A sharp take on California fraud cases and the politics around them.
California's fraud indictments are the hook, but the piece keeps returning to DeMaio's larger complaint: the state has let taxpayer-money fraud sit too long.

Carl DeMaio
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California politics as campaign combat.
Reform California with Carl DeMaio turns state politics into a fast, partisan scorecard of costs, candidates, and power plays. Episodes move from a headline into polling, tax proposals, allegations, or enforcement fights, then end by pushing Reform California's campaign priorities.
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Reform California with Carl DeMaio is a high-speed California politics show shaped around urgency, grievance, and campaign action. It does not linger in neutral analysis. Episodes usually begin with a sharp headline, then race through evidence, accusations, polling, and consequences for taxpayers or Republican strategy. The governor's race is a central obsession. Tom Steyer is framed through climate policy, wealth, energy costs, and the claim that his policies helped raise gas and electricity burdens in California. Eric Swalwell receives repeated coverage through allegations, his campaign denial, his exit from the race, and the argument that Democrats benefited strategically from his removal. The show also watches Steve Hilton and Chad Bianco through a tactical lens. Its advice is not sentimental. It tells Republican voters to follow trusted polling and back whichever candidate is positioned to make the runoff. State taxes are another core battleground. Sales taxes, soda taxes, income-tax surcharges, mortgage-interest deductions, charitable deductions, and property-tax deductions all become examples in a larger case against California spending. Fraud episodes take the same approach. Welfare programs, hospice cases, indictments, Rob Bonta, Gavin Newsom, and citizen journalists are folded into a story about wasted public money and officials acting only under pressure. Immigration and sanctuary-state policy appear through airport customs threats and federal funding fights. The show is often harsh. It treats bureaucratic phrasing and bipartisan process language as cover for power, waste, or political self-protection. That edge is the point. Reform California with Carl DeMaio is less a roundtable than a campaign-side briefing for listeners who already care about California's right-of-center political fights. Its strongest moments come when it connects a news item to concrete stakes: a ballot, a tax bill, an airport line, a prosecution, a poll. Its weaknesses are the same as its identity. Anyone looking for calm ideological balance will find the framing too charged. Anyone looking for a forceful voter-guide companion, though, will understand the appeal quickly.
Made for: For right-leaning California voters who want state politics translated into taxes, polling, scandals, and campaign moves. It best suits listeners who prefer blunt strategic commentary over neutral policy discussion.
What sets it apart: The show turns almost every story into a practical election or taxpayer consequence, then links it to Reform California's voter guides, campaigns, and organizing asks. Its edge is speed: headline, argument, numbers, target, action.
Reform California with Carl DeMaio breaks down the latest news in California and what YOU can do to get involved in the fight to take back our great state.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Carl DeMaio connects California policy disputes to elections and activism through pointed monologues, specific program details, and interviews with endorsed candidates.
Carl DeMaio turns California policy fights into forceful political commentary, moving between solo arguments and interviews with endorsed candidates.
Carl DeMaio brings the taxpayer alarm bell; you decide whether Sacramento deserves the siren.
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A sharp take on California fraud cases and the politics around them.
California's fraud indictments are the hook, but the piece keeps returning to DeMaio's larger complaint: the state has let taxpayer-money fraud sit too long.
A blunt California politics listen built around fraud claims, spending, and accountability.
Reform California with Carl DeMaio treats California fraud as a clean conflict between taxpayers and politicians, and it keeps returning to the same core grievance: too much money, too little accountability.
A hard-charging wage-fight brief that turns policy into visible costs.
Carl DeMaio uses California’s minimum-wage fight to argue that higher pay rules show up quickly in prices, jobs, and the way politicians describe the economy.
A campaign-heavy treasurer pitch with a useful candidate bio and a light civics primer.
The segment frames the California State Treasurer race as a taxpayer issue and lets Carl DeMaio make the case for Jennifer Hawks before the June primary.
A sharp, combative pitch for California voters who want harder-edged Republican challengers.
Carl DeMaio uses the episode to argue hard for backing the fighters and pushing out the Republicans he treats as sellouts. The pitch is grounded in specifics, not general outrage: California's 2026 midterm races, Senate District 40, tax increases, water rates, and a candidate…

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This episode analyzes a new poll showing billionaire Tom Steyer leading the Democrat field in California's governor race, warning about his potential dangers compared to Gavin Newsom and urging listeners to take action through Reform California.
Carl DeMaio says the California Republican Party's new endorsements in statewide races, including governor, do not change the June 2026 primary.
This episode exposes a list of proposed tax hikes by California Democrats led by Gavin Newsom, detailing their costs and advocating for fighting them through spending cuts.
This episode analyzes the political fallout from Eric Swalwell dropping out of the California governor's race, arguing it was a Democrat operation to shut Republicans out of the runoff, and discusses Kamala Harris's potential write-in candidacy.
This episode analyzes Eric Swalwell's exit from the California governor's race, arguing it benefits Democrats by potentially shutting Republicans out of the runoff and discusses Kamala Harris's possible write-in candidacy.
Carl DeMaio covers two sets of California fraud indictments — a federal case with guilty pleas for $270 million in Medi-Cal fraud, and a state case for $267 million in hospice fraud — and argues the state indictments were triggered only by federal prosecutor Bill Assele publicly criticizing California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Twitter.
Carl DeMaio discusses the Trump administration's threat to pull Customs and Border Patrol agents from California airports due to the state's sanctuary policies, which could cancel international flights.
Carl DeMaio discusses a scandal involving gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell and analyzes its impact on the California governor's race.
Carl DeMaio exposes fake front groups and political theater in the California state legislature, urging public involvement to fight corruption.
Carl DeMaio analyzes President Trump's endorsement of Steve Hilton for California governor and explains why two Republicans cannot make the top-two runoff.
Carl DeMaio covers the Trump Department of Justice's criminal indictments for California hospice and healthcare fraud and uses them as a launching point to argue that California Democratic politicians have deliberately constructed a fraud ecosystem because they financially benefit from it.
Carl DeMaio discusses election integrity in California, promoting the Voter ID Initiative and endorsing Don Wagner for secretary of state.
Carl DeMaio discusses California's ongoing population loss, criticizing liberal media and Democrat politicians for denying the trend.
Carl DeMaio exposes Democrat congressional candidate Amar Kampa Najjar for racist and homophobic social media posts, violations of military regulations, and connections to terrorism, while criticizing media bias and urging support for Republican Jim Desmond in a competitive California district.
Carl DeMaio analyzes the California governor's race, focusing on how a criminal investigation against Eric Swalwell might ironically help him gain Democrat support, while Republicans risk being locked out due to vote splitting.
Carl DeMaio analyzes the negative impacts of California's $20 minimum wage increase for fast food workers, citing studies that show job losses, higher prices, and increased automation.
Carl DeMaio discusses the worsening property rights crisis in Los Angeles, highlighting policies like rent non-payment allowances, squatter incidents including a home fire, and restrictive landlord regulations.
Carl DeMaio discusses a pending U.S.
Carl DeMaio analyzes recent economic data showing California's decline, including $11.9 billion in lost tax revenue, higher inflation and unemployment than national averages, and a shift from private to government jobs.
Carl DeMaio discusses a controversy over 45,000 extra votes counted in Riverside County's Prop 50 election and the need for election reform.
Carl DeMaio interviews Jennifer Hawks, Reform California's endorsed candidate for California State Treasurer, discussing her platform as a fiscal watchdog.
This episode discusses a controversial video clip of Jennifer Siebel Newsom making offensive remarks about Christians and evangelicals, comparing it to Hillary Clinton's 2016 'deplorables' moment in the context of Gavin Newsom's presidential campaign.
Carl DeMaio investigates fraud in California's homelessness programs under Governor Gavin Newsom.
Carl DeMaio discusses allegations against Cesar Chavez and their impact on California politics, promoting his reform movement.
Carl DeMaio discusses a legal complaint alleging Eric Swalwell is not a California resident and thus ineligible to run for governor, but explains why Swalwell can still claim residency.
California state representative and Reform California chairman Carl DeMaio announces Trump's executive order establishing a California-targeted fraud task force led by Vice President J.D.
California politicians are proposing a property transfer tax that could cost homeowners up to $60,000 when selling their homes, which Reform California is fighting to block in the November 2026 election.
Carl DeMaio discusses Iran's potential drone threat to California and criticizes Democrats for blaming Trump, then covers polling showing Mayor Karen Bass in political trouble.
Carl DeMaio exposes a fraud scandal involving Governor Newsom and fake hospices, urging listeners to join Reform California's oversight efforts.
Carl DeMaio discusses a new poll on a proposed savings tax in California and leads the fight to defeat it.
Carl DeMaio criticizes Gavin Newsom for using $19 million in state taxpayer funds on a PR campaign to boost his presidential image, citing poor poll numbers and ethical concerns.
California state representative Carl DeMaio interviews Christy Bruce Lane, his endorsed candidate for California Senate District 40 in the 2026 election.
Carl DeMaio discusses a Supreme Court win for parents' rights in California and the political fight against liberal mandates.
Carl DeMaio discusses the California governor's race, the risk of Republicans being shut out, and Democratic hypocrisy on racism.
Carl DeMaio says Reform California submitted about 2.7 million signatures for two state constitutional amendments that will go before California voters in November 2026.
Carl DeMaio discusses California's failing schools and endorses Sonia Shah for Superintendent of Public Instruction in the 2026 election.
Carl DeMaio discusses recent successful signature drives for California voter ID and Save Prop 13 initiatives, and introduces a new effort to block a proposed savings tax.
Carl DeMaio discusses the latest California governor race poll, FBI raids, and government corruption scandals.
Carl DeMaio discusses a report on California's gasoline crisis, blaming Democratic policies and warning of price increases.
Carl DeMaio criticizes Gavin Newsom for allegedly making racially insensitive remarks about black people during a book tour event and accuses the liberal media of ignoring the story while calling out Democrat politicians for their silence.
Carl DeMaio criticizes a proposed government-run healthcare system in California, arguing it would increase costs and taxes.
Carl DeMaio discusses a new mileage tax proposed by California Democrats and outlines a campaign to stop it.
This episode introduces Michael Gates as a Republican candidate for California Attorney General in the 2026 election, endorsed by Reform California to address crime and corruption.