Alix Breeden
Multimedia journalist
Alix Breeden is a Los Angeles-based journalist focused on investigative, on-camera, and human interest reporting
My latest standouts
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Desperation plagues Steve Hilton's CA gubernatorial bid
Republican nominee Steve Hilton is facing exceptionally steep odds in his run for governor of California.
But as the former Fox News host joined Daily Kos from a spotty video connection en route to another campaign event, Hilton’s determination to change California’s blue history was unwavering, to say the least.
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Medicare for all and ‘meat pics’: Men of the left lean into sex appeal'
When a metaphorical army of bedazzled cowboy hats and Donald Trump memorabilia filled a Dallas arena this past week, they were more likely than not expecting a show of strength from the Republican Party.
What they likely didn’t expect was a show of literal strength in the form of a nearly nude, muscular Hasan Piker on the jumbotron above them.
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For many deported men, the hell of CECOT still haunts them
Today, Suárez Trejo sits with the surreal mental images of dust clouds covering the sunlight over the city as people cry, pinned beneath their toppled homes. But this tragedy sits atop a list of his own traumas as well.
July 18 marks one year since he—and more than 200 other men—returned to Venezuela after U.S. President Donald Trump had sent them to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, CECOT, early in his second term.