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California
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Full two-year term
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The government holds the investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking of children: who paid, who flew, who knew, and which prosecutors decided back in 2008 that a plea deal was enough. Every release so far has landed late, partial, and with the redactions falling in suspiciously convenient places. The survivors have spent two decades being told to wait while the people they named kept their board seats and their reputations. There is exactly one legitimate reason to withhold any of this, and that is protecting victims who never chose to be in it; every other black box is someone being shielded who shouldn't be. Force the full release of the Epstein files with victim-identifying information redacted and nothing else, and open an independent review of how the 2008 deal was allowed to happen.
ICE is buying wearable electric-shock devices for its agents: gloves that deliver a current through the hands of the person wearing them, on people who are being detained, not convicted. There is no version of this that is about safety. A shock delivered by a hand is a weapon designed to hurt someone quietly, leave little to photograph, and end an argument about compliance before anyone can ask a question. Agencies that answer to almost no one should be the last ones handed a tool like that, and the deaths already recorded in immigration custody are the reason why. Block the purchase and deployment of electric-shock devices by immigration enforcement, and put a binding use-of-force standard for DHS into law, with public reporting on every incident and independent investigation of every death in custody.
The National Archives holds the founding documents and the receipts, the records that let a citizen check what the government actually did. The Smithsonian and the national museums hold the version of the American story that outlasts whoever is in office. None of that survives being run by whoever currently holds power. We are watching boards replaced with loyalists, exhibits rewritten to flatter one man, collections put at risk, and a Pearl Harbor hero's name scraped off a ship to make room for an ego. A country that lets its record be edited by the people the record is about has no way to hold anyone accountable later. Write independence for the National Archives, the Smithsonian, and the national cultural institutions into statute, with fixed board terms, protection from political removal, and no rewriting or renaming without public process.
The government holds the investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking of children: who paid, who flew, who knew, and which prosecutors decided back in 2008 that a plea deal was enough. Every release so far has landed late, partial, and with the redactions falling in suspiciously convenient places. The survivors have spent two decades being told to wait while the people they named kept their board seats and their reputations. There is exactly one legitimate reason to withhold any of this, and that is protecting victims who never chose to be in it; every other black box is someone being shielded who shouldn't be. Force the full release of the Epstein files with victim-identifying information redacted and nothing else, and open an independent review of how the 2008 deal was allowed to happen.
ICE is buying wearable electric-shock devices for its agents: gloves that deliver a current through the hands of the person wearing them, on people who are being detained, not convicted. There is no version of this that is about safety. A shock delivered by a hand is a weapon designed to hurt someone quietly, leave little to photograph, and end an argument about compliance before anyone can ask a question. Agencies that answer to almost no one should be the last ones handed a tool like that, and the deaths already recorded in immigration custody are the reason why. Block the purchase and deployment of electric-shock devices by immigration enforcement, and put a binding use-of-force standard for DHS into law, with public reporting on every incident and independent investigation of every death in custody.
The National Archives holds the founding documents and the receipts, the records that let a citizen check what the government actually did. The Smithsonian and the national museums hold the version of the American story that outlasts whoever is in office. None of that survives being run by whoever currently holds power. We are watching boards replaced with loyalists, exhibits rewritten to flatter one man, collections put at risk, and a Pearl Harbor hero's name scraped off a ship to make room for an ego. A country that lets its record be edited by the people the record is about has no way to hold anyone accountable later. Write independence for the National Archives, the Smithsonian, and the national cultural institutions into statute, with fixed board terms, protection from political removal, and no rewriting or renaming without public process.
