Thank you Gale Howell, Lacey Devereaux, Catherine M, Julie, and many others for tuning into my live video with CrowdSourceCarrie! Join me for my next live video in the app.
In this wide-ranging live, host Mitch is joined by CrowdSourceCarrie, a California-based activist and content creator who is deep in the weeds of the state’s 2026 gubernatorial race. What starts as a briefing on the crowded, chaotic primary quickly becomes a frank and fearless conversation about the state of American politics, media, and culture.
The two break down the key players in the California race: Trump-endorsed Republican Steve Hilton, controversial Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, billionaire Tom Steyer (whose hedge fund profited from private prisons), Katie Porter (whose treatment of staff remains a sticking point), and frontrunner Xavier Becerra, who Carrie is backing. With 61 candidates officially on the ballot and no Democrat with a commanding lead, the fear of two Republicans advancing through the state’s nonpartisan primary is real — even if Californians keep saying it’ll be fine.
From there, the conversation broadens into a reckoning with political desensitization. Both hosts reflect on how the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner barely registered emotionally — a symptom, they argue, of living under a sustained assault of chaos and corruption. They discuss the “boy who cried wolf” problem Trump has created: a disinformation environment so saturated that even sane people are questioning whether real events are false flags.
The live takes a particularly compelling turn when the hosts dig into the online radicalization of young men, the trad wife pipeline, and how Fox News and MAGA media function like addiction. Carrie shares a deeply personal story about her own journey away from the attitudes she was raised with, and both women make a passionate case for reaching out to MAGA-adjacent women — not to forgive, but to deprogram — as a genuine political strategy. Ilhan Omar’s call to engage with Marjorie Taylor Greene is cited as an unexpected but powerful example of this thinking in action.
Raw, honest, and unfiltered — this is exactly the kind of conversation that doesn’t happen in mainstream media.
