Palos Verdes Democrats

06/08/2026

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06/08/2026

Republicans keep saying California is failing. Here are a few reasons they’re wrong:

🐻 CALIFORNIA BY THE NUMBERS

💰 Economy & Business

✅ World’s 4th largest economy — $4.25 trillion GDP
✅ 13.8% of total U.S. GDP
✅ GDP grew 5% in 2025 — largest dollar increase of any state
✅ 16-year consecutive economic growth streak
✅ Economy grew 90% in 25 years vs. 69% nationally
✅ 2nd highest per capita GDP among major world economies
✅ Sends $83B more to Washington than it receives
✅ #1 for Fortune 500 companies — 58 headquartered here
✅ 62% of all U.S. venture capital raised here in 2025
✅ Leads the nation in new business formations — 44,300 in 2025
✅ 4.3M small businesses, 7.6M employees
✅ 4x more companies moved IN than moved out

🏭 Manufacturing & Trade

✅ #1 manufacturing state — 45,000+ firms, 1.24M workers
✅ $405.6B in manufacturing output in 2024
✅ $155.2B in manufactured goods exported in 2024
✅ LA–Long Beach handles 31% of all U.S. containerized trade
✅ Port of LA — busiest container port in the Western Hemisphere
✅ LA–Long Beach is the 5th-busiest port complex on Earth

🌾 Agriculture

✅ #1 agricultural state — 60+ consecutive years
✅ Record $61.2B in agricultural production in 2024
✅ Grows 1/3 of U.S. vegetables and 2/3 of fruits and nuts
✅ $100B+ in annual agricultural economic activity
✅ 16% of all U.S. agricultural exports
✅ Produces 80%+ of the world’s almonds — 100% of the U.S. supply
✅ 66% of that almond crop is exported globally
✅ 99% of the entire U.S. walnut supply
✅ 4th-largest wine producer on Earth

🔬 Science, Innovation & Education

✅ Home to 33 of the world’s top 50 AI companies
✅ More Nobel laureates than any country except the U.S. itself
✅ UC system set a world record — 49 Nobel-affiliated laureates in 2025
✅ 74 UC faculty awarded 75 Nobel Prizes
✅ 5 California scholars among 2025 Nobel laureates
✅ #1 in patents per capita — 4x more than Texas
✅ Life sciences: $396B in output, 1.15M+ jobs

🌲 Natural Wonders

✅ Hyperion — tallest tree on Earth (~380 ft)
✅ General Sherman — largest living thing on Earth by volume
✅ Methuselah — oldest tree on Earth (5,000+ years)
✅ Highest point in the contiguous U.S. (Mt. Whitney) AND lowest in North America (Death Valley)
✅ 9 national parks — more than any other state
✅ General Sherman weighs 2.5 million pounds
✅ Torrey pine — one of the rarest trees in the U.S., found in only 2 places on Earth

✈️ Tourism & People

✅ #1 tourist destination in the United States
✅ Record $158.9B in tourism spending in 2025
✅ Tourism: 1.16M jobs, $12.6B in tax revenue
✅ 267.8 million visitors in a single year
✅ Largest and most diverse tourism economy in the U.S.
✅ Population growing again — two consecutive years of gains

06/01/2026

Reasons to vote out the GOP. All the things they have or are actively working on banning.

06/01/2026

Republicans gave Trump cover to gut Medicaid for 11.8M people, slash food stamps, give billionaires tax cuts, and stack the Court that killed Roe. They cheered while he caged kids, incited Jan. 6, and launched an unauthorized war of choice against Iran — a war that has killed U.S. service members and sent a U.S. missile into a girls’ elementary school, killing over 150 children. Then Trump lied about it. Republicans said nothing.

Tariffs? A tax YOU pay. Every consequence of this presidency has been paid by working people — not the billionaires he protects.

Every single time, Republicans chose Trump over YOU.

Return the favor. Vote every last one of them out. 🗳️

05/30/2026

https://www.youtube.com/live/W754VK0oVxs

DELANEY HALL SUPPLY NEEDS as of 9:30 am 5/29:

SUPPLIES:
-Sudecon (online bulk is cheapest)
-chairs for med tent
-extra wheelchairs
-portable chargers
-generator
-welding gloves for incoming tear gas canisters
-flashlights large & bright

You can also donate to the supply fund by Venmo

Also calls to reps/Senators - not one more $ for ICE funding.

Elizabeth is on the ground at Delaney and it’s just unspeakable. Closing all vents and then tear gassing, running over a protester and breaking their leg, denying medical care. It’s so horrible!

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05/29/2026

American children are going hungry because Trump and Republicans gave billionaires a tax cut.

05/29/2026

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05/28/2026

Trashing the White House just like he's trashing our country.

Trump is destroying the People’s House 💔

05/27/2026

So true.

05/25/2026

The Trump/Republican economy is a disaster for hard working Americans and Republican leaders couldn't care less. Trump even bragged about it when he said, “I don't think about Americans' financial situation." For once the felon-in-chief was telling the truth.