CNC Action Fund: 2026 Voter Guide

Voting is underway, and CNC Action Fund has researched the candidates and propositions to bring you our endorsements and ballot recommendations.

CNC Action Fund builds durable political power in California's Latino, immigrant, rural, and low-income communities. For fifteen years, that power has been built the same way our work describes it, door by door, conversation by conversation, by trusted messengers who live in the neighborhoods they organize. An endorsement is one of the most visible expressions of that power. CNC AF’s endorsement process is deliberate, consistent, and unmistakably in service of the communities we represent.

The following principles guide every endorsement decision:

• A power-building tool, not a popularity contest. We spend our credibility only where it advances the long-term power and concrete interests of our communities.
• Community benefit comes first. The central question in every decision is whether the candidate or measure will make life better for the people we serve.
• A non-negotiable floor. We do not endorse anyone who would undermine the fundamental right to vote, attack the dignity or safety of immigrant communities, or target the people we serve, regardless of alignment elsewhere.
• Independence. We endorse on merit and community benefit, not party loyalty, incumbency, or donor pressure.
• Accountability. An endorsement is the beginning of a relationship, not the end. We hold those we endorse to the commitments they make.
• Coalition-minded. We weigh how a position strengthens or strains the alliances that make our movement win together.

Here is where we stand.

CNC Action Fund Candidate Endorsements

• Randy Villegas — U.S. House of Representatives, California District 22
• Esmeralda Soria — California State Senate, District 14
• Maria Pacheco — Fresno County Supervisor, District 1
• Ariana Martínez Lott — Fresno City Council, District 7
• Naindeep Singh — Fresno City Council, District 1
• Felipe Ortiz — Indio City Council, District 4
• Eddie Valero — Tulare County Supervisor, District 4

Vote YES

• Proposition 1 — Housing bonds
• Proposition 3 — Renew Prop 30 income taxes
• Proposition 4 — Public campaign financing
• Proposition 37 — Low-cost mortgages for homebuyers
• Proposition 40 — Billionaire wealth tax

Vote NO

• Proposition 39 — Voter ID and citizenship verification
• Proposition 41 — Tax revenue reallocation requirements
• Proposition 42 — Prohibition on new retirement taxes
• Proposition 43 — Two-thirds vote requirement for local special taxes
• Proposition 44 — Rules on how health clinics must spend their money
• Proposition 45 — Changes to how long environmental (CEQA) reviews take

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