Jake Rakov
@jakerakov.bsky.social
Our campaign is gaining momentum because voters are ready for change.
We need leaders who will fight for raising the minimum wage, investing in affordable housing, and stand up to MAGA Republicans.
We’re building a people-powered movement and it’s just getting started.
👉 jakeforcongress.com/donate
We need leaders who will fight for raising the minimum wage, investing in affordable housing, and stand up to MAGA Republicans.
We’re building a people-powered movement and it’s just getting started.
👉 jakeforcongress.com/donate
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July 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Our campaign is gaining momentum because voters are ready for change.
We need leaders who will fight for raising the minimum wage, investing in affordable housing, and stand up to MAGA Republicans.
We’re building a people-powered movement and it’s just getting started.
👉 jakeforcongress.com/donate
We need leaders who will fight for raising the minimum wage, investing in affordable housing, and stand up to MAGA Republicans.
We’re building a people-powered movement and it’s just getting started.
👉 jakeforcongress.com/donate
My opponent has taken $5.6 million in corporate PAC money.
I’ve pledged to take $0.
We’re building a campaign powered by people — not corporations.
#NoCorporateMoney #CA32 #JakeForCongress
I’ve pledged to take $0.
We’re building a campaign powered by people — not corporations.
#NoCorporateMoney #CA32 #JakeForCongress
July 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
My opponent has taken $5.6 million in corporate PAC money.
I’ve pledged to take $0.
We’re building a campaign powered by people — not corporations.
#NoCorporateMoney #CA32 #JakeForCongress
I’ve pledged to take $0.
We’re building a campaign powered by people — not corporations.
#NoCorporateMoney #CA32 #JakeForCongress
Our team is growing! We're looking for some amazing people who are ready for change in the Democratic party and ready to challenge the status quo. Apply at jakeforcongress.com/jobs
July 8, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Our team is growing! We're looking for some amazing people who are ready for change in the Democratic party and ready to challenge the status quo. Apply at jakeforcongress.com/jobs
Check out latest interview on my campaign for Congress against my former boss.
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June 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Check out latest interview on my campaign for Congress against my former boss.
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Your voice should be the loudest in Washington, not corporate lobbyists. By refusing corporate PAC money, I'm guaranteeing my focus will always be on the needs of our community across California's 32nd District. #YourVoiceMatters #NoCorporateMoney
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June 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Your voice should be the loudest in Washington, not corporate lobbyists. By refusing corporate PAC money, I'm guaranteeing my focus will always be on the needs of our community across California's 32nd District. #YourVoiceMatters #NoCorporateMoney
Jakeforcongress.com/donate
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Ready for new energy in Washington? I am!
That's why I'm running for Congress against my old boss.
$20 empowers us to bring a people powered movement to CA-32.
Together we can make Congress accessible and life affordable.
Can you donate today?
Jakeforcongress.com/donate
That's why I'm running for Congress against my old boss.
$20 empowers us to bring a people powered movement to CA-32.
Together we can make Congress accessible and life affordable.
Can you donate today?
Jakeforcongress.com/donate
June 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Ready for new energy in Washington? I am!
That's why I'm running for Congress against my old boss.
$20 empowers us to bring a people powered movement to CA-32.
Together we can make Congress accessible and life affordable.
Can you donate today?
Jakeforcongress.com/donate
That's why I'm running for Congress against my old boss.
$20 empowers us to bring a people powered movement to CA-32.
Together we can make Congress accessible and life affordable.
Can you donate today?
Jakeforcongress.com/donate
We lost my dad back in 2020 and I always look at this picture on Father's Day. I was incredibly lucky to have him as my dad.
He was the most Compassionate man l've ever known and even now he's still my moral compass.
Happy Father's Day dad wherever you are. Thanks for all the piggyback rides.
He was the most Compassionate man l've ever known and even now he's still my moral compass.
Happy Father's Day dad wherever you are. Thanks for all the piggyback rides.
June 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
We lost my dad back in 2020 and I always look at this picture on Father's Day. I was incredibly lucky to have him as my dad.
He was the most Compassionate man l've ever known and even now he's still my moral compass.
Happy Father's Day dad wherever you are. Thanks for all the piggyback rides.
He was the most Compassionate man l've ever known and even now he's still my moral compass.
Happy Father's Day dad wherever you are. Thanks for all the piggyback rides.
Beautiful day for a protest! Studio City showing up for the #nokings rally! #democrats #protest #losangeles
June 14, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Beautiful day for a protest! Studio City showing up for the #nokings rally! #democrats #protest #losangeles
This is the most despicable bullshit. It doesn't make our community safer. It only instills fear and chaos. These are not the criminals you are looking for.
Good fucking luck to any moron who thinks kneecapping our food supply like this is not going to cause massive problems down the line
Good fucking luck to any moron who thinks kneecapping our food supply like this is not going to cause massive problems down the line
ICE agents chase after farmworkers as they flee fields during latest raid in Ventura County
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) targeted workers on produce farms in Ventura County Tuesday morning in one of the latest raids in Southern California.
abc7.com
June 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is the most despicable bullshit. It doesn't make our community safer. It only instills fear and chaos. These are not the criminals you are looking for.
Good fucking luck to any moron who thinks kneecapping our food supply like this is not going to cause massive problems down the line
Good fucking luck to any moron who thinks kneecapping our food supply like this is not going to cause massive problems down the line
Current scene in downtown LA on Los Angeles outside the federal building. Protests are loud but peaceful, and California national Guard in front of the building. #laprotests #dtla
June 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Current scene in downtown LA on Los Angeles outside the federal building. Protests are loud but peaceful, and California national Guard in front of the building. #laprotests #dtla
This is insane. The protests have dissipated and the people currently gathered are peacefully exercising their 1st Amendment rights. Mobilizing Marines on US soil is a completely unwarranted escalation.
CNN: We have breaking news now from the Pentagon. CNN can now report that roughly 500 Marines are being mobilized in response to the protests in Los Angeles.
June 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is insane. The protests have dissipated and the people currently gathered are peacefully exercising their 1st Amendment rights. Mobilizing Marines on US soil is a completely unwarranted escalation.
This is a fantastic piece. The most popular policies can die through failed implementation.
To paraphrase "if you're going to tax me for high speed rail build the fucking rail."
To paraphrase "if you're going to tax me for high speed rail build the fucking rail."
The Abundance Agenda Has Its Own Theory of Power
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/o...
Opinion | The Abundance Agenda Has Its Own Theory of Power
www.nytimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This is a fantastic piece. The most popular policies can die through failed implementation.
To paraphrase "if you're going to tax me for high speed rail build the fucking rail."
To paraphrase "if you're going to tax me for high speed rail build the fucking rail."
This is a major point of my campaign. The politicians who have been in power for most of my life and the whole lives of Gen Z'ers are not equipped to legislate for where the world is now.
It's not about liberal bona fides. It is about how we fundamentally want the world to operate.
It's not about liberal bona fides. It is about how we fundamentally want the world to operate.
June 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
This is a major point of my campaign. The politicians who have been in power for most of my life and the whole lives of Gen Z'ers are not equipped to legislate for where the world is now.
It's not about liberal bona fides. It is about how we fundamentally want the world to operate.
It's not about liberal bona fides. It is about how we fundamentally want the world to operate.
Only 19% of Americans believe Democrats can get anything done. I don't blame them, when most of our members still legislate like it's 1996.
It's time we cut the crap with bureaucracy and multi-year studies. Make government work not more government work. www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/p...
It's time we cut the crap with bureaucracy and multi-year studies. Make government work not more government work. www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/p...
CNN Poll: A record share of Americans want the government to get more done. Few trust either party to do it | CNN Politics
Neither the Republican nor the Democratic Party has consolidated a majority of the public behind its approach, with more than 4 in 10 saying that neither party can get things done or has strong leader...
www.cnn.com
June 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Only 19% of Americans believe Democrats can get anything done. I don't blame them, when most of our members still legislate like it's 1996.
It's time we cut the crap with bureaucracy and multi-year studies. Make government work not more government work. www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/p...
It's time we cut the crap with bureaucracy and multi-year studies. Make government work not more government work. www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/p...
A fantastic weekend at the California Democratic Convention in Anaheim. Had so many great conversations about the need for new voices in the party. It's going to take all of us to make actual change happen.
Gotta play the game to change the game.
Gotta play the game to change the game.
June 1, 2025 at 5:34 AM
A fantastic weekend at the California Democratic Convention in Anaheim. Had so many great conversations about the need for new voices in the party. It's going to take all of us to make actual change happen.
Gotta play the game to change the game.
Gotta play the game to change the game.
This is what the Abundance movement is talking about: Insane regulations, legal challenges, and endless bureaucracy mean that in Los Angeles, the VA is saying it will cost $3.3billion to build 6,000 units of Veteran's housing. And Rep Brad Sherman seems totally fine with $550,000 per unit!
Vets in LA hope, with Trump order, that they can finally come home
President Trump has ordered a Veterans Affairs campus in West Los Angeles to house 6,000 homeless vets by 2028, but details are elusive.
www.npr.org
May 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is what the Abundance movement is talking about: Insane regulations, legal challenges, and endless bureaucracy mean that in Los Angeles, the VA is saying it will cost $3.3billion to build 6,000 units of Veteran's housing. And Rep Brad Sherman seems totally fine with $550,000 per unit!
The people of California's 32nd district deserve a leader who can plainly say what they stand for. These are my priorities. This is what I will fight for in Congress. And I will always fight for my constituents.
If you’re with me, a small donation makes a huge difference: jakeforcongress.com/donate
If you’re with me, a small donation makes a huge difference: jakeforcongress.com/donate
May 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The people of California's 32nd district deserve a leader who can plainly say what they stand for. These are my priorities. This is what I will fight for in Congress. And I will always fight for my constituents.
If you’re with me, a small donation makes a huge difference: jakeforcongress.com/donate
If you’re with me, a small donation makes a huge difference: jakeforcongress.com/donate
It’s a new level of bad when Republicans are calling out their own party’s BS
CHIP ROY in Budget Committee: “I have to now admonish my colleagues on this side of the aisle. This bill falls profoundly short. It does not do what we say it does with respect to deficits... That's the truth. Deficits will go up in the first half of the 10-year budget window.”
May 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It’s a new level of bad when Republicans are calling out their own party’s BS
We launched a Substack! If you want to follow our campaign and get longer form updates about why I'm running for Congress, what I believe, and what it's like to run a campaign, follow along.
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May 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We launched a Substack! If you want to follow our campaign and get longer form updates about why I'm running for Congress, what I believe, and what it's like to run a campaign, follow along.
open.substack.com/pub/jakerako...
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The dysfunction in congress this week was on fill display. It's why I'm primarying my old boss.
If we want to change Washington we have to change who we send there.
If you're with me, like and share this video and go to
Jakeforcongress.com to donate if you can.
If we want to change Washington we have to change who we send there.
If you're with me, like and share this video and go to
Jakeforcongress.com to donate if you can.
May 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The dysfunction in congress this week was on fill display. It's why I'm primarying my old boss.
If we want to change Washington we have to change who we send there.
If you're with me, like and share this video and go to
Jakeforcongress.com to donate if you can.
If we want to change Washington we have to change who we send there.
If you're with me, like and share this video and go to
Jakeforcongress.com to donate if you can.
Join me tomorrow at 5pm ET/ 2pm PT for an insightful conversation with "The Art of Resistance" Live on Substack about the future direction of the Democratic Party. Don't miss out on this engaging discussion! #DemocraticParty #FutureOfPolitics substack.com/@jakerakov32
May 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Join me tomorrow at 5pm ET/ 2pm PT for an insightful conversation with "The Art of Resistance" Live on Substack about the future direction of the Democratic Party. Don't miss out on this engaging discussion! #DemocraticParty #FutureOfPolitics substack.com/@jakerakov32
This is where Democrats have to be focused right now: making the political arguments about what we will actually do, and it's not about just flipping a switch and restarting programs. It has to be about rebuilding our economy in a way that actually works for working Americans.
NEW: Pres. Trump and GOP lawmakers aren't just cutting spending to pay for tax cuts. They also want to push the cost of some federal programs -- disaster aid, water funding, food stamps, Medicaid and more -- on to states that are facing budget woes of their own
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/u...
Chasing Tax Cuts, Trump and Republicans Want to Make States Pay
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This is where Democrats have to be focused right now: making the political arguments about what we will actually do, and it's not about just flipping a switch and restarting programs. It has to be about rebuilding our economy in a way that actually works for working Americans.
Tired of the same old politics? I'm running for Congress against my former boss, a 15-term incumbent, because it's time for a new generation of leadership committed to fighting for real solutions in Congress. Stand with me. Learn more at jakeforcongress.com #ChangeIsComing
May 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Tired of the same old politics? I'm running for Congress against my former boss, a 15-term incumbent, because it's time for a new generation of leadership committed to fighting for real solutions in Congress. Stand with me. Learn more at jakeforcongress.com #ChangeIsComing
"It is about needing new energy in Congress to actually meet the moment where we are," said 37-year-old Jake Rakov, who is challenging his former boss, 15-term Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman of California. "We just need people who...don't operate like it's 1996."
www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/p...
Young Democrats challenge longtime incumbents as party grapples with generational divide | CNN Politics
There is a growing wave of young Democrats who have launched bids to shake up the party’s ranks by ousting incumbent House members in deep blue seats. They see voter frustrations with Democrats’ ineff...
www.cnn.com
May 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"It is about needing new energy in Congress to actually meet the moment where we are," said 37-year-old Jake Rakov, who is challenging his former boss, 15-term Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman of California. "We just need people who...don't operate like it's 1996."
www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/p...
“Seeing [Sherman] use the exact same talking points that I helped draft for him back in 2017. This is a guy who is such a shining example of the systematic problems with our party" Rakov said.
rollcall.com/2025/04/29/f...
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Battle of the exes: Former Hill staffers take on incumbents - Roll Call
Jake Rakov plans to challenge his onetime boss, and he’s not the only young candidate with Hill experience calling on Democrats to change.
rollcall.com
April 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“Seeing [Sherman] use the exact same talking points that I helped draft for him back in 2017. This is a guy who is such a shining example of the systematic problems with our party" Rakov said.
rollcall.com/2025/04/29/f...
rollcall.com/2025/04/29/f...