In Los Angeles this week, on the floor of a vast 144,000-square-foot ballot processing center, the work stations sat largely empty. Outside, the days passed. Inside, the ballots waited. This is California in June 2026, where the count drags and the questions sharpen. On Friday morning, Los Angeles’ top federal prosecutor said out loud what
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There is a ritual to California’s elections now, and the ritual is patience. The polls close, the night ends, and the counting goes on — for days, sometimes weeks, in a state
There is a particular kind of political theater that only California can stage, and on Tuesday, it raised the curtain again. Out of a field of sixty-one — sixty-one! — the voters
The Democratic National Committee released a version of its 2024 autopsy Thursday — months overdue, incomplete, and disowned almost immediately by the organization that published it. The report lands like a sigh.
On Monday, the Justice Department announced that Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong — a longtime California voting activist — has agreed to plead guilty to felony charges stemming from what prosecutors describe as
