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The Primary is June 2, 2026.
Counties will mail ballots on May 4, 2026.
The last day to register is May 18, 2026.
Early-in-person voting starts May 23, 2026.

CD3 Map with County Breakdowns

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

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.

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

Groceries, Nutrition & Food Security

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.

Public Homeowners Insurance

Californians are being squeezed from our homes and could lose everything thanks to unaccountable polluters and skyrocketing premiums.

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.

Healthcare Access & Single Payer

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. There are not enough patient care providers, many are shackled to endless debt and starvation wages. Worst of all, proven science is under attack putting all of us at risk.

I will fight for single-payer universal health insurance with Medicare For All including full coverage for dental, vision, and hearing.

I'll fight to grow the healthcare & mental health workforce by expanding medical & nursing schools and making them tuition free for every student who qualifies so care providers reflect their communities and provide culturally competent care.

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.

Everyone deserves access to high quality care, no matter where they live.

Good Jobs, Livable Wages & Labor Power

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, especially because of AI.

I support passing the PRO Act(➚) 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.

It's time we undo the damage of Taft-Hartley and level the playing field for workers.

Reproductive Justice

Protect children & reproductive freedoms.

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.

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 and are not left holding the bag for the biggest polluters.

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 (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 with the cost of living, and sustain Medicaid until we have Medicare for All.

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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