I am Janelle Brooks. I have spent fourteen years arguing civil-rights cases in federal court and two years running a tenant-defense nonprofit that stopped three thousand evictions. I am running for the Senate because the instrument is poorly used and people are losing their homes in the meantime.
Federal housing policy. The right to vote. A just transition. A working list, revised when the facts revise.
The median rent in Los Angeles County has climbed 47 percent since 2019, and the federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit is rationed at a fraction of what is needed. A federal renters' bill of rights. A national just-cause eviction standard. A tax penalty on hedge funds that buy single-family neighborhoods block by block. The plan is detailed and the plan is funded.
Read the positionJanelle spent fourteen years litigating against the worst of state-level voting restrictions. The legislative answer is the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, the Freedom to Vote Act, and a Senate that will end the carve-out that lets the filibuster kill them. She has argued these cases. She knows the votes that move.
Read the positionCalifornia leads the nation in clean-energy jobs and the federal infrastructure to support them has not kept pace. Project Labor Agreements written into every federal climate dollar. Apprenticeship pipelines through community colleges. A Civilian Climate Corps that pays prevailing wage.
Read the position“I have watched her argue civil-rights cases for a decade. She is the rare litigator who can read a brief and read a room. We need that in the Senate.”
“Janelle ran the tenant-defense nonprofit that stopped three thousand evictions in two years. That is not a press release. That is a record.”
“She is a serious lawyer with a serious plan and the temperament for the institution. California can do far worse and usually does.”
The primary is in March. A contribution lands. A volunteer hour lands. A conversation with a neighbor lands. Pick one.