Hugo Soto-Martinez
@hugoforcd13.bsky.social
Organizer, worker, and proudly serving as Councilmember for the 13th District in the City of Angels.
This account is being used for Campaign purposes for Hugo Soto-Martinez for City Council 2026.
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This position DOES NOT speak for the full City Council.
The LAPD should NEVER be permitted to use force against journalists or anyone peacefully exercising their first amendment rights.
The LAPD should NEVER be permitted to use force against journalists or anyone peacefully exercising their first amendment rights.
October 17, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This position DOES NOT speak for the full City Council.
The LAPD should NEVER be permitted to use force against journalists or anyone peacefully exercising their first amendment rights.
The LAPD should NEVER be permitted to use force against journalists or anyone peacefully exercising their first amendment rights.
LA’s Housing & Homelessness Committee is meeting TOMORROW to consider capping rent increases at 3% for every rent-stabilized tenant in the city.
This could determine the rent next year for you and and 1.1 million of your neighbors.
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This could determine the rent next year for you and and 1.1 million of your neighbors.
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September 30, 2025 at 9:55 PM
LA’s Housing & Homelessness Committee is meeting TOMORROW to consider capping rent increases at 3% for every rent-stabilized tenant in the city.
This could determine the rent next year for you and and 1.1 million of your neighbors.
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This could determine the rent next year for you and and 1.1 million of your neighbors.
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This is government censorship – pure and simple.
When people in power can control what you say, there’s nothing they can’t do.
When people in power can control what you say, there’s nothing they can’t do.
“I absolutely love that Colbert' got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next.”
September 20, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This is government censorship – pure and simple.
When people in power can control what you say, there’s nothing they can’t do.
When people in power can control what you say, there’s nothing they can’t do.
We’re proud to announce the endorsements of Nithya Raman, Eunisses Hernandez, and Ysabel Jurado.
September 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We’re proud to announce the endorsements of Nithya Raman, Eunisses Hernandez, and Ysabel Jurado.
This outcome sends a clear message to corporate interests in LA and across the country: working people can fight and win, no matter how much money or misinformation is used to stop us.
The push to repeal L.A.'s $30-per-hour minimum wage for hotel and airline workers went down in flames on Monday, falling short of the signatures needed to qualify for the ballot.
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Bid to repeal L.A.'s $30 hotel minimum wage fails to qualify for the ballot
The L.A. Alliance for Tourism, Jobs and Progress needed about 93,000 signatures to qualify the referendum for the ballot, but fell short by about 9,000, according to the City Clerk.
www.latimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This outcome sends a clear message to corporate interests in LA and across the country: working people can fight and win, no matter how much money or misinformation is used to stop us.
One bright spot in our unprecedented housing crisis: Measure ULA is a new MASSIVE funding source, now starting to allocate huge sums to make housing more affordable.
September 5, 2025 at 10:53 PM
One bright spot in our unprecedented housing crisis: Measure ULA is a new MASSIVE funding source, now starting to allocate huge sums to make housing more affordable.
Happy World Dog Day to my son, Detroit. 🐾🥰
August 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Happy World Dog Day to my son, Detroit. 🐾🥰
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📣It shouldn’t take 9 months to fix a streetlight!!
We’re investing $500k in discretionary funding to get the lights back on in time for shorter winter days, and we’ll keep fighting for a sustainable streetlighting investment so families aren’t left in the dark.
We’re investing $500k in discretionary funding to get the lights back on in time for shorter winter days, and we’ll keep fighting for a sustainable streetlighting investment so families aren’t left in the dark.
August 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
📣It shouldn’t take 9 months to fix a streetlight!!
We’re investing $500k in discretionary funding to get the lights back on in time for shorter winter days, and we’ll keep fighting for a sustainable streetlighting investment so families aren’t left in the dark.
We’re investing $500k in discretionary funding to get the lights back on in time for shorter winter days, and we’ll keep fighting for a sustainable streetlighting investment so families aren’t left in the dark.
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Our team brought the first day of school energy across the district! ✏️📚
Everyone deserves to feel safe and welcome coming into class.
We stopped by to bring donuts and coffee to our incredible faculty and @utlanow.bsky.social teachers — a small thank you for keeping our children safe. 🍩
Everyone deserves to feel safe and welcome coming into class.
We stopped by to bring donuts and coffee to our incredible faculty and @utlanow.bsky.social teachers — a small thank you for keeping our children safe. 🍩
August 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Our team brought the first day of school energy across the district! ✏️📚
Everyone deserves to feel safe and welcome coming into class.
We stopped by to bring donuts and coffee to our incredible faculty and @utlanow.bsky.social teachers — a small thank you for keeping our children safe. 🍩
Everyone deserves to feel safe and welcome coming into class.
We stopped by to bring donuts and coffee to our incredible faculty and @utlanow.bsky.social teachers — a small thank you for keeping our children safe. 🍩
Corporations think their endless resources can buy endless power and it’s despicable.
Working people deserve livable wages and massive corporations like Delta, United and Hilton who profit off their backs can afford to pay them.
Working people deserve livable wages and massive corporations like Delta, United and Hilton who profit off their backs can afford to pay them.
August 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Corporations think their endless resources can buy endless power and it’s despicable.
Working people deserve livable wages and massive corporations like Delta, United and Hilton who profit off their backs can afford to pay them.
Working people deserve livable wages and massive corporations like Delta, United and Hilton who profit off their backs can afford to pay them.
‼️ICE in LA Update
Even with multiple court orders in place to stop the raids, Trump is ignoring the law to terrorize our communities and tear families apart.
If you see 🧊, call the LA Rapid Response Hotline at 1-888-624-4752.
Even with multiple court orders in place to stop the raids, Trump is ignoring the law to terrorize our communities and tear families apart.
If you see 🧊, call the LA Rapid Response Hotline at 1-888-624-4752.
August 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
‼️ICE in LA Update
Even with multiple court orders in place to stop the raids, Trump is ignoring the law to terrorize our communities and tear families apart.
If you see 🧊, call the LA Rapid Response Hotline at 1-888-624-4752.
Even with multiple court orders in place to stop the raids, Trump is ignoring the law to terrorize our communities and tear families apart.
If you see 🧊, call the LA Rapid Response Hotline at 1-888-624-4752.
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Our hearts are with everyone impacted by last night’s horrific crash outside the Vermont nightclub in East Hollywood.
We’re deeply grateful to the first responders and bystanders who rushed to the scene to save lives. Our office is monitoring the situation closely as the investigation continues.
We’re deeply grateful to the first responders and bystanders who rushed to the scene to save lives. Our office is monitoring the situation closely as the investigation continues.
July 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Our hearts are with everyone impacted by last night’s horrific crash outside the Vermont nightclub in East Hollywood.
We’re deeply grateful to the first responders and bystanders who rushed to the scene to save lives. Our office is monitoring the situation closely as the investigation continues.
We’re deeply grateful to the first responders and bystanders who rushed to the scene to save lives. Our office is monitoring the situation closely as the investigation continues.
Permanent housing placements in LA are at record levels.
Still, thousands of people are living on the streets because we don’t have enough housing.
Every one of the 64 units in the new Alvarado & Temple Apartments means a person or family is off the street & finally has a shot at stability.
Still, thousands of people are living on the streets because we don’t have enough housing.
Every one of the 64 units in the new Alvarado & Temple Apartments means a person or family is off the street & finally has a shot at stability.
July 12, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Permanent housing placements in LA are at record levels.
Still, thousands of people are living on the streets because we don’t have enough housing.
Every one of the 64 units in the new Alvarado & Temple Apartments means a person or family is off the street & finally has a shot at stability.
Still, thousands of people are living on the streets because we don’t have enough housing.
Every one of the 64 units in the new Alvarado & Temple Apartments means a person or family is off the street & finally has a shot at stability.
Every day, about 1,000 patients count on @ppfa.org in LA health centers for care – including birth control, STD testing and treatment, and cancer screenings.
Now, Trump’s “One Big Bill” will kick millions off Medicare and effectively defund Planned Parenthood.
Now, Trump’s “One Big Bill” will kick millions off Medicare and effectively defund Planned Parenthood.
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When you support PPLA, you add your voice to the chorus of those who understand that by standing with us, you support the rights of everyone.
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July 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Every day, about 1,000 patients count on @ppfa.org in LA health centers for care – including birth control, STD testing and treatment, and cancer screenings.
Now, Trump’s “One Big Bill” will kick millions off Medicare and effectively defund Planned Parenthood.
Now, Trump’s “One Big Bill” will kick millions off Medicare and effectively defund Planned Parenthood.
🚨ICE UPDATES 6.30🚨
July 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
🚨ICE UPDATES 6.30🚨
ICE showed up at a *confidential* Domestic V*olence Shelter.
First schools, then workplaces, then churches, and now going after survivors of abuse – nothing is off limits to the Trump administration. We need to keep showing up to keep families together.
First schools, then workplaces, then churches, and now going after survivors of abuse – nothing is off limits to the Trump administration. We need to keep showing up to keep families together.
June 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
ICE showed up at a *confidential* Domestic V*olence Shelter.
First schools, then workplaces, then churches, and now going after survivors of abuse – nothing is off limits to the Trump administration. We need to keep showing up to keep families together.
First schools, then workplaces, then churches, and now going after survivors of abuse – nothing is off limits to the Trump administration. We need to keep showing up to keep families together.
Children’s Hospital LA is shutting down its Trans Youth Clinic this July, putting lives at risk.
We can’t abandon our most vulnerable communities when they need us most. We need to come together, mobilize, and make sure every child continues to receive the care they need.
We can’t abandon our most vulnerable communities when they need us most. We need to come together, mobilize, and make sure every child continues to receive the care they need.
June 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Children’s Hospital LA is shutting down its Trans Youth Clinic this July, putting lives at risk.
We can’t abandon our most vulnerable communities when they need us most. We need to come together, mobilize, and make sure every child continues to receive the care they need.
We can’t abandon our most vulnerable communities when they need us most. We need to come together, mobilize, and make sure every child continues to receive the care they need.
More Marines won’t help anything in Los Angeles, we don’t even know where they are.
What we need is for this administration to stop terrorizing working families and get ICE out of LA.
What we need is for this administration to stop terrorizing working families and get ICE out of LA.
June 11, 2025 at 4:53 AM
More Marines won’t help anything in Los Angeles, we don’t even know where they are.
What we need is for this administration to stop terrorizing working families and get ICE out of LA.
What we need is for this administration to stop terrorizing working families and get ICE out of LA.
Deploying ICE and the National Guard isn’t about safety — it’s about distracting from the families that he’s ripping apart.
As communities across Los Angeles organize and mobilize, he’s responding with escalation, intimidation, and spectacle.
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As communities across Los Angeles organize and mobilize, he’s responding with escalation, intimidation, and spectacle.
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June 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Deploying ICE and the National Guard isn’t about safety — it’s about distracting from the families that he’s ripping apart.
As communities across Los Angeles organize and mobilize, he’s responding with escalation, intimidation, and spectacle.
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As communities across Los Angeles organize and mobilize, he’s responding with escalation, intimidation, and spectacle.
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🚨🚨DO NOT SIGN🚨🚨
Instead of paying their workers a living wage, corporations are spending MILLIONS on a misleading petition to repeal LA’s Living Wage Ordinance.
Don’t be fooled! Don’t sign the misleading petition!
#DefendTheWage #DefendTheWageLA
Instead of paying their workers a living wage, corporations are spending MILLIONS on a misleading petition to repeal LA’s Living Wage Ordinance.
Don’t be fooled! Don’t sign the misleading petition!
#DefendTheWage #DefendTheWageLA
June 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
🚨🚨DO NOT SIGN🚨🚨
Instead of paying their workers a living wage, corporations are spending MILLIONS on a misleading petition to repeal LA’s Living Wage Ordinance.
Don’t be fooled! Don’t sign the misleading petition!
#DefendTheWage #DefendTheWageLA
Instead of paying their workers a living wage, corporations are spending MILLIONS on a misleading petition to repeal LA’s Living Wage Ordinance.
Don’t be fooled! Don’t sign the misleading petition!
#DefendTheWage #DefendTheWageLA
Unarmed Crisis Response gives us a chance to move beyond the failed status quo in public safety.
Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach that sends armed officers to veterans with mental illness, we can intervene & build empathy while better serving our most vulnerable residents.
Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach that sends armed officers to veterans with mental illness, we can intervene & build empathy while better serving our most vulnerable residents.
April 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Unarmed Crisis Response gives us a chance to move beyond the failed status quo in public safety.
Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach that sends armed officers to veterans with mental illness, we can intervene & build empathy while better serving our most vulnerable residents.
Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach that sends armed officers to veterans with mental illness, we can intervene & build empathy while better serving our most vulnerable residents.
BREAKING: LA just passed a law providing lawyers to renters facing eviction.
In criminal court, everyone has the right to a lawyer.
But in eviction court? Renters are on their own.
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In criminal court, everyone has the right to a lawyer.
But in eviction court? Renters are on their own.
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April 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
BREAKING: LA just passed a law providing lawyers to renters facing eviction.
In criminal court, everyone has the right to a lawyer.
But in eviction court? Renters are on their own.
(Thread)
In criminal court, everyone has the right to a lawyer.
But in eviction court? Renters are on their own.
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Fast food corporations like Subway directly benefit from widespread wage theft and abuse of workers like Eva.
That’s why we introduced a Fast Food Fair Work Motion in LA to provide:
✅ Predictable scheduling
✅ Guaranteed Time Off
✅ “Know Your Rights Trainings”
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That’s why we introduced a Fast Food Fair Work Motion in LA to provide:
✅ Predictable scheduling
✅ Guaranteed Time Off
✅ “Know Your Rights Trainings”
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March 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Fast food corporations like Subway directly benefit from widespread wage theft and abuse of workers like Eva.
That’s why we introduced a Fast Food Fair Work Motion in LA to provide:
✅ Predictable scheduling
✅ Guaranteed Time Off
✅ “Know Your Rights Trainings”
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That’s why we introduced a Fast Food Fair Work Motion in LA to provide:
✅ Predictable scheduling
✅ Guaranteed Time Off
✅ “Know Your Rights Trainings”
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For months, families on Mohawk St had to fight unfair evictions to stay off the streets.
These families– many of whom had lived there for decades– were being forced from their homes under the guise of “substantial renovations,” when any necessary repairs could be completed without forcing them out.
These families– many of whom had lived there for decades– were being forced from their homes under the guise of “substantial renovations,” when any necessary repairs could be completed without forcing them out.
March 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
For months, families on Mohawk St had to fight unfair evictions to stay off the streets.
These families– many of whom had lived there for decades– were being forced from their homes under the guise of “substantial renovations,” when any necessary repairs could be completed without forcing them out.
These families– many of whom had lived there for decades– were being forced from their homes under the guise of “substantial renovations,” when any necessary repairs could be completed without forcing them out.
Thank you Children’s Hospital LA and Attorney General Rob Bonta for coming together to make sure that ALL children in our communities can access the critical healthcare they deserve.
February 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Thank you Children’s Hospital LA and Attorney General Rob Bonta for coming together to make sure that ALL children in our communities can access the critical healthcare they deserve.