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Rep. Maxwell Frost on Why Proposition 50 is Critical to Stopping Trump
15 Oct 2025
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Republicans freaking out as Democrats hold firm and stand up and American’s correctly blame Trump and the GOP for the government shutdown and Meiselas shows how Democrats standing up to the GOP in California under Governor Newsom’s leadership has played a major role in Republican’s cracking under pressure nationally and Meiselas interviews Democratic Congressman Maxwell Frost on Proposition 50 in California. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Republican Congress members are cracking as Democrats are standing up against this Donald Trump and MAGA Republican shutdown. We're seeing Republican Congress members like Kevin Kiley of California breaking with the decision by MAGA Mike Johnson to send all of the Republicans back to their home districts or wherever else they want to go.
on paid vacations and to not even talk to democrats yet alone negotiate with democrats now one of the things we see with this republican kevin kiley from california is that his seat has now become very vulnerable as a result of proposition 50 in california that is to stop the midterm rigging by donald trump and the mega republicans as
Donald Trump worked with the Texas legislature and Greg Abbott to remove Democratic congressional seats. They just announced they're trying to do that in North Carolina as well. The Proposition 50 in California is a ballot initiative
that will be voted on november 4th early voting is taking place by the way right now in california and it's in direct response and it's on a emergency basis and it's short term it will expire in the next five or six years or so after this response to the rigging by donald trump and the mega republicans but the vote scheduled for november 4th and kevin kiley set to lose his seat so now he's frantic
He went on CNN and he talked to Manu Raju, who's been doing a really good job covering the Trump Republican government shutdown. And this MAGA Republican, Kevin Kiley, he's changed his tune. He's like, we got to get back to Washington, D.C. I'm not sure why MAGA Mike Johnson is not having this work. I want to go back and work. I'm not sure what the Republicans are doing.
This is why you have to stand up powerfully to these MAGA Republicans. Let's play this clip.
Being with me this morning, really appreciate your time. What do you say to Speaker Johnson, who says there's no reason for the House to come back to session?
Well, there are a lot of reasons for the House to be in session. We were supposed to be in session the last two weeks. We're supposed to be in session next week, irrespective of a government shutdown, because, you know, we have oversight hearings to do. We have legislation to mark up. We have the ordinary business of the people to carry out.
And there's no justification to shut everything down just because we're in the midst of the government shutdown. In fact, the fact that there's a government shutdown is all the more reason that we should be there in order to be doing everything we possibly can to get us out of this situation.
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