Juan Camacho
Juan Camacho serves as President of Equality California Institute. He immigrated from Mexico as a young child and grew up in the San Gabriel Valley. He worked in the entertainment industry and helped lead one of the largest union construction efforts in the city. His priorities are taking on the affordability crisis through tenant protections and new housing, defending reproductive freedom, and protecting immigrant and LGBTQ+ communities.
Why We Endorsed: Juan Camacho is a civil rights leader whose career in the entertainment industry produced one of the biggest middle-class jobs wins California has seen in the last decade: tripling the California Film and Television Tax Credit.
Alignment With NCC Priorities: Juan's work to triple the Film and Television Tax Credit is the same kind of targeted industry support NCC's middle class jobs task force champions through the Manufacturers Tax Credit and the R&D Tax Credit. Tens of thousands of below-the-line union jobs in Los Angeles County have been preserved or created through this work. His leadership of a major union construction effort in Los Angeles gives him a working knowledge of the cost structure that drives housing production. His housing platform calls for building more homes and expanding homeownership, which lines up with NCC's Build Baby Build agenda. His endorsements include Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara, Assemblymember Rick Chavez Zbur, and Assemblymember Mark Gonzalez.
Learn More: camachoforsenate.com
Senate District
26
The Race
District 26 covers Downtown Los Angeles and adjacent neighborhoods including Echo Park, Koreatown, Los Feliz, Silver Lake, Vernon, and Boyle Heights. It is safely Democratic, with 60 percent of voters registered as Democrats. The seat is open because Senator Maria Elena Durazo is running for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Camacho faces fellow Democrats Wendy Carrillo, a former assemblymember, Sara Hernandez, a Los Angeles Community College District trustee, Sarah Rascon, a former director under Mayor Karen Bass, Paul Bowers, a retired teacher, and Maebe Pudlo, a Silver Lake neighborhood councilmember. Republicans Claudia Agraz and Sang Masog are also on the ballot. The top two finishers in June will likely both be Democrats.
A New California Starts With This Slate
Together, these fourteen candidates are the slate NCC believes can move California forward in 2026. They come from cities and counties up and down the state, from different backgrounds and different parties, and from different chapters of California's story. What they share is a commitment to getting things done: finding solutions to homelessness, building the housing, securing the water and energy, and growing the middle class jobs that working Californians need now. NCC stands behind each of them, and we are asking voters in their districts to join us. The California Dream is worth fighting for, and these are the leaders who will help us bring it back within reach.
June 2026 NCC Races: the map highlights Senate Districts 12, 14, 22, 26, and 34, and Assembly Districts 12, 31, 34, 35, 47, 65, 66, 67, and 68