“Angela is exactly what Los Angeles needs in Congress right now: a working-class champion with the moral courage to not only fight back against the Trump administration’s cruelty with the urgency it demands but also take on the Democratic Party when the corporate establishment fails to fight for our communities.”
Hey John, it’s Alexandra Rojas! I’m the Executive Director of Justice Democrats and I’m coming to you personally today to explain why Justice Democrats endorsed Angela for Congress.
I said it to Politico, and I’ll say it again: Angela is exactly what Los Angeles needs in Congress right now.
Angela is a 30-year-old, working-class champion with a strong moral backbone and a steadfast commitment to her community. Unlike CA-34’s current Representative, she will not only fight back against the Trump administration’s chaos and cruelty with the urgency it demands, but also take on the Democratic Party when the corporate establishment fails to fight for our communities.
And like all Justice Democrats, Angela isn’t taking a dime of corporate PAC money: unlike Jimmy Gomez, she won’t be answering to Trump’s donors or real estate developers. Her campaign is a people-powered community movement — and that’s one of many reasons why we are so proud to support her.
Angela is a born-and-raised Angeleno who understands her community’s most pressing issues because she’s lived them. Growing up in East LA as the daughter of a deportee and a single mother, she experienced the terrifying reality of family separation firsthand, after her father was deported when Angela was just 15. Her mother was left to raise Angela and her 3 sisters alone overnight — a nightmare more and more families across Los Angeles, California, and beyond are experiencing themselves as Trump and his ICE goons take over and terrify communities nationwide.
Since 2017, the working-class community Angela grew up in and still lives in today has been represented by Rep. Jimmy Gomez, a politician who’d like you to think he’s a progressive, but who, in reality, has made his career doing AIPAC’s bidding, voting to pass Trump’s crypto agenda, and selling out to industries like private equity and real estate.
Gomez’s campaign relies on the same lobbies that fuel Trump’s rise, destabilize our economy, and displace our neighbors.
But where Gomez went to Washington D.C. and closed the door on his constituents, Angela is rooted in her lifelong community. From seeing her neighbors, teachers, and classmates come together to support her family after her father’s deportation, to watching her mom work two and three jobs to make ends meet, to serving as the President of her local elected Neighborhood Council, Angela’s experiences are the foundation of her values, advocacy, and unwavering commitment to fight for working families like her own.
This race is about a young, working-class Angeleno running to represent the working-class community she was born and raised in, versus a corporate member of the political establishment who has turned his back on that very community for some PAC checks.
Angela can take Jimmy on and win, but it’s going to take a groundswell of grassroots support from this progressive movement. This race isn’t just about Los Angeles — it’s about whether our Congress will be powered by working-class fighters like Angela, or bought off by corporate PACs and Trump’s billionaire backers like Jimmy Gomez.
Thanks for your support,
Alexandra Rojas
Executive Director
Justice Democrats
