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Why California Proves the Extreme Left Is Now the Democrat Mainstream
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Why California Proves the Extreme Left Is Now the Democrat Mainstream

The Democratic Party did not merely drift left over the decades, as some still politely maintain. It was captured, body and soul, by its radical socialist wing—hijacked, thrown into the trunk, and driven straight off the cliff into the ideological abyss. The old moderates are extinct, reduced to fossils of a bygone order that once valued pragmatism and compromise. The Blue Dogs have been buried in the backyard, their instincts for fiscal restraint and cultural common sense now dismissed as embarrassing relics.  What was once safely relegated to the “extreme Left”—the province of campus radicals, fringe activists, and academic theorists—has become the party’s beating core, its driving force, its new normal. And they no longer even pretend otherwise. New York City announces the transformation with theatrical boldness through socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Los Angeles presents its own spectacle: Mayor Karen Bass, long tied to far-left networks, now faces harder-left challengers like Democratic Socialist Nithya Raman, while scattered voices, including unlikely figures like Spencer Pratt, try to restore basic sanity. These coastal cities offer loud symptoms of the disease. But the shift runs deeper and more entrenched across California itself. Nowhere does this quiet revolution reveal itself more poignantly than in the state’s 4th Congressional District—the storied Napa and Sonoma wine country. These rolling hills and fertile valleys once embodied productive California: generations of hard-working Americans, including Italian and French immigrants, who coaxed world-class wine from the soil, built thriving family enterprises, sustained vibrant communities, and lived without constant supplication to distant bureaucrats and their multiplying permission slips. This was a landscape where effort, ingenuity, and stewardship produced both prosperity and beauty. For nearly three decades, Democrat Rep. Mike Thompson has occupied that seat like a personal retirement villa. A Vietnam veteran first elected in 1998, Thompson has voted with the Biden-Harris agenda nearly 100% of the time and carries a lifetime Heritage Action score of just 6 percent—less a legislative record than a participation trophy for rubber-stamping progressive priorities. He has pushed gun control as nearby streets turned into shooting galleries, opposed tax relief for working families, and embraced green-energy mandates that delivered rolling blackouts, soaring electricity bills, and an unreliable power grid.  Under his watch, California spent $24 billion on homelessness programs in five years, only to see more tents, more despair, and visible failure. Small farmers and vintners are strangled by water restrictions, environmental regulations, and red tape, while businesses and families flee to red states. Yet even this longtime liberal is no longer radical enough. Enter Eric Jones, the 35-year-old challenger: a Maine-born carpetbagger and Yale-educated venture capitalist millionaire who parachuted into Napa. Raised on food stamps and Medicaid, Jones made his fortune at Dragoneer Investment Group, kept his Pacific Heights mansion, partially relocated in 2021, and registered to vote in early 2025.  Endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Our Revolution, he campaigns on the full socialist platform: national $15 minimum wage, universal childcare, Medicare for All, higher corporate taxes, government-directed housing, and centralized insurance and energy. The irony is thick—a man enriched by the system that priced families out of housing now lectures North Bay residents about affordability. Not long ago, openly socialist or communist affiliations carried real risk. In 2009, self-described communist Van Jones was removed from the Obama White House when his past surfaced and was treated as a scandal. Today, candidates like Eric Jones wear such endorsements as badges of honor. The party no longer hides its radicals; it elevates them. The pattern repeats statewide. In the 2026 governor’s race, leading Democrats include Xavier Becerra and billionaire Tom Steyer, both pushing further left with aggressive single-payer healthcare expansions, wealth taxes, and heavy government control over housing and energy. Even after Gov. Gavin Newsom, the party charges onward with evident enthusiasm. Safe blue districts like California’s 4th have become sterile testing grounds for socialist ideas. With no Republican opposition, the only contest is left versus far-left. Insurgents set the agenda. The results are clear: record homelessness despite billions spent, unreliable power, choking regulations on producers, failing schools, rising urban crime, and families abandoning the state in droves. California stands as the nation’s most vivid warning label. One-party rule under this ideology does not deliver utopia. It delivers tent cities on once-pristine streets, fleeing taxpayers, budgetary sleight-of-hand, and politicians who call failure “progress.” What unfolds in the thriving valleys of Napa and Sonoma is no anomaly; it is the logical endpoint of the transformed Democrat reality—a party hollowed out from within and replaced by an ideology that brooks little dissent and offers no restraint. The socialist takeover is not a future threat. It has already arrived where resistance is weakest. The only remaining question is whether the rest of America will awaken in time before the entire country begins to resemble California on its worst days. We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of the Daily Signal.

Georgia Gubernatorial Candidate Backs Men in Women’s Sports
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Georgia Gubernatorial Candidate Backs Men in Women’s Sports

Georgia gubernatorial candidate Keisha Lance Bottoms claims she would have vetoed legislation that prevents biological men from competing in women’s sports if she were governor. “I don’t respect the government making decisions about who should compete in athletics,” Bottoms told voters during a Democratic primary debate before she clinched her party’s nomination. The moderator interrupted her and repeated his original question, “so you would have vetoed it?” to which the former Atlanta mayor answered, “yes.” The legislation, known as the Riley Gaines Act, was signed into law by current Gov. Brian Kemp after passing the Georgia state Legislature in 2025. Named after former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines, who lost her title race to a biological male competing in the women’s division, Lia Thomas, the law mandates that only biological women compete in women’s sports. Bottoms’ remarks add to her history of advocating for pro‑transgender legislation. During her time as mayor, the Biden‑endorsed candidate signed an administrative order to designate more than 100 city‑owned single‑user restrooms, including those at Hartsfield‑Jackson Atlanta International Airport, as all‑gender facilities. Bottoms also enrolled the city of Atlanta in Mayors Against LGBT Discrimination, a coalition of cities that advocates for inclusive, nondiscrimination policies at all levels of government. Previously, Bottoms leveraged resources to help fund transgender housing and updated police standard operating procedures to enhance protective engagement with the LGBTQ+ community. Bottoms has not signaled whether she would attempt to reverse the legislation if she became governor. If she were successful, Georgia would add to the list of states that have enacted policies allowing biological men to compete in women’s sports. And the state would run afoul of the Trump administration. As reported by The College Fix, the Trump administration has been cracking down on states and colleges that violate Title IX of the Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause by allowing biological men to compete in women’s sports. Bottoms will run against the winner of Georgia’s Republican gubernatorial primary runoff slated for June 26. The favorite in the race—current Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, who won 38% of the vote in the May primary while his opponent trailed at 32%—applauded the passage of the Riley Gaines Act under his administration. “Here in Georgia we are keeping our promises and fulfilling our commitments to the people of Georgia—specifically our female athletes,” the Trump‑endorsed candidate wrote in a press release. “As the father of a female athlete, nothing is more important than ensuring that the protection of women’s sports is a reality in Georgia.”

El-Sayed Has ‘Struggles’ With the Question of Whether Israel Should Be a Jewish State
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El-Sayed Has ‘Struggles’ With the Question of Whether Israel Should Be a Jewish State

Abdul El‑Sayed, a Democrat candidate for the U.S. Senate in Michigan, says he has a tough time deciding whether Israel should be a Jewish state. The candidate’s remarks come as anti‑Israel activists and state sponsors of terrorism such as Hamas and Iran have repeatedly waged violence against the state of Israel for being a Jewish state. “I often struggle with the question that people ask in this particular scenario, because what they now ask is, ‘Do you believe in the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state,’ which, to me, forces the question of a definition of what a Jewish state means,” he said at a campaign event, according to a recording obtained by Jewish Insider. He then added that Israel’s right to exist overlooks “the rights of people who’ve been displaced by Israeli action” dating back to 1948. “[Israel] exists as it stands, but nobody ever asked me about the right of Palestine to exist, because it doesn’t exist,” he continued. “And so I just push back on the characterization here.” During his remarks, El‑Sayed redirected the question, saying that if the person asking it cannot be specific, he is not inclined to answer. “I need folks who want to ask me that question [to explain] what it is that they mean by that, and how that is consistent with any form of liberal values that we say we believe in here in the United States.” El‑Sayed has pulled similar dodges in the past. Earlier this year, a staff writer for The Free Press, Olivia Reingold, asked the Democrat candidate whether Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state. El‑Sayed replied by asking Reingold, “What do you mean by a ‘Jewish state’?” Before she could answer, he cut her off and said, “If you can’t define the question, I’m not going to answer your question.” El‑Sayed’s seemingly anti‑Israel rhetoric came months after the candidate campaigned at Michigan State University with left‑wing streamer Hasan Piker, who previously said “America deserved 9/11.” After the killing of Iran’s supreme leader, a leaked recording also showed El‑Sayed telling his campaign staffers that he did not want to condemn the deceased leader because “a lot of people in Dearborn are sad.” In that same leaked recording, El-Sayed downplayed the attempted terrorist attack of Jewish synagogue in Michigan, justifying it by saying that the attacker was filled with rightful rage. “A week earlier, an airstrike killed his niece and nephew. Imagine if that had never happened. Imagine there was no war in Iran. Imagine if there were no airstrikes in Lebanon. Imagine if his family had never died,” El-Sayed said after Lebanese-born Ayman Mohamad Ghazali, who became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2016, drove his car into Temple Israel synagogue on March 12. “We can and must condemn the attack on Temple Israel, and we can and must condemn the violence 6,000 miles away.” Polls show El-Sayed currently leads his Democrat rivals for the Senate nomination, with his support growing. Michigan holds its primary August 4, with the winner likely facing Republican Mike Rogers.

Trump’s Democrat Foe Al Green Loses Texas Primary
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Trump’s Democrat Foe Al Green Loses Texas Primary

Texas Democrat Rep. Al Green, famed for filing numerous articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump and disrupting his address to Congress, lost by a landslide to a young primary opponent on Tuesday.  With over 95% of the vote counted by Wednesday morning, Democrat Rep. Christian Menefee led Green by nearly 40 points, the Associated Press reported. Trump wrote on Truth Social of the result, “Congratulations to the Dumocrat Party! Al Green, one of the most mentally deficient Congressmen in the history of our Country, has lost, in a landslide, his seat in Congress—But I will miss that lunatic not screaming and violently waving his cane at me during my next State of the Union Speech.” Green’s office told the Daily Signal the congressman would “comment at a later time” on Trump’s post. Green, who has represented Texas’ 9th Congressional District since 2005, was forced to challenge Menefee in the 18th Congressional District after the state’s Legislature redrew its congressional map to disfavor Democrats in his district. WATCH: Rep. Al Green (D-TX) was just removed by the Seargent-at-Arms for interrupting President Trump.His appalling lack of decorum and respect is shameful. pic.twitter.com/wKGsp0sfQ0— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 5, 2025 Menefee, 38, was first elected to the predominantly black Houston-area district in January, succeeding Rep. Sylvester Turner, who died in office.  The Tuesday results make Menefee the Democrat nominee for the deep-blue seat in November. Menefee struck a conciliatory tone in his victory speech, taking aim at Republicans for having redistricted Green out of office. “We’re not going to let this election tear us apart. We’re not going to let this election pit leader against leader,” he said. “We’re going to bring that spirit of fierce and fearless protest that Al Green has.” Cutting a distinct figure on Capitol Hill with his ponytail and cane, Green, 78, has been extremely combative with Trump, introducing multiple articles of impeachment that have all failed, often without the backing of his party’s leadership. In March 2025, Green loudly interrupted Trump’s joint address to Congress, standing up and raising his cane. He was escorted out of the House chamber by the sergeant at arms. During Trump’s February State of the Union address, he held a sign reading, “BLACK PEOPLE AREN’T APES,” a reference to a jungle-themed animated video reposted by Trump that featured former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, as apes. The president has denied having seen the full video before posting it and has condemned its depiction of the Obamas. Green was endorsed for the primary by several members of the Congressional Black Caucus, an influential Democrat faction in the House of Representatives. Jasmine Crockett makes direct-to-camera appeal for Christian Menefee in latest TV ad in #TX18 runoff from crypto super PAC Protect Progress. Crockett first backed Menefee when he was in a special election last year and has stuck with him in current race against Al Green. pic.twitter.com/zIxc7TfKxX— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) May 14, 2026 However, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, endorsed Menefee over him, appearing in an ad funded by the pro-cryptocurrency political action committee Protect Progress, which spent millions in favor of Menefee. Protect Progress is an affiliate of Fairshake. Green harshly criticized the cryptocurrency lobby throughout the race, describing himself on the House floor as an “unbought, liberated, unafraid Democrat, unbought by crypto cash.”  In a separate video, he accused Menefee of making a “deal with the devil” by supporting the crypto industry. Menefee’s website says that technologies like blockchain offer the potential to increase trust, transparency, and efficiency—from finance to supply chains” and that he supports “clear rules of the road” to “support innovation.” NEW —Here's the first ad from the Fairshake super PACs against Al Green, the Democratic congressman from Houston who is about to get attacked by the crypto industry.No mention of crypto — just a message of generational change.Fairshake is spending $1.5 million against Green… pic.twitter.com/Paex1lYXxJ— Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) February 13, 2026 Fairshake said in a statement after the primary, “Rep. Green’s defeat proves that anti-crypto hostility carries real electoral consequences, making him the first Democrat incumbent this cycle to lose his seat. Fairshake was the difference-maker in this race, and we will continue to aggressively back leaders like Rep. Menefee across the country.” Menefee, who is 40 years younger than Green, emphasized his youthful vigor in a campaign ad that featured him running in a suit—a humorous reference to him having run four campaigns in just over half a year. Together, we’ve run 4 races in 7 months. May 26th, we cross the finish line.Early voting is open 7am – 7pm until Friday, May 22nd. Election Day is Tuesday, May 26th. pic.twitter.com/OAY9BUneEG— Christian D. Menefee (@CDMenefee) May 18, 2026 Menefee’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 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Britain’s 7-Step Program to Ruin
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Britain’s 7-Step Program to Ruin

Out of about 5,000 seats up for vote in Britain’s recent local council elections, the ruling Labour Party lost 1,100 in its worst-ever result, while the new Reform UK Party gained 1,300. A major factor was migration. Here are seven steps successive governments took that led to that being such an issue. 1. Let mass migration grow faster than the economy. In the last 30 years, under both Labour and Conservative governments, migration to Britain has been the largest in the country’s history. Unlike prior waves, most of the newest arrivals are not from Europe. The majority are not highly skilled or educated. In 2023-24, 53% of people in Britain took more in benefits than they paid in taxes. In 2022-23 alone, 51,000 additional foreigners came to the U.K. on “family visas” to join relatives. On average each one will reportedly cost £109,000 pounds ($148,000) more in benefits than each would pay in over their lifetimes. Meanwhile, in the 4th quarter of 2025, the British economy grew only 0.1%. That “math ain’t mathin here,” to quote Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Mo. 2. Normalize crime and fail to punish offenders. In response to a teenage mob looting shops, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said the city was safe and that to say otherwise was misinformation. He is right that murder rates are lower than in large U.S. cities, but safety isn’t just about being alive, it’s also about not having your phone or bag snatched or not being menaced by gangs of juvenile thugs. Khan is trying to pull wool over Londoners’ eyes, but they can see crimes such as phone stealing, sexual assault, and shoplifting have risen dramatically during the same period mass migration brought millions of people from far-flung cultures to Britain. Londoners are meant to just accept that higher street crime is unrelated to the political decisions that radically changed the city’s demography. In Central London, one used to be able to walk without fear of being mugged or seeing a shoplifter. Things have changed. In early March, BBC News presenter Ben Thompson was leaving a restaurant in the posh Mayfair district when a group of thieves stole his Rolex. The only two caught were Hocine Boulanouar and Danis Tom-Deter, both from Algeria, whose “gangs have long made London the phone snatch capital of the world,” writes James Fielding in the Daily Mail. Boulanouar already had a criminal conviction for theft. Why was he still in England? The seaside town of Brighton was as safe a place as I can remember as a child. Last October, Egyptian Ibrahim Alshafe and Iranian Abdulla Ahmadi, 26, allegedly gang-raped a woman on a beach there while another Egyptian, Karin Al-Danasurt, filmed them. All three appear to have been housed at government expense. Al-Danasurt’s asylum claim had been rejected. But he was still in England free to wander the beach because though Britain’s asylum bar is low enough for an ant to get over, even those rejected aren’t deported in a timely manner. In the northern city of Rotheram, Banaras Hussain was a ringleader of a “grooming gang” of men that raped at least 15 girls as young as 11 years old for over a decade. He was sentenced to 19 years in prison in 2016, yet he has just been allowed out on parole. The rape gangs—primarily men of Pakistani origin targeting indigenous English girls—were a national scandal that most media and politicians suppressed for years, to avoid the politically dangerous connection of crime to migration and culture. 3. Lower the bar for legal entry. For decades Britain granted tourist, work, and student visas on easy terms. The nation allowed “students” to bring dependent families. Combined with a low bar for asylum applications and lengthy delays, this was a recipe for disaster. Diploma mills with pathetically low entry standards mushroomed. Low-quality or bogus schools work in partnership with agencies in corrupt countries with an over-supply of young people. Huge numbers of students, particularly from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Nigeria, claim asylum—around 15,000 last year. While some foreign students in the U.K. are talented and genuinely studying, many are there simply to get a work visa. This video from Conservative Member of Parliament Chris Philp shows how the student scam works. 4. Make it easy to enter illegally. Since 2018, over 200,000 illegal immigrants—mostly young men from Africa and the Middle East—have arrived by small boats. Once they get to the U.K., they claim asylum. However weak their case, they are housed, fed, and taken care of by the British taxpayer while awaiting a decision. Hundreds of aimless young men are placed in hotels, army bases, and makeshift shelters. When locals get angry, the government ignores their complaints or calls them racist for noticing. While Starmer’s Labour government is feckless, British courts would undermine even a competent effort to crack down. In February, a judge ruled that at least 70 illegal boat migrants should be paid almost $9,000 each because their cellphones were taken from them, allegedly breaching the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). This piece of legislation has been weaponized to assist mass economic migration. The best proof that the British government has zero confidence in their own system to eject bogus or rejected asylum seekers is its mooted plans to pay illegal aliens up to £40,000 ($55,000) if they leave the country within seven days, instead of going through the asylum process. 5. Fail to deport even the worst criminals. Between 2018 and 2025, around 96,002 Afghans, Iranians, Iraqis, and Eritreans entered the U.K. via small boats before claiming asylum. In that time, only 495 (0.5%) were deported. Forget about merely bogus claims—even criminal records and terrorism won’t always get you removed from the U.K. Albanian career criminal Dorian Puka was convicted of burglary back in 2015 and deported. He snuck back in 2020 and lodged an asylum claim, which allows him to remain for a decade. Mocking British authorities, Puka has posted videos to social media drinking champagne, wearing his six Rolex watches, or with his Ferrari, Lamborghini, and other bling. In April, Essa Suleiman from Somalia was charged with attempted murder after stabbing two Jewish men in London. He came to the U.K. as a child, and despite a history of violence was able to become a “British national,” so he’s going nowhere. In 2012, Bangladeshi Shah Rahman was one of three Islamists who plotted to blow up the London Stock Exchange. He was prosecuted and jailed in 2012 but released in 2019, then married a woman from Mauritania, who was herself barred from Britain after airport inspectors found terrorist material on her phone. Rahman applied for asylum but was denied—because the 1951 Refugee Convention allows countries to reject terrorists. Yet a judge let him stay in Britain because sending him back to Bangladesh would supposedly breach his rights under the ECHR. Magnify the convoluted path this case took, with multiple appeals and legal hoops, and you see how the U.K. got into its current mess. 6. Pander to immigrants rather than insisting they assimilate. In 2017, government education inspectors rated the government-supported Al-Hijrah School in Birmingham as “inadequate,” because it segregated children by sex from age 9, a policy which did not “prepare [children] for life in modern Britain,” the chief inspector said. The library also contained books reportedly “normalising domestic violence and marital rape.” In the port city of Bristol, the local council holds a half-hour meeting every month for public comment and questions. At the session last March, this video purports to show a Muslim councilor from the Green Party chanting the Islamic sunset call to prayer.   7. Hide the truth. The British elite is desperate to keep the public quiet, helped by the BBC, the government-owned, left-leaning media network. But as social media finds cracks in the information armor, the government has tried repression as well. In 2023, 12,000 people were arrested for speech or social media posts, and London police have two dozen officers monitoring online speech.  Britain is on a knife-edge between two futures: One is to end mass migration, do the hard work of absorbing the millions of new arrivals worthy of keeping, and quickly deport the rest. The second is to surrender national sovereignty, cultural cohesion, and their future to the endless migration appetite of the “global south.”