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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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Jun 17, 2026

Make your plan to vote early. Get your friends, get your neighbors, get your family members, get your coworkers to vote in advance.

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Jun 17, 2026

We can’t leave anything to chance. We have to be ready.

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Jun 17, 2026

As scientific developments accelerate AI capabilities, we must prioritize establishing a centralized and secure biological data infrastructure to ensure safe access to data that will drive innovation.

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Jun 17, 2026

The Land of the Free Act would put an end to this abuse of power and ensure everyone in this country can exercise their right to free speech without fear of deportation.

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Jun 17, 2026

We’re talking about redistricting fights, we’ve been talking about voter purges, now trying to access voter rolls, everybody’s personal information now, [and now] elimination of vote by mail — which Donald Trump votes by mail, but he…

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Jun 17, 2026

Colleagues, 14 years after the creation of DACA, it is past time that we finally do what is right by the hundreds of 1000s of DACA recipients and Dreamers who have already proven their commitment to this country.

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Jun 17, 2026

There’s things that Donald Trump does not like. Number one, dissent. He doesn’t like people disagreeing with him and his agenda. Number two, he doesn’t like accountability.

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Jun 17, 2026

To be clear, DACA was never intended to be a permanent solution. It was meant to be a temporary stop gap until Congress took action by passing the Dream Act, or ideally modernizing our immigration system as a whole.

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Jun 17, 2026

If we codify this, I feel that parks could become de facto immigration checkpoints, where hardworking parks staff would be required to check passports or birth certificates, and that’s not their job.

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Jun 17, 2026

But no matter how many times he repeats that lie or tries to insert the Executive Branch into election administration, he will always be met with the same result: States administer elections, not the President.

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Jun 17, 2026

My advice to state and local colleagues is think of the craziest scenario you can imagine, and then think even crazier, because we’ve got to be prepared for anything. We will be prepared for anything.

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Jun 17, 2026

Now, election officials are talking about, okay, what if armed federal agents show up at the polls under some pretext and intimidate voters? Now, what do we do?

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