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California Doubles Down on Rehabilitation

On a hot August morning, state and local leaders gathered in Fresno to cut the ribbon on California’s newest community reentry facility. The site, run in partnership with TURN Behavioral Health Services, is designed to help people finishing prison sentences adjust to life on the outside. For Jorge M

By Cara Brown McCormick

September 3, 2025

California Doubles Down on Rehabilitation

Will Trump Reclassify Cannabis This Week?

A massive fistfight broke out on the floor of the Mexican Senate on August 27 as lawmakers clashed over whether the United States should step in to confront Mexico’s drug cartels. The chaos in Mexico comes just as President Donald Trump is preparing to make news of his own. With a single announcemen

By Cara Brown McCormick

August 29, 2025

Will Trump Reclassify Cannabis This Week?

Gerrymandering Wars Escalate Beyond Texas and California: A National Race to the Bottom?

Republicans currently hold a narrow 219 to 212 edge over Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, with four vacancies: three from Democratic members who have died and one from a Republican who has resigned. This is the smallest House majority held by either party in nearly a century. The razo

By Cara Brown McCormick

August 27, 2025

Gerrymandering Wars Escalate Beyond Texas and California: A National Race to the Bottom?

Who’s Running for Governor of California in 2026?

California voters are lucky. In 2026, when they choose their next governor, they will do so under a system that ensures no spoilers, no wasted votes, and a guaranteed majority winner. Thanks to the state’s nonpartisan top two primary, every candidate appears on the same ballot, and the top two finis

By Cara Brown McCormick

August 26, 2025

Who’s Running for Governor of California in 2026?

Why 1.2 Million California Independents Are The Biggest Wild Card in American Politics Today

The fate of Proposition 50, California’s proposed redistricting measure, may come down to voters who have declined to join one of the two major political parties.

By Cara Brown McCormick

August 22, 2025

Why 1.2 Million California Independents Are The Biggest Wild Card in American Politics Today

How Californians Without Solar Got Stuck Paying for Those Who Do

Californians pay the second-highest electricity rates in the nation, more than double the U.S. average, and those rates are climbing faster than inflation and rising more quickly than in

By Cara Brown McCormick

August 19, 2025

How Californians Without Solar Got Stuck Paying for Those Who Do

Once More Unto the Breach: TX Gov Calls for Second Attempt to Deliver GOP-Friendly Maps

Texas Governor Greg Abbott wasted no time in escalating the state’s redistricting battle. Within two hours of the previous special session ending on August 15, Abbott called lawmakers back to Austin with instructions to deliver a new map.

By Cara Brown McCormick

August 15, 2025

Once More Unto the Breach: TX Gov Calls for Second Attempt to Deliver GOP-Friendly Maps

Gavin Newsom Has a Big Problem

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Governor Gavin Newsom is finding out the hard way that Californians, especially independents, are not eager to hand politicians the keys to redistricting again. A brand new

By Cara Brown McCormick

August 14, 2025

How Is Elon Musk’s Third Party Planning Going?

The America Party was announced in the middle of a public breakup between Elon Musk and President Donald Trump. The two parted ways at the end of May. Musk criticized Trump’s signature tax cut and his “Big Beautiful Bill,” which tied immigration crackdowns to massive new spending.

By Cara Brown McCormick

August 13, 2025

How Is Elon Musk’s Third Party Planning Going?

Schedule 1 v. Schedule 3 : Does Trump Know Why the Illicit Market Doesn’t Want Cannabis Legalization?

The Wall Street Journal and CNN reported August 8 that President Donald Trump said privately at a fundraiser that he was open to reclassifying cannabis under federal law, a move that could have far-reaching implications for the legal industry, the illicit market, national drug policy, and electoral

By Cara Brown McCormick

August 12, 2025

Schedule 1 v. Schedule 3 : Does Trump Know Why the Illicit Market Doesn’t Want Cannabis Legalization?

Californians Just Voted to Get Tough on Crime. So Why Is Newsom Closing Another Prison?

Less than a year after 10 million Californians voted to lengthen prison sentences and crack down on retail theft and fentanyl dealing, Governor Gavin Newsom is shutting down yet another state prison.

By Cara Brown McCormick

August 8, 2025

Californians Just Voted to Get Tough on Crime. So Why Is Newsom Closing Another Prison?

'We Don’t Have a King': Hollywood Fires Back at Trump Over Attacks on Free Press

In a sharply worded letter released this week, more than 2,300 members of the Writers Guild of America accused President Donald Trump and his allies of launching an organized campaign to suppress independent media. The letter, which was signed by a wide range of television and film writers, from hig

By Cara Brown McCormick

August 7, 2025

'We Don’t Have a King': Hollywood Fires Back at Trump Over Attacks on Free Press