It appears more and more Americans especially...

Editor's note: ...the people of California are starting to consider the Democratic Party as the party of crime and violence. Might explain why Tucker Carlson has had enough of this and the other criminal syndicate posing as "political parties" (see America's Greatest Threat Is Internal Division) stating he is going to help start a new political party. California continues to experience significant net domestic out-migration, with hundreds of thousands of residents leaving annually. The out-migration is driven primarily by the state's sky-high housing and cost of living, increasing taxes, and related quality-of-life pressures, resulting in billions in lost income and tax revenue. Decades of one-party Democratic criminal syndicate rule have turned the once-golden state of California under Governor White Teeth into a tale of disastrous progressive failure, with crushing taxes, punitive regulations, unaffordable housing, soft-on-crime experiments, and reckless spending driving out residents and businesses (see the case of Public Storage) while fostering homelessness, urban decay, and fiscal mismanagement that now threaten the state's future.
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Alexis Podesta wore FBI wire in investigation of Newsom's former chief of staff

By Josh Koehn | July 3, 2026

The FBI had a mole inside Gov. Gavin Newsom's political orbit before the agency's corruption probe expanded into the governor and his wife, The Post has learned.

Democrat insider Alexis Podesta, 45, secretly recorded conversations during the criminal probe into Newsom's then-chief of staff, Dana Williamson, 53, who pleaded guilty to federal fraud and tax charges in May, according to Williamson's attorney.

The revelation she was wearing a wire as far back as June 2024 explains why a swath of Sacramento political insiders and lobbyists were stunned to receive FBI letters last fall informing them that their phone calls had been intercepted during the investigation — despite many having little or no connection to Williamson.

"Alexis wore a wire, and Dana did not," said McGregor Scott, Williamson's lawyer and a former US attorney for the Eastern District of California, which is now investigating the Newsoms.

The disclosure comes as Newsom announced last month that he and his wife — whose nonprofit has been burning through money in recent years — as well as members of the governor's inner circle are under federal investigation.

Within hours of that announcement, Newsom blasted out an email to raise money for political action committee.

Assemblymember Josh Hoover (R-Folsom) told The Post he was among those who received one of the letters even though he had never spoken with either Williamson or Podesta.

"A lot of people received letters essentially informing us that there were certain periods of time where the FBI was given access to follow phone calls," Hoover said.

"I don’t know how these investigations work, but it sounds like they cast a pretty broad net across the Capitol community to see what they could find."

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Editor's note: If anyone is wondering, Silicon Valley functions as a gilded castle with a deep moat, largely insulated from the broader dysfunction gripping the rest of California. Its unparalleled innovation ecosystem, anchored by Stanford, elite talent pipelines funneled into the CIA, venture capital dominance, and network effects, generates trillions in global value for a handful of tech giants that can absorb (or offshore) the state's punishing taxes, housing costs, regulations, and quality-of-life failures. While the rest of California suffers chronic out-migration, homelessness, crime, and middle-class erosion under decades of progressive highly destructive governance, Silicon Valley's winners enjoy enormous salaries, private shuttles, lobbying power, and the ability to hire globally or relocate operations, creating a self-reinforcing bubble disconnected from Sacramento's destructive policy decisions and their consequences:

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Here is Governor White Teeth's fellow traveler in Illinois (why do oligarchs prefer communism and socialism?):

Billionaire Governor Pritzker Embraces Socialist Candidates As The Future Of The Democrat Party