# california politics (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover california politics. Page: Feed: --- ## [Your Tax Dollars Fund Radical Nonprofits](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/californiaunderground/episodes/Your-Tax-Dollars-Fund-Radical-Nonprofits-e3nu1qu) _2026-08-26 · California Underground · California Underground: Your Sane Insight into California Politics_ A California Assemblyman named his own nonprofit "Nonprofit of the Year" — three weeks before it received a $6 million line item in the state budget he helped pass. In this episode, we pull that exact page of the budget and show what else is on it: a group tied to last year's Los Angeles riots that helped write the law shielding organizations like itself from public scrutiny, and a grant program… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8b70a18/podcast/play/124765470/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-26%2F430583174-44100-2-27b6b898c29a2.mp3) ## [LA Taxpayers Are Funding Karen Bass's Campaign](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/californiaunderground/episodes/LA-Taxpayers-Are-Funding-Karen-Basss-Campaign-e3nnmc4) _2026-08-21 · California Underground · California Underground: Your Sane Insight into California Politics_ Los Angeles pays a qualifying mayoral candidate six dollars in public money for every one dollar an individual donates — and in the current mayor's race, challenger Nithya Raman has drawn more of that taxpayer match than Karen Bass. Phil and Camille break down how the public matching-funds program actually works, why the "isn't it a First Amendment violation to fund a candidate I oppose?"… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8b70a18/podcast/play/124557124/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-21%2F430302306-44100-2-9dbde9255720e.mp3) ## [Billionaire Tax Fight: Props 40, 41, 42](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/californiaunderground/episodes/Billionaire-Tax-Fight-Props-40--41--42-e3namg0) _2026-08-12 · California Underground · California Underground: Your Sane Insight into California Politics_ California's billionaire tax is on the ballot this fall — and almost nobody fighting over it is who you'd expect. The state's own nonpartisan analyst won't back the $100 billion revenue number the sponsors are citing. A 1979 law from the same tax revolt that gave California Prop 13 has been rewritten as a legal kill switch aimed squarely at this measure. And the single largest donor bankrolling… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8b70a18/podcast/play/124131264/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-12%2F429716269-44100-2-3cd70d2f5eeaf.mp3) ## [Newsom's High-Speed Rail Contradiction, Explained](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/californiaunderground/episodes/Newsoms-High-Speed-Rail-Contradiction--Explained-e3n0v6n) _2026-08-05 · California Underground · California Underground: Your Sane Insight into California Politics_ In 2024, Governor Newsom hired a new CEO to run California's high-speed rail and said the state would "begin to lay track, design and build stations, and buy trains." Two years later: the trainset procurement line in the state's own 2026 Business Plan is blank. No trains have been bought. We pull the paperwork. We also get into California's Democratic Party convention — where the party endorsed… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8b70a18/podcast/play/123812503/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-7-5%2F429277558-44100-2-396c8fb379e6a.mp3) ## [Newsom's Diaper Deal Wasn't Competitively Bid |](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/californiaunderground/episodes/Newsoms-Diaper-Deal-Wasnt-Competitively-Bid-e3mn1pq) _2026-07-29 · California Underground · California Underground: Your Sane Insight into California Politics_ Gavin Newsom said his administration's diaper deal with Baby2Baby — a nonprofit tied to his wife's own foundation — was competitively bid. California's own contract database says it wasn't. This week: the receipts on the $6.2 million diaper contract, Newsom's affair resurfaces, Sheng Thao crime story continues to expand, and why the Attorney General's rewritten ballot title for the voter ID… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8b70a18/podcast/play/123487482/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-29%2F428841386-44100-2-4af4f32def20d.mp3) ## [Comrade Newsom? Is Newsom Really Aligning with the DSA?](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/californiaunderground/episodes/Comrade-Newsom--Is-Newsom-Really-Aligning-with-the-DSA-e3mdjoq) _2026-07-22 · California Underground · California Underground: Your Sane Insight into California Politics_ Gavin Newsom says he'll campaign for any Democratic nominee heading into 2028 — but his team went quiet when asked if that includes candidates from a self-described "Marxist-Leninist-Maoist" caucus. This week: what Newsom actually said, what he wouldn't answer, and what it means for his national ambitions. Also on the show: Katie Porter was a frontrunner for governor a year ago. She just finished… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8b70a18/podcast/play/123178202/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-22%2F428424467-44100-2-cbdd32f3a13ad.mp3) ## [Newsom's FBI Wiretap Scandal Deepens](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/californiaunderground/episodes/Newsoms-FBI-Wiretap-Scandal-Deepens-e3m4cg9) _2026-07-15 · California Underground · California Underground: Your Sane Insight into California Politics_ This week, Phil is joined by guest co-host Randy Wang of KABC Radio for three stories out of Sacramento and LA that all come down to the same question: who's actually accountable when the numbers don't add up? First, the documented timeline behind the FBI's investigation into Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff, Dana Williamson — including new reporting that an informant was recording… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8b70a18/podcast/play/122875849/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-15%2F428013748-44100-2-6841c67132ca8.mp3) ## [The Real Math Behind California's Proposed Billionaire's Tax](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/californiaunderground/episodes/The-Real-Math-Behind-Californias-Proposed-Billionaires-Tax-e3lqpj5) _2026-07-08 · California Underground · California Underground: Your Sane Insight into California Politics_ California's proposed billionaire tax says it will raise $100 billion for healthcare, food assistance, and education. New research from Stanford's Hoover Institution puts the real number closer to $40 billion — and argues the measure could leave the state worse off once billionaire departures are factored in. This week, Phil talks with Hoover Institution research fellow Benjamin Robert Jaros,… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8b70a18/podcast/play/122561573/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-8%2F427591773-44100-2-8a7da77068e5b.mp3) ## [Spencer Pratt Declares War on LA and Newsom Flip Flops on Billionaire's Tax](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/californiaunderground/episodes/Spencer-Pratt-Declares-War-on-LA-and-Newsom-Flip-Flops-on-Billionaires-Tax-e3lgj8v) _2026-07-01 · California Underground · California Underground: Your Sane Insight into California Politics_ Spencer Pratt is calling Karen Bass "Karen Basura" over the Boyle Heights warehouse fire — and while his delivery is pure reality TV, the documented $17.6 million fire department budget cut he's pointing to is real. We dig into the permit history, the budget records, and why the firefighters' union is now bypassing City Hall to ask voters directly for funding. Then: Gavin Newsom wants a national… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8b70a18/podcast/play/122227423/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-1%2F427144356-44100-2-5b14e30e17f52.mp3) ## [AD45 Candidate Greg Abdouch Joins Us](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/californiaunderground/episodes/AD45-Candidate-Greg-Abdouch-Joins-Us-e3l7vg2) _2026-06-24 · California Underground · California Underground: Your Sane Insight into California Politics_ Democrats have held this San Bernardino County Assembly seat since 2022. This week, theRepublican trying to flip it joins us to make his case. Greg Abdouch advanced to the November general election in California's AssemblyDistrict 45, and he's betting he can do what no Republican challenger has managed inthis district in years. We sit down with him to find out how — pushing past thecampaign… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8b70a18/podcast/play/121945026/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-24%2F426764116-44100-2-5645f59306c55.mp3) ## [Meet Claude, an AI assistant (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/y332T7i8rH7r) _2026-06-24 · **Sponsored**_ Chat with Claude at claude.ai — a conversational AI assistant. ## [The Newsom DOJ Investigation](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/californiaunderground/episodes/The-Newsom-DOJ-Investigation-e3ku1fg) _2026-06-17 · California Underground · California Underground: Your Sane Insight into California Politics_ Federal agents are knocking on the doors of Governor Gavin Newsom's family friends and former employees. Newsom says Trump ordered the investigation to derail his 2028 presidential run. The LA Times says the probe started under Biden — launched by whistleblowers in Sacramento, not directed from Washington. Tonight Phil and Camille separate what's confirmed from what's spin, and get into the… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8b70a18/podcast/play/121619376/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-17%2F426329471-44100-2-3bb3bd910c8b7.mp3) ## [California Elections: What's Actually Happening](https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/californiaunderground/episodes/California-Elections-Whats-Actually-Happening-e3kk4pg) _2026-06-10 · California Underground · California Underground: Your Sane Insight into California Politics_ California held its primary election a week ago and we still don't have a governor or a Los Angeles mayor. Here's why — and why none of it is as simple as either side is telling you. This week Phil and Camille break down everything happening with California's election system in real time. How does counting actually work in the largest voting state in the country, and why does it take so long? What… [Listen](https://anchor.fm/s/8b70a18/podcast/play/121295088/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-10%2F425896415-44100-2-fc807d06cb465.mp3)