# How Young Progressive Candidates Challenged the Democratic Establishment

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Podcast: [KQED's The California Report](https://stenobird.com/podcast/kqed-s-the-california-report-45411)
Published: 2026-06-11T16:16:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.kqed.org/news/12087106/how-young-progressive-candidates-challenged-the-democratic-establishment
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In California’s congressional primaries, a slate of younger, often progressive, Democrats challenged some of their party’s aging incumbents…testing voters’ appetite for generational change. Reporter: Izzy Bloom, KQED Reports of medical neglect in immigration detention are rampant – and deaths are rising. And when sick or injured detainees do get to an outside hospital, many say their care is still compromised. Reporter: Tyche Hendricks, KQED Two of California’s largest courts are testing an AI tool that can do a lot of the same work as a legal assistant. Right now, judges are mainly using this AI clerk for civil cases. But documents obtained by our partner CalMatters show that, in the future, it could be used in criminal cases where the stakes are much higher. Reporter: Cayla Mihalovich, CalMatters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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