California's June primary is weeks away, with Garry's List's new voter guide aggregating endorsements from housing, labor, and reform groups to help cut through the noise. Behind the election, Sacramento is grappling with a structural budget crisis — the state's own analysts confirm spending outpaced revenue growth by 10 points since the pandemic, leaving chronic annual deficits of $20–30 billion — while controversial legislation like AB 2624, which could expose journalists to fines for covering immigration nonprofits, advances through committee.
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The state's own nonpartisan analyst says spending outpaced revenue by 10 points. More taxation won't solve the problem.
AB 2624 just cleared committee. It could allow taxpayer-funded immigration NGOs to sue the journalists investigating them.
California's EDD lost $20 billion to fraud and still owes $21 billion on its federal pandemic loan — and that's only the tip of the iceberg.
SB 1074 bans Amazon, Apple, Google, and Meta from rigging their platforms against startups. The fight DC couldn't win lands in Big Tech's backyard.
ACA-7 would gut Prop 209's K-12 protections, letting race determine who gets into gifted programs. Voters said no twice. Sacramento doesn't care.
While virtue signaling politicians and their donors sip champagne, real builders walk the fire rubble of Pacific Palisades and work with startup founders to create jobs
Tom Steyer renamed a 1978 Democratic law after Donald Trump and called it a plan. The loophole is real. The history, and the math, are not.
Public sector unions are picking their next governor. Porter, Swalwell, and Steyer are lining up to perform. One Democrat is not: Matt Mahan
California bleeds $20-35 billion a year. Steyer wants to raise taxes. Mahan wants to stop lighting money on fire.