‘California will stop him’: Gavin Newsom deals major blow to Trump’s midterm ‘meddling’

Systemic Error Podcast · Sep 23, 2026 · 5m

California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks as he meets voters and local leaders while campaigning for Democrats ahead of mid-term elections in Aiken, South Carolina, U.S. September 4, 2026. REUTERS/Sam Wolfe

California Builds a Firewall Against Presidential Election Sabotage

The Power Is Federal

California voters are not the actors threatening to destabilize this election. Neither are local election workers, mail carriers, or some vaguely defined cloud of “partisan tension.” The power identified in the reporting sits with President Donald Trump and the federal agencies he directed to reshape…