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Governor Newsom’s 2026 Budget has New Homeless Agencies & Increases Homeless Spending: $37 Billion Wasn’t Enough?

February 16, 2026 9:28 amFebruary 17, 2026 3:22 pm

California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed two bills in 2024 that would have created actual transparency and auditing for the tens of billions that was spent and lost on homeless programs. One bill would have required annual reporting on state-run homelessness...

Steve Hilton’s Dream Team

January 16, 2026 3:54 amJanuary 16, 2026 3:55 am

As one of his first acts as governor, in 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom sued the Orange County city of Huntington Beach for failing to provide enough additional “affordable housing,” while his own home county of Marin enjoyed a moratorium on...

Steve Hilton Selects Former Democrat Gloria Romero as Lt. Governor Running Mate in Push to End One-Party Rule in California

January 13, 2026 1:41 pmJanuary 14, 2026 9:16 pm

In a strategic move designed to shatter the Democrats’ iron grip on California politics, Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton has named former Democratic State Senate Majority Leader Gloria J. Romero as his preferred running mate for lieutenant governor ahead of...

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Fairytale State of the State

January 8, 2026 3:56 pmJanuary 11, 2026 9:57 pm

“Was that a State of the State address, or the opening act of a campaign speech?” California State Senator Tony Strickland (R-Huntington Beach) asked, following Governor Gavin Newsom’s final State of the State address. “Californians want honesty and accountability, not...

Ringside: What is the Future of California’s Republican Party?

December 31, 2025 10:00 amDecember 31, 2025 10:01 am

In 2012 I was involved with a ballot initiative that qualified for the state ballot. Generally referred to as a “paycheck protection” measure, it was the third time that conservative activists in the state had put onto the state ballot...

Gavin Newsom is the First Governor to Make Homelessness a Way of Life

December 8, 2025 1:47 pmDecember 10, 2025 8:56 am

Remember when California Governor Gavin Newsom, who has presided over the exponential growth of hundreds of thousands of homeless drug addicts living on California streets, magically cleaned up San Francisco ahead of the arrival of Chinese President Xi Jinping and...

Progressive State Democrat Launches Bid For Nevada Lieutenant Governor

October 20, 2025 3:14 pmOctober 20, 2025 3:16 pm

Today, California native and Nevada Assemblywoman Sandra Jauregui (D-Las Vegas) launched her bid for Lieutenant Governor. Jauregui was first elected to the state legislator in 2016 after working for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and is a survivor of the...