How the Blue Wave Swelled to a Tsunami in Orange County
What convinced the birthplace of modern American conservatism to send only Democrats to Washington?
View ArticleCongress’s New Progressives Take On the Banks
The House Financial Services Committee—long a landing place for pro-bank Democrats—now includes AOC and a flock of leftists. And Maxine Waters is its new chair.
View ArticleUnsanitized: Private Equity Licks Its Chops
Plus Medicare for All (who have coronavirus), and voting remotely in Congress. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for March 19, 2020.
View ArticleUnsanitized: Katie Porter Talks Supply Chains and Bailouts
Also, the demographic tragedy of the crisis, and Wells Fargo’s lobbying succeeds, sort of. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for April 9, 2020.
View ArticleWhy Katie Porter Isn’t on the House Financial Services Committee
Committee Chair Maxine Waters appears to have a problem with fierce questioning and progressive financial reform.
View ArticleHouse Democrats Grill Pentagon About Sexual Assault Tracking
Citing Prospect reporting, Reps. Katie Porter and Jackie Speier want to know whether the military is improving its sexual crimes database.
View ArticleKatie Porter Versus … Lanny Davis?
The veteran Clinton lawyer is representing a developer accused of bribing Trump’s Deputy Secretary of the Interior.
View ArticleKatie Porter’s Volunteer Army Hits the Doors
The progressive fighter in a swing district is staking a third term on a prodigious volunteer effort, and straight talk on abortion and the economy.
View ArticleLefties Amok: California’s Upcoming Senate Race
Four Democratic House members draw a bead on the seat Feinstein will vacate.
View ArticleAdam Schiff’s Domestic Policy Record Veers From Progressive Priorities
The Senate hopeful in California wants to join the Progressive Caucus. He never voted for a Progressive Caucus budget.
View ArticleThe Silicon Valley Bank Bailout Didn’t Need to Happen
The debate over protecting all deposits in a blink looks past the incompetence that got us here.
View ArticleKatie Porter Is Teaching the Government How to Govern
As she barnstorms the state, the Senate hopeful is making the pitch that Congress and the executive branch have the power to fix their own dysfunction.
View ArticleCalifornia’s Double Max
Dianne Feinstein’s death creates two elections in California’s Senate race. That means donors can max out support to their favorite candidate twice.
View ArticleGaza Hangs Over Debate Night in California
The three Democrats running for Senate have different positions on the war.
View ArticleAIPAC’s Surprising Salvo in Orange County
A swing seat in California is seeing a flurry of attack ads from pro-Israel forces. Why?
View ArticleThe Big Money Bets on Adam Schiff
The California Senate candidate is using every campaign tactic of recent vintage: benefiting from pro-Israel and crypto money, and trying to choose his general-election opponent.
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