Mike Levin

The California primary is June 2. Fill out your ballot today, sign the envelope, and drop it in any official ballot drop box or head to your nearest vote center. No stamp needed. Five minutes, done. Track it at wheresmyballot.sos.ca.gov.

A federal judge just ordered Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center. Good. It never belonged there. The name is coming down, now or later. If they’re short a volunteer, I will personally climb the ladder and take the name down myself.

My Appropriations amendment was simple. Bar the President, the Vice President, and members of Congress from cashing in on Trump’s $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund, unless a court actually awarded them the money. Every Republican on the committee who was present voted no.

Can you imagine if Obama had hosted a cage fight on the South Lawn of the White House. On his own birthday. With 1,000 tickets handed to himself. While Republican lobbyists begged for the leftovers. Fox would have run a 24-hour countdown clock to impeachment.

The California primary is June 2. Fill out your ballot today, sign the envelope, and drop it in any official ballot drop box. No stamp needed. Five minutes, done. Track it at wheresmyballot.sos.ca.gov.

Thousands of Marines from Camp Pendleton are deployed in the Middle East right now. Their families deserve to know the mission, the strategy, and the plan to bring them home. So do the American people. I won’t stop pressing for those answers.

A federal court already ruled, twice, that members of Congress have the right to inspect ICE detention facilities without advance notice. Last week, we went to the Otay Mesa Detention Center to do exactly that. ICE handed us a memo, signed the same day, telling us we now need two days notice,

Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in American history. It’s not close. No other president has used the office to enrich himself, his family, and his allies on this scale.

Members of Congress trading stocks in the industries they regulate is a terrible idea. I've fought for years to ban it, because the people writing our laws with confidential information shouldn't get to use it to line their pockets.

Trump sued his own government for $10 billion. Today he settled with the DOJ he runs and cut the judge out of the process. The deal: a $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund his Attorney General controls, with no court oversight and no transparency. It’s the most corrupt scheme of his presidency.

If you actually want to stop fraud, investigate fraudsters and prosecute them. You don’t withhold $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments from a state where 14 million people, including qkids, seniors, and people with disabilities, depend on that care.

The Speaker of the House just defended members of Congress trading individual stocks. Wrong answer. Members of Congress should not be trading shares in the companies they regulate and fund. Most Americans figured that out a long time ago.

10,000 veterans recently lost their homes. 90,000 more are next. Trump says he can’t afford to save them. But he has no problem spending money for a White House ballroom. You don’t get to salute the flag while throwing veterans into the street to pay for your chandeliers.

ICE let us walk through the doors of the Otay Mesa Detention Center on Monday. Then they handed us a memo telling us we were not allowed to talk to anyone held inside.

Can you imagine if Obama had done this? Golden statues. An AI image of himself as Jesus. Republicans would have lost their minds. Now, they are silent.

American families are already stretched thin at the pump. Now Trump says doubling gas prices would be worth it for his unauthorized war in Iran. He is not the one paying that price. You are. And he does not seem to care how high it goes.

The White House and the CFTC owe Americans a full accounting. Who is profiting from advance knowledge of US military operations, who provided that information, and when does the investigation begin?

So rather than earn your vote, they are working to keep you from casting it.

Trump’s sons signed a weapons deal with the Air Force during a war Congress never authorized. Amazon paid $40 million for a Melania documentary, then won a $581 million no-bid Pentagon contract. The corruption is not hidden anymore. It is the business model. November cannot come fast enough.

We have to make sure during this difficult time that we keep speaking up, that we keep showing up, and that we keep standing up.

In what world is firing missiles, drones, and boats at our Sailors not a ceasefire violation? If Pete Hegseth is in the room, common sense isn’t.

Just left the San Diego Labor Council May Day march. Thousands of working people standing together for fair wages, safe workplaces, and the dignity of work. The 8-hour day, the weekend, overtime, child labor laws, none of it was given. It was won. That fight isn’t over. Happy May Day.

The President started an unauthorized war with Iran, and Eric Trump just landed a $24 million Defense Department deal. And a company in Don Jr.’s portfolio just secured a $620 million Pentagon loan. Maybe it’s a coincidence. More likely it’s corruption.

DOGE was supposed to slash waste. Independent audits found the receipts were cooked. Not one American got a dollar back. Meanwhile, bills are up across the board. And House Republicans? Looking the other way while waste, fraud, and abuse run wild in Washington.

Donald Trump Jr. sits on Polymarket’s advisory board. That is a huge conflict of interest, and it makes passing a bipartisan fix in Congress really difficult. But we’re not waiting. We’re building support for the DEATH BETS Act right now.

The President’s sons are cashing in on Pentagon contracts while their father wages a war he never asked Congress to authorize. Democrats need to take back the House and do the job the Constitution requires: check the executive, follow the money, and put real guardrails in place.

Democrats have spent months pushing basic ICE oversight. These are standard across law enforcement. But House Republicans have refused to agree to any of this. The public deserves to know why ICE should be the exception.

Democrats have pushed basic ICE oversight for months: visible IDs, body cameras, clear warrant standards, and limits on aggressive tactics. These are standard across law enforcement. But House Republicans have refused to agree to any of this. The public deserves to know why ICE is the exception.

A documentary about the First Lady that costs Amazon $75,000,000 and barely makes a dent at the box office is not a smart investment on its own. But what if that same company secures a $580,000,000 Pentagon contract around the same time? Suddenly, the math starts to look different.

Corey Lewandowski allegedly demanded kickbacks from federal contractors at DHS. The FBI and DOJ must investigate. This is textbook corruption.

Trump doesn’t seem to know if we’re winding down or escalating the war in Iran. Several weeks in, he still can’t clearly define the objective and Congress still hasn’t voted. If there’s no coherent strategy and no end game, why are Americans still risking their lives?

10,000 veterans have lost their homes in the last 10 months. The highest foreclosure rate in a decade. The Trump administration was warned this would happen. They shut the program down anyway, with no replacement and one week's notice.

Pam Bondi got fired, but she still has a Congressional subpoena. Getting fired doesn’t mean getting away with it. Release the Epstein files. All of them. Now.

Republicans’ One Big Ugly Bill gutted $600 billion from Medicaid. Millions of Americans who had no other way to get care lost their coverage. Democrats warned this would happen. Now it is: hospitals are closing, premiums are spiking, and the system is buckling under the strain.

In 1776, our Founders rejected the rule of kings and built something the world had never seen: a Republic governed by the many, not the one. We have sustained it for 250 years. That is the result of ordinary people refusing to give it up. Today, be one of those people. Show up. #NoKings

TSA officers are not getting paid right now because Republicans are protecting ICE from basic accountability. The same standards every other law enforcement agency follows. Republicans won’t demand that from ICE, and we are all paying the price.

We have tried NINE TIMES to pass a clean bill to pay TSA workers. Nine times, Republicans blocked it. The airport chaos you’re seeing this spring break is a choice. Republicans are making it.

I introduced the DEATH BETS Act along with Senator Schiff to ban such contracts permanently.

Either the administration overstated the success of last year’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear program, or it is overstating the necessity of this new escalation. Congress and the country deserve straight answers.

Republicans in Congress know. They know Trump is undermining the rule of law. They’re choosing to look the other way because they’re scared of being primaried or called a RINO. That’s a choice with consequences. Own it now, or own it later when history does the accounting for you.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I tried to understand why Trump chose Markwayne Mullin to run DHS despite having none of the typical qualifications for the job. Then it became clear. In Trump’s world, the most important qualification isn’t experience or expertise. It’s the willingness to provide cover for Trump.

Threatening to cut off trade with Spain is idiotic. The United States runs a trade surplus with them, meaning we sell them more goods than they sell us. It would hurt American exporters and workers first. Turning a disagreement with a NATO partner into a trade fight is petulant child stuff.

A simple message to my Republican colleagues who have remained silent as this administration disregards the Constitution and shields the powerful: honor your oath to the American people and the rule of law, or make way for those who will.

We should not allow people to gamble on war or on human lives. Full stop.

I woke up very early this morning to news of “major combat operations” in Iran. My prayers are with our service members and their families. The President didn’t make the case or come to Congress. We took an oath to defend the Constitution. It’s time for a War Powers vote.

Winning is NOT masked agents grabbing people off the street. It is NOT families one emergency away from bankruptcy because the cost of living is too high to save anything.

Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski are totally out of control. $172 MILLION in taxpayer dollars for Gulfstream jets? Skipping search and rescue for migrant flights? Where is the accountability?

Trump is reportedly holding billions in infrastructure funding hostage unless Dulles Airport and Penn Station are renamed after himself. Can you imagine if Obama had done this?

To expose the utter hypocrisy of my Republican colleagues giving Donald Trump a free pass on everything he does, I’m starting a new series called “Can You Imagine if Obama Had Done This?” Starting with this:

Members of Congress asked about accountability. Bondi deflected and pointed to… the stock market. Justice isn’t measured by the Dow Jones. Survivors deserved truth but instead they got excuses and her performance for Dear Leader. Just pathetic.

The health costs of failing to fix the Tijuana River crisis are far too high for families and our service members to pay. Our delegation has secured $653M since I arrived in Congress in 2019, and real progress is finally underway. But the job isn’t finished. I’ll keep fighting until it’s done.

Mike Johnson is turning into the MyPillow guy. He admits he has no evidence, ignores courts and audits, and still pushes election conspiracies to serve Trump and his own political survival. He has generally surrendered the House and abandoned his oath. Weakest and worst Speaker in modern history.

Now he’s enlisted Tulsi Gabbard, who has abandoned any principles she once had for whatever relevance she can muster, to meddle in law enforcement and give his conspiracy theories a veneer of credibility. It’s desperation and dishonesty. Enough.

America is a nation of laws. And a nation of immigrants. We don’t need chaos. We need competence. Stop giving ICE a blank check. Demand accountability.

The IRS tax-return leaker is already serving a five-year prison sentence. Now Trump is suing the IRS and Treasury anyway for $10 billion. Translation: after the system punished the culprit, he still wants taxpayers to write him a massive check. That’s not accountability. That’s a shakedown.

We have to make sure during this difficult time that we keep speaking up, that we keep showing up, and that we keep standing up. Thanks to the Democratic Club of Carlsbad and Oceanside for having me. @demcco.bsky.social

Don Lemon’s arrest in Minnesota was not about public safety or justice. It raised serious concerns about intimidation and press freedom. He was released because people spoke out and demanded accountability. Let’s keep going.