A Republican Governor in California?

When things seem chaotic, as they do today, it’s usually a sign that change is underway.

Here’s a scenario from California that would be hard for even a Hollywood screenwriter to come up with.

This is a state generally seen to lean heavily to the political left.

Its congressional delegation — the largest in the country — stands at 52 House members, of whom 46 are Democrats, and two senators, both Democrats.

The state Legislature is decisively controlled by Democrats.

Yet there seems a reasonable likelihood that in November’s election for governor of California, we’ll see two Republicans running against each other.

How so?

California is an open primary state. The top two finishers in the June primary, regardless of party, move to the general election in November.

Eight Democrats have entered along with two Republicans.

With Democrats’ support splintered among the eight, the two Republicans have been sitting at the top of the pack.

Now the story gets more out-of-the-box. Republicans just held their convention, and neither of the two candidates managed the 60% necessary to garner endorsement.

Further, the candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump, Steve Hilton, finished 5 points behind the other Republican, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco.

And now, the candidate generally to have been considered the leading Democrat, seven-term Rep. Eric Swalwell, has pulled out of the race because of charges of sexual misconduct.

California hasn’t seen a Republican in the governor’s mansion since Arnold Schwarzenegger departed in 2011.

California is a big, beautiful state, with a $4.1 trillion economy, making it one of the largest economies in the world.

But it is a state with a problem. Instead of counting its blessings, it is now consuming its blessings.

California’s magnificent climate, ecology and natural resources attracted waves of population, business and talent over the years.

This led to booming industries in agriculture, entertainment, real estate and technology.

But now it’s going in the opposite direction. Skyrocketing costs in living and doing business, mostly due to taxation and regulation, are driving business and labor out of the state.

Per the Public Policy Institute of California, every year in the last 25 years has seen more departures from the state than arrivals.

From 2010 to 2024, there were 10 million departures and 7 million arrivals.

Hundreds of corporations have moved out of the state. Over the last few years this has included McKesson, Chevron, Telsa, Oracle, CBRE, Charles Schwab and Hewlett Packard Enterprises.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reaction to this has been indifference. Last year, when CEO of Bed Bath & Beyond announced that it would open no stores in California in its corporate reorganization, his explanation was that California’s business environment “makes it harder to employ people, harder to keep doors open, and harder to deliver value to customers.”

The response from the governor’s office was: “After their bankruptcy and closure of every store, we thought Bed, Bath, and Beyond no longer existed. … We wish them well in their efforts to become relevant again.”

Per Joel Kotkin of Chapman University and University of Texas-Austin, California has “roughly half of the nation’s homeless population…has the highest unemployment rate of any state…and has the highest cost-of-living adjusted poverty rate.”

Continues Kotkin, the state has “hemorrhaged 1.6 million above-average paying jobs over the last decade,” and created “five times as many low-wage as high-wage jobs.”

Meanwhile, Newsom, per Kotkin, has hired a New York PR firm, at a cost of $19 million to California taxpayers, to develop a PR campaign for the state.

Per a Public Policy Institute of California survey, only 1 in 3 Californians see their state as a good place to realize the American dream.

When things seem chaotic, as they do today, it’s usually a sign that change is underway.

California is usually a leading edge for the country. Just as the nation is faltering and in need of a great rebirth and restoration of founding principles, for sure this is what’s happing today in the Golden State.

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/126786-a-republican-governor-in-california-2026-04-15

'CAUGHT LYING' Again! Nancy Pelosi's Claim About Why Swalwell Resigned vs. Reality Sure Sounds Familiar

Nancy Pelosi's take on who prompted Eric Swalwell to drop his California gubernatorial campaign and eventually resign from Congress is going to sound very similar to her spin about the reason Joe Biden didn't run for reelection. 

Pelosi claimed that she had nothing to do with Biden dropping out, but clearly that's not the case. 

Yeah, Pelosi helped the Dems kick Biden out the door so aggressively that her heel mark is still on Joe's butt. 

Fast forward to the Swalwell accusations, and Pelosi's remarks will give you deja vu, but they don't line up with other reports that are easy to believe, because Nancy always lies. Watch: 

"When you've lost CNN..."

Pelosi also expects everybody to believe that she and other congressional Democrats didn't know about Swalwell being a scumbag for years. But then again she also wants us to believe she doesn't profit from insider trading, too. 

https://twitchy.com/dougp/2026/04/15/caught-lying-again-nancy-pelosis-claim-about-why-swalwell-resigned-vs-reality-sure-sounds-familiar-n2427175

The Great Replacement Chronicle !

Wake up, America. The greatest demographic crime of our age is unfolding in plain sight, and the elites are cheering it on.Native-born Europeans and Americans — the people who built the West — are being deliberately replaced in their own ancestral homelands. Our birth rates have collapsed below replacement level (hovering at a suicidal 1.5–1.6 children per woman), while waves of mass immigration from Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and beyond pour in unchecked. Higher fertility among the newcomers, combined with endless family reunification, asylum scams, and open-border policies, is accelerating the transformation.In Europe, entire neighborhoods in France, Sweden, Britain, and Germany now feel like foreign enclaves. Mosques rise where cathedrals once stood. Crime spikes. Parallel societies form. Native populations are becoming minorities in their own cities — and soon, in their own countries. 
Renaud Camus called it exactly what it is:Le Grand Remplacement — the Great Replacement.In the United States, the math is just as brutal. Non-Hispanic Whites are projected to lose majority status within decades. Immigration drives nearly all net population growth while our own people stop having children. The result? A cultural, political, and ethnic erasure sold to us as “diversity” and “progress.”
This isn’t some natural evolution. It’s the direct consequence of policies pushed by globalist elites, corporations hungry for cheap labor, and politicians who see replacement-level migration as a way to secure permanent power. They flood the West with millions who do not share our history, values, or identity, while shaming any native who dares notice the obvious.
The consequences are already here: strained welfare systems, exploding crime in sanctuary cities, shredded social trust, and the slow death of the cultures that gave the world freedom, innovation, and prosperity.This is civilizational suicide by design. The Great Replacement isn’t a conspiracy theory — it’s a chronicle written in falling birth rates, open borders, and elite betrayal. If we don’t reverse course — secure the borders, promote native families, and reject the replacement agenda — the West our ancestors built will vanish forever, replaced by something unrecognizable.The hour is late. The fire is coming. Time to choose: fight for survival, or surrender to the replacement.
Johnathan

Try That in a Small Town: Wild Video Shows High School Principal Take Down Gunman With His Bare Hands

When armed individuals with bad intentions approach a building or an event where there are lots of people, oftentimes the outcome is devastating and horrific. We saw it with the Columbine and Sandy Hook massacres, the Nashville Covenant School mass shooting, and the Abundant Life Christian School mass shooting, just to name a few.

But sometimes, when all is said and done, it's the good guys who win at the end of the day, which is exactly what happened a week ago at a high school in Oklahoma.

The scene of the attempted mass shooting was Pauls Valley High School. And according to authorities, the school's principal, Kirk Moore, was the main target. 20-year-old Victor Lee Hawkins, a former student who investigators say admitted he was inspired by Columbine, approached the school on the afternoon of April 7th, armed with two semi-automatic pistols, per local reports, both of which were loaded (note: the feature image above is not a picture of the gun used in the shooting).

Here's what happened next after he walked into the front of the school:

Hawkins then pointed a gun at a student in the foyer and attempted to shoot, but the gun malfunctioned and did not fire.

The affidavit says Hawkins then stepped behind a vending machine “to clear the malfunction.”

Investigators say Hawkins then came back out and pointed his weapon at another student and fired a shot.

It says that the student put his hands in the air and asked Hawkins not to shoot him.

The document says Hawkins then lowered his gun. He told both students, whom he had just attempted to shoot, to leave the scene.

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After the students fled, it was at that point that Moore came out to look into what was going on and saw Hawkins, who shot him in the leg. But that didn't prevent Moore from tackling him onto a nearby bench, where the assistant principal was able to retrieve the gun Moore had knocked out of Hawkins' hand. Moore stayed on top of him to ensure he didn't get away:

According to the affidavit, Moore then “wrestled with Hawkins on a bench in the foyer and was able to remove Hawkins’ pistol from his hand.” It says Moore and the school’s assistant principal then lay on top of Hawkins until law enforcement arrived.

The video is incredible. Watch:

Y'all, Kirk Moore is no spring chicken. One report I read quoted someone who said they'd known him for 55 years. So he is at least that age, if not older. But this man did what needed to be done, and countless lives were saved that day:

Pauls Valley, I should also note, is a small town:

Pauls Valley is a community of about 6,000 people 60 miles (96 kilometers) south of Oklahoma City.

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As for Principal Moore's condition, he is expected to be okay. He issued this statement in response to the outpouring of support:

Pauls Valley schools are safe communities unaccustomed to the type of threat we witnessed on Tuesday. Nevertheless, like so many educators around the country, we prepare for these events through training and careful assessments of threats. I am grateful that my instincts and training, as well as God’s hand, were available to come to me on Tuesday.

My sincere thanks to the Pauls Valley police and fire departments, as well as the Garvin County Sheriff’s Office, Oklahoma Highway Patrol and ATF agents who responded to provide support. I am especially proud of the Pauls Valley alumni among this group who so selflessly serve our community and demonstrate the values of our school every day.

I look forward to returning to work as soon as possible so that I may continue my life’s work educating the next generation of Oklahoma leaders. Until then, my thoughts are with our outstanding students, safe today in the arms of their families and friends.

Get well soon, Principal Moore. And may God continue to bless you, the school, and its students.

https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/04/14/incredible-video-shows-how-an-oklahoma-high-school-principal-subdued-a-mass-shooter-with-his-bare-hands-n2201295

Hasan Piker: 'The Fall of the USSR Was One of the Greatest Catastrophes of the 20th Century'

Far-left streamer Hasan Piker made another striking remark Tuesday at Yale University, telling a room full of students that the collapse of the USSR was “one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century.” He argued that, without a counterweight to U.S. power, American foreign policy went unchecked, something he described as a regrettable development.

"The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century," Piker told the crowd. "Just wait, listen, maybe you'll agree. Not only was there incalculable harm done to every single country under its banner, child prostitution, skyrocketing suicide rates, life expectancy plummeting, but America was no longer contested around the globe. And it is precisely because of the end to that multipolarity that we saw accelerated neoliberalism that is devastating every Western nation right now, unlimited and unchecked greed."

"Our successes are leading to our own demise, and the demise and collapse of the liberal system," he added. "The US has produced disaster after disaster after disaster."

His view boils down to the idea that the United States is a force for evil in the world, and that its involvement inevitably makes situations worse. It’s a perspective shared by some on both the far left and the isolationist right, arguing that the U.S. should step back from the global stage and avoid involvement abroad altogether.

This comes as the Democratic Party has increasingly embraced Piker, who has been seen campaigning with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, who drew attention after declining to celebrate the death of Ayatollah Khamenei, arguing that many people in his state were deeply saddened by it, among others.

While conservative media have highlighted Piker’s past rhetoric and controversial history, more Democrats appear willing to align with him, as Piker himself has said that requests from Democratic figures to meet with him have increased tenfold.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2026/04/15/hasan-piker-the-fall-of-the-ussr-was-one-of-the-greatest-catastrophes-of-the-20th-century-n2674475