Maya C. Miller

Katherine Aleman, a public-school teacher and part-time chicken farmer, is the latest Democrat to join a crowded field of challengers hoping to unseat Rep. @kencalvert, the longest-serving Republican in CA's congressional delegation. cal.news/4kMH3gE 📝 @mayacmiller

Will California's NPR and PBS stations survive now that Trump signed cuts to public media funding? Station leaders say yes, but cost-saving changes, like staff and programming cuts, are inevitable. Local shows, the priciest to produce, are most at risk calmatters.org/politics/2025/…

Can a teacher break Democrats' congressional losing streak in California's Inland Empire? Strategists think so. Read more about Katherine Aleman, the latest Democrat to announce a challenge to GOP Rep. Ken Calvert, in my latest for @CalMatters calmatters.org/politics/2025/…

GOP Rep. David Valadao has a new challenger. @DrJasmeetBains, a physician and centrist Dem in the state lege, wants to make Valadao regret his vote in favor of the GOP megabill. Read more in my latest for @CalMatters #CA22 #CAlege #CApol calmatters.org/politics/2025/…

CA Gov. Gavin Newsom was adamant that he would make state employees return to the office four days a week starting this summer. Now many can telework till next July. Why did the gov suddenly reverse course? Find out in my first @CalMatters story: calmatters.org/politics/2025/…

Today marks my first day as a politics reporter with @CalMatters! I’ll cover campaigns, state government accountability and California’s congressional delegation among many other topics. Add me to your press lists, drop me a line and let’s grab coffee: [email protected]

The G.O.P. chairmen of the House and Senate agriculture committees said they were “troubled” by the Make America Healthy Again Commission’s findings and urged it to use sounder science. nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/…

Three G.O.P. members of Congress whose families fled Cuba are objecting to the Trump administration’s move to strip hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans of deportation protections. My last story as NYT fellow 🥲 nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/…

President Trump has certainly stretched the boundaries of executive power, but attempting to take over the Library of Congress is a new level for him. Can the president choose who runs the library? @hillhulse and I talked to lawmakers about it nytimes.com/2025/05/15/us/…

A bill to restore more than $1 billion in funding for Washington, D.C., which Congress blocked earlier this year, has stalled in the House. Republican resistance to the measure has left its fate in doubt. nytimes.com/2025/05/07/us/…

Republicans are still avoiding in-person town halls. The ones who are holding them are trying to use strategies to control the tone. But those attempts aren't entirely succeeding. story from @mayacmiller and me: nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/…

2 Protesters at Marjorie Taylor Greene Town Hall Are Subdued With Stun Guns By @mayacmiller, with a little (remote) assist by me: nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/…

Police used stun guns on two protesters at Marjorie Taylor Greene's town hall tonight in Acworth, Georgia. Before the event, Greene told told me she was not concerned about hecklers and would “look forward to throwing them out” nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/…

As Democrats push back against the policies of the second Trump administration, they are struggling to convey a clear stance on tariffs, with many walking a political tightrope amid the rapid shifts in President Trump’s trade agenda. nytimes.com/2025/04/13/us/…

In case you missed it, Republican lawmakers have been relying on their personal connections with DOGE staff and White House officials to quietly reverse cuts that affect their constituents. nytimes.com/2025/03/28/us/…

Fired federal workers have been coming to Capitol Hill every Tuesday to share their stories with senators and ask the lawmakers to speak up. Several of the workers present today were just laid off from HHS this morning: nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/…

there is only one thing on my mind

👀 from @CatieEdmondson + @hillhulse