Steve Hilton
Founder and CEO, Golden Together. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Steve Hilton served as Director of Strategy to British Prime Minister David Cameron and co-founded the political crowdfunding platform Crowdpac. He later hosted The Next Revolution on Fox News and founded the California policy initiative Golden Together.
2shows
2appearances
46statements
37resolved
13supported
12contradicted
35%fully supported
8said about them ↓ Everything Steve Hilton said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Hilton: CA solar fund gave $928M to non-profits, only $72M to solar
“Of that one billion total in 10 years, the actual amount spent on the purported benefit here Solar panel installation was seventy two million. Nine hundred and twenty eight million actually went to non-profits doing all, all the usual Democrat associated bulls…”
Hilton: California wastes $80B annually, 20% of state budget
“Well, our number over the last five years total, our estimate was four hundred and twenty-five billion. So averaged over the years, it's about eighty billion a year. So that's, so it's around, you know, 20% or so.”
Hilton: Labor unions file most CEQA lawsuits blocking housing
“Most of those lawsuits are filed by unions.”
Hilton: Gavin Newsom's top campaign donors are unions and trial lawyers
“Gavin Newsom's political donations over the 16 years he's been running statewide, just as a proxy for Democrat politicians, by category. The number one category, government unions. Number two, trial lawyers. Number three, non-government unions.”
Hilton: CARB only counts imported oil emissions within 12 miles offshore
“CARB, the California Air Resources Board, which is obsessed with having all other businesses account for their carbon emissions right down the supply chain. Miraculously, the carbon emissions for the oil imports are only counted from when they're 12 miles off …”
Hilton proposes assigning grades to every California school and teacher
“And that's one of the proposals I've got in my campaign, which is a grade for every school and a grade for every teacher. So we can reward the good ones and remove the bad ones.”
Hilton: I was the first TV host to link COVID to Fauci
“I was the first on TV to lay out all the evidence showing that it was Fauci's experiments that were the origin of the pandemic.”
Hilton: California's 2016 Housing First law bans sobriety requirements for homeless shelters
“They passed a law in 2016, the only state in America to do it implementing in legislation this approach called Housing First. Which says that you've got to, the number one thing is, and it sounds like a sensible thing, of course, give homeless people housing, …”
Hilton: Developing 1% more California land would house 10 million people
“If we increase the development footprint of California from five percent to six percent, which would still put us really low in, in terms of other states, you could have housing for ten million people in single family homes on quarter acre lots”
Hilton: California has the highest unemployment and poverty rates in the US
“We're the state with the highest unemployment rate in the country and the highest poverty rate in the country tied with Louisiana.”
Hilton: Katie Porter publicly adopted his plan for zero tax under $100K
“One of my Democrat opponents in the governor's race, Katie Porter. Actually, you know, we were doing a debate the other week in Fresno, and she just said, we're talking about affordability or whatever it was, and she said, well, I'm, I've decided I'm stealing …”
Hilton: California's proposed billionaire tax would destroy Silicon Valley's tech ecosystem
“If the billionaire tax proposal goes through, I mean, that absolutely puts You know, I think that's just a complete disaster for the tech ecosystem and what we've built in Silicon Valley over the years and all the job creation and wealth creation that comes wi…”
Hilton: Building housing in California costs 2-3x more than neighboring states
“The same exact floor plan, house, apartment building, industrial building, whatever it is, costs two or three times more to build. In other, in, in California than in neighboring states.”
Hilton: 70% of CEQA lawsuits are used to block housing
“70% of CEQA lawsuits are used to block housing.”
Hilton: Iraq is California's top provider of imported oil
“Our number one provider is Iraq right now. That's the number one source of oil.”
Hilton: California spends $27K per student while most fail basic standards
“We spend nearly the most of any state per student right now in this year. It's about 27,000, just, it's more than, just over 27,000 per student per year. In California, if you take the average out of the money, and we get some of the worst results in the count…”
Hilton commits to reversing California's prison closure program if elected
“So a simple thing we can do that is completely within the governor's control is stop and reverse the prison closure program, which is what I've committed to doing.”
Hilton: 70% of UK policy came from EU directives and internal bureaucracy
“And it turned out that about 70% of it, I said, what proportion of it is necessary for the implementation of what we're supposed to be here to do, the actual program of the coalition government? The answer is 30%. The rest of it was either implementing EU dire…”
Hilton: Lawyers and government unions are California Democrats' primary funders
“Lawyers, along with government unions, are the main funders of Democrat politicians in California.”
Hilton: Many California restaurants budget $1M annually for PAGA workplace lawsuits
“Many restaurant owners I meet, they say they factor into their cost of doing business a million dollars a year for PAGA lawsuits.”
Hilton: California government unions spend $1 billion annually on political contributions
“The government unions, by the way, it's a billion dollars a year. So one billion dollars a year. To politics. Just from the unions.”
Hilton: San Francisco Homeless Housing Costs Up to $1M Per Unit
“They defined shelter as what they call permanent supportive housing, which is an apartment unit costing because of all the other Corruption and regulation involved in house building in California, 700,000 dollars, 800,000 dollars, a million dollars now in San …”
Hilton: California Failed to Apply for Trump-Era Federal Mental Health Waiver
“The first Trump administration created a waiver from the IMD rule that states could apply for. Guess what? California hasn't applied for the rule.”
The other half of the tape: Steve Hilton's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 7 times in 5 episodes across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →
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American Optimist 1
2026 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Anthropic's Fable Backlash, Nationalizing AI, Inflation Heats Up & California’s Broken Elections
- Adam Carolla on California’s Collapse: Fires, Failed Leadership, and Gyno-Fascism
- Anthropic's $2T IPO, Zuck's AI Manifesto, Nvidia's $500B AI Bet, Grok's Comeback
- ICE Chaos in Minneapolis, Clawdbot Takeover, Why the Dollar is Dropping
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Steve's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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| ALL-INLEDGER | Founder and CEO, Golden Together | 1 | 27 | 24% 5/21 | full record on All-In → |
| AMERICAN OPTIMISTLEDGER | Founder and CEO, Golden Together | 1 | 19 | 50% 8/16 | full record on American Optimist → |