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If You Don’t Vote, We Can’t Win!
After Prop 50, Voter ID and Prop 13 are going to be on the ballot
By Andy Caldwell, October 30, 2025 3:10 am
One of my favorite movie lines, because it made me think, was in “Chariots of Fire.” Chariots of Fire is a true story, a 1981 film about two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian, who compete in the 1924 Olympics. The film was the winner of four Academy Awards including best picture. Harold Abrahams is afraid he can’t beat Eric Liddell. He tells his girlfriend, “If I can’t win, I won’t run!” She aptly observes, “If you don’t run, you can’t win.”
Too bad Republicans (and a good number of independents) in California don’t have wise and discerning girlfriends! I have witnessed several elections over the years where the margin of victory by which the Democrat won was the exact number associated with Conservatives who didn’t vote because they thought they could not win. It is a very perverse and disastrous self-fulfilling prophecy to lose because you don’t think you can win, when the only thing you had to do to prove yourself wrong was to vote.
I am often asked, “What can I do to make a difference?” The simplest thing is to get involved and recruit other “unbelievers” to do the same. Today I will outline three things you can do.
The first is vote! Proposition 50 is before voters, and it is as extremely important as it is devious. The fake excuse to redistrict California mid-census has to do with Texas doing the same. But Texas redistricted because it was found to be in violation of the laws pertaining to how districts can be drawn in light of the Voting Rights Act. Regardless, Texas had a legitimate reason to redistrict, and was ordered to do so, while Gavin Newsom’s Prop. 50 is nothing less than a raw power grab.
What is at stake? The elimination of all but three congressional seats held by Republicans in California. The goal? Shift the balance of power in the House back to Democrats to stonewall the Trump agenda. What to do? VOTE! And urge everyone you know to vote NO on Prop. 50. The deadline to vote is this Tuesday. Prop. 50 suspends California’s Citizen’s Redistricting commission for purely partisan purposes. Don’t let Newsom get away with it.
Speaking of voting. One of the things the corrupt Democratic political machine relies upon to win in California is various types of election machinations ripe for fraud. This would include so-called “ballot harvesting” which allows bundlers to drop off hundreds of ballots gathered under, at best, suspicious circumstances. The cure? The requirement to vote in person and show an ID to do so!
The proposed Voter ID ballot measure, if approved by voters, would become a state constitutional amendment that requires citizenship verification for all voter registrations and government-issued ID for casting a ballot in an election. But, before voters get a chance to approve this measure, we need your help to get it on the ballot! That means the organizers must get enough signatures to get the measure before voters. Please visit the following website to download the petition and urge your family and friends throughout the state of CA to do the same: https://www.reformcalifornia.org/cavoterid/sign-the-petition
The third issue that needs your immediate attention is an effort by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer’s Association to shore up Proposition 13. The passage of Prop 13 was a seminal event in our tax and spend state back in the 1970’s. Prop. 13 accomplished several things for taxpayers. First, it capped the rise of property tax from year to year. This was so essential to property owners who were losing their homes, that they owned outright, because the meteoric rise in property taxes was literally taxing them out of their homes. The second provision of Prop. 13 required a two-thirds vote to raise local taxes. Well, to make a long story short, both our politicians and our courts have been whittling away at these protections and the HJTA would like to shore up and bullet-proof Prop. 13.
This is another instance where we need your help qualify this measure for the ballot by downloading a petition, signing it, and mailing it right now, today! You can find this petition at the following website: https://www.hjta.org/saveprop13/
In conclusion, I recently spoke at a church about Charlie Kirk and what his life and death represented about America. In essence, Americans have two birthrights. The first as believers in God, in general, the second as Americans whose founding DNA recognized that our divine rights come from God, not government. The question before those who will not stand up for truth, justice, and the American way as Charlie Kirk did, is why have you sold or squandered your birthright? If you are interested in hearing more, go to time mark 39 minutes, at:
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Excellent article and great sermon, I hope it is shared with many Christians who aren’t registered to vote!
for any who think that their vote doesn’t matter: RNC sent election attorneys to all swing states. They stopped people from attempting to double-scan stacks of ballots and were ready to file a lawsuit the minute a poll worker decided they were gonna close early despite the long line. Had a warrant within 20 minutes to keep it open til the last person voted. As a result, Trump won all swing states because they couldn’t cheat openly!!! The Trump DOJ is sending attorneys with the same kind of legal specialties to the counties with the most fraud in 2020/2024 in California this week. Tell EVERYONE to vote! We can win this. Let’s think Too Big to Rig instead of sitting at home feeling sorry for ourselves!
Thank you, Cali Girl!
VOTE NO on PROP 50
Please please please; Does anybody really believe Newsom would take the subject proposition to the voters without the outcome already being assured?
The constant rants about Newsom and his incompetence are inane. He and his cohorts are methodical, thorough brilliant in a morbid way.
No way in hell can an enemy be defeated unless one first conceives a plan for defeat based on the enemies capabilities and resources.
Trump emboldened Newsom and the sniveling whining Californians fed his ego.
Newsom’s capabilities much greater than we realize and accept.
He’s adeptly solidifying his presidential aspirations.
Trump was handed several opportunities to smack Newsom down but because of Trump’s compromised and cowardly demeanor the greatest threat to America and California is on a vector to the presidency.
Who are you really working for Mr Trump.
Notice too and again we always lose!
Only one of Gov. “Hair-gel Hitler” Newsom’s mentally ill loser trolls like Eyeinthesky would laughably try to claim that Newsom is adeptly solidifying his presidential aspirations. LOL! A majority of voters across the country want nothing to do with a demonically diabolical WEF globalist monster like Hair-gel Hitler Newsom who has made an absolute mess of the once great state of California.
Eyeinthesky, you’re a demonically delusional Democrat loser troll who no doubt exploits trafficked illegal alien children and guzzles adrenochrome with your boss Hair-gel Hitler Newsom.
Whaaaaaaaat do you mean. Trump is feared by our nation’s enemies (ask Iran and others that have conceded that America’s strength is in our leadership). We win when the internal impediments (lousy leadership) to success are overcome and we have leaders in place that are not corrupt and are looking out for the best interest of our nation and its citizens.
@Eye, I am sorry but you give Newsom , WAAAAYYYY too much credit.
At best he is a tool of the globalists, they are not known for using the best and brightest as displayed in politicians such as Kamala and Biden. They take flawed, power obsessed ,people who will do and say anything to stay in the public spotlight. Gavin’s recent claim he grew up poor is a great example of the games he will play. He more than likely grew up lonely and ignored by his divorced parents looking out for themselves hence eating a lot of mac and cheese!
I think you are also missing the point of this article. I look at the voter turnout every election. It is pathetic and we all need to do our part to make changes! Mr. Caldwell gives great advice here.
We are not defeatist in the least.
VOTE NO ON PROPOSITION 50!
Because of people like you, Eye, that can’t differentiate between policy and personality…
President Trump is the equivalent to political chemotherapy that is required to combat the political Communist cancer that initially metasticized during the Obama 1 & 2 terms and almost became terminal under the “Joe Biden” (mis) administration (aka Obama’s third term, to “fundamentally transform America “).
Now Newsom is apparently anointed as the heir apparent to continue Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of America.
Interesting how Obama is the leading media mouthpiece for the Yes on 50 movement…
I don’t recall OTHER former Presidents getting as involved in state politics long after their Presidential term was up…
This stinks like nothing else and Prop 50 must be SOUNDLY DEFEATED to STOP the “American Psycho” wannabe-President, Gavin Newsom…
Get with the program and realize that only someone with the brass of Trump is willing to stand up to the dark, globalist forces that want the United States to slip into central control via Communism, via the Democrat party of 2025.
“Because of people like you, Eye, that can’t differentiate between policy and personality…”
Yes CriticalDfence9, Eye*** is lobbying for a chance to join his Ivy League constitutional law bro on Fox News.
During Donald Trump’s second reign as president, the US dollar has decreased 58% in value relative to gold, the international standard of accounting. There isn’t anything more damaging that could be done to you and your family than what Donald Trump has already accomplished.
Concurrently the Trump administration is fast tracking AI and digital currency. all this is the precursor to your forcef capitulation and contrition to the new world order. Donald Trump is the deep state and is wreaking on you more damage the Newsom has ever contemplated. when Gavin Newsom becomes president that too will change.
Oh look, Hair-gel Hitler Newsom’s loony troll Eyeinthesky is now stating as a fact that his boss Newsom will become president! If anyone is a deep-state WEF globalist, it’s Eyeinthesky’s boss Hair-gel Hitler Newsom who has turned California into a dysfunctional new world order dystopia.
President Trump does NOT support a forced digital currency, particularly a central bank digital currency (CBDC). In fact, he has taken explicit steps to oppose it. On January 23, 2025, Trump signed an executive order that bars federal agencies from undertaking any action to establish, issue, or promote central bank digital currencies.
He previously pledged during his 2024 campaign that he would never allow the creation of a CBDC, calling it a dangerous threat to freedom that would give the federal government absolute control over your money.
Gold prices have been artificially depressed for years through financial engineering and central bank actions. The president is ushering in a golden age that will put an end to that manipulation.
The insane TDS rants by Newsom’s trolls like Eyeinthesky are probably the result of years of recreational drug abuse, taking too many vaccine shots/boosters, and guzzling baby’s blood and adrenochrome during Newsom’s staff meetings.
Yes, indeed @TJ. As you know, Eye*** is just the latest in a long line of leftist trolls that have come and gone at the Globe. They may lurk here for a while but eventually they are overcome by their emotions and they can’t help but reveal their true colors…..like Chuck Schumer, doing his version of the Newscum hands fist-waving routine over the Schumer Shutdown; which Democrats are losing in the polls because the public sees through all of their theatrics now. All of the leftist BS coming out of people like Eye*** will be expunged like a fart in the wind and cows will now be able to relieve themselves again without being demonized by the climate-change idiots like Eye*** (led by BIll Gates). I could go on but you are having too much fun with this one and I won’t interfere. Enjoy. 😉