America’s most sensitive secrets, overseen by the puppet of a fringe cult leader. Former DNI Tulsi Gabbard’s strings lead straight to a guru who preaches bigotry from a Lanikai mansion.

It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. Hawaiʻi’s Senate leadership is holding all the cards—and voters don’t even have a seat at the table.

The fraud that is most dangerous is not the fraud of the poor, but the fraud of the powerful—the fraud that convinces the working man to vote against his own bread.

Grab your red twine and head to the cork board. Hawaiʻi’s ongoing bribery scandal has devolved into a Scooby-Doo nightmare worthy of the Overlook Hotel.

Pay no attention to the mayor behind the curtain! Honolulu wants a better police chief. The mayor wants to be the Wizard. And the only one pulling back the curtain is a tiny dog with a Civil Beat pin.

Welcome to the 2026 lieutenant governor race—where one candidate is riding high; the other is treading water; and somewhere beneath the surface, a very well-funded shark is waiting.

In 2024, the AG told lawmakers she already had the power to appoint a special counsel. In 2026, she claims she has no such power. My new cartoon exposes a contradiction at the heart of the $35k bribery investigation.

Congressman Ed Case’s empty rhetoric on ICE counts for little so long as his campaign funding comes largely from the same war-profiteering donors who supply the tools of militarized policing at home and abroad.

The grift that keeps on taking: Ed Blum's Kam Schools lawsuit uses manufactured grievance politics to try to dismantle a real remedy for colonial harm, all in service of white supremacy.

Honolulu Prosecutor Steve Alm's office can't investigate an employee for witness tampering because he never signed the pinky-swear form promising not to commit crimes.

Honolulu City Council chair Tommy Waters is running for a third term thanks to a loophole in the county charter. But should we even have legislative term limits?

A surrealist take on the vivid hallucinations of Large Language Model A.I., which are known to imagine entirely made-up historical events, data points and now even case law.

What was meant to be a $51 million rescue mission for service providers under threat from federal cuts could instead become another ethics debacle. But try asking the governor and he’ll just call you a hater and escort you from the beach.

The absurdity of Honolulu’s police commission fiasco deepens. Like a naked stadium streaker, ousted chief Logan’s salary demand makes everyone uncomfortable, and Mayor Rick’s favored, rejected replacement drops the ball in his own endzone.

Instead of ensuring a future for Pacific fisheries, Kitty Simonds and WESPAC have accelerated their decline. If we don’t demand change now, the next generation may inherent an ocean stripped of its life.

Spilling the tea on the inappropriate relationship between a powerful State Senator and his māmaki tea business, and the conflict of interest inherent within.

A policy disagreement over sewer fee rate schemes at the Honolulu City Council prompted council chair Tommy Waters, a Democrat, to instigate a leadership shakeup that elevated MAGA Republican Andria Tupola to Vice Chair.

Rep. Kyle Yamashita is out as State House Finance Committee chair. Like Napoleon before him, will he make a comeback from his political exile and storm his way back into power?

The 2025 Hawaiʻi legislative session ended with an ignominious whimper when it comes to good government reform, or “sunshine,” bills—the last of which died in conference committee the week before this cartoon ran.

Between President Trump’s tariff chaos, haphazard cuts to government functionality via Elon Musk’s rogue agency DOGE, and Congress advancing $5.1 trillion in tax cuts for the rich on the backs of the rest of us, it’s looking like the U.S. economy and the empire that supports it are headed for a painful, stupid end.