CA-29 primary: first place
Primary Election
Party selects its nominee.
Overview
Current roleCommunity organizer
PartyDemocratic
Political ideologyProgressive Democrat
GenderFemale
LocationCalifornia
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BackgroundCommunity organizer
EducationWoodbury University (MA, Organizational Leadership, 2013)
Notable personal detailsAngélica María Dueñas is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in California’s 29th Congressional District. She has described her professional background as a mother and community organizer. She previously ran for this congressional district in multiple cycles prior to 2026.
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Positions
Economy & Taxes
Supports higher taxes on wealthy individuals and large corporations to fund expanded social programs (including Medicare for All), closing billionaire tax loopholes, and raising taxes on top income brackets and corporations to finance public services.
Healthcare
Supports universal healthcare/Healthcare-for-All and explicitly calls for investing in universal health coverage in place of current spending priorities. Endorses access to reproductive and abortion-related healthcare and frames healthcare as not tied to employment.
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Immigration & Border
Supports abolishing ICE, closing or banning immigration detention centers, protecting DACA recipients and Dreamers, and creating pathways to full legal status/citizenship for immigrants; emphasizes humane immigration reform and limits on large-scale enforcement practices.
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
Supports ensuring access to abortion and reproductive healthcare, defending bodily autonomy, and protecting individuals’ freedom to make their own medical decisions without government interference.
Climate & Energy
Supports rapid transition to clean energy, frames climate action as a priority tied to jobs and public health, and is running on a Green New Deal–style platform while refusing fossil-fuel industry money.
Public Safety & Guns
Supports progressive criminal-justice reforms (demilitarizing police, increasing accountability, ending the school-to-prison pipeline, banning private prisons, eliminating mandatory minimums, and reforming use-of-force laws) and identifies gun safety as an issue to address. The campaign platform emphasizes community-centered public safety and reforms rather than expanding policing budgets.
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