THE THING ABOUT IT IS.
Investigations · January 1 to July 20, 2026

A state government mailed every California voter a pamphlet describing non-Jews as livestock to be enslaved.

SeverityHatefulTreats a whole group as lesser, dangerous, or not fully human. Everything at this level.
Who said itCandidate statement by Don J. Grundmann, printed and mailed by the California Secretary of State
Who it targetsJewish people
TrackProtected groupsProtected-group hate and political-opponent extremism are counted apart, and neither total is presented as a score against the other. Everything on this track.
What was said

California’s official 2026 primary voter guide, mailed statewide the week of April 20, carried a gubernatorial candidate’s statement calling non-Jews “goyim (less than human animals/cattle)” whom Jews “will enslave.” The same statement said Israeli “art students” brought down the Twin Towers and that Israel killed Charlie Kirk, and it linked to the Goyim Defense League. California law requires candidate statements to be printed largely without content review.

Why it counts

Every other item in this half-year had to find an audience. This one was addressed and delivered by the state, at public expense, to voters who didn't go looking for it.

The law that produced it isn't a loophole. It's a deliberate rule against a government editing candidate speech, and it's a reasonable rule with an outcome nobody designing it wanted. Both things are true and the second doesn't cancel the first.

The receipts

Every quote, checked against its source.

Candidate statement, California official primary voter information guide

"We are ‘goyim’ (less than human animals/cattle) that they will enslave. We are stupid chumps."

Distributed by the Secretary of State’s office. Multi-week press and political response followed.

2026-04-24 · source

One of 59 confirmed items from a six-month pass across 925 accounts, plus the legislatures, courts, and agencies around them. Nine of the 59 are on this site, picked on a stated rule rather than by feel. The rest are in the full report.

Go deeper

Religious hate across 925 accounts

The full six-month pass across three lanes, with per-narrative scoring and the roster hit rates. This page is the plain-language cut; that one is the whole thing, including the hate methodology that defines every score here.