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But, according to Michael Trujillo, a widely quoted Democratic political strategist in California, POLITICO was preparing a story in 2019 on Eric Swalwell, but promptly dropped it when Swalwell dropped out of the Democratic presidential race.

Yep. Exactly the sort of behavior you would expect from what Ed calls the "protection racket media," and what I call the Pravda Media.

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One note on the Swalwell stuff - (this isn’t confirmed) but a reporter with Politico was working on verifying the rumors on Swalwell when he was running for President. (he’s no longer with the publication) Two days before he was scheduled to sit down with this reporter Swalwell dropped out of the race.  The energy disappeared to potentially take him out, the victims if they were even willing to go on the record never did.  He slithered back to his safe house seat. December 2025 was too early to take down Swalwell we had to wait til his paperwork was ALL IN running for governor March 2026, so the head of the snake could be chopped off and he had no safe house seat to slither back to this time.  Hate the strategy fine, but for folks unsure if this would work, we had to make sure he couldn’t get away like he did in 2020.

Thomas took the stage and went straight for the jugular of “progressivism,” framing it not as a policy disagreement but as a direct assault on the republic's foundation. "Progressivism seeks to replace the basic premises of the Declaration of Independence and hence our form of government," he said.

Thomas argued that a spirit of "cynicism, rejection, hostility and animus" toward America — from Americans themselves — has taken root across the country. The values enshrined in the Declaration of Independence have "fallen out of favor," he said, and he laid the blame squarely at the feet of intellectuals and the nation's colleges and universities.
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At the heart of his critique was a simple but devastating contrast. The Declaration holds that rights come from God, that they are unalienable, and that government exists to protect them. So-called “progressivism” inverts that entirely. "It holds that our rights and our dignities come not from God, but from government," Thomas said. "It requires of the people a subservience and weakness incompatible with a constitution premised on the transcendent origin of our rights."

Thomas also took aim at the Washington establishment — the comfortable class of officials who have learned to dress up their failures in respectable language. He accused D.C. of being overrun by people with no real commitment to righteous cause, traditional morality, national defense, free enterprise, religious piety, or the original meaning of the Constitution. "They recast themselves as Institutionalists, pragmatists or thoughtful moderates," he said, "all as a way of justifying their failures to themselves, their consciences, and their country." If that doesn't describe the last several decades of Beltway careerism, nothing does.

Now he is accusing the press for negative coverage of a conflict which was unnecessary.

History repeats itself. As Garry Tan concluded in his most recent op-ed about why Asian hate so often goes unpunished, it is a cumulative effect of the loudest voices that influence a courtroom, from policy briefs and op-eds to grant-funded studies and legacy media. That voice has been dominated by nonprofits like Stop AAPI Hate, which have collectively received well over $150 million in funding while betraying the very victims they claim to represent and protect. They have aggressively pushed for non-carceral solutions and restorative justice policies in California for perpetrators, in contrast to what victims and their families, like myself, have asked for — greater public safety, real accountability, timely trials, and proportionate sentencing that actually deters crime.

What did Grandpa Vicha’s trial and sentencing tell us? That the going rate for an elderly Asian life in San Francisco has become tragically cheap. That Hanako Abe’s case will likely prove equally disappointing, and perpetrators like Thea Brenda Hopkins will continue to receive drug diversion and leniency.

My family, like so many others, was abandoned by the very criminal justice system that was supposed to advocate for us, when in May 2024, our 14-year-old son was trapped on the Muni 29 bus with dozens of other students. A serial perpetrator launched into a vicious anti-Asian tirade, screaming racial slurs and brandishing a stun-gun. And while we asked regularly about the status of our case, we were ignored and even removed as victims from the case without a single notice. It was only under interim Chief Paul Yep that we finally learned the truth of what was really going on behind the scenes. Our supposed advocate at the hate crime unit was “on leave” when Chief Bill Scott was ousted.

I also learned later why KGO-TV/ABC7 News never ran the hour-long interview they did with our son after my family and two others filed police reports at our home for the Muni 29 attack. It was for the same reason that television news reporter Dion Lim was ousted for her extensive coverage of Asian hate crime victims, including the death of Yanfang Wu. Because the truth was inconvenient.