Posts by Take Back San Jose

October 1, 2023 Though not a party, the Democratic Socialists of America is a U.S. left-wing group whose chapters hold increasing sway over more mainstream Democrats in national, state, and municipal politics. The DSA views itself as community organization that’s building working class power and fighting for radical change, and generally supports activities around defunding the…

October 4, 2025 SJ’s “pragmatic progressive” mayor lines up behind the county’s fiscally irresponsible, strategically flawed, and economically illiterate Measure A. Opp Now unpacks the measure’s three big business no-no’s in this exclusive. Matt Mahan should know better. Santa Clara County’s rushed purchase of multiple troubled hospitals was always an unsustainable and a wrong-headed expansion of…

SNAP benefits are set to run out of funding Nov. 1, impacting more than half a million Bay Area residents SNAP benefits are set to run out of funding Nov. 1, impacting more than half a million Bay Area residents With funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program running out Nov. 1 due to the ongoing…

Unknown artist. No known copyright restrictions., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons SJ Mayor Mahan says he wants to “govern from the middle.”  That middle appears to be rapidly tilting left. He’s a fellow traveler with the Silicon Valley Democratic Socialist Party on Measure A. The DSA’s reasons for supporting A, excerpted below, make for interesting…

Miss the newspaper? The Mercury News and East Bay Times e-editions fit our printed pages on your screens. Halloween amid an immigration crackdown: Bay Area cities are assuring their residents that everyone will be protected as they take their children trick-or-treating and mark Día de Los Muertos. Here’s what police in Antioch, Brentwood, Oakland and San…

 I’m sharing this exclusively with Americans who actually care! Before you and your neighbors see the same Californian mess in your state…I Thank you,

“Money With Wallet” by Chris Potter, CC BY 2.0 SC County residents have already begun voting on a 5/8-cent sales tax increase, which they’re told will be “temporary” and will “save the hospitals.” But are either of these incantations believable? SVBA’s Pat Waite flips through county’s greatest hits: so-called “temporary” taxes that never went away—and underdelivered on what…

The proposed redrawing of districts would put their re-election to Congress at grave risk next November. 

Friend,  We are Charlie Kirk.  That’s the rally cry of millions of Americans — and the message they carry with their “We are Charlie Kirk” wristbands.  We want you to have one. To join the movement carrying Charlie’s legacy forward

Dear John, Thank You, -Team HiltonAuthorized by Steve Hilton for Governor 2026