Political Notes by Jon Fuhrman Wednesday, August 12. Last month I detailed why I thought our candidate would win the Texas Senate race, and pull other Dems to victory along with him, and I talked a little about Iowa. These are just parts of what I see as a Democratic wave that’s likely to give us 60 seats – not just 51 – in the Senate. But before I tackle Iowa and Alaska and Nebraska and Idaho, it is worth noting that mainstream pundits are, slowly but surely, catching up to

Political Notes by Jon Fuhrman Sunday, June 7. ACT’s membership endorsed Xavier Becerra for Governor, and undoubtedly that was the key element propelling him into first place in the gubernatorial primary. Well, perhaps not the key element, but I suspect it was illustrative of the decision-making among Democrats writ large. Whether they knew him from his decades of public service, or saw him as steady and dependable, if not flashy or exuberant, or they figured that, after 35 y

Political Notes by Jon Fuhrman Wednesday, May 13. Describing the Cuban Missile Crisis back in 1962, Secretary of State Dean Rusk said, “We were eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow just blinked.” It would seem that President Trump was counting on that. He and his advisers seemed sure that Iran, after huge damage and the threat of apocalyptic bombing of civilian infrastructure, would blink. The problem is that, even in 1962, the Russians didn’t really blink. They took the

Political Notes by Jon Fuhrman Wednesday, April 8. Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) was the linchpin of Cold War strategy. Both the United States and the Soviet Union possessed enough nuclear weapons to annihilate each other – truly to destroy each other’s civilizations. Each side knew the other had those weapons, indeed enough weapons such that, even after a surprise first strike, the victim could still wreak utter destruction upon the aggressor. So it was a stalemate, bec

Political Notes by Jon Fuhrman Tuesday, March 10. We don’t know, and we may not ever know, if President Trump was seriously engaging in negotiations with Iran, or if the negotiations were simply a smoke screen for his decision finally to “resolve” the Iranian problem by killing their leadership (since, realistically, even the President knew they couldn’t kidnap the Ayatollah as we did President Maduro of Venezuela). We may never know whether Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu h

Local residents by the thousands converged on Pasadena City Hall to raise their voices (and their signs!) in support of democracy. The local NO KINGS 2.0 rally was a smashing success. The huge crowd chanted, sang and listened to local leaders -- including Congresswoman Judy Chu. Participation is growing with every rally. Be a part of it at the NO KINGS 3.0 march and rally on March 28th, 2026.