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If establishment Democrats want to win the country back from the insanity of Donald Trump and his acolytes, they should listen to candidates like Angela Gonzales-Torres. She’s running for Congress [link removed] in California’s 34th district, where immigration thugs have terrorized people for months, and she sees a future free from that fear. Her vision speaks to possibility and to respect for workers, and she sees that as a theme among the most popular candidates on the left.  

“Voters are increasingly understanding the corrupting influence that big money—corporate PACs, lobbyists, etc.—have on Congressional and federal politics,” she told me via email yesterday, before Justice Democrats announced their endorsement. “There’s a growing appetite for candidates like myself, like Zohran Mamdani in New York City, like Summer Lee in Pennsylvania, for example, who are funded by small dollar donors, not big corporations, are rooted in their communities, and are unafraid to speak truth to power.”

**–Whitney Curry Wimbish, staff writer**

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One of the latest progressive candidates to join the fight is California community advocate Angela Gonzales-Torres, whom the campaign group Justice Democrats endorsed this morning. Gonzales-Torres, 30, is running in the state’s 34th District, an area within the city of Los Angeles that includes some of the neighborhoods President Trump’s immigration officials have hit the hardest with raids [link removed], according to the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, including Glassell Park and downtown’s Little Tokyo.

Her pitch: She knows how to fight Trump’s immigrant terror campaign because she’s lived through it before. Her mixed-status family was ripped apart 15 years ago, when the federal government deported her father, an auto mechanic, back to Mexico, where he has been forced to remain to this day. The experience left her mother alone to raise four daughters as she struggled to keep a roof over their head with her waitressing job. They lived in a series of shelters, as well as their car; among her most vivid memories of that time was doing her homework, leaning over the hood of the car the family was living in at the time, parked in a Denny’s parking lot, she told the

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The experience has shaped her politics, which her policy platform reflects. While others in the Democratic Party refuse to stand up for vulnerable populations and meekly say they too want border security, Gonzales-Torres has specific policy points she wants to achieve in Congress that would protect immigrants.

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