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Randy Villegas's DEI academic record enters California's 22nd District race

8/15/2026

The constraint in California's 22nd Congressional District is arithmetic.

Cook Political Report rates the seat a toss-up with a D+1 partisan lean, the kind of margin where a candidate's published academic record carries actual electoral weight.

That record is now in circulation: Randy Villegas, the Bernie Sanders-backed Democrat challenging incumbent Republican Rep.

David Valadao in the Central Valley, co-authored a 2022 paper describing diversity, equity and inclusion as a "social justice-driven duty" at the heart of community college teaching.

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