John,

Our second endorsement is finally here! After months of preparation, Angela is the newest progressive challenger we are excited to share with you — and just the beginning of many more candidates we are ready to support this cycle.

None of this would’ve been possible without the incredible local community organizing and candidate recruitment that everyday people just like you made possible with small, grassroots donations. Together over the years, we’ve built a national movement.

But taking on Rep. Jimmy Gomez isn’t going to be easy. While he’s accepted millions from Corporate PACs, AIPAC, and Crypto lobbies, Angela is relying on the everyday people of California’s 34th District and across the country who are ready to put in 110% to elect a real progressive champion.

That’s why we’re raising as much as we can for Angela from purely small-dollar, grassroots donors. Will you help us get there with a $5 donation right now?

Angela is a born-and-raised Angeleno who understands her community’s most pressing issues because she’s lived them.

• Growing up in East LA as the daughter of a deportee and a single mother, she experienced the terrifying reality of family separation firsthand, after her father was deported when Angela was just 15.
• Her mother was left to raise Angela and her 3 sisters alone overnight — a nightmare more and more families across Los Angeles, Chicago, DC, and beyond are experiencing as Trump and his ICE goons take over and terrify communities nationwide.
• Since 2017, the working-class community Angela grew up in and still lives in today has been represented by Rep. Jimmy Gomez — a politician who’d like you to think he’s a progressive, but who, in reality, has left his community behind. Since coming into office: he has taken millions from AIPAC, voted to pass Trump’s corrupt crypto agenda, and sold out to corporate industries like private equity and real estate. Gomez’s campaign relies on the same lobbies that fuel Trump’s rise, destabilize our economy, and displace our neighbors — while families in Los Angeles are struggling to even survive.

This race is about a young, working-class Angeleno running to represent the working-class community she was born and raised in, versus a corporate politician who has turned his back on that very community for some PAC checks. Make a donation right now that will go 100% to Angela’s grassroots campaign.

But while Gomez went to Washington DC and closed the door on his constituents, Angela’s lifelong community is at the center of her campaign and vision for the district. From seeing her neighbors, teachers, and classmates come together to support her family after her father’s deportation, to watching her mom work two and three jobs to make ends meet, to serving as the President of her local elected Neighborhood Council, Angela’s experiences are the foundation of her values, advocacy, and unwavering commitment to fight for working families like her own.

Angela can take Jimmy on and win, but it’s going to take a groundswell of grassroots support from this progressive movement. This race isn’t just about Los Angeles — it’s about whether our Congress will be powered by working-class fighters like Angela, or bought off by corporate PACs and Trump’s billionaire backers like Jimmy Gomez was.

Let’s kick our second 2026 endorsement off strong! Rush $5 or more to help send Angela to Congress and give Angelenos the representation they deserve.

In solidarity,

Team JD