Jamie Joyce
Candidate for U.S. Representative, Congressional District 12
Jamie Joyce is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House. She is running in California's 12th District. It spans the Oakland/Berkeley/Alameda area. She describes herself as a Berkeley-based multidisciplinary expert. She also calls herself an executive and researcher. She cites nearly a decade of that work. She built civic and democracy technology tools. Those tools include AI systems used to inform government policy decisions. She co-launched Democracy's Library. It is a project of the Internet Archive. It collects government legal and legislative records. She served as chief operating officer of an international group. Its work was environmental and humanitarian. It oversaw projects in more than 20 countries. She has served on two boards. They were Wikitongues and the Sand Mandala Foundation. Joyce has not held elected office before. This is her first run for public office. In the June 2, 2026 top-two primary for CA-12, Joyce placed second. She took about 15.6% of the vote, roughly 28,372 votes. She advanced to the November 2026 general election. First-place finisher and incumbent Rep. Lateefah Simon advanced as well. As of a May 13, 2026 FEC filing, her campaign reported $14,016 in total receipts. It reported $5,066 cash on hand. That is far less than the incumbent's reported $1.26 million. Her campaign centers on a legislative proposal she wrote herself. She calls it the MAD Act (Mass Accountability in Democracy Act). It is a roughly 650-page omnibus bill. It covers AI rules and ending mass surveillance. It covers campaign-finance and dark-money disclosure. It covers election reform and limits on the Insurrection Act. It includes changes to immigration enforcement. It also calls for release of more files tied to Jeffrey Epstein. Home: Berkeley, California. Occupation: technology and democracy-tech executive. Also a researcher. She co-launched Democracy's Library at the Internet Archive. She was COO of an international group. Its work was environmental and humanitarian. Prior office: none. This is her first run for public office.
On the issues
- Immigration & Border
Supports ending current ICE immigration-enforcement operations as part of her broader reform platform, framed as 'getting ICE off the streets.'
Source → - Criminal Justice & Courts
Supports narrowing presidential authority under the Insurrection Act to limit domestic military/law-enforcement deployment.
Source → - Foreign Policy & Defense
States she will not accept AIPAC campaign contributions and has voiced criticism of U.S. policy tied to the conflict in Gaza, using the hashtag '#EndTheGenocide.'
Source → - Government, Elections & Democracy
Advocates for mandatory disclosure of 'dark money' in politics and broader campaign-finance transparency and election-system reform as central pillars of her platform.
Source → - Technology & Privacy
Advocates for new federal AI regulation with binding guardrails ('red-line' rules and interim safeguards) and for ending government mass-surveillance programs.
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