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. That is the point.

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 if you win, you’ll get flown to Washington, D.C. to show it off at the U.S. Capitol.

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 the voices of everyday Americans.

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 business letting Members profit off information the public does not have.

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 tough, the room is frustrated, and the issues are hard. But I show up anyway, every single time.

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 leaving office, it would be a full-blown national scandal. This is NOT NORMAL.

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.

$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 justice system got something wrong. That’s NOT what’s happening.

Trump has now paid four different energy companies more than $2.5 BILLION dollars of your tax money to STOP building wind farms that would have brought your electricity bills DOWN.

Republicans control the House, the Senate, and the White House, and what have they delivered? Chaos, dysfunction, and one of the least productive Congresses in modern American history.

$2.5 million. That’s what a convicted fraudster told fellow inmates he’d arranged to pay to get out of prison early. Not through an appeal, not through a judge, but through a phone call to the president. David Gentile defrauded 10,000 investors out of $1.6 billion and was sentenced to seven years.

Just toured the new Mariposa catchment wall in San Clemente. This structure protects the rail line, the beach, and the trail that so many families count on and enjoy. Several million in federal funds helped support the state and local work that made it possible.

Today we broke ground on Veterans Memorial Park in the City of Carlsbad! 🇺🇸   Together with the Carlsbad City Council and our state-level partners, including Assemblymember Boerner, we secured the funding to make this happen—including $3 million in federal dollars.

What a load of crap. Trump is making billions while in office, his accounts are trading thousands of stocks, and his family is cashing in on crypto as his Administration rewrites the rules. Uninvolved? Please.

The situation with the Kennedy Center has gone off the rails. It has officially reached levels of pettiness I didn’t think were possible, but Trump is once again defying the odds.  A court ordered his name removed from the building. He lost, fair and square. So, what does he do?

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America. Trump’s DOJ shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by one of his closest Senate allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping toxic chemicals into our waterways.

One year ago today, Donald Trump signed into law the largest cuts to Medicaid and food assistance in American history. Why? Not to balance the budget, but to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest people in this country.

A government deal this corrupt would’ve made the front page of every newspaper in the country twenty years ago. Under the Trump Administration, it’s just another Tuesday. Let’s break it down.🧵

Someone made a fortune betting that America was about to go to war with Iran. They placed that bet 71 minutes before it happened. I’m a member of Congress with access to classified briefings, and I had no reason to believe it was coming right then. How is this legal?

Members of Congress should not be able to trade individual shares of stocks. No ifs, ands, or buts. We vote on laws that move markets. We receive briefings the public never sees. We should not be able to use that position to profit from the industries we regulate.

Trump had the answer to lowering your housing costs handed to him on a silver — no let’s make that gold — platter last week and he still found a way to screw it up.

Trump insisted on renovating the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. He botched the job from start to finish, and now he’s blaming everyone but himself.

A foreign oil giant was under fire from the Trump White House for buying Russian oil. Then it poured nine figures into a troubled refinery startup tied to Donald Trump Jr. Not long after, the pressure from the Trump Administration vanished. Welcome to Episode 19 of the Corruption Chronicles.

This month is Gun Violence Awareness Month, and the numbers tell a story we cannot keep accepting. Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children and teens in this country. Not car accidents. Not illness. Guns.

Donald Trump just showed the country exactly where housing ranks on his priority list: nowhere. A once-in-a-generation bipartisan housing bill was ready for his signature. It would help lower costs, build more homes, and take on big investors buying up neighborhoods.

I think Eisenhower and Reagan would be appalled by what the Trump Administration is doing. This nation had a Department of War once, but after World War II, we built something better.

Federal prosecutors had a strong criminal case against Senator Jim Justice’s coal companies for thousands of alleged violations, including dumping arsenic into drinking water. Then Trump's DOJ shut it down.

It’s time we bring some common-sense reform to the Supreme Court. When Supreme Court Justices serve for life, they become the most powerful people in America with the least amount of accountability. That is not how a democracy is supposed to work.

Trump promised to cut your energy bills. Instead, his own Department of Defense is blocking the energy that would actually do it. The DoD is sitting on every single wind project approval, blocking enough power for millions of homes and putting 150,000 jobs at risk, with no justification.

Trump will leave office with a Boeing 747, courtesy of Qatar, upgraded courtesy of you. A foreign government gave the President a $400 million jet. American taxpayers spent millions more making it one of the most sophisticated aircraft on the planet.