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Rep. Eric Swalwell in Los Angeles on Jan. 10, 2026. (ETIENNE LAURENT / AFP via Getty Images)

Drew Thomas Allen is a columnist for The Daily Signal, a conservative author, and publicist who hosts The Drew Allen Show. He is the author of America’s Last Stand, For Christ and Country: The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk, and his latest book, Clinton Hoax Obama Coup: the Declassified Story of the Trump-Russia Delusion.

If the allegations are true, former Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., is slime. He represents the worst variety: the kind who lectures the world about morality while living in the gutter. Multiple women have accused him of sexual assault, claiming he preyed on them when they were too intoxicated to consent. 

One former staffer says he assaulted her twice: once in 2019 while she worked in his district office and again in 2024. At least four women have described unwanted advances, intoxicated encounters, explicit messages, and nude photos. 

Swalwell denies it all as politically motivated lies, but the dam broke anyway. Endorsements vanished; staffers abandoned him; and on April 12, 2026, he suspended his campaign for governor of California.

The hypocrisy of his denial is hard to overstate. This is the same congressman who spent years as a loud champion of “believe women.” 

During the Brett Kavanaugh hearings, he demanded that every accusation be treated as truth, pushed for public spectacles, and helped whip up a mob of presumed guilt. He weaponized sexual misconduct claims as a partisan club against Republicans. 

Now that the accusations target him, though, he has suddenly discovered skepticism, issuing legal threats and whining about election timing. That is not mere inconsistency. It is the mark of a fraud who destroys others with unproven smears while allegedly engaging in the very behavior he condemned.

Yet Swalwell did not climb the ladder alone. If the allegations are true, then the California Democratic Party and its media allies bear equal guilt.

Longtime East Bay journalist Steven Tavares, who has covered Swalwell since his Dublin City Council days, stated on April 12: “I’ve covered Eric Swalwell since he was a member of the Dublin City Council. Shortly after being elected to Congress in 2013, his behavior towards women was known by all levels of our local government and the Alameda County Democratic Party.” 

The post went viral with millions of views.

Other Democrat-aligned journalists have suggested Democrats were aware of Swalwell’s alleged behavior.

It seems Sacramento insiders may have whispered about Swalwell’s behavior for over a decade, but the party buried the red flags because Swalwell was useful—a telegenic, combative cable news performer who reliably attacked conservatives.

In a state long dominated by unbroken Democrat supermajorities in the Legislature and complete control of every statewide office, it seems raw power may have trumped protecting victims. 

Democrats elevated Swalwell with endorsements and soft coverage. Only when his scandals threatened to sink the entire Democrat ticket in the wide-open 2026 race to replace Gavin Newsom did the machine discover sudden “accountability” and cut him loose.

This was classic political triage. Democrats are merely discarding damaged goods to save the broader enterprise.

The double standard is glaring. Katie Porter, a top contender in that same race, quickly positioned herself as a defender of women. She demanded Swalwell resign from Congress, drop his bid, and face full investigations while declaring solidarity with his accusers. 

Yet Porter has her own documented issues that the party conveniently ignores. Viral videos show her screaming at a staffer during a professional call: “Get out of my f—— shot!” 

In divorce filings, Porter’s ex-husband alleged verbal and physical abuse, including dumping scalding-hot mashed potatoes on his head. Porter offers vague regrets about “falling short,” and Democrats give her a pass. 

Alleged sexual misconduct triggers outrage only when it endangers the brand at the wrong moment. Everything else is overlooked.

This selective hypocrisy reveals the deeper civilizational decay in California under one-party rule. For more than a decade, Democrats have shielded flawed figures like Swalwell while their policies have produced a harvest of human misery far greater than any single politician’s personal failings. 

They enabled rampant homelessness despite pouring billions into failed programs. They championed soft-on-crime measures and sanctuary policies that left law-abiding citizens vulnerable. They imposed radical environmental mandates and zoning restrictions that turned homeownership into an impossible dream for working families. They delivered punishing energy prices that crush middle-class budgets while elites preach climate virtue from their enclaves. And they presided over a steady exodus of productive residents and businesses fleeing to states where basic governance still functions.

These are the predictable results of unchecked power held by progressive ideologues untethered from reality or consequence. We are witnessing the slow-motion suicide of what was once the Golden State. 

Ordinary Californians are victims of the Democratic Party: families priced out of their hometowns, small-business owners destroyed by taxes and disorder, seniors living in fear amid open drug use and chaos, entire communities watching their quality of life evaporate while Sacramento lectures them about “progress.”

Swalwell’s suspension changes nothing at the core. The consultants and donors will simply install the next flawed candidate—Porter or whoever survives the scrum—complete with his or her own unreckoned sins. 

Swalwell deserves the contempt pouring his way for his alleged actions and especially for his shameless double standard. But the Democrats who knew the warnings since at least 2013, who promoted him, who covered for him, and who only abandoned him when political survival demanded it—they are as bad, and arguably, worse. 

Their long complicity exposes a machine that values power above decency, truth, or the well-being of the people it claims to serve.

Until voters confront the entire machine rather than just its disposable parts, the scandals will persist, the decline will accelerate, and victims—including the millions of ordinary Californians ground down by years of failed governance—will continue to suffer.

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