The Steady Drip: November 2025

Saturday, November 29, 2025

Common Cause (Connecting the Dots: Common Cause, Gerrymandering, Gavin Newsom, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, U.S. Supreme Court, Smartmatic (electronic voting system used in the United States) & Soros Funding, All Networking)

Common Cause (Connecting the Dots: Common Cause, Gerrymandering, Gavin Newsom, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, U.S. Supreme Court, Smartmatic (electronic voting system used in the United States) & Soros Funding, All Networking)

https://www.commoncause.org/california/about-us/

About Us

When We the People come together, we can make a real and lasting difference. Taking action with California Common Cause means joining a powerful movement in pursuit of a democracy that finally gives all Californians a voice in the decisions that shape our future.

For more than 50 years, Common Cause and our members have fought for the democracy we deserve.

Common Cause puts its state and national policy expertise, massive network of grassroots supporters, and nonpartisan approach into action to strengthen our democracy against the challenges it faces today. We work at every level of government on priorities that impact each of our lives—like defending the right to vote, limiting Big Money’s influence on our elections, holding public officials accountable, and more. Our efforts are driven by our national headquarters in D.C. and our more than 25 state offices, led by teams of on-the-ground specialists who know how to win impactful reforms that fortify our democracy.

Our mission: Common Cause is a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to upholding the core values of American democracy. We work to create open, honest, and accountable government that serves the public interest; promote equal rights, opportunity, and representation for all; and empower all people to make their voices heard in the political process.

Rucho v. Common Cause

https://www.commoncause.org/articles/rucho-revisited-5-takeaways-on-the-5-year-anniversary/

In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court issued one of the most detrimental decisions for democracy. In Rucho v. Common Cause, the Court ruled that partisan gerrymandering is a political question beyond the jurisdiction of federal courts – that is, federal courts can do nothing to stop political parties from manipulating voting district boundaries for their own advantage.

Connecting the Dots:

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for Common Cause and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, Married in 2013 and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Mark Malloch-Brown is a global board member for the Open Society Foundations and the CEO for Smartmatic (electronic voting system used in the United States).

George Wallerstein is a senior director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and an advisory board member for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.

Gavin Newsom is a director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, the California state government governor and was invited to George Soros’s 2013 wedding reception.

Ira Lechner is a director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (think tank) and was a director at the Truman Center for National Policy.

R. Hunter Biden is a director at the Truman Center for National Policy and Joseph R. Biden Jr’s son.

Kamala D. Harris is an advisory board member for the Truman Center for National Policy and was elected attorney general of California in 2010 and vice president of the Joseph R. Biden Jr administration.

Madeleine K. Albright was the president of the Truman Center for National Policy.

William J. Perry is an advisory board member for the Truman Center for National Policy and a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Ted Turner is a co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank) and the founder of CNN.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank), Common Cause and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, Married in 2013 and is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.

Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).

Mark Malloch-Brown is a global board member for the Open Society Foundations and the CEO for Smartmatic (electronic voting system used in the United States).

George Wallerstein is a senior director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and an advisory board member for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.

Gavin Newsom is a director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, the California state government governor and was invited to George Soros’s 2013 wedding reception.

Ira Lechner is a director at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (think tank) and was a director at the Truman Center for National Policy.

R. Hunter Biden is a director at the Truman Center for National Policy and Joseph R. Biden Jr’s son.

Kamala D. Harris is an advisory board member for the Truman Center for National Policy, Tamil Brahmin & Donald J. Harris’s daughter, was elected attorney general of California in 2010, was vice president of the Joseph R. Biden Jr administration.

Kamala Harris

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris#Early_life_and_career

Early life and education

Kamala Devi Harris[a] was born in Oakland, California,[3] on October 20, 1964.[4] Her mother, Shyamala Gopalan (1938–2009), was a Tamil Brahmin biologist[5] who arrived in the United States from India in 1958 to enroll in graduate school in endocrinology at the University of California, Berkeley. A research career of over 40 years followed, during which her work on the progesterone receptor gene led to advances in breast cancer research.[6] Kamala's father, Donald J. Harris (born 1938),[7] is an Afro-Jamaican who immigrated to the United States in 1961 and also enrolled in UC Berkeley, specializing in development economics. The first Black scholar to be granted tenure at Stanford University's economics department, he has emeritus status there.[8] Kamala's parents met in 1962 and married in 1963.

Tamil Brahmin a biologist who arrived in the United States from India in 1958 to enroll in graduate school in endocrinology at the University of California, Berkeley, is Kamala Harris’s mother and married to Donald J. Harris.

Donald J. Harris is married to Tamil Brahmin, Kamala Harris’s father and enrolled in the University of California, Berkeley.

Lisa Cook earned a PhD in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, is a member of the Federal Reserve Board and a board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Judge Charles Roberts Breyer received his Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley and is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) was founded at the University of California, Berkeley.

Zohran Mamdani co-founded the school's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, the mayor of New York City in the 2025 election and Mahmood Mamdani’s son.

Mahmood Mamdani is Zohran Mamdani’s father, and a Ugandan academic, author, and political commentator and The Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and a professor of anthropology, political science and African studies at Columbia University.

Letitia James received her MPA at Columbia University, the Attorney General of New York and the chair for the Committee on Economic Development.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Committee for Economic Development and Common Cause.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Carol A. Melton was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development and a director at the Economic Club of Washington.

Robert G. Liberatore was a trustee at the Committee for Economic Development and a director at the Economic Club of Washington.

Vernon E. Jordan Jr. was the president of the Economic Club of Washington, is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and a senior director at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank), the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund and Common Cause.