‘California Is Allowed to Hit Back’

When I found Darshan Smaaladen earlier this month, she had joined several hundred of her neighbors at a “No Kings” demonstration in Orange County, California. Not that she was there to protest. “Rallies are great,” Smaaladen told me, “but they don’t get people out to vote.”

A year ago, Smaaladen had helped lead a successful campaign to recall two ultraconservative members of Orange County’s school board. Now the 52-year-old mother of three was using the “No Kings” protest as a campaigning ground for Proposition 50, the ballot measure orchestrated by Governor Gavin Newsom that would redraw California’s district map to add as many as five Democratic seats to the party’s column in Congress. The outcome of the November 4 referendum could determine whether Democrats have a real shot at winning back the House in next year’s midterm elections.

Advocates and opponents of Prop 50 have already spent more than $200 million on ads starring political luminaries such as Barack Obama and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the “yes” side and Arnold Schwarzenegger on the “no” side. In an era of permanent campaigning, this race has become the closest thing America has to a snap election: At Newsom’s urging, the California legislature placed the initiative on this fall’s ballot in August as a response to Republican gerrymandering in Texas and elsewhere, directed by Donald Trump and his allies.

The campaign’s final weeks have turned into a statewide scramble to persuade California voters to temporarily override the independent redistricting commission that they approved less than two decades ago. The Democratic Party’s organizers have found plenty of voters who are eager for the chance to stand against the president and, in Newsom’s words, “fight fire with fire” in the gerrymandering wars. “When you talk to people, it’s not nuanced...

John Podesta planned civil war if Biden lost in 2020.

Top Democrats contemplate civil war if Biden loses

The plan was postponed for four years when they managed to steal the 2020 election.

In the meantime, they made a predictive-programming movie about a civil war to prepare their minions for what to do when the time came.

In Podesta's plan and in the movie, Left-coast states form a "Western Alliance," secede from the Union and eventually assassinate the President.

Lo-and-behold, California, Oregon and Washington have formed an alliance to "cow" the President.

The Western States Can COW the President

California announces coalition of Governors forming new alliance to protect public health from political interference

And when Gavin Newsom bragged about forming the alliance on Steven Colbert's show, the minions cheered because they were in on the plan.

Gavin Newsom gets the full Colbert treatment

Newsom used the national platform to warn about what he called “authoritarian actions by an authoritarian government” and to reiterate his prediction that Trump does not want another election (besides “a Putin-type election”) while touting Democrats’ support for international climate agreements, vaccine access and opposition to mass deportations.

He highlighted California’s partnership with nearby states to counter what he’s called the politicization of the CDC and vaccine guidelines under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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