{"id":67014,"date":"2026-02-22T19:01:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/trumps-reign-of-terror-must-end-california-democrats-plot-national-return-to-power\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T19:01:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T00:01:33","slug":"trumps-reign-of-terror-must-end-california-democrats-plot-national-return-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/trumps-reign-of-terror-must-end-california-democrats-plot-national-return-to-power\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Trump\u2019s reign of terror must end\u2019: California Democrats plot national return to power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emboldened by recent wins, elected officials gathered in San Francisco to share strategy for a midterm \u2018reckoning\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Fury at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> was the coin of the realm, as thousands of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a> delegates, activists and elected officials gathered in San Francisco this weekend, emboldened by a string of victories and confident the Golden State would help deliver a power check on the president in the upcoming midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrats<\/a> streamed through the Moscone Center convention complex, sporting lanyards emblazoned with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/gavin-newsom\">Gavin Newsom<\/a>\u2019s name and tote bags adorned with one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/nancy-pelosi\">Nancy Pelosi<\/a>\u2019s favorite aphorisms: \u201cWe don\u2019t Agonize, we organize\u201d \u2013 symbols of a party in transition as the former speaker approaches <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/nov\/06\/nancy-pelosi-retire-congress\">retirement<\/a> and the term-limited governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/oct\/26\/gavin-newsom-2028-presidential-race\">eyes<\/a> a presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/22\/california-democratic-convention-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emboldened by recent wins, elected officials gathered in San Francisco to share strategy for a midterm \u2018reckoning\u2019 Fury at Donald Trump was the coin of the realm, as thousands of California delegates, activists and elected officials gathered in San Francisco this weekend, emboldened by a string of victories and confident the Golden State would help &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Trump\u2019s reign of terror must end\u2019: California Democrats plot national return to power\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/trumps-reign-of-terror-must-end-california-democrats-plot-national-return-to-power\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Trump\u2019s reign of terror must end\u2019: California Democrats plot national return to power\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}