Six weeks ago, conventional wisdom said that California Governor Gavin Newsom would either be recalled or narrowly avoid that fate. Instead, anti-recall forces won in a landslide.
Governor Gavin Newsom will remain in office, but GOP attempts to undermine elections aren’t going anywhere.
The Chinese Question and Chinese exclusion policies circumnavigated the Anglo-American world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and supported the consolidation of British and American power over global emigration and trade.
If Democratic voters fail to turn out for California’s upcoming recall election, the nation’s most populous, and arguably most liberal, state could end up with a right-wing extremist at its helm.
“By voting NO on the recall we are saying we want to keep expanding health care for all, expand rent protections so people can keep a roof over their heads, and keep protecting essential workers and immigrants.”
With a mobilized anti-immigrant anti-Mexican campaign, a majority of California voters could turn Republican once again. To avoid this calamity, every union, prodemocracy group, Latino political organization needs to organize to defeat the recall.
Some 40,000 child-care workers across the state will receive a 15 percent raise in their new contract. The contract settlement coincided with a state budget agreement to fund 200,000 child-care slots over five years.
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A new report puts into focus for the first time the scope of the state’s drinking-water problems and what it will take to fix them.
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