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DOJ Leverages Skid Row ‘Cash-for-Ballots’ Scheme to Demand Full Audit of California Voter Rolls

May 19, 2026 10:00 amMay 19, 2026 10:57 am

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Monday that a Marina del Rey woman has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge of paying individuals, including homeless people on Skid Row, to register to vote using false or vague addresses,...

High-Speed Rail Shuffle: Bay Area Cronies Board the Boondoggle While the Central Valley Gets the Shaft

May 15, 2026 8:00 amMay 15, 2026 8:01 am

Fresno developer Tom Richards spent sixteen years trying to steer California’s high-speed rail project toward something resembling a real outcome. Last week he stepped down as board chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority. Governor Gavin Newsom’s response: appoint two...

ASU Stages Its Own Theater of the Absurd: From Shakespeare to Sorcery and Taxpayer-Funded Queer Activism

May 14, 2026 2:10 pmMay 14, 2026 2:10 pm

As an English major who once dreamed of wrestling with Shakespeare, dissecting Milton, and grappling with the great works that built Western civilization, I never imagined the liberal arts would descend into this: Arizona State University proudly steering incoming freshmen...

Gavin Newsom and California Democrats Are Doubling Down on Their Government Failure

May 14, 2026 8:54 amMay 14, 2026 10:23 am

California is a textbook case of government failure. Governor Gavin Newsom and the state’s Democrats are doubling down on their failure, corruption, addiction to spending, and ridiculous programs, further destroying the quality of life in the once greatest state in...

OPINION: Redding Conservatives Should Vote for Niman to Save Them from Democrat Jared Huffman

May 13, 2026 7:11 amMay 14, 2026 6:43 am

Last Fall, Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Area Democrats gerrymandered half of California’s remaining Republican members of Congress out of office. Nowhere was this nasty power grab more obvious and harmful than Shasta, Siskiyou, and Modoc Counties. Once properly...

Ringside: Why California’s GOP Voters Must Show Up in November

May 13, 2026 5:01 amMay 13, 2026 5:02 am

The chances that a Republican could be elected governor in California have not been this good in a generation. But to do it, the winning candidate will have to attract a record turnout from registered Republicans, while also earning votes...

Terrified Democrats Launch Petition to Undo ‘Top-Two’ Primary System, Fearing All-Republican Governor Ballot in 2026

May 11, 2026 12:02 pmMay 12, 2026 2:10 pm

In a display of partisan panic and raw hypocrisy, California Democrats are now plotting to dismantle the state’s voter-approved “top-two” jungle primary system—the very mechanism they once championed as a bulwark against gridlock—all because early polls show two Republicans could...