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The Gerrymander Battlefield— And For All Their Huffing And Puffing, Democrats Brought A White Flag
Redistricting Roulette: Congress Is Being Rigged in Real Time While We Watch The Republican Party, led by Trump and his lackeys in state...

Howie Klein
Aug 74 min read


Dems Hoping For A Rural Realignment Better Understand That Newsom Is A Blind Alley, Not A Bridge
When The Hair Gel Dries Up, Symbolism Over Substance Is A Newsom Problem You probably never heard of Brian Dahle. A state senator from...

Howie Klein
Jul 114 min read


Trump And Newsom’s Nuclear Power Obsession
-by Harvey Wasserman and Karl Grossman Donald Trump on May 23rd declared nuclear power to be “a hot industry.” Nuclear power plants are...

Harvey Wasserman
Jun 129 min read


Paucity Of Good Candidates Running For Governor Of California Says A Lot About The State's Democrats
Good News: They're Still Not As Bad As Republicans bleccch The one time I met Gavin Newsom (2010— he was still running for governor, not...

Howie Klein
May 274 min read


The Synthetic Charm Of Gavin Newsom: A Career Built On Optics, Not Conviction
A Party Critic— From Inside the Velvet Rope I’ve met a lot of politicians in my life— some decent, some detestable, most somewhere in the...

Howie Klein
Apr 234 min read


Trump Is Pushing Hard Against American Values On Every Level— And He Must Be Fought On Every Level
There Are No Distractions— It's All The Toxic MAGA GOP Agenda In his quest for the presidency, coporate centrist Gavin Newsom has decided...

Howie Klein
Apr 2110 min read


Bernie’s And AOC’s Fighting Oligarchy Tour Didn’t Bring In Tens Of Millions Of Dollars
Bringing In Money Wasn't The Point— So Politicians Will Soon Forget It Discounting people who might bring rotten fruit to throw, do you...

Howie Klein
Apr 134 min read


Is Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy The One? He's Not Bernie... But At Least He Isn't Gavin Newsom
ProgressivePunch isn’t the flawless measurement of congressional progressivism… but it’s closer to perfect than any other measurement...

Howie Klein
Apr 29 min read


Gavin Newsom Isn't Really "Old And Out Of Touch"— Just Out Of Touch The Way Chuck Schumer Is
Granted, when Gavin Newsom set out to make a national name for himself— by performing a same sex marriage on the steps of San Francisco’s...

Howie Klein
Mar 248 min read


Who Can Speak For The Heart & Soul Of The Democratic Party? Not Elissa Slotin, Not Gavin Newsom...
We're Lucky They Stopped Using Kamala Harris And Liz Cheney! When I think about who could make a compelling rebuttal to Trump’s speech—...

Howie Klein
Mar 108 min read


Midnight Meme Of The Day! President Musk Tops First Lady Trump's "Rake The Leaves" Idiocy!
Musk Is All About Packing The Mud! by Noah Lost for some people in both the important and not quite as important news centered around the...

Noah
Jan 142 min read


While Attacking Solar Power, the LA Times Shows Why the Diablo Canyon Nukes Should Shut
by Harvey “Sluggo” Wasserman Sometimes a smug purveyor of corporate wisdom can prove the opposite of what it wants to say. Take the...

Harvey Wasserman
Nov 27, 20245 min read


Standing Between The DCCC & A Blue Wave: Grotesquely Bad Candidate Quality In New York & California
The DCCC Has One Thing Going For It: Republicans Are Worse In New York State, 2020 saw Biden beat Trump 60.9% to 37.7%— not as good as...

Howie Klein
Aug 24, 20243 min read


Sadly Weak Democratic Bench Presages A Kamala Nomination
I live in California and I never voted for Kamala Harris for anything— not in a primary and not in a general election. If she winds up...

Howie Klein
Jul 15, 20242 min read


Gavin Newsom’s $12 Billion Radioactive Diablo Scam Could Soon Be Twisting In The Wind
-by Harvey Wasserman Diablo Canyon’s infamous $12 billion nuclear war is raging hot and heavy in Sacramento. Citizen action may soon...

Harvey Wasserman
Jun 20, 20243 min read


Bite The Pillow And Make The Best Of It— Biden Will Be The Democratic Nominee In November
Do You Think He's Better Than Trump? Siena is a decent polling firm for the New York metro and teh NY Times uses them and gives them a...

Howie Klein
Mar 3, 20249 min read


Are All MAGAts Mentally Ill? Are All Politicians Crackpots?Who's Crazier Newsom Or Guilforyle?
How Would Trump React To An Hour Of Loud Cramps Music? The 1978 Cramps/Mutants concert I helped stage at the Napa state mental hospital...

Howie Klein
Jan 2, 20246 min read


Think Of What You Dislike Most About The Democratic Party— You Can Put Gavin Newsom's Face On That
Yesterday we started the day off with a long, winding look at how the Democratic Party has tried to play both sides of the street— Wall...

Howie Klein
Dec 6, 20234 min read


What The Senate Appointment Tells Us About Laphonza Butler AND Presidential Wanna Be Gavin Newsom
Another mediocre corporatist appointment from Gavin Newsom shouldn’t surprise anyone. Even after he cam e out with his cringe-worthy...

Howie Klein
Oct 4, 20235 min read


Who Will Newsom Appoint To Be The Next Senator From California, Another Corporatist Like Himself?
It's Not Going To Be A Progressive, You Can Count On That With the not surprising passing of Dianne Feinstein (age 90), the Democrats no...

Howie Klein
Oct 1, 20234 min read
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