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.

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.

A wannabe Caesar, a dangling auditor, two hungry lions, and a wheelbarrow full of no-bid cash. Virgil would weep.

Pacific Resource Partnership’s former PAC board member Vlad Devens is up for Chief Justice. That’s a conflict of interest too big to gavel over.

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.

Democracy should flow through a public hearing, not a private audience. Yet, in the people’s house, the most important conversations happen in the hallways—and they’re all off the record.

I’m the Conversation Starter, twisted Conversation Starter /
I’m the one who texts the threats to get the vote locked in /
I’m the one who holds the funds, the trouble I've begun.

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?