Gavin Newsom wasted no time hitting the airwaves with news that the Trump DOJ is investigating the governor’s wife. We cheer Newsom’s work to kill the Billionaire Wealth Tax. Fareed Zacharia joins the growing number of liberals who worry that California is ruining the Democratic Party brand. In our Department of Vexillology, we celebrate the June 14, 1846, Bear Flag Revolt and consider protests against the San Francisco Giants’ Gay Pride Night. Bonus! Cal Policy Center president Jackson Reese answers a listener question. Music by Metalachi.

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• The Bear Flag and California’s history blind spot
• The forgotten subject: California’s failure to assess history education
• The Red Bluff Round-Up, April 16, 17, & 18, 2027
• Giants pitchers’ Bible verses on Pride Night caps show how they’ve missed the point
• Newsom Says Trump’s Justice Department Is Investigating Him and His Wife
• How California became a case study in failed governance
• Gavin Newsom’s race to block a billionaire tax
• California billionaire tax is a no-brainer for progressive Democrats, right? Wrong.
• Labor groups split on Billionaire Tax
• In Orange County, six-figure salaries now qualify as 'low income'
• Division of Housing Policy Development (OC is No. 5 in the state; all other counties here)
• Trump could be Oakland’s coal frenemy
• Winery Sues Santa Barbara Over Unconstitutional Mandate
• Leftists Use Google Form to Organize Stanford Commencement Walk-Out Against Google CEO

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Always optimistic, David encourages Will to be happy -- despite recent election results. And forget Xavier Becerra's ethnic posturing: Will reminds us that California has already had a "first Latino governor." Bonus! Representative Vince Fong joins the show to offer his remedy for Governor Gavin Newson’s refusal to pay his debts. Music by Metalachi.

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• Trump, after baselessly alleging fraud in California vote again, storms out of NBC interview
• Bombshell photo unveils damning Nithya Raman link with homeless voters — as fury erupts over LA ballot count
• In California, the Real Scandal Is What’s Legal
• How the Machine Buried Spencer Pratt
• Steady State
• Newsom on X: “And yes, for the record: we wish the votes were counted faster, too.”
• Rob Pyers on Tom Steyer
• Silicon Valley bet big on Matt Mahan for governor. It didn’t pay off
• Is the Bay Area ready to abandon its vehicles?
• David delivers Pacifica Christian High School Commencement (transcript)
• Commencement Speech on Life for Graduates, and All of Us (video)
• Rep. Vince Fong
• Payback for Gavin Newsom’s Fiscal Folly

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It takes weeks for California to count votes (because math is hard). But Lance Christensen joins Will to unpack early results from June 2 voting, featuring Steve Hilton, Xavier Becerra, Spencer Pratt, Karen Bass, congressional candidates Kevin Kiley, Richard Pan, Ken Calvert, Young Kim, James Gallagher, Mike McGuire and an additional cast of dozens. Music by Metalachi.

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How California’s leading do-nothing gubernatorial candidate moved from dead last to first in just a few weeks. Leaders of the state’s government unions say they’ll refuse return-to-office orders because their daily commutes would raise global temperatures. More than a thousand University of California STEM professors called for the reinstatement of the SAT test. Los Angeles wants you to stop grilling hotdogs. Bonus! On June 5, 1917, Californians reacting to the Zimmerman Telegram answered Woodrow Wilson’s call to arms. Music by Metalachi.

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Show Notes

The mystery behind Becerra leapfrogging over his rivals in California’s governor’s race

PPIC Statewide Survey: Californians and Their Government

University of California Professors Are Begging Schools to Reinstate the SAT

CalPERS Pays Million-Dollar Salaries for Below-Median Returns

California Government Unions Will Try Anything To Keep Their Members From Returning To The Office

No, California’s Backyard BBQ Ban Proposal Is Not Justified

Long Beach: This mayor wants to bring wind energy to an oil city

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The Trump-adjacent candidate for mayor of Los Angeles has raised the hopes of moderate Angelenos – and terrifies the beneficiaries of the city’s Chicago-style political machine. Starring guest cohost Jon Fleischman and featuring Gavin Newsom, Napoleon III, Karen Bass, Meghan Daum, Carl Karcher, Nithya Raman, Hasan Piker, Benito Juarez, Gustavo Arellano, and Marshawn “Beast Mode” Lynch. Music by Metalachi.

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• How Cinco de Mayo Got Its Start Because of California's Mexican Americans
• ‘It’s the Jews’: San Diego mosque shooters decried ‘the universal enemy’ in hate-filled manifesto
• GOP governor hopefuls give closing arguments to Central Valley Republicans
• Spencer Pratt has his work cut out for him in LA
• Spencer Pratt’s Make L.A. Great Again acolytes and their dark vision of the city
• What Los Angeles Has Become
• More than 1,000 L.A. school employees expected to lose jobs, with bigger cuts ahead
• The price of LAUSD union peace will be $1.2 billion a year. Next up is paying for it
• Strike or not, Los Angeles Unified is on an unsustainable trajectory
• Newsom’s office asked Oakland to clear encampment near Marshawn Lynch’s home
• Newsom says AI resentment to dominate future elections. ‘The pitchforks are here’
• Gavin Newsom orders California to plan for aid to workers displaced by AI
• Caltrans considering 140 mph bus that would take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles
• The California-born fast-food chain crushed by costs, crime and competition
• Do You Want Fries with That Shakedown?

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The Democrats’ leading candidate for governor, Xavier Becerra, claims he was the victim of a financial fraud directed by his own chief of staff in the Biden administration. Now, he’s dealing with claims that he greenlit the crime. Bonus track! Lance Christensen takes us deep into the state capitol. Music by Metalachi.

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• The Mussel Slough Tragedy
• Governor Newsom announces revised budget that eliminates California’s deficit, maintains investments for working families, healthcare, education, and businesses
• LAO: Initial Comments on the Governor's May Revision
• Former Newsom chief of staff pleads guilty to scheme that bled money from Becerra’s account
• A surge in Nevada data center construction threatens the electricity supply for 49,000 Californians
• Energy company disputes claim that 50,000 Tahoe residents will lose power next yea
• California’s Bullet Train May Not Even Reach Downtown Bakersfield - You Can’t Make This Up
• Pelosi endorses a successor in San Francisco’s testy House race
• San Francisco's Outdoor Smoking Ban Won't Improve Public Health, but It Will Hurt the City's Bars and Taverns
• UC Davis festival apologizes for drum circle: ‘cultural appropriation’

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Governor Gavin Newsom says his delivery of free diapers is another win for affordability -- “a first-in-the-nation program” to deliver the things new parents need most. Music by Metalachi.

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• Ben Sasse Writes About Kids and Technology
• What to learn from the worst business deal in history
• Media mergers and dividend growth
• ‘Star Wars’ hails the once and future space western
• Why the Paramount-Skydance deal is good for California
• The Case Against State Involvement in a Warner Bros. Deal
• Newsom again shuts down gas tax holiday amid skyrocketing fuel prices in California
• California hospitals will soon provide free diapers to newborns thanks to new state program
• Why Did California Award This Alleged Hamas Front $40 Million?
• Judge bars Jewish DA from trying Stanford anti-Israel protesters, alleging conflict
• California Democrats Want Muslim Holidays In State Law — But Not The Jewish High Holidays
• Scott Wiener passed laws that made it easier to build in California. Can he do the same in Congress?
• California Mayor Will Plead Guilty to Working as Agent of China
• ‘We can shut down the city’: Lurie’s budget cuts spark a showdown with labor
• Lights, cameras, growth: CPC report on the Paramount deal

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In this special episode, Will talks with Sheila Bowen, whose Central Valley family is at the center of Remnants, a new documentary about the challenges of ranching in the era of Gavin Newsom-created wildfires. In other news, we hear from Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Jeremy Talcott about his crushing win over the California Coastal Commission, and we return to our friends at the Hoover Institution for a dramatic update in their assessment of the billionaire wealth tax coming up on the November ballot. Music by Metalachi.

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Jeremy Talcott, Pacific Legal v Coastal Commission

• California Supreme Court reins in coastal agency’s permit power in unanimous opinion
• Jeremy Talcott bio

Remnants

• Remnants trailer
• Moving Picture Institute
• Paul Olivett, Moving Picture Institute, [email protected]

Hoover Institution’s Benjamin Jaros & Joshua Rauh on the Billionaire Wealth Tax 

• The Fiscal Losses from California's Billionaire Tax Act
• The Commitment Problem at the Heart of California’s Billionaire Tax

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In the simmering race for governor, Democratic Party insiders are coalescing around Xavier Becerra, a lifetime placeholder who is neither left nor right but who can be counted on to do absolutely nothing. Also: Ritchie Valens, Elon Musk, Kamala Harris, heroic El Cajon Mayor Bill Wells, and the guy who burned down Pacific Palisades. Music by Metalachi.

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• “La Bamba” (Original) 
• “Come on, Let’s Go!” (Ramones) 
• California braces for uncertainty as last shipment of Persian Gulf oil arrives in Long Beach
• The Torching of Los Angeles Was Anti-Capitalist Vigilantism
• California Regulators Apologize to Elon
• Willie Brown endorses Tom Steyer for California governor
• Democratic and Republican candidates for Calif. governor lead latest poll
• How Xavier Becerra became the Joe Biden of California’s governor race
• Kamala Harris endorses L.A. Mayor Karen Bass for reelection
• Kamala Harris bought a Malibu home. Her neighbors think that means something.
• LAO: California spent more than it could afford
• El Cajon sues California, alleges state ‘sanctuary’ laws illegally entice undocumented immigrants

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We discuss the bizarre manifesto of Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, Calif. Music by Metalachi.

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• Hightower agrees to buy $9.5bn practice The Bahnsen Group
• A May Day Push to ‘Shut It Down’ Takes Shape Across the Country
• Read Here: The full manifesto by accused shooter at White House Correspondents' Dinner
• The pile-on that wasn’t
• Anti-Billionaire ‘OUR REVOLUTION’ Endorses Billionaire Steyer for Gov
• California Voter ID Measure Qualifies For November Ballot
• ‘A betrayal:’ California to share data on immigrant drivers nationally
• Governor Newsom launches first new conservancy in 15 years to accelerate progress at the Salton Sea
• Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea | KQED Truly CA

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