WASHINGTON—When Nancy Pelosi announced her retirement, mixed in among the tributes to the former House Speaker were a lot of jokes about stocks.
“‘America’s Greatest Investor’ gets dethroned!!!” conservative radio host Larry Elder <a href="https://x.com/larryelder/status/1987634512323555496?s=20">wrote</a> on X. “[Shout out] to Nancy Pelosi. [I]n Honor of your retirement, what other stocks should I invest in?” another user <a href="https://x.com/kstaura/status/1986495365793620347?s=20">posted</a>.
Pelosi has come under fire in recent years for her prolific stock trading, which, by some estimates, has earned her <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/nancy-pelosi-paul-pelosi-investments/2025/11/08/id/1233768/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$130 million</a> while in Congress. Although the California Democrat has not been charged with any wrongdoing, her uncanny ability to pick winning stocks has led many to suspect that Pelosi is using insider information to inform her trades.
On Autopilot, an investment app that allows users to model their trades off prominent investors like Warren Buffett, following Pelosi is now the biggest draw, co-founder Chris Josephs told The Daily Wire.
“It makes me sound like I’m faking stuff, but we have all the data,” Josephs said. “We track her filings. She quite literally outperforms hedge funds. There’s just no way around it. She literally just picks good stocks.” Last year, Autopilot estimated Nancy Pelosi made $28 million in profits from trades.
Josephs created Autopilot five years ago to let people follow their friends’ stock portfolios. Eventually, he realized he could grow the app by allowing users to follow successful investors. Once he understood the draw of Pelosi, he launched the Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker <a href="https://x.com/pelositracker">account</a> on X, which brought the former speaker’s trades to an even wider audience.
Through his work, the world has seen Pelosi make massive gains from investments in big names such as Tesla and Nvidia, and her “perfectly-timed” investments are now part of her legacy. 
 Autopilot now has $1 billion in assets under management. That’s good for business, but bad for America, Josephs says.
“An app with the tagline &#8216;Invest like a Politician&#8217; should not be this popular,” he says.
Josephs says he’s a supporter of the push by Pelosi’s colleagues for a bill to bar lawmakers from trading. The Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments — or PELOSI Act — is at the top of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) agenda for when the government reopens, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) <a href="https://x.com/RepLuna/status/1987702215964836113?s=20">said</a> earlier this month. “This should have happened long before Speaker Pelosi announced her retirement, but it’s time to ban Congressional stock trading,” Rep. Marianette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) <a href="https://x.com/RepMMM/status/1989010038636077219">added</a>.
“This is not a partisan issue,” Josephs told The Daily Wire. “If we can get this ban through, it literally benefits everybody.”
“There is no net negative for this bill not to go through except for the politicians. It will bring more trust. It’ll bring more transparency. It’ll bring more comfort knowing that these politicians actually pass things that don’t just benefit them,” Josephs added. “The American people need a win.” 
Missouri Republican senator Josh Hawley agrees.
“Members of Congress should be fighting for the people they were elected to serve — not day trading at the expense of their constituents. Americans have seen politician after politician turn a profit using information not available to the general public,” the Missouri Republican told The Daily Wire.
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“It’s time we ban all members of Congress from trading and holding stocks and restore Americans’ trust in our nation’s legislative body.”
Josephs says restoring trust in government institutions is Autopilot’s number one goal, even though a ban would affect their business. 
“We will welcome the revenue hit. We will welcome the marketing challenge of not having the Pelosi tracker because we think it brings more trust and transparency back into the institution.” 
In preparation, his team has been expanding its portfolio lineup, adding a tracker that allows investors to follow Michael Burry, the hedge fund manager who famously predicted the 2008 housing crisis and was immortalized in “The Big Short.”
Though Josephs favors the ban, he warns that lawmakers need to be careful about how they craft it, lest the legislation backfire. For instance, earlier versions of the stock trading ban required lawmakers to divest any ownership stakes in private companies.
“A lot of people have small businesses that they privately own,” Josephs said. “It’s really hard to sell these companies because the stock is illiquid and you have to find buyers.”
He also warned the legislation could backfire, cutting off some of the nation’s most capable talent from entering politics. 
“I think it would demotivate a major class of successful people from running for office,” he said. 
“Business people are successful. They know how to run things, how to lead, how to hire, how to create and execute strategies. We shouldn’t turn away those potential candidates because they own businesses that could be difficult to sell. They’d have to find the right price, the right buyer — it’s hard.” 
Josephs said he’s hopeful a version of the bill without that requirement will gain traction, beginning with a congressional hearing expected next week. However, he believes real momentum may not come until 2027 when Pelosi retires.
“Nancy’s a prominent figure, she’s very powerful. She ran the Democratic Party for years. My bet is that some lawmakers, especially on the Democratic side, are hesitant to support the ban publicly because of potential setbacks or headwinds from Nancy Pelosi coming after their camp,” he said. 
“The elephant in the room is she’s the face of this whole thing.”

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s daughter announced she will run for the California State Senate in 2028.
Christine Pelosi made the announcement amid reports that she could potentially run to replace her mother, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-announces-retirement-trump-torches-her-evil-and-corrupt-legacy">announced</a> last week that she would retire in 2027 after more than 40 years in Washington. Instead, the younger Pelosi will run to replace State Senator Scott Wiener, who is running for Pelosi’s House seat.
“We need leaders who advance our San Francisco values and build power for the people. And that’s the kind of representative I will be in the California State Senate,” Christine Pelosi, 59, said in a message posted to her campaign website. She is an attorney who’s played a role in California politics for years and also worked in the Clinton administration.
“Now, the State Senate election isn’t until 2028. And in the meantime, we all have a lot of work to do together to take our country back, to protect our rights, to attract more good paying jobs, and to build a better quality of life and brighter future for everyone,” she added.
The Daily Wire reached out to Christine Pelosi’s campaign to clarify whether or not she would run sooner if Wiener wins his election and leaves the state senate early. Wiener is considered one of the most <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-scott-wiener-nancy-pelosis-likely-replacement-probably-thinks-youre-a-bigot">radically left-wing</a> lawmakers in the United States. He most recently made waves for a bill attempting to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/potential-pelosi-successor-pushed-a-bill-so-woke-even-the-new-york-times-has-doubts">prevent</a> federal immigration agents from wearing masks while conducting operations.
Wiener launched his campaign before Pelosi announced her retirement. Afterwards, he took to X to praise the former House Speaker.
“Thank you, Madam Speaker. In 1987, I was a closeted teenager terrified of a world that seemed determined to eliminate gay people. You used your platform in Congress to fight AIDS — to fight for people like me.&#8221;
Prior to her announcement, reports circulated that the former speaker would make her choice public following the Proposition 50 vote last Tuesday. Prop. 50 passed overwhelmingly and will shake up the congressional maps in the Golden State to allow for more Democratic-favored seats in hopes of countering Texas&#8217;s redistricting efforts,<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americas-redistricting-battle-keeps-getting-messier" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> The Daily Wire</a> reported.
“For decades, I’ve cherished the privilege of representing our magnificent city in the United States Congress,” Pelosi said in a video last week directed toward San Francisco residents.
“With a grateful heart, I look forward to my final year of service as your proud representative,” she added.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s former chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, is also running for the seat. The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5593214-pelosi-successors-house-seat/">reported</a> that San Francisco County Supervisor Connie Chan is also being floated as a possible replacement in the deep blue seat.
&#8220;And whether you love her or disagree with her, you&#8217;ve gotta admit, she has shaped American politics for an entire generation. And now, she&#8217;s doing something really rare in Washington – making room for the next generation,&#8221; Chakrabarti said in a video last week.

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President Donald Trump leans on lawmakers to end the country’s longest government shutdown, leftist Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi finally hangs it up, and Border Patrol sets a new record on illegal crossings as officers face increased resistance.
It’s Friday, November 7, 2025, and this is the news you need to know to start your day. Today’s edition of the Morning Wire podcast can be heard below, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mrn-251107">the video version can be seen on The Daily Wire</a>:
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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Shutdown Enters Day 38</h2>
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Topline: The government shutdown has entered its 38th day, as Donald Trump puts new pressure on Republican leaders to invoke the nuclear option to bring an end to the stalemate. 
This is the longest shutdown in history. In the first month, unless they were federal employees or tourists in D.C., most Americans probably did not notice any significant impact on day-to-day life. But that could change by the end of this week with expected delays to air travel.
Air traffic controllers have been working without pay for more than a month now. Some have called in sick, resulting in serious staff shortages that are worsening by the day. Many of those who are on the job have been working long shifts, six days a week. As a result, starting Friday, the FAA will require at least 40 airports to cut back their flight offerings.
In total, the FAA says it’s reducing overall flight capacity by 4% on Friday, and eventually working up to 10% across what it calls “high traffic” areas. Hundreds of thousands of travelers are expected to be impacted.
Compromise coming? Republicans are holding firm, saying they will not agree to a budget that offers billions of taxpayer dollars for healthcare subsidies that will eventually make their way to illegal immigrants.
Democrats on the Hill huddled for a luncheon on Thursday afternoon to discuss their broader strategy. Another vote to potentially reopen the government may be held on Friday, according to a Senate source familiar with negotiations.
The Senate will have a procedural vote on the House-passed continuing resolution, and they’re hoping to amend it with a later end date, along with a three-bill spending package &#8211; otherwise known as a minibus.
The minibus includes three full-year appropriations bills: Agriculture-FDA, Military Construction-VA, and Legislative Branch. There is a chance the Senate Democrats could block it. Republicans need 60 votes, so five Democrats will have to vote with the GOP to reopen the government.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Pelosi Packs Up</h2>
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Topline: After several decades in Congress and two stints as the speaker of the House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi has announced that she’s not running for re-election.
The timing of Pelosi’s announcement comes right after California voters approved Proposition 50, the state Democrats&#8217; initiative to redraw California’s congressional map, earlier this week.
It had been reported for weeks that Pelosi was debating whether to run for re-election, so the timing did not surprise many. But Pelosi’s departure will give other leftists in her San Francisco-based district room to launch their campaigns.
The response: President Trump had some strong words for his longtime adversary:
“I thought she was an evil woman who did a poor job, who cost the country a lot in damages and in reputation. I thought she was terrible,” Trump said of the news of Pelosi’s retirement.
President Trump also noted that Pelosi had lost grip of the party over time. Toward the end of her time in Congress, a rift had opened between her and some young progressives in her caucus, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) has for some time been the one to navigate those inner-party battles. But Pelosi has still played a major role in shaping the political landscape, not only on Capitol Hill but nationwide as well. For instance, she played a significant role behind the scenes, pressuring then-President Joe Biden to drop out of the 2024 presidential race.
Who comes next?: It is going to be open season in the Bay Area for her seat. A bevy of people have jumped in or shown interest. California state Senator Scott Wiener, a progressive activist, has jumped in. AOC’s former chief of staff has jumped in, as well.
Pelosi’s daughter, Christine Pelosi, has been floated as a pick. Pelosi may also be looking at a San Francisco County supervisor as her successor. The tech world may also be influential in the race.
<h2 style="text-align: center;">Historic Border Success</h2>
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Topline: Federal border authorities saw another month of historic lows for unlawful crossings, marking a major accomplishment for the president.
The situation at the border is entirely different from what it was under the Biden administration. October saw the lowest number of illegal crossings on record, with just 30,000. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks told The Daily Wire that the Trump administration is seeing real success at the border. That success shows that despite past talk about Congress needing to act, border security really happened with just a stroke of a pen after Trump was inaugurated the second time.
Banks also said that while the government hasn’t yet achieved operational control at the border, it is much closer than ever before. He noted that several days ago, roughly 100 people crossed the border, a decrease from 10,000 to 12,000 a day under former President Joe Biden.
“Operational control is going to be when we can apprehend anything that enters this country and have zero gotaways, and we&#8217;re closer than we&#8217;ve ever been,” Banks said. “But we are not even close to being done.”
In addition to sealing the border, Border Patrol agents are also working to help ICE with mass deportation raids.
ICE under attack: The Daily Wire spoke with an ICE agent who was the victim of an attack, just one instance in the 1,000% increase in assaults on ICE under the Trump administration.
One agent who spoke with The Daily Wire was recently attacked by an illegal immigrant who had multiple convictions. The suspect had sexually assaulted a child and had numerous DUIs. He also illegally re-entered the United States.
At one point, while ICE officers were attempting to arrest the illegal alien, he tried to run from the officer. The illegal alien tried to escape by attacking the officer with a metal coffee cup that was full of hot coffee. He threw the cup at the officer, splitting the officer’s lip and giving him second-degree burns on his body.

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When I was Susannah Luthi&#8217;s editor years ago, she kept pitching stories about a California lawmaker named Scott Wiener. One day I asked her: I realize these policies are crazy, but why do we care so much about some random state senator?
She responded that one day, Wiener was going to run for Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s seat in Congress, and all these stories would be incredibly relevant. I trusted her and saved that email.
Susannah was right. Two weeks ago, Wiener announced he was running for Pelosi&#8217;s seat. And now Pelosi is hanging up her hat after 40 years in Washington. It&#8217;s finally happening.
Like Zohran Mamdani, Scott Wiener is the frightening face of a new Democratic Party, in which letting children get transgender surgeries is just the tip of the iceberg. From letting the state take gay kids away from their parents to legalizing pedophilia, Wiener makes even the most radical member of Congress look like a moderate.
No one knows more about Scott Wiener than Susannah, and she&#8217;s been right about him so far. We should all pay attention. — Tim Rice
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If you think men don’t belong in girls’ bathrooms, kids shouldn’t get irreversible sex changes, or cops should stop street prostitution of minors, Scott Wiener probably thinks you’re a bigot.
Indeed, it seems easy to offend Wiener, the San Francisco Democrat running for former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D.) seat — and anyone who holds mainstream or conventional views on biology, women’s or parents’ rights, or conservative governance frequently does.
Last month, Wiener found it “<a href="https://x.com/WomenAreReals/status/1982259108108743044" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gross</a>” that San Francisco women turned up at his annual Halloween event to protest his transgender policies. He called the late Charlie Kirk a “vile bigot”<a href="http://sd11.senate.ca.gov/news/senator-wiener-responds-governor-newsoms-comments-transgender-women-sports" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> before</a> and<a href="https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1967604784757940280" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> after</a> the conservative activist was brutally, publicly murdered. Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk are also “bigots,&#8221; and Republican diplomat Richard Grenell is a “<a href="https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/1673352593530294273" target="_blank" rel="noopener">self-hating gay man.</a>”
The people he approves of are very different — like a<a href="https://www.thesisters.org/roma" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> gay porn-purveying drag queen</a> from the anti-Catholic drag troupe Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, whom<a href="https://abc7news.com/post/sister-roma-state-capitol-protest-the-sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence-honored-in-sacramento/13348438/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> he honored</a> on the California Senate floor as “one of the very best community leaders,” as well as San Francisco’s former soft-on-crime district attorney George Gascón, with whom he has<a href="https://scott-wiener.medium.com/moving-toward-decarceration-191c99638896" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> collaborated</a> on legislation. San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair, a public nudity-and-group sex festival whose attendees are<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/1nmtl0l/first_time_at_folsom_street_fair_tips/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> advised</a> to watch out for men peeing on one another, is a “<a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=777812248385874" target="_blank" rel="noopener">beautiful community</a>” that Wiener is “proud to stand up for.”
Wiener’s personal proclivities loom large in the California State Senate, where he’s served since 2016. But they could soon have national relevance: Weiner <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-trans-leftist-launches-bid-for-pelosis-seat-before-she-has-a-chance-to-announce-retirement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> his intent to run for Pelosi’s seat a full two weeks before the veteran California Democratic operator announced she would retire after four decades in Washington.
Pelosi’s retirement will kick off a brutal succession bid in California. The former speaker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/potential-pelosi-successor-pushed-a-bill-so-woke-even-the-new-york-times-has-doubts?author=Cameron+Arcand&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Potential+Pelosi+Successor+Pushed+A+Bill+So+Woke%2C+Even+The+New+York+Times+Has+Doubts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly favors</a> San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan as her successor.
But Wiener is a real contender — which is bad news for anyone who wants California to keep its policies to itself.
<h3>Justice For Pedophiles</h3>
In the Golden State, Wiener has pushed socially seismic policies that allow male sex offenders live in female prisons if they claim to be transgender, to exempt gay sex offenders from the state registry if the minor is at least 14 and within a 10-year age gap, and to make California a “haven” for out-of-state kids to come for sex changes without their parents’ consent.
And these laws have already wreaked notable havoc. One of the first male inmates to enter California’s female prison is standing trial for allegedly raping two women cellmates — with the judge<a href="https://abc7chicago.com/post/pronoun-use-center-rape-case-involving-former-chowchilla-central-california-womens-facility-prisoner-tremaine-carroll/15696730/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> insisting</a> that the offender be referred to as a woman throughout the proceedings, even though he impregnated at least one female inmate.
Wiener also authored a bill that decriminalized streetwalking because he found anti-loitering laws “discriminatory” against transgender people and “people of color.” The law has effectively blocked cops from taking trafficked minors off the streets and led to an uncontrollable<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/magazine/sex-trafficking-girls-la-figueroa.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> spike in sex trafficking</a> of young girls, so much so that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/potential-pelosi-successor-pushed-a-bill-so-woke-even-the-new-york-times-has-doubts?author=Cameron+Arcand&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Potential+Pelosi+Successor+Pushed+A+Bill+So+Woke%2C+Even+The+New+York+Times+Has+Doubts" target="_blank" rel="noopener">even the New York Times</a> finds the law problematic.
But Wiener shows no signs of backing down. His critics say it’s due to the personal nature of his policy stances, which make it impossible to get him to moderate his legislation.
“Since I’ve been going to Sacramento to his legislative hearings, I’ve seen him treat us pretty badly, in public, during sessions,” said Julie Lane, co-founder of Women Are Real, a Bay Area feminist advocacy group that fights gender ideology. “He’ll have long discussions on his committees and as soon as it’s an issue we’re involved with, he’ll leave the room, or get on his phone, or say we’re ‘anti-trans activists.’”
“He won’t listen to us.” 
<h3>“He’s Looked At As A Bully”</h3>
Wiener was born in Philadelphia and grew up in New Jersey, where, after graduating from Harvard Law School, he clerked for the state supreme court justice who wrote a <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=16151905477157446342" target="_blank" rel="noopener">landmark 1975 decision</a> deeming that a trans-identifying man should be treated as female in a marriage contract and could collect spousal support after his divorce.
He moved to San Francisco in 1997, practicing in a now-dissolved corporate law firm and working in the city attorney’s office before he was elected to the county’s Board of Supervisors.
There, according to one conservative local, he was “popular and moderate and even likable” when he first started.
“What we’ve learned over time is that career politicians start slipping further left year after year. And the farther up the ladder they go, they get even more left,” said Richie Greenberg, a leader of the successful recall campaign of the city’s former left-wing district attorney Chesa Boudin.
Greenberg added that many San Franciscans see Wiener as a “carpetbagger” who went to Sacramento as a state senator to force changes in the city that he couldn’t make as a local lawmaker.
“What he supports is often not agreed on by constituents here, and that’s what gets locals upset,” he said. “He’s looked at as a bully, among other things. He has passed legislation that has stripped away the ability of cities to control things.”
Wiener touts his past post on the national board of directors of the Human Rights Campaign — a radical George Soros-funded organization behind the push to force transgenderism into the medical system and K-12 schools.
He’s done the same thing in the state legislature. Wiener has proved a powerful figure on the California state senate’s public safety committee, where he’s fought to soften criminal penalties and permit open public drug injection sites. Last year, he caused a furor when he opposed making it a felony to purchase 16 and 17-year-olds for sex, stating that “Sending an 18-year-old high school senior to state prison for offering his 17-year-old classmate $20 to fool around isn’t smart criminal justice policy.”
Those who have opposed him in hearing rooms or in the real world say he either ignores them completely or hits them with emotional arguments divorced from reality.
Consider SB 132, his 2020 law that allowed men into female prisons — and which, from its early days, led to a long string of complaints by women that some of their male cellmates were threatening, harassing, and assaulting them.
Amie Ichikawa, founder of the group Woman II Woman, which advocates for women prisoners, said Wiener’s office has answered her about other, unrelated issues but continues to ignore her reports about this law.
“I had gotten a phone call about a rape, and I said, ‘I need to speak to Sen. Wiener about SB 132 and the people taking advantage of it — I can’t take another phone call about another rape,’” Ichikawa said. “I never got any responses to that.”
Later, she went to the state capitol and personally handed Wiener letters from female inmates themselves about SB 132. “The letters were pleading with him and the governor to remember them, said that we’re all survivors of sexual abuse, how can you do this to us?” she said.
He never responded.
Last year, one of Wiener’s Republican State Senate colleagues responded to the growing reports of SB 132’s safety risks by introducing a bill that would have established separate housing for the trans-identifying males and banned convicted sex offenders from moving into women’s prisons at all.
Wiener opposed these proposed reforms during a hearing and claimed the state’s sex offender registry targeted “LGBTQ people.”
“We also know that LGBTQ people have been massively and disproportionately targeted and subjected to being slammed onto the sex offender registry,” Wiener<a href="https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/hearings/258956?t=1479&amp;f=e17600b674ef3117c38ca500eb9270ff" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> said</a> at the time. “That’s the whole history of the sex offender registry.”
<h3>&#8220;Just A Little Bit Off&#8221;</h3>
A longtime Bay Area activist who knows and likes Wiener personally agreed that he fails to look at the true effects of his legislation — although she attributes the reason to the powerful funding groups behind progressive policies he pushes.
“I think he has good intentions,” said Naomi Akers, whom Wiener nominated for the San Francisco Entertainment Commission in 2010. “I think there are a few things that are just a little bit off because I don’t think he’s getting informed from the community, but from a funder-driven activist agenda that is bypassing the community.”
Formerly incarcerated herself, Akers said most former prisoners within the prisoner rights organization she worked with opposed SB 132, but said, “I guess we have to go along with it.”
“I said something about it, and I got fired,” she said.
Akers saw similar issues with Wiener’s SB 357, which legalized “loitering with the intent to commit prostitution.” The law has been<a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/predators-paradise" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> blamed</a> for a spike in sex trafficking and for turning city neighborhoods into dangerous red light districts.
“I think it harms the residents and young women in a community,” she said of the law. “I think it’s unsafe for children and other women walking around. It degrades the safety of a neighborhood and has a detrimental effect on everyone.&#8221;
Parents who have fought Wiener on bills like SB 107, which grants “sanctuary” for gender-confused youth to run away to California for sex-change drugs and procedures, see outright hostility when they voice their opinions in hearing rooms.
<h3>&#8220;Name-Calling Is All He Has.&#8221;</h3>
“Senator Wiener habitually hurls derogatory remarks at us because he cannot engage in a coherent conversation that can justify placing males in females’ spaces,” said Erin Friday, co-lead of Our Duty, a group for parents of gender-confused kids. “He cannot rationalize sex-rejecting interventions, especially the removal of sex organs of children. Devolving to name-calling is all he has.”
In 2023, he co-authored a bill that could have stripped custody from parents who didn’t “affirm” their child’s transgender identity. He blamed public outcry on “a pretty massive misinformation campaign about this bill by the right-wing media,” and claimed opponents wanted “to erase trans kids” and mount “an attack on gay and lesbian kids.”
Yet even as he regularly attacks Californians who oppose him and has consistently voted to lower penalties for violent crime, Wiener has been quick to build up his own defenses — most notably with a co-authored law that Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) signed in 2023 to allow politicians to use unlimited donor money for private security.
“Since I was first elected to public office in 2010, we’ve seen a terrifying spike in threats and violence against elected officials — myself included,” he said when the legislation was unveiled. “It’s been harrowing to deal with endless threats on social media; I’ve gotten thousands over the past few years.”
The race to replace Pelosi has yet to take shape, but Wiener seems poised to take the lead. The day he announced his candidacy, he raised more than $730,000 to add to his existing<a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00909283/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> $1 million war chest</a>. His top donors include<a href="https://sfstandard.com/2025/10/24/scott-wiener-raises-730k-first-day-campaign-nancy-pelosi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> powerful</a> unions and real estate developers who have backed his laws to override local zoning laws to build dense housing blocs.
Still, Greenberg thinks Wiener’s public manner could hurt him if the race turns competitive.
“He is lashing out,” he said. “It’s like he and Newsom both took petulant pills. I don’t know what happened in the last few months to make them so angry and so off-putting.”
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The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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Meet Scott Wiener: Nancy Pelosi’s Likely Replacement Probably Thinks You’re A Bigot

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is retiring from Congress when her term ends in 2027, she announced Thursday.
The 85-year-old San Francisco Democrat has continued to serve in the House after being the first and only woman to serve as House speaker, holding that position during two separate terms: from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023.
“For decades, I’ve cherished the privilege of representing our magnificent city in the United States Congress,” she said in a video focusing primarily on her constituents, opening with “Dear San Francisco.”
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“I truly loved serving as your voice in Congress,” she said.
“With a grateful heart, I look forward to my final year of service as your proud representative,” Pelosi continued.
Pelosi’s tumultuous relationship with President Donald Trump featured public showdowns, two impeachments, and a starkly polarized political climate.
President Trump reacted to the news on Thursday morning, saying that &#8220;she was evil&#8221; and &#8220;corrupt,&#8221; according to Fox News. &#8220;The retirement of Nancy Pelosi is a great thing for America.&#8221;
Pelosi&#8217;s retirement could open up a wide Democratic primary in the Bay Area to replace her, and she’s held the seat since 1987.
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California state Sen. Scott Wiener, a far-Left progressive, already jumped into the race last month, as the seat is likely to stay deep blue.
“My family escaped fascism in Europe. I never thought the United States would slip into fascism like we’re seeing today,” Wiener said in his launch video. “San Francisco has always been on the right side of history.”
“Join me now, before everything we believe in is lost for good,” he added.
In addition, former Chief of Staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Saikat Chakrabarti, is running for the seat.
Pelosi&#8217;s retirement comes amid a likely fierce 2026 battle for the House, as Republicans currently hold a narrow majority in the Senate.
A mix of reactions to her retirement poured in on social media.
“The GOAT &#8211; thanks for your incredible service, Rep. Pelosi, and for modeling true selfless leadership by stepping back and making space for a new generation of leaders,” Amanda Litman, president of Run for Something, posted to X.
“After serving for nearly 200 years, Nancy Pelosi won’t seek reelection,” conservative commentator Jason Rantz wrote.
Pelosi was expected to announce whether she would retire following Tuesday&#8217;s Proposition 50 vote in California, which she campaigned heavily in favor of. The ballot measure to redraw congressional districts in the state to heavily favor Democrats until 2030 passed by a wide margin. Proponents of the measure said it would counteract Republican redistricting efforts in Texas and other red states, and it is currently facing a federal lawsuit from the California Republican Party.
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Pelosi Announces Retirement, Trump Torches Her ‘Evil’ And ‘Corrupt’ Legacy

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A California ballot measure that would change the state&#8217;s electoral map passed on Tuesday, paving the way for Democrats to add five congressional seats in the coming midterm elections.
With three-quarters of votes counted, Decision Desk HQ <a href="https://election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-11-04/states/California">reports</a> that around 65% of Californians voted for Proposition 50, which “authorizes temporary changes to congressional district maps in response to Texas’s partisan redistricting.” The measure, which California Governor Gavin Newsom, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and other prominent Democrats supported, was slammed as overly partisan by opponents, and heavily funded by supporters. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-health-insurance-giant-quietly-bankrolls-gavin-newsoms-partisan-power-grab" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> reported that one of the major donors to Newsom&#8217;s ballot measure committee included Blue Shield of California, which donated $500,000.
The California Democratic Party website said that the proposal is “a direct response to a Republican power grab orchestrated by President Trump and state leaders in Texas, who redrew congressional district lines to gain five more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.”
“If Texas had backed off, California would have backed off,” Pelosi posted on X last week. “But Trump insisted on Texas starting this fight — so California will meet this moment and win BIG on Tuesday to defend our health care and our democracy.”
The passage of Proposition 50 is a major win for Newsom, a likely 2028 presidential candidate. It comes just hours after voters across the country elected socialist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdani-time-new-york-city-turns-to-muslim-socialist-zohran-mamdani-as-next-mayor?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Brecca+Stoll&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=MAMDANI+TIME%3A+New+York+City+Turns+To+Muslim+Socialist+Zohran+Mamdani+As+Next+Mayor">Zohran Mamdani</a> mayor of New York City and sent Democrats to the governors mansions in New Jersey and Virginia.
In October, Los Angeles County Republican Chair <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-californias-effort-to-fight-back-against-trump-with-redistricting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Roxanne Hoge</a> explained that the phrasing of the measure made the race competitive.
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“If we didn’t have the crazy title in summary that they had, it would be like Prop 36, right. Overwhelming. But given the title and summary we have, it’s neck and neck,” she said at the time. Prop. 36 was a 2024 ballot measure that passed overwhelmingly to fight back against crime in the Golden State.
Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, also opposed the proposition.
“There is such extreme gerrymandering going on that in a state like Massachusetts, it has like 40% of the people voting for Trump, they only — they have zero representatives,&#8221; Schwarzenegger said in a recent<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/arnold-schwarzenegger-terminates-jake-tappers-effort-to-blame-gop-for-gerrymandering" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> CNN interview</a>. &#8220;The Republican Party has zero representatives sent to the House. Think about that.&#8221;
“In New Mexico, 45% of the people voted for Trump and vote Republican, and zero is sent to the House, zero representatives from the Republican Party,”  he added. “So there’s gerrymandering — crazy gerrymandering — going on all over the country, and we wanted to try to stop it in California, and we did stop it in California.”
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), whose seat is expected to be redrawn under Proposition 50 tells The Daily Wire that he&#8217;s &#8220;not going anywhere.&#8221;
&#8220;It was difficult to watch as Gavin Newsom and Sacramento’s special interests set about shredding the state constitution, disenfranchising millions of Californians solely because of how they vote, and delivering what they know is an undeserved advantage to Democrats,&#8221; Issa said. &#8220;But here’s something Newsom and his cronies don’t know: It won’t work.&#8221;
&#8220;Voters get to pick their representatives. Not the other way around,&#8221; the congressman continued, later adding that he&#8217;s &#8220;not quitting on California. And neither should anyone else.”

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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress, called President Donald Trump &#8220;a vile creature,&#8221; adding that he is &#8220;the worst thing on the face of the earth.&#8221;
Pelosi made the comments during a sit-down interview with <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/politics/video/nancy-pelosi-california-trump-elex-michaelson-lead-jake-tapper">CNN</a> that aired on Monday. The hostile remarks come as political violence in the United States continues to rise, following two assassination attempts on President Trump in 2024 and the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk in September.
&#8220;He&#8217;s just a vile creature, and the worst thing on the face of the earth, but anyway,&#8221; Pelosi said of Trump.
&#8220;You think he&#8217;s the worst thing on the face of the earth?&#8221; asked CNN journalist Elex Michaelson.
&#8220;I do, yeah,&#8221; Pelosi replied.
She defended her harsh words about Trump, arguing that he &#8220;does not honor the Constitution of the United States.&#8221;
&#8220;In fact, he&#8217;s turned the Supreme Court into a rogue court. He&#8217;s abolished the House of Representatives. He&#8217;s chilled the press,&#8221; Pelosi added. &#8220;He&#8217;s scared people who are in our country legally.&#8221;
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The 85-year-old congresswoman was not asked to explain how Trump has made the Supreme Court a &#8220;rogue court&#8221; or what she meant by arguing that the House of Representatives has been &#8220;abolished.&#8221; The CNN interview focused on California&#8217;s special election on Tuesday, when voters will cast their ballots on Proposition 50, which aims to redraw the state&#8217;s congressional maps to further favor Democrats.
Democrats are reportedly preparing for Pelosi to announce her retirement from Congress in the coming days. The 20-term congresswoman is expected to address her future plans after Tuesday&#8217;s election, NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-brace-nancy-pelosi-possible-retirement-rcna241336">reported</a>. Asked about her future political plans, Pelosi said she&#8217;s more concerned about getting the Democratic Party back in power and fighting the &#8220;poison of the Trump administration.&#8221;
&#8220;For me, it&#8217;s just a question about one thing: winning the House for the Democrats, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re doing with Proposition 50. It&#8217;s the first step,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And then we go from there to winning. And the only reason I&#8217;m in Congress this term is to win the House for the Democrats, to protect us from the poison of the Trump administration.&#8221;
Republicans have recently addressed the rise in political violence coming from the Left and have urged their Democratic colleagues to tone down their rhetoric on Trump and conservatives. During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week, committee chair Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) called out &#8220;left-wing extremism,&#8221; arguing that for the past 15 months, political violence “has been a constant fact of American life.”
Daily Wire host Michael Knowles <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-problem-lies-on-the-left-michael-knowles-brings-the-heat-to-senate-political-violence-hearing">testified</a> during the hearing and blasted Democrats for attempting to include those on the Right as main drivers of political violence.
&#8220;This seems to me confusing and misbegotten as one cannot solve a problem if one does not know where the problem lies,&#8221; Knowles said, adding, &#8220;In light of the murder of my friend Charlie Kirk by a leftist assassin, I am gratified to see that at least some members of our federal legislature are now confronting the consistent and escalating pattern of left-wing terrorism in the country.&#8221;
Pelosi has also been affected by political violence, when her husband, Paul, was attacked by a hammer-wielding man in 2022. The attacker, David DePape, <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-man-accused-of-attacking-paul-pelosi-with-a-hammer-says-he-wanted-to-end-corruption#:~:text=to%2Dend%2Dcorruption-,Man%20accused%20of%20attacking%20Paul%20Pelosi%20with%20a%20hammer%20testifies,the%20early%20hours%20of%20Oct.">espoused</a> right-wing conspiracy theories and testified that he wanted to interrogate Pelosi and get her to admit to corruption. President Trump called the attack on Paul Pelosi a &#8220;sad situation,&#8221; but also made light of the incident.
&#8220;Pelosi has a big wall wrapped around her house, but of course, it didn&#8217;t help too much with the problem she had, did it?&#8221; Trump said during a 2024 rally.

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Nancy Pelosi Calls Trump A ‘Vile Creature And The Worst Thing On The Face Of The Earth’

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We are watching a tremendous political radicalization take place in the United States.
That radicalization has been most obvious on the Left, but there is a concomitant movement that is happening on the Right.
That splinter movement on the Right is being massaged by some of the people who have some sway in the conservative movement, at least in the commentariat.
It’s important to point out how one leads to the other, because that is the pattern in American politics. Politics generally is incredibly reactionary. People tend not to respond reasonably to provocations that are unreasonable, and they tend to swivel into their own unreasonable positions, and the pendulum swings back and forth.
It is a rarity to find a moment of clarity and reasonableness in American politics, even if the people who constitute the vast majority of the American body politic are normies.
Americans want a strong national defense, but they don&#8217;t want tremendous interventionism. Americans want a traditional value system, but not one that has the government snooping in their bedrooms. Americans want a system of laws that makes sure that there is a basic level of social safety net, but they do not want the government taking tremendous amounts of money away from them and regulating their businesses out of existence. 
That’s what polls show every single time. America is a very politically normie country. A Center-Right country is where you would place America on the map, if you were creating a spectrum of countries from far-Right to far-Left. 
And yet our politics right now seem to be revolving around the polls.
The reason it is revolving around the polls is because the Democratic Party has increasingly made it clear that there is a population they do not like: white Christian males. That is the population that must be targeted. 
It wasn’t always this way inside the Democratic Party. If you go back just about 20 years to the John Edwards campaign in 2004, you’ll find a socialistic-leaning campaign in terms of its economic policies. But the Edwards campaign certainly didn&#8217;t suggest that white Christian males were somehow bad.  In fact, Edwards would openly campaign as a person who was apparently religious (Of course, in his personal life, it turned out the man had many, many foibles).
I was a very strong opponent of John Edwards. But the Democratic Party has moved dramatically on just who they are targeting. That’s the reality, and it&#8217;s coming out in so many ways. It’s clearly evident.
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It&#8217;s self-evident in everything from the Mamdani candidacy, which is oriented against white Christian males, to the mainstream politicians in the Democratic Party. For example, yesterday Nancy Pelosi was giving a speech at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, and she started talking about Republicans and Christianity. Hilariously, she broke into a southern accent while she was doing it. 
Nancy Pelosi has true scorn for traditional biblical values. She considers herself a Catholic, but the reality is she does not hold any values in common with Catholicism, most certainly not on the social side. She&#8217;s a radical advocate for abortion, transgenderism, and same-sex marriage, all of which the church decries. Thus, she mocked Republicans and their relationship with religion, saying: 
<blockquote>“You know, people of faith who go to church on Sunday and pray in church on Sunday and prey on people the rest of the week. What is this? What is this?”</blockquote>
The scorn Nancy Pelosi has for religious conservatives who go to church on Sunday and disagree with her on politics has led to a massive backlash. 
The same thing is true in terms of race. The entire Democratic Party swiveled in favor of DEI, which was the idea that America is a systemically evil country that benefits white people and that any racial disparities in outcome must be attributable to a system that benefits white people at the expense of black and brown people. 
That led to a response in terms of policy that essentially targeted and disadvantaged white people. It also targeted minorities who were too successful, like Jews and Asians. 
The basic idea was that meritocracy was a guise for power, meritocracy was a lie, and that actually meritocracy was a system that benefited white people at the expense of all others. 
The Democratic Party repeated this ad nauseam. This is what the entire Black Lives Matter movement was really about, obfuscating the relationship between actions and consequences in favor of the idea that all shortcomings in life had to be due to a white supremacist system, and, therefore, white people had to be punished by the system.
And that triggered an identity-based response from a lot of young white men, particularly. 
This is the language of the Democratic Party: people of color are being targeted by white people; Christians are predators. People who are white are the oppressors. 
That is the basic matrix through which democratic politics has been refracted in the United States. That means that the coalition for the Democratic Party has been minorities, young people, and, in particular, young liberal white women. 
Why young liberal white women? Because they&#8217;re not young white Christian men. This is not just anti-Christian and anti-white, it also tends toward the anti-male. 
There&#8217;s a reason the Democratic Party has been losing young males hand over fist. They decided to feminize their party by attacking men as part of this evil superstructure. 
The final sort of peculiar outgrowth of the anti-male movement, of course, was transgenderism, which was the idea that there is no such thing as manhood. 
There&#8217;s been an overt attack on masculinity from the Left for several decades at this point, that if you let men be men, that will end with a discriminatory society that puts women underfoot, that men have nothing to offer to women at all, that the best types of men are the men who leave their masculinity behind. 
When you say that Christianity is inherently anti-LGBTQ, that it&#8217;s just a guise for discrimination. When you say that churches are bad, and when you say that white people are the cause of a white supremacist system, and that any disparate outcome is just evidence of innate white supremacy and innate white racism; when you say that maleness is driving America into the gutter and that we need to wipe away male supremacy even as males begin to underperform in college and commit suicide at higher and higher rates as they fall into depths of despair, you end up provoking a response.
And when you provoke responses, many of them tend to be untethered. Add on top of that the anti-Christian, anti-white, anti-male agenda that the Left has increasingly pushed. Also, add to that a pro-censorship agenda. That’s the idea that if you speak out against this stuff, you&#8217;re outside the Overton window, you’re at risk of being kicked out of every public space, kicked off of every public space for the great sin of saying that men are not women, or that the system is not white supremacist, and that maybe certain people are underperforming because they&#8217;re making bad decisions in their life.
The Democratic Party wants a restricted informational sphere so as to ensure that their way of viewing the world is the way that the world is viewed by everyone.
And then they added one more thing on top of that: an extraordinary amount of gaslighting.
If they say, “DEI is great and we should absolutely advantage people on the basis of their sex and their race,” and you then say, ”Maybe they&#8217;re not qualified,” they call you a racist. That&#8217;s the gaslighting. They say something. You repeat it back to them, and then they tell you the thing you&#8217;re saying is actually racist or bad. That sort of gaslighting is just typical now of an extraordinary part of the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party&#8217;s been playing with these forces for so long, it&#8217;s now too late for them to dissociate from those forces.
And all of it scares the hell out of a lot of Americans.
And it should because it is indeed radical stuff.
But as the Left has moved further to the left and embraced further radicalism as that has happened, you&#8217;ve seen an identitarian movement arise on the Right. 
If someone is opposed to Christianity and Christians because they&#8217;re “bad” and “terrible,” the normal response is to live Biblically, because the best disproof of that sort of slander is to live a Biblical lifestyle. Go to church; be good to your family; be good to your community; take care of people. The best response is to live well as a Christian. That is indeed the response of most Americans. 
When I was growing up, the response to the claim that America was a white supremacist country was to counter that America was a meritocracy. And meritocracy is good because meritocracy benefits everybody. That would be the normal response. 
The normal response to censorship is the Constitution. You want to censor? You can&#8217;t actually censor what I have to say, thanks to the government. 
Does that mean there aren&#8217;t social consequences for particularly egregious views? Of course not. That&#8217;s called normal life. You don&#8217;t have over the homeless schizophrenic for dinner who is screaming about the moon. You don’t invite the neo-Nazi who lives down the street over to have a nice chat with your kids, because those are views you don&#8217;t want in your home. 
That’s normal. That&#8217;s not cancellation. It&#8217;s not censorship. Censorship is a different thing. That is the normal response to being gaslit by people who are lying to you.
But in politics, the normal response is to smile very often. And people get frustrated. And because people are frustrated, what they tend to do is respond in kind. And this is how you end up with a horseshoe theory.
So if the Left says that white Christian males are the problem, the response winds up being that systems should only benefit white Christian males, not meritocracy. Meritocracy goes by the wayside because, after all, somebody has to win and somebody has to lose.
Thus, you&#8217;ve seen the rise of white identitarian politics. This is a fragment of the Right, not nearly the whole Right. It is not the mainstream on the Right. It is gaining increased traction on the Right, thanks to the apparent total inability of anybody on the Right to speak morally on these issues in a serious way.
Instead, there has been the attempt to massage this burgeoning feeling into a normality or legitimacy, the idea that if the Left is going to practice gaslighting and dishonesty, we too should practice gaslighting and dishonesty, that it doesn&#8217;t matter what we say as long as we achieve victory. Power is the only thing, and thus, calling other people out is now considered a form of censorship.
Criticizing a view is considered a form of censorship, which, of course, is really stupid. Criticism is not censorship. Stopping criticism, in fact, is a form of censorship. But the idea is that as long as you are on “my side,” it doesn&#8217;t matter what predations and idiocies you are spouting, as long as you are on “my side.”
Now the question becomes, what is “my side”? If I&#8217;m a person who responds with traditional Americanism to the idiocies, excesses and evils of the Left, with Biblical values, meritocracy and the Constitution, and if you say instead what we should respond with is a sort of pagan dishonesty, a DEI for white Christian males, discarding the Constitution in favor of a bizarre feeling of authoritarian tyranny, and I say, “You&#8217;re not on my side, clearly, we disagree about all the key issues,” then I get accused of “breaking the unity against the Left.”
But here&#8217;s the problem. If you agree with the Left by adopting this kind of identitarian politics, you just want a different class of people to benefit. How does that align with what most Americans want, and what that conservatism has historically stood for?
Unfortunately, this is the nature of our politics: reactionary politics.
The answer to the problem is to have a normie revolution, where people speak out in normal ways about the things that most Americans want, 80-20 issues. The vast majority of Americans believe in freedom of religion. The vast majority of Americans, even if they themselves do not go to church, believe that going to church is a generally good thing. The vast majority of Americans do not believe in governmental censorship, but they do believe in a certain sort of social standard whereby bizarre, outlandish, and evil views don&#8217;t necessarily receive a place at your dinner table.
Most Americans are very much in favor of meritocracy because that is a path forward for the entire civilization, and in fact, a path forward for those who work hard.
But if no one is going to articulate those principles, what you will end up with is a debate between the worst of the excesses on all sides, and people will just keep ping-ponging off each other. The pendulum will keep swinging wildly from side to side, and at no point will that 80% in the middle ever be receiving what they are asking for, which is just normality.
Americans have been begging for normality for at least 25 years in this country, begging for some semblance of a basic, normal life, and it&#8217;s not being given to them. 
If we keep going down this path, if we keep radicalizing and counter-radicalizing and radicalizing and counter-radicalizing, the middle won’t survive in America. 
And at that point, the things that I think most Americans care about, the things that I care about, the Constitution and meritocracy and freedom of religion and checks and balances of power and freedom of markets, all those things will go by the wayside because when the radicals predominate, it&#8217;s the normies who lose. 
At some point, the normies are going to have to stand up and say no.
Cooler heads and wiser heads are going to have to prevail.
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California State Senator Scott Wiener, who last week announced his campaign to replace former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has such a controversial legislative record, even the New York Times is taking notice.
A recent New York Times Magazine <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/magazine/sex-trafficking-girls-la-figueroa.html">report</a> on Los Angeles&#8217; underage sex trafficking epidemic attributed the problem in large part to a law that barred police officers from detaining loitering women they suspected were minors being sex trafficked. Under “Safer Streets for All Act,&#8221; officers have to “swear they had a reason to suspect each girl was underage&#8221; before detaining one of the lingerie-clad women lingering on Figueroa Street, which officers say is made because of difficult because of “fake eyelashes and wigs.”
Wiener was one of the main advocates of that bill, which he said would improve racial equity in Los Angeles. 
“Our bill to repeal the crime of “loitering with intent to commit prostitution” — arresting someone simply for standing on a sidewalk &amp; “appearing” to be a sex worker — passed the Senate,” Wiener wrote on X in June 2021. “This crime targets trans, Black &amp; Brown women &amp; needs to go. Thank you, colleagues!”
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In response to a Daily Wire inquiry about the New York Times report, California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office said that a recent bill signed this year could help mitigate some of the issues referenced in the story, and called human trafficking “an evil and egregious crime.”
“The Governor signed AB 379 this summer, which will allow police to detain individuals suspected of seeking to purchase sex, and help clear out some of the areas discussed in the article. This new law also provides additional tools to local law enforcement to better hold these criminals performing these heinous crimes accountable,” a Newsom spokesman said in a statement.
Assembly Bill 379, which Newsom signed earlier this year, makes it a misdemeanor &#8220;for any person to loiter in any public place with the intent to purchase commercial sex.&#8221; RedState<a href="https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2025/10/28/in-a-random-act-of-journalism-new-york-times-exposes-las-corridor-of-human-trafficking-n2195553#google_vignette"> reported</a> that the Los Angeles Police Department had its hands tied prior to the SB 357, as former District Attorney George Gascón had a directive that prevented people from being arrested or charged for &#8220;loitering to commit prostitution.&#8221;
“The reality is — the federal agency that is supposed to combat trafficking is ICE. Maybe Trump and Miller should do their job rather than targeting and terrorizing black and brown American citizens at random on the street,” the statement from Newsom&#8217;s office continued.
Pelosi says she will make <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/22/pelosi-to-announce-plans-after-california-election-in-november-00618093?nid=00000150-384f-da43-aff2-bf7fd35a0000&amp;nname=california-playbook&amp;nrid=e020d956-2db5-4585-996e-4267fbfeb333">announcement</a> regarding her political future in November, after California votes on a major redistricting initiative. It’s unclear whether Wiener’s announcement will set off a major primary battle should Pelosi opt to retire. Pelosi reportedly favors San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan as her successor.
Wiener’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

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The Department of Justice warned multiple top Democratic California politicians, including Gov. Gavin Newsom and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, of potential charges on Thursday, after Pelosi suggested that federal immigration agents could be arrested by state and local police.
Earlier this week, Pelosi, along with Democratic Rep. Kevin Mullin, <a href="https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-mullin-statement-reports-planned-federal-immigration-operation-bay-area">threatened</a> that ICE agents could be detained as President Donald Trump considered a major immigration operation in San Francisco. In response, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche sent a letter to Newsom, Pelosi, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, and San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, urging them to &#8220;abandon this apparent criminal conspiracy.&#8221;
&#8220;The Department of Justice views any arrests of federal agents and officers in the performance of their official duties as both illegal and futile,&#8221; Blanche wrote. The deputy attorney general then cited multiple federal laws that prohibit interfering with federal law enforcement operations.
The California Democrats addressed in the letter were told to &#8220;preserve all written and electronic communications and records related to any attempts to or efforts to impede or obstruct federal law enforcement officials.&#8221;
&#8220;We urge you and other California officials to publicly abandon this apparent criminal conspiracy, to stop threatening law enforcement, and to prioritize the safety of your citizens,&#8221; Blanche added. &#8220;In the meantime, federal agents and officers will continue to enforce federal law and will not be deterred by the threat of arrest by California authorities who have abdicated their duty to protect their constituents.&#8221;
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California politicians want to arrest federal agents for enforcing federal law. 
We just sent them a letter: Stand down or face prosecution. 
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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi <a href="https://x.com/JesseBWatters/status/1981528588516987011">told</a> Fox News host Jesse Watters Thursday night that if Democratic officials are telling state and local police to arrest ICE officers, they will face charges.
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&#8220;If they think I won’t [charge them], they have not met me,&#8221; Bondi added. &#8220;Because we will charge them if they are violating the law. We will protect our federal agents.&#8221;
Pelosi and Mullin, who both represent parts of the Bay Area, wrote in a <a href="https://pelosi.house.gov/news/press-releases/pelosi-mullin-statement-reports-planned-federal-immigration-operation-bay-area">press release</a> on Wednesday that California law &#8220;prevents federal agents from taking certain actions.&#8221; The Democratic lawmakers added, &#8220;Our state and local authorities may arrest federal agents if they break California law — and if they are convicted, the President cannot pardon them.&#8221;
California Democrats have also moved to make ICE agents show their faces while on the job. Late last month, Newsom signed a bill into law that bans ICE agents from wearing masks during arrests. The bill was signed as federal immigration agents face a massive increase in attacks on them, including shootings and car rammings. ICE sources told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nice-try-gavin-newsom-cant-stop-ice-agents-from-wearing-masks-sources-say">The Daily Wire</a> that the new California law would not apply to the federal officers, and U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli told “Fox &amp; Friends” that California “does not and cannot have jurisdiction” over the federal agents.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-target-san-francisco-with-immigration-raids">announced</a> on Monday that the Trump administration would soon target San Francisco as part of its crackdown on crime and illegal immigrants. However, after Trump said some of his friends in San Francisco urged him to hold off on the federal law enforcement &#8220;surge,&#8221; the president had a phone call with Democratic San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and decided to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-off-deployment-of-federal-agents-to-san-francisco">hold off</a> on the operation.
“The Federal Government was preparing to ‘surge’ San Francisco, California, on Saturday, but friends of mine who live in the area called last night to ask me not to go forward with the surge in that the Mayor, Daniel Lurie, was making substantial progress,” Trump <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1981406531926315028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">wrote</a> on Truth Social Thursday. “I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he asked, very nicely, that I give him a chance to see if he can turn it around. I told him I think he is making a mistake, because we can do it much faster, and remove the criminals that the Law does not permit him to remove.”
Jennie Taer contributed to this report.

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As speculation mounts that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will soon announce her retirement, one California lawmaker is wasting no time entering the succession race.
California State Senator Scott Wiener announced his candidacy Wednesday, hours after <a href="https://www.politico.com/playbook" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Politico</a> reported that Pelosi may announce her retirement soon after California votes on a controversial redistricting proposal. Wiener, who’s considered one of the most outspoken leftist members of the California State Legislature, did not name Pelosi in his campaign launch video.
“My family escaped fascism in Europe. I never thought the United States would slip into fascism like we’re seeing today,” Wiener said. “San Francisco has always been on the right side of history.”
“Join me now, before everything we believe in is lost for good,” he continued.
Wiener’s bid comes as Democrats continue to debate the concept of letting younger candidates pave the way for the party. Numerous reports surfaced earlier this year about whether Pelosi would run again. Pelosi, who is 85 years old, has been in Congress since 1987. Wiener is 55.
Some of the major campaign points on Wiener&#8217;s campaign website include LGBT issues and countering the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
“He authored the nation’s first LGBTQ refuge law, and expanded privacy protections to prevent harassment and targeting against transgender and nonbinary people. As Senate Budget Chair, he secured $15 million in state funds to cover gender affirming healthcare that Trump is attempting to cut from Medicaid,” his <a href="https://www.scottwiener.com/priorities" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> states, as Wiener’s campaign logo also features a pride flag.
“When masked agents began disappearing people off the street in San Francisco, he passed first of its kind legislation to unmask them. In Congress, he will lead the charge to protect our immigrant neighbors and get ICE OUT OF CALIFORNIA!!!,” Wiener’s site says about immigration.
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The anti-masking ICE bill was signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) in September and will take effect in January. However, the legislation has raised questions about how it could be legally enforced, given that it pertains to federal officers.
“Good news for Americans and public safety: [ICE] and [DHS] law enforcement are part of the federal government,” Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in September after the bill was signed. “We don’t need to abide by this garbage.”
It’s unclear whether Wiener&#8217;s announcement will set off a major primary battle should Pelosi opt to retire. San Francisco has made national headlines in recent days as President Donald Trump considers deploying the National Guard to the city, which state leaders have said will be met with lawsuits. Earlier this week, DHS Assistant Secretary Kristi Noem announced that the city will be a focus of the administration’s ICE efforts.
“We continue to have targeted operations in many, many cities, but also very focused on those where challenges are still remaining, such as Portland, Chicago, we’re in Memphis as well, we’re going to San Francisco at the direction of the president as well,” Noem said, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-target-san-francisco-with-immigration-raids" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire</a> reported.

Pro Trans Leftist Launches Bid For Pelosi’s Seat Before She Has A Chance To Announce Retirement

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) lost her cool on Wednesday when a reporter asked her if a new Republican-led committee would find her “liable” for her actions leading up to the January 6 riot. 
“Why did you refuse the National Guard on January 6?” LindellTV reporter Alison Steinberg asked Pelosi as she walked outside the Capitol with one hand gripping the arm of a staffer. LindellTV is a network founded by MyPillow CEO and Trump supporter Mike Lindell. 
“Shut up,” Pelosi <a href="https://x.com/RealLindellTV/status/1978498747647881514">said</a>. “I did not refuse the National Guard, the president didn’t send it. Why are you coming here with your Republican talking points as if you’re a serious journalist?”
“The American people want to know. We still have questions. Thank you,” Steinberg replied. 
The question of who was responsible for delaying the National Guard’s deployment on January 6 has long divided Republicans and Democrats.
A Republican House <a href="https://cha.house.gov/2022/12/gop-16-appointees-release-report-capitol-security-failure">report</a> released in December 2022 found that the National Guard was not deployed earlier on January 6 because of  “widespread concern from Democrat leadership over &#8216;optics&#8217; in the aftermath of summer 2020 ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests.”
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Later, footage taken by Alexandra Pelosi for an HBO documentary released by the House Republicans appeared to show Pelosi taking responsibility for the chaotic law enforcement response to January 6. 
“You’re gonna ask me in the middle of the thing, when they’ve already breached the inaugural stuff, ‘Should we call the Capitol Police?’? I mean the National Guard. Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with?” Pelosi said in the footage. 
A staffer replied, saying the National Guard thought they had “sufficient resources.” 
“It’s not a question of how they had … they don’t know! They clearly didn’t know, and I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more,” Pelosi said. 
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🚨 Since January 6, 2021, Nancy Pelosi spent 3+ years and nearly $20 million creating a narrative to blame Donald Trump.
NEW FOOTAGE shows on January 6, Pelosi ADMITTED:
&#8220;I take responsibility.&#8221;
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“As Nancy Pelosi was being evacuated from the Capitol on January 6, 2021, she admitted that, as Speaker of the House, she was responsible for the security failures, and for not having the National Guard at the Capitol,” Rep Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) said at the time. 
For her part, Pelosi has <a href="https://x.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1954950985245225201">blamed</a> President Donald Trump for the delayed activation of the National Guard, while former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund has said that it was Pelosi’s Sergeant at Arms who denied repeated requests for more help in the days leading up to January 6.

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