California Gov. Gavin Newsom is apparently feeling the heat. With The Invisible Coup by Peter Schweizer sitting at #1 on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list for three straight weeks, Newsom has taken to begging his donors to buy his upcoming memoir in hopes of knocking it off the throne. Confidence looks better when you don’t have to email for it.
In a February 12 message to supporters of his Campaign for Democracy PAC, Newsom urged them to purchase his memoir, Young Man in a Hurry, set for release February 24. He told them he “really” wanted them to read it and promised it covers “personal ground” and includes political stories they would “enjoy.” He even teased anecdotes about his “personal interactions with President Trump,” including what he described as an “invisible plane,” a “presidential toilet,” and “state secrets… or what should have been state secrets.” Nothing says statesman like bathroom stories.
Newsom then took direct aim at Schweizer’s book, complaining that the current #1 bestseller is a “far-right book about the Great Replacement Theory” and adding, “So… let’s replace that.” When a politician starts campaigning against a book, you know the book struck a nerve.
Schweizer fired back on X, saying Newsom was “sweating” and questioning why the governor was attacking him in emails to elite donors. He suggested Newsom might be worried his memoir will flop—or that his own book will expose deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Not exactly the rebuttal Newsom was hoping for.
Meanwhile, street art inspired by The Invisible Coup began appearing in Los Angeles and Sacramento, credited to conservative artist Sabo. One set of installations showed Chinese fighter jets flying overhead, referencing the book’s reporting that Chinese pilots are trained in U.S. flight schools, including Sierra Academy of Aeronautics in Atwater, California, before returning to serve in China’s military.
Other posters depicted Chinese babies parachuting from the sky, tied to Schweizer’s description of the “Manchurian Generation.” He has said roughly a million Chinese babies have been born in the United States over the past 13 years and raised in China, later returning with full voting and political rights. When demographics meet geopolitics, suddenly that memoir looks a little thin.
Additional artwork portrayed Newsom in a communist-style uniform overlooking riot-torn Los Angeles streets, echoing last year’s anti-ICE riots that shut down traffic on the 101 freeway and ended with police cars set on fire while agitators waved Mexican flags. Schweizer’s book also details how Mexico’s more than 50 consulates in the U.S. allegedly run shadow political operations, organize mass pro-immigration protests, and distribute Marxist, anti-American textbooks in U.S. schools.
This marks Schweizer’s fifth consecutive #1 New York Times bestseller. He is also president of the Government Accountability Institute and a senior contributor to Breitbart News.
So while Newsom is busy begging donors to rescue his memoir from obscurity, Schweizer’s book keeps climbing—and exposing. The upside? Americans are reading, asking questions, and paying attention. And when the truth sells better than spin, that’s a win for the country.
