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Finding As Wretched A Candidate As Jasmeet Bains Won't Be Easy For California Democrats
Last year, the Democrats elected 6 freshmen to the Senate. 3 have overall Progressive Punch Senate score of “A.” The two worst are Elissa...

Howie Klein
Sep 266 min read


In Search Of The DCCC’s Worst 2026 Candidate— Like In 2022 & 2024, Let’s Start In The Central Valley
GOP corporate shill David Valadao was first elected to Congress in 2012. He was defeated for reelection, narrowly (50.4% to 49.6%), in...

Howie Klein
Sep 103 min read


Cutting Off Big Bird’s Mic— And Yours… The GOP’s War On Public Broadcasting Just Got Very Real
Trump’s Latest Culture War Trophy Is Defunding Truth By law, the rescissions bill had to be on Trump’s desk by today. So what is it all...

Howie Klein
Jul 185 min read


Republicans Will Pay The Piper For The Big Ugly Bill— Starting With California's David Valadao
Only An Inept DCCC Can Save Valadao— As It Did In 2022 & 2024 Randy Villegas, will beat David Valadao unless the New Dem-aligned DCCC...

Howie Klein
Jul 77 min read


The Republicans’ Big Ugly Bill Is A Ticking Time Bomb— And They’re Standing Right On It
Now They Have To Sell The Unsellable: They Just Voted to Gut Medicaid In Their Home Districts The party of Medicaid cuts & billionaire...

Howie Klein
Jul 611 min read


Another DCCC Disaster In The Making— Why Are They Sabotaging CA-22 Again?
Meet Jasmeet Bains— The DCCC’s Latest Gift To Big Oil, Cops & The DC Republicans The DCCC never learns its lesson. Here in California, it...

Howie Klein
Jul 54 min read


Trump Gets To Sign His Big Ugly Bill Today Because... CONGRESS ALWAYS CHICKENS OUT
The Republican Party Just Declared Class War Against 75% Of Americans Sure, on the eve of Independence Day, nearly 20% of Americans— and...

Howie Klein
Jul 47 min read


Randy Villegas— Finally A New Deal Democrat Who Can Take Back The Central Valley
The DCCC Has Tried ConservaDems Over And Over— Time For A New Approach If the Democrats are going to take back the House, one verry...

Howie Klein
Jun 155 min read


Ever Wonder How The DCCC Has Become So Proficient At Losing Blue Seats? Suzan DelBene Is An Expert
Progressive Randy Villegas and conservative Jasmeet Bains Right now there are 37 congressional districts with more than 50% Hispanic...

Howie Klein
Apr 202 min read


The Most Important Primaries Are The Ones That Will Yield The Most Consequential Members Of Congress
Not More Garden Variety Backbenchers AOC and Saikat Imagine for a moment that Saikat Chakrabarti somehow beats Nancy Pelosi and becomes...

Howie Klein
Apr 194 min read


DelBene Is Certainly Not Going To Fix The DCCC— Will Jeffries Appoint Someone Who Even Wants To?
It Starts With Strong Recruiting, Not With Corrupt Blue Dogs This cycle, the DCCC re-recruited two of its worst 2022 candidates,...

Howie Klein
Dec 5, 20246 min read


Flipping The House Red To Blue— A Focus On California And Wisconsin. Is It Even Worth The Effort?
Blue Wave Headed This Way? Yesterday, James Rainey reported something that isn’t exactly earth shattering: Kamala and Tim are building a...

Howie Klein
Aug 15, 20245 min read


6 Cali Seats Will Decide Who Controls Congress— & The Dems Have Opted For Lesser Of 2 Evils Gambles
L.A. Times Coverage Doesn’t Include Candidate Quality Yesterday, L.A. Times political staff writer Julia Wick noted that “While...

Howie Klein
Apr 27, 20246 min read


Do The DCCC Democrats NOT Want To Flip Valadao's Central Valley District? Rudy Salas Again!
The San Joaquin Valley’s 22nd congressional district should have been a Democratic seat. A majority-Latino district, it includes most of...

Howie Klein
Feb 15, 20243 min read


Nice Blue CA-22 Election Shapes Up: 3 Shitty Conservatives And A Fascist
CA-22 is a fairly safe blue district in California’s Central Valley, parts of 3 counties— Kern, Tulare and Kings. Biden beat Trump by 13...

Howie Klein
Sep 17, 20233 min read


The Problem With The Dems' Lesser Evil Strategy Is That Some Voters View The Republican As Less Evil
Establishment Democrats have so little faith in what the party is supposed to stand for that they count on a lesser of two evils approach...

Howie Klein
May 8, 20236 min read


Why Isn't California Leading In Progressive Solutions-- Corrupt Conservative Dems In The Legislature
Here Are Their Names This year’s Courage Campaign ratings of all the California legislators just came out. It’s important to mention that...

Howie Klein
Apr 30, 20232 min read


The Question Of Extremely Poor Candidate Quality Plagues Both Parties
It shouldn’t take a brain surgeon to figure out that especially bad candidates are more likely to lose elections than especially good— or...

Howie Klein
Feb 25, 20232 min read


Republican Civil War Spills Into Congressional Races-- NY, NJ, California, Even South Dakota!
The Fascists Are Coming For The Conservatives After New York Democrats tried stealing 4 red seats from the GOP, a Republican judge...

Howie Klein
Jun 5, 20225 min read


Is 2022 The Year The Central Valley Goes All In For Progressives? Bernie Won Every District
The California redistricting commission scrambled the Central Valley congressional map a bit. Not counting the new CA-27 (former CA-25,...

Howie Klein
Dec 31, 20214 min read
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