The California Senate candidate is using every campaign tactic of recent vintage: benefiting from pro-Israel and crypto money, and trying to choose his general-election opponent.
Dianne Feinstein
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California’s Double Max
Dianne Feinstein’s death creates two elections in California’s Senate race. That means donors can max out support to their favorite candidate twice.
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Let Them Fight
Matt Gaetz successfully removed a speaker of the House for the first time in American history. Good.
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Newsom’s Choice
Today on TAP: In California (not to mention America), the racial and ethnic politics of representation are inescapable.
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Feinstein and Lear
Today on TAP: California’s senior senator is doing her country, her party, and herself no favors by clinging to office.
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Democrats Struggle to Face the Illegitimate Court System
A few Democratic members of Congress understand what needs to be done. More should join them.
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The Feinstein Affair: Senate Gerontocracy Reaches Absurd Heights
Old senators, old rules, and old traditions all are cutting against what should be a simple task of confirming judges.
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Feinstein in Retrospect
Today on TAP: Her centrist politics made her an outlier among California Democrats.
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Lefties Amok: California’s Upcoming Senate Race
Four Democratic House members draw a bead on the seat Feinstein will vacate.
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The Democratic Party Divide Is About Theories of Political Power
Dianne Feinstein’s dust-up with activists over the Green New Deal revealed that progressives are unwilling to tolerate a political system that they feel threatens planetary survival.