California

Stopping Rohrabacher and Keirstead means picking between Kotick or RoudaCA-48 is a traditionally Republican district along the coast of Orange County.

Orange County, just south of Los Angeles, is a pocket of conservatism in a deep blue state, and local citizens are pushing back against California's sanctuary state laws that severely limit cooperation with federal immigration officials. The Orange County Sheriff's Department announced it will publicly post when inmates are released from custody. The information will apply to all inmates although it is intended to assist ICE agents to pick up those with criminal records as they are released.

The mayor of Aliso Viejo, California is joining leaders of other cities looking to opt out of the state's "sanctuary" law, which allows for less cooperation on the local level with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.  The Los Alamitos City Council is the first city to opt out of the unconstitutional law, which was met with overwhelming support of about 50 to 1.  The ACLU is threatening to sue the city if they fail to comply with state law. [...]

(TIM) — Chilling jailhouse footage captured an inmate as he writhed on the floor, lost consciousness and subsequently died after being bound naked in a restraint chair for 46 consecutive hours, as California sheriff’s deputies at the San Luis Obispo County Jail looked on, with some occasionally laughing. The newly released video stands in contrast to the […]

Imagine if the DCCC did something useful instead of trying to destroy progressive candidatesMonday morning Emily Cadei updated her Sacramento Bee story about how the establishment intends to further marginalize Democratic voters in selecting party candidates for Congress.

California State Senator Kevin de Leon appointed an illegal alien, Lizbeth Mateo, to the California Student Opportunity and Access Program Project Grant Advisory Committee, a state government office. Mateo says that illegal aliens are not adequately represented in state government, and described her appointment as a step towards correcting that 'injustice'. [...]

Yesterday, when Señor Trumpanzee arrived in California for the first time since Putin installed him in the White House, he was greeted by an open letter from the state Democratic Party. Some say it's over the top-- but, then again, so is Señor T.

DCCC doesn't care what OC voters want-- they insist on the corrupt lottery winner I was worried about the open CA-39 race (northeast Orange County) when Jay Chen, a solid progressive, suddenly jumped in (immediately after Ed Royce announced his retirement).

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA — “C’mon people, what are some more nurses values?”
I was nearly four months into my stint in the communications office at the California Nurses Association, or CNA, when I found myself in a half-lit, mildewed, second-floor conference room in the union’s downtown Oakland office, seated among a clutch of maybe seven or eight other communications staffers, all white with the exception of myself and an Asian woman.

CA-45 is the heart of Orange County. It includes Irvine, Mission Viejo, Lake Forest, Rancho Santa Margarita... Villa Park and the Anaheim Hills in the north and Coto De Caza in the south. But it doesn't include the home of Mimi Walters, the congresswoman who was elected in 2014.