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Alex Padilla

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Alex Padilla is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from California since January 2021. He is a member of the Democratic Party and was appointed to fill the vacancy left by Kamala Harris when she became Vice President. Padilla is the first Latino senator from California and has focused on issues such as immigration reform, climate change, and healthcare access during his tenure. He previously served as the Secretary of State of California from 2015 to 2021, where he worked on expanding voting access and modernizing the state's election system.

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Aug 8, 2026

Todd Blanche claims he was Donald Trump's personal attorney but is continuing to act as if he's still Donald Trump's personal attorney.

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Aug 7, 2026

At a time when Trump’s unauthorized war with Iran is driving up the costs of oil and gas, Californians and consumers across the country are in need of relief.

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Aug 7, 2026

The Pit River Land Transfer Act would ensure the Pit River Tribe rightly acquires their sacred ancestral lands to maintain their traditions and history.

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Aug 7, 2026

For generations, senseless conflict and bureaucratic barriers have kept California Tribes from managing their ancestral lands.

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Aug 7, 2026

These bills would correct our nation’s labor laws to bring economic justice for farm workers and equip the USDA with more tools to integrate worker perspective, priorities, and staffing to better represent its farm and food system workers.

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Aug 7, 2026

As the Trump Administration continues to target farm and food system workers, I will keep fighting to make sure our essential workers are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve for their back-breaking, critical work.

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Aug 7, 2026

Farm and food system workers are essential to feeding our country and bolstering California and the nation’s economy, but for far too long, they have been unjustly excluded from protections extended to other workers, have inadequate…

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Aug 7, 2026

All branches of our Armed Forces deserve our enduring support and gratitude for their honorable service to our country, including access to high-quality services that improve their efficiency — anything short of that is unacceptable.

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Aug 6, 2026

We must re-emphasize that current use of the SAVE program for list maintenance is illegal, and efforts to coerce states to conduct mass voter purges during the ‘quiet period’ are also illegal under the NVRA, despite DOJ arguments to the…

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Aug 6, 2026

The DOJ should also drop its litigation to obtain state voter rolls and its continued threats to prosecute election officials.

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Aug 6, 2026

We are writing to remind you that any efforts directing states to conduct mass voter purges, including by using the deeply flawed Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program to purge voter rolls, would violate the 90-day…

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Aug 6, 2026

It’s a choice, folks, that we’re making. What kind of a country are we working towards? It’s a choice that this Administration and congressional Republicans have made of what we’re seeing on the streets. America deserves better.

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Aug 6, 2026

We should never accept an America where federal agents hide their faces, abuse their authority, or take life without oversight and accountability.

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Aug 6, 2026

They’re failing the humanity test. They’re being ordered by federal courts to do the job right. They’re doubling down and growing their operation.

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Aug 6, 2026

ICE arrested 51,000 people in the month of July, the largest in a single month in DHS history. And again, the vast majority are not dangerous, violent criminals.

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Aug 6, 2026

First of all, Joan Sebastián Guerrero’s daughter should still have her father. Second, and this is publicly reported, the man who took his life should never have been given a badge and a gun.

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Aug 5, 2026

The Department’s election monitors program must not be used to undermine that fact.

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Aug 5, 2026

As demonstrated under both Democratic and Republican administrations, U.S. elections are safe, secure, and fair.

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Aug 5, 2026

This is out in the open – Donald Trump is the most corrupt President in American history.

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Aug 5, 2026

This is not equal justice under the law. This is not the Department of Justice the way it’s supposed to be. This is not an Attorney General that the American people deserve. Our country deserves better. Todd Blanche is not fit, and I urge…

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Aug 5, 2026

The Attorney General isn’t supposed to be the President’s lawyer. The Attorney General is supposed to be the country’s lawyer.

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Aug 5, 2026

Selling access to his market-moving social media posts is just one example of the brazen corruption we’ve seen coming out of the Oval Office—and I am fighting back to put a stop to it,

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Aug 5, 2026

This is out in the open—Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in American history. Despite already being the richest president in history, President Trump’s number one priority in office is to make himself richer while everyday…

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Aug 5, 2026

Americans deserve a government that works for them, not one that’s for sale to hedge funds and Wall Street banks.

commondreams.org
Aug 3, 2026

[The] disclosure to ICE imperils effective tax administration, the reliance of millions of taxpayers, and Congress’s clear prerogative to decide when and how sensitive tax information may be used for non-tax purposes.

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