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California's New 3rd Congressional District

Spans from Southeast Sacramento in Sacramento County, north through Placer County, includes all of Nevada County and much of El Dorado County east to Nevada's western border.

View the new 3rd, 5th, and 7th district lines with this helpful Google Maps Overlay(➚) created by El Dorado Indivisible(➚) and El Dorado Progressives(➚)

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Our Campaign’s People-first, Top Priorities

Affordable Housing & Groceries

Everyone deserves a safe, stable place to live and healthy food in their bellies.

I'll fight to build more lower & middle income housing, develop public homeowners insurance and public financing options, protect SNAP, expand WIC to ALL new mothers - regardless of income, and end grocery deserts.

PEOPLE FIRST so families can stay and thrive in the communities they call home.

Healthcare, Pharma & Single Payer

Health care is a human right.

As a healthcare worker, I saw how our pain profits Wall Street, health insurers, and big pharma.

I'll fight to expand the healthcare workforce, pass Medicare For All, support Rural Hospitals, invest in drug intervention, ban direct-to-patient advertising, remove limits on pharma negotiations, and cap pharma profits that rely on any publicly funded research.

Good Jobs, Livable Wages & Labor Power

Civil Service jobs and power to the workers.

Democracy thrives when there is low inequality and working people have good jobs with strong labor protections.

I will fight to create Civil Service jobs in infrastructure and green energy.

I support an inflation adjusted livable minimum wage.

I support expanding workers' rights including collective bargaining and the right to organize with the PRO Act(➚).

Reproductive Justice

Protect children & reproductive freedoms.

I support universal childcare, access to fertility treatments like IVF, and a Constitutional right to reproductive care.

SisterSong defines Reproductive Justice(➚) 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.

Environmental Justice

Protect our lands, communities & futures.

Climate change, environmental destruction & economic injustice are linked and demand bold action. My plan: a Green New Deal, creating jobs, restoring ecosystems & building a resilient future.

I’ll work to cut emissions, protect public lands & forests from corporate exploitation, and ensure disadvantaged communities benefit from clean energy investments.

Social Security & Medicaid

Hands off our safety nets.

Our seniors and most vulnerable people are being directly targeted with unprecedented attacks on Social Security and Medicaid.

Once elected, I will work to overturn the "Big Beautiful Bill", remove the social security cap, undo DOGE damages, make social security easier to use, and sustain Medicaid until we have Medicare for All.

Veterans & Military

Support those who served

As Vets, we're abused by war hungry politicians and forced to fight for care after harms caused during service.

As a disabled Vet, I oppose efforts to privatize the VA.

I oppose handouts to 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.

End the Genocide

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.

I oppose sending money or weapons to support Israel's or any country's apartheid or genocide.

I support fighting transnational repression(➚) by foreign countries.

Never again means never again for anyone.

Meet Captain Chris Bennett

Chris Bennett, candidate for U.S. Congress

I'm a disabled Army veteran running for U.S. Congress in California's 3rd district to fight for everyday people, not billionaires, lobbyists, or genocidal foreign countries.

I put people first.

I'm the oldest brother of eleven siblings, and I know firsthand what it's like to worry about putting food on the table and making rent.

After 9/11, I chose to serve my country in the Army like so many of my family before me. When I graduated from West Point, I swore to defend the Constitution and the rights it guarantees, like due process, freedom of speech, and the rule of law.

In the Army, I served overseas in artillery and in the states defending our nation’s computer networks as a cyber officer. After the Army, I worked in nonprofit health care and tech strategy, earning my MBA from the Haas School of Business.

Captain Chris Bennett in army dress blue uniform for Department of the Army photograph

I’ve been shaped by many teachers in my 35 years - my parents, my wife, West Point, the Army, and Berkeley to name a few.

Each one instilling values I still carry: to help those in need, stand up to bullies, choose the harder right over the easier wrong, lead by example, and question the status quo.

But today, we’re watching billionaires harvest our data, steal from the poor, and destroy our safety net, while Congress takes a handout to look the other way. Both parties have been corrupted by wealthy interests, and too many politicians have abandoned us to appease their donors.

When I saw ordinary people being disappeared off the street by masked thugs without due process, I couldn’t stay on the sidelines. So I left my job to run for Congress, to stand up to unchecked power and fight for the future we all deserve.

I refuse any money from corporate PACs or lobbyists. I’m fighting for our basic needs - affordable housing & groceries, Medicare For All, Social Security, the VA, and our basic human rights.

This campaign isn’t backed by big donors, it’s powered by the people. We need your help to take back our democracy.

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