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The battle for basic social order

Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 11:09 am | Randy Thomasson

Have you noticed now we’re fighting for basic civilization?

The war in Los Angeles County is about enforcement of immigration laws and laws against hoodlums (those burning, vandalizing, injuring, and looting).

Twenty years ago, enforcing laws regarding social order wasn’t controversial. But since then, the Democrat Party has bared its New Communist soul to engage in “revolutionary terror” and “well-organized violence,” and to elevate their raw, naked power over any written laws.

So, on June 14, when millions of Leftists held their “No Kings” protests, SaveCalifornia.com went public about how the hypocritical Left has been slavishly obeying tyrants for years, and that the biggest “king” in California is the unconstitutional and evil Gavin Newsom:

Regarding what the biased Big Media call “protestors,” these hoodlums and vandals attacking police and property are nothing more than re-baked “Black Lives Matter” racists and anarchists — devoted to devilish, Marxist/Communist ideology, which justifies “revolutionary terror” in the pursuit of raw, dehumanizing power.

In 2020, there were “12,045 incidents of U.S. civil unrest” where BLM gangsters stole, killed, and destroyed, resulting in political prisoners andBILLIONS of dollars of damage.

Now, the same type of anarchists have been rampaging in L.A. (and copycats in other cities). which is why President Trump sent in 700 Marines to join 2,100 National Guard troops to quell the violence and even assist ICE in raids and arrests of illegal aliens.

As SaveCalifornia.com reminded our social media follows on June 7:

But the Lying Left doesn’t relent in the face of facts, does it?

This is why perhaps the most wicked Democrat in the California State Legislature announced his anti-ICE bill on June 16. Yet the author, homosexual activist Scott Wiener of San Francisco, is ignoring a key factpointed out by Fox News reporter Bill Melugin: “California has zero authority/jurisdiction to regulate what federal law enforcement does.”

This bad bill targets ICE agents by trying to prohibit them from covering their faces, and requiring them to show ID on their uniforms, by name or other identifier.

Todd Lyons, ICE’s acting director, has defended his officers using facemasks (https://tinyurl.com/5624f7jh), saying they wear them to protect themselves from death threats and online harassment.

Lyons said at a news conference earlier this month in Boston to announce nearly 1,500 arrests in the region as part of a monthlong “surge operation”: “I’m sorry if people are offended by them wearing masks, but I’m not going to let my officers and agents go out there and put their lives on the line, their family on the line because people don’t like what immigration enforcement is.”

And now, it appears Newsom & Co. is about to get another public black mark for their unconstitutional, anti-American support of violent insurgents.

On June 17, all three judges on a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel seemed to agree that a U.S. president has vast discretion to deploy the military, including a state’s National Guard, where needed.

There’s no definite date when this 3-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will rule. There’s also no court order in effect that pulls back or limits President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth using the California National Guard to protect federal agents and assist with immigration enforcement.

As these battles rage, please stand with SaveCalifornia.com for Right over Wrong and Good over Evil. Donate confidentially

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.
The Bible, Romans 1:28-32

Can a Republican win the California governor’s race?

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

SaveCalifornia.com provides this solely for educational purposes
and does not support or oppose candidates for public office.

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

Proof your money is being wasted by Democrat Party politicians

Sunday, April 13, 2025, 5:47 pm | Randy Thomasson

As the April 15 tax return deadline approaches, be glad that DOGE is exposing waste and fraud in California! This is much-needed proof that the ruling Democrat Party politicians led by Newsom & Co. are OK with fraud.

This latest discovery about the waste and fraud within Newsom’s EDD (Employment Development Department) should convince every reasonable Californian to:

1) Never again think government needs more of your money
2) Always vote NO on tax increases, tax extensions, and bonds (all deceptive money grabs by wasteful state and local governments)

As Fox News first reported on 4/11/25:

After finding $382 million in fraudulent unemployment payments since 2020, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) identified California, New York and Massachusetts as the primary culprits. 

The three Democrat-led states accounted for $305 million in improper claim payments, DOGE said Thursday.

The group added that California also accounted for 68% of the benefits that were dispensed under former President Joe Biden to parolees identified by federal authorities as being on the government’s terrorist watchlist, or who had criminal records.

California, New York and Massachusetts all have a Democratic trifecta — meaning Democrats control the state House, Senate and the governor’s office. They also have a Democratic triplex, which includes party control of the Attorney General, Secretary of State and governorship.

The above new story was based on a DOGE post on X on 4/10/25

An initial survey of Unemployment Insurance claims since 2020 revealed the following:

– 24.5k people over 115 years old claimed $59M in benefits

– 28k people between 1 and 5 years old claimed $254M in benefits

– 9.7k people with birth dates over 15 years in the future claimed $69M in benefits

In one case, someone with a birthday in 2154 claimed $41k.

California, New York, and Massachusetts accounted for most of these improper claims, totaling $305M in unemployment benefits.

Additionally, California accounted for 68% of the unemployment benefits paid to parolees identified by CBP on the terrorist watchlist or with criminal records.

And like DOGE, SaveCalifornia.com has been working here in 2025 to expose the THEFT committed by Democrat Party politicians and their allies (union bosses, establishment bureaucrats, and RINOs).

Thank you for your support and for sharing our information with more people who need to know! Below are some of SaveCalifornia.com’s popular social media posts (click the images to see the full posts):

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
Attributed to Scottish judge/professor/historian Alexander Fraser Tytler (1747-1813)