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California Stays Blue: Biden’s Former Health Secretary Xavier Becerra Wins Governor’s Race
Summary California will remain under Democrat leadership for another four years, as former Biden administration official Xavier Becerra has defeated Republican Steve Hilton in the race for governor. Decision Desk HQ called the race for Becerra at 11:13 p.m. EST, with Becerra leading Hilton by 64.6% to 35.6%. The result was expected, as the latest… -
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Legal Whiplash: Trump Scores Win in California Voter Roll Fight Over 20,000 Noncitizens
In an Election Day win for President Donald Trump’s administration, a judicial game of ping-pong in California has moved in his favor. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way for the Justice Department to continue its probe of California voter rolls, including a warning to election workers against counting illegal votes. The… -
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These Election Eve Court Fights Could Reshape the Midterm Vote
Lawsuits on the eve of Election Day are giving courts a brief time window to make influential decisions before final votes are cast. The Supreme Court on Monday denied a last-minute emergency appeal by the Justice Department to set aside more than 20,000 ballots of suspected noncitizens in California. Meanwhile, lower court judges are still… -
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Supreme Court Rejects DOJ Petition to Intervene in California’s 20,000 ‘Likely’ Noncitizen Ballot Dispute
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a request from the Trump administration’s Justice Department to temporarily block the counting of more than 20,000 mail ballots from suspected noncitizens in California. Last month, the department demanded that California temporarily set aside the ballots for the midterm elections until the citizenship of registered voters could be verified. … -
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Who’s Really Fighting the DOJ’s California Noncitizen List?
California Democrats have spent months insisting the state’s elections are free and fair. But progressive groups that spend heavily on Democrat voter outreach walked into a Los Angeles courtroom this month almost as soon as the Department of Justice sued the state over a list of more than 20,000 names it says are likely noncitizens. … -
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The Left Thinks Black People Can’t Get IDs? New Prop 39 Ad Challenges Voter ID Racism Claims
Summary A new AI-generated California voter ID ad depicts black and Hispanic Americans pushing back against the common Democrat argument that requiring identification to vote is racist. In the ad, a focus group leader reads a statement opposing voter ID requirements on the grounds that they discriminate against minorities: “Voter ID is racist because African… -
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What’s in a Name? Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Law School Name Change
Summary What’s a name worth? A lot, according to a case the U.S. Supreme Court recently declined to hear. In 1878, more than 145 years before this dispute, California’s first chief justice, Serranus Clinton Hastings—who made a small fortune from various real estate ventures—agreed to fund the establishment of a new law school in San… -
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California’s ‘Likely Noncitizen’ List Just Got a Court Decision
Summary U.S. District Judge David O. Carter denied the Justice Department’s request for a temporary restraining order against California on Wednesday evening, one day after a hearing in Los Angeles on a case involving tens of thousands of questionable ballots. The legal fight began last week when the DOJ asked California to segregate an estimated… -
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Millions Spent Against Him. Can This California Republican Win the 48th Congressional District?
Summary With more than $4 million spent opposing San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond, and his opponent Marni von Wilpert labeling him her “MAGA opponent,” Desmond is fighting to prove to voters in California’s 48th Congressional District that he is the right pick. In an interview with the Daily Signal, Desmond discussed the spending against… -
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SOCIALISM ON THE BALLOT: Races to Watch in the DSA Orbit as the ‘Squad’ May Expand
Summary Socialism is on the ballot in the midterm elections, and not just in high-profile congressional races. The Democratic Socialists of America has endorsed 255 candidates and ballot initiatives, according to the DSA’s national tracker. The candidates from around the country are running for a variety of local, state, and congressional offices. Eleven of the… -
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Undercover Camera Catches Newsom Predicting DSA’s Rise in Democratic Party
Summary In a shocking undercover video released on X, California Gov. Gavin Newsom was caught saying that the Democratic Socialists of America is going to be “dominant” and a “mainstream Democratic movement,” even going so far as to say, “You can’t play in the margins anymore. We have to completely reimagine.” Townhall, which exclusively obtained… -
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California’s 20,000-Ballot Fight: Judges Press DOJ Over Suspected Noncitizen Voters
Summary A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Sunday heard arguments from the Department of Justice, which argued that California should not count 20,000 ballots from voters suspected of being noncitizens until their immigration status can be verified. The appeals court did not issue a decision on Sunday, but a district judge is… -
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Schiff’s Telling Shift on Taxes
A family in Ohio has worked hard and sacrificed for three generations to keep their small-town grocery store in business, serving a community they live in and love. A billionaire in California who invests some of his money in the movie industry lives in a beachside mansion in Malibu. For which of these two entrepreneurs… -
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‘Game Over’: The Simple Fix That Would Keep Noncitizens Off Voter Rolls
Summary An unknown number of noncitizens could be registered to vote in this year’s midterm elections due to lax enforcement, inadequate technology, and systemic failures by state governments. California and Hawaii are among the states where problems persist. But improper registrations can happen anywhere, potentially becoming consequential in exceptionally close elections. That’s the assessment of… -
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LA Registrar Says Citizenship Check Stops at Voter’s Word—Even After Federal Charges
A legal fight over election integrity is playing out in Los Angeles courts this week, with LA officials admitting that they have no way to check citizenship beyond what voters write on the form. Monica Flores, an assistant registrar-recorder at the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk’s office, told a federal court Tuesday that their citizenship… -
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Can a Grown Man Vote as Sydney Sweeney? Ad Shows How Rigged California Voting Really Is
Could a grown man who looks nothing like celebrity Sydney Sweeney vote under her name in California? A new ad by the Proposition 39 campaign dramatizes that scenario to spotlight the state’s lack of a voter ID requirement, encouraging voters to “Vote Yes on Prop 39.” Can someone pretend to be a voter that they… -
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EXCLUSIVE: What Did California Do With DOJ’s List of 20,000 Potential Noncitizens? Election Integrity Group Seeks Records
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Did California officials investigate the Department of Justice’s list of roughly 20,000 people suspected of being noncitizens or reject it without checking the names? The Honest Elections Project has filed three records requests seeking the answer to this question. The requests, provided exclusively to the Daily Signal, were filed with the… -
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California’s Energy Future Needs the 3 R’s: Reality, Reliability, and Resilience
California’s energy strategy ignores reality and gets the basic energy principles of reliability and resilience wrong. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s targets—100% “clean” electricity by 2045 and the (currently stalled) ban on selling new internal-combustion-engine cars and trucks after 2035—treat the distinction between electricity and other forms of energy as a detail green policies can easily overcome. However,… -
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2 Weeks Before the Midterms, DC Sent Me 4 Other People’s Ballots
Summary Two weeks ahead of the 2026 November midterm elections, which could change the balance of power in Congress, the Washington, D.C., Board of Elections sent me four strangers’ mail-in ballots. This is not a one-off. It is happening to Americans across the country. Early voting has already begun for the midterms, and millions of… -
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Money Talks When Money Walks
This November, California voters will decide whether a fraction of the state’s population should pay a 5% wealth tax to help fund public programs. Proposition 40 would make roughly 200 of the richest Californians bail out the state’s deficits and save the budget for another year of easy spending. California is not the only blue…