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It’s on! Ben filed today (Feb. 9, 2026) with Kern County Elections (California Secretary of State) for the 20th Congressional District June Primary.​

California’s 20th Congressional District is NOT being significantly redistricted in the proposed November 4th Special Election suspending the “independent” redistricting commission. The 20th will remain the same largely rural and semi-rural district California’s bi-partisan committee created subsequent to the 2020 census. The indisputable fact is, as it has been, that the 20th is not numerically

Thanks to all who supported my candidacy and voted for non partisan independence during the past year. Please consider support for my 2026 independent run for the 20th Congressional District through either ActBlue or Raise The Money.

I will be on the November 5, 2024 General Election Ballot to fill the currently empty seat for the remainder of the Kern County District 2 Supervisor vacancy announced in August. The Special Election District 2 seat is mostly for the remainder year of 2026. Please visit my Facebook page: facebook.com/bendewellsup for District 2 campaign

If it cannot be understood why anyone would run for public office these days – why I felt, and continue to feel, compelled to run for national public office against all odds, I offer this simple yet sincere explanation. Given the existential threats to democracy existing today, as have existed before and will without our

Ben has once again received the 2024 Moms Demand Action Gun Sense Candidate Seal of Approval.

Deadlines are fast approaching for contribution limits determining who will appear at televised 20th CD Debates. Please donate now! Otherwise, only party mouthpieces and rich men will be seen by voters at the debates and independent voices will not be heard. Thanks!!

A special election will be held March 19, 2024 (primary) to fill the 20th Congressional District’s vacant seat. Please contact BEN DEWELL FOR CONGRESS immediately if you wish to help out with gathering petition signatures in lieu of filing fees due NEXT WEEK, January 16, 2024. Signatures must be collected for valid addresses within the 20th.

Please join me at 9:00 AM, December 16, 2023 (this weekend) to volunteer to lay wreathes in honor of our fallen heroes at the Bakersfield National Cemetery (Hwys 58 & 223). 30338 E Bear Mountain BlvdKeene, CA 93531, United States Register: https://www.wreathsacrossamerica.org/pages/14738/Overview/?relatedId=0

Yes! Now that 2022 is officially in the books, I will be working throughout the coming year to gain support for 2024. The only way I will succeed is with your support!

Here’s the campaign mailer you never saw ‘cuz the Democratic Party wouldn’t give me voter lists and I can’t afford to mail it…

Another day in the good ‘ol US, another mass shooting. I don’t want your guns. The school shooter wants your guns…the church shooter wants your guns…the mall shooter wants your guns…the gun lobby wants your guns…your feckless legislators awash in lobby money want your guns. I am  independent. No one owns me, and ever will.

BEN DEWELL FOR CONGRESS has been awarded the 2022 Moms Demand Action Gun Sense Candidate distinction.

SCOTUS – The Talibaniization of America. Choose your legislators carefully.

If SCOTUS overturns Roe v Wade, as seems likely, it will mark the first time since Prohibition that a right has been taken away from Americans. We all know how that turned out.

I will be at the Tulare County League of Women Voters Candidate Forum, May 12, 2022, 6:00 – 8:30 PM, Tulare County Office of Education, 6200 S. Mooney Blvd., Visalia, CA, 93277

GOP mouthpieces railed against activist judges for years. We now have 3 of them on SCOTUS – 3 who broke their pledge to uphold settled case law to their own GOP confirmation senators. I will uphold my oath to the Constitution as a member of at least one member of a counterbalancing legislative branch when

I will support/initiate/author codified legislation for women’s right to choose and dominion over their own bodies when I defeat McCarthy and I am elected CA-20th in November.

With the right to choose on the precipice of no longer being the law of the land, it is more important than ever to choose primary candidates who can actually win their 2022 general election legislative races.

The following came to me via my contacts: Dear Ben Dewell Campaign.My name is Chris and I recently wanted to reach out to the campaign.I am 13 years old and politics has always been a huge interest to mesince I was a little boy.   Even my school teacher is amazed at how much I

I will be attending the Senior Vote Candidate Forum – April 30, 2022 10:00 AM

I support the Administration’s measured, progressive approach to Russian economic sanctions and non boots-on-the-ground support, but believe it is now time, if there ever was a time, to cut the bloody ties to Russian oil and fossil fuels from which it derives its chief support for the extermination and subjectification of free peoples. The United

I have installed a Help Ukraine donation button on my home page. The button will take you to Direct Relief, rated consistently among the top 10 charities and 100% fundraising efficient by Forbes Magazine. They are the only charity I give to. Choose “Direct my donation to”, and select “Ukraine Crisis”. The link has been

I will be at the TMDC Meeting this Thursday – 6:00 PM March 3, 2022.

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I will be filing with Kern County Elections for U.S. Representative of the 20th Congressional today.

Today, I filed nomination papers for candidacy and will be on the ballot for U.S. Representative in the newly re-districted 20th Congressional District (CA). Onto the June 7 Primary. Thanks to the Tehachapi Democratic Club for helping me to collect Petitions in Lieu!