United States Representative, District 12

Lateefah Simon has represented this district in the U.S. House since January 2025. Before that she spent her career leading Bay Area groups focused on racial justice and helping young people leave the criminal justice system. She also served on the BART Board of Directors and was its president. She was born blind and has long pushed for disability rights and better public transit.

She says she ran for Congress because she has spent her life fighting for people without a voice and wants to bring their stories to Washington. In September 2025 she voted against that year's defense policy bill. She said she will not vote to fund war while the government will not pay for housing, school lunches or health care for veterans.

She promises to keep pushing for renters, transit riders and people with disabilities. She has also fought federal cuts to health care funding and opposed extending a controversial surveillance law. She says she wants to keep bringing this community's concerns straight to Congress.

Jamie Joyce runs a nonprofit and has worked in tech and humanitarian aid. They were the top operating officer at a global aid group that worked in more than 20 countries. They later started their own nonprofit that builds tools for democracy. They helped launch Democracy's Library, a project with the Internet Archive that saves government records.

Joyce is running against Representative Lateefah Simon because they say Congress does not understand artificial intelligence. They say AI poses real risks to democracy. They wrote a long bill called the MAD Act. It calls for new AI rules and more government accountability. They have not gotten it introduced in Congress.

Joyce promises to push for AI rules, stronger campaign finance laws and changes to current immigration enforcement. They also want more government records about Jeffrey Epstein made public. They want to build a group of lawmakers willing to break from business as usual in Washington.