Maya C. Miller
@mayacmiller
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Covering politics with @CalMatters | fmrly @NYTimes, @TheStateWorker for @sacbee_news, @seattletimes, @StarTribune, @DMRegister | let’s go Duke 🎼🏀
Joined February 2019
In recent years, CA Republicans wielded far more influence in Congress than in the state Legislature, thanks to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. But since his ouster, and now under Prop. 50 maps, the GOP is increasingly isolated https://t.co/wpivh5uwBR 📝 @mayacmiller 📸 Jules Hotz
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Nancy Pelosi announces her retirement from Congress with a cinematic, idyllic love letter to San Francisco.
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The San Francisco representative, who’s best known for her political prowess and leader of national Democrats, won’t run for reelection.
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California voters passed Prop 50. Now comes the scramble for candidates: Who will run where? https://t.co/vOSyjq90Wy 📝 @mayacmiller
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Here are five takeaways from California's special election on Tuesday, via @CalMatters:
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California voters passed the measure to tilt the state's congressional districts toward Democrats in the 2026 election. Now comes the scramble for candidates.
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What happens next now that Prop. 50 has passed? Gavin Newsom's redistricting plan is now law. But it’s not yet clear how widely Prop. 50’s influence will stretch outside of California. Meanwhile, candidates are playing musical chairs as they scramble to switch districts
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Newsom is calling on other Democratic states — Virginia, New York, Illinois, Maryland — to “meet the moment” and redraw their congressional districts too. “It is all on the line, a bright line in 2026”
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Gov. Gavin Newsom to a crowd of reporters at @CA_Dem headquarters: “We stood tall and we stood firm in response to Donald Trump's recklessness. And tonight, after poking the bear, this bear roared with an unprecedented turnout in a special election with an extraordinary result.”
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And that’s a wrap on Prop. 50. But stay tuned, we’ll have much more coverage in the following days!
Breaking: It’s a yes for Prop. 50. California voters approved the measure to temporarily suspend the state’s nonpartisan citizens redistricting commission until 2030. https://t.co/C8RvjQjMjC 📝 @mayacmiller& @JeanneKuang 📸 Ted Soqui
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Read more in this newsy quick take for @CalMatters. (And shoutout to my dear friend @cami_mondeaux, a fellow local journo, whose post first alerted me to this. Everyone should turn notifs on for her!) https://t.co/pBDHrCooeX
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Sen. Alex Padilla was never officially in the race to succeed Gov. Gavin Newsom, but his profile led many to believe that he'd be a favorite to win.
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Sen. Alex Padilla says he will not run to succeed Gavin Newsom as California governor. The state's senior senator was never officially in the race, but his national profile – especially after being tackled at a DHS presser – led many to believe that he'd be a favorite to win.
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California voters are deciding the fate of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Proposition 50, which poses one simple question: to gerrymander or not to gerrymander? https://t.co/0yOGjsks14 📝 @JeanneKuang & @mayacmiller 📸 Florence Middleton
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DC — you thought you got rid of me, but no!! If you haven’t tuned in to Election Day and Prop. 50, I joined C-SPAN’s Washington Journal early this morning to catch you up to speed. Watch here!
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Maya Miller talked about California's Proposition 50.
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Recent opinion polls show strong support for the Yes side. Newsom’s campaign is flooding the airwaves with star-studded advertisements and drowning out its opponents’ faint final pitch to voters. https://t.co/yMxiI8jgAV 📝 @mayacmiller 📸 Larry Valenzuela
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My latest for @CalMatters, on Election Day Eve. So grateful to have had the chance to cover this consequential storyline. And the road to 2026 has only just begun! https://t.co/PXE7AOxixF
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“There are a lot of indicators that suggest the Yes side is going to win comfortably,” says one nonpartisan pollster.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom made Prop. 50 a referendum on Trump. Polls indicate the strategy is working as voting ends
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Final Yes on 50 ad from Newsom's team - Obama, Ocasio-Cortez, Warren, Padilla, Murphy, giving various Dem policy reasons to support new maps.
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As in-person voting begins in California, Gov. Newsom has repeatedly asserted that the Trump administration could send immigration agents to polling places in an attempt to intimidate voters and depress turnout. https://t.co/ITj6haWZlx 📝 @mayacmiller 📸 Miguel Gutierrez Jr.
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The Trump administration’s Department of Justice will deploy election monitors to five California counties on Election Day, the department announced Friday. https://t.co/OPmLZKs1Ml 📝 @mayacmiller
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The fact that DOJ is sending election monitors to jurisdictions in two Democratic-controlled states that are having off-year elections – California and New Jersey – has raised eyebrows, given President Trump's weaponization of the Justice Department to target his political foes.
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