Feinstein shouldn't have run last time but she's one of those political freaks-- like Pelosi and most of the careerists in Congress who...

My old friend John Laesch introduced me to an effective former volunteer who had worked for his campaign and who is now running for an...

A decade ago, then Congressman Bob Filner described then state Senator Juan Vargas like this: "While Juan has not yet been convicted of a...

Yesterday's L.A. Times ran a nice "both sides now" piece about the Dem vs Dem congressional race in the newly created 42nd district...

Yesterday, there was a clear implication in a post about the death of California's single-payer bill that the mess could be lain at the...

Today Jerry McNerney announced he wouldn't be running for reelection. Other than DC politicos the folks in Stockton, Lodi, Brentwood,...

With both Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40) and Alan Lowenthal (CA-47) retiring from safe Blue districts-- Trump lost CA-40 with just 20.6%...

Yesterday, Blue Dog chairwoman Stephanie Murphy-- under pressure from a gerrymandered seat and aware that many progressive constituents...

-by Harvey Wasserman The nuclear power insanity is nowhere more dangerous that at California’s ancient, aging, embrittled Diablo Canyon...

Devin Nunes' Central Valley district went from R+6 to D+7 and Nunes ran for his life, landing a make-believe job with Trump's...

Undiscussed in the public forum is that the latest California redistricting maps-- less than a week from finalization-- draw Kevin...

California's independent-- as in nonpartisan-- redistricting commission has been releasing myriad "visualizations" of the new districts...

By now, everyone who follows the political news knows that conservative Republican Jeff Fortenberry (NE) was indicted for lying to the...

CA-21, a Central Valley district that stretches from the Hispanic neighborhoods of Bakersfield, north along the 5 in the west and the 99...

-by Dorothy Reik President, Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains Sadism was the order of the day. The party caucuses had...

Isaac Bryan, a 29 year old academic high achiever who came from a huge foster family, was elected to the California Assembly in a special...

Delano Mayor Bryan Osorio is the only progressive in a crowded race for the Republican-held congressional seat in the Central Valley...

Yesterday I listed about 2 dozen counties with vaccination rates below 20%. What they have in common is that they are all counties that...

by Noah Here we are, the results of last Tuesday's California recall vote in nice map form. Those areas where people voted for the...

Like 5,887,471 other California voters (63.8%), I'm glad Trumpist crackpot Larry Elder is not going to be governor of my state. Unlike...