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From the Cheap Seats: Prop 50 is an Indecent Proposal

October 15, 2025 2:01 pmOctober 15, 2025 2:01 pm

In the 1993 film “Indecent Proposal,” a couple accepts a million dollars for a single night that destroys their marriage. California’s Proposition 50 offers a similar bargain: surrender your constitutional right to independent redistricting, and in return, you will “get...

AZGOP Chair Accused of Congressional Run Gets ‘Loomer-ed’

October 15, 2025 12:40 pmOctober 15, 2025 12:40 pm

Arizona GOP chairwoman Gina Swoboda became the center of a political firestorm last week following the announcement of Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ01) vacating his congressional seat to run for Governor. With word spreading of a fundraising reception for Swoboda in...

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...