Everything You Need To Know About Gavin Newsom

Everything You Need To Know About Gavin Newsom

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January 2026 Articles

December 2025 Articles

1. Epoch Times: President Trump Announces He Is Withdrawing The National Guard From California, Illinois, and Oregon – Trump said that the National Guard succeeded in reducing crime in three cities. – “We will come back, perhaps in a much different and stronger form, when crime begins to soar again, as it is only a question of time!”
2. One America News: Workers seethe over their states’ decision to push back on ‘No Tax on Tips’ – Democrat-led states like California and New York are reportedly not conforming to the federal “no tax on tips” provision enacted earlier this year by the Trump administration, meaning tipped workers in the states will continue to pay state income taxes on their gratuities, despite the new federal deduction.
3. Zero Hedge: California Governor Newsom’s Massive Fraud Scandal No One Is Talking About Makes Minnesota Look Like Pocket Change – A fresh 92-page bombshell from the California State Auditor lays it all out. – $32 billion due to COVID fraudsters – $24 billion spent on the homeless issue that critics claim the state lost track of – $18 billion on high-speed rail, without a single section of track complete…
4. Daily Wire: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy Slams California Over License Extension For Illegal Drivers – As California extends licenses for thousands of unlawfully present truckers, Duffy warns the state could lose $160 million for refusing to comply. – “Gavin Newsom is lying.” – “The deadline to revoke illegally issued, unvetted foreign trucker licenses is still January 5th.”
5. City Journal: Firefighters Could Have Prevented the L.A. Wildfires, but California Rules Made Them Save Plants Instead – A document, obtained through public records requests by the fire victims’ attorneys, reveals a system of policies and maps designed to restrict firefighting operations on state parkland to protect “sensitive cultural and natural resources.”…
6. New York Post: A HUD report found more than $5 billion in taxpayer funds went to “questionable” rental assistance recipients during the final year of the Biden administration. – This included funds to around 30,000 “deceased tenants” and “thousands” of potential non-citizens. – A “large concentration” of the suspicious payments went to New York, California, and Washington…
7. American Thinker: Californians Are Still Fleeing – Long Established Businesses such as Leprino Foods, there since 1910, Blue Diamond Growers, there for 110 years, and Anheuser-Busch. – For a peek into how Governor Gavin Newsom would rule the country if elected President, look no further than his California Agricultural Land Equity Task Force that is working to seize privately owned land to redistribute it to “the people” who work on that land…
8. American Thinker: California schemin’ on high-speed rail, and tortillas – From high-speed rail to folic acid in tortillas, only government actions could produce such abysmal results. – Almost inconceivably, the cost of the state’s High Speed Rail plan, originally estimated at $33 billion, had grown to $128 billion. – Yet California politicians still want money to feed the now-preposterous project.

9. Center Square: A booming stock market propelled California’s main state retirement fund to near-record returns. – Yet the fund is still $166 billion short on its obligations, according to the Reason Foundation. – The 12-figure pension shortfall could widen again, leaving innocent taxpayers with the bill…

10. Slay News: California’s Five Most Radical Laws Set to Come Into Force in 2026 – 1. Fast-Track Caregiver Designations for Detained or Deported Parents – 2. California Effectively Bans New Glock Purchases – 3. Schools Must Alert Everyone When ICE Sets Foot on Campus – 4. A State-Run System to Determine Reparations Eligibility – 5. New Seat-Belt Fit Test Mandates for

11. Western Journal: LA California’s Garbage Crisis Is So Bad One Man Quit His Job Picking Up the City’s Garbage Slack – A study conducted by carpet cleaning company Oxi Fresh in May found the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim area to be the second dirtiest metro area in the United States, as homelessness and other factors contribute to the growing trash epidemic…
12. California Globe: Governor Gavin Newsom’s ‘Great Leap Forward’ Is A DEI and Reparations Agriculture Land Seizure Scheme – Gavin Newsom created a task force to address ‘the agricultural land equity crisis’ at the expense of white farmers. – U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins just sent Gov. Newsom a letter demanding that he “reject and abandon any attempt to pursue the illegal recommendations in the Equity Task Force’s report.
13. American Thinker: Why would anybody want $10 per gallon gas? – California mandates a special blend of gas supposedly better for the environment, which is much more expensive than any other blend sold elsewhere and is produced solely in California. So, what’s going to add $3.00+ to $7.00 a gallon gas? – Chevron’s CEO, Mike Wirth, notified Governor Newsom that he decided to shut down operations in California. – And Valero Energy will be gone in 2026

14. American Thinker: California Fleein’ On Such A Winter’s Day – Among the very great advantages of our representative, constitutional republic is the ability of Americans to vote with their feet. – Gavin Newsom’s California is, unsurprisingly, among the states working hardest to depopulate itself and eliminate its tax base. – California is hemorrhaging residents at an alarming rate…

15. California Globe: The Top 50 Disasters Governor Gavin Newsom Has Ushered into California, The 2025 Edition – 1. Water rationing continues – 2. Highest taxes in the nation – 3. 817,000 Californians left California in 2022 alone – 4. California’s crime problem – 5. All big cities in California are in decline – 6. Newsom Is The First Governor to make homelessness a way of life…

16. American Thinker: Gavin Newsom’s Barbaric Stand on Young Children – This is for the Democrat base, “I want to see trans kids. I have a trans godson. There’s no governor who’s signed more pro-trans legislation than I have. – No one has been a stronger advocate for the LGBTQ community.” – The Democrats seem to be preparing to coronate Newsom as their nominee for 2028 before the primaries.

17. California Globe: California’s Latest Ploy to Install a Public-Private System of Vaccine Coercion and Medical Surveillance – Californians may soon find themselves subject to vaccination policies and enforcement mechanisms. – The state has not disclosed what data PHNIX will collect, whether it will include individual medical or behavioral information, who will control access, or how long data will be retained…

18. California Globe: California’s State Auditor published a scalding report that is a clear indictment of Governor Gavin Newsom and his administration. – It finds that Newsom, while in his final year as governor, has left the state’s infrastructure in far worse condition. – The only conclusion is that Newsom is the most unserious politician to serve as California Governor and is only interested in power and control…
19. Wall Street Apes: Valero is taking a $1 billion loss just to get out of California by April 2026 – The company will not comply with Gavin Newsom’s mandates and instead is willing to lose a billion dollars to leave. – “When a company takes a billion-dollar loss just to leave, you know something is seriously broken.”
20. America First Report: California Leads The Nation in Illegal Foreigner Commercial Trucking Licenses, Forcing Mass Revocations – California admitted to illegally issuing 17,000 non-domiciled CDLs to foreign drivers, after weeks of claiming they did nothing wrong…
21. California Globe: California’s Stupid, Ridiculous, Abusive, Nanny State, and Absurd New Laws for 2026 – Residents will be impacted by more than 900 new laws covering The Minimum Wage, A Plastic Bag Ban, Food Delivery Services, Adding Folic Acid to Corn Tortillas, Expanded coverage for in vitro fertilization for queer couples, No Declawed Cats Allowed, K-12 Schools Gender Neutral Bathrooms and the list goes on…

22. American Thinker: In California, Everything Is Bigger, Even Fraud – It’s far worse than Minnesota, because California is so much bigger. – In just three years, Newsom turned a $97.5 billion budget surplus into a $73 billion deficit, a swing of $175.5 billion. – The feds are now looking into where all those billions went. – Here are some things they may want to start with…

23. California Globe: There Will Be No More ‘Paper or Plastic’ – Bring Your Own Bags to the Store As Of Jan 1 – They say ‘It’s very unlikely that many animals are killed by plastic bags. But the evidence shows just the opposite.’
24. American Thinker: California’s plan to tax people who aren’t there – It’s no secret that California is in deep financial trouble. In 2022, Gavin Newsom bragged about a $97.5 billion surplus. – By the 2024-25 budget, that surplus turned into an estimated $73 billion deficit. – A substantial part of the problem has been grotesque government overspending. – So Newsom and the one-party Democrat legislature know want to retroactively tax fleeing billionaires!
25. California Globe: If You Want Cheaper Gas, End California’s Special Recipe – California’s unique gasoline blend, known as CARBOB, places us on an “energy island.” – Because its specifications differ from those used everywhere else, many refineries across the United States and abroad do not make it, which chokes off competition. – Also, California’s regulatory assault on energy production is destroying our remaining capacity…
26. California Globe: You Can Thank The California Coastal Commission For Pacific Palisades Rebuilding Obstruction – The California Coastal Commission: A Story of Power, Extortion, and Ruin, by the Pacific Legal Foundation, is a powerful documentary about the sordid history of the highly politicized commission, and their current obstruction in the rebuilding of the fire-ravaged Pacific Palisades, Malibu, and Altadena.

27. California Globe: Gavin Newsom is the First Governor to Make Homelessness a Way of Life, Although He Claims To Be Solving California’s Homeless Epidemic – In San Francisco, business owners have had to spend thousands of dollars on steel planters on the sidewalks in front of their businesses to keep the homeless and growing tent encampments away – Remember, Newsom has spent $37 billion on homelessness since 2019, according to the California Legislative Analyst’s Office…

28. Washington Times: California Burns Its Fire Victims – Governor Gavin Newsom blames everyone but himself for the lack of progress in rebuilding. – Rampaging wildfires leveled 7,417 houses and shops in Los Angeles in early January. State and local leaders promised they would slash red tape to expedite reconstruction, but it hasn’t happened. – Newsom was in D.C. on Friday trying to pin responsibility for the delays on Trump, but the president understood the trap and declined the meeting invitation…

29. California Globe: California should have the lowest energy prices in the nation, not the highest. – This is complete nonsense in energy-rich California with plentiful oil, natural gas, hydro, geothermal resources, and where nuclear energy, considered green energy in Europe, has been stupidly curtailed by legislated policy.
30. San Francisco Chronicle: California is releasing violent, mentally ill people into communities. – It’s worse than you could imagine. – California not only permits those with violent histories like Bill Gene Hobbs to be released from mental hospitals while still severely ill, but it can even require it…
31. California Globe: Another Lawsuit Is Challenging California’s Proposition 50, Asserting It Violates The 15th Amendment & Voting Rights Act – The Public Interest Legal Foundation suit alleges California legislators intentionally used race to redraw congressional districts, a clear violation of federal law…
32. Jonathan Turley: Welcome to Hotel California – Governor Newsom is pushing the retroactive billionaire tax targeting the roughly 220 billionaires residing in California in 2025. – Previously, the state moved to tax people who left the state. Now, the state is seeking a billionaire tax and making it retroactive. – Thus, even if you were waiting to decide to leave, it is too late because you will be taxed for the prior year.
33. California Globe: California Governor Gavin Newsom is presiding over perhaps the largest energy policy collapse of the oil industry. – Most California residents recognize that California’s highest-in-the-nation gas prices are self-inflicted. – In 1988, the state of California imported about 4.5% of all the oil that we consumed in our state. – By 2020, we were importing over 70%.

November 2025 Articles

1. Breitbart: A new documentary, entitled “Paradise Abandoned,” shows how California’s Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom, the state legislature, and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass either sat idly by or actually contributed directly to the conditions that allowed several wildfires to devastate L.A. and the Pacific Palisades in January of 2025. – The fires burned more than 23,000 acres, destroyed nearly 7,000 buildings, and killed 12 people.
2. Daily Wire: Democrats Have Spent Months Cultivating A ‘Terrorist’ Image Of The National Guard – Gavin Newsom, for example, claimed in late October that Trump was fabricating emergencies in order to bring in the National Guard. – Maxine Waters (D-CA) went out to an ICE facility and taunted the troops standing guard, demanding to know whether they intended to shoot her, and…
3. California Globe: The Proposition 50 Hearing Is Now Set for Mid-December Despite AG Bonta’s Efforts to ‘Run Out The Clock on Justice’ – The hearing in front of a federal three-judge panel has now been set for December 15th – The lawsuit, filed by The Dhillon Law Group, Assemblyman David Tangipa, 18 California voters, and the California Republican Party, alleges the new congressional district maps were drawn based on racial lines.
4. California Globe: Covid Flashback – Don’t Forget Governor Newsom’s 2020 Thanksgiving Mandate. – Every Thanksgiving, we like to remind Californians of our terrible, rotten, horrible 2020 Thanksgiving, courtesy of Governor Gavin Newsom during his unwarranted, cruel, evil covid statewide lockdowns. – Stay home, no singing, no shouting, no music, no parties, eat outside, and keep a mask on.’
5. California Globe: Governor Newsom’s Proposed Retroactive Billionaire Tax – Newsom is pushing a retroactive 5% billionaire tax targeting the roughly 220 billionaires residing in California in 2025. – Although the tax would be levied based on 2026 net worth, it would apply to billionaires who resided in California in 2025, so theoretically, it could not be avoided.
6. Issues & Insights: 3 Taxpayers Will Have Fled California In The Time It Takes You To Read This – The National Taxpayers Union Foundation used IRS data to calculate how many taxpayers are moving into and out of states each year. – California is losing taxpayers at a rate of one every 1 minute 44 seconds, the fastest of any state in the nation. – That amounts to billions in lost tax revenue every year.
7. Townhall: California Media Tout News About Pacific Palisades Rebuilding, But There’s Just One Problem – Thomas James Homes built the property as a showcase home and is building homes for 30 families in the Palisades and expects to build 100 more in 2026. – However, that permit was requested before the fires even happened. – It’s definitely not a fire rebuild.
8. Center Square: California loses one taxpayer per minute, as Florida gains one every two minutes – An analysis of data from the IRS conducted by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation found that Florida, Texas, and North Carolina gain new taxpayers faster than any other state in the country.
9. California Globe: The Department of Justice has filed multiple lawsuits against California, challenging its sanctuary-state policies that allegedly obstruct federal law enforcement and immigration enforcement. – The DOJ says these lawsuits aim to hold California accountable for laws that the DOJ claims discriminate against U.S. citizens and undermine federal law.
10. Washington Free Beacon: A Q&A With Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on ‘Energy Dominance’ and Gavin Newsom’s ‘Shrinking’ California – Burgum is overseeing the administration’s efforts to reopen oil and gas drilling across millions of acres in Alaska, to end a ban on liquefied natural gas exports, and to boost offshore oil production. – The new economy is going to be driven by AI, and AI requires electricity…
11. The Federalist: Here’s Why Gavin Newsom’s Race-Based Gerrymandering In CA Will Fail – ‘It’s blatantly clear that they were using race when they drew up new districts to get rid of Republicans.’ – As the DOJ lawsuit notes, race cannot be used as a proxy to advance political interests, but that’s precisely what was done in rejiggering of California’s congressional district lines.”
12. Center Square: The Texas Department of Public Safety arrested 31 illegal CDL drivers in one day, with the majority from California. – The operation occurred along I-40 in Wheeler County in the panhandle. – Liberal states like California issue CDLs to illegal immigrants, risking American lives, while Texas works with its federal partners to maintain safe roads…
13. American Wire News: The Trump administration just pulled the rug out from under Newsom – The FCC just intervened to stop California from doling out certain federal benefits to illegal aliens. – The benefits were being doled out through the federal Lifeline program, which “provides low-income Americans with a discount on their phone and Internet services.”…
14. Cal Matters: California’s independent legislative analyst says the state faces a nearly $18 billion deficit and warns it is “critical” for lawmakers to rein in spending and increase revenues. – Even worse, the $17.7 billion shortfall could balloon to an annual $35 billion by fiscal year 2027-28, as spending continues to grow and debts come due…
15. Washington Free Beacon: Nearly every California State University campus requires students to pass at least one diversity and cultural competency class to graduate. – Options include ‘Queer Crip Lit’ and ‘Decolonize Your Diet.’ – The requirements come as other schools scale back their DEI missions amid a Trump administration crackdown…
16. American Spectator: The Arrest of Gavin Newsom’s Ex-Chief of Staff Prompts Allegations of Misconduct Within the California Governor’s Office – This doesn’t look good for Gavin. – Dana Williamson faces a slew of federal charges for fraud, corruption, and obstruction, but none of those charges implicate her for wrongdoing in her capacity as Newsom’s aide.
17. California Globe: California’s Out-of-Control State Capitol Building Project – In September 2020, while California was suffering from Newsom’s oppressive COVID restrictions, a hearing was held on the plans for the $543.2 million renovation, ignoring other state business. – It has already ballooned to $1.5 billion and will likely dwarf that before completion…
18. California Globe: California Ranks Second In Medicaid-Funded Births – In 2023, the U.S. government provided $81.4 billion in funding to California, and that figure has risen 23% in two years. – The likely reason for the double-digit increase in federal aid to California is due to the expansion of Medicaid to include enrollment of illegal aliens.
19. Breitbart: Governor Newsom Again Shifts Accountability Amid Palisades Fire Fallout – ‘We’re on the Tip of the Spear of Climate Change’ – Newsom is continuing a familiar pattern of shifting attention away from the Pacific Palisades fire, this time focusing on climate change and insurance access instead of addressing his administration’s clear role in the disaster…
20. Washington Free Beacon: California Governor Gavin Newsom declared this week that a Trump administration proposal to expand oil drilling off the coast of his state is “Dead on arrival.” – His opposition comes as California relies on importing 63% of its oil from authoritarian states like Iraq and Saudi Arabia to meet its energy demand.
21. Orange County Register: Arrests of their political aides could blow back on Newsom and Becerra – Becerra was not implicated, although the funds could be used in the future for his political purposes. But his lack of acumen as a judge of the aide’s character could weaken him sufficiently to drive him out of the current race. – Newsom could be accused of similar poor judgment of character…
22. One America News: Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy revokes 17K unlawfully issued commercial licenses from illegal immigrants in California – California’s DMV admitted to illegally issuing non-domiciled CDLs to “foreign drivers.” The DOT statement declared that Governor Gavin Newsom of California was “caught red-handed.”
23. California Globe: Newsom Travels 5,000 Miles to UN Climate Summit to Kvetch About World Climate Crisis – Since 1990, California’s imports of petroleum from non-U.S. producers have increased by a staggering 713% due to policies  and law suits that drove oil companies out of California…
24. American Thinker: Is Gavin Newsom the best the Democrats can do? – Why Newsom’s gerrymandering victory should make the rest of the country want to vote for him is a thing of mystery. – California is the most failed state in the nation, sporting a $58 billion deficit, which effectively makes it bankrupt. Newsom converted a $3 billion surplus on the day he walked into office into insolvency like this.
25. American Thinker: Line up like it’s 1979 – Gavin Newsom heads to Texas to rally Democrats, but the rising cost of fuel in California overshadowed his performance. – California has the highest gasoline prices in the nation at $4.71 a gallon. This might be considered a bargain by next summer, when gasoline could cost as much as $8 a gallon, says USC professor Michael Mische…
26. American Thinker: Gag-inducing Gavin Newsom lectures President Trump about ‘God’s will’ – There’s probably no better indicator of Gavin Newsom running for president than his sudden interest in promoting what he calls ‘God’s will.’ – There’s nothing grosser than a lifelong hypocrite and promoter of anti-Christian governance lecturing the rest of us about God’s will for his own political purposes.
27. Issues & Insights: California has the trendiest and most foolish energy policies in the U.S. – “California’s oil industry sits at the precipice of complete collapse,” says Edward Ring, director of water and energy policy at the California Policy Center, “and if that happens, more imports will not prevent lines at the pumps.”
28. Slay News: A Democrat Insider Says Gavin Newsom Is Funneling Prop 50 Cash into His 2028 Presidential Campaign Fund – O’Keefe Media Group footage shows Ross Pike, a regional director for the California Democratic Party, speaking with an undercover OMG journalist. – Pike appears to acknowledge that Newsom is using funds from the campaign for Proposition 50.
29. American Thinker: Gavin Newsom, or sound and fury that signifies nothing – He wants to be president so bad, but just look at his record. – As is typical of today’s Democrat politician, Newsom has failed upward. He nearly destroyed San Francisco, which was once one of the most preeminent cities in all of America. – Big companies have long headed for the exits, California has the highest percentage of citizens living in poverty, and…
30. California Globe: Governor Newsom Claims Trump Is ‘Rigging’ the Game, When In Fact Newsom Is Trying to Rig Elections – Newsom is trying to cheat the few remaining Republicans out of California congressional districts is actual ‘dismantling Democracy.’ – California is a hot mess, and Newsom is trying to unseat even more Republicans in Congress while running for President.
31. FAR: The Infamous California Capitol Annex Project – The California Capitol Annex project is coming under tremendous scrutiny in the Golden State. – The years-long, $1.1 billion project has been less than transparent. – This entire structure resembles a state-sanctioned wealth extraction mechanism…
32. Washington Examiner: Shapeshifter Newsom takes pandering to a laughable level with his claim of growing up poor – Could steel workers in Pennsylvania, auto workers in Michigan, farmers in Wisconsin, service workers in Nevada, or those who care about the border in Arizona, embrace a slick California elitist with no moral compass in a general election?

October 2025 Articles

1. Gateway Pundit: 2028 Presidential-Hopeful Gavin Newsom Is Tied to A Secretive Billion-Dollar Taxpayer-Funded Expansion of California State Capitol – The California Capitol Annex project is coming under tremendous scrutiny in the Golden State. – The years-long $1.1 billion project has been less than transparent, as it has been “at least three years” since the California Legislature has provided any updates on the project…
2. California Globe: Scary Governor Newsom – Newsom is using tax dollars to fund his self-aggrandizement presidential campaign by funding things to improve his public image – “California deploys search and rescue personnel to Jamaica following Hurricane Melissa.” – Expansion in the Golden Bear Pass to ensure families who receive public assistance have greater access to state parks…
3. PJ Media: Bombshell texts reveal that L.A. firefighters were ordered to leave the scene of the still-smoldering Lachman Fire despite protests from the team left to monitor it, to ensure there were no hidden embers that could spark a new fire. – Days later, and as feared, predicted killer winds caused that fire to flare up. – The Palisades fire is the most destructive in California’s history.
4. LifeZette: Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon announced this week that the DOJ has filed lawsuits against California, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New York, Oregon, and Maine for failing to comply with federal requests to review their voter rolls. – This is part of an effort to ensure that only eligible U.S. citizens are registered to vote.
5. Cal Matters: 15 DUIs And Still Driving, California’s failure to take repeat drunk drivers off the road – As alcohol-related roadway deaths spike across the state, a CalMatters investigation finds California has some of the weakest DUI laws in the country. – Alcohol-related roadway deaths in California have shot up by more than 50% in the past decade — an increase more than twice as steep as the rest of the country…
6. California Globe: California’s Oil and Gas Policies Are A ‘Clear and Present Threat to National Security’ – California’s self-inflicted gas crisis is a direct threat to U.S. military force readiness on the West Coast. – California now produces less than 23% of its own in-state petroleum needs and imports over 65% of its crude oil from foreign sources…
7. USA Today: Newsom thinks he can be president, but California’s policies are killing people – This blue-state governor may have the looks and the charm, but his record speaks loudly to why he shouldn’t get America’s top political job. – California is indeed the poster child for liberal policies that do not work, and Newsom has been their biggest backer…
8. American Thinker: Newsom’s and Weiner’s vile “Safer Streets for All Act” ties cops’ hands on child sex-trafficking. – It prohibits any enforcement action against loitering with the intent of committing prostitution. – Underaged girls are being sex trafficked along a 50-block stretch in Los Angeles, and law enforcement’s hands are tied thanks to Scott Wiener’s bill that was signed into law by Gavin Newsom.
9. Center Square: The CA state retirement fund lost 71% of $468M put in clean energy investments, but won’t say how. – These losses are a major problem for California taxpayers, who, at least for now, are the backstop for underfunded state pensions. – CalPERS says its pension benefits are only 79% funded, leaving the state and its taxpayers on the hook for the other 21%.
10. Daily Wire: Critics Rip Newsom’s Blue-Collar Narrative, Noting, Communists Lie Like They Breathe’ – Newsom says he “Came from no money and just hustled. You know, worked hard, grinding every single day.” -This isn’t the first time the California governor has mentioned having struggles growing up, but critics point out that Newsom’s late father, William Newsom, was an attorney with ties to billionaire heir Gordon Getty.
11. FAR: Gavin Newsom, It’s All In The Family, Unfortunately – Gavin Newsom was the first Democrat in more than a century to succeed another Democrat as governor, and the succession also marks a big generational transition in California politics. – The Brown, Pelosi, Newsom, Getty connections date back at least 80 years, to when Jerry Brown’s father, Pat Brown, ran for San Francisco district attorney…
12. New York Post: California Governor Gavin Newsom finally confirms his 2028 presidential ambitions – “Yeah, I’d be lying otherwise,” Newsom told “CBS News in a pre-taped interview, when asked if he was considering a White House campaign. – In recent months, Newsom swung through key early states and launched a podcast to hone his debate skills by sparring with conservative guests.
13. JD Rucker: Released by Biden And Licensed by Newsom, The Details Surrounding This Illegal Alien Trucker, Jashanpreet Singh, Are Infuriating. – Dash-cam footage captured the horrifying moment: no brakes applied, just a relentless surge into the jam, as if lives meant nothing in the face of reckless abandon. – Toxicology reports later confirmed what witnesses suspected—Singh was impaired, leading to his arrest on charges of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.
14. Townhall: Resurfaced Video of Gavin Newsom Shows Democrats Have Been Funding Illegal Immigrant Healthcare for Years. – California Governor Newsom is certainly a contender for the most dishonest politician in America. He lies about everything, but this – Newsom has been proudly boasting about giving free medical care to illegal immigrants for the better part of 20 years.
15. California Globe: Gavin Newsom is Outright Lying, There Wasn’t an Explosion at Camp Pendleton – In 2017, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi bragged on CSPAN about the wrap-up smear. – Democrats launder something to the press, the press repeats it, it then becomes “true”, and Democrats repeat it back as “truth.” – Gov. Gavin Newsom needs this and every other lie to be “true” because Newsom’s presidential campaign is failing.

16. Breitbart: California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a law earlier this month that could make child abduction from school easier by expanding the definition of a “caregiver” allowed to withdraw a child from school with an affidavit. – Given a medical excuse, almost any adult could sign an affidavit and withdraw a child from school…

17. Breitbart: California Governor Gavin Newsom quietly signed legislation last month that will shield local utility companies from responsibility for wildfires and pass billions of dollars in costs to consumers and victims. – Fine print” in the massive SB 254 bill lets Southern California Edison and other utilities charge consumers for wildfire damage that exceeds $21 billion…

18. California Globe: California Is Losing Another Big Tech Company to Texas, GAF Energy – The booming Austin suburb of Georgetown is gaining another corporate headquarters as GAF Energy relocates from the California Bay Area. – “The company will close its facility in San Jose, Calif., and lay off 138 employees.- This is why California ranks dead last again in Chief Executive Magazine’s Best & Worst States For Business.

September 2025 Articles

1. Daily Wire: As Governor Newsom Targets Federal Law Enforcement, California Sees A Spike In Mob-Style Robberies – Since March, dozens of these attacks have hit jewelry stores in the state. – This past week, for example, an armed gang of up to 30 people raided a jewelry store outside of San Francisco, smashing cases with crowbars and pickaxes and stealing around $1 million worth of goods.
2. Slay News: A $2.2 billion taxpayer-funded solar plant in California’s Mojave Desert is shutting down more than a decade early after failing to deliver on its promises of efficiency and affordability. – The Ivanpah Solar Power Facility, featuring three massive 459-foot towers, will officially close in 2026. – The plant began operating in 2014 and was slated to run until 2039.
3. Breitbart: California Governor Newsom Previously Mandated Masks, But Now He Is Banning Them. – Newsom signed a ban Saturday that prohibits all law enforcement officers, except the CHP, which protects Kamala Harris, from wearing masks. The measure is aimed at ICE officers, over whom acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said Newsom has “no jurisdiction.”
4. Geller Report: California Democrats Pass Legislation Funding Government-Overseen News Outlets – Media experts say that if Newsom signs it, it will discourage news organizations from holding the government accountable and reduce press independence. – Democrats rushed the Orwellian-named “Civic Media Program” through in a week.
5. Center Square: Abigail Martinez lost her 19-year-old daughter, Yaeli, to suicide in 2019 and blames the public school system for pushing gender transition on her daughter. – Martinez, a Salvadoran, Christian immigrant who raised four children in California, lost custody of Yaeli for not affirming her gender transition, and says the transition was the result of “brainwashing” by school staff at Arcadia Unified School District in Los Angeles County
6. California Globe: The New Vehicle-Miles Traveled Housing Tax Buried in California’s Budget Bill Could Add $324,000 Per Home or Apartment, Depending on Their Location – CARE breaks down the Impact of the new VMT housing tax: Raises new home prices on top of existing mandates that already add $197,000 to the cost of a new home. – Increases monthly rents by $1,350 – Stalls housing production and eliminates construction and trade jobs…
7. American Thinker: Unmasking Knuckleheaded Newsom – Who is the real Gavin Newsom? – California is giving taxpayer-funded healthcare to 700,000 illegal immigrants, with Newsom making sure California’s state health insurance is covering sex-change operations for illegals. – Continuing his “drive” to help illegal immigrants, Newsom made sure illegal immigrants can work by issuing them truck driver’s licenses, even though they cannot read or speak English, and the list goes on…
8. Daily Signal: California’s ‘Green Accounting’ Rule on CO2 Could Cost Companies Billions, With No Environmental Benefit – SB 253 and SB 261 would require companies operating in the state to monitor and report their CO2 emissions, as well as those of their suppliers and customers. – Scope 3 emissions “are notoriously hard to record as they encompass indirect emissions…
9. Washington Free Beacon: ‘Stolen Land,’ Gavin Newsom’s ‘Agricultural Equity’ Advisers Prepare Their Plan To Redistribute Farmland to Racial Minorities – California is preparing to redistribute farmland to non-white residents and Native American tribes through land transfers and financial assistance programs that exclusively benefit racial minorities. – This is a left-wing attempt to pursue reparations through the agriculture industry.
10. Slay News: Gavin Newsom Refuses to Fund Popular Safety Measure Despite California’s Rampant Crime – Proposition 47, approved by 68% of California voters in November, toughens penalties for repeat drug offenders, lengthens sentences for certain property crimes, and overturns parts of Newsom’s Proposition, which downgraded theft under $950 to a misdemeanor…

August 2025 Articles

1. American Thinker: Newsom Drives Refineries Out Of California – Is $8/Gallon gas on the way? – Professor Michael Mische disputes Newsom’s claims, finding in his recent research that the state’s high gas prices are “self-inflicted.” – His study of 50 years of gas prices found no widespread evidence of price gouging, either by gas station owners or refiners or oil producers in the state…
2. California Globe: California’s Latest ‘Worst in the Nation’ Title Is The Government-Created Rodent Plague – When politics replaces science, the result is higher costs, public health risks, and a statewide infestation. – Recent studies and rankings find California stands at or near the bottom in: Raising a Family, Child Poverty, Education, Quality of Life, Moving In, Renting, Doing Business, Homelessness, Gas Prices & Taxes…
3. Trending Politics: Gavin Newsom’s First Major Scandal Resurfaces Amid 2028 Rumors – While serving as mayor of San Francisco, Newsom admitted to having an affair with Ruby Rippey Gibney, the wife of his longtime friend and campaign manager, Alex Tourk. – While his political career survived it once, a presidential campaign would guarantee the affair is revisited under an unforgiving national spotlight…
4. California Globe: The Gavin Newsom Effect Continues As More People Move from California, U-Haul Reports – California lost 361,623 residents and $20,915,598,000 in income to Texas. – California also made it to the top of Allied Van Lines’ US Migration Report; unfortunately, it was for outbound migration.
5. Epoch Times: Bed Bath & Beyond Says It Won’t Operate Stores in ‘Overregulated’ California – The company chairman claims the state is too expensive and risky for the home goods retailer to open or reopen stores. – Marcus Lemonis, “This decision isn’t about politics—it’s about reality.” -“California has created one of the most over-regulated, expensive, and risky environments for businesses in America.”
6. Townhall: California Democrats Fail Miserably In Answering A Simple Question About Their New Congressional Maps. – Here is a truly fascinating video in which the California State Senator overseeing the effort to do state redistricting refuses for nearly four minutes to say who actually drew the congressional maps while claiming that it’s a “transparent process.”…
7. Issues & Insights: Governor Newsom Protests Too Much, The $20/Hour Minimum Wage Did Destroy Jobs – A July 2025 paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research concluded that the recent increase in the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 an hour created “a loss of 18,000 jobs in California’s fast food sector relative to the counterfactual.” – Unsurprisingly, Governor Newsom was none too pleased.
8. Issues & Insights: What did California officials think was going to happen when they decided it was a dazzlingly brilliant idea to hound the oil industry out of the state? – The California Coastal Commission is actively shopping Valero Energy’s Benicia refinery near San Francisco. – By this time next year, there might not be even a dozen refineries left in the state to produce the 38 million gallons of California’s boutique blend that’s consumed every day…
9. Slay News: Gavin Newsom’s EV Mandate Is Doomed As Demand Softens – His plan would see gasoline-powered cars banned in the state by 2035. – Expanded use of EVs has exposed weaknesses, such as the impact of extreme temperatures on battery life and charging time, plus certain perks EV users enjoy are going away. – Also, if consumers know that in 10 years they won’t be able to get gasoline-powered cars, wouldn’t that drive demand for them up?

July 2025 Articles

1. Center Square: California’s interest in fraudulent COVID benefits will soon reach $1 billion per year to pay back $20 billion California borrowed to help cover what the state says was $55 billion in “ineligible” or fraudulent COVID-era unemployment insurance benefits claims.- California is the only state that has not repaid its loans to the federal government for COVID-era unemployment insurance benefits…
2. Western Journal: Gavin Newsom Whines After A Federal Appeals Court Rules His Unprecedented Ammunition Law Goes Too Far – On Thursday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the Golden State’s unprecedented law requiring background checks for ammunition purchases violates the Second Amendment.
3. California Globe: What it Costs to Buy a House in America – California’s Median Price is $790,000! – This is how the most popular states Californians flee to compare. – Idaho: $471,000 – Nevada: $469,000 – Arizona: $435,000 – Texas: $352,000 – Tennessee: $384,000 – Florida: $420,000 – North Carolina: $388,000 – South Carolina: $330,000 – Purchasing A 2-Bedroom Home Now Much More Expensive Than Renting One In California…
4. Zero Hedge: Remember when Gavin Newsom vowed to streamline California’s paralytic regulations so people could quickly rebuild their homes? – Dan Dunmoyer, CEO of the California Building Industry Association, says, “Their new energy efficiency mandates add costs of $60,000 to $80,000 per home. – For some, a few, this would be great. – For all others, it will be a land grab and a climate mandate they cannot afford.”…
5. Geller Report: Over $100 Million Was Donated to California Fire Victims, Yet These Victims Received NOTHING – Two FireAid concerts with live streams were held at the Intuit Dome and the Kia Forum on January 30th. – These funds were then distributed to various non-profits. – But it appears that little, if any, of these funds ever helped the victims of devastating fires…
6. American Spectator: California’s Bullet Train Baggage – What Governor Gavin Newsom and the high-speed rail bosses aren’t telling the people. – Thousands of pages of public records were removed from the California High Speed Rail Authority website.” – Materials stripped from the site included business plans, financial reports from 2008-2014, board meeting minutes, and change orders…
7. Breitbart: California’s 20-per-hour minimum wage for fast food workers resulted in a significant decline in employment in that sector, leading to 18,000 fewer jobs than would have been the case otherwise. – The National Bureau of Economic Research found that California’s fast food sector declined by 2.7% relative to employment in the fast food sector elsewhere in the US from September 2023 through September 2024.
8. California Globe: Governor Newsom and Fellow Democrats Send Another CA Business Packing – Lynsi Snyder, President of In-N-Out, is relocating her family to Tennessee and plans to open In-N-Out restaurants in the state by 2026.- Snyder said that in addition to moving her family to Franklin, Tennessee, a significant portion of the company will move as well. Some corporate employees will move to Tennessee, and others will remain in Southern California.
9. American Thinker: The California Train to Nowhere Runs Out of Taxpayer Money – Newsom Has Painted Himself into a Corner. – He obviously feels he has no choice but to continue wasting money on this disaster. – Fellow Democrats and Republicans are surely delighted. – The campaign commercials will write themselves: “Gavin Newsom: he’ll do to America what he did to California!”…
10. American Spectator: Exposing California’s Latest Environmental Scam, The Environmental Quality Act – The CEQA requires volumes of paperwork and reviews for virtually every proposed construction project. – And it “allows basically any ‘stakeholder’ to file or threaten a lawsuit over CEQA compliance. – California Senate Bill 337 designates a full 30 percent of the state’s land area off-limits to development…
11. Slay News: Gavin Newsom Admits California’s Economy Depends Heavily On Cheap Illegal Alien Labor – “It’s half of our agricultural work and forty-one percent of our construction workers. – When pressed on whether illegal immigration hurts American workers, Newsom offered a dismissive and racially charged answer. – “Not in Tulare County, not in Ventura County,” he said. – “I don’t know many people who want a job out there in those packing facilities.
12. California Globe: California’s Cap and Trade program experienced yet another setback on Monday when a new Clean and Prosperous California report found that the state lost $3 billion in revenue over the past year, or roughly about 1/4th of California’s current budget deficit. – California’s cap-and-trade program places a ‘cap’ on aggregate greenhouse gas emissions from businesses and utilities deemed “polluters” by CARB…
13. Cal Matters: The Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics report released on Thursday reveals that a staggering 36,565 fast food jobs have been lost since September 2023, when California’s $20-per-hour minimum wage law, AB 1228, was signed into law. – The National Bureau of Economic Research study suggests that AB 1228 may have made it more challenging for full-service restaurants to attract workers, as every food service employee now seeks $20 per hour…
14. Daily Wire: The DOJ has sued the State of California for a regulation it says raises the price of eggs, poultry, and pork. – The suit, which also names California Governor Gavin Newsom and state AG Rob Bonta, is largely focused on Proposition 12, a 2018 law that raised the minimum legal requirements of raising chickens, pigs, and calves among vendors who wish to sell their goods in California…
15. Breitbart: California Governor (and podcaster) Gavin Newsom is focused on anything but rebuilding the communities devastated by the Palisades and Eaton fires six months ago. – Instead, he is obsessed with his presidential ambitions. – On Monday, Newsom plans a press conference to mark the six-month anniversary of the fires. However, the next day, he is leaving for a two-day swing through eight rural counties in South Carolina, a key primary state.
16. Slay News: California is barreling toward a full-blown gas crisis due to the Democrats’ green energy policies and new regulations, which are tanking the state’s refineries and driving prices to staggering heights. – This week, the state rolled out major adjustments to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program. – As a result, Californians saw another spike in gas prices, which are already the highest in the nation, and are stoking fears of a looming energy disaster.

June 2025 Articles

1. California Globe: Who is Behind the LLC That Purchased Governor Gavin Newsom’s $9.1 Million Home in Marin? – Reports reveal that Newsom acquired the home through MHBD Farms, LLC, an entity formed just two days prior to the transaction. – This is one way to make investments (campaign contributions) to a future presidential candidate. – Stunning that this was done under the nose of California’s Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC), who regularly investigate and fines politicians for ethics and campaign violations…
2. California Globe: The Two Primary Causes of California’s July 1st Gas Tax Increase – California gasoline already costs approximately $1.50 above the national average, and we are getting another gas tax hike next week. – The gas tax increase coming July 1st is a gasoline excise tax, as opposed to the coming low-carbon fuel standard tax changes. – An excise tax is a specific type of tax levied on certain goods or services at the time of their purchase...
3. Center Square: The state-funded Legislative Analyst’s Office found California had “no job creation” in the fourth quarter of 2024, citing federal data that shows the state lost approximately 80,300 jobs between January and December of 2024. – The LAO’s report also noted that job estimates have overestimated job growth by 25,000 jobs per month.
4. American Thinker: Governor Newsom, the Napa Nero That Sipped Cabernet While Los Angeles Burned – If the juxtaposition feels jarring, it’s because it is. – While Los Angeles burned—as rocks and bottles rained down on federal officers and National Guard troops deployed by presidential order—California Governor Gavin Newsom was sipping wine in Napa Valley, at an estate where the flagship Cabernet sells for $360 a bottle…
5. California Globe: California’s Latest Gas Tax Hike Will Arrive Just in Time for the July 4th Holiday – Governor Newsom, the California Legislature, and CARB worked hand in glove to restrict the availability of oil and gas and to increase the cost of gas at the pump. – California Democrats killed bills that would have suspended the Low Carbon Fuel Standard gas tax increase of nearly 65 cents a gallon from going into effect on July 1st. – Now everyone in California will then be paying more than $5.00 for a gallon of regular gas.
6. John Daniel Davidson: Brian Wilson’s California Died Decades Ago – Mass immigration from Mexico, both legal and illegal, transformed California and created a fractured, riotous, and unstable polity. – At the heart of these protests/riots, we’ve seen the assertion of a Mexican national identity over and against an American national identity, immortalized in the striking images of masked rioters waving Mexican flags amid burning vehicles, rubble, and beleaguered police…
7. American Thinker: What is it with Democrats and trains? – The California “High Speed Rail” project was approved by voters in 2008. – It was supposed to have run from San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2030 at a cost of a mere $33 billion. – Then it was downscaled to a very short route in the Central Valley, and the costs are over $100 billion and still rising. – All that and not a single foot of rail has been laid…
8. California Globe: Had Gavin Newsom Funded Prop 36, LA Riots Would Likely Be Over – Los Angeles rioters are handed a ticket and told to appear – Gavin Newsom opposed Prop. 36, and worked against it. – Even after its passage, Newsom did nothing to uphold voters’ clear wishes and fund it in the state budget.- Now, all of America is watching the California Governor’s meltdown. – The Los Angeles Mayor isn’t any better.
9. Epoch Times: 700 Marines and 2,000 More Guardsmen Were Mobilized in Response to the LA Riots – California has now sued the Trump administration, alleging the National Guard deployment was unlawful. – The FBI identified the masked protester accused of assaulting a federal officer during heated demonstrations against federal immigration enforcement operations in Los Angeles…
10. California Globe: California is Imploding Under Radical Governor Newsom and His Marxist Democrats – Riotous mobs even invaded a federal detention facility in downtown Los Angeles. – The Department of Homeland Security and Border Patrol are now air-dropping tactical gear by helicopter to support their agents on the ground in Los Angeles. President Trump is Not Playing Around. – The Leftist rioters Will Not Win…
11. Cal Matters: California lawmakers from both parties say the state is too expensive. – So why did the California Senate vote to raise costs for car buyers by as much as $415? – California car dealers say they need to be able to raise fees to cover the rising costs that come with processing the paperwork required to buy a vehicle, including loan documents, Department of Motor Vehicles registration, and fraud protection forms.
12. California Globe: Newsom Sells-Out California for Iowa 2028 – CARB’s new fuel standard will increase ethanol in gasoline from E10 (10%) to E15 (15%) and E85 (85%), but CARB refused to analyze the impact. – Independent estimates project that the price of gasoline could increase at least 65¢ to 85¢ per gallon. – Iowa and New Hampshire are traditionally the first caucuses and primary for POTUS, with the potential to decide the nominee.

13. California Globe: California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Medi-Cal program for low-income Californians is insolvent. – He gifted free Medi-Cal coverage to every illegal immigrant in the state, costing taxpayers $10 billion to $12 billion. – His latest scheme is that he’s going to cut off Medi-Cal to any poor or disabled elderly Californian who has $2,000 in “assets.”

14. Zero Hedge: California’s Project Homekey now looks like a billion-dollar boondoggle. – Shuttered motels meant to house the unhoused stand lifeless, fenced-off, vacant, and increasingly resembling abandoned movie sets rather than havens for the vulnerable. – A stone’s throw away, other properties funded by Homekey have become de facto homeless encampments, complete with tents and makeshift fire pits…

15. California Globe: California Senate Democrats Passed A Bill Granting Early Parole for ‘Youthful’ Violent Killers – Senate Bill 672 proposes to expand eligibility for parole consideration to individuals sentenced to life without the possibility of parole who committed their crimes while under the age of 26. – If you want to know what regular people think about this, here are some of their comments…

May 2025 Articles

1. Zero Hedge: California leads the nation in more ways than one, taxes, regulations, and, once again, gas prices. As of mid-May 2025, the average gasoline price in California is $4.85 per gallon, far above the national average of $3.26. – The culprit is decades of state-level tax hikes, regulatory overreach, and misguided climate mandates that have warped the gasoline market in California.

2. Slay News: California Democrats Scramble to Walk Back Green Energy Regulations as a Gas Price Crisis Looms – A looming shutdown of two major oil refineries could cause gas prices to skyrocket by up to 75%, following years of Democrat-led attacks on fossil fuel producers in the state. – California already has the highest average gas prices in the nation, according to AAA, and it’s no mystery why…

3. California Globe: A New Study Shows California Leads the Country in The Most Moved-Out-of Cities – ‘People are still leaving California in droves.’ – 20 Cities With the Highest Number of Move-Outs Ranked; 1. Los Angeles – 2. The San Francisco area – 5. San Diego – 11. Santa Barbara – 13. Stockton/Modesto – 17. Fresno – 19. Bakersfield…
4. American Thinker: Illegals Are Driving Southern California’s Restaurants Out of Business – So much for the lefty narrative that illegals are afraid to go to work. – It’s the doing of public officials who refuse to enforce zoning and permit laws on street vendors, who are often undocumented immigrants, based on a belief that if they do, they will get deported. – As a result, the illegals, who can outcompete brick-and-mortar restaurants on price, are driving the latter out of business…
5. American Spectator: Gov. Newsom’s Saudi Shuffle – His smear campaign replaces facts and arguments. – California can ill afford the loss of one refinery, let alone two. – Multiple models indicate that the shutdown of the two California-based refineries could place the Golden State in a precarious economic situation. – The estimated average consumer price of regular gasoline could potentially increase by as much as 75% from the April 23, 2025, price of $4.816 to $7.348 to $8.435 a gallon by calendar year end 2026…
6. California Globe: California’s Department of Insurance – The bloated and broken department has devastated the insurance market and driven the state to the edge of collapse. – This out-of-control bureaucracy has devastated the insurance market and driven the state to the edge of collapse. – What was once a department designed to foster fairness and oversight has morphed into a political weapon: slow-moving, expensive, and utterly disconnected from reality.
7. American Thinker: Congress needs to stop California’s hidden food tax – Prop 12 sets a dangerous precedent. – The law was financed by animal rights activists who are morally opposed to people eating any meat, eggs, or dairy, even if farmers housed chickens in condos and pigs in palaces. – California mandates can cost out-of-state farmers millions of dollars to comply with. – These costs are then passed on, not just to Californians, but across the country.
8. Trending Politics: California Governor Newsom is under new federal scrutiny as the DHS opens an investigation into whether the state improperly funneled taxpayer-funded benefits to illegal aliens. – The DHS probe, led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Los Angeles, focuses on the state’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI) — a 100% state-funded program designed to provide monthly benefits to non-citizens…
9. Breitbart: Under Governor Gavin Newsom, California Faces A Budget Shortfall of $10-$20 Billion – Earlier this year, the state was forced to borrow $6.2 billion to fund Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, which Newsom and his party expanded to cover illegal aliens. – Newsom’s performance is coming under the spotlight as he prepares for a likely presidential run in 2028.
10. California Globe: According to a new UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies poll released on Wednesday, well over a majority of voters said that Governor Gavin Newsom is doing more things that will benefit him as a presidential candidate rather than governing the state and helping solve problems here. – Specifically, 54% of all registered voters in California believe that Newsom is “Doing things that will benefit him as a possible candidate for president”…
11. Breitbart: Thirty-five Democrats in the House of Representatives joined Republicans last week to repeal California Governor Gavin Newsom’s attempt to ban sales of gas-powered cars in his state in favor of EVs by 2035. – Newsom called the repeal effort “illegal,” but as the New York Times noted Wednesday, “unity on climate change “is starting to fray among Democrats as voters face the real-world costs of environmental utopia…

April 2025 Articles

1. Breitbart: California Democrats in the State Assembly are once again blocking a bill that would make the sex trafficking of minors a felony. – This time, for victims age 16 and 17, preferring instead to give prosecutors discretion. – The blocking effort is the latest chapter in a saga that began in 2023.

2. Issues & Insights: Not long ago, California Governor Newsom made it clear that oil refineries were not welcome. – Then he asked regulators to loosen the chains on refineries to ensure that they would be profitable and remain in the state. – Newson has turned his attention from playing to his hard-left, blue-state constituency to shifting toward the middle for a 2028 White House run.

3. Slay News: California Democrats Push to Decriminalize Welfare Fraud Under $25,000 – Senate Bill 560 would allow fraudsters to escape criminal penalties by writing off welfare overpayments up to $25K as “administrative errors,” and would also delete a provision for criminal penalties for any attempt at welfare fraud below $950. – Democrat State Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas introduced the legislation.

4. Wall Street Journal: California Keeps Declining, and Newsom Tries to Blame Trump – 54% of Californians say things in the state are generally going in the wrong direction, up 14 points from when Mr. Newsom became governor in 2019. – Democrats in Sacramento set the pace for job-killing regulations. For example, California has lost 33,400 jobs in “limited service” restaurants since Mr. Newsom signed a $20/hour law in September 2023…
5. California Globe: Jack in the Box Closing 150 – 200 Restaurants – There is little doubt that the cost of doing business in California with the $20 per hour minimum wage, high utility costs, high taxes, high utilities, high gas prices, cap-and trade climate change regulations, CalOSHA regulations, air quality management district regulations, mandatory overtime, workers compensation insurance, and myriad DEI regulations led to this decision…

6. Pacific Research Institute: The Soaring Costs of California’s Green Energy Transition – California households will bear significant costs, estimated to be between $17,398 and $20,182 per household, to fund the state’s transition between 2025 and 2050. – These costs include not only the construction and installation of new infrastructure, but also the decommissioning and dismantling of existing natural gas and nuclear plants.

7. California Globe: President Trump has issued an executive order that targets California’s climate change laws and policies – Trump’s order singles out California’s cap and trade program, run by the equally sketchy California Air Resources Board. – His administration is working to block efforts by California to set its own vehicle emissions standards that would have forced automakers across the country to comply with the state’s extreme environmental rules.

8. Center For Immigration Studies: Which Sanctuary Jurisdictions Have Released the Most Criminals? – California leads the pack with more than half of the declined detainers (52%) who were refused by jails and prisons in California, amounting to 13,025 being declined. – Illinois, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Connecticut also had especially large numbers of declined detainers…

March 2025 Articles

1. California Globe: Gavin Newsom Talks and People Everywhere Cringe – Newsom’s rebranding podcast isn’t going so well – Newsom is trying to distance himself from himself and attempting to rebrand himself as a likable moderate gent. – The problem is, he’s not likable, his lengthy record of leftist politics is undeniable, and he is not a man of honor. – A recently released Capitol Weekly poll found that 13% of voters now have an improved perception of the Governor, with a huge 26% saying that it harmed their perception of Newsom…
2. Breitbart: The Trump administration is investigating California over a law signed by Governor Newsom last year that bars school districts from adopting policies requiring schools to notify parents if their children want to change genders. – Polls show the vast majority of Californians agree parents have the right to know if children want to change gender…
3. California Globe: Is Governor Gavin Newsom Setting The State For Our Next Republican Governor? – California started the year with $76 Billion in debt. – Net job growth in January was exactly 0. – California has the second highest unemployment rate of all 50 states. – California is one of only five states that haven’t recovered to pre-COVID levels. – The proportion of Californians receiving unemployment payments is nearly double the national average…
4. Breitbart: Gavin Newsom The must borrow $3.44 billion to cover a shortfall in Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, a year after expanding it to offer free health care to illegal aliens. – Beginning January 1, 2024, illegal aliens residing in California become eligible for taxpayer-funded health insurance. – Newsom boasted California would become the first state to achieve universal access to health care coverage.
5. California Globe: California Representative Kevin Kiley Calls on FBI to Investigate California’s High-Speed Rail: No Power, No Money, No ‘High Speed’ – High-speed rail has been bilking the taxpayers since 2008. – California’s High-Speed Rail project is now 17 years old, with no track, no trains, and $13 billion gone…
6. California Globe: The Presidential Ambitions behind Gavin Newsom’s Metamorphosis To The Right – It’s been only 6 weeks since President Trump’s inauguration, and we have Gavin Newsom’s metamorphosis to appear more moderate for his 2028 Presidential run. – Is Newsom a shapeshifter, or has he seen the light? We all know the answer: Newsom is a politician. – Is Newsom reading the tea leaves?…

February 2025 Articles

1. Breitbart: California Governor Gavin Newsom asked Congress for $40 billion in funding for fire relief, just two weeks after approving $50 million in spending to fight the Trump administration on immigration and other policies. – Newsom has made no offer to the federal government in return. — No changes in forest management, no changes in water management, no changes in emergency services, and no commitment to drop the $50 million in negative spending…

2. American Spectator: California Eyes Takeover of Oil Refineries – In its latest move to echo Venezuela, California’s energy commission touts government control of the state’s once-booming petroleum industry. – If you think gas prices are high under the state’s absurdly regulated market-based system, just imagine this. California’s leaders don’t want us driving, so they could arbitrarily raise prices rather than indirectly through taxes and regulations to force us into short-range EVs…

3. California Globe:  Gavin Newsom’s Ban on Gas-Powered Cars is Dead – EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin just sent California’s vehicle emissions waiver request to Congress for review. – This is big and kills California Governor Gavin Newsom’s ban on gas-powered vehicles.

4. American Thinker: Fake Insurance Courtesy Of Gavin Newsom’s California – California’s “FAIR PLAN” state fire insurance lives up to Gavin Newsom’s reputation for sheer incompetence. – Since 2018, FAIR plan policyholders have grown from 150,000 to more than 450,000 as commercial insurers have left California due to premium adequacy issues. – What is most tragic is that most people insured by the plan have no idea how weak it is.

5. American Spectator: Trump Was Right About California’s Wildfires – Throughout his first term, Trump repeatedly begged California’s Governor Gavin Newsom and other boneheaded Democrats to reduce vegetation and increase water storage and infrastructure to prevent and, if necessary, defeat the flames.

6. The Center Square: California’s largest property insurer, State Farm, demands a 22% rate hike due to the wildfires. – Proposition 103 in 1988 empowered state regulators to approve rate hikes, which has led to rates not keeping up with rising claims and risks. – State Farm says it has lost $5 billion over the last nine years in California and had no option but to stop underwriting new policies in 2023.

January 2025 Articles

1. American Thinker: California Dreamin’ – Every day, we learn more about the monumental ineptitude of California’s elected officials. – At the peak of the L.A. wildfires, the hydrants dried up. – Green lawyers and their representatives blocked the construction of new reservoirs for the past 46 years. – Permits to clear away flammable vegetation sat on the desks of bureaucrats awaiting approvals that never came. – Governor Gavin Newsom stopped a plan to pipe water from the lush north to the parched southland…
2. California Globe: Gavinomics Has Led To California’s High Cost of Living, And It Is Exploding. – Utility bills, healthcare premiums, food costs, gas prices, insurance, and taxes have never been higher. – Much of this increase is due to California’s stupidity in moving away from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, which are intermittent, unreliable, and expensive.

3. Daily Signal: How a Woke Newsom Appointee Dismantled California’s Elite Volunteer Firefighting Force – Shortly after his appointment, Mathew Beevers decommissioned the Emergency Response Command, a highly trained joint command consisting of two volunteer units. – Team Blaze and Team Shield were a military reserve force that supported the California National Guard, consisting of police officers, retired police chiefs, retired firefighters, and California Highway Patrol officers.

4. American Spectator: As California Burns, Is It Also Awakening To Its Disastrous Democrat Policies? – It is neither vindictiveness nor political opportunism to say that there should be an accounting for California’s wildfires’ aftermath. – The tragedy unfolding in California should have a national impact on the environmental policies that have helped produce it. – It could also have political repercussions that reverberate well beyond the state.

5. Trending Politics: Newsom Faces Backlash After Using The Wildfires To Drive Donations To A Democratic Fundraising Site—The website purportedly provides resources and information about the Southern California wildfires, but critics claim it’s nothing more than a thinly veiled effort to fundraise on a platform for Democratic causes.
6. Trending Politics: Gavin Newsom Is Embroiled In A Scandal For His Stunning Move Before Tragic Wildfires—A recently surfaced report exposed a controversial budget decision by the governor’s office. The decision slashed over $100 million from wildfire prevention programs, including a $5 million reduction to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s vegetation management initiatives.

7. American Thinker: California, water, water everywhere, and not a drop to pump. – Californian firefighters found empty hydrants all too often had none, so they were reduced to watching homes burn to the ground. – But wait, wasn’t California supposed to have done something about water many years ago? – Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass, and various other politicians are finger-pointing and trying desperately to avoid questions while seeking someone else to blame. – Desalinization works for Israel…

8. New York Sun: California Faces a Staggering $20 Billion Wildfire Insurance Crisis, With ‘Sad Surprises’ On The Horizon for Homeowners—State Farm, the state’s largest home insurance provider, announced in March of last year that it was discontinuing coverage of 72,000 home and apartment policies across the state.
9. Wall Street Journal: California’s Wildfire Insurance Catastrophe—The state refused to let insurers properly price risk, so they fled the state. – Insurers are paying out $1.09 in expenses and claims for every $1 they collect in premiums, which is financially unsustainable. – Now, homeowners and taxpayers will pay for the mistake.
10. Conservative Brief: A Resurfaced Video Of Trump Addressing California Fire Policies Vindicates Him. – The clip, from a three-month-old appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, features Trump’s sharp criticism of California’s environmental policies and inadequate forest maintenance.
11. California Globe: California’s Perfect Storm – Historical Devastating Fires and the State’s Insurance Crisis – Governor Newsom misled the public in 2021 about his wildfire prevention efforts by 690% – Newsom slashed roughly $150 million from Cal Fire’s wildfire prevention budget.” – Data show Cal Fire treated 64,000 acres in 2019, but only 32,000 acres in 2020 and 24,000 acres through Memorial Day of this year,” CapRadio and NPR reported.
12. American Thinker: California is not only gaining illegal aliens; it’s still losing native Californians – Plainly, its leftist experiment is a disaster for the former Golden State, and Americans increasingly want nothing to do with it. – California’s growing population “stems largely from international migration and natural population increases, not domestic migration,” with U-Haul confirming that legal Americans aren’t moving to California…
13. Breitbart: for the 5th straight year, California ranked last in U-Haul move-in statistics for 2024, as people continue to leave the high-tax, high-cost-of-living Golden State. – Conservative commentator Victor Davis Hanson wrote of California last July: “Never before has such a state, so rich in natural resources and endowed with such a bountiful human inheritance, self-destructed so rapidly.”
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