A brutal new campaign from California GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton launching on Wednesday takes direct aim at Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom’s push to further gerrymander the Golden State’s congressional maps. 
The statewide digital ad, first shared with The Daily Wire, highlights Newsom’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gavin-tough-guy-newsom-threatens-gop-were-gonna-punch-these-sons-of-bitces-in-the-mouth">recent comments</a> about punching Republican &#8220;sons-of-bitches&#8221; in the mouth and urges California voters to vote against Proposition 50. Prop 50 would skew election maps further in favor of California Democrats and would shrink the Republican delegation to Congress if passed in November. 
Hilton says that instead of cracking down on his state’s crime and homelessness problems, Newsom is focusing on pushing a political agenda to set up his own presidential aspirations. 
“We&#8217;ve got to defeat this totally outrageous scheme by Gavin Newsom to rig our elections here in California,” he told The Daily Wire. “It&#8217;s a direct assault on democracy, by Gavin Newsom, who lectures us endlessly about democracy. This guy&#8217;s a total joke. He&#8217;s a total failure, the most useless governor in America.”
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The ad features a loop of Newsom saying that he was “going to punch these sons-of-bitches in the mouth” when discussing redistricting efforts in Texas. 
“Why is Gavin Newsom so angry? He’s not angry about the addiction and despair. He’s not angry about crime and chaos in our cities or the neighborhoods burned on his watch. He’s not angry about our crushing cost of living. Newsom is angry because he will never be president with his record of failure,” Hilton says in the ad. “Gavin Newsom wrecked our state. Now he wants to make it worse.” 
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Newsom has <a href="https://x.com/GovPressOffice/status/1955411757540970603">billed</a> the maps as a way to “end the Trump presidency” and followed Texas&#8217;s move to draw maps more favorable to Republicans. 
Hilton said that, currently, California Republicans hold only 17% of the state&#8217;s congressional seats, though roughly 40% of the populace votes Republican. The new maps would reduce Republican representation to about 6% of the seats. He said it would take, on average, about 193,000 votes to elect a Democrat, while it would take 1.5 million to elect a Republican.
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The maps have already been approved by the Democratic supermajority in California and will appear on the November 4 ballot in California. It will only require a majority to pass. 
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Hilton has also filed a lawsuit to block Prop 50, but says he has been given a court date after the election. The author and former TV host said that Democrat lawmakers in California believed that they could do whatever they wanted to. 
“They&#8217;re just arrogant beyond belief. They assume that they&#8217;ll never be held accountable, but they can do whatever they want. It&#8217;s the behavior of an authoritarian, arrogant, ruling elite,” he said.

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GOP Candidate’s New Campaign Targets Newsom’s ‘Outrageous Scheme’ To Rig California’s Elections

New Campaign Targets Newsom's 'Outrageous Scheme' To California's Elections

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Missouri Republicans sent a new congressional district map to the desk of Governor Mike Kehoe on Friday.
The map is expected to create one more Republican-favored congressional district in the deep red state. The Senate passed the map 21-11 on Friday after the House passed the same map earlier in the week. President Donald Trump praised Missouri lawmakers for passing the map.
“Thank you very much to the Great State of Missouri for the redistricting, which will, hopefully, give us an additional Seat in Congress! A new, much fairer, and much improved, Congressional Map, has now overwhelmingly passed both Chambers of the Missouri Legislature,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
Trump added that the map “will help send an additional MAGA Republican to Congress in the 2026 Midterm Elections. It is wonderful to see Republicans in the &#8216;Show Me State&#8217; standing up to Save our Country, and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.”
The map is expected to yield a 7-1 congressional seat advantage for Republicans as opposed to the current 6-2 map.
Senator Nick Schroer, a Republican and member of the state’s conservative Freedom Caucus, told The Daily Wire that Republicans previously created a special carve-out district for Kansas City area Democrat Rep. Emanuel Cleaver last time the maps were passed. The new maps will not split St. Charles County or Warren County like the current map does.
“So by way of keeping these counties back together, creating a map that is compact and contiguous, in essence, it&#8217;s making that seat more competitive,” Schroer told The Daily Wire.
While Democrats accused Trump of meddling in the state’s politics, Republican lawmakers praised him for his advocacy for new maps in the state.
“To that point, this has been absolutely refreshing to have a president that is so involved and communicates so well to state legislatures,” Rep. Holly Jones told The Daily Wire. “That has been amazing that the administration wants to work with us so closely.”
That sentiment was echoed by Rep. Justin Sparks.
“Having a presidential administration recognize that in order to get his mandate and his agenda passed that he has to work with the state legislatures to get that accomplished has been refreshing and very effective, and we&#8217;ve been very happy to help,” Sparks told The Daily Wire.
Texas passed new maps earlier this year that are expected to create five more Republican-favored seats.

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Missouri Republicans Pass Map To Send ‘Additional MAGA Republican To Congress’

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(Reuters) -Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday signed into law a bill to redraw the state&#8217;s congressional maps at the behest of President Donald Trump in an effort to flip five U.S. House seats held by Democrats to Republicans.
The ratification came after the state&#8217;s legislature passed the measure last week amid a nationwide redistricting battle.
&#8220;Texas is now more red in the United States Congress,&#8221; Abbott said in a video post on social media, after signing the bill with a marker.
Republicans have acknowledged they believe winning more congressional seats in Texas will help the party maintain its slim majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in next year&#8217;s midterm elections. More states controlled by Republicans are considering similar action.
California and other states where Democrats hold power vow to counter such moves. The California legislature approved a redistricting plan last week aimed at giving Democrats five more congressional seats.
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The California plan must be approved by voters in November. The Texas plan does not need voter approval, but it has been challenged in court.
The Texas bill was delayed for two weeks after more than 50 Democratic state House members staged a walkout that denied Republicans the legislative quorum needed.
Democrats argued that the new Texas map violates federal law by diluting Hispanic and Black voting power and discriminating on the basis of race.
Texas Republicans who sponsored the bill said they redrew maps based on voting history, not race.
Most Americans believe redrawing congressional lines for the sake of maximizing political gain, known as gerrymandering, is bad for democracy, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found this week.
(Reporting By Andrew Hay; editing by Diane Craft)

U.S. HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. holds a press conference with Texas Governor Abbott, in Austin

Texas Governor Greg Abbott Signs Law To Secure New Congressional Maps

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Texas

California Republican legislators and citizens filed a petition with the state Supreme Court on Monday to block Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom’s effort to redistrict the state.
On August 14, Newsom and fellow California Democrats announced plans to introduce a legislative package for a state constitutional amendment that would permit the legislature to redraw the boundaries of California’s congressional districts. They introduced the legislation on August 18, four days later.
The <a href="https://www.dhillonlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/FileStampedCopy-3.pdf">petition</a>, filed by the Dhillon Law Group, states that the rushed move by Newsom broke the standards agreed upon by the state, which handed the redistricting process over to an independent commission. It&#8217;s asking the Supreme Court to step in on behalf of citizens to stop the rogue redistricting attempt, which was undertaken as a direct response to actions by Texas Republicans.
“The people of California enshrined in their constitution fundamental rules by which they would have the redistricting power undertaken in this state. The work of redistricting as well as the power that goes with it were intentionally taken away from the partisan California Legislature and given to an independent citizens redistricting commission; barring a court order, the inherent tumult of the redistricting process could only occur once per decade; to protect their rights the redistricting process would involve extensive public engagement and the people expressly prohibited partisan gerrymandering.&#8221;
Commenting on the effort by California Democrats in two Assembly bills and a Senate bill to redraw the boundaries of the state’s congressional districts, the petition noted that the effort violated the aforementioned restrictions and also was rammed through the legislature in four days, which violated the state constitution’s requirement for 30 days’ public notice of new legislation.
The petition also noted that the measure the Democrats would present to the voters “violates the single subject rule by illegally calling for voters to approve two separate questions on two separate subjects based on two different legal authorities and representing conflicting policy choices.”
Those questions would be proposing “petitioning Congress to institute independent citizens redistricting commissions nationwide to draw voting district maps” as well as proposing “discarding maps created by California’s independent citizen’s redistricting commission to implement legislation and maps developed in secret by unknow members of the legislature.”
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“Days ago, the California Legislature rushed through hundreds of pages of redistricting changes in just four days, an unconstitutional scheme that rips power away from the independent Citizens Redistricting Commission and hands it back to politicians,” Mike Columbo of the Dhillon Law Group stated. “The Constitution requires redistricting be done by the Commission with transparency and public participation, and only once per decade. They broke all of those rules, and that is why we’ve gone to the Supreme Court today.”
State Senator Tony Strickland, a Republican, called Newsom’s plan “a shining example of why the people took back redistricting in the first place,” adding, “We created the Citizens Commission to stop backroom deals. Instead, Sacramento is forcing Californians into a predetermined election with no transparency, no hearings, and no public input. That’s not democracy — that’s authoritarianism, and I’ll fight it every step of the way.”
Republican Assemblyman Tri Ta declared: “I fled a country that never had free elections to come here for freedom. What happened last week on the Assembly floor was outrageous and a complete violation of the California Constitution. And now, on top of that, we are being forced to spend more than $200 million on a special election when Californians are asking for relief on affordability, crime, and homelessness.”
The petition requests that the Court act no later than September 8.
The Dhillon Law Group was founded by Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice. She left the firm earlier this year to avoid conflicts of interest following her appointment.

Gavin Newsom’s Redistricting Push Could Hit A Court Roadblock: ‘Complete Violation Of The Constitution’

CNN anchor Dana Bash brought in House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for a Sunday morning interview on &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; and he spent most of his time declaring President Donald Trump&#8217;s recent actions and policy positions to be racially motivated.
Jeffries was particularly concerned with Trump&#8217;s efforts to reframe a number of exhibits that are part of the Smithsonian Museums in the nation&#8217;s capital — exhibits that Trump said work overtime to paint the United States in a less than flattering light.
Jeffries claimed that Trump was &#8220;behaving like a racial arsonist&#8221; and attempting to whitewash America&#8217;s history with regard to slavery.
&#8220;It&#8217;s extraordinary that he would make such a historically ignorant statement,&#8221; Jeffries complained, adding, &#8220;The Smithsonian should continue to hold the line and make sure that this very painful part of American history is not erased.&#8221;
WATCH:
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House Democratic Leader <a href="https://twitter.com/hakeemjeffries?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@hakeemjeffries</a> reacts to Trump&#8217;s review of the Smithsonian museums: Donald Trump is &#8220;behaving like a racial arsonist. &#8221; <a href="https://t.co/vJcH32CSFQ">pic.twitter.com/vJcH32CSFQ</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1959617204892144005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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From The White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/08/president-trump-is-right-about-the-smithsonian/">website</a>:
<blockquote>The exhibits marked by the Trump administration as part of the problem were not the ones that directly addressed slavery — but rather those that attacked &#8220;white culture &#8220;The National Museum of African American History and Culture debuted a series to educate people on “a society that privileges white people and whiteness” — defining so-called “white dominant culture“ as “ways white people and their traditions, attitudes, and ways of life have been normalized over time” and portraying “the nuclear family,” “work ethic,” and “intellect” as white qualities rooted in racism.</blockquote>
Jeffries also pivoted to race when the discussion turned to the recent redistricting fight in Texas, blaming Trump — who supported the new map — and claiming that the Republican-driven map was also rooted in racism.
&#8220;This is a racial, partisan gerrymander ordered by Donald Trump as part of an effort to rig the midterm elections,&#8221; he claimed.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/hakeemjeffries?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HakeemJeffries</a> on what&#8217;s happening on Texas redistricting: &#8220;this is a racial, partisan gerrymander ordered by Donald Trump as part of an effort to rig the midterm elections.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/jG30xxrDKK">pic.twitter.com/jG30xxrDKK</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1959632824543449179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Hakeem Jeffries: Everything Trump Is Doing Is Racist

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The state of Texas is suing California over its plan to enforce new “green energy” car emission standards as the two states are locked in a battle over Congressional redistricting, The Daily Wire can first report.
The suit, which was filed in conjunction with America First Legal, argues that California’s attempt to set its own vehicle emission standards separately from federal law would result in material damage to other states like Texas and would effectively impose restrictions on the rest of the country.
President Donald Trump cancelled a waiver that California received, allowing it to create its own standards, but the state filed an appeal.
The lawsuit comes as Texas is locked in a fight with California over Congressional redistricting. The blue state has moved forward with a plan to hold a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thats-out-the-window-california-already-moving-to-retaliate-over-new-texas-congressional-map">ballot measure</a> allowing it to engage in its own Congressional redistricting in retaliation against Texas’ redistricting plan.
“I am standing with President Trump in his effort to stop Gavin Newsom and California from shoving its insane so-called ‘green energy’ vehicle standards down the Nation’s throat,” Attorney General Paxton charged. “Texas will not look the other way while the failed state of California undermines our sovereignty, attacks America’s energy independence, and intentionally adopts destructive policies that would harm the other States.”
“California’s crusade is not about innovation—it is about abusing the legal system to flout federal law and impose its radical agenda on all Americans,&#8221; Daniel Epstein, the Vice President of America First Legal, asserted. &#8220;America First Legal stands proudly with the State of Texas to defend competition, consumer choice, and the rule of law. We will not let Gavin Newsom remake America in California’s image.”
Texas contends that California’s policy would not only “undermine the sovereignty of Texas,” but would also “inflict substantial economic harm” on the state’s residents and industries.
“Texas’s interests in this matter are significant and protectable under law. If reinstated, the waivers at the center of this suit would effectively allow California to dictate national vehicle emission standards, undermining the sovereignty of Texas and other States,” the state of Texas argues in its lawsuit, viewed first by The Daily Wire.
“This would not only impair Texas’s authority to regulate within its own borders but would also inflict substantial economic harm by threatening vital revenue streams from oil and gas production, increasing costs for Texas’s vehicle fleet, and diminishing the economic well-being of its citizens,” the suit goes on to say.

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BREAKING: Texas Shoots Back At California With Lawsuit Amid Redistricting Fight

As of Thursday morning — less than 24 hours after Texas Republicans passed a new congressional map that could net them five additional seats — California legislators had already begun their retaliation.
The state&#8217;s new redistricting ballot measure legislation, updated Thursday morning, would allow any new map passed by California&#8217;s legislature to stand regardless of new maps passed by other states, according to a report from California Capitol Correspondent Ashley Zavala of KCRA News.
&#8220;California Democrats in Assembly this AM changed the state’s Redistricting ballot measure legislation, which basically now allows new Congressional maps to go into effect NO MATTER what other states do. Even if Texas backtracks or courts strike it down, CA would have new maps,&#8221; Zavala posted along with screenshots of the legislation in question.
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NEW: California Democrats in Assembly this AM changed the state’s Redistricting ballot measure legislation, which basically now allows new Congressional maps to go into effect NO MATTER what other states do.
Even if Texas backtracks or courts strike it down, CA would have new… <a href="https://t.co/eVJ5imy6S3">pic.twitter.com/eVJ5imy6S3</a>
— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZavalaA/status/1958586712864825636?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Zavala also noted that Governor Gavin Newsom had said only a month earlier that California would have &#8220;no need&#8221; to move ahead with a retaliatory map if Texas did not pass the new one as planned — but the new plan appeared to be to forge ahead even if the courts put an end to the Texas map.
&#8220;Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom told me if Texas didn’t move forward, California would have &#8216;no need&#8217; to change Congressional maps. Apparently, that’s out the window,&#8221; she posted, sharing video of Newsom&#8217;s previous statement.
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Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom told me if Texas didn’t move forward, California would have “no need” to change Congressional maps.
Apparently, that’s out the window. <a href="https://t.co/K5yGXjlxH7">https://t.co/K5yGXjlxH7</a> <a href="https://t.co/uRy2AWFCsT">pic.twitter.com/uRy2AWFCsT</a>
— Ashley Zavala (@ZavalaA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZavalaA/status/1958590948881178800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The Gavin Newsom Press Office account, which appears to exist primarily to troll President Donald Trump, followed with a declaration: &#8220;TODAY WE WILL MAKE THE MAPS GREAT AGAIN!&#8221;
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TODAY WE WILL MAKE THE MAPS GREAT AGAIN!
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@GovPressOffice) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovPressOffice/status/1958546900585722362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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If California follows through with threats to redraw congressional districts favoring Democrats even more than they already do, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/20/congressional-redistricting-states-midterms/">several other states</a> may also jump into the fray. Among them are: Missouri, Indiana, Ohio, and Florida. Even Illinois — a state that already redistricted Rep. Adam Kinzinger&#8217;s (R-IL) House seat out of existence — might also get involved.

California Governor Newsom Announces Lawsuit Challenging Trump Tariff Authority

‘That’s Out The Window’: California Already Moving To Retaliate Over New Texas Congressional Map

'That's Out The Window': California Already Moving To Retaliate Over New Texas Congressional Map

California Governor Gavin Newsom, who is running for the nomination for the Democratic Party in 2028, has a redistricting plan. He is all hot and bothered about the fact that the Texas state Legislature is going to redistrict, which they are allowed to do by all available and applicable law in the state.
They&#8217;re not supposed to do this in California, however. The state constitution states they can redistrict every ten years along with the census, and also that there is an independent commission that is supposed to administer the redistricting.
But now, Gavin Newsom has decided it&#8217;s his “moment.”
Of course, he believes that it’s always his moment.
That&#8217;s the thing about Gavin Newsom. He has never not had a moment just in the last few months.
We had the Gavin Newsom moment over the fires — where he somehow blamed President Trump for the giant fires taking place in his state.
There was the Gavin Newsom moment over illegal immigration, where he claimed that President Trump was trying to fascistically take over the state of California.
This is the third Gavin Newsom “moment” in the past six months. He is now claiming that he is going to redistrict the state of California in order to fight back against those evil Texas state legislators who are attempting to redistrict and put the state more in line with its actual political proclivities.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/gavin-newsom-lays-out-california-redistricting-plan-to-counter-texas-republicans-2213541b?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAhHMJjssnP4yKlAGDtMLdsK67Kh-4w4WlNlXnWz2boThdFrEA6g9NKmTrnE2OA%3D&amp;gaa_ts=689f8a6c&amp;gaa_sig=6avbAadfzVq9GQPZe4SL4jcFNpERHooNnZRk0432wEOqJGYw71pna7Ae941Yldl12cZD7l3Bzi8JAPT7ffrkqg%3D%3D">reported</a>: 
<blockquote>Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom laid out a plan Thursday to redraw the state’s congressional maps to put Democrats in position to flip five seats in the 2026 midterm elections. He called for a Nov. 4 special election to put the maps before California voters.</blockquote>
“We&#8217;ll be asking for the people, on November 4th, a special election, coinciding with a lot of local municipal elections, to provide a temporary pathway for congressional maps,” he <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dK7mf75YjY0">stated</a>.
“We will affirm our commitment to the state independent redistricting after the 2030 census, but we&#8217;re asking the voters for their consent to do mid-term redistricting in 2026, 2028 and 2030 for the congressional maps to respond to what&#8217;s happening in Texas, to respond to what Trump is trying to excite.”
<h3><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-2260-newsom-s-revenge-redistricting-plus-the-sandwich-throwing-resistance?elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowHeadline=The+Ben+Shapiro+Show&amp;rowType=Horizontal+Show+Episodes+Carousel">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h3>
You might be saying to yourself, “Wait, hold up. I thought that California was one of the states that has an independent redistricting commission in an attempt to prevent things such as what Gavin Newsom is doing right now.” They do. That&#8217;s true.
California does not have very many Republican seats in the first place. In fact, the state of California is split about 60-40 Democrats over Republican, but Democrats hold an extraordinary number of seats in the state of California.
Yet he wants to redistrict anyway. Why?
As a response to President Trump, Newsom suggested, “We have to fight fire with fire,” which is a bad metaphor for him to be using, considering his state is legitimately and literally on fire every couple of months, thanks to his forestation policies.
California currently has 52 congressional seats and 43 of them are held by Democrats. That&#8217;s a lot more than the percentage of the population of California that is actually Democrat. They&#8217;re going to fight “fire with fire” by doing more of what California has been doing all along.
Just to demonstrate, by the way, what a sham the Independent Redistricting Commission is in the state of California — because California is indeed highly gerrymandered — the independent redistricting commissioner, Sara Sadhwani, said the state should simply redraw the maps without any independent redistricting authority, which shows how independent she was in the first place.
Not that she’s a Democratic tool or something like that.
But there is a problem for the Democrats in California, and that is that the Californian voters are not particularly interested in doing any of this.
According to a new poll, by a 2 to 1 margin, voters prefer keeping an independent line-drawing panel to determine the state&#8217;s House seats. Only 36% of respondents favor turning congressional redistricting authority to state lawmakers.
So this is a problem for Gavin Newsom — if he cared.
He doesn’t. If he wants to take the California Democrats from 43 of 52 possible seats to 48 of 52 possible seats, and the California Constitution prevents him from doing it and the voters stop him, he can still say he tried his best. And that is the most important thing to him, because Gavin Newsom is interested in one thing and one thing only: running for president in 2028.
That’s why he continues to promote the lie that President Trump is going to run for an unconstitutional <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FxfsAarcdQE">third term</a> in 2028.
“I said in a moment, ‘Wake up, America, wake up. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. You will have a president who will be running for a third term. Mark my word. I wasn&#8217;t exaggerating when I said that I received in the mail a Trump 2028 hat from one of his biggest supporters. These guys are not screwing around. The rules do not apply to them. The most corrupt president in history.”
I think we need to send Gavin Newsom a Trump 2036 hat because obviously somebody sent him, as a joke, a Trump 2028 hat and he took it seriously.
Let&#8217;s go further than that. Let’s send him a Trump 2040 hat.
We need to make one and send it to Newsom because the dude cannot take a joke.
Maybe that’s because he is a joke.

California Governor Newsom Makes Announcement On Gerrymandering In Response To Trump’s Efforts In Texas

Newsom Can’t Take A Joke. This Is Why.

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George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley let loose on former Rep. Robert Francis &#8220;Beto&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke on Monday, predicting that his weekend rant on the Texas redistricting fight was likely to come back and bite him in the backside.
Turley said that O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s admonition to fellow Democrats — namely that it was time to say &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/f-the-rules-beto-goes-off-the-rails-says-dems-will-win-whatever-it-takes">f*** the rules</a>&#8221; and do whatever it takes to win — could be a liability when it came to an imminent court battle. O&#8217;Rourke is currently fighting a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-blocks-betos-attempt-to-funnel-cash-to-awol-texas-dems">temporary restraining order</a> issued pursuant to his efforts to funnel money to Texas legislators who disrupted a special session by breaking quorum and fleeing the state.
&#8220;Beto O&#8217;Rourke clearly believes that the combination of profanity and illegality is just the ticket for Democrats in 2026: &#8216;F**k the rules, we are going to win whatever it takes,'&#8221; Turley began in a thread posted to X. &#8220;After a ruling against him in court, he seems to have dispensed with democracy in favor of anarchy.&#8221;
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Beto O’Rourke clearly believes that the combination of profanity and illegality is just the ticket for Democrats in 2026: “F**k the rules, we are going to win whatever it takes.” After a ruling against him in court, he seems to have dispensed with democracy in favor of anarchy.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1954657694658297951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Turley gently reminded O&#8217;Rourke that the now-viral video of his comments was likely to make its way into the hands of opposing counsel — and that it could be used to bolster the assertion that he was intentionally funding lawlessness.
&#8220;As his lawyers appeal the ruling of the Texas judge over his group&#8217;s alleged funding of Democratic legislators who fled the state, his statement is likely to be highlighted in opposing briefs to show an utter disregard for the law and contempt for the judicial system,&#8221; Turley pointed out.
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&#8230;O&#8217;Rourke appears to follow the John McEnroe school of appealing adverse rulings. The problem is that O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s court tantrum will only undermine his case and his cause going forward. &#8220;F**k the rules&#8221; is hardly a compelling argument for most judges.
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1954660821440634946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;O&#8217;Rourke appears to follow the John McEnroe school of appealing adverse rulings,&#8221; Turley added. &#8220;The problem is that O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s court tantrum will only undermine his case and his cause going forward. &#8216;F**k the rules&#8217; is hardly a compelling argument for most judges.&#8221;
The former Texas Rep. called on Democrats in blue states to do whatever they could to manipulate congressional maps for maximum advantage, saying that if his party regained power, they would pull out all the stops to ram through as many radical policies as possible: &#8220;We&#8217;re gonna drive that car like we stole it.&#8221;

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‘Hardly A Compelling Argument’: Jonathan Turley Says Beto’s ‘F*** The Rules’ Rant Will Backfire

'Hardly A Compelling Argument': Jonathan Turley Says Beto's 'F*** The Rules' Rant Will Backfire

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Former Rep. Robert Francis &#8220;Beto&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke (D-TX) railed against Republicans and called on Democrats to &#8220;f*** the rules&#8221; and redraw congressional districts that would ensure Democrats will &#8220;win whatever it takes.&#8221;
O&#8217;Rourke, whose most recent political aspirations ended in failures, has been attempting to use his non profit group &#8220;Powered by People&#8221; to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-blocks-betos-attempt-to-funnel-cash-to-awol-texas-dems">slip money to Texas state Democrats</a> who fled the state, breaking quorum at a called special legislative session in order to stall the passage of new district map that could give Republicans as many as five more right-leaning seats.
Following a loss in court — where he was slapped with a restraining order preventing him from raising money for those purposes — O&#8217;Rourke continued to lash out against Republicans.
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In a deranged and profane rant, Chronic Loser Beto O&#8217;Rourke calls Republicans &#8220;fascists&#8221; and tells Democrat states to redraw their districts now.
&#8220;Fuck the rules, we are going to win whatever it takes.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/4ZF3sZJ2DL">pic.twitter.com/4ZF3sZJ2DL</a>
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1954307689741210096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We are not going to let him stop us, are you with me on that?&#8221; he began. &#8220;We don&#8217;t await the punch thrown by these would-be fascists to land. We punch first, and we punch harder. We want California and New Jersey and Illinois and every other state where the Democrats hold the governor&#8217;s mansion, the assembly, and the state senate to redraw their congressional districts now, not wait for Texas to move first, to maximize Democratic Party advantage.&#8221;
&#8220;Listen, you may say to yourself, &#8216;Those aren&#8217;t the rules,'&#8221; he added. &#8220;There are no refs in this game, f*** the rules, we are going to win whatever it takes. We&#8217;re going to take this to him in every way that we can.&#8221;
O&#8217;Rourke also let the mask slip during another part of his remarks, revealing what he believed Democrats should do if they ever did regain the power he was suggesting they pull out all the stops to obtain: &#8220;[We should] drive that car like we stole it.&#8221;
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Beto O&#8217;Rourke says when Democrats take back power, they&#8217;re going to &#8220;drive that car like we stole it&#8221; to give amnesty to illegal aliens.
O&#8217;Rourke: Illegal immigrants are &#8220;what makes this country so G**damned great in the first place.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/CYpN1JsQTi">pic.twitter.com/CYpN1JsQTi</a>
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href="https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1954308235093262778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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O&#8217;Rourke stated that once they had the power, Democrats should offer mass amnesty to illegals in the country, arguing that they were &#8220;what makes this country so G**damned great in the first place.&#8221;

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‘F*** The Rules!’: Beto Goes Off The Rails, Says Dems Will Win ‘Whatever It Takes’

'F*** The Rules!': Beto Goes Off The Rails, Says Dems Will Win 'Whatever It Takes'

A Texas judge has put a stop to former Rep. Beto O-Rourke&#8217;s (D-TX) attempt to funnel cash to the the fifty-odd state legislators who fled the state in an effort to stall the passage of a Republican-led redistricting plan.
Tarrant County District Judge Megan Fahey slapped O&#8217;Rourke with a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-blocks-beto-orourke-from-funding-texas-dems-who-fled-stop-gop-redistricting-vote">temporary restraining order</a> late on Friday, stating that funds raised by his non profit group could not be used to assist the Texas Democrats — who have been hiding out in blue states like Illinois and California since they fled the state — because they were in violation of the law as long as they remained absent from the special legislative session that had been called.
&#8220;Defendants have and will continue to engage in unlawful fundraising practices and utilization of political funds in a manner that either directly violates or causes Texas Democratic Legislators to violate [the law],&#8221; Fahey wrote. &#8220;Consumer have and continue to suffer irreparable harm through these unlawful acts because they are making political contributions that are being used to fund personal expenses and violate state law.&#8221;
O&#8217;Rourke, who failed in his most recent bids for elected office — an attempt to unseat Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and and attempt to earn the Democratic presidential nomination — was trying to use his group &#8220;Powered by People&#8221; to help the Democrats survive their self-imposed exile by funding their travel and lodging expenses in addition to the fines they&#8217;ve racked up for not remaining in Texas to do their jobs.
Fahey&#8217;s ruling was a response to Attorney General Ken Paxton&#8217;s (R-TX) filing earlier that day.
&#8220;BREAKING: I sued Robert Francis O&#8217;Rourke for &#8216;Beto Bribes&#8217; to Democrat runaways to impede the Texas Legislature. I will not allow failed political has-beens to buy off Texas elected officials. I’ll see you in court, Beto,&#8221; Paxton wrote.
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BREAKING: I sued Robert Francis O&#8217;Rourke for &#8220;Beto Bribes&#8221; to Democrat runaways to impede the Texas Legislature.
I will not allow failed political has-beens to buy off Texas elected officials. I’ll see you in court, Beto. <a href="https://t.co/hPvSZwwdfV">pic.twitter.com/hPvSZwwdfV</a>
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1953913485576003592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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O&#8217;Rourke responded to the ruling, claiming that Republicans in Texas were afraid of him because he and his organization were threats to their power.
&#8220;They want to make examples out of those who fight so that others won&#8217;t,&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke claimed. &#8220;Now Paxton’s filed a restraining order to try to take us out of the fight. He wants to silence me and stop me from leading this organization. He wants to stop us from fighting Trump’s attempt to steal the five congressional seats he needs to hang on to power. But I’m not going anywhere. I plan on speaking at our rally to stop the power grab in Fort Worth tomorrow afternoon.&#8221;
&#8220;Cry more, lib,&#8221; was Paxton&#8217;s reply. &#8220;You lost in court because you&#8217;re breaking the law and deceiving Texans. We absolutely will make an example out of law breakers.&#8221;
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Cry more, lib.
You lost in court because you&#8217;re breaking the law and deceiving Texans. We absolutely will make an example out of law breakers. <a href="https://t.co/zDc15Q4ghe">https://t.co/zDc15Q4ghe</a>
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) <a href="https://twitter.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1953961721644953981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Paxton has also launched in investigation into another group that has been aiding the AWOL Texas Democrats: Texas Majority PAC.

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Judge Blocks Beto’s Attempt To Funnel Cash To AWOL Texas Dems

Judge Blocks Beto's Attempt To Funnel Cash To AWOL Texas Dems

The FBI will help track down the Democratic state lawmakers who fled Texas in a bid to stop their state legislature from enacting a GOP redistricting plan, Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said on Thursday.
Cornyn made the announcement two days after sending a <a href="https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Letter-to-FBI-on-Texas-Legislators.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to FBI Director Kash Patel requesting that the bureau help Texas state law enforcement locate or arrest the Democrats after they potentially broke the law.
&#8220;I am proud to announce that Director Kash Patel has approved my request for the FBI to assist state and local law enforcement in locating runaway Texas House Democrats,&#8221; Cornyn said in a <a href="https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/fbi-grants-cornyn-request-to-hold-fleeing-texas-legislators-accountable/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. &#8220;I thank President Trump and Director Patel for supporting and swiftly acting on my call for the federal government to hold these supposed lawmakers accountable for fleeing Texas. We cannot allow these rogue legislators to avoid their constitutional responsibilities.&#8221;
An FBI spokesperson declined to comment when The Daily Wire reached out to the bureau.
President Donald Trump is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-gop-can-get-five-more-house-seats-redistricting-just-one-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushing</a> Texas and other states to redraw their congressional maps with the expectation that Republicans would gain seats. In retaliation, Democrats have rallied for mid-decade redistricting in blue states. Shifting lines could give either party an edge in the 2026 midterm elections.
Dozens of Democratic Texas state lawmakers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-dems-cant-win-redistricting-fight-so-they-bravely-turn-tail-and-flee-the-state" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went AWOL</a> over the weekend with a stated purpose of preventing the state legislature from passing a new redistricting plan that could lead to Republicans gaining as many as five seats in the U.S. House. They are doing so by denying the quorum needed to conduct business for a special session.
Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott has <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-orders-texas-department-of-public-safety-to-arrest-delinquent-house-democrats" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ordered</a> the arrest of the Democrats who have refused to return and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abbott-moves-to-oust-democrat-who-led-texas-walkout-stunt" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed</a> suit to remove Democrat House Caucus Chair Gene Wu from office after he led the walkout effort.
In his letter to Patel, Cornyn wrote, &#8220;Abbott and Texas state law enforcement officers are doing what they can within the confines of the law, but federal help may be necessary. These legislators have committed potential criminal acts in their rush to avoid their constitutional responsibilities and must be fully investigated and held accountable.&#8221;
Cornyn made the request for FBI support as he runs for another six-year term in the Senate. He is facing a primary challenge from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/5437325-texas-democrats-paxton/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> that he will begin removing the Democratic lawmakers from office if they do not meet a Friday deadline set by the state House speaker. Paxton also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/beto-orourkes-pac-bankrolls-texas-democrats-escape-from-redistricting-standoff" target="_blank" rel="noopener">launched</a> an investigation into a group led by Democrat Beto O&#8217;Rourke that is bankrolling the runaway Democrats.
Democrats have criticized the GOP&#8217;s reaction to what they argue is an effort to stop gerrymandering. That includes former Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX), who is also running in the 2026 Senate race against Cornyn and Paxton after losing to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in a 2024 contest.
&#8220;This isn&#8217;t about &#8216;locating&#8217; anyone — they&#8217;re not hiding,&#8221; Allred said in a <a href="https://x.com/ColinAllredTX/status/1953463307433545882" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on X in response to Cornyn&#8217;s announcement on Thursday. &#8220;It&#8217;s about silencing dissent and weaponizing law enforcement. Cornyn is deputizing the FBI and Paxton is trying to expel lawmakers because they&#8217;re both too weak and corrupt to stand up to Washington. Enough is enough — Texans deserve better.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-nationwide-redistricting-war-is-brewing-this-bill-seeks-to-stop-it" target="_blank" rel="noopener">RELATED: A Nationwide &#8216;Redistricting War&#8217; Is Brewing. This Bill Seeks To Stop It.</a>

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