The 2026 California governor's race is taking shape as a battle over spending and accountability, with Matt Mahan emerging as the lone Democrat challenging the union-backed establishment while rivals like Tom Steyer burn through millions on misleading attacks. Meanwhile, a broader debate is intensifying over whether Sacramento's luxury-belief politics—from defunding police to gutting academic standards—is actively harming the working-class Californians it claims to help. The stakes are high: the state faces $20–35 billion in structural deficits after a 72% spending surge that delivered little.
While virtue signaling politicians and their donors sip champagne, real builders walk the fire rubble of Pacific Palisades and work with startup founders to create jobs
Tom Steyer renamed a 1978 Democratic law after Donald Trump and called it a plan. The loophole is real. The history, and the math, are not.
Public sector unions are picking their next governor. Porter, Swalwell, and Steyer are lining up to perform. One Democrat is not: Matt Mahan
California bleeds $20-35 billion a year. Steyer wants to raise taxes. Mahan wants to stop lighting money on fire.
Jelani Nelson drove to Sacramento for months, recruited allies, and won: Academic standards at UCs matter
The billionaire claiming to ‘always stand with labor’ made millions from private prisons and other aggressively anti‑union investments
Public sector unions collect nearly $1 billion a year to control Sacramento. Normal citizens? A trickle against a torrent.
A billionaire spending $27 million attacks a mayor for having tech support. The irony writes itself.
$30 billion stolen in unemployment fraud alone. California's gubernatorial candidate says fix it before raising taxes.
San Jose built ZERO market rate homes in 2024. Then Matt Mahan cut the fees, and everything changed.