Mike Levin

The Constitution makes Congress a co-equal branch of government and a check on the President. That is the design of our republic. Far too many Washington Republicans have surrendered that role. Th...

Where does it end?     Trump has embraced the idea that if you lie enough, exhaust people enough, and flood the country with enough corruption, eventually nothing matters anymore.     I refuse to a...

$3.2 BILLION. That’s how much companies tied to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have received in government contracts and payments since the brothers invested, and another $3.1 billion in possib...

Trump accepted a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar. Taxpayers spent hundreds of millions more upgrading it, and the Secret Service still would not let him fly home on it. Why? That’s exactly wha...

There are 1,000 missiles loaded, aimed, and ready to fire at Iran, according to Trump. That’s the latest update on Trump’s unauthorized war, which, in case you weren’t keeping count, he has said...

What keeps me up at night is watching corruption get normalized in real time. The scandals come so fast, so shamelessly, and in such volume that they are betting you will stop paying attention. T...

Destroying the home an animal needs to survive is harming that animal. That’s just common sense, and for 50 years, federal law agreed.     The Trump Administration is trying to trick us all into th...

Federal agents don’t usually show up at a journalist’s front door to serve a subpoena just for reporting the truth. But that’s what just happened. The DOJ subpoenaed four New York Times journalist...

Calling all middle and high school students in CA-49: have you ever had an idea for an app and thought, “someone should really build that?”    Build it! Enter the Congressional App Challenge, and i...

🚨 BREAKING: A federal judge just threw out Trump’s entire IRS settlement, including the $1.8 billion slush fund AND the audit immunity for him, his family, and his businesses. You cannot sue yo...

The Supreme Court just made it even easier for big dark money to flood our elections.     That means more billionaires, more corporate special interests, and more outside money trying to drown out ...

If a stock trading ban for Members of Congress came to the floor tomorrow, it would pass.     Everyone knows it’s corrupt. Everyone knows it destroys trust. And everyone knows Congress has no busin...

Is your representative holding town halls?       I’ve held 136 since entering Congress. That’s at least one for every month on the job.       Not because it’s easy — sometimes the questions are tou...

My thoughts are with Senator Graham’s family, his friends, his staff, and the people of South Carolina. He devoted much of his life to public service, first in uniform with the Air Force and then ...

If any other president accepted a $400 million jet from a foreign government, made taxpayers spend hundreds of millions more to secure it, and then had it transferred to his own foundation after le...

I’m one of about sixty members of Congress who take zero money from corporate PACs. That shouldn’t be rare. It should be the standard.     Too much of our politics runs on money you can never see. ...

Add it to the list. Partying in the Olympic hockey locker room, personalized whiskey bottles, a VIP snorkeling trip, and now a secret six-figure crypto bet that Kash Patel hid from the public for s...

$1 million. That's the going rate lobbyists now openly quote to get a pardon case in front of Donald Trump.    The pardon power exists for one reason: to let a president correct cases where the jus...

Nearly 1 million people lost a combined $3.8 billion buying Trump’s crypto coin. Trump walked away with $636 million. That is a SCAM. He used the power and trust of the presidency to pro...

Donald Trump Jr. owns a stake in a company that wants to be “the Amazon of guns.”    Now the Trump Administration is trying to make it easier to buy guns online and have handguns mailed directly to...