Wikler pulled out all the stops to achieve this result, and he had help from an unexpected ally: filmmaker Rob Reiner. The Hollywood director became a central figure in what Wikler recalls as "the biggest state party fundraiser, as far as I know, in American history." That event, a dramatic reading of the script from Reiner's highly regarded film The Princess Bride, was streamed online, attracted 142,000 viewers, and stirred the energy of grassroots activists at a critical stage in an ultimately successful campaign.
Whether the East Bay representative finds success in what UC Berkeley Political Communications Professor Dan Schnur calls the most wide-open race for the governor's office in 50 years will be determined by how much attention Swalwell can garner by framing himself as the most anti-Trump candidate, Schnur said. Gavin Newsom very effectively demonstrated during the Prop. 50 campaign that disliking Donald Trump is the most unifying principle that California Democrats possess.
It is a grey morning in Shadwell, east London. But inside the old shell of Tobacco Dock, the gloom gives way to pulsating neon lights, flashy cars and cryptocurrency chatter. Evangelists for Web3, a vision for the next era of the internet, have descended on the old trading dock to network for two days. For many, the main event is one man: Nigel Farage.
Charlie Kirk was only a teenager when he launched a scrappy conservative student group out of his parents' suburban Illinois home. A decade later, that group-Turning Point USA-has grown into a political juggernaut, generating nearly a half-billion in total revenue in the 13 years since its inception, creating a sprawling network of campus chapters, and building a media machine that rivals legacy establishments.
"The entire GOP is putting our national security at risk by not designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist org and by not cracking down on Islamic immigrants running for office in the U.S...."
"During the investigation of this matter, the Enforcement Division identified multiple accrued expenses, paid for by the Foundation, that the Committee and Low failed to timely disclose in violation of the Act."