Governor Gavin Newsom launches his 2024 presidential run with “Come to California” ads in Florida, campaigns to add abortion access to the the state constitution, signs a bill to decriminalize prostitution, will mail “inflation relief” payments to 23 million Californians just days before the November elections, approves state-funded insurance for illegal aliens, and violates the state’s travel ban with a “family trip” to Montana. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on gun rights so terrifies state AG Rob Bonta that his agency inadvertently leaks “protected” data on the state’s gun owners. USC and UCLA will depart the Pac-12 sports conference for the Midwest-based Big Ten. Music by Metalachi.

Episode 231: The Abercrombie & Fitch Candidate

A show about the perilous state of the Golden State—and what that means for you, wherever you live. California is the hothouse lab of the Left, the nation-state creating the statist policies, art, and lifestyles of the future – and generating the political dollars to make them a reality in a community near you. Hosts Will Swaim (California Policy Center) and David Bahnsen (The Bahnsen Group, Fox Business News commentator, conservative activist) beam this weekly show internationally, from mostly undisclosed pirate-radio platforms west of the Sierra Nevada.   [Intro music graciously provided by Los Angeles-based Metalachi, the metal/mariachi soundtrack of the near-future. Find them at Metalachi.com.]

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Beset by a historic state budget deficit, Governor Gavin Newsom is brushing back reports that he lied about his college baseball career in order to mask his privilege. In other news, California slides to No. 6 among the world’s economies but remains No. 1 for worst unemployment in the nation. The president of Pomona College tells student protesters that their careers at the school are finished. Bonus: Will talks with Lance Christensen about Edward Duplex, California’s first black mayor. Music by Metalachi.

Episode 326: Gavin Newsom Gets Hit by His Own Pitch

Biden’s U.S. acting labor secretary Julie Su will force American taxpayers to pay off Covid losses Su caused while running California’s labor department. Buffy Wicks (D., Oakland) wants California to get into the concert business. Sacramento’s sanctuary for transgender people runs up against progressive policy. David’s modest proposal for managing the increasingly successful squatters movement. Music by Metalachi.

Episode 325: Julie Su Helps Julie Su

California’s unemployment rate is the worst in the nation, but state officials seem determined to do worse. Exploring the authoritarian impulses of “transgressive” art. A brief history of California’s integrated Winter League. Music by Metalachi.

Episode 324: How to Kill Business without Really Trying

First, he postponed release of California’s horrible financial audit until after Election Day. Now, Gavin Newsom is spending millions to “find the votes” of Democrats who might have supported Prop. 1, his imperiled state ballot initiative to end homelessness. U.S. Senate candidate Katie Porter underscores her stolen-election narrative. Bonus: Remembering the March 19 return of swallows to Capistrano. Music by Metalachi.

Episode 323: California Dems Discover Trump’s Virtues

Voters in the City by the Bay support a pair of public-safety reforms backed by Mayor London Breed, reformers take over that city’s flagging GOP, and other primary news from California. Music by Metalachi

Episode 231: The Abercrombie & Fitch Candidate

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