San Benito County Democrats

08/29/2026

08/29/2026

This year it's super important to repeatedly check our voter registration.

Text VOTER to 59798 to get the link to check it TODAY.

If you’re not registered at all, get registered.

And if you have any trouble or need more help, call 1-866-OUR-VOTE and they can get you the support you need.

Share this information with friends and family.

08/18/2026

08/14/2026

Welcoming home our native son, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas! Join us in Hollister on September 3. Details and RSVP below. 👇

Robert Rivas

08/13/2026

Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas is coming to Hollister, and we’re always glad to welcome him home to San Benito County!

Robert Rivas

07/26/2026

Democracy doesn’t maintain itself. It takes people willing to show up, build relationships, support local candidates, and keep organizing between elections.

This fundraiser helps make that work possible in San Benito County. We’d love to see you there.

🎟️ Tickets, sponsorships, and volunteer information:
https://sanbenitodemocrats.org/

07/17/2026

District 5 deserves a Supervisor who is truly ready for the job.

San Benito County faces real challenges: limited revenue, aging infrastructure, understaffed departments, tough land-use decisions. Solving them takes someone prepared to do the actual work.

The next District 5 Supervisor should be ready to:

✅ Study the budgets, contracts, and issues thoroughly, and keep asking questions until the answers make sense

✅ Balance growth with the long-term health of residents, water, and infrastructure

✅ Exercise independent judgment, listen carefully, and stay open to changing course as facts emerge

✅ Stay steady and accessible, even under criticism

✅ Represent District 5 while governing in the interest of the whole County

✅ Bring together key stakeholders — residents, agriculture, business, labor, public agencies — and help move conversations toward practical solutions

Prior elected experience is not the only measure of readiness — BUT readiness is. This is not a role to grow into after being elected. If you're considering running, do the homework before you do the campaigning: study the budget, understand the County's obligations and constraints, know the issues in depth, and talk to people who've done the job. Arrive ready — not still learning on the public's time.

Five people make decisions that shape what San Benito County becomes. This isn't a ceremonial job — it takes preparation, judgment, and humility.

Thinking about running? Contact the San Benito County Elections Department:

📧 [email protected]
📞 831-636-4016

Interested in seeking the Democratic Party's endorsement?
Review the process → sanbenitodemocrats.org/endorsements
Then connect with us → sanbenitodemocrats.org/stay-connected/

07/15/2026

Shorter Walking Option Available for July 19 Gilroy March

For those who want to participate but cannot comfortably walk the full route, organizers have added a shorter walking option. Please see the details below and share with others who may benefit.

Bring plenty of water and sun protection—it may be very warm.

Shared on behalf of the team at Aromas Tri-County Indivisible.

07/14/2026

This is an alarm.

Heather Cox Richardson’s July 13 Letters from an American brings together developments that no American who values constitutional democracy should treat as ordinary politics:

A president renewing military attacks without meaningful congressional authorization. Federal immigration operations ending in more deaths, including the killing of a man who reportedly was not even the person agents were seeking. Presidential family members investing in defense companies benefiting from billions of dollars in government business. And a federal judge finding that the president and government lawyers manufactured a lawsuit to place judicial legitimacy behind an arrangement benefiting Trump, his family, his associates, and political allies.

Each matter requires careful investigation, and some facts remain disputed. But the larger pattern is already unmistakable: public power is being treated as personal power. War-making authority, federal law enforcement, government contracting, prosecution, public money, and the Department of Justice are being bent toward the interests of one president and those around him.

This is how democratic government is hollowed out—not necessarily in one dramatic act, but through repeated abuses that overwhelm public attention, normalize the previously unthinkable, and test whether Congress, the courts, the press, state officials, and the American people will resist.

We cannot respond by becoming numb.

Read Richardson’s July 13, 2026 full account here:
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-13-2026

Then act:

Contact your members of Congress and demand that they assert Congress’s constitutional authority over war, investigate financial conflicts of interest, require transparency and accountability from federal law-enforcement agencies, and defend the independence of the Department of Justice.

Support journalists doing the difficult work of documenting abuses of power. Nationally, that includes ProPublica and The Marshall Project. In California, it includes CalMatters and Capital & Main. Here at home and around the Central Coast, support BenitoLink, Voices of Monterey Bay, and the locally and independently owned Monterey County Weekly/Monterey County NOW.

Subscribe. Donate when you can. Share well-sourced reporting. Speak out. Attend public meetings. Support organizations defending voting rights, civil liberties, immigrant communities, and the rule of law. Help elect leaders who understand that loyalty to the Constitution must come before loyalty to any president or political party.

The institutions of democracy will not defend themselves. That responsibility belongs to all of us.

Today began with yet another demonstration of the fact that the U.S.

07/06/2026

Democracy starts at home — and it starts with all of us!

Join San Benito County Democrats as we gather, reconnect, raise funds, and get ready for the work ahead: voter outreach, local endorsements, youth engagement, and organizing that helps our communities turn values into action.

Every ticket, sponsorship, and donation helps power the local Democratic work we’ll need this fall and beyond.

We’d love to see you there.