This past week was a busy one for the committee and club. Thursday Night Market Place ended its season with a surprise Signs of Fascism march through the grounds of the event (Court House Plaza) and ended with a Bridge Brigade on Friday.

Why America’s Violence Against Immigrants Isn’t About Immigration

Every raid, every body slammed to the pavement, is a public ritual meant to teach us obedience. The goal isn’t enforcement — it’s submission…

Thom Hartmann

Oct 13, 2025

For the Trump regime, the brutality is the point. It’s the means to the end of a violent, single-party state that they’re openly proclaiming, even though our media insists on turning away from it.

Read Thom’s full article here.

“The signs in English and Spanish, paid for by Republican Assemblymember David Tangipa of Fresno, are one of the only clues in this region that California voters are hurtling toward a statewide special election next month. “

“Many of them don’t realize that in just a few weeks, they’ll be asked whether they want to temporarily change their districts — and for some, their representation in Congress — in a gerrymander that favors Democrats. And unlike in politically attuned coastal hubs like the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, traditional online, TV and mail campaign ads are rarely enough to get people to vote. Often they need an in-person push from a friend or family member.”

The term “Proposition 50” doesn’t ring a bell with many residents of the rural San Joaquin Valley. But even some of the most disengaged voters say they’re familiar with Gov. Gavin Newsom’s push to redraw California’s congressional maps in response to Texas. Read the full CalMatters story by clicking here.

KVPR-FM 89.3 paid us a visit recently at a recent Bridge Brigade event for a conversation on redistricting on their podcast. Click here to listen in (8:03).

In similar news, North Carolina Republicans are joining Texas GOP in gerrymandering efforts to “heed President Donald Trump’s mid-decade redistricting mandate in hopes of mitigating the risk of GOP losses in next year’s midterm elections.”

Texas registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by a 46 to 37% margin; Texas Republicans have 25 U.S. House seats compared to 12 seats for Democrats. It is quintessential gerrymandering – and quite undemocratic, thus unfair. It is why California decided over 15 years ago to form a commission to draw governing district lines instead of allowing the legislature to place a thumb on the scale in the fashion most red states do (Texas, et al).

Prop 50 is California’s response to red-state gerrymandering. Our choice is to sit by and unjustly lose elections or fight back. Of course, we’re fighting back. If Prop 50, is approved, that commission will remain intact upon completion of the 2030 Census.

Sadly, most Republican-held state legislatures will retain their right to draw their own lines to favor their electoral chances – where the minority retain rule over the majority – but those states are allowed to do what voters there want. It’s part of our democratic republic. There are, after all, no kings – just the U.S. Constitution.

Hanford, CA No Kings 10-18-25

We hit the ~400 mark.

Karla and her organizers have more than earned our thanks & praise to set this up, bringing so many Kings County communities together to enjoy what kinda turned out to be a big danged block party! Folks from everywhere, all ages, races, colors, gender – and we got to witness a fine & dandy redneck diesel truck coal-rolling display too (if anyone has video, please share)!

It was a lot of fun. Fresno had around 7,000 people. Visalia had around 3000 people. Something is happening.

Please check out the video link above and thanks for showing up. And don’t forget to vote!

Or check out Free Speech TV for their national coverage.

Happy Wednesday, Democrats, and a blessed Yom Kippur. Welcome back to our #TrumpCheck series, the LACDP’s weekly newsletter that holds the Trump administration accountable for its lies, deception, and self-serving actions.

Last week, we reported on what it meant for a potential government shutdown and the factors leading up to it. At 12:00 AM this morning, October 1, 2025, the federal government shut down.

Republicans are blaming Democrats, and Democrats are blaming Republicans. Finger-pointing isn’t unusual in national politics, but the lengths being taken today are a new level.

There is a lot of misinformation about what a government shutdown actually means for jobs, publicly-funded services, and the future of the US government. Today, we are here to debunk some of the fact versus fiction about what this government shutdown means for us all, and what MAGA has to gain from it.

In a post on X last night, Speaker Mike Johnson said that “Democrats have officially voted to CLOSE the government. Results: Moms and kids now lose WIC nutrition. Veterans lose health care and suicide prevention programs. FEMA has shortfalls during hurricane season.”

FACT: Trump’s legislative agenda and budget put women, children, veterans, and FEMA funding in harm’s way long before any government shutdown did.

According to the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research center, Trump’s budget bill cut fruit and vegetable food assistance for low-income women and children by nearly $1.4 billion. Cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) totaled $187 billion in funding cuts and have left millions of people without food assistance.

In terms of VA care, Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Ranking Member Richard Blumenthal said last week that Trump cuts are “cruel, reckless missteps [that] are threatening and degrading VA health care” [while the VA disseminates partisan finger-pointing at congressional Democrats as the cause for the shutdown].

As for FEMA, employees within the agency have been flagging the issues over budget cuts for months. In August, more than 180 current and former employees “published a letter warning that debilitating cuts to the agency charged with handling federal disaster response risks a catastrophe like the one seen after Hurricane Katrina.”

Trump cannot stop blaming the Democrats for the shutdown. A new White House webpage titled Democrats Betray Americans with Government Shutdown says that “Democrats have officially brought on a full-blown government shutdown — engineered by the Radical Left lunatics who control their party.”

FACT: In April 2011, Trump said of a government shutdown that, “I hear the Democrats are going to be blamed, and the Republicans are going to be blamed. I actually think the President would be to blame,” in an appearance on The Today Show.

He went on to describe that “If there is a shutdown, I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the President of the United States.”

It seems that, for once, Trump is right. The public seems to agree. New polling shows that Republicans are facing far more of the blame for the government shutdown than Democrats.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that “the Democrats refused to keep the government open over health care to illegal aliens and now have jeopardized critical health care programs for American citizens.” Speaker Johnson, VP Vance, and the Senate Republicans X account circulated information claiming the same thing, including boosting a White House page titled, Democrats Shut Down Government Over Free Healthcare for Illegals.

FACT: As explained by NBC, “Undocumented immigrants cannot sign up for Affordable Care Act coverage and are not eligible for Medicaid coverage. That is not legal now, and Democrats are not looking to change that.”

If the Democrats aren’t trying to create free healthcare for undocumented immigrants, then who really shut down the government?

Even when the government is shut down, we will continue our work organizing and fighting the MAGA regime.

Join us, Democrats. Voting is the #1 tool that Americans have against MAGA. The next step in standing up to the Trump administration is setting the record straight; correcting misinformation is a job for us all. If you had this email forwarded, you can sign up for the #TrumpCheck newsletter here.

Stay safe, stay strong, and keep up the good fight, Democrats.
We’ll be back at defending the truth next week. Until then, stay tuned to our social media channels, linked below, for updates on the LACDP’s fight against Trump.

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Help pass Prop 50 and stop the Trump / MAGA agenda by talking with targeted registered voters in your own neighborhood. The California Democratic Party can provide the list – through our mobile app, and the script and background materials – you provide the person power!

We will be launching this program the week of September 15th. You can sign up now if you’re interested and we’ll follow up with you.

Additionally, you can join CADEM’s virtual phonebanks and help stop the Trump / MAGA agenda to rig the midterm elections and passing Prop 50 is the best chance we have of taking back Congress next year.

They’ll be phoning 6 days per week, 2 shifts per day. – https://www.mobilize.us/cadems/event/833391/

Their Spanish language phonebanks will be Sundays from 12-2 and Thursdays from 6 – 8 PM. We have a separate Mobilize for those shifts – https://www.mobilize.us/cadems/event/833417/

We’ll gather on zoom and be using the Scale to Win dialer and will have a short training at the beginning of each shift. Join them as often as you can, encourage your friends to come and help save our country!

Two more bridge brigades to GOTV. We would love to have some more people waving to people passing by.
*Monday 7:15am-8:30am on 19th overpass
*Tuesday 7:15am-8:30am at Douty Overpass
Some of our regular crew will be away or working the polls. It is a great way to start the day. Questions? Call or Text Karla 559-816-3486.

So far, we’ve staged an event every week since mid-August except one week when it rained. We have, so far, three locations: 198 & 19th in Lemoore; 198 & 12th and 198 & Douty in Hanford.

Enjoy the photos below, in ascending order (most recent at bottom).

Please let us know if you can attend and watch this space for more on the coming events. Come join us!

In Solidarity, 

:o) Karla 

559-816-3486