Virtual Wildfire Insurance Town Hall

Assemblymember Gail Pellerin invites you to join her, Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, and Amy Bach from United Policyholders for an important and timely virtual town hall addressing wildfire insurance issues impacting our community.

Together, we’ll provide you with essential information and resources to navigate insurance claims, offer personalized advice, and share tips to avoid common insurance scams.

Thursday, April 3
5-6 PM
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Don’t miss this opportunity to ensure you’re protected and informed. Spots are limited-please RSVP today!

Empower Democrats in the Central Valley

Empower Democrats in the Central Valley
Wednesday, April 2, 5:30-6:45pm
Online

Hear from actor Kyra Sedgwick and writer Elizabeth Chur, with video appearances by Senator Adam Schiff and political strategist Dan Pfeiffer, about how MAGA is damaging Central Valley communities and about the need to mount a strong, year-round Democratic resistance.

This event will support the Kings and Tulare County Democratic Parties in CD-22, represented by Republican Congressman David Valadao, who has been voting along party lines. Two thirds of his constituents are enrolled in Medicaid (Medi-Cal in California), which is under threat. County Democratic party chairs will talk about what is happening in CD-22 and plans to inform, support, and mobilize the district’s residents.

Get more information and sign up here. https://tinyurl.com/kingstulareaf

Help Pressure Vulnerable California Republican House Members to Vote against Cuts to Medi-Cal

The California Democratic Party, labor allies, and grassroots groups across the state are mobilizing to make urgent calls to fight the dangerous attacks that House Republicans have made against our healthcare. We are calling into battleground districts that represent our frontline defense against cuts to Medicaid (called Medi-Cal in California). Each call you make helps us protect healthcare for those who need it most. Please share; sign up below.

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Medi-Cal enrollment by district

  • CA22 – 67%
  • CA40 – 21%
  • CA41 – 34%

Phone-bank schedule

  • Monday-Friday
  • 1 hour call time and 15 min training
  • 12 callers per shift

Social Media Storm Training

Please join us this Saturday, March 15, 10:30am-12pm for free training on how to unleash a “social media storm”.

Trump and his MAGA followers try to dominate all media, but we can band together and get our message to break through.

The training will be live and both in person and on Zoom.

Anyone can attend and participate, regardless of the social media app(s) they use or prefer. Beginners are welcome!

Saturday, March 15
10:30am-12pm
In Person @ 2901 Moorpark Ave, San Jose, CA 95128
or Via Zoom

Join us and bring your devices to have some fun!

Can’t make it on Saturday?  We’ll share a video of the training followed by live Q&A via Zoom only on Sunday, March 16, at 1pm.

Regards, Bill James
Santa Clara County Democratic Party Chair

March 2025 Central Committee Recap

On Thursday, March 6, 2025, the Santa Clara County Democratic Central Committee took the following actions:

Statement of the Santa Clara County Democratic Party on the Violent Detention of Ulises Peña Lopez

On Saturday, February 22, 2025, a Sunnyvale father named Ulises Peña Lopez reportedly was arrested by federal immigration officers in a violent manner outside his home, in sight of his wife and three-year-old daughter.

SCCDP has issued the following response:

Statement of the Santa Clara County Democratic Party on the Violent Detention of Ulises Peña Lopez

Follow us on Bluesky and Mastodon

TL; DR: Follow us on Bluesky and/or Mastodon.  Help us to build a progressive online community on platforms not beholden to Trump.

These first few weeks have been intense and difficult, but we’re finding and raising our voices, and while it may not seem like it has mattered much, it will soon.   

One key battle will be over raising the debt limit.  The current debt limit has already been reached and the “extraordinary measures” the Treasury Department is using to avoid default will soon be exhausted.  (Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen estimated those measures would extend the time to default to March 14, 2025.)  If we can rally our Senators and Representatives to stand together and stand strong, we may be able to block or roll back some of Trump’s more egregious excesses.

To organize effectively we need to coordinate, and to coordinate we need to communicate.  Our “ask” in this email is to follow our new accounts on Bluesky and/or Mastodon

For years, we’ve all used legacy social media networks, such as Twitter/X and the Meta platforms (e.g., Facebook, Instagram, more recently Threads) to stay connected.  We’ve watched with concern as Musk turned X into a private fiefdom where conspiracy theories and hate thrive, and more recently as Zuckerberg bent the knee by gutting content moderation and calling for more “masculine” whatever in workplaces.  Sad!

Many progressives are leaving X and the Meta platforms.  For now, our plan is to build up our connections on Bluesky and Mastodon as we migrate to those platforms for our primary social media presence.  We will no longer make new posts on X – find us instead on Bluesky.  We will continue to post content on Meta platforms as we cross post and build up a following on Mastodon.  We will post less on Meta and rely more on Bluesky and Mastodon as we are able to build our community there.

We hope not to leave anyone behind.  If you haven’t checked out Bluesky or Mastodon, please give them a try.  And don’t forget to follow us and to like and comment on our posts.  It’s how we build a community online.

SCCDP on Bluesky: https://sccdp.bsky.social/
SCCDP on Mastodon:  https://sfba.social/@sccdp

Regards, Bill James
Santa Clara County Democratic Party Chair
@sccdp-dem-chair.bsky.social