The wheels are coming off Eric Swalwell’s once-dominant campaign for California governor. Just days after unverified social media rumors began circulating, the San Francisco Chronicle dropped a bombshell investigative report featuring the first on-the-record accuser: a former Swalwell staffer who says the longtime Democratic congressman sexually assaulted her on two separate occasions — once while she worked for him in 2019 and again in 2024 after she had left his office.

In the Golden State, where dreams are big and regulations even bigger, one law stands out as a nightmare for small business owners and tech giants alike: the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). Enacted in 2004 to empower workers to sue over labor violations, PAGA has morphed into a litigation machine that lines the pockets of trial lawyers and the state treasury while squeezing family-ownedn