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Barack Obama Endorses Prop 50, ‘Democracy Is On The Ballot’

October 14, 2025 2:11 pmOctober 15, 2025 12:45 pm

Former President Barack Obama has released a 30-second ad urging Californians to vote “yes” on Prop 50, a $250 million ballot measure that would “temporarily” eliminate a democratically-elected, bipartisan redistricting commission and hand unilateral control of the state’s redistricting to...

Prop 50 Cheating? California Redistricting Special Election Ballots Expose the ‘NO’ Votes

October 10, 2025 9:57 amOctober 13, 2025 8:00 am

California voters are receiving their single-issue ballots for the Nov. 4 Special Election, Governor Gavin Newsom’s dubious mid-decade redistricting scheme, with the sole purpose of gerrymandering Republicans right out of their Congressional districts. However, the mail-in ballots have a serious...

Parents Beware: The Truth Behind California’s Mandatory LGBTQ+ Lessons

October 8, 2025 5:00 amOctober 10, 2025 7:40 am

As California school districts discuss how to implement opt outs due to the U.S. Supreme Court decision affirming parents’ right to withdraw children from discussions on LGBTQ+ issues that conflict with their “sincerely held religious beliefs,” it’s important to understand...

New Zogby Poll: Steve Hilton Leads Republicans, Nearly All Democrats in CA Governor’s Race

October 7, 2025 2:55 amOctober 8, 2025 3:16 pm

The reports of voters leaving the Democratic Party are numerous, and includes many California voters. There are a lot of concurrent issues happening in California leading to significant election changes in the tarnished Golden State. A new Zogby Strategies poll...

Newsom Signs Bill to Unionize California’s 800,000 Rideshare Gig Workers: This Was the Plan All Along

October 4, 2025 8:50 amOctober 6, 2025 11:33 am

Governor Gavin Newsom Friday signed Assembly Bill 1340 by Democrat Assembly members Buffy Wicks and Marc Berman into law, “marking a historic milestone for California’s gig economy and the hundreds of thousands of drivers who power it,” Wicks and Berman...

48 Global Trips for CA Insurance Commish Ricardo Lara as Insurance Carriers Were Leaving California

October 2, 2025 5:03 pmOctober 4, 2025 7:29 am

Where’s Ricardo? He’s not in his office, that’s for sure. California’s elusive Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has built up a lot of frequent flyer miles while California homeowners have been getting hit with massive spikes in insurance premiums, or getting...

Gov. Newsom’s Free Healthcare for Illegal Immigrants Drove Medi-Cal to Insolvency

September 30, 2025 5:11 pmOctober 1, 2025 4:31 pm

That California Governor Gavin Newsom wants to continue to give free healthcare to illegal immigrants is not rumor. The Globe has covered this saga for some time now. Gavin Newsom’s Medi-Cal program for low-income Californians is insolvent. We have Gavin Newsom...