Hi there, everyone, it's 4 o'clock in the east.

Perhaps today was the day when Democrats, once and for all, slammed shut the door on a seemingly bygone era of politics,

one of strongly worded letters and norms and going high when the other party goes low,

when the Democratic Party finally said, no more Mr. Nice Guy.

Because this afternoon, actually in the last hour, California's governor Gavin Newsom

flipped the script on MAGA Republicans holding up a mirror, turning their own tactics

against them.

In a speech designed to be an in-kind response to a mid-decade redistricting effort orchestrated

by Texas Republicans, look who showed up.

Before the afternoon speech, she even got underway.

Gavin Newsom's press office posted this video.

Ice agents gathered outside the venue, but inside, here's what happened.

We're here because Donald Trump, on January 6th, tried to light democracy on fire,

tried to wreck this country, tried to steal an election, as Alex just said, by trying to dial in for 11, almost 12,000

votes. And here we are an open and plain sight before one vote is cast in the 2026 midterm

election. And here he is once again trying to rig the system. He doesn't play by a different

set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules.

And as a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done.

It's not good enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, and talk about the way the world should be.

We have got to recognize the cards that have been dealt.

And we have got to meet fire with fire.

Governor Gavin Newsom went on to explain how his state planned to respond to the Republican redistricting effort in Texas.

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