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Ami Bera is a congressman of 10+ years with few achievements besides opposing Medicare for All and funding Israel’s war crimes with American tax dollars.

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Chris Bennett is a people-first disabled Army vet and West Pointer running for U.S. Congress (CA-03). He refuses corporate and AIPAC money and fights for everyday Californians.

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Everyone deserves a safe, stable place to live.I'll work to build public housing and create public financing for low- and middle-income housing.I'll work to end homelessness with housing-first policies and homelessness prevention programs.I'll seek to create a federally-backed Civil Service Home Loan like a VA Loan to allow teachers, social workers, caregivers, and others who benefit society to purchase a home without a down payment.I'll work to ban corporate and foreign speculative ownership of single family homes.We must ensure everyone can stay and thrive in the communities they call home.

<h2>Affordable Housing</h2>

<h4>Video: U.S. Congressional District 3 Candidate Forum - League of Women Voters Nevada County</h4>

Civil Service jobs and power to the people.Democracy thrives when there is low inequality and working people have good jobs with strong labor protections.I will fight for a federal jobs guarantee with a Civil Service Corps offering good union jobs in infrastructure, housing development, green energy, and social services for all who want them.I support an inflation-adjusted livable minimum wage indexed to the cost of living and a universal basic income.I support passing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_the_Right_to_Organize_Act" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">PRO Act(➚)</a> to expand workers' rights including collective bargaining, the right to organize, and the right to strike for all workers, including federally-restricted ones like air traffic controllers, rail-workers, and postal carriers.Level the playing field for workers!

<h2>Good Jobs, Livable Wages &amp; Labor Power</h2>

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<h4>CHRIS BENNETT IS THE TRUE PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE - Ideas &amp; Opinions - The Union</h4>

AI can harm us all, but is only benefiting the billionaire class.I am against new construction of any AI data centers until sweeping regulations are passed to prioritize residential water, electricity, and safety. Companies should have to prove they will not harm people before construction and they should foot the bill for all damages they cause.I support making AI companies compensate all whose work was stolen without permission to train their models. We must ensure AI can only enhance jobs, not replace them, at least until we have universal basic income.I also support requiring companies to allow consumers to opt out of any and all AI features in computer software, websites, or mobile applications.

<h2>People Over AI</h2>

Open race in California 3rd District after Kiley steps down.

<h4>Who is running in California's 3rd District? | Sacramento Bee</h4>

There's not enough land for ethical farming everywhere so we need a different approach.Like our reliance on fossil fuels, our current system of factory farming and animal use is unsustainable.<a style="color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary);" href="https://sentientmedia.org/meatpacking-workers-injury-risk-usda/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Workers, communities, and the environment are harmed(➚)</a>, <a style="color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary);" href="https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/06/13/factory-farms-and-the-next-pandemic-how-industrial-animal-agriculture-fuels-global-health-threats/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pandemics spread(➚)</a>, and <a style="color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary);" href="https://awionline.org/content/inhumane-practices-factory-farms" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">animals suffer inhumane conditions(➚)</a>.I support increased funding, subsidies, and research for crops grown for direct human consumption, land use alternatives like stewardship and re-wilding, and plant-based alternatives for food and medicine to reduce animal suffering.We must protect and respect the lands and animals around us.

<h2>Animal Care &amp; Land Use</h2>

Whoever has the most money shouldn't get the biggest say.Wealthy interests spend infinite money buying our politicians which is why a Princeton study found that <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">what ordinary people want has almost no impact on what policy outcomes actually get passed</a><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> (➚)</a>.That must change.I support public financing of elections, Constitutional Amendments to overturn Citizens United &amp; legalized slavery, and banning Congressional Stock Trading which steals from our retirement accounts.

<h2>Money Out Of Politics</h2>

<h4>Vegan Congressional Candidate Chris Bennett Outlines Ethics-Driven Platform in CA-03 Race</h4>

<h4>CA-03 candidate Chris Bennett attends Lake Tahoe Community College candidate forum</h4>

Health care is a human right.As a healthcare worker, I saw how our pain is used to generate private profits. We have the most expensive healthcare in the world with the worst outcomes of any developed country. I will fight for single-payer universal health coverage with Medicare-For-All including full coverage for dental, vision, and hearing.I support empirical scientific consensus on healthcare issues like reproductive treatment, immunization, and gender-affirming care.I will work to sustain rural hospitals and build federal hospitals with minimum funding and specialty care.

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<h2>Healthcare Access &amp; Medicare-For-All</h2>

Support teachers &amp; students.Classes are overcrowded, teachers are underpaid, kids are hungry, programs are getting cut, and millions have endless student loan debt. I will fight for safe and stable education.I support <a style="color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary);" href="https://www.cta.org/our-advocacy/school-funding" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">fully funding and staffing our schools(➚)</a>, reforming the Department of Education, and undoing the harms of "No Child Left Behind".I support livable wages for all teachers and staff, universal Pre-K, and free meals for all students so they can learn well and stay healthy.I support cancelling all federal student loan debt and making public college &amp; trade schools tuition-free as an investment in our future.Everyone benefits from a better education system!

<h2>Empower Public Education</h2>

Watch the full recording. Each candidate had 30 minutes to speak and answer questions from the audience. Chris went second after Ami Bera

<h4>Placer County Dems CD3 Candidate Forum</h4>

SEIU California dual endorses Chris Bennett and Ami Bera for CD3.

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<h4>Chris Bennett, candidate for CA-03, discusses platform with the Tahoe Tribune</h4>

Reliable, affordable access to nutritious food is a human right!Too often, we treat food access as a luxury rather than as a fundamental need and right. I'll fight to protect SNAP, end food deserts with subsidized community stores, and expand WIC to all new mothers.

<h2>Groceries, Nutrition & Food Security</h2>

Hands off our safety nets!Our seniors and most vulnerable people are being directly targeted with unprecedented attacks on Social Security and Medicaid (Medical).Once elected, I will work to overturn the "Big Beautiful Bill", remove the social security cap on high income earners, undo DOGE damages, make social security easier to use, make payments inflation adjusted to the cost of living, and sustain Medicaid until we have Medicare for All.

<h2>Social Security &amp; Medicaid</h2>

LGBTQIA+ rights are human rights!Trans and queer people have always existed. LGBTQIA+ people deserve the same rights and protections as everyone else.I will fight to enshrine LGBTQIA+ rights and end the ability of the billionaire class to divide us with bigotry while they hurt our children, rob us blind, and take away our freedoms.

<h2>LGBTQIA+ Rights</h2>

Chris Bennett, CA-03, Courage Candidate, endorsed by Courage for Democracy alongside more than 100 pro-impeachment candidates.

<h4>Chris Bennett endorsed by Courage for Democracy</h4>

Large video game developers keep telling us we don't own the things we bought anymore.They take down servers, prioritize micro-transactions over completed content, and are trying to convince us we don't own anything we bought anymore.I support legislation to require publishers to maintain the ability for us to play and access the games we have paid for, including server access for discontinued "live service" games that reach end of life. I also support ending disastrous tariff policies that mean new consoles like the Nintendo Switch 2 are almost $1,000.<a style="color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary);" href="https://www.stopkillinggames.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Learn more about efforts to stop killing games(➚)</a>

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We need to re-imagine the way we design and plan our cities and neighborhoods.Our cities are unfriendly to pedestrians, cyclists, and transit riders. We can improve quality of life by ensuring that people have easy and full access to grocery stores, hospitals and healthcare offices, arts and entertainment, and community spaces.People should be able to walk, bike, or ride without fearing for their safety!

<h2>Walkable, Livable &amp; Healthier Cities</h2>

<h4>Candidate Chris Bennett Supports Abolishing Forced Psychiatry: A Breakthrough for Mad Liberation?</h4>

Immigration makes us stronger!Our immigration system is broken and was built from a wave of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Exclusion_Act" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">anti-Chinese racism in the 1880s(➚)</a>.I support common sense changes to end employer slave labor, make reasonable pathways to citizenship, and ensure human and Constitutional rights for all.I will fight to abolish ICE which is lawlessly acting as the secret police and was only <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">created out of post-9/11 Islamophobia(➚)</a>.

<h2>Immigration Reform</h2>

Support those who served!As Vets, we're abused by war-hungry politicians and forced to fight for care after harms caused during service.I support making military retirement payments tax exempt.As a disabled Vet, I oppose efforts to privatize the VA. I also oppose handouts to private defense contractors when troops are on food stamps or living with black mold.I oppose sending troops to die in pointless wars.It's time we prioritize care for our vets and troops.

<h2>Helping Veterans &amp; Troops</h2>

Millions of Californians are vulnerable to disaster and could lose everything.After taking our money for more than a century, insurers are pulling out of the state because it's no longer profitable thanks to the increased rates of floods and fires caused by climate change.Meanwhile, the ones most responsible—the biggest polluters—continue to poison our environment, loot our resources, spread disinformation, buy off politicians, and absorb any fines as a cost of doing business.That's why I support a federally managed, public homeowners insurance program funded by the biggest polluters covering everything from floods to fires to force polluters to finally fight climate change and invest in renewable energy.Make polluters pay so we can keep our homes!

<h2>Public Flood &amp; Fire Insurance</h2>

No support for crimes against humanity!The Army teaches that collective punishment, forced starvation, and targeting of civilians are war crimes that threaten our national security.No more money or weapons to support Israel's or any country's apartheid, genocide, or war crimes.I oppose illegal, offensive, and unjust wars and the creation of PTSD and moral injury for our sons and daughters in uniform.I support creating a just and lasting peace that centers those who have been harmed. I'll work to hold accountable every person who commits crimes against humanity.Never again means never again for anyone.

<h2>End Genocide &amp; Wars</h2>

Reign in Big PharmaFor far too long, Big Pharma has run rampant and lined their pockets, attacking drugs that could help people while creating opioid epidemics and harmful addiction.I support drug intervention programs that seek to treat the diseases of despair that so often lead to addiction without criminalizing struggle.I support legalizing cannabis at the federal level and expunging the records of all people who have been convicted of non-violent possession and use.I support banning direct-to-patient advertising, removing limits on pharma negotiations for Medicare, and capping pharma profits that rely on any publicly funded research.

<h2>Drugs &amp; Big Pharma</h2>

Protect children &amp; reproductive freedoms!SisterSong defines <a href="https://www.sistersong.net/reproductive-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Reproductive Justice(➚)</a> as the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.I support universal childcare, access to fertility treatments like IVF, expanded funding into research affecting women's bodies like PCOS and endometriosis, and a Constitutional right to reproductive care.

<h2>Reproductive Justice &amp; Women's Rights</h2>

Neither party truly represents most Americans because our electoral system turns everything into a false binary:Red vs. BlueLeft vs. RightUs vs. ThemBut our world is more complex than that.That's why I support proportional representation - <a style="color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary);" href="https://effectivegov.uchicago.edu/primers/proportional-representation" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the gold standard for representative democracy (➚)</a> - which our Founding Fathers would have chosen had it been invented when they wrote the Constitution.I support making election days mandatory paid national holidays so every single person's voice can be heard.I support automatic voter registration for all eligible voters because a democracy should make it easier to vote, not harder.I support term limits for all government officials including the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court.I support expanding the Supreme Court and requiring binding ethical standards for justices.I support increasing the number of states and representatives like Washington DC and Puerto Rico so everyone's voice is heard.Stop the assault on voting rights and protect democracy!

<h2>Democratic Reforms</h2>

Track AIPAC Endorses Chris Bennett

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"The President of the United States is threatening mass violence on the people of Iran. This is unhinged, power-drunk aggression at a historic and dangerous scale.

<h4>Statement on the President's violent rhetoric, illegal war, and escalation against Iran</h4>

<h4>League of Women Voters hear from District 3 congressional candidates - The Union</h4>

End corporate monopolies so small businesses can compete.For half a century, our government has given up on stopping monopolies. The result is unprecedented consolidation across every industry making it impossible for small businesses or new entrants to compete, corrupting our political system, and driving us out of our homes.I support public ownership of all utility monopolies and taxing the billionaire class out of existence. Supporting those at the bottom of the income and wealth distribution creates more local small businesses, leads to greater economic growth, and builds stronger communities.Break up the monopolies, prevent new ones, and bring back real competition!

<h2>Break Up Monopolies</h2>

Rural communities are facing dire threats from ever increasing flood and fire risks.Emergency responders in the most impacted areas face mounting risks of toxic exposures from things like lithium-ion fires and are denied the funding they need to keep us safe.I support full and permanent federal funding for fire readiness, mitigation, and prevention programs like Firewise to protect our homes and communities and to ensure all firefighters and EMT's have the suits, respirators, radios, and PPE to do their jobs safely.I support breaking up firetruck engine monopolies, allowing 3rd party equipment and services, and ending taxes on taxpayer funded purchases of PPE and fire safety equipment.I support the creation of a federal database of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and lithium-ion battery storage sites and requiring HAZMAT placards so first responders can stay safe, and holding companies accountable for the harms they cause. I support expanded funding for research on lithium ion fire impact mitigation.Emergency responders deserve to be safe while they keep us safe.

<h2>First Responder Safety &amp; Fire Readiness</h2>

<h4>Video: Glenn Kirschner - Time to Elect DEMOCRACY WARRIORS To Congress!</h4>

Protect our rights and freedoms!When I joined the U.S. Army, I swore an oath to defend the Constitution and the rights granted to all people in the US, not just citizens.That includes freedom of speech &amp; religion, due process, and no military or secret police on our streets.We must hold accountable the people who have violated our Constitution!

<h2>Defend The Constitution</h2>

More than 1 in 4 Americans have a disability. I am one of them.I support expanding home &amp; community-based services, <a href="https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/long-term-services-supports/money-follows-person" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Money Follows the Person(➚)</a>, Office of Special Education programs, and Federal ADA funding and enforcement.I oppose a return to institutionalization and will work to <a href="https://endseclusion.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">end seclusion and restraint programs in schools(➚)</a> and end <a style="color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary); text-decoration-color: var(--color-text-accent-secondary);" href="https://www.abolishforcedpsychiatry.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">coercive mental health practices(➚)</a>.I also support ratifying the <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/treaty-bodies/crpd/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (➚)</a>.Disability rights are human rights.

<h2>Disability Justice</h2>

Protect our lands, communities &amp; futures.Climate change, environmental destruction &amp; economic injustice are linked and demand bold action. My plan: a Green New Deal, creating jobs, restoring ecosystems &amp; building a resilient future.I’ll work to cut emissions, protect public lands &amp; forests from corporate exploitation, and ensure disadvantaged communities benefit from clean energy investments and are not left holding the bag for the biggest polluters.

<h2>Environmental Justice</h2>

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Campaign website for Chris Bennett's 2026 run for California's 3rd congressional district covering parts of Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado, and Nevada counties. Chris refuses corporate money and puts Californians and the American people before billionaire profits or foreign countries. Chris is a disabled Army veteran, graduate of West Point and Berkeley, and technology strategist. He is fighting for affordable life for working people by breaking up the monopolies, ending the reign of private health insurance companies with Medicare for All, and strengthening our democracy by getting money out of politics.

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