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April 22, 2026 The New Yorker Janelle Brooks and the Quiet Case for the Senate Profile
April 4, 2026 Los Angeles Times A civil-rights litigator with a housing plan California can actually use Housing
March 11, 2026 The Atlantic What a serious Democrat looks like in 2026 Profile
February 18, 2026 San Francisco Chronicle Brooks files for U.S. Senate, opens a Bay Area headquarters in Oakland Campaign
March 28, 2026 Politico Inside the Brooks coalition: labor, law, and a tenant-defense practice Campaign
April 8, 2026 The Washington Post Brooks proposes a national just-cause eviction standard Housing
March 19, 2026 The Nation The civil-rights case for a different kind of senator Civil rights
April 1, 2026 Mother Jones How a tenant-defense lawyer stopped 3,000 evictions and built a Senate run Housing
February 27, 2026 The American Prospect Brooks: end the silent filibuster, restore the talking version Democracy
February 17, 2026 KQED Bay Area civil-rights litigator launches U.S. Senate campaign Campaign
March 4, 2026 Capital and Main A platform built on cases Brooks actually argued Profile
April 14, 2026 The Sacramento Bee Brooks meets with Central Valley farmworker organizations in Fresno Campaign
April 17, 2026 San Diego Union-Tribune San Diego mayor endorses Brooks, citing housing and homelessness plan Campaign
March 25, 2026 Vox Brooks's climate plan is a labor plan and that is the point Climate

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