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UPDATE: Who are the RINOs (Republicans In Name Only)?

Thursday, June 5, 2025, 12:05 pm | Randy Thomasson

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With this being a deadline week to pass bills in their house of origin, many bad Democrat Party bills have already passed, including more “LGBTQIA+” tyranny and indoctrination, and more baby-killing via abortions.

And, on your behalf, SaveCalifornia.com has been tracking which Republicans are voting like Democrats.

Ask yourself — how many times does a Republican have to betray you on non-negotiable issues before you call him or her a RINO (Republican In Name Only) and oppose them?

Here are the RINOs in the California State Assembly (the 80-member lower house), based on at least 3 “yes” votes on 13 Democrat-authored, anti-family bills on the floor:

Greg Wallis of the Greater Palm Springs area
Supported HR 38, AB 40, AB 45, AB 54, AB 86, AB 260, AB 302, AB 715, AB 822, AB 908, AB 935, AB 1084

Juan Alanis of Stanislaus County
Supported AB 45, AB 54, AB 86, AB 260, AB 715, AB 822, AB 908, AB 935

Laurie Davies of south Orange County and north San Diego County
Supported HR 38, AB 45, AB 86, AB 302, AB 715, AB 822, AB 932

Josh Hoover of northeast Sacramento County
Supported HR 38, AB 86, AB 715, AB 822, AB 932

Diane Dixon of Orange County’s beach cities
Supported AB 86, AB 715, AB 932

Heath Flora of Galt, Lodi, Manteca (south Sacramento Co. and part of San Joaquin Co.)
Supported AB 86, AB 715, AB 822

Carl DeMaio of east San Diego County
Supported HR 38, AB 86, AB 715

DOCUMENTATION

See details at our updated SaveCalifornia.com Legislation Center

HR 38 honoring sexual anarchist and predator of teens Harvey Milk of San Francisco
➡️ Resolution coauthors on May 19 included Republicans Phillip Chen, Laurie Davies, Carl DeMaio, Josh Hoover, Tom Lackey, Tri Ta, David Tangipa, and Greg Wallis

AB 40 defining “emergency medical services” at hospitals to include abortions (baby-killing)
➡️ Joining the ruling Democrats in voting “yes” on April 21 was Republican Greg Wallis

AB 45 prohibiting other states’ law enforcement from using “geofence” technology to locate teen and pre-teen girls from other states brought to California for abortions
➡️ Joining the supermajority Democrats in voting “yes” on June 3 were Republicans Juan Alanis, Laurie Davies, and Greg Wallis

AB 54 exempting dangerous chemical abortions (baby-killing) from civil or criminal liability laws
➡️ Joining the ruling Democrats in voting “yes” on May 21 were Republicans Juan Alanis and Greg Wallis

AB 86 requiring the State Board of Education to adopt K-8 “sexual health education materials” based on the anti-family 2019 “health curriculum framework
➡️ Joining the supermajority Democrats in voting “yes” on May 29 were Republicans Juan Alanis, Laurie Davies, Carl DeMaio, Diane Dixon, Stan Ellis, Heath Flora, James Gallagher, Jeff Gonzalez, Josh Hoover, Alexandra Macedo, and Greg Wallis

AB 260 requiring pharmacists to dispense chemical abortion drugs to minors, and insurers to pay for them
➡️ Joining the ruling Democrats in voting “yes” on May 28 were Republicans Juan Alanis and Greg Wallis

AB 302 prohibiting health insurers from disclosing information about the abortions (baby-killing) or “sex changes” of teens or pre-teens transported from another state
➡️ Joining the supermajority Democrats in voting “yes” on May 23 were Republicans Laurie Davies and Greg Wallis

AB 715 prohibiting K-12 government schools from allowing any classroom materials that don’t promote “gender, gender identity, gender expression … sexual orientation”
➡️ Joining the ruling Democrats in voting “yes” on May 29 were Republicans Juan Alanis, Leticia Castillo, Laurie Davies, Carl DeMaio, Diane Dixon, Stan Ellis, Heath Flora, James Gallagher, Jeff Gonzalez, Heather Hadwick, Josh Hoover, Tom Lackey, Alexandra Macedo, Joe Patterson, Kate Sanchez, Tri Ta, and Greg Wallis

AB 822 reauthorizing the biased “Commission on the State of Hate”
➡️ Joining the supermajority Democrats in voting “yes” on June 2 were Republicans Juan Alanis, Laurie Davies, Heath Flora, Josh Hoover, and Greg Wallis

AB 908 requiring compliance reviews to ensure pro-“LGBT+” curriculum is taught to children in California’s K-12 government schools
➡️ Joining the ruling Democrats in voting “yes” on June 2 were Republicans Juan Alanis and Greg Wallis

AB 932 prohibiting “gender identity/expression” discrimination in public school, city, and county sports programs and sports facilities.
➡️ Joining the supermajority Democrats in voting “yes” on June 2 were Republicans Phillip Chen, Laurie Davies, Diane Dixon, Heather Hadwick and Josh Hoover

AB 935 requiring the state’s Civil Right Department to promote claims of “LGBTQIA+” “discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying”
➡️ Joining the ruling Democrats in voting “yes” on June 3 were Republicans Juan Alanis and Greg Wallis

AB 1084 fast-tracking “sex change” legal proceedings for children, cutting out parents
➡️ Joining the supermajority Democrats in voting “yes” on June 4 was Republican Greg Wallis

What to do about RINOs? Replace them by refusing to support them.

Having a Democrat win the seat for a term will allow you to help expose their evil deeds, and importantly, give you motivation to recruit and support a conservative, constitutional, pro-family fighter to win in the next election.

Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.”
Advice of Moses’ father-in-law Jethro, in Exodus 18:21

Can a Republican win the California governor’s race?

Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 8:43 pm | Randy Thomasson

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July 31, 2025 7:17am update: Big Democrat Kamala Harris announcing she won’t try to become California’s next governor actually increases the chances of a Republican to win one of “the top two” slots in the primary election and to even be elected governor.

To help you and your friends, SaveCalifornia.com has calculated the “jungle primary” math based on California’s 2024 presidential election results (giving Republican, American Independent, and Libertarian party candidates nearly 40% of the vote, and Democrat and other leftist party candidates nearly 60%).

See below for three hypothetical scenarios, numbered 1, 2, and 4 (Scenario #3 no longer applies):

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In light of California’s “jungle primary,” is splitting the votes of conservatives good or bad, and what are the chances of a mostly-conservative Republican being on the November 2026 ballot or being elected governor?

To answer, mostly-conservative Republican Steve Hilton’s entrance into the 2026 California governor’s race has immediately split the conservative vote between him and mostly-conservative Republican Chad Bianco.

If Hilton had not declared his candidacy, Bianco would have been virtually assured of being the highest or second-highest vote-getter in the primary.

Still, in the hypothetical scenarios I’ve been crunching, it’s plausible that a Republican could be one of “the top two” in the primary election, and if Kamala Harris doesn’t jump in, there’s even a path for either Bianco and Hilton to become governor.

The 2026 primary election scenarios below divide up 59% of the vote between the Democrat Party candidates and 38% of the vote between the Republicans. This is based on California’s 2024 presidential election results, and are rounded up or rounded down to match.

Here are the “bigger” declared candidates, so far, in alphabetical order who want to replace Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom, who’s termed out:

Democrats:
Toni Atkins, former State Senate leader, former State Assembly leader
Xavier Becerra, former U.S. congressman, former State Attorney General, and former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
Eleni Kounalakis, current Lieutenant Governor
Katie Porter, former U.S. congresswoman
Tony Thurmond, former state assemblyman and current State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Antonio Villaraigosa, former state assemblyman, former mayor of Los Angeles
Betty Yee, current State Controller

Republicans:
Chad Bianco, current sheriff of Riverside County
Steve Hilton, media voice, former tech start-up founder, former U.K. government advisor

SCENARIO 1: Two Democrats win “the top two” slots of the June 2026 primary election (two really work hard at the expense of the other Dems), so both Democrats advance to the November election, and a Democrat will again become governor:

22% Becerra
21% Porter

19% Bianco
18% Hilton
4% Villaraigosa
4% Thurmond
3% Yee
3% Kounalakis
3% Atkins
3% other

SCENARIO 2: 1 Democrat + 1 Republican win “the top two” (the Democrat Party machine pushes 1 Democrat hard at the expense of the others):

25% Becerra
20% Bianco

18% Hilton
9% Porter
7% Thurmond
6% Yee
5% Kounalakis
4% Villaraigosa
3% Atkins
3% other

SCENARIO 3: 1 Democrat + 1 Republican win “the top two.” Here, the biggest Democrat, Kamala Harris, enters the race and “sucks all the oxygen out” of the other Democrats.

If Harris enters the race, expect up to 5 Democrats to drop out (Atkins, Kounalakis, Porter, Thurmond, and Yee). Also expect Harris to be puffed and promoted by California’s New Communist machinery. This scenario means a Republican will be on the November ballot.

39% Harris
20% Hilton

18% Bianco
12% Becerra
8% Villaraigosa
3% other

SCENARIO 4: Two Republicans win “the top two” (if Big Democrat Kamala Harris doesn’t jump in, Democrats might simply split into 7 portions that are smaller than the 2 Republican portions), meaning there will be a Republican governor:

20% Hilton
18% Bianco

13% Becerra
12% Porter
8% Thurmond
8% Yee
7% Kounalakis
6% Villaraigosa
5% Atkins
3% other

I’ve provided these 4 scenarios to give you hope. In 3 of the 4, a Republican (either Bianco or Hilton, both mostly-conservatives) advances to the general election. Let this energize you to support the candidate who best represents your values!

“Moreover you shall select from all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.”
Advice of Moses’ father-in-law Jethro in Exodus 18:21

What President Trump did on Day 1 that I’m excited about

Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 10:51 pm | Randy Thomasson
Of the good that President Donald Trump did on his first day back to the White House, I’m most glad that he:

1. Ordered the release of nearly 1,600 political prisoners: Restoring a semblance of procedural due process so innocent Americans aren’t deemed “guilty” by the federal government, President Trump constitutionally pardoned the peaceful protestors who went into the U.S. Capitol in January 2021 on behalf of election integrity. Most have spent four years without a trial in a Washington, D.C. jail. Yet many who were just released had recently been moved to various parts of the country. Now Trump needs to free other political prisoners: Tina Peters of Colorado and Derek Chauvin of Minnesota.

2. Ordered a stop to government censorship: The practical benefit of President Trump’s First Amendment executive order is not only to stop the federal government from initiating, participating in, or otherwise pressuring web and social media platforms to trample constitutionally-protected free speech, but importantly, it tasks the incoming Attorney General with investigating and recommending “appropriate remedial actions” to ensure the U.S. government no longer censors the People, like Biden & Co. did ad nauseam.

3. Took the first step to remove transsexuals from the military: In his long list of revoking numerous Biden & Co. orders was also revoking allowing transsexuals to invade the U.S. military. This functionally restores Trump’s 2018 order forbidding biological men who pretend to be women, and biological women who pretend to be men, from enlisting or “serving” in the U.S. military. And Trump’s policy is moral and scientific: Moral, because enlisted men and women don’t want to be in showers or restrooms with the opposite sex, an awful policy that erodes esprit de corps or troop unity; scientific, because if you’ve inherited a Y chromosome from your biological father, you’re male; if not, you’re female (source — plus see these great resources: Biological Integrity and Sex Change Regret). A second executive action, perhaps from the incoming Secretary of Defense, might be needed to actually remove mentally-disturbed transsexuals from all of the armed forces.

4. Ordered the removal of “trans,” sexism, racism, and “wokeism” from the federal government: Continuing with his moral, beneficial policy distinguishing between the two sexes, President Trump issued a beautiful executive order directing every part of federal government to only recognize the two distinct sexes of male and female. This applies to documents, forms, passports, federal prisons, and importantly, restrooms in federal buildings and on federal land (including national parks).

On this same theme, a second executive order eliminates the unfair, immoral, sexist, racist “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) policies in all parts of the federal government. It will affect hiring, firing, promoting, and spending of our tax dollars. For real family values and as a role model for children and for all Americans, this is just excellent. And yet another executive order replaces DEI policies at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with merit-based hiring practices for pilots and others who fly millions of people per year. And then Trump signed another executive order implementing a new standard to be a federal government employee: Personal merit and sincere support of the written U.S. Constitution.

5. Ordered the military to secure the U.S.-Mexico border: Patriots in California and nationwide have been awaiting Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to stop the southern invasion of the United States. And even though there’s not yet a Secretary of Defense to carry out this great order, there are now acting secretaries of the U.S. armed services who can. And “Border Czar” Tom Homan says deportations have already begun.

6. Canceled U.S. involvement in tyrannical and harmful international organizations and agreements: President Trump is rightly withdrawing the United States from, and prohibiting U.S. funding of, the WHO (“World Health Organization”), which has devilish, immoral, tyrannical, Big Pharma values and goals for worldwide medical tyranny government. Trump is also withdrawing us from the United Nations’ pro-terrorism unit known as the “Relief and Works Agency,” which is funding and facilitating terrorism in the Gaza Strip on Israel’s coast and in Lebanon. And Trump is withdrawing us from the U.N’s impoverishing, anti-people, environmental-wacko Paris Agreement, which has the same goal of Democrat Party Governor Gavin Newsom — to eliminate the relatively cheap, reliable energy supply provided by oil and natural gas.

7. Lastly, I’m encouraged by one singular phrase from President Donald Trump’s inaugural address: He said he’s “learned a lot” from the personal oppression he’s experienced in the last eight years. This means he’s likely to be a better president than before — rooting out evil that he recognizes and standing on principle no matter the opposition. My hope is that Trump will humbly improve on federal judges (he nominated some bad ones because he didn’t get the advice of Christian-values legal organizations); that he will fight hard for medical freedom on vaccines and fight hardest for election integrity nationwide; and that he’ll grant an audience to former homosexuals who convince him that no one is “born gay” (because while he opposes transsexuality, Trump is still blindly promoting homosexual activists as role models for America and the world). Please pray to God in Jesus Christ’s Holy Name to give wisdom to President Donald Trump!

Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for that was the great high place: Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask! What shall I give you?”

And Solomon said: “You have shown great mercy to Your servant David my father, because he walked before You in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with You; You have continued this great kindness for him, and You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. Now, O LORD my God, You have made Your servant king instead of my father David, but I am a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in. And Your servant is in the midst of Your people whom You have chosen, a great people, too numerous to be numbered or counted. Therefore give to Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people, that I may discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?”

The speech pleased the LORD, that Solomon had asked this thing. Then God said to him: “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked long life for yourself, nor have asked riches for yourself, nor have asked the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice, behold, I have done according to your words; see, I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so that there has not been anyone like you before you, nor shall any like you arise after you. And I have also given you what you have not asked: both riches and honor, so that there shall not be anyone like you among the kings all your days. So if you walk in My ways, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”
Young King Solomon requests wisdom from God in the Bible, 1 Kings 3:4-14