Angela Gonzales-TorresAngela Gonzales-Torres

Angela Gonzales-Torres is housing advocate and democratic socialist running for Congress in California’s 34th District.

Born and raised in Highland Park, Angela is the daughter of a deportee and was raised by a single mother who relied on programs like SNAP and Medicaid. Those experiences are central to her agenda: welcome immigrants with a pathway to citizenship and free legal services, expand social programs to all and provide affordable housing.

Angela supports Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, tuition-free public college, student-debt cancellation, stronger protections for gig workers and expanded childcare and paid leave. She also proposes a Guaranteed Basic Income pilot for working families.

Angela brings a mix of grassroots organizing and public-service experience. She has served as President of the Highland Park Neighborhood Council, worked in the Los Angeles Mayor’s Office, and served as a regional representative on Metro’s Public Safety Advisory Committee.

She has worked alongside communities confronting displacement, helped advance permanently affordable and intergenerational housing, and now works to help formerly incarcerated people transition from prison into higher education.

Angela’s campaign is grassroots, community-informed, and student-led — powered by people not corporations. And Our Revolution is proud to have her back!

Recommended. Highland Park native with criminal justice focus; opposes federal budget increases for enforcement agencies; supports 13th Amendment reform.

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Signed The AI PACT, the Political Integrity Project's five-point pledge: end data center tax breaks and backroom deals, require independent safety review of every major AI model before release, create an AI dividend sharing gains with displaced workers, make AI companies legally accountable for harms, and refuse taxpayer bailouts for AI firms. Moderate on AI safety and regulation, strong on data center opposition, moderate public voice on AI.

Endorsed by Justice Dems.

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