Trump DOJ Moves to End LAUSD’s Outdated Race-Based PHBAO Program

February 21, 2026 By Megan Barth 1 Comment

The program labels roughly 90 percent of LAUSD schools as PHBAO, then punishes schools with higher percentages of White students by giving them larger class sizes, fewer resources, and lower priority for magnet programs

The Trump Justice Department has moved decisively to dismantle one of California’s most blatant examples of institutionalized racial discrimination in the second-largest school district in the country: the Los Angeles Unified School District’s PHBAO program.

In a motion to intervene in federal court (see below), the DOJ is backing the 1776 Project Foundation’s lawsuit against LAUSD’s six-decade-old PHBAO (Predominantly Hispanic, Black, Asian, and Other Non-Anglo) scheme. The program labels roughly 90 percent of LAUSD schools as “PHBAO” based solely on racial demographics — then punishes schools with higher percentages of White students by giving them larger class sizes, fewer resources, and lower priority for magnet programs.

Simply put, if your child attends a school with “too many” White students, they get punished. This is not desegregation. It is government-sanctioned reverse discrimination.

Attorney General Pam Bondi made the administration’s position crystal clear: “Treating Americans equally is not a suggestion — it is a core constitutional guarantee that educational institutions must follow. This Department of Justice will never stop fighting to make that guarantee a reality, including for public-school students in Los Angeles.”

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First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, the Trump-appointed prosecutor leading the charge in the Central District of California, stated the program is unconstitutional. “Now in its sixth decade, LAUSD’s desegregation program has outlived its usefulness to the point of being unconstitutional. School districts must treat their students equally and no longer discriminate on the basis of race,” Essayli stated.

The PHBAO program traces its roots to 1970s court orders following a 1970 Los Angeles Superior Court ruling that found LAUSD operated segregated schools. Class-size reduction tied to racial formulas began in 1978, with the specific PHBAO designation and magnet-point preferences formalized in the late 1970s and early 1980s. What began as a response to historical segregation has morphed into a permanent racial-caste system that now penalizes the district’s tiny White student population.

Today, White (non-Hispanic) students make up just 10% of LAUSD’s enrollment in a district that is approximately 73% Hispanic, 7% Black, and 4-5% Asian. Yet under PHBAO rules, schools with “too many” White students are treated as disadvantaged — receiving fewer teachers per student and reduced access to coveted programs.

This is the same Marxist ideology that has wrecked California’s public schools: prioritizing race over merit, equity over excellence, and social justice over color-blind justice. While LAUSD bleeds students and money — with attendance plummeting and families fleeing failing schools — bureaucrats continue playing racial bean-counting games with taxpayer dollars.

LAUSD parents have watched their children suffer in failing schools for years while bureaucrats played racial favorites. White families in “Anglo” schools got fewer teachers, larger classes, and slammed doors on opportunity — all because their skin color didn’t check the right demographic box.

The Trump DOJ’s intervention is a long-overdue rejection of this Marxist madness. It reaffirms that the Constitution demands color-blind justice — not racial punishment for White children whose only crime is their skin color in a majority-minority district.

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Furious with Trump, California Democrats plot election strategy in San Francisco

February 20, 2026 By Maya C. Miller and Jeanne Kuang 2 Comments

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California Democrats this weekend in San Francisco have an opportunity to set the tone in a pivotal election year when their voters could decide control of the U.S. House. 

As Democrats across the country push to harness dissatisfaction with the Trump administration into a transformative November midterm, all eyes are on the nation’s largest state party as it chooses who to support in California’s June primary.

Party leaders are riding high after voters backed Proposition 50, the ballot measure to gerrymander congressional districts in favor of Democrats. The three-day gathering gives it an early opportunity to build on that momentum for the upcoming elections.

The state’s marquee race this year is the one to succeed outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom, a national Democratic star with presidential aspirations who terms out at the end of this year. But don’t expect a rousing party endorsement there: With nearly 10 candidates, it’s unlikely any of them will attract enough of the 3,500 expected Democratic delegates to secure the nod. Newsom himself won’t attend, a spokesperson said.

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Instead, one of the biggest questions will be whether California Democrats continue to anoint establishment candidates — those with backing from elected party leaders, high-dollar donors and powerful lobbying groups — or if political newcomers can convert their grassroots support from the party into actual endorsements.

For years, young Democrats in particular have urged the party to embrace bolder, more progressive ideas such as universal health coverage, tuition-free college, banning the sale of arms to Israel and eschewing the Democratic Party’s longstanding deference to seniority and incumbency through term limits. The brashness of the second Trump administration has given new urgency to those demands as the Democratic base tires of what activists call a milquetoast “radical civility” approach. 

“The fact that we’re in a national emergency means there’s no time for incrementalism or moderation,” said Heidi Hall, a Nevada County supervisor and the first Democrat to announce she is challenging incumbent GOP Rep. Kevin Kiley to represent a competitive district east of Sacramento. 

“Any Democrat in office who’s not willing to fight this hard should get out, should step aside and let someone else in who is going to fight it,” Hall said. “Or they’re going to be complicit in what’s happening.”

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Republican Steve Hilton surges ahead in California governor’s race

February 19, 2026 By Marc Sternfield 2 Comments

A new frontrunner has emerged in California’s wide-open race for governor.

Conservative commentator Steve Hilton now leads the field with 17%, followed by Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, a Republican, who are tied at 14%, according to an Emerson College Polling/Inside California Politics survey of 1,000 likely voters released Wednesday.

Hilton is a former director of strategy for British Prime Minister David Cameron and a current Fox News contributor. He took in roughly $4.1 million in donations in the second half of 2025, according to campaign finance reports cited by CalMatters.

Bianco had a one point lead over Hilton and Swalwell in early December.

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Former Rep. Katie Porter has 10% support in the latest poll and billionaire Tom Steyer has 9% – both are Democrats. Importantly, 21% of respondents said they remain undecided.

Pollsters noted that since December, support for Hilton and Steyer rose five points, support for Swalwell increased two points and support for Porter dipped by one point.

The Republican electorate in California is split between Steve Hilton at 38% and Chad Bianco at 37%, while Hilton also picks up a plurality of independent voters at 22%,” said Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling. “Democratic voters have not yet clearly coalesced around one candidate.”

Outside the top tier, San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan has struggled to gain traction since entering the race in late January.

“Maybe its because he got in late, but the enthusiasm for his candidacy is not right now translating into votes,” noted political analyst Matt Klink.

California’s primary is set for June 2. The two candidates with the most votes, regardless of party, will advance to the November general election to determine who will succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is term-limited.

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California’s ‘crazy’ ballot measure economy and Newsom’s world tou

February 18, 2026 By JEREMY B. WHITE, BLAKE JONES and DUSTIN GARDINER 3 Comments

SIGNATURE ISSUE — California’s overheated ballot measure economy was spared one temperature spike — but it’s still about to boil over.

Proponents of more than a dozen statewide measures have been gathering signatures to get on the November ballot, with each new entrant threatening to drive up what signature gathering firms can charge. For some measures, prices had already climbed as deep-pocketed players like Uber, which recently dropped another $20 million into its ballot committee, pushed to qualify.

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“It’s already crazy,” said longtime petition pro Fred Kimball. “This is the strangest year I’ve ever seen.”

And that was before the anti-wealth-tax windfall.

An expected acceleration … Consultants have been anxiously waiting for campaigns with enormous war chests to hit the street, causing prices to spike — and lately, they’ve been obsessing over a mysterious cluster of measures designed to undercut a billionaire’s tax. Because latecomers have a scant two months to qualify, a sprint to the finish inflates costs even further.

“With so many that are late, the price is bid up,” said former Sen. Bob Hertzberg, who said his housing bond has enough signatures that it can come off the street soon. “There’s a real fear that a lot of the people aren’t going to qualify.”

Everyone is watching for the fallout. Signature inflation has become one of the hottest topics in California politics, with people trading data about who’s paying what and speculating about which rival campaigns will lose out.

“You have really well-resourced groups that are willing to pretty much light a match to money,” said a person working on an initiative already in circulation, who was not authorized to speak publicly on its proponent’s behalf. “‘If you think it’s expensive now, just wait,’ is the framing I keep getting.”

We’re starting to find out. Two of the five anti-wealth-tax measures hit the street at $12 a signature as of Friday, according to campaign professionals tracking the market. The going rate rose to $10 for a union-backed measure extending a high income tax on top earners and a lawyer-championed measure counteracting Uber’s initiative governing legal representation.

A reprieve: Sighs of relief echoed through Sacramento last week as OpenAI announced it would pull its measure to regulate artificial intelligence, which had just received title and summary, as it hunts for a legislative deal. The initiative could still return in 2028.

So for now, OpenAI’s cash won’t be a factor. But the wealth tax’s opponents are both determined and rich, and campaigns are closely monitoring to see if they flood the market with enough money to undermine SEIU-UHW’s proposed wealth tax.

Kimball, who has the levy as a client, said he believes it is still on track to qualify, although the cost per signature had already jumped from $5 to $8 in a couple of weeks before the counter-measures started circulating.

The people behind the five anti-wealth-tax measures have been resolutely tight-lipped about their supporters and their strategy (per usual their designated proponent did not comment for this story). But it’s not hard to envision a world in which they put their best-polling measure on the street at the highest price they can manage.

Whether that’s intended to qualify their own measures as quickly as possible or freeze out their rivals, the hit to rival campaigns’ bank accounts would be the same.

“It’s the battle,” said Kimball, “between the billionaires and the people trying to pass legislation to fight the billionaires.”

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Jesse Jackson, one of the nation’s most powerful voices for Black Americans, dies at 84

February 18, 2026 By David Lauter and Johanna Neuman Leave a Comment

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a child of Southern segregation who rose to national prominence as a powerful voice for Black economic and racial equality, has died.

Jackson, who had battled the neurodegenerative condition progressive supranuclear palsy for more than a decade, died at home surrounded by family. His daughter, Santita Jackson, confirmed his death with the Associated Press. He was 84. Jackson was originally diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2017 before the PSP diagnosis was confirmed in April.

“Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” the Jackson family said in a statement posted online. “We shared him with the world, and in return, the world became part of our extended family. His unwavering belief in justice, equality, and love uplifted millions, and we ask you to honor his memory by continuing the fight for the values he lived by.”

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Handsome and dynamic, an orator with a flair for memorable rhyme, Jackson was the first Black candidate for president to attract a major following, declaring in 1984 that “our time has come” and drawing about 3.5 million votes in Democratic primaries — roughly 1 in 5 of those cast.

Four years later, using the slogan “Keep hope alive,” he ran again, winning 7 million votes, second only to the eventual nominee, Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis. His hourlong speech at the 1988 Democratic National Convention brought many delegates to tears and provided the gathering’s emotional high point.

“Every one of these funny labels they put on you, those of you who are watching this broadcast tonight in the projects, on the corners — I understand,” he said. “Call you outcast, low down, you can’t make it, you’re nothing, you’re from nobody, subclass, underclass; when you see Jesse Jackson, when my name goes in nomination, your name goes in nomination.”

For nearly a generation, from the 1970s into the 1990s, that ability to absorb the insults and rejection suffered by Black Americans and transmute them into a defiant rhetoric of success made Jackson the most prominent Black figure in the country. Both beneficiary and victim of white America’s longstanding insistence on having one media-anointed leader serve as the spokesman for tens of millions of Black citizens, he drew adulation and jeers but consistently held the spotlight.

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The California Affordability Problem That Newsom’s Fans Don’t Want to Talk About

February 17, 2026 By Jim Geraghty 2 Comments

On the menu today: I’ve written a bunch of profile pieces of presidential candidates over the years. I always thought the best part of them was when they told you something you didn’t already know about the candidate; by the time a politician is running, we often already know the basics. Back in the 2020 cycle, I wrote “Things You Probably Didn’t Know” columns about Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Cory Booker, Kirsten Gillibrand, Tulsi Gabbard, Sherrod Brown, and Michael Bloomberg.

We’re still in early 2026, but two major national magazines have published profiles about Gavin Newsom that seemed more interested in his appearance, his body language, and his sartorial choices than in what he’s actually done as governor of California for the past seven years. And neither one had much to say about California becoming, far and away, the most unaffordable state in the country on Newsom’s watch. Read on.

The Glowing Profiles That Miss the Real Story

Another week brings another gushing profile of California Governor Gavin Newsom, this time in The New Yorker, which is supposed to be a much more serious and intellectually rigorous magazine than Vogue, the last glossy magazine to swoon over Newsom.

Nathan Heller wrote a long profile, more than 12,000 words, so it’s hard to succinctly summarize, but this paragraph struck me as the core contention of the article:

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Since the pandemic, it has been fashionable for Republicans to stand on San Francisco street corners and point to homeless people, spinning out a story of apocalyptic decay that, they say, results from Democratic leadership. Newsom argues the inverse. Since his first year as governor, he has promoted an idea of California as a terrarium for Democratic principle — enshrining reproductive rights in the state constitution, upholding sanctuary-state policies, pushing for police reform — while emphasizing its successes over its failures. California, the closest thing to a test zone for the blue economy, is home to roughly half of all American unicorn startups, which are valued at more than a billion dollars each, and technologists who made a show of fleeing because of taxes and regulations, like Elon Musk, have returned to found A.I. firms. “The Republicans’ governing thesis cannot be true if California succeeds,” Jason Elliott, a former deputy chief of staff in Newsom’s office, told me. “We disprove their ideas that pluralism is a recipe for failure, that completely deregulated capital is the only way to grow.” He added, “It drives them f***ing crazy.”

First, if you think Republicans oppose “pluralism,” you have not spent much time in places like Florida, or Texas, or Nevada, or Arizona. For what it’s worth, the whitest states in the country are GOP-leaning West Virginia, followed by Democratic-leaning Vermont and Maine and purplish New Hampshire. Also, everyone living under the current tariff regime and the expanding federal government ownership role in private businesses would be surprised to learn that Republicans promote “completely deregulated capital.”

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Will California voters have to decide between two Republicans for governor? | California Politics 360

February 16, 2026 By Ashley Zavala 5 Comments

With so many Democratic candidates in the race to replace Gov. Gavin Newsom, there’s a slight chance California voters will end up choosing between two Republicans in the general election for governor.

Newsom terms out after this year and legally cannot run again.

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The rare opportunity for Republicans would be the result of California’s “top two” primary system that allows a race’s top two vote getters in the primary election to move forward to the November election, regardless of political party. It would be a political earthquake in a Democratic-led state that has not elected a Republican to statewide office in two decades.

Political Data Inc. and elections expert Paul Mitchell joined California Politics 360 to discuss the possibility. He created a new online tool that allows anyone to input polling numbers, campaign spending and other data to show what the governor’s race could look like in November.

“It’s one thing to say ‘we can dismiss that, that’s not likely to happen, it’s never happened before,” Mitchell said, stating he began running simulations on his own before creating the public tool.

“It isn’t something that should be dismissed,” Mitchell noted of the 12% chance of the Republican-on-Republican race. “The Democratic Party should be concerned about this small probability that two Republicans make the runoff because it could politically decimate them in November.”

The California Democratic Party is holding its convention this upcoming weekend where they could endorse one of the Democratic candidates. Mitchell said that would massively help, but it’s unlikely noting one candidate would need to win over 60% of the delegates.

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Newsom takes his anti-Trump arguments to Europe during Munich Security Conference

February 15, 2026 By BILL BARROW and MICHAEL R. BLOOD, 4 Comments

All the world’s a stage for California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The second-term governor and likely 2028 presidential candidate has taken his Donald Trump-bashing tour to the Munich Security Conference, weeks after he was in Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum.

“I hope, if there’s nothing else I can communicate today: Donald Trump is temporary. He’ll be gone in three years,” Newsom told his international audience Friday in Germany.

The official topic Friday was climate policy and countering a warming planet, and Newsom was more than willing to hammer Trump for “doubling down on stupid” by effectively gutting the nation’s regulation of carbon pollution.

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On Saturday, while still in Europe, Newsom plans to formalize a new partnership with Ukraine, signing a memorandum of understanding with regional leaders aimed at “advancing cooperation on economic recovery, innovation, and resilience,” according to his office.

The larger point of the travel, though, is Newsom continuing his effort to be recognized as Democrats’ highest-profile counter to the president, this time with a global emphasis. To be clear, Newsom doesn’t directly pitch himself as a presidential candidate yet. But his international appearances at Davos, when he told the international community to stand up to Trump, and then in Munich are just the latest of his many maneuvers that extend beyond his day job in Sacramento.

“He is certainly trying to project front-runner vibes,” said Democratic pollster Zac McCrary, whose Alabama-based firm was among the leading pollsters for Hillary Clinton’s, Joe Biden’s and Kamala Harris’ campaigns. “And like any Democratic governor trying to run for president, you have to build your national security credential, foreign policy chops. He’s in that phase here.”

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Sforza: A look into the ‘Eastman Derangement Syndrome’ fundraising pitch

February 14, 2026 By Staff Leave a Comment

Column: Former Chapman dean and Trump advisor John Eastman continues asking for money

You’ve heard of “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and “Obama Derangement Syndrome.”

Meet “Eastman Derangement Syndrome”!

“A former colleague of mine wrote me this week with an observation about the lawfare assault I have been battling for four long years,” said a recent fundraising pitch from John Eastman, aiming to offset the $2 million he said his legal defense has cost.

“He said those who are pushing it, especially partisan Democrat prosecutors, suffer from EDS – Eastman Derangement Syndrome…. Indeed, the entire reason I am being persecuted – and prosecuted – by the lawfare left is because of my association with President Trump when I represented him back in 2020 to bring forth challenges to that election….

“Will you step forward with a generous gift of $25, $50, $100, $250, $500 or even $1,000 or more to the John Eastman Legal Defense Fund?”

Not to quarrel with the former Chapman Law dean, but the folks “persecuting” Eastman (in Arizona and California) argue that he’s in the legal crosshairs for committing legal sins, from fashioning dubious plans to help Trump hold on to power in 2020, to testifying inaccurately to state legislatures, to advising others on filing false state electoral certification documents, to riling up the crowd at the “Stop the Steal” rally with “crazy talk” about hidden folders in voting machines and massive fraud that did not, in fact, exist, on Jan. 6, 2021.

The California State Bar charged him with moral turpitude, dishonesty and/or corruption, willful misconduct and/or gross negligence, for trying to reverse the legitimate results of an election and essentially yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater. Federal Judge David O. Carter concluded it was “more likely than not” that federal crimes were committed in trying to obstruct the congressional count of Electoral College votes.

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Eastman was criminally charged in Georgia and pleaded not guilty, but that case is kaput. He was criminally charged in Arizona and pleaded not guilty, but that case is stalled. His law license is on ice in California and he’s fighting to save it, but it’s an uphill battle to get it reinstated.

“In my view, those most seriously afflicted with EDS are prosecutors in Arizona and California,” Eastman’s email continued. “One wants to put me in prison for decades while the other wants to bar me from ever practicing law and fighting for conservative constitutional principles and the rule of law.”

“These EDS prosecutors, along with others similarly afflicted, have cost me nearly $2 million defending myself. And as it happens, I am in the midst of what could be the final battles in Arizona and California where we’re going toe-to-toe with EDS Democrats in the state Supreme Court of each of these states. These legal battles are difficult and expensive, and I urgently need your help to prevail. My legal defense fund is nearly empty. Please consider a generous donation to help me continue the fight.”

He signed it, “John C. Eastman, Constitutional Scholar, Former Attorney to President Doanld (sic) Trump.”

Eastman received a federal pardon from President Trump in November — a “Federal Deflection Shield,” some called it — but it cannot protect Eastman from state charges or losing his law license.

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Opinion: Carl DeMaio Stands in the Way of a San Diego Republican Comeback

February 13, 2026 By Corey Gustafson 4 Comments

After El Cajon Councilmember Gary Kendrick flipped to the Democratic Party, San Diego Republicans must look inward for answers on how we grow locally.

Yes (thankfully), the Republican vote spiked in 2024. But outside that election, we’ve been steadily losing ground in San Diego County.

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That decline has coincided with the rise of Reform California, founded by Carl DeMaio. Since 2017, DeMaio has raised over $25 million — effectively cannibalizing the Republican Party of San Diego County.

During that time, DeMaio has relentlessly attacked fellow Republicans, pouring money into primaries and bullying candidates into conforming to a personal, politically motivated litmus test just to appear on Reform California’s voter guide — often at a steep cost to the candidate.

Unlike the Republican Party, where endorsements are made by publicly elected central committee members, Reform California’s endorsements are dictated by DeMaio alone— guided by a cadre of paid consultants.

And whom does he choose to back over Party-endorsed Republicans?

In 2024, he endorsed Tony Blain over the Republican Party’s unanimously endorsed candidate, Jared Wilson. DeMaio knew about the disturbing allegations surrounding Blain but backed him anyway — simply because Wilson and PORAC (the Peace Officers Research Association of California) didn’t support DeMaio’s Assembly campaign.

That endorsement triggered a rift with the Party. Blain, elected with Reform California’s support, was recalled within a year — after his arrest on charges including perjury and soliciting bribes.

DeMaio has also backed liberal groups. In 2024, Reform California and DeMaio’s Assembly campaign gave almost $500,000 to the Progressive California Voter Guide that attacked Republican-endorsed candidates—including President Donald Trump.

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

DeMaio-backed Republican Party Central Committee members—including a failed Oceanside treasurer candidate who was the subject of an emergency gun order and a Reform CA staffer convicted of DUI—now control the local GOP and take marching orders from DeMaio.

They’ve advocated for a “no endorsement” policy that strips the Party of its most powerful tool in primary elections. This policy is as strategic as it is hypocritical. While Reform California makes endorsements in nearly every race, the Party is silenced, giving DeMaio’s endorsements free rein. The formula is simple: the weaker the Party, the stronger Reform becomes.

That might be defensible if Reform California produced more victories and fewer tax hikes. But since Reform’s creation, the electoral results have been abysmal. He’s even backing tax-hiking Republicans like San Marcos Mayor Rebecca Jones, who lied on her 2025 Party endorsement questionnaire. She claimed she hadn’t supported putting tax increases on the ballot when in fact she had, and still does.

Opposing tax-hiking Republicans used to be DeMaio’s calling card. Now, he sacrifices principle for political leverage with candidates who backed his allies in Party leadership contests.

Even on issues where Republicans agree — like the Voter ID initiative — DeMaio has obstructed progress.

Dating back to 2023, DeMaio raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to qualify Voter ID for the ballot. Yet in 2024, he failed to submit a single signature, despite raising at least $221,000. Worse, he diverted those funds to support his Assembly campaign—now under investigation by the FPPC for potential illegal misuse. His bait-and-switch fundraising tactics, often aimed at seniors, are unethical at best.

In 2025, DeMaio filed new paperwork claiming to lead the Voter ID signature-gathering effort. While he’s finally investing some money, the real credit belongs to Julie Luckey, whose operation has collected more than 75 percent of the required signatures and is funded by her son, tech mogul Palmer Luckey.

As long as Reform California continues to cannibalize Republican candidates and fuel fratricidal civil wars, San Diego Republicans will remain in the political wilderness.

DeMaio has a record — not of defeating Democrats — but of defeating Republicans. The last time he beat a Democrat in a general election was 2008. Since then, he’s poured millions into attacking conservatives.

As SD GOP chairman, I saw firsthand how destructive his influence had become—from bullying committee members to undermining endorsed candidates. His goal was clear: sideline the elected leadership of the Republican Party and elevate Reform California as the true power and his own self-promotion machine.

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