Progressives Threaten California Billionaires with Migrant Votes and Populist RevolutionNeil Munro 19 Jan 2026
Progressives are using migrants’ voting power — and threats of a populist revolution — to grab a huge share of Silicon Valley’s stock-market wealth via a tax plan on California’s November ballot.
“You made all your money in California, you ungrateful piece of shit,” Kara Swisher, a progressive journalist in California, told one of the billionaires targeted by the ballot initiative. “We deserve the taxes from you,” added Swisher, who is wealthy, far-left, childless, and pro-migration.
If the billionaires resist pressure from California’s migrant-swelled voter rolls, any potential compromise should be replaced by “shock and awe” in the November ballot, she told Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat who is readying a 2028 presidential campaign.
“What will make us fall behind China, is if we see further political dysfunction and social unrest,’ Khanna said as he argued that poor people — including many migrants welcomed by the billionaires — will launch a revolution against the investor class unless progressives get their cash:
The industrial revolution saw soaring inequality in Britain for nearly 60 years. On the continent, it lead to revolutions in France with worker uprisings (1848) and contributed to one in Russia (1917). America’s central challenge is to make sure the AI revolution works for all of us, not just tech billionaires. So yes, a billionaire tax is good for American innovation which depends on a strong and thriving American democracy.
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