To contact Senator Schiff and Padilla and demand they support the release of those aboard the flotilla, you can reach their offices at:

Senator Alex Padilla: (202) 224 2553 or (310) 231 4494
Senator Adam Schiff: (202) 224 3841 or (415) 393 0707

Join DSA today and get involved with CA DSA or in your local chapter’s work. In the lead-up to midterm elections in 2026, a potential general strike and a presidential election in 2028, this moment is ours to seize. In fact, our futures depend on it.

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With this endorsement, California DSA commits to:
1. Recommending support for Prop 50 on Nov 4th
2. Creating materials to discuss redistricting with members and their communities.
3. Hosting a webinar in partnership with labor unions that offers a socialist analysis of our broken political system

Changes in district composition could also allow for DSA to contest these seats in the future by running socialist candidates for Congress.

This redistricting effort is a significant shake up in the failed political strategy of the Democratic Party that could provide an opening for clear-eyed democratic socialist analysis that charts a better path.

In posing a threat to Republicans’ grip on federal power, Prop 50 could have a real impact on the lives of immigrants, trans people, and the working class as a whole. We cannot cede this part of the fight against fascism and leave the center to lead it alone.

Under Trump, unions are under attack, public servants discarded, and our public institutions sold to the highest bidder. Our cities are taken over by our own military and our planet continues to burn, both from American bombs and the escalating impact of climate change.

We have already seen what eight months of Trump’s fascist project yields. Our families and communities are being assaulted, kidnapped, and deported daily.

As socialists, we must take seriously our battle to win the world the working class deserves. When a fascist Republican party maintains control of Congress, the judiciary, and the presidency, that battle becomes much more treacherous, and the world we are all fighting for gets much farther away.

Labor unions are intervening to support Prop 50 to fight back against this fascist expansion, and we have an opportunity to join in coordination with them and begin proactively building a left-labor pole in our state politics.

This world, one where Republicans have gerrymandered their states to ensure GOP dominance of Congress, is the world we are in.

In an ideal world, our elections would continue fairly, free from interference or moneyed interests, and proportional representation would ensure our districts cannot be drawn to benefit one political party or another at the expense of workers. We do not live in that world yet.

Prop 50 implements new congressional maps to eliminate five seats currently held by Republicans. This will not overturn or abolish California’s Citizens Redistricting Commission and the maps instituted by Prop 50 will be overridden after the 2030 Census by new, Commission-drawn, maps.

This act was passed by the CA state legislature in response to Texas Republicans’ efforts to further gerrymander their district lines, adding five more congressional seats for their fascist project.