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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...

California Transit Agencies Cost Taxpayers $10 Billion Per Year – And They Want More

October 14, 2025 7:00 amOctober 14, 2025 8:38 am

By Marc Joffe and Athan Joshi California transit agencies required over $10 billion of taxpayer funds to provide service and maintain their capital plant in Fiscal Year 2023. This is the key finding of our analysis of data from 85...

Former GOP Election Official Buys Dominion Voting Systems For Undisclosed Sum

October 10, 2025 2:24 pmOctober 10, 2025 2:24 pm

Former GOP election official and founder of Liberty Vote, Scott Leiendecker, has purchased Dominion Voting Systems for an undisclosed sum. As reported by Axios news, Leiendecker created KNOWiNK in 2011, a software program that assists election workers with voter verification...

Sonoma Public Health Officer Orders Masks, Vaccines, Claims ‘Risk of COVID’

October 10, 2025 8:15 amOctober 10, 2025 8:15 am

If you’re experiencing a deja vu of the Covid era, you are not alone. Last month we reported that Governor Gavin Newsom is still pushing the Covid vaccine. Even after Newsom’s three years of Covid lockdowns, mandatory masking, social distancing and...

Sen Marie Alvarado-Gil Urges Veto Override by Legislature for Gov. Newsom’s Failure to Protect Firefighters

October 9, 2025 5:03 pmOctober 9, 2025 5:06 pm

California State Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil (R-Jackson) urged her colleagues in the California Legislature to override Governor Gavin Newsom’s veto of AB 1309 by Assemblyman Heath Flora (R-Ripon), would have required the state to pay rank-and-file Cal Fire firefighters within 15...

Saving Catalina’s Deer: Why the Conservancy’s New Eradication Plan Must Be Stopped

October 9, 2025 3:30 amOctober 9, 2025 3:31 am

In the sun-drenched hills of Santa Catalina Island, a controversial shadow looms once again over the island’s iconic mule deer population. Just months after scrapping a widely condemned helicopter-based culling plan, the Catalina Island Conservancy has unveiled a revised proposal:...

Beyond the Polls: Arizona’s Churches Signal a National Faith Revival

October 8, 2025 3:03 pmOctober 9, 2025 10:32 am

A recent Pew Research study reported that 58 percent of Arizonans identified as Christian in 2023-24, a decline from 71 percent in 2007, alongside a rise in Republican-leaning respondents to 52 percent from 38 percent, according to AZ Central. These...