Sunrise Orange County 2026 Midterms
Progressive Voter Guide

Sunrise Orange County acknowledges that some of the candidates we are casting our ballot for are a mixed bundle of great, okay at best, and controversial. BUT we think some of these candidates will get us a little bit closer to a Green New Deal: good union jobs, clean air and water, affordable living, and racial and economic justice for all while others will prevent the situation from getting worse.
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Sunrise Orange County is offering voter guides for the OC cities we actively campaigned in over the last year. If your city is not represented here, we recommend looking at the OC DSA and OC Indivisible voter guides.

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Note: No candidates are endorsed by Sunrise Movement OC unless explicitly stated as an endorsement.

Legend:
- Endorse: These are candidates that we talked with directly and our Chapter agreed to support them and their campaign. We see their campaign as strongly aligned with our goals.
- Recommend: These are candidates and positions that we support based on our research.
- No Recommendation: These are candidates or races that we either do not feel strongly about or cannot come to a firm decision on.
- Controversial, Consider Voting Dem: These are candidates that we agreed as a Chapter are not great, but better than the alternative who we consider to be risky to allow to accumulate any power or it's a "Vote for Democrat over Republican" scenerio.
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Important Dates and Information:
- October 29th - Ballots sent by mail must be postmarked on or before election day and must be received no later than7 days after Election day, Nov 3.
- November 3rd, before 8pm - Due date of your mail-in ballot to be deposited/dropped off at a voter location or official dropbox.
- November 3rd, before 8pm - It is also the day you can vote in-person as a polling station.
- Someone else can drop off your ballot for you as long as they are not being paid on a per ballot basis.
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California propositions

proposition 1 - bonds for housing affordability:
yes, support

proposition 2 - increase rainy day fund:
yes, support

proposition 3 - high-income tax for schools and healthcare funding:
yes, support

proposition 4 - repeal prohibition against public funding:
yes, support

proposition 5 - recall election process reform:
yes, support

proposition 37 - homebuyers loan for new home buyers:
= No Recommendation =

proposition 38 - bonds for immunology medical research:
no, Oppose
*Note: While this proposition looks good, the way it was written makes it so
only a single, billionaire owned research lab could acquire it. That is our issue with it. we don't mind you voting yes if you desire to.

proposition 39 - government voter id:
no, oppose

proposition 40 - one-time billionaire tax: 
yes, support =  PROUDLY ENDORSED BY sUNRISE OC

proposition 41 - prohibits new state taxes that exclude revenue from spending limit:
no, oppose

proposition 42 - prohibits new state property and certain retroactive taxes:
no, oppose

proposition 43 - voter limitation on raising revenues for local government services:
no, oppose

proposition 44 - community health clinics requiring 90% of revenue on program services:
no, oppose

proposition 45 - amend c.e.q.a. to expedite unspecified “essential” projects:
NO, oppose =  We ENDORSE NO on prop 45

California State Races

governor:
=  Consider Voting Dem =

lieutenant Governor:
=  Consider Voting Dem =

secretary of state:
=  Consider Voting Dem =

Controller:
malia M. cohen - recommend

Insurance Commissioner:
Jane Kim - recommend

treasurer:
Eleni Kounalakis - recommend

Insurance Commissioner:
Jane Kim - recommend

Board of Equalization Member District 4:
= no recommendation =

California State Senate Races

California State Senate District 30:
=  Consider Voting Dem =

California State Senate District 32:
=  Consider Voting Dem =

California State Senate District 33:
=  Consider Voting Dem =

California State Senate District 34:
=  Consider Voting Dem =

California State Senate District 36:
Chris Duncan - Recommended

California State Senate District 38:
=  Consider Voting Dem =

California State Assembly

California State Assembly District 59:
Victor Hernandez - recommend

California State Assembly District 64:
=  Consider Voting Dem =

California State Assembly District 67:
=  Consider Voting Dem =

California State Assembly District 68:
Jessie Lopez - PROUDLY ENDORSED BY sUNRISE OC

California State Assembly District 70:
=  Consider Voting Dem =

California State Assembly District 71:
=  Consider Voting Dem =

California State Assembly District 72:
Chris Kluwe - PROUDLY ENDORSED BY sUNRISE OC

California State Assembly District 73:
=  No Recommendation =

California State Assembly District 74:
=  Consider Voting Dem =

Judicial Retention races

All judicial races:
yes on all

U.S. Congressional Representatives (CA)

Representative District 38:
=  Consider Voting Dem =

Representative District 40:
= no vote =

Representative District 41:
=  Consider Voting Dem =

Representative District 42:
RObert Garcia - Recommend

Representative District 45:
=  Consider Voting Dem =

Representative District 46:
=  Consider Voting Dem =

Representative District 47:
=  Consider Voting Dem =

U.S. Representative District 49:
=  Consider Voting Dem =

Orange County Board Supervisor

OC Supervisor, 4th District:
Connor Traut - recommend

OC Supervisor, 5th District:
Katrina Foley - Consider voting Dem

Costa mesa races

mayor:
Loren Gameros - Consider voting Dem

City council District 3:
cara stewart - recommend

City council District 4:
angely andrade vallarta - PROUDLY ENDORSED BY sUNRISE OC

City council District 5:
Dr. Kelly Brown - PROUDLY ENDORSED BY sUNRISE OC

Garden grove races

garden grove mayor:
thu-ha nguyen - Consider Voting dem

City council District 3:
amanda nguyen - recommend

City council district 4:
hieu nguyen - PROUDLY ENDORSED BY sUNRISE OC

santa ana races

Mayor:
dan shimell - recommend

Ward 2:
ben vasquez - recommend

Ward 4:
sandra de Anda - recommend

Ward 6:
Isuri S. Ramos - recommend

Board of education:
hector bustos - recommend

Irvine races

Mayor:
= no vote =

City council district 1:
Melinda liu - recommend

City council district 5:
Byron Salvatierra - Recommend

city council district 6:
= no RECOMMENDATION =

ballot measure d:
yes - PROUDLY ENDORSED BY sUNRISE OC