By Alexei Koseff, CalMatters Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a rally about redistricting at the Democracy Center at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles on Aug. 14, 2025. Photo by Ted Soqui for CalMatters This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The fight over redistricting is about to hit overdrive in California. As …
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Deep in the badlands of defeat, Democrats have soul-searched about what went wrong last November, tinkered with a thousand-plus thinkpieces and desperately cast for a strategy to reboot their stalled-out party. Amid the noise, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has recently championed an unlikely game plan: Forget the high road, fight fire with fire and embrace the very tactics that virtue-minded …
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Federal immigration operation outside Gov. Newsom news conference Federal immigration operation outside Gov. Newsom news conference 06:18 U.S. Border Patrol agents appeared outside of the Japanese American National Museum on Thursday morning as Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state and local leaders were conducting a news conference announcing a plan to move forward with a redistricting plan. A group of …
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Facebook Tweet Email Link As California Democrats prepare to try to redraw the state’s congressional maps in response to a Republican-led effort in Texas, a patchwork coalition is forming to stop them. It includes former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a longtime advocate of nonpartisan redistricting; Charles Munger Jr., the son of the late billionaire Berkshire Hathaway vice chairman; various state and …
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By Dan Walters, CalMatters Gov. Gavin Newsom addresses the media during a press conference with a delegation of Texas Democrats who fled their state over the GOP redistricting plan, at the Governor’s Mansion State Historic Park in Sacramento, on Aug. 8, 2025. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters This commentary was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. …
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Gavin Newsom has been sparring with Texas Governor Greg Abbott over redistricting for the last few weeks. Anadolu / Getty Images In case you didn’t know, the short of it is: Texas is threatening to eliminate five Democratic seats by redistricting, which would give Republicans a huge advantage in the 2026 midterms. In response, Gov. Newsom has threatened to counter …
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California’s Democratic legislative leaders are not ready to talk publicly about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s push to have lawmakers redraw the state’s congressional maps to try to send more Democrats to the U.S. House of Representatives, but behind closed doors they appear ready to follow his lead. Newsom is eyeing a special election in November of this year to ask voters …
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