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Alex Padilla

@alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social
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U.S. Senator for California. Husband & Dad. Former CA Secretary of State. MIT Grad. San Fernando Valley native. Defending the dream.

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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
You’re lying again, Donald. Not only do we have ballot drop boxes, we’re one of the few states that has a ballot tracking website where every voter can literally see where their ballot is in real time: california.ballottrax.net/voter/
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A construction site is not probable cause. Speaking with an accent is not a crime. And racial profiling is un-American.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
RFK Jr. is a danger to public health. He should resign.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
No more delays. No more distractions. No more excuses.  It’s long past time to release the Epstein files.
abcnews.go.com
'This is not a hoax': Epstein survivors speak out demanding files be released
Several Jeffrey Epstein survivors made a direct appeal to President Trump to take action as they demanded all the files be released.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Trump’s deployment of troops to Los Angeles wasn’t just extreme — it was illegal. A federal judge confirmed it today.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
This Labor Day, we honor the people who make America thrive. The farmworkers who put food on our tables, the workers who build our cities, the firefighters who keep us safe, the teachers who educate our kids and so many others. Their fight for fair pay and dignity continues. We must stand with them.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
California has become the 4th largest economy in the world not despite our immigrant population—but because of it.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Everyone deserves access to care—without fear, without intimidation.
calmatters.org
ICE agents create fear at California hospitals
Immigration enforcement agents have had a number of high-profile encounters at hospitals that have created fear among workers and patients.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
PThe people of California will have an opportunity to stand up this November and vote YES on Prop 50 to defend our democracy and hold Donald Trump accountable.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The cruelty is undeniable — and Californians have had enough. Nearly 70% of California voters disapprove of Trump’s immigration tactics terrorizing our communities.
latimes.com
Most California voters disapprove of Trump's immigration enforcement policies, poll shows
The poll's findings reflected striking emotional reactions to the president's immigration enforcement.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
The GOP is full on damage control mode. They know how unpopular Trump’s Big Ugly Betrayal Bill is. Turns out people don’t like getting food stamps and health care ripped away so that billionaires can get more tax cuts.
politico.com
Playbook: One big, beautiful rebranding
And the Federal Reserve’s annual policy symposium kicks off today in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Texas—game on. California voters will stop the MAGA power grab at the ballot box November 4.
nytimes.com
Newsom Signs California Redistricting Plan to Counter Texas Republicans
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Trump sent federal troops to LA to try and intimidate, distract and create chaos.  Now he’s doing the same thing in Washington, DC despite crime being at a 30-year low.  Shame on these Republican Governors for going along with this political theater.
washingtonpost.com
GOP states pour National Guard troops into D.C. as Trump tightens control
Personnel from West Virginia arrived Monday, with troops from South Carolina, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee and Louisiana expected to arrive Tuesday.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
From children’s checkups to nursing home care, Medicaid supports Californians and Americans across the country at every stage of life.  Trump’s Big Ugly Bill blew a trillion dollar hole in the budget of this vital program.  All to give bigger tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Spare us the hypocrisy, Greg. You’re doing Trump’s dirty work and now you’re lecturing California for answering in kind? Please.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Trump’s meeting with Putin on Ukraine was a disaster. No deal, total embarrassment. And what’s his takeaway? Unconstitutionally attacking mail-in voting at home because Putin says it’s bad. Trump isn’t leading, he’s getting played.
rollingstone.com
Trump Pledges Unconstitutional Order to Limit Mail-In Voting After Putin Chat
President Trump pledged to eliminate mail-in voting and the use of voting machines following a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
California didn’t start this fight. But we will help to end it.
sacbee.com
Gavin Newsom launches official redistricting campaign: ‘Wake up, America’
“The high road doesn’t exist anymore,” said Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, D-Jefferson Park.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Trump quiere manipular los mapas electorales de Texas, poner más seguidores suyos en el Congreso, y quitarle fuerza a la voz y al voto de California y de todo el país. Pero este noviembre no lo vamos a dejar.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Costs. Chaos. Corruption. These three words define the Trump presidency. Higher costs. Widespread chaos. Rampant corruption. In California, we’re pushing back with the Election Rigging Response Act to put an end to the madness and hold this president accountable.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Trump’s latest target in his war on America’s top universities: UCLA. A judge just ordered his administration to restore $584M in National Science Foundation research grants—over a third of what he froze in July. We’ll keep standing up for academic freedom.
latimes.com
Trump administration must restore hundreds of UCLA research grants, federal judge rules
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Trump administration to restore hundreds of frozen National Science Foundation research grants to UCLA.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
A 15-year-old student with disabilities was handcuffed and held at gunpoint by ICE—until they realized they had the wrong person. Now LAUSD is creating safe-zones to protect students and families from immigration raids. This is Trump’s America in 2025.
latimes.com
Agents detain student at gunpoint near school; safe zones to be expanded around LAUSD campuses
Amid immigration enforcement, city and school officials will set up "safe zones" monitored by LAPD and community volunteers to protect undocumented families when school resumes at LAUSD.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Panic attacks. Anxiety. Nightmares.  These are the marks Trump’s cruel raids are leaving on the children of immigrants.
pressenterprise.com
Anxiety attacks, tears, questions: The impact of immigration sweeps on children
As federal raids continue in Southern California, children are feeling the toll of detachment and trauma.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Voting rights belong to every eligible American, no matter their language, no matter their zip code. Anything less is voter suppression.
sacbee.com
Sen. Alex Padilla introduces bills to expand voting rights access
The introduction of the bills also falls on the same day as the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The law is clear: the census must count every person in the United States. Every. Person.  No exceptions.
ktvu.com
Trump wants census to exclude undocumented immigrants
President Donald Trump wants to change how the once-a-decade census collects data. In a Truth Social post, he said he directed the Commerce Department to begin work on a new census, that would not cou...
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
It’ll take more than three guys and an off-the-rails administration to keep me from fighting for the American Dream.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Racial profiling is unconstitutional. Period.
latimes.com
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to lift limits on ICE's 'roving patrols'
The Trump administration petitioned the Supreme Court to free up its mass deportation efforts across Southern California, seeking to end a judge's ban on 'roving patrols.'
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Heat waves. Extreme weather. Flash flooding. Wild fires. These natural disasters continue to take a greater toll every year and yet still the GOP is dismantling policies to address the climate crisis. No matter who they voted for, Americans are all paying the price.
cbsnews.com
Heat wave continues for much of Southern California bringing scorching temperatures
The National Weather Service warns that parts of the Inland Empire could reach up to 106 degrees.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Trump’s policies continue to drive prices up, his health care cuts are deeply unpopular, and he can’t cover up his relationship with Epstein fast enough. So he targets day laborers and street vendors in an effort to distract.
latimes.com
Federal agents use Penske rental truck as 'Trojan Horse' to raid Los Angeles Home Depot
Border Patrol agents reportedly arrested 16 people at a Home Depot in Westlake on Wednesday. They utilized Penske trucks to carry out the arrests.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
ICE tried to pay agents bonuses for how fast they could deport people. Then they scrapped it once the program was made public and reporters started asking questions. This is Trump’s deportation machine in action: rushed, cruel, and lawless.
nytimes.com
ICE Offers, Then Quickly Withdraws, Cash Bonuses for Swiftly Deporting Immigrants
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
There is a better, more humane, and common-sense path forward on immigration. My legislation shows how.
amp.sacbee.com
Padilla’s ‘common sense fix’ could give citizenship status to millions
Today could be one of the shortest days of your life, thanks to the Earth spinning faster than usual. Aug. 5 is set to be one of the shortest days, by milliseconds, on record. With that, good morning ...
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
No, Donald, you’re not entitled to 5 more Republican seats in Texas. Just like you weren’t entitled to 11,780 more votes in Georgia in 2020.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
If Republicans were confident about running on their record of health care cuts and billionaire handouts, they’d be eager to defend it.  Instead, they’re rigging maps in Texas to try and tip the scale in their favor.
nbcnews.com
Sen. Alex Padilla says Texas Republicans are trying to ‘rig the system’ with redistricting plan
In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) says California should look at "options" to counter an effort by Texas Republicans that would add up to five GOP seats in th...
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Trump and his erratic economic policies are to blame for the weak jobs report – not a statistician sharing the facts.
nbcnews.com
Sen. Alex Padilla calls for an investigation into Trump’s firing of BLS chief: Full interview
Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) tells Meet the Press “an investigation is certainly in order” after President Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer hours after a weak jobs ...
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Texas Democrats are standing up for democracy. The maps are rigged. The process is compromised. www.texastribune.org/2025/08/03/t...
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
🚨 BREAKING: The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules to block the Trump Administration from conducting indiscriminate immigration stops and arrests in Southern California.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Since Trump’s ICE raids began, California’s private-sector workforce has fallen 3.1%—the steepest drop since the COVID-19 pandemic. MAGA’s cruel deportation agenda is tearing families and economies apart.
latimes.com
California's economy is already getting hit by immigration raids
The number of people reporting to work in the private sector in California has decreased by 3.1% — a downturn only recently matched by the COVID-19 lockdown.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
$275 billion. That’s the economic damage Trump’s ICE raids could inflict on California. It’s cruelty with a cost.
usatoday.com
Deportations are taking a toll on California's economy - and have only just begun
ICE raids and mass deportations could cost California $275 billion in lost wages and other funds, a report finds.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Trump is pressuring Texas Republicans to rig the congressional maps to add GOP seats. That’s a blatant abuse of power — and a clear violation of the Hatch Act.
npr.org
Sen. Alex Padilla says Republicans want to 'rig' midterms with redistricting plan
Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., discusses why he believes Trump and the Republican Party are scrambling to redistrict before the 2026 midterms and explains what Democrats are doing in response.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
If you’ve lived here for years, paid taxes, stayed out of trouble and contributed to your community, you deserve a pathway to permanent residency.
cbsnews.com
Sen. Alex Padilla discusses his proposed bill to legalize resident immigrants
The senator’s proposed Registry Bill aims to protect long-term residents and strengthen immigrant communities.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
If Texas Republicans go there, California will fight fire with fire. Because here’s the reality: MAGA policies are so unpopular they have to resort to rigging the rules and congressional maps to stay in power. Don’t think so. We’ll stop this last gasp of a power grab.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Texas Republicans just dropped their rigged congressional map—at Trump’s urging. A blatant power grab to try and silence voters. California is watching. And every option is on the table to fight back.
texastribune.org
Texas House Republicans unveil new congressional map that looks to pick up five GOP seats
The first draft of the lower chamber’s new redistricting map targets Democratic members of Congress in the Austin, Dallas and Houston metro areas and in South Texas.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
NASA was born 67 years ago today, inspiring a new era of exploration and discovery. If America is going to lead the next Moon landing, the next clean energy breakthrough, or the next lifesaving vaccine we must invest in – not cut – scientific research. Join us in the fight to keep funding it.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
🚨Immigration judges are blowing the whistle — Trump is firing them to rig the courts and prevent due process and justice. This is a direct attack on the rule of law. First, it’s immigrants. Who do you think is next? We’re fighting back in the Senate to stop this abuse of power.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Turns out kicking millions of people off health care and driving up premiums for everyone to give tax breaks to billionaires isn’t popular.
cnn.com
Roughly 6 in 10 Americans oppose Trump’s megabill, CNN poll finds | CNN Politics
Roughly 6 in 10 Americans say they oppose the GOP domestic policy and budget bill that President Donald Trump recently signed into law, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Trump’s cruel raids are bad for the economy. They are on track to cost billions in lost productivity and tax revenue. Not to mention the immeasurable toll on communities and families.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
It doesn't matter if you're a Republican, Democrat or Independent -- we ALL have a responsibility to speak up and push back against Trump's advance toward authoritarianism, before it's too late.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Sending active‑duty Marines into Los Angeles was never warranted — a provocative overreach that inflamed tensions, bypassed state authority, and misappropriated the valuable resources of our armed forces.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
You can’t have it both ways. You don’t get to call for mass deportations on TV while quietly asking for help protecting immigrant families in your own districts. www.notus.org/immigration/...
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
In California, about 70% of people in ICE detention have no criminal record. Read that again. ICE says it’s going after “the worst of the worst” — but their own data shows that’s a blatant lie.
dailynews.com
Who’s in ICE detention in California? According to ICE, less than 30% are criminals
Among those detained in California, the majority are not the “worst of the worst” the Trump administration said it was targeting, federal data shows.
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Alex Padilla @alex-padilla4ca.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Trump’s Big Ugly Bill will result in higher energy bills for some MAGA voters.  His tax bill guts clean energy credits and jacks up energy prices in red states.  This is bad for American leadership in clean energy and bad for Americans’ wallets.
npr.org
Power prices are expected to soar under new tax cut and spending law
In states without policies to drive renewable energy, power prices could surge as federal tax incentives for clean energy disappear, according to Energy Innovation, a think tank.
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