- CDT was proud to have developed California’s first No Cop Money Candidate Pledge. A number of candidates signed that pledge, including our endorsed 2020 general election (AD25) candidate Alex Lee. CDT endorsed candidates State Senator Holly Mitchell, who’s running for LA Board Supervisors, and Mayor Michael Tubbs, of Stockton, just signed. Others were inspired by the pledge and developed their own, including a group of women of color candidates in Sacramento, and we worked closely with a group of college students who created #NoCopMoneyCA
- Stockton On My Mind is a hopeful and beautiful portrayal of how CDT-endorsed candidate Michael Tubbs, the youngest mayor, and first African-American mayor of Stockton, CA transformed a community through his love and radical imagination for it. Premiered July 28 at 9pm on HBO.
Who would replace Sen. Harris as CA Senator if/when she’s elected as VP? Note while you are reading this–all quotes are from white people, most from men.
Capitol Weekly’s Top 100 (most powerful people in California politics) Note while you are reading this–Twice as many corporate lobbyists as labor lobbyists. Less than 10 progressive non-labor advocates. Not a single leader of a POC-based non-labor group.
Women Candidates: Debunking the Historic Electability Myth CDT has faced this challenge especially when working to elect Black women running for executive office, like Diana Becton successful campaign for Contra Costa DA, but also Genevieve Jones-Wright for SD DA, and Pamela Price for Alameda DA.
Politico’s California Initiative tracker, for when you just can not remember all 12 CA initiatives.
NAACP LDF’s Police Union Contract Toolkit, which reviewed contracts from 82 cities; identified provisions that may interfere with prompt investigation & accountability for serious misconduct; & dates when the contracts expire.
This weekend Local Progress, the national association of progressive local elected officials that has several dozen members in California, brought together hundreds of Local Progress members and community partners for a 3-day virtual convening! They started the process of co-creating a powerful agenda that defines what it means to govern as a progressive and what our world can and will look like when equity and justice are at the core of our systems, institutions, governance, and public power.
- CDT Director Ludovic Blain was quoted in a Washington Post piece “Liberal, progressive — and racist? The Sierra Club faces its white-supremacist history.” Aligned with CT’s work investing in progressive infrastructure rooted in communities of color, he said ““If you’re very used to not getting funded, people are used to doing it free. The environmental movement has a lot of philanthropic money; there’s enough money to go around….If you had told me two decades ago that millions of dollars would be going to Latino environmental justice work, I would never have guessed it would have been through the Natural Resources Defense Council,” Blain said.
