A picture is worth a 1000 words on who could be the next DNC chairman. A #MexicanRedneck former factory worker turned democrat operative against the rest.

There’s a new Congress in town and it’s going to be a wild ride.

📢 JUST OUT: GENDER differences in FEAR and ANGER among AAPIs about Trump's second term % of AAPIs who feel extremely/very FEARFUL 🟦 47% of women 🟦 36% of men % of AAPIs who feel extremely/very ANGRY 🟦 39% of women 🟦 28% of men MORE AAPI Data apnorc.org/projects/aapi-…

🧵 1/2 California’s sanctuary state — Senate Bill 54, 2018 — law is airtight. As its author, I ensured it would survive the most rigorous legal challenges — even earning the approval of Trump’s SCOTUS.

Sickening. And raises a governance question - in the Palisades, LA Mayor Bass is taking the heat, in unincorporated Altadena, who is responsible for coordinating county services?

IT'S OFFICIAL! My article "It's the Economy: The Effect of Economic Policy Appeals on Latino Independents" has been published at Political Behavior I argue that while Latino partisans are already sorted, Latinos who remain independent are more persuaded by economic appeals

New UCLA’s REPS Lab paper in the American Political Science Review, "Partisans of Color: Asian American and Latino Party ID in an Era of Racialization and Polarization." cup.org/4hUWSRu A short 🧵

Happy to see this article with Nathan K. Chan out in BJPolS We propose "LGBTQ+ linked fate" and use a sample of ∼2,000 LGBTQ+ Americans to explain the political behavior of the LGBTQ+ community in the U.S. 1/n cambridge.org/core/journals/…

📢 New Research Alert! 📢 Our study finds that race shapes how liberal voters perceive the January 6th insurrection. While White liberals blame Trump & the GOP, they are less likely to see racism & White supremacy as key motivators—unlike liberal voters of color. 👇🏿

Congrats to recent Berkeley PhD grad Anna Mikkelborg on having her job market paper published at American Political Science Review!

Thank you Sen. Perez, Asm. John Harabedian and Pomona alumni for spending time with our students! Chirp Chirp!

Congratulations to our Academic Director Christian Grose, a 2024 USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Sciences Communicator of the Year! schwarzenegger.usc.edu/institute_in_a…

The paper by Stephen Pettigrew (Stephen Pettigrew) and Dylan Radley about errors with RCV ballots has been published in Political Behavior. Here's the abstract and the link. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Two papers that made me consider that public support for antidemocratic politicians is more personalistic-cultish and less ideological than I thought Eunji Kim & Patterson 2024 Noam Gidron et al 2025 links in reply because the musk algorithm is so bad

NEW: LA homelessness officials are refusing to release public records to LAist about allegations of high-level wrongdoing — including whistleblower retaliation — that led to $800,000 in taxpayer payouts. Attorneys say it’s unlawful for LAHSA to withhold. laist.com/news/politics/…

Difference-in-differences for practitioners from the diff-in-diffs dream team!

Could he add a mandate that all 50 states use independent redistricting commissions in 2031?

Two wrongs may not make a right, but I also taught my kids to defend themselves from bullies. Californians can do the same. 💪🏽

JUST IN: California Chamber of Commerce won’t take sides in state’s Congressional redistricting ballot measure, Prop 50. “We trust California voters to decide…”

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