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Hernandez for Governor 2026

Christian Conservative Engineer
Revitalizing California

Former Apple Engineer Julius Hernandez-Alvarado is running to put American Workers First, Freeze & Reduce Rent, End Homelessness, and launch a revolution in Entrepreneurship.

California will become the Michael Jordan of Team America 🇺🇸

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Powered by engineering, grounded in faith, and committed to lifting California's working families — not special interests.

Julius Hernandez-Alvarado

Meet Julius

Born and raised in California, Julius is a self-taught software engineer and data scientist with 15 years of private-sector experience — including building data systems for Apple’s Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Group.

At 36, he’s the youngest candidate with the experience to repair a system that has priced out, displaced, and abandoned the very workers who built this state. He’s running for Governor because he has personally lived what tens of thousands of Californians — especially American workers — now face: an economy where stable careers are disappearing and homeownership is increasingly out of reach in the very communities we grew up in.

California needs an engineer, not a career politician.
His engineering portfolio can be found at calgeek.com.

My Promise To Californians

I will fight to increase individual rights and to serve as a Governor of the People, by the People, and for the People. My goal is simple: make state power more accountable to the people who live and work in California.

To do that, I am building Turning Point California as a living system that listens, measures, and responds. The technology behind tpcal.org is not a campaign gimmick. It is an operating system for representation.

Pillar 1

Policy Ranking Engine

The policy ranking side of tpcal.org will guide what I push in the Assembly and Senate. You will be able to rank issues, submit new ones, and watch how they move. I will keep this software maintained and improving for my term and for those after me.

Pillar 2

Weekly Turning Point Show

Every week I will host the Turning Point California Show to break down roadblocks in the legislature, report progress on policies, and analyze live sentiment from tpcal.org. I will answer emails and take live calls so you can challenge me directly.

Pillar 3

Monthly In-Person Forums

I will work to hold monthly in-person conventions across California. These will be interactive town halls with live polls, summaries, and custom software that captures what you say in the room and turns it into real policy signals.

Together, these three pillars are my Trinity for increasing individual rights and making sure your voice is not just heard but engineered directly into how California is governed.

Thank you for giving me the chance to earn your trust.

Core Policies

These four policies form the core strategy for Revitalizing California — visualized as quadrants on a cartesian plane.

Quadrant 2

American Workers First

Crush offshoring and H1B/OPT/etc. temp worker visas from displacing American Workers. Americans come first in hiring, pay, and protection.

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Quadrant 1

Freeze & Reduce Rent

Emergency 10% rent cut and freeze while we fix root causes: supply limits, regulations, rigged procurement, and corporate greed.

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Quadrant 3

End Homelessness

Move from chaotic street camping to ordered, accountable systems that combine treatment, work pathways, and real enforcement.

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Quadrant 4

Fund Self-Taught Entrepreneurship

Redirect money from bloated universities into accelerators, bootcamps, and self-taught builders creating real businesses in California.

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Auxiliary Policies

These are high-leverage support policies that supercharge the 4 Core Policies.

Fiscal Engine

Zero-Based Budgeting for California

Every dollar in the budget must be re-justified from zero – no more “because that’s what we spent last year.” This exposes waste, quietly kills low-value programs, and frees billions for rent relief, housing, and real jobs instead of bureaucracy. This is the financial operating system that powers all four Core Policies by forcing Sacramento to defend spending with data, not politics.

Funds Freeze & Reduce Rent Fuels End Homelessness Backs American Workers First Seeds Self-Taught Entrepreneurship

Leadership Stack

Leadership Training for State Agencies

Partner with Echelon Front – built by former U.S. Navy SEAL officers and veterans – to retrain agency leadership in extreme ownership, clear communication, and disciplined execution. Policy without leadership fails; leadership makes the blueprint real. California’s agencies don’t fail because of workers — they fail because leadership has no unified operating doctrine. We will introduce military-grade leadership frameworks modeled on programs pioneered by former U.S. Navy SEAL officers and veterans: extreme ownership, decentralized command, disciplined execution, clear communication. Good leadership accelerates policy. Bad leadership kills it.

Executes all 4 Core Policies Aligns agencies with American Workers First Strong leaders pull CA out of homelessness

Hard Infrastructure

Desalination: Turn Ocean Water Into Drinking Water

California will become the global desalination leader through self-taught engineering, open-source curriculum, and state-supported innovation labs. Instead of wasting billions on a train that never gets built, we invest in manufacturing, automation, chemistry, software, energy systems, logistics and Our Own People — all tied to measurable KPIs. Abundant water unlocks construction, lowers rent, and creates a new American-first industrial sector built right here at home.

Expands housing supply for Freeze & Reduce Rent Supports End Homelessness through more units Creates American-first engineering jobs

Justice Pipeline

Criminal Justice Reform: Science-Driven Solutions

We merge the neuroscience insights of Dr. Robert Sapolsky of Stanford University (trauma, brain chemistry, environment) with the evolutionary biology framework of Dr. Kevin J. Mitchell of Trinity College Dublin. To make it practical, we also draw from the clinical perspective popularized by Dr. Daniel Amen, who frames mental health as a medical issue tied to identifiable patterns in brain function, a useful lens for rehabilitation when applied carefully. Recidivism isn’t a moral failure: it’s a systems failure. We build “optimized living environments” (rather than prisons) where inmates can choose longer stays in structured, skill-building, productive programs to live and work separated from society, modeled on modern quarantine principles. The goal: safer streets, rebuilt lives, and a justice system that prevents crime instead of recycling it.

Reduces chronic homelessness & crime Builds second-chance jobs for Californians Stabilizes neighborhoods statewide

Performance Tracking

Law Performance Index - Measure Outcomes of Bills

Currently there is no real system for tracking how well a bill (a proposed law) or policy actually performs. The Law Performance Index (LPI) will track the results of bills by transforming lawmaking into a measurable science. Every bill becomes a testable hypothesis with defined metrics, data streams, and outcome scores. California will track the real-world effects of every law — cost, impact, unintended consequences — and continuously improve policy just like engineers improve systems. No more symbolic bills. Everything must perform.

Basically, we spend billions of taxpayer dollars on laws that might not work and no one is even checking.

Makes all Core Policies measurable Builds transparency & trust Kills ineffective laws early

Cost Containment

Stop Runaway Healthcare Inflation

Healthcare costs are inflating faster than wages, rent, and even college tuition. California will build a transparent cost-tracking system for hospitals, insurers, and pharmacy benefit managers — exposing artificial price hikes and abusive billing. We shift the system toward prevention, early intervention, automation, and brain health, lowering long-term costs while improving outcomes. We also fund AI startups that automate administrative and clinical workflows to drive costs down.

Protects families from medical bankruptcy Supports American Workers First Improves mental & physical health statewide

Brain Health

Mental Health: Treat the Brain Like an Organ

California’s mental health crisis is not a character issue; it is a brain and environment issue. We treat the brain like any other organ: it can be injured, healed, and supported with the right structures. We align community clinics, housing programs, schools, and employers around early intervention, addiction treatment, and long-term support instead of crisis-only care.

This integrates with our criminal justice reform vision — informed by Dr. Sapolsky, Dr. Amen and Dr. Kevin J. Mitchell — so people with trauma and neurological burdens are stabilized instead of recycled through jail, homelessness, and ER visits. It ties into American Workers First by keeping Californians healthy enough to work, retrain, and build careers. It supports Freeze & Reduce Rent and End Homelessness by reducing the mental health drivers that push people onto the streets.

We will also responsibly deploy AI-driven tools — for triage, case management, and pattern detection — to help clinicians and community workers reach more people at lower costs while keeping human oversight in every critical decision.

Reduces homelessness and street crises Keeps Californians stable enough to work Supports criminal justice reform & safety

Note: In my first term, my primary mission will be to deliver the four Core Policies at full force. These auxiliary policies form a ready queue – a disciplined backlog – that we will phase in as budget, staff, and time open up, so focus never drifts away from the main job: fixing California’s foundation.

What Truly Motivates Me.

On January 25th 2023, my brother’s life was taken by a repeat offender who had fallen through every crack in the broken system — unemployment, homelessness, mental health, and addiction.

Not a day goes by that I don’t think about my brother. I miss him.

He is gone now, but what happened to him is what Truly motivates me to make a difference.

I’m running for Governor because we can build a California where we catch people before they collapse.

Sources for statistics mentioned in this video

Note: Different datasets use different years and methods, but all of these sources point to the same reality: California’s crises of homelessness, mental health, addiction, and repeat offending are large-scale, measurable system failures.

  • California share of U.S. homelessness & total homeless count: U.S. HUD Point-in-Time 2022 data summarized in California State Senate “Homelessness in California – 2023 Numbers” (updated Jan 2024), and CalMatters coverage showing California has roughly 28–30% of the nation’s homeless population and about 180,000+ people experiencing homelessness. Senate fact sheet · CalMatters summary
  • Mental illness & addiction among people experiencing homelessness: Stanford SIEPR policy brief on homelessness in California and the California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness, both documenting very high rates of serious mental illness and substance use among unhoused Californians. Stanford SIEPR brief · Statewide homelessness study
  • Recidivism / repeat offending: California State Auditor report showing three-year recidivism rates around 50% for people leaving state prisons. CA State Auditor – Recidivism
  • Multiple prior arrests among homeless / justice-involved people: Research on the intersection of homelessness and the criminal justice system finding an average of about 19 prior arrests among formerly incarcerated homeless adults in one study. ICJIA analysis
  • “1 in 5” adults with a mental health condition: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and NAMI data showing a little over 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience a mental illness in a given year. NIMH statistics · NAMI – Mental Health by the Numbers
  • Drug overdose deaths (~10,000 per year in California): CDC estimates reported via CalMatters showing about 10,000 Californians dying from drug overdoses in a recent 12-month period. CalMatters – Overdose deaths
  • California homelessness spending (“$20+ billion”): CalMatters commentary and a 2024 state audit showing California has allocated more than $20 billion for homelessness since 2019 and spent about $24 billion over five years, with limited outcome tracking. CalMatters – $20B allocated · State audit – $24B over five years
  • Mental health & substance use among incarcerated people: SAMHSA data showing much higher rates of mental illness and substance use disorders among people in jails and prisons than in the general population (roughly 40–60% with mental illness and/or SUD, depending on setting). SAMHSA – Criminal & Juvenile Justice & Behavioral Health
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