California

Earlier this week, L.A. City Attorney Mike Feuer, hosted a Q&A with House Intelligence Chair and L.A. area congressman, Adam Schiff, Constitutional Clash. An exasperated Schiff went after his Republican colleagues' moral character.

Charlie Cook, an avatar of centrism, asked yesterday if Democrats can grab the center now that Trump alienated it from the Republicans. As he says, the electorate is made up of two sides and a big mushy middle. Sometimes it's a third, a third and a third.

Wasserman Schultz and Bustos-- feel inspired yet?Selecting Blue Dog and Rahm Emanuel protégé, Cheri Bustos as DCCC chair was a catastrophic mistake the House Democratic caucus made. This week, Our Revolution made a good case about why Bustos should not be heading the DCCC.

When Ken Calvert was first elected to Congress in 1992, CA-42, the western Riverside County district, was in the heart of a deep red swathe of Republican California. Today, Calvert is surrounded by Democrats. To the east is CA-36, the Palms Springs district, today Raul Ruiz's D+2 seat. To the north, he's bordered by Mark Takano's CA-41 (D+12) and Norma Torres' CA-35 (D+19). To the west are 3 districts that just flipped from red to blue last year-- CA-39 (Gil Cisneros), CA-45 (Katie Porter) and CA-49 (Mike Levin).

At the state level in California, Texas, and Florida Republicans have pushed new laws to prohibit censorship on political grounds or even just based on content as a whole.

We try to say it at least once a week-- and we've been doing that for over two years: Audrey Denney would make a kick-ass, effective member of Congress. It's not her fault she was born and raised and still lives in a sprawling rural district that voted for Trump by 20 points or that the PVI is a daunting R+11. That was certainly enough to make the DCCC look elsewhere. But it didn't discourage Denney. She campaigned like she could actually win.

On March 7, the Inter Press Service (IPS) published my article, “Eight Years on, Fukushima Still Poses Health Risks for Children,” and I am very gratified to learn that it was the second most popular article published in IPS News that week. It also appears that many readers were surprised to learn that removal of the irradiated cores from the three crippled nuclear reactors at Fukushima would take at least forty years.

This cycle, California will have a huge role in determining who becomes president. It will also determine which candidates keep competing for the nomination after the March 3rd primary-- Super-Tuesday. It would be hard to imagine, for example, that Kamala Harris will keep going if she does badly in California. And what about Beto and Castro? Texas votes the same day.

CA-34 in Los Angeles is the district next door and to the east and south of mine. I'm there a lot; it's basically down the street. It includes Angelino Heights, Mount Washington, Eagle Rock, Highland Park, City Terrace, Boyle Heights, the Arts District, the Financial District and Koreatown.

Carranza was an admitted gang member and had six prior arrests, including battery, resisting arrest and possession of methamphetamine. Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties ignored nine ICE detainers to deport Carranza due to California's state and local policies offering sanctuary.