Category: The Washington Free Beacon
Gavin Newsom Said He Had a ‘Moral Duty’ To Release His Tax Returns Every Year He Served in Office. He Hasn’t Since 2022.
California governor Gavin Newsom made a bold pledge as he campaigned for his first term in 2017: He would release his tax returns to the public every year he serves in office, a move the Democrat described as the “moral duty” of “leaders seeking the highest offices.” Now, with less than a year remaining in his second term and a looming 2028 presidential campaign on the horizon, Newsom’s last five tax returns are nowhere to be seen.
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Wingman Woes: Gallego Caught in Swalwell Storm
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) is taking heat after a sexual misconduct scandal forced his good friend, Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell (Calif.), to suspend his campaign for governor of California. “An important question everyone should be asking: what did Senator Ruben Gallego know and when did he know it?” journalist Yashar Ali wrote on X.
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The Misleading Media Groupthink On China’s Renewable Energy
“Never just read one newspaper” is one of my media literacy rules. Sometimes even that fails, as it did on Monday April 13, 2026, when the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both weighed in with suspiciously similar, and sadly unskeptical, stories claiming that the Iran war somehow provided vindication for China’s emphasis on wind and solar energy.
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Meet the California Millionaire Funding Anti-Oil Lawsuits—And the Columbia Academics Working To Influence the Judges Handling The Cases
Lawsuits seeking to hold the nation’s biggest oil companies accountable for global warming and extreme climate events—and academics looking to influence how judges rule on those cases—are bankrolled by a common donor, the real estate developer and environmental activist Dan A. Emmett.
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Former Eric Swalwell Staffer Says California Democrat Sexually Assaulted Her Twice: ‘I Blacked Out and He Had Sex With Me’
A former staffer for California congressman and gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell accused the Democrat of sexually assaulting her twice while she was intoxicated and of sending her photos of his genitals, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
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Former Eric Swalwell Staffer Says California Democrat Sexually Assaulted Her Twice: ‘I Blacked Out and He Had Sex With Me’
A former staffer for California congressman and gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell accused the Democrat of sexually assaulting her twice while she was intoxicated and of sending her photos of his genitals, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
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El-Sayed Campaigns With UMich Board of Regents Candidate Who Shared Since-Deleted Posts Praising Hezbollah and Iranian Regime
The left-wing candidate for Senate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, campaigned this week with a man running for the University of Michigan’s board of regents who shared since-deleted X posts that celebrated late Hezbollah leaders as “martyr[s]” and called on the Iranian regime to “show no laxity” against Israel.
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Managing the Mullahs: What a Negotiated Victory Over Iran Looks Like
After weeks of threats, taunts, bombs, dramatic rescues, and careening markets, the world is holding its breath as the two-week ceasefire begins in the Middle East. The United States and Israel inflicted a significant amount of damage on Iran during the most recent campaign, but the negotiations set to begin later this week in Pakistan could determine the victor of this stage in the conflict.
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Abigail Spanberger Takes Credit for $7.1 Billion in Business Investments Secured by GOP Predecessor Glenn Youngkin
Virginia governor Abigail Spanberger (D.) took credit for over $7.1 billion in business investments to the Old Dominion—investments that were actually secured by her Republican predecessor, Glenn Youngkin.
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Wes Moore Attacks Local Newspaper for Deigning To Report on His Record
Democratic Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has embarked on a preemptive media campaign attacking his state’s flagship newspaper, the Baltimore Sun, for a forthcoming investigative series that will allegedly scrutinize Moore’s record.
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