Politics

Aisha Wahab Wins the California Seat Nobody Wanted to Talk About, And Everything It Means

A hotly contested special election in California’s East Bay has a winner. Aisha Wahab, a progressive state senator backed by labor, party leadership, and the state’s attorney general, has clinched the congressional seat left vacant after Eric Swalwell’s resignation. Here’s what happened, and why it matters more than the headlines suggest.