One could suggest that the reason Donald J. Trump is sending the military to LA and ICE officers into schools is to distract from just how DOA his Big Beautiful Bill actually is. The fact that 80% of CA Republicans have turned on the Trump Budget Bill is absolutely amazing.

Rank and file Republicans understand the Big Bad Budget Bill is actually a Betrayal, of what was promised on affordability or on deficits. Do GOP Senators?

New poll out with CA Republican views of the Trump/Musk spat. “In an open-ended section, the most common word used to describe the clash was “childish” (used 53 times, along with 11 uses of “child” and 23 uses of “children”)“ capitolweekly.net/california-rep…

In just 90 minutes last week, the bromance between Donald J. Trump & Elon Musk imploded in a barrage of X posts, Truth Social rants & public jabs, shattering their so-called Co-Presidency. Paul Mitchell polled Republican views on the feud. CA120 capitolweekly.net/california-rep…

We have heard idea of a statewide ballot measure, but what you’re hearing here from Gavin Newsom is the possibility of something different - and bolder. The state constitution is silent on prohibiting mid-decade redistricting. So this idea appears to be hinge on an

The most important article on CA redistricting today comes out of Texas: keranews.org/politics/2025-…

And for a good follow up question… “how would California play into this fight if Texas redraws their lines?”

The one thing that would lead me to support this map is Paul Mitchell knows what he is doing. He is not going to cleave communities of interest more than he has to.

CAPITOL WEEKLY PODCAST: CA lawmakers have released proposed new congressional maps that they say would counter TX' gerrymandering scheme. We spoke with the man behind California's new maps, Paul Mitchell capitolweekly.net/mapmaker-paul-…

Update from CA SOS data... looking at those who register to vote online, and for August that number jumps to 56% Dem, 15% Rep from earlier this year when for months Dem reg was around 40% and Rep around 20-22%.

The Gavin Newsom turnaround, in polling and registration numbers... capitolweekly.net/is-newsom-moun…

This lawsuit from Ronny Jackson against Gavin Newsom is so dumb it should probably be considered an in-kind contribution to the #Prop50 campaign! drive.google.com/file/d/1L_ATHI…

Same boost we saw in our Capitol Weekly survey. capitolweekly.net/is-newsom-moun…

This story will feature in the #Prop50 post-mortem. calmatters.org/politics/2025/…