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Treatment First, Accountability First: I support mandatory treatment for severe addiction and serious mental illness, expanding inpatient psychiatric health facilities across Southern California, and tying federal funding to measurable…

Marni von Wilpert will protect and expand the Affordable Care Act, restore ACA tax credits, and include a public option to lower costs.

Supports an 'An Affordable California' agenda focused on lowering the cost of living for families, including housing and energy costs. He emphasizes balancing affordability with reliable energy and sustainable economic growth.

Marni von Wilpert will raise wages and lower costs for working families by opposing tariff-driven price increases, cracking down on wage theft, and supporting strong worker protections such as the PRO Act.

Jim Desmond advocates common-sense climate and energy policies that protect the environment while keeping energy affordable and reliable for families.

Climate change is an urgent threat, and we must act to put the environment ahead of corporate polluters. Marni will hold polluters accountable, protect coastal waters from offshore drilling, reverse Trump-era rollbacks on environmental…

As a county supervisor, Desmond voted against measures to stockpile abortion medication (mifepristone/misoprostol) and against a reproductive freedom policy, saying the county has no authority over abortion and that he opposes items…

Defend reproductive freedom and codify Roe v. Wade into federal law. Protect access to abortion and related reproductive health care, support Planned Parenthood, and ensure patients’ medical decisions remain between patients and their doctors, not politicians.

Supports a "strong, fair, and dignified" immigration system centered on border security, including finishing the wall, ending catch-and-release, and restoring federal-local law enforcement cooperation.

Marni von Wilpert supports meaningful immigration reform that keeps borders secure while providing legal pathways to citizenship for long-term residents and Dreamers who grew up in the United States.

As a county supervisor, Desmond voted against a resolution supporting a proposed federal constitutional amendment on gun safety, arguing the focus should be on the mental health crisis rather than new gun restrictions.

Marni supports comprehensive federal gun safety reforms to reduce gun violence, including universal background checks, banning ghost guns and high-capacity magazines, closing private-sale and trafficking loopholes, strengthening red-flag…

Desmond, a Navy veteran, supports a strong national defense and said confronting Iran's nuclear ambitions was necessary, though he acknowledged the resulting costs to American families.

Marni von Wilpert believes America should lead through multilateral diplomacy, restore alliances, and oppose unauthorized wars; she supports Ukraine and NATO, a two-state solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and sustained…

As a county supervisor, Desmond proposed a resolution endorsing a federal bill (H.R. 28, the "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act") that would bar transgender females from competing in women's sports; the proposal failed to advance.

Marni von Wilpert will defend civil rights and LGBTQ+ equality by supporting the federal Equality Act to guarantee nondiscrimination nationwide, defending full Title IX protections, and opposing bans on gender-affirming care and LGBTQ+…

Proposes a "Vocational Military Education" program that would offer free vocational training (from trades to coding, engineering, finance, and healthcare) to encourage volunteer military service, addressing workforce shortages in skilled…

Marni von Wilpert supports increasing funding for public schools and making them safe, supportive learning environments for all students, and has advocated for free tuition at public colleges.

Supports establishing local safeguards and potential regulations on artificial intelligence data centers to protect residents from higher energy and water costs and strain on infrastructure.

Promote American Innovation: The United States should lead the world in cutting-edge, trustworthy innovation that works for working people.

Supports requiring proof of citizenship and voter ID for federal elections, arguing voter eligibility falls under Congress's Article I authority.

Marni will defend democracy by supporting federal voting rights protections, including the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the For the People Act, to protect free and fair elections, expand ballot access, and overturn Citizens United to remove dark money from our elections.

Supports a treatment-first homelessness strategy that funds local governments to move people off the streets into mental health and addiction treatment. He emphasizes accountability and transparency in federal funding to deliver real results for CA-48 communities.

Marni will tackle the local housing crisis by cutting red tape to make it easier to build more affordable housing, including providing down payment grants for local teachers and working families, and crack down on wage theft to ensure…