California’s elections are already rigged overwhelmingly against Republicans—but apparently not enough for Gov. Gavin Newsom.
With $10 million from George Soros and tens of millions more from labor unions and other wealthy liberals, he’s gearing up to convince California voters to approve Proposition 50 in a special election on Nov. 4.
Prop. 50 would redraw California’s congressional districts, overriding the state’s independent redistricting commission until after the 2030 census. In other words, Prop 50 will void the very redistricting safeguards voters demanded when they voted to establish the California Citizens Redistricting Commission and no longer let the state legislature draw political boundary lines.
This is a power grab dressed up as “reform” by Newsom and his cohorts—and it’s something California voters previously rejected.
In 2008, California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 11, which established an independent commission to draw the boundary lines of all state legislative districts. In 2010, they overwhelmingly approved Proposition 20, which transferred the authority to draw the boundaries of congressional districts from the state Legislature to the new commission.
Of course, even with a supposedly “independent” redistricting commission, partisanship has not been entirely erased, especially given the members appointed to the commission. Even with the commission drawing maps instead of the Legislature, California still stands as one of the most politically skewed states in America. For example, even though Donald Trump won roughly 38% of the statewide vote in 2024, the commission has only dealt Republicans nine of 52 congressional seats across the state.
Yet that politically lopsided congressional map still isn’t partisan enough for Newsom. Apparently, he wants to wipe out Republican representation entirely within the state’s congressional delegation.
But what’s astonishing over this uproar is that blue states like Newsom’s are already gerrymandered to the hilt to favor his political party. So much for the “fairness” and “democratic process” liberal progressives like him are always touting.
Doubt that? In Massachusetts, whose Gov. Elbridge Gerry originated the term “gerrymander” when he approved an 1812 redistricting plan that resembled a salamander, Donald Trump received almost 37% of the statewide vote in 2024. Yet Democrats have gerrymandered the state to ensure they control all nine of the state’s congressional districts.
The same is true in blue states like Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Hawaii. Trump’s share of the votes in those states ranged from roughly 33% to 46%, yet Republicans hold none—zero—of the states’ congressional seats.
Similarly, in Illinois, where Gov. JB Pritzker has also been adamant about redistricting, Trump garnered 45% of the vote, but Republicans have barely managed to hang on to three out of 17 congressional seats.
Newsom now needs Soros’ fortune and that of other liberal donors, especially the state’s unions, to sell Californians a lie. He is obviously counting on an advertising blitz to rewrite history and convince voters that their previous votes were grievous errors and that overriding the independent commission’s control of their elections is “reform.”
I’m sure he will get all his friends in Hollywood to help him shape a propaganda message that allowing Republicans to have any representation in Congress at all, despite Trump receiving 40% of the statewide vote, shouldn’t be allowed. They’ll tell Californians that the “independence” of the commission is somehow partisan while only one-party control is “fair” and “democratic.”
As the saying goes, democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
If Prop 50 passes, Democrats will set the precedent that they can override the commission whenever their dominance feels threatened. Elections will become rubber stamps for a one-party regime aligned with Soros and his pro-crime, pro-illegal alien, anti-American political network.
Californians stood up once to stop politicians from drawing their own maps. Soros and Newsom are betting that money and media will drown out the voters’ memory and convince them there’s nothing wrong with the tyranny of the majority. From Newsom’s perspective, Californians who support the minority party should not have any representation whatsoever.
It’s harder to come up with a greater threat to democracy than that.
