Government

BY YUE STELLA YU AND  KRISTEN HWANG On Nov. 3, Californians will vote on 14 statewide ballot measures on environment, taxation, election, housing and healthcare. For months, interest groups sponsoring ballot initiatives spent heavily on ad blitzes and signature gathering to get on the ballot, but some agreed to withdraw high-profile proposals after striking deals with state leaders or other…

(The following was posted on social media on Monday, July 27, concerning Mariposa County’s closure of the homeless facility known to the community as Connections.) Hello, everyone. As a heads up, I was informed that Connections permanently closed today at 5:00 p.m. Connections was operated by The Alliance for Community Transformations, and the program was…

Over 250K total illegal immigrants on CA, NJ, NV, PA voter rolls By Katy Grimes, July 25, 2026 In a July 16, 2026 letter from DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber (and similar letters to officials in New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania), DHS stated that a review of publicly available voter…

Democrats are advancing a bill over objections from rural residents, ranchers and Republicans that would study whether California should bring back grizzly bears BY RYAN SABALOW The grizzly bear on California’s flag went extinct a century ago in the Golden State. Now, a group of tribes and environmentalists is urging the Legislature to study whether it’s…

This mid-election manipulation by the democratic Attorney General goes beyond neutral summarization as required by statute By Megan Barth, July 21, 2026 4:28 pm (The California Globe) California Attorney General Rob Bonta faces accusations of rigging the ballot language for Proposition 39, the Voter Identification, Citizenship Verification, and Registered Voter List Administration Initiative, just months before the…

Labor groups are wagging the dog as California is right in the middle of wildfire season By Katy Grimes, July 14, 2026 6:30 am After many failed attempts to unionize more agricultural workers in California, Gov. Jerry Brown instead signed into law Assembly Bill 1066 in 2016 by then-Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego), and sponsored by…

Investigations into suspected election fraud in California are underway, and Bill Essayli told The Epoch Times he does ‘expect those will result in charges.’ By Travis Gillmore, Brad Jones, Beige Luciano-Adams (Republished from The Epoch Times) Ahead of the 2026 midterms, investigations into suspected election fraud in California are underway, said Bill Essayli, first assistant U.S. attorney for…

Newsom has served in public office since 1997, therefore, Newsom has significant experience with the Act’ By Katy Grimes, The California Globe Last week, the California Fair Political Practices Commission fined Governor Gavin Newsom $31,500 for failing to timely report more than $5.6 million in behested payments. Newsom solicited these “behest” payments from private sector companies, and…