By SAJE Staff
October 9, 2025
California’s special election on Tuesday, November 4, will have just one issue on the ballot: Proposition 50. If approved, Proposition 50 will temporarily redraw California’s congressional district lines to create more Democratic seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
SAJE strongly endorses a YES vote on Proposition 50.
Why vote yes? Because Republicans in other states are busy redistricting to ensure they can keep control of the House after the November 2026 midterm elections. In Texas and elsewhere, they are hurriedly gerrymandering, or redrawing electoral boundaries to increase the numbers of Republican voters in areas where seats are up for grabs.
House Republicans are nervous about their chances of winning in 2026 for good reason: they have no check on Trump’s dangerous authoritarian rule, and many of their constituents are angry about the administration’s campaign of terror against immigrants, deployment of armed forces into American cities for no reason, and cutting of Medicare for millions who depend on it, among numerous other policy disasters.
As with pretty much every aspect of the Trump administration, we hate it has come to this. Gerrymandering is undemocratic. In fact, back in 2010, the majority of California voters agreed we should take the power to redraw political maps out of the hands of politicians by creating the Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. Since then, California has been the poster child for the nation for how we do our redistricting. Proposition 50 would temporarily undo that, but we think it’s worth it to prevent a Trump dictatorship.
PLEASE VOTE YES ON PROPOSITION 50.
Vote-by-mail ballots started going out to registered voters on October 6.
Ballot drop-off locations open on October 7.
The last day to register to vote is October 20.
Early in-person voting starts Oct. 25.
Election day is November 4. Polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
To find your polling place, click here.
SAJE (Strategic Actions for a Just Economy) is a community-based organization in South Central Los Angeles that builds community power and leadership for economic justice.Our positions on statewide propositions are offered in the spirit of advancing a more just economy for all.
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