Americans are working hard but feeling stuck. High borrowing costs, slow hiring & rising uncertainty are freezing people in place. A rate cut isn’t enough. We need affordable housing and strong union jobs to build an economy that works for working people.

Don’t be fooled. The No on Prop 50 campaign is backed by MAGA mega donors. They want you to believe that they’re trying to protect our democracy, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. California must fight back and vote yes on Proposition 50 this November.

By Oct. 5, only six fair housing lawyers will remain at HUD. Hundreds of discrimination cases have been dropped. Civil rights precedent erased. Protections gutted. Justice delayed is justice denied, and right now, it’s being dismantled from within.

The Trump admin just canceled the federal hunger report, calling it “liberal fodder.” For 30 years, this report helped us understand food insecurity in America. Ending it doesn’t make hunger disappear. It just hides the truth.

Rural health clinics are closing across the country, and Trump’s “Big, Ugly Bill” is to blame. This is the cost of $900 billion in Medicaid cuts. It’s not reform. It’s abandonment. Every community, rural or urban, deserves access to quality care.

Trump's inability to take a joke nearly came at the expense of the First Amendment. Even though Kimmel will be coming back on air tonight, we can't forget about the tantrum that the Trump admin threw last week, which was reminiscent of petty authoritarian leaders like Xi Jinping.

Jimmy Kimmel’s return shows the power of speaking out. When people call out injustice and refuse to stay silent, change happens. Never forget: democracy works best when we make our voices heard.

A government shutdown isn’t just politics – it’s a threat to working families. We need a budget that protects health care, housing, and basic services – not one that plays games with people’s lives.

The First Amendment doesn’t come with an asterisk. If speaking out against a politician gets you fired, we’re in dangerous territory. The Kimmel cancellation shows how close we are to losing what makes our democracy work.

America has always been a nation of immigrants. Stripping protections from over 430,000 people who sought safety here betrays that legacy. We must choose compassion and fairness over cruelty and chaos.

6,000 homes for unhoused veterans are at stake – that’s why I held a roundtable on the progress of the West LA VA housing project. Our nation should be judged by how we care for our veterans. This project must move forward with transparency and urgency.

Jimmy Kimmel didn’t lose his show for crossing a line. He lost it for crossing Donald Trump. This is censorship, plain and simple. Free speech shouldn’t depend on a politician’s ego. We can’t let authoritarianism creep in through corporate cowardice. Not now. Not ever.

Make no mistake: ABC bowing down to Donald Trump and removing Jimmy Kimmel from the air endangers all of our First Amendment rights. There’s no such thing as free speech in a country where networks fire anyone who says something the President doesn’t like.

I met with Andry Hernández Romero — a gay asylum seeker who survived unimaginable abuse at El Salvador’s CECOT prison after being disappeared by the Trump administration. What our government did to Andry is a stain on the moral fabric of our nation. buff.ly/3vbYBsX

Trump is trying to avoid accountability for all of the terrible policies he’s put forward. But California is fighting back with proposition 50, the Election Rigging Response Act, which will allow us to redraw district lines in the state. Make sure to vote this November in the special election.

This #HispanicHeritageMonth, we celebrate the deep cultural, economic, and civic contributions of the Latino community in the Inland Empire and across the nation. Your history is American history. Your voices strengthen our democracy. ¡Gracias por todo lo que aportan!

Flight delays cost time, money, and peace of mind. A rule proposed by the Biden administration would’ve made airlines pay passengers for major disruptions, but Trump just scrapped it. He chose corporations over consumers, plain and simple.

Donald Trump thrives on political theater, but behind the spectacle, he’s not delivering for ordinary Americans. We can’t afford to be distracted. The stakes are too high, and the American people deserve real solutions, not just another performance.

The University of California is warning that Trump’s education cuts could harm all 10 campuses. That means fewer resources, higher costs, and lost opportunities for millions of students. The risks are real, and so are the consequences of defunding public education.

Vaccines save lives. Appointing people who deny that fact to shape vaccine policy is dangerous and irresponsible. Our public health institutions deserve better.

Trump is targeting Chicago with ICE raids—following the same playbook we saw in LA and DC. Let’s be clear: this isn’t about public safety. It’s about spreading fear, scapegoating immigrants, and turning people into props for political gain.

The Supreme Court just gave the green light to racial profiling in L.A. Justice Sotomayor said it best: No one should be targeted by the government for how they look, what language they speak, or where they work. This is a threat to our constitutional rights.

85 scientists just called out Trump’s climate report for what it is: cherry-picked, misleading, and dangerous. Ignoring science won’t stop fires, floods, or rising heat. It only delays the action we urgently need.

Veterans fought for our rights. Now it is our responsibility to fight for theirs. Honored to stand with my colleagues in the Veterans Affairs Committee to demand that the VA protects access to care for our veterans.

There are now more unemployed people than job openings in America. This is the cost of Trump’s chaos: failed trade wars, rising costs, and economic mismanagement, while we pay the price.

Ending SNAP-ED and slashing food assistance isn’t about cutting “waste”—it’s about cutting people off. These programs help families eat healthy, stay active, and live with dignity. We should be investing in them, not dismantling them.

Cutting $427M in offshore wind funding for Humboldt County is a direct attack on California’s clean energy future. We need investment in renewables, not political sabotage of climate progress and good-paying union jobs.

A federal judge has confirmed what many of us knew: Trump’s deployment of troops into Los Angeles was illegal. We must keep holding truth to power and stand up to authoritarian tactics—our democracy depends on it. buff.ly/8KM99PT

The PACT Act is the largest expansion of veterans’ benefits in a generation. Republicans in Congress tried to block it—putting dollars over duty. I’ll always fight to ensure our veterans get the care they deserve.

Cutting off research funding doesn’t just hurt labs today, it jeopardizes the discoveries of tomorrow. Trump’s research freeze shows a dangerous disregard for the facts and for the future. We can’t afford to let ideology stifle discovery.

Through the Big, Bad, Ugly Bill, Republicans cut care for veterans so they could give permanent tax breaks to the wealthiest corporations and billionaires. It’s comeuppance time, and California is fighting back.

Trump’s latest tariff change could strand 1.36 billion packages a year. It’s already led to major postal services around the world stopping shipments to the U.S. small businesses. Consumers will pay the price for this chaos.

Donald Trump says his tariffs don’t raise prices for Americans. But the data, and your receipts, tell a different story. buff.ly/7GCNKdU

Female veterans have risked their lives to defend our freedoms. Now, the VA is moving to take away their freedom to make personal decisions about their own health care. That’s wrong. These women fought for our rights, and they deserve the same rights in return.

When FEMA employees say disaster response is being gutted, we should all listen. After Hurricane Katrina, we built a system to save lives. Now Trump is tearing it down. We need to protect our emergency response protocols, not play politics with people’s lives.

A child died of measles in Texas before the CDC was allowed to act. Trump’s team muzzled scientists, stalled reports, and silenced emergency response. Public health should never be politicized. Lives are on the line.

VA hospitals are facing dangerous staff shortages — doctors, nurses, mental health workers, even security. Veterans deserve better. We must strengthen the VA, not dismantle it.

California’s new map reflects how fast our communities are growing and changing. This isn’t about political games – it’s about fair representation and making sure every voice is counted.

Censorship kills our children’s opportunity to learn empathy, history, and diverse perspectives. As a former educator, I’ve seen how stories shape empathy and expand young minds. That’s why Florida's push to ban books is so troubling. buff.ly/SLj9Ri4

Mail-in voting is how millions of seniors, working families, and folks with disabilities make their voices heard. Any effort to eliminate it doesn’t protect democracy – it weakens it. Voting should be accessible and secure for all. Period. buff.ly/kJV4tWh

10 *million* Americans could be stripped of Medicaid coverage during a time when affordable healthcare is already out of reach for too many. Unacceptable. We must protect our people from cruel policy.

Actions speak louder than words. Trump can claim he cares about our veterans all he wants, but his reckless policies tell a completely different story. This is no way to treat the people who have sacrificed so much for our country.

Trump is targeting universities nationwide. Now it’s UCLA: $584M in research grants frozen, $1B demanded to restore them. This is an attack on lifesaving research, and a blatant act of political extortion.

Small businesses can’t absorb Trump’s tariffs the way large corporations can. Working families can’t dodge his budget cuts like the wealthy can. We need policies that lift up everyone, not just those at the top.

Just as he did in Los Angeles, Trump is sending the National Guard into DC. In America, we protect the right to dissent. We don’t send in the military to silence those who disagree. This is pure authoritarianism under the guise of "crime prevention."

Trump’s new order gives his often unqualified political appointees control over billions in research grants, letting them cut funding anytime. Politicizing science undermines US innovation and our standing as a global leader in research. We can’t let politics gut progress.

Crime in DC is down. But just as he did in LA in June, Donald Trump is sending in the National Guard. This has nothing to do with public safety and everything to do with a desire for unchecked power. It's a blatant authoritarian overreach and an absolute disgrace.

Trump’s spending bill could leave 10 million more people uninsured, and cost 22,000 lives every year. This is the deadly price of putting politics over people. We need bold action to protect care and save lives.

Veterans fought for our freedoms. Now Trump wants to take theirs away. Banning nearly all abortions at VA hospitals—even in cases of rape or incest—is cruel, unjust, and a disgrace to those who served.

Trust in public health depends on transparency and expertise. Removing medical leaders from vaccine advisory roles is a massive step backward at a time when we can’t afford it.