed 23% cut to NASA's budget and fight to restore and increase NASA science funding. Reducing fiscal year 2027 spending to $18.8 billion — a number Congress already rejected last year — would gut missions like the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, OSIRIS-APEX, and Mars Odyssey,

Map PinLos Altos, CA

Protect the Presidio. My favorite park in SF is the Presidio. The well maintained and accessible trails are wheelchair friendly which made it possible to bring my family when dad recovered from surgery. The food trucks and cafe means I don’t have to pack food everytime. There’s easy parking. A beaut

Verified VoterSan Francisco, CA

First, I want the Senator to support the PREDICT Act, a bipartisan bill that will ban members of Congress, the president, vice president, and senior executive branch officials from trading on prediction markets tied to political events and policy decisions. We deserve a government that works for us,

Map PinSan Francisco, CA

I’m writing to urge you to use every tool at your disposal to fight any budget reconciliation bill that shovels more taxpayer dollars to ICE and Border Patrol. Republicans already voted to give them the budget of a small army last year, and now they're trying to use the reconciliation process to giv

Map PinSan Francisco, CA

I strongly oppose Republicans’ so-called “Ballroom Bill,” which gives more money to ICE, CBP, and Trump’s hated ballroom while adding 71B to the deficit. I will work to vote out every lawmaker who supports it. Americans are dying for lack of healthcare, we can’t afford groceries, we can’t pay our ut

Map PinSan Francisco, CA

I want the Senator to support the PREDICT Act, a bipartisan bill (https://substack.com/redirect/b6e2ace5-5836-4650-b568-600e12d03599?j=eyJ1IjoiYXlnanAifQ.T6UfmtUSHaSzROql4dk0P8hiSMgmNaM7190u4j1jmJo) that will ban members of Congress, the president, vice president, and senior executive branch officia

Verified VoterSan Pedro, CA

I am very concerned about climate change and the impact it will have on our children’s future. It has been deeply alarming to see the Trump administration offer payouts to energy companies that agree to stop their offshore wind projects and invest in fossil fuel development. These deals are not o

Verified VoterThousand Oaks, CA

I would like you to support the PREDICT Act. I would like you to oppose the so-called Ballroom Bill. No insider trading! No money for ICE, CBP!

Map PinEl Dorado Hills, CA

Investigate and Stop the Trump Administration's Public Land Grazing Giveaway

Investigate the Trump administration's emergency grazing expansion and put a stop to it. The Bureau of Land Management fast-tracked a plan to open 24 million acres of federal land to cattle grazing — bypassing required consultation with the US Fish and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species A

Map PinLos Angeles, CA

I’m a voter who is very worried about climate change and the impacts it will have on ALL of our children’s future.   It has been deeply alarming to see the Trump administration offer payouts to energy companies that agree to stop their offshore wind projects and invest in fossil fuel development. T

Verified VoterAlbany, CA

Accountability is Essential

The United States taxpayers have a right to know if Kash Patel used any of our funds to pay for his ridiculous personalized bourbon bottles. He should be investigated and if any tax payer money was used to pay for these bottles, he should be forced to pay it back. We need accountability to be a pr

Verified VoterLos Gatos, CA

Please for the love of God get RFK out of the way of the actual medical professionals at the CDC and HHS. We do not need another pandemic or weak policies regarding public health. Covid was a disaster. Hantavirus has a much higher fatality percentage. This is not a game. If we act like it is, we a

Map PinNorth Hollywood, CA

Please do all possible to block election deniers from judicial appointments

Please do everything in your power to delay appointments of 2020 election denialists and prevail upon the likes of Chuck Grassley and Thom Tillis to ultimately block their confirmations. The lower Judiciary has been the best and last institutional line of defense against the Trump Republican authori

Map PinSonora, CA

The U.S. Forest Service isn’t managing forests anymore. It’s running a timber operation and poisoning everything else to do it. A yearlong investigation by Mother Jones found that the Forest Service and private logging companies are systematically spraying thousands of acres of national forest with

Verified VoterSan Diego, CA

Support universal childcare and paid parental leave for all Americans.

Map PinLos Angeles, CA

This is probably obvious to anyone outside of this ridiculous administration that we’re cursed with but don’t allow them to strip citizenship of any kind from anyone just because they’re petty, racist xenophobes. they’re ruining everyone’s lives already, so please don’t let it get worse.

Verified VoterSaratoga, CA

Reform the Supreme Court - Start Now.

The Supreme Court needs structural reform, and I want you to act on it. That, in my view will likely need to include more justices to the Court, limiting the terms of their appointments, and removing by forced resignation, or impeachment the worst offenders of our Constitution. Chief Justice Rober

Map PinEl Dorado Hills, CA

Investigate Burgum's Role in Continental Resources Permit Scheme

Congress needs to investigate Doug Burgum and the Interior Department for what looks like a deliberate scheme to hand a politically connected oil company permits that a federal court had blocked. Continental Resources — whose founder Harold Hamm donated $250,000 to Burgum's presidential campaign and

Verified VoterPebble Beach, CA

Now that the latest SCOTUS decision has ushered in the new Jim Crow era, it is time to call out the GOP for what it is becoming (has become?) under Donald Trump: an anti-democracy, racist, corrupt domestic terrorist organization. Most of my family has been on this continent for close to 400 years. A

Verified VoterAlameda, CA

I am writing today to urge you to support S.J.Res. 182 to repeal Trump’s changes to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. Trump's weaponization of the PSLF jeopardizes not only the careers and finances of over 2 million public servants, but also the public and nonprofit services our communiti

Map PinNorth Hollywood, CA

Please urge California Democrats to gerrymander Republicans out of the state

Please call on California officials to aggressively redistrict again, this time eliminating all Republican seats in the state. The Supreme Court and ex-Confederate Republicans have brought back Jim Crow and are already shamelessly rushing to re-implement it across the South. The Democratic/democrati

Map PinSonora, CA

The Trump administration has quietly reopened the door to cyanide bombs on your public lands. An internal April 2026 memo shows the Bureau of Land Management has effectively rolled back a ban on M-44 ejector devices spring-loaded traps that kill predators like coyotes, foxes, and feral dogs by shoo

Map PinEl Dorado Hills, CA

Support H.R. 4180 to Ban Cyanide Bombs on Public Lands

Support H.R. 4180 and ban M-44 cyanide devices from our public lands. The Trump administration just reversed a Biden-era prohibition on these spring-loaded poison traps on Bureau of Land Management lands, and the new memo allows resumed deployment through 2031. A cyanide bomb doesn't know the differ

Verified VoterEl Segundo, CA

Here’s a stronger version that keeps the tone respectful while making your concern clear: Dear [Representative/Senator Name], I am writing as a concerned constituent to urge you to stand up for voting rights, fair representation, and public confidence in our democratic process following the recent

Map PinRichmond, CA

Tax Big Oil’s obscene profits from Iraq War

Tump’s war on Iraq has caused oil companies to profit $30M an hour while we American consumers & tax payers pay. There is no way they should be “rewarded” at our expense. Congress should hit them with an excise tax, which could be used to pay the extra costs of heat during winter or increased commu

Verified VoterSan Francisco, CA

First, I am furious about the racist gerrymanders being enacted by Republicans in Tennessee, Alabama, and elsewhere. We need legislation to make all redistricting non-partisan, and we need to pass the Freedom to Vote Act at the earliest opportunity. I am sick and tired of watching voters of color be

Verified VoterSaratoga, CA

Oppose DOJ Proposal to Allow USPS Mailing of Handguns

I'm writing, and alarmed by the mere suggestion that the Trump Department of Justice is trying to overturn the nearly 100-year-old federal restriction on mailing concealable firearms. This is a dangerous proposal, however you look at it: Dangerous for public safety Dangerous for families Dangerous

Verified VoterLos Angeles, CA

Please vote for SJ Res 182 the Congressional Review Act

Please vote for SJ Res 182 the Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to overturn the Department of Education’s recent Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) rule. PSLF was a promise made to people who chose public service with the understanding that their loans would be cancelled after 120 paym

Map PinLong Beach, CA

Support for Comprehensive Supreme Court Reform

As your constituent in Long Beach, I am writing to urge you to support and co-sponsor legislation that implements comprehensive reforms to the U.S. Supreme Court. Recent analysis, including the Brennan Center’s April 2026 report, "Six Solutions for Fixing SCOTUS," outlines critical steps necessary t

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