Sacramento Democrats are pushing ACA-7 through the legislature to strip racial preference protections from California's K-12 schools—defying voters who rejected similar measures twice—while the 2026 governor's race takes shape around a stark divide between candidates backed by public sector unions and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, who is running on cutting state spending before raising taxes. With California facing $20-35 billion in projected annual deficits and union-aligned candidates like Tom Steyer, Katie Porter, and Eric Swalwell competing for endorsements from the same special interests that benefit from state spending, the question of who controls Sacramento—and whose interests they serve—is the defining fight of this election cycle.
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.
Jelani Nelson drove to Sacramento for months, recruited allies, and won: Academic standards at UCs matter
The billionaire claiming to ‘always stand with labor’ made millions from private prisons and other aggressively anti‑union investments
Public sector unions collect nearly $1 billion a year to control Sacramento. Normal citizens? A trickle against a torrent.
A billionaire spending $27 million attacks a mayor for having tech support. The irony writes itself.
$30 billion stolen in unemployment fraud alone. California's gubernatorial candidate says fix it before raising taxes.