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Attorney General Rob Bonta Accused of Rigging Election After Manipulating Voter ID Initiative Language Mid-Campaign

July 21, 2026 4:28 pmJuly 23, 2026 7:51 am

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 November 2026 election. The initiative, which gathered over a million...

Rep Adam Gray Continues Lavish Campaign Spending on Luxury Chauffeurs, Uber Rides, and MLB Tickets

July 21, 2026 12:43 pmJuly 21, 2026 12:46 pm

A new California Globe analysis of recent FEC disclosures shows that Congressman Adam Gray continues to spend campaign funds on luxury items—the same pattern CalWatchDog first documented when Democrats bailed him out in 2014. Gray, who co-chaired Rep. Eric Swalwell’s...

Newsom’s ‘First in the Nation’ Fast Food Council Hasn’t Met in Two Years Despite Million-Dollar Budget

July 13, 2026 11:18 amJuly 14, 2026 10:00 am

California’s much-hyped “first in the nation” Fast Food Council has achieved something truly impressive: it has managed to do next to nothing for nearly two full years while still cashing taxpayer checks. The council, tasked with “giving workers a voice”...

CA Republican Leaders’ Vote for Tax Increase Reflects Poorly on Entire Caucus

July 6, 2026 2:00 pmJuly 7, 2026 3:50 pm

Thursday July 2, 2026, the Republican Minority Leader Heath Flora and Republican Caucus Chair Juan Alanis voted to pass a tax increase, even as numerous Democrat Assembly members did not. When Republicans vote for tax increases, that alone is enough...

California’s Public Education has Fallen to One of the Worst in the US

July 1, 2026 11:00 amJuly 1, 2026 11:12 am

How far the great state of California has fallen, from having the best public education systems in the country to one of the worst. American teachers and teachers unions have failed children. Teachers unions have become the biggest school bullies,...

Coalition Including California, Arizona, and Nevada Sues Trump Administration Over Medicaid Work Requirements

June 30, 2026 11:11 amJuly 1, 2026 11:01 am

A coalition of 25 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia, including California, Arizona, and Nevada, filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging the Trump administration’s implementation of Medicaid work requirements enacted under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (see below)....

Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association Stands Firm: Local Taxpayer Protection Act Stays on November Ballot

June 24, 2026 1:51 pmJune 24, 2026 2:03 pm

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass claimed in a recent interview that a deal had been reached to keep the Local Taxpayer Protection Act off the November ballot. The Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association (HJTA) immediately pushed back, declaring it will not...