A Bay Area congressional candidate in the deeply blue 12th District slammed the Democratic party, claiming they 'need to wake up' and calling for a complete government overhaul.
As the June 2 primary approaches, Jamie Joyce claimed that President Donald Trump's second term has been an 'unrelenting assault' on the checks and balances of the government and called out the Democratic party for inaction against the Republican takeover.
'Democrats need to wake up,' she told the East Bay Times. 'There are powerful, relentless incentives and interests who want to pillage this ship while its sinking.'
The glamorous candidate blamed the Left for allowing the 'expansion of the surveillance state by anti-democratic tech titans' and failing to prosecute 'the Epstein class' - a term for those involved with the disgraced New York financier.
Joyce, standing against her opponent Lateefah Simon, called for a complete restructuring of the government to 'tip the balance of power back in favor of the people.'
Much of her campaign surrounds the Modernizing American Democracy (MAD) Act, which largely calls for government reform and accountability.
'Each one of these precincts within District 12 have their own individual needs,' she told the outlet.
'The MAD Act will be extremely helpful- in the long term, not just this next election cycle - dealing with the fact that Alameda is sinking, that crime may be bleeding over from Oakland into San Leandro, all these local issues.'
Jamie Joyce said that President Donald Trump's second term has been an 'unrelenting assault' on the checks and balances of the government, and slammed the Democratic party for inaction against the Republican takeover
Joyce, standing against her opponent Lateefah Simon for the Bay Area's District 12, called for a complete restructuring of the government to 'tip the balance of power back in favor of the people'
The glamorous candidate blamed the Left for allowing the 'expansion of the surveillance state by anti-democratic tech titans' and failing to prosecute 'the Epstein class' - a term for those involved with the disgraced New York financier
The 650+ page bill seeks to check 'the surveillance state' by prohibiting the creation and purchasing of people's 'psychological profiles,' as well as protecting voter rights, preventing harmful AI practices, narrowing the Insurrection Act, exposing 'Dark Money' spending, ICE reform and investigate Charlie Kirk's assassination.
Joyce's opponent Congresswoman Lateefah Simon
'Unchecked technology, concentrated wealth and executive overreach have tilted the scales...and AI is about to tip them further unless we do something,' the website dedicated to the act states.
'If you care about affordable housing, climate change or any issue that requires a functioning government to solve, none of it gets done while the machinery of government itself is controlled by greedy and power hungry puppets and their masters.'
The website further noted that the bill was 'not born out of hostility toward social media, AI or technology,' as Joyce herself has spent years in the AI field, according to her campaign website.
'It was born out of love for people, for freedom, for rights, and for privacy…but let’s be honest: ultimately this comes down to the people [versus] the predators,' the MAD Act site stated.
'As Americans, we the people hold the right to throw off an oppressive government. Our system was designed around balance…between three branches, between state and federal government, and most importantly, between every part of government and the people it serves,' the site said.
Joyce's campaign claimed that the Executive Branch 'is corrupt and overpowered,' and called for action against foreign exploitation, crimes against children and AI.
'Because everything we care about, like affordable housing, a sustainable environment, clean food, fair taxes and ending genocide/war is downstream of the will of the criminal Epstein class who are selling our democracy for parts - and are getting away with it,' her campaign site states.
Much of Joyce's campaign surrounds the Modernizing American Democracy (MAD) Act, which largely calls for government reform and accountability
Joyce's campaign claimed that the Executive Branch 'is corrupt and overpowered,' and called for action against foreign exploitation, crimes against children and AI
Joyce said, if elected, she refuses to let a 'blue wave' become 'business as usual' and said she has been a disappointed voter herself 'too many times.'
Much of Joyce's message reflects similar thoughts to Representative Ro Khanna (D-Fremont) who told the Los Angeles Times in November 2025: 'When you take a step back, you have a country where an elite governing class has gotten away with impunity and shafted the working class in this country, shafted factory towns, shafted rural communities...'
'What [the release of the Epstein files] is about is saying, we reject the Epstein class governing America today,' he added.
Khanna argued that the exposure of the 'rich and powerful people who abuse the system' would rebuild trust with the American people, the outlet reported.
The Daily Mail reached out to Jamie Joyce's campaign for comment.