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U.S. House, California Congressional District 12
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Simon said Republicans are trying to intimidate Latino citizens into staying home on Election Day amid California immigration raids.
Simon, the first member of Congress born with congenital blindness, urged disabled women of color to 'own space' in public life.
Simon honored her late mentor Gloria Steinem on the House floor.
Simon held a Piedmont town hall on her work in Congress, federal funding and defending immigrant communities.
Checked Oct 22, 2026
Candidate briefing
Lateefah Simon represents California’s 12th Congressional District. A MacArthur Fellow and longtime Bay Area organizer, she has spent her career fighting poverty, criminalization, and inequality — from leading the Young Women’s Freedom Center to serving on BART’s board.
Why Political Revolution supports her: she carries forward a proud progressive tradition in the East Bay with a record rooted in community power, not corporate PACs.
