When Blue America endorsed AOC against Joe “the next speaker” Crowley, everyone accused us of being crazy and wasting our contributors’ money. When she won, people were gobsmacked. But sometimes the good guys win. Not all the time; sometimes. This morning I spoke with Maebe A Girl, the only outstanding and potentially history-making candidate running in L.A. this cycle. “Having come in 2nd place out of 9 candidates in 2022,” she told me, “our campaign is confident that we can win the open CA-30 House seat in the 2024 General Election. Our platform of economic equity, human rights, and environmental justice is widely appealing to this progressive district. While other candidates have raised more corporate dollars, our progressive, people-powered support can take us all the way to Washington.”

Look down the page a little. That is a great slate of candidates. Most of them have been endorsed at one time or another by Blue America and there’s not a single one who I wouldn’t vote for. But I won’t be voting for any of them because I live in CA-30, Adam Schiff’s district. He’s running for the Senate not for the House, so it’s an open seat. And the two Democrats who win the primary will face off against each other in November, 2024. So far there are a dozen Democrats in the race. There are also some Republicans running, vanity candidates. The district went for Biden by 46 points— 72.2% to 26.0%. The partisan lean is D+45. That’s a very Democratic district. Last cycle, two Democrats faced off after they both won the 9-person primary primary, Adam Schiff and Maebe A Girl. In general, Schiff who spent $18,036,600 took 71.1% to Maebe’s 28.9%, after she spent $31,579.