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When Election Cheating Is Tolerated, Democracy Becomes Oligarchy

June 9, 2026 11:10 amJune 9, 2026 11:10 am

Spencer Pratt is just the latest example of an all too familiar pattern. In this pattern, the more conservative candidate will have a promising lead on election day, but then, the voting tabulations run for days, if not weeks. The...

More Votes Cast for LA Mayor Than Governor in Every City Council District, Data Shows

June 9, 2026 9:21 amJune 9, 2026 12:35 pm

Updated preliminary results from California’s primary election continue to highlight an unusual pattern in Los Angeles: more ballots cast in the local mayoral race than in the statewide gubernatorial contest across every single City Council district. The analysis, compiled by...

Free IDs for All: A Modest Investment in Election Integrity That Billionaires and Sacramento Can Afford

June 9, 2026 9:00 amJune 9, 2026 9:44 pm

California’s election system relies on self-attestation of citizenship under penalty of perjury. Proponents of the status quo, including organizations like the Brennan Center for Justice, assert that non-citizen voting is exceedingly rare. Yet when simple, verifiable proof of citizenship or...

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Calls for Federal Funding Cuts in California Until Corrupt Elections Are Reformed

June 9, 2026 8:20 amJune 9, 2026 12:12 pm

California’s elections have been a disaster since the state Legislature passed and Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill authorizing ballot harvesting in 2017. This legislation was just in time for the 2018 election, where California’s congressional Republicans lost 7 seats...

When Sacramento Listens to Bureaucrats Instead of Parents, Education Suffers – and Voters Push Back

June 9, 2026 6:30 amJune 9, 2026 6:31 am

In California education politics, there is a familiar pattern that keeps repeating itself: state lawmakers rely heavily on education policy staff, institutional bureaucrats, and Sacramento special interest groups—then are surprised when parents across the state reject the results. Nowhere is...

Guidance for Drafting Regulations in the Active Voice

June 9, 2026 2:30 amJune 9, 2026 2:31 am

In California, drafters of regulations and bills are instructed to use the active voice, rather than the passive voice. This is a change in the historical manner of drafting that previously included lots of passive voice language in state laws....

Democrats Will Pay for Overplaying Their Hand in California Elections

June 8, 2026 3:00 pmJune 9, 2026 6:48 am

One week ago in California, there was a Primary Election. Voters were excited for this Primary election because for the first time in nearly 20 years, there were other candidates besides the permanent political establishment or deep staters on the...