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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Wednesday, November 4, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>The blue wave that many had predicted came true on Tuesday, with Democrats taking control of both the House and Senate. And in California, it was much the same, with Democrats flipping House seats that were under new maps following the passage of Proposition 50. As anticipated, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12107022/xavier-becerra-wins-california-governors-race\">Democrat Xavier Becerra was also victorious\u003c/a> in the governor’s race, defeating Republican Steve Hilton. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Proposition 40 – the billionaire tax, looks like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12107038/california-billionaire-tax-trails-in-early-results\">it could be headed for defeat.\u003c/a> The measure would have imposed a one-time 5% tax on individuals with assets valued over $1 billion, who lived in the state as of the first of the year. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/11/california-election-2026-prop-39/\">Voters rejected Proposition 39\u003c/a>, a GOP-backed voter ID measure. About 60% of voters rebuffed the measure, which Democratic leaders opposed.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12107022/xavier-becerra-wins-california-governors-race\">Xavier Becerra is first elected Latino governor in California\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/xavier-becerra\">Xavier Becerra\u003c/a>, a Democrat whose deep experience and steady demeanor helped him navigate a tumultuous primary and chart a safe course in the general election, will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/governor\">California’s next governor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Associated Press called a victory for Becerra over Republican \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/steve-hilton\">Steve Hilton\u003c/a> a minute after polls closed. He will be the first Latino person elected to serve as California governor. Taking the stage at his election night party in Sacramento on Tuesday night to chants of “Sí, se puede,” Becerra delivered triumphant remarks amid a Democratic surge in races nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“What a great night to be a Californian,” Becerra said. “What a great night to be an American. To be the son of immigrants from a union household. To be standing in victory with all of you. Now, I’m not going to sugarcoat it. These past two years have been tough. Higher prices, more wars, corruption, and lawlessness. But we hung in there, fought back.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Becerra is a familiar face in state politics, having represented Los Angeles in Congress for years before serving as California attorney general and the U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services under former President Joe Biden. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hilton, by contrast, was a political outsider. Born in Britain, he served as an adviser to former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and hosted a show on Fox News after moving to the U.S. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12078793/trump-endorses-steve-hilton-for-california-governor-giving-gop-a-front-runner\">endorsement from President Donald Trump\u003c/a> rallied the Republican vote around Hilton in the June primary and boosted him into the general election. He campaigned tirelessly through the summer and fall, holding regular events and media appearances and running ads that made direct appeals to Californians who disliked the president. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It made little difference in a state where 3 in 4 voters disapprove of Trump and where Republicans have not won a statewide office in two decades. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12102344/california-governor-debate-takeaways-and-how-gas-prices-are-shaping-swing-house-races\">lone debate\u003c/a> between the candidates, hosted by CNN, Becerra relentlessly reminded viewers of Trump’s endorsement, while Hilton took few steps to decisively \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12098202/republican-steve-hilton-finds-some-distance-between-himself-and-trump\">break from the president\u003c/a>. It was perhaps the only high-profile moment of an otherwise sleepy general election. Becerra largely stayed out of sight until the final weeks of the race, when he barnstormed the state and promised to look at changes to the tax code or tax increases in order to offset federal health cuts.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12107038/california-billionaire-tax-trails-in-early-results\">California billionaire tax trails in early results\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A proposal to impose a wealth tax on California’s billionaires to fund healthcare was trailing Tuesday night, though it remains too early to call the result for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/proposition-40\">Proposition 40\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two competing measures placed on the ballot by billionaires opposed to the wealth tax were mixed. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/proposition-41\">Proposition 41\u003c/a> was behind in a neck-and-neck race, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/proposition-42\">Proposition 42\u003c/a> was leading. Both measures contain language aimed at undermining Proposition 40, making it impossible for the state to enforce the wealth tax if they pass with more votes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proposition 40 asked voters whether to assess a 5% tax on the overall wealth of anyone who lived in California as of Jan. 1 of this year and had assets topping $1 billion, which would apply to about 200 people.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The money raised by the tax — some $100 billion over five years, according to supporters — would backfill healthcare cuts imposed by President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress under last year’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It’s a type of tax that’s never been attempted in the U.S. and one that aimed to get at the vast wealth of the state’s billionaires by taxing their overall assets, not just their income or capital gains. That overall wealth \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/26/opinion/wealth-tax-california-billionaire.html\">grew\u003c/a> by an estimated 15% per year from 2019 to 2025. The measure was placed on the ballot \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12093303/the-union-man-taking-on-the-democratic-establishment-with-a-billionaire-tax\">by SEIU-UHW West\u003c/a>, a union representing more than 120,000 healthcare workers in California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But after spending more than $20 million to qualify the measure, the union was vastly outspent by billionaires opposed to Proposition 40 and in support of Propositions 41 and 42. Google co-founder Sergey Brin alone donated more than $100 million, and the campaign raised more than $330 million overall. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106033/the-political-calculus-behind-newsoms-opposition-to-californias-billionaire-tax\">Some surprising allies\u003c/a>, including Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, the California Teachers Association and Planned Parenthood, buoyed the no side. They all argued that the measure would ultimately hurt California’s budget and economy by driving wealthy executives and businesses out of state.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/11/california-election-2026-prop-39/\">California voters reject conservative voter ID proposal\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democratic Party leaders are breathing a sigh of relief after voters rejected \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2026/proposition-39-voter-id/\">Proposition 39,\u003c/a> a GOP-backed voter ID measure that drew interest — and millions of dollars — from Republican megadonors across the country.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 60% of voters rebuffed the measure, which Democratic leaders opposed in unison and heavily campaigned against, arguing it would amount to voter suppression. Republican Party leaders and other supporters of the initiative characterized Prop. 39 as a common-sense idea that has precedence in more than two dozen states. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The measure would have required voters to show a government ID at polling places or write the last four digits of a Social Security or other government-issued number on mail ballots. Illinois billionaire Richard Uihlein, the campaign’s biggest donor, helped proponents amass $37 million in support from Republicans nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It was an absolutely unnecessary ballot measure,” said David Trujillo, executive director of American Civil Liberties Union California Action Tuesday night. “California voters saw it for what it was, which was an attempt to disenfranchise voters in this state.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The GOP headwinds nationwide appeared to trickle down-ballot in California, spelling bad news for the Republican-endorsed measure as returns quickly showed overwhelming opposition.\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Wednesday, November 4, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>The blue wave that many had predicted came true on Tuesday, with Democrats taking control of both the House and Senate. And in California, it was much the same, with Democrats flipping House seats that were under new maps following the passage of Proposition 50. As anticipated, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12107022/xavier-becerra-wins-california-governors-race\">Democrat Xavier Becerra was also victorious\u003c/a> in the governor’s race, defeating Republican Steve Hilton. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Proposition 40 – the billionaire tax, looks like \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12107038/california-billionaire-tax-trails-in-early-results\">it could be headed for defeat.\u003c/a> The measure would have imposed a one-time 5% tax on individuals with assets valued over $1 billion, who lived in the state as of the first of the year. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/11/california-election-2026-prop-39/\">Voters rejected Proposition 39\u003c/a>, a GOP-backed voter ID measure. About 60% of voters rebuffed the measure, which Democratic leaders opposed.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12107022/xavier-becerra-wins-california-governors-race\">Xavier Becerra is first elected Latino governor in California\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/xavier-becerra\">Xavier Becerra\u003c/a>, a Democrat whose deep experience and steady demeanor helped him navigate a tumultuous primary and chart a safe course in the general election, will be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/governor\">California’s next governor\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Associated Press called a victory for Becerra over Republican \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/steve-hilton\">Steve Hilton\u003c/a> a minute after polls closed. He will be the first Latino person elected to serve as California governor. Taking the stage at his election night party in Sacramento on Tuesday night to chants of “Sí, se puede,” Becerra delivered triumphant remarks amid a Democratic surge in races nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“What a great night to be a Californian,” Becerra said. “What a great night to be an American. To be the son of immigrants from a union household. To be standing in victory with all of you. Now, I’m not going to sugarcoat it. These past two years have been tough. Higher prices, more wars, corruption, and lawlessness. But we hung in there, fought back.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Becerra is a familiar face in state politics, having represented Los Angeles in Congress for years before serving as California attorney general and the U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services under former President Joe Biden. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hilton, by contrast, was a political outsider. Born in Britain, he served as an adviser to former U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and hosted a show on Fox News after moving to the U.S. An \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12078793/trump-endorses-steve-hilton-for-california-governor-giving-gop-a-front-runner\">endorsement from President Donald Trump\u003c/a> rallied the Republican vote around Hilton in the June primary and boosted him into the general election. He campaigned tirelessly through the summer and fall, holding regular events and media appearances and running ads that made direct appeals to Californians who disliked the president. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It made little difference in a state where 3 in 4 voters disapprove of Trump and where Republicans have not won a statewide office in two decades. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12102344/california-governor-debate-takeaways-and-how-gas-prices-are-shaping-swing-house-races\">lone debate\u003c/a> between the candidates, hosted by CNN, Becerra relentlessly reminded viewers of Trump’s endorsement, while Hilton took few steps to decisively \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12098202/republican-steve-hilton-finds-some-distance-between-himself-and-trump\">break from the president\u003c/a>. It was perhaps the only high-profile moment of an otherwise sleepy general election. Becerra largely stayed out of sight until the final weeks of the race, when he barnstormed the state and promised to look at changes to the tax code or tax increases in order to offset federal health cuts.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12107038/california-billionaire-tax-trails-in-early-results\">California billionaire tax trails in early results\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A proposal to impose a wealth tax on California’s billionaires to fund healthcare was trailing Tuesday night, though it remains too early to call the result for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/proposition-40\">Proposition 40\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two competing measures placed on the ballot by billionaires opposed to the wealth tax were mixed. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/proposition-41\">Proposition 41\u003c/a> was behind in a neck-and-neck race, while \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/california/proposition-42\">Proposition 42\u003c/a> was leading. Both measures contain language aimed at undermining Proposition 40, making it impossible for the state to enforce the wealth tax if they pass with more votes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proposition 40 asked voters whether to assess a 5% tax on the overall wealth of anyone who lived in California as of Jan. 1 of this year and had assets topping $1 billion, which would apply to about 200 people.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The money raised by the tax — some $100 billion over five years, according to supporters — would backfill healthcare cuts imposed by President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress under last year’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It’s a type of tax that’s never been attempted in the U.S. and one that aimed to get at the vast wealth of the state’s billionaires by taxing their overall assets, not just their income or capital gains. That overall wealth \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/26/opinion/wealth-tax-california-billionaire.html\">grew\u003c/a> by an estimated 15% per year from 2019 to 2025. The measure was placed on the ballot \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12093303/the-union-man-taking-on-the-democratic-establishment-with-a-billionaire-tax\">by SEIU-UHW West\u003c/a>, a union representing more than 120,000 healthcare workers in California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But after spending more than $20 million to qualify the measure, the union was vastly outspent by billionaires opposed to Proposition 40 and in support of Propositions 41 and 42. Google co-founder Sergey Brin alone donated more than $100 million, and the campaign raised more than $330 million overall. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106033/the-political-calculus-behind-newsoms-opposition-to-californias-billionaire-tax\">Some surprising allies\u003c/a>, including Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, the California Teachers Association and Planned Parenthood, buoyed the no side. They all argued that the measure would ultimately hurt California’s budget and economy by driving wealthy executives and businesses out of state.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/11/california-election-2026-prop-39/\">California voters reject conservative voter ID proposal\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democratic Party leaders are breathing a sigh of relief after voters rejected \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2026/proposition-39-voter-id/\">Proposition 39,\u003c/a> a GOP-backed voter ID measure that drew interest — and millions of dollars — from Republican megadonors across the country.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 60% of voters rebuffed the measure, which Democratic leaders opposed in unison and heavily campaigned against, arguing it would amount to voter suppression. 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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Tuesday, November 3, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>It’s election day and polls are now open across the state. If you haven’t had a chance to cast your ballot yet and are planning to do so today, we’ve got \u003ca href=\"https://calvoter.org/content/last-minute-voting-tips-nov-3-general-election\">all the information\u003c/a> you need. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>The US Supreme Court on Monday \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/11/supreme-court-rejects-trump-ballot-case/\">rejected the Trump administration’s request\u003c/a> to block California from processing thousands of ballots. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>A coalition of community groups in California is standing \u003ca href=\"https://wearecalifornia.org/cantstopca/vote-protector-training\">ready to protect voters’ rights \u003c/a>at the polls. It’s because of increasing worries that the Trump administration will interfere with the election.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Some last minute guidelines for Californians who haven’t voted \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It’s election day and that means for California voters who want to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide\">cast their ballot \u003c/a>but haven’t had a chance to yet, the deadline is finally here. So what should you know before heading to the polls or dropping off your ballot?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“If you’re \u003ca href=\"https://calvoter.org/content/last-minute-voting-tips-nov-3-general-election\">voting on election day\u003c/a>, the best thing you can do is take your ballot to an official drop box or voting site or your county election office and turn it in, in person,” said Kim Alexander, founder of the California Voter Foundation. “If you have to use the mail, you have no other choice, we advise that you take it into a post office and ask a staff member to hand cancel the ballot so that your ballot will be postmarked by election day. It has to have an election day postmark on it in order to be counted.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polling locations are open until 8 p.m. And if you think you have a mistake on your ballot? “It depends what kind of mistake. We get a lot of questions from voters about, I did this on my ballot, I filled out the wrong choice or I signed the wrong place on the envelope,” Alexander said. “One of the problems that voters sometimes have with vote by mail ballots is they forget to sign their envelope or their signature doesn’t sufficiently match their signature on file. And so many voters worry about that. If that’s you, you can sign up for ballot tracking on the secretary of state’s website. And if you did make a mistake with your signature, if it doesn’t look like your signature on file or you forgot to sign your envelope, your county will contact you and give you a chance to correct that. So that’s a great safety protection for voters to make sure they’re not disqualified from voting because of a technical glitch like that.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/11/supreme-court-rejects-trump-ballot-case/\">Supreme Court declines to hear Trump’s California 20,000 ballot case\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the eve of Election Day, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a last-minute legal challenge from the Trump administration that would have forced California to not count over 20,000 ballots that the administration had flagged as being cast by possible noncitizens. None of the judges dissented, and no explanation was provided.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ruling came after U.S. District Court Judge David O. 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A three-judge panel on the appellate court for the second time in a week rejected the administration’s claims.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In mid-October, the Trump administration sent a letter to California’s secretary of state and Los Angeles County election officials demanding they set aside the 20,000 ballots. The letter demanded the ballots not be counted until the voters’ citizenship can be verified. But state and local officials have contended the list is far from accurate. 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The UCLA Voting Rights Project submitted a brief to a federal court saying its data scientists found that 42% of the 20,000 names were “not anywhere to be found on the current California voter file.” The analysis \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/california-doj-voter-list-errors-analysis/74303367\">also found\u003c/a> that thousands of U.S. citizens appear to be flagged as ineligible to vote on the government’s list.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Community coalition vows to protect voter rights at polls\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://wearecalifornia.org/about\">We Are California’s\u003c/a> “Can’t Stop California Campaign” is all about voter mobilization and election protection. “We do see that people are upset with how the climate is right now. 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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Monday, November 2, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>There’s been a lot of debate this election over Prop 40 and whether California’s billionaires should pay a new tax to fund health care. Meanwhile, another California billionaire has put \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2002320/california-cancer-patients-disagree-over-whether-prop-38-will-help-them\">a measure on the ballot\u003c/a> asking taxpayers to bankroll his own brand new medical lab. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>A San Francisco judge is \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-justice-department-voting-noncitizens-california-2cc44eb5ff13d956443eef75eadb24c9\">holding a hearing this morning\u003c/a> over the US Justice Department’s appeal of a ruling that barred the department from demanding that election officers remove possible noncitizens from voter rolls. The case is one of many involving the federal government’s claims that thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in California. The hearing comes just weeks after 28 green card holders were charged with crimes including voter fraud. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>In Congressional District 13, \u003ca href=\"https://themercedfocus.org/as-progressive-campaigns-grow-more-popular-democrat-adam-gray-is-focused-on-the-center/\">Incumbent Adam Gray is campaigning as a moderate\u003c/a> Democrat. That comes despite the latest redistricting effort from Prop 50, and more chatter around progressive voters.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2002320/california-cancer-patients-disagree-over-whether-prop-38-will-help-them\">California cancer patients disagree over whether Proposition 38 will help them\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cancer patients who say their lives were saved by innovations in immunotherapy treatments are among the most vocal proponents of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12102150/prop-38-borrows-8-4-billion-to-fund-immunology-research\">California’s Proposition 38\u003c/a>, arguing the $8.4 billion bond measure to fund immune-system research would save even more lives.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But those who oppose Proposition 38 are also patients, who say their illnesses are being exploited to shill for an initiative that is overly narrow, opaque and expensive. “Don’t approve this measure because you want to help me or other people with Parkinson’s,” said Marianne O’Malley, a former analyst with the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease about eight years ago. “This is the wrong way to go about things.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Backers of Proposition 38 proposed it as a solution to the Trump administration’s attack on science: where federal research funding has become diminished or uncertain, California would step in, issuing bond money to bring stability to promising projects and turn the state into a hub of excellence for immunology and immunotherapy research. But the patients who stand to benefit from such a move are divided over whether Californians should shoulder that burden instead of taxpayers across the US, and if so, whether Proposition 38 is the right way to do it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I have never thought of biomedical research as something that needs to be centered in a particular location,” said Robert Kaplan, a senior scholar at \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https://med.stanford.edu/cerc.html\">Stanford\u003c/a> who formerly coordinated research portfolios at the National Institutes of Health and an opponent of Proposition 38. “Proposition 38 money is good for California institutions, but it means that California taxpayers might be taking a disproportionate share of the responsibility for paying for that research.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blood cancer survivor Laurie Adami is in favor of the measure. She was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma 20 years ago, when she was 46, and her son was in kindergarten. She fought her way through seven different treatments, including grueling rounds of chemotherapy and three experimental trials so she could survive to see him graduate from high school. In 2018, she enrolled in an immunotherapy trial where scientists reengineered Adami’s own immune cells to attack her disease. “Chemotherapy is like napalm — they poison your whole body in the hopes of killing off your cancer,” she said. “This idea of waking up the immune system is a much more elegant way to target cancers.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The campaign in favor of Proposition 38 is being financed by philanthropist Gary Michelson, who also happens to be a co-founder and chair of the brand new \u003ca href=\"https://www.calimmunology.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Institute for Immunology & Immunotherapy\u003c/a> at UCLA, which, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2026/07/proposition-38-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the ballot measure’s criteria\u003c/a>, stands to receive half the bond money directly, then help oversee the distribution of the other half in research grants to nonprofits. The measure would also exempt this institute from complying with a series of state transparency laws, including public records act requests and open meetings, O’Malley said, meaning taxpayers won’t have a way of knowing if their money is being spent wisely. “This measure hijacks the initiative process to steer public funds to a billionaire’s philanthropic project and then hides its tracks by waiving all the usual laws to promote governmental transparency,” she said. “This one is so bad and supposedly being done to help people like me, I felt a moral obligation to speak out.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/11/02/nx-s1-6023802/supreme-court-california-voting-ballots-trump\">DOJ asks for Supreme Court to intervene on California ballot demands\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A day before Election Day, the Department of Justice is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to wade into its unprecedented feud with California over the state’s voter rolls.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The appeal is the department’s latest foray into state election administration, which a federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/74967108/149/united-states-v-state-of-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">referred to last week\u003c/a> as “a broad, ongoing pattern of attempted election interference by federal officials.” After \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/10/28/nx-s1-6021478/doj-california-ballots-denied\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that judge, David Carter\u003c/a>, a Clinton appointee, and a divided 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel rejected the DOJ’s request to order California to set aside and stop processing the ballots of thousands of people, the DOJ filed a notice Monday that it is seeking injunctive relief from the high court.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It remains to be seen whether the Supreme Court will agree to intervene and, if so, whether it would weigh in before Tuesday’s Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The DOJ says it has identified 20,000 “likely” noncitizens on California’s voter roll whose ballots should not be counted until their citizenship can be verified. Courts so far have sided with California and Los Angeles County’s arguments that the federal government’s list is unreliable, and that creating a novel system to segregate ballots while voting is already underway is infeasible.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">28 Californians have been charged with crimes, including voter fraud. And Stanford Law Professor Jennifer Chacon said they could face even more sever consequences. “The fact that these individuals can be criminally prosecuted, barred from naturalization, subject to deportation, all sort of demonstrates why, as a general rule, noncitizen voting is not a problem,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://themercedfocus.org/as-progressive-campaigns-grow-more-popular-democrat-adam-gray-is-focused-on-the-center/\">As progressive campaigns grow more popular, Democrat Adam Gray is focused on the center\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though California’s Prop. 50 made Congressional District 13 lean more Democratic, incumbent Rep. Adam Gray’s campaign strategy hasn’t changed much, and he’s sticking to his “Valleycrat” approach by trying to appeal to Republican voters, too.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Gray flipped the House seat two years ago, he won by fewer than 200 votes. Despite the Democratic advantage this time around, Gray is still courting voters from both sides of the aisle. “You can both be a strong Democrat, as I am, and still believe in bipartisanship,” Gray told The Merced FOCUS. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gray, 49, whose district includes all of Merced County, and parts of Fresno, Stanislaus, Madera, and San Joaquin counties, said he’s still focused on being someone who can make relationships across the aisle and remain moderate. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2025/11/proposition-50-overnight-results/\">Prop. 50\u003c/a>, Gray’s Republican challenger this term is former Stockton Mayor Kevin Lincoln, who gained the support of the Republican Party in Merced County as well as an endorsement from President Donald Trump early in his campaign. Lincoln’s campaign did not respond to an interview request.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More recently, several Democratic candidates with strong progressive backings have gained momentum. For instance, in District 22 in the southern San Joaquin Valley, Republican incumbent David Valadao will face off against Democrat \u003ca href=\"https://www.villegasforcongress.com/endorsements\">Randy Villegas\u003c/a>, whose campaign was boosted by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/government-politics/2026-10-16/both-candidates-in-house-district-22-say-they-can-win-their-race-polls-tell-a-different-story\">recent visits\u003c/a> to the district by progressive powerhouses Senator Bernie Sanders, D-Vermont, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York City. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But this shift in Democratic politics isn’t necessarily universal. Blake Zante, executive director of the nonpartisan public policy institute, \u003ca href=\"https://themaddyinstitute.org/\">the Maddy Institute\u003c/a>, said progressive politics often don’t take center stage for so-called “Valleycrat” candidates, or those with a moderate Democrat attitude, because Prop 50 largely made seats safer for all Democrats. “It seems like more progressive candidates are winning in some of these races in municipal, state, and federal elections all across the country, so I think it’s hard to pinpoint whether or not Prop. 50 [changed] the types of Democratic voters included [in the district],” Zante said. “I think overall the goal was to make it a safer Democratic seat.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003c/p>\n",
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Meanwhile, another California billionaire has put \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2002320/california-cancer-patients-disagree-over-whether-prop-38-will-help-them\">a measure on the ballot\u003c/a> asking taxpayers to bankroll his own brand new medical lab. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>A San Francisco judge is \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-justice-department-voting-noncitizens-california-2cc44eb5ff13d956443eef75eadb24c9\">holding a hearing this morning\u003c/a> over the US Justice Department’s appeal of a ruling that barred the department from demanding that election officers remove possible noncitizens from voter rolls. The case is one of many involving the federal government’s claims that thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in California. The hearing comes just weeks after 28 green card holders were charged with crimes including voter fraud. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>In Congressional District 13, \u003ca href=\"https://themercedfocus.org/as-progressive-campaigns-grow-more-popular-democrat-adam-gray-is-focused-on-the-center/\">Incumbent Adam Gray is campaigning as a moderate\u003c/a> Democrat. That comes despite the latest redistricting effort from Prop 50, and more chatter around progressive voters.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2002320/california-cancer-patients-disagree-over-whether-prop-38-will-help-them\">California cancer patients disagree over whether Proposition 38 will help them\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cancer patients who say their lives were saved by innovations in immunotherapy treatments are among the most vocal proponents of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12102150/prop-38-borrows-8-4-billion-to-fund-immunology-research\">California’s Proposition 38\u003c/a>, arguing the $8.4 billion bond measure to fund immune-system research would save even more lives.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But those who oppose Proposition 38 are also patients, who say their illnesses are being exploited to shill for an initiative that is overly narrow, opaque and expensive. “Don’t approve this measure because you want to help me or other people with Parkinson’s,” said Marianne O’Malley, a former analyst with the state’s Legislative Analyst’s Office who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease about eight years ago. “This is the wrong way to go about things.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Backers of Proposition 38 proposed it as a solution to the Trump administration’s attack on science: where federal research funding has become diminished or uncertain, California would step in, issuing bond money to bring stability to promising projects and turn the state into a hub of excellence for immunology and immunotherapy research. But the patients who stand to benefit from such a move are divided over whether Californians should shoulder that burden instead of taxpayers across the US, and if so, whether Proposition 38 is the right way to do it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I have never thought of biomedical research as something that needs to be centered in a particular location,” said Robert Kaplan, a senior scholar at \u003ca target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https://med.stanford.edu/cerc.html\">Stanford\u003c/a> who formerly coordinated research portfolios at the National Institutes of Health and an opponent of Proposition 38. “Proposition 38 money is good for California institutions, but it means that California taxpayers might be taking a disproportionate share of the responsibility for paying for that research.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blood cancer survivor Laurie Adami is in favor of the measure. She was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma 20 years ago, when she was 46, and her son was in kindergarten. She fought her way through seven different treatments, including grueling rounds of chemotherapy and three experimental trials so she could survive to see him graduate from high school. In 2018, she enrolled in an immunotherapy trial where scientists reengineered Adami’s own immune cells to attack her disease. “Chemotherapy is like napalm — they poison your whole body in the hopes of killing off your cancer,” she said. “This idea of waking up the immune system is a much more elegant way to target cancers.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The campaign in favor of Proposition 38 is being financed by philanthropist Gary Michelson, who also happens to be a co-founder and chair of the brand new \u003ca href=\"https://www.calimmunology.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Institute for Immunology & Immunotherapy\u003c/a> at UCLA, which, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2026/07/proposition-38-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the ballot measure’s criteria\u003c/a>, stands to receive half the bond money directly, then help oversee the distribution of the other half in research grants to nonprofits. The measure would also exempt this institute from complying with a series of state transparency laws, including public records act requests and open meetings, O’Malley said, meaning taxpayers won’t have a way of knowing if their money is being spent wisely. “This measure hijacks the initiative process to steer public funds to a billionaire’s philanthropic project and then hides its tracks by waiving all the usual laws to promote governmental transparency,” she said. “This one is so bad and supposedly being done to help people like me, I felt a moral obligation to speak out.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/11/02/nx-s1-6023802/supreme-court-california-voting-ballots-trump\">DOJ asks for Supreme Court to intervene on California ballot demands\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A day before Election Day, the Department of Justice is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to wade into its unprecedented feud with California over the state’s voter rolls.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The appeal is the department’s latest foray into state election administration, which a federal judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/74967108/149/united-states-v-state-of-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">referred to last week\u003c/a> as “a broad, ongoing pattern of attempted election interference by federal officials.” After \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2026/10/28/nx-s1-6021478/doj-california-ballots-denied\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that judge, David Carter\u003c/a>, a Clinton appointee, and a divided 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel rejected the DOJ’s request to order California to set aside and stop processing the ballots of thousands of people, the DOJ filed a notice Monday that it is seeking injunctive relief from the high court.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It remains to be seen whether the Supreme Court will agree to intervene and, if so, whether it would weigh in before Tuesday’s Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The DOJ says it has identified 20,000 “likely” noncitizens on California’s voter roll whose ballots should not be counted until their citizenship can be verified. Courts so far have sided with California and Los Angeles County’s arguments that the federal government’s list is unreliable, and that creating a novel system to segregate ballots while voting is already underway is infeasible.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">28 Californians have been charged with crimes, including voter fraud. And Stanford Law Professor Jennifer Chacon said they could face even more sever consequences. “The fact that these individuals can be criminally prosecuted, barred from naturalization, subject to deportation, all sort of demonstrates why, as a general rule, noncitizen voting is not a problem,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://themercedfocus.org/as-progressive-campaigns-grow-more-popular-democrat-adam-gray-is-focused-on-the-center/\">As progressive campaigns grow more popular, Democrat Adam Gray is focused on the center\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though California’s Prop. 50 made Congressional District 13 lean more Democratic, incumbent Rep. 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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Thursday, October 29, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Dolores Huerta is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106928/california-leaders-mourn-celebrate-dolores-huerta-and-her-legacy\">being remembered across the country\u003c/a> as an iconic leader of the United Farm Workers and a pioneering feminist and civil rights advocate. But she was rooted right here in California. And when she died Wednesday at the age of 96, she was at home in Bakersfield. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>The CEO of California’s High Speed Rail Authority \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/california-high-speed-rail-ceo-resigns/\">has abruptly resigned\u003c/a> from the job. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106928/california-leaders-mourn-celebrate-dolores-huerta-and-her-legacy\">California leaders mourn, celebrate Dolores Huerta and her legacy\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California leaders mourned Dolores Huerta, the indefatigable civil rights champion and farmworker advocate, praising her as a hero, giant and legend after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106881/dolores-huerta-influential-labor-leader-feminist-and-civil-rights-icon-dies-at-96\">her death on Wednesday\u003c/a> at age 96. Her family said in a statement that she died from cancer at home in Bakersfield. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta, who co-founded one of the world’s most renowned \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/120851/dolores-huerta-the-civil-rights-icon-who-showed-farmworkers-si-se-puede\">agricultural worker labor movements\u003c/a>, spent most of her life pushing for economic justice and a voice for the dispossessed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even at her advanced age, she continued to participate in marches and protests, and encouraged Latino citizens to vote, including just days ago, said Angelica Salas, who directs the Los Angeles-based nonprofit Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, and called Huerta “a mentor to thousands.” “She felt in her core that injustice had to be fought 24/7,” said Salas, adding that Huerta was a friend who supported her personally and professionally for decades. “The United States of America has lost a hero today.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fierce labor negotiator in a field dominated by men, Huerta helped lead large strikes and boycotts in the 1960s and 1970s with the union that became the United Farm Workers. Her labor organizing changed state laws and produced some of the nation’s first contracts to secure drinking water, sanitary toilets and other basic rights for thousands of farmworkers. Huerta lobbied for California to become the first state to give agricultural workers the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alrb.ca.gov/forms-publications/faqs-and-guidance/fact-sheet-english/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legal right to organize\u003c/a> and join unions in 1975, decades after the passage of a federal law that protected collective bargaining for other private-sector employees.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta, who had more than a dozen children, coined the social-justice rallying cry “\u003ca href=\"https://ufw.org/research/history/history-si-se-puede/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sí se puede\u003c/a>,” translated as “Yes we can.” Former President Barack Obama, who coalesced millions of voters under the phrase during a historic 2008 presidential campaign, awarded Huerta the \u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/29/remarks-president-presidential-medal-freedom-ceremony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012\u003c/a>, praising her determination and courage. Julián Castro, who leads the San Francisco-based Latino Community Foundation, said Huerta was an American icon who changed the course of history for good through her contributions to the labor movement, inspiring young women and men to work for social change. “Dolores, for me and I know for a lot of people, has been a role model of how you can dedicate your life to serving others, to making other people’s lives better,” Castro, a former U.S. housing secretary and San Antonio mayor who ran for president in 2020, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta spoke out against the rampant sexual abuse of farmworker women in the fields in a 2013 \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/rape-in-the-fields/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">film and radio series\u003c/a> that KQED collaborated on with Frontline, CIR, IRP and Univision. “I believe that the employers are in total denial, and they will often take the word of the foreman or the manager against the woman if she does come forward,” Huerta said in the documentary. “And women know this. They know that they’re not going to be heard. They know that nobody’s going to be there to support them or protect them.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She stunned many by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077073/cesar-chavez-was-a-hero-to-farmworkers-now-they-confront-the-pain-of-alleged-abuse\">revealing\u003c/a> at age 95 that she herself was manipulated into sex and raped in the 1960s by the late union leader Cesar Chávez. Huerta came forward in a \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> investigation that uncovered disturbing accusations that Chávez sexually abused young girls and women for years. Huerta told the newspaper that she chose not to report the abuse partly because she feared that no one within the union would believe her. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/california-high-speed-rail-ceo-resigns/\">Head of California high-speed rail agency resigns amid travel expenses scandal\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CEO of California’s high-speed rail authority resigned late Wednesday, saying he needs to focus on “important personal and family priorities,” according to a copy of the emailed resignation obtained by CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This has not been an easy decision, as leading the Authority has been one of the most meaningful and rewarding chapters of my professional life,” wrote Chief Executive Ian Choudri.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He will be replaced by \u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/about-us/executive-staff/joe-stephenshaw/\">Joe Stephenshaw\u003c/a>, who has led the state Department of Finance since July 2022 after working as a policy analyst in the state Legislature for more than a decade, the board announced Thursday morning following a closed session.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The abrupt announcement comes in the midst of a two-day meeting of the board that oversees the project, which continues Thursday. It follows Choudri’s tumultuous two-year tenure, which has been troubled by budget woes, project delays, transparency concerns and various scandals including the misuse of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/09/california-high-speed-rail-travel-expenses/\">nearly $600,000 in taxpayer money\u003c/a> for questionable trips by rail authority consultants.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under Choudri, the authority also lost $4 billion in federal funding under President Donald Trump’s administration, after the agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-high-speed-rail-train-procurement-newsom/\">repeatedly missed deadlines\u003c/a> required by the funding agreement to buy trains. The state initially sued Trump for the funding but abruptly dropped the lawsuit in December 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://hsr.ca.gov/about/transparency-accountability/funding/federal-grants/\">blaming Trump as “not a reliable partner”\u003c/a> and turning to private investors instead.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Investigative-Report-2026-Allegations-of-Wasteful-and-Unallowable-Travel-Expenses-for-Contracted-Consultants-A11Y.pdf\">State investigators\u003c/a> last month found the rail agency’s consultants flew first class, hailed premium rides and traveled to a nightclub, cigar lounge and restaurants on taxpayers’ dime, sometimes at Choudri’s request. Many of the trips involved traveling to Folsom, the Sacramento suburb where Choudri has a home, sometimes after hours. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The board voted earlier this month to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/california-high-speed-rail-board-contracts/\">limit Choudri’s contracting authority\u003c/a> following the probe, requiring the in-house legal counsel to sign off first on contracts under $25 million.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California voters in 2008 approved a $10 billion bond to build a bullet train connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2020, with a projected cost of $45 billion. But progress stalled amid rising costs, legal fights and funding uncertainties. The authority’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2026-Final-Business-Plan-060126-A11Y.pdf\">latest business plan\u003c/a> said the project could now cost between $126 billion and $231 billion, with the current 171-mile leg between Merced and Bakersfield under construction, and a full buildout expected by 2040.\u003c/p>\n",
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And when she died Wednesday at the age of 96, she was at home in Bakersfield. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>The CEO of California’s High Speed Rail Authority \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/california-high-speed-rail-ceo-resigns/\">has abruptly resigned\u003c/a> from the job. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106928/california-leaders-mourn-celebrate-dolores-huerta-and-her-legacy\">California leaders mourn, celebrate Dolores Huerta and her legacy\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California leaders mourned Dolores Huerta, the indefatigable civil rights champion and farmworker advocate, praising her as a hero, giant and legend after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106881/dolores-huerta-influential-labor-leader-feminist-and-civil-rights-icon-dies-at-96\">her death on Wednesday\u003c/a> at age 96. Her family said in a statement that she died from cancer at home in Bakersfield. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta, who co-founded one of the world’s most renowned \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/120851/dolores-huerta-the-civil-rights-icon-who-showed-farmworkers-si-se-puede\">agricultural worker labor movements\u003c/a>, spent most of her life pushing for economic justice and a voice for the dispossessed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even at her advanced age, she continued to participate in marches and protests, and encouraged Latino citizens to vote, including just days ago, said Angelica Salas, who directs the Los Angeles-based nonprofit Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, and called Huerta “a mentor to thousands.” “She felt in her core that injustice had to be fought 24/7,” said Salas, adding that Huerta was a friend who supported her personally and professionally for decades. “The United States of America has lost a hero today.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fierce labor negotiator in a field dominated by men, Huerta helped lead large strikes and boycotts in the 1960s and 1970s with the union that became the United Farm Workers. Her labor organizing changed state laws and produced some of the nation’s first contracts to secure drinking water, sanitary toilets and other basic rights for thousands of farmworkers. Huerta lobbied for California to become the first state to give agricultural workers the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alrb.ca.gov/forms-publications/faqs-and-guidance/fact-sheet-english/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legal right to organize\u003c/a> and join unions in 1975, decades after the passage of a federal law that protected collective bargaining for other private-sector employees.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta, who had more than a dozen children, coined the social-justice rallying cry “\u003ca href=\"https://ufw.org/research/history/history-si-se-puede/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sí se puede\u003c/a>,” translated as “Yes we can.” Former President Barack Obama, who coalesced millions of voters under the phrase during a historic 2008 presidential campaign, awarded Huerta the \u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/29/remarks-president-presidential-medal-freedom-ceremony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012\u003c/a>, praising her determination and courage. Julián Castro, who leads the San Francisco-based Latino Community Foundation, said Huerta was an American icon who changed the course of history for good through her contributions to the labor movement, inspiring young women and men to work for social change. “Dolores, for me and I know for a lot of people, has been a role model of how you can dedicate your life to serving others, to making other people’s lives better,” Castro, a former U.S. housing secretary and San Antonio mayor who ran for president in 2020, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta spoke out against the rampant sexual abuse of farmworker women in the fields in a 2013 \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/rape-in-the-fields/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">film and radio series\u003c/a> that KQED collaborated on with Frontline, CIR, IRP and Univision. “I believe that the employers are in total denial, and they will often take the word of the foreman or the manager against the woman if she does come forward,” Huerta said in the documentary. “And women know this. They know that they’re not going to be heard. They know that nobody’s going to be there to support them or protect them.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She stunned many by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077073/cesar-chavez-was-a-hero-to-farmworkers-now-they-confront-the-pain-of-alleged-abuse\">revealing\u003c/a> at age 95 that she herself was manipulated into sex and raped in the 1960s by the late union leader Cesar Chávez. Huerta came forward in a \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> investigation that uncovered disturbing accusations that Chávez sexually abused young girls and women for years. Huerta told the newspaper that she chose not to report the abuse partly because she feared that no one within the union would believe her. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/california-high-speed-rail-ceo-resigns/\">Head of California high-speed rail agency resigns amid travel expenses scandal\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CEO of California’s high-speed rail authority resigned late Wednesday, saying he needs to focus on “important personal and family priorities,” according to a copy of the emailed resignation obtained by CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This has not been an easy decision, as leading the Authority has been one of the most meaningful and rewarding chapters of my professional life,” wrote Chief Executive Ian Choudri.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He will be replaced by \u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/about-us/executive-staff/joe-stephenshaw/\">Joe Stephenshaw\u003c/a>, who has led the state Department of Finance since July 2022 after working as a policy analyst in the state Legislature for more than a decade, the board announced Thursday morning following a closed session.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The abrupt announcement comes in the midst of a two-day meeting of the board that oversees the project, which continues Thursday. It follows Choudri’s tumultuous two-year tenure, which has been troubled by budget woes, project delays, transparency concerns and various scandals including the misuse of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/09/california-high-speed-rail-travel-expenses/\">nearly $600,000 in taxpayer money\u003c/a> for questionable trips by rail authority consultants.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under Choudri, the authority also lost $4 billion in federal funding under President Donald Trump’s administration, after the agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-high-speed-rail-train-procurement-newsom/\">repeatedly missed deadlines\u003c/a> required by the funding agreement to buy trains. The state initially sued Trump for the funding but abruptly dropped the lawsuit in December 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://hsr.ca.gov/about/transparency-accountability/funding/federal-grants/\">blaming Trump as “not a reliable partner”\u003c/a> and turning to private investors instead.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Investigative-Report-2026-Allegations-of-Wasteful-and-Unallowable-Travel-Expenses-for-Contracted-Consultants-A11Y.pdf\">State investigators\u003c/a> last month found the rail agency’s consultants flew first class, hailed premium rides and traveled to a nightclub, cigar lounge and restaurants on taxpayers’ dime, sometimes at Choudri’s request. 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How is this playing out in the heart of California’s agricultural production? \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106700/california-to-pay-10-million-to-settle-class-action-over-women-gassed-at-chowchilla-prison\">has tentatively agreed to pay $10 million\u003c/a> to settle a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of incarcerated women at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>A federal judge in Los Angeles is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/trump-noncitizen-voting-court/\">expected to rule today\u003c/a> in a lawsuit filed by the Trump administration, over ballots in next week’s midterm election here in California. 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The same poll found that 4 in 10 farmers are “persuadable” this year, which could spell trouble for Republicans, who typically count on this electorate.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Central Valley’s 22nd Congressional District is considered the only toss-up race in the state. It pits incumbent Republican Congressman David Valadao, who faces a challenge from progressive Democrat Randy Villegas. Both are courting the farm vote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nationally, Republicans are struggling to separate themselves from President Trump. But Republican strategist Liz Mair said Valadao has successfully carved out an independent image, breaking with his party on immigration and even voting to impeach Trump after the January 6th attack on the Capitol. “He’s a very peculiar sort of political animal in the current climate,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That may explain his staying power. 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It really messed me up in a lot of different ways.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the morning of Aug. 2, 2024, correctional officers at the Chowchilla facility moved more than 150 women to the dining hall to conduct a massive search of their unit, according to the suit, and seize any personal belongings that did not fit in a 6-cubic-foot box. After hours of being confined to the cafeteria without food, water or access to medication, tensions became heightened. Women shouted at the officers and banged on the tables, according to internal documents obtained by KQED. Officers deployed chemical grenades and pepper spray on the women — first inside the chow hall, and then again after the women were zip-tied and seated in the yard outside. At least one woman named Christina Wind was also beaten by officers with batons. Women suffered injuries ranging from seizures, stroke and loss of eyesight. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mass use-of-force event led to the largest corrective action related to a single incident in state history, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Three correctional officers were fired and 31 more received discipline, ranging from reprimands to pay cuts. Several officers are still appealing those actions. Under the agreement, $7.45 million would be split among the class members, while $2.5 million would go to their attorneys. 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How is this playing out in the heart of California’s agricultural production? \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>California \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106700/california-to-pay-10-million-to-settle-class-action-over-women-gassed-at-chowchilla-prison\">has tentatively agreed to pay $10 million\u003c/a> to settle a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of incarcerated women at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>A federal judge in Los Angeles is \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/trump-noncitizen-voting-court/\">expected to rule today\u003c/a> in a lawsuit filed by the Trump administration, over ballots in next week’s midterm election here in California. Federal officials have been seeking to prevent the state from processing the ballots of voters who they believe are not citizens.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Are Trump policies enough to swing key ag vote in District 22 race?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Farmers and ranchers have long been a reliable Republican voting bloc. But that may shift this midterm election as federal policies drive discontent among these communities. How is this playing out in the heart of California’s agricultural production?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As he walks through a barn where Jersey cows are feeding, Landon Fernandes lists the many challenges facing his family-owned business right now. “When you have feed cost increase, labor increase, fuel, other supplies and inputs, and then at the same time you have milk prices come down. That’s when you have the perfect storm, right?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fernandes is a third generation dairy farmer in Tulare and president of the Tulare County Farm Bureau. His family’s ranch spans over 1,000 acres and 6,000 dairy cows. The milk they produce here is processed into cheese, butter and whole milk powder. This year – in part due to tariffs and the Iran War, Fernandes said his margins are thinner. “We’ve had to go into cash reserves. We have an operating line of credit with our local lender,” Fernandes said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A quarter of farmers rank the Trump administration as the single biggest cause of ag-related problems, according to a national Farm Journal survey in April. The same poll found that 4 in 10 farmers are “persuadable” this year, which could spell trouble for Republicans, who typically count on this electorate.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Central Valley’s 22nd Congressional District is considered the only toss-up race in the state. It pits incumbent Republican Congressman David Valadao, who faces a challenge from progressive Democrat Randy Villegas. Both are courting the farm vote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nationally, Republicans are struggling to separate themselves from President Trump. But Republican strategist Liz Mair said Valadao has successfully carved out an independent image, breaking with his party on immigration and even voting to impeach Trump after the January 6th attack on the Capitol. “He’s a very peculiar sort of political animal in the current climate,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That may explain his staying power. Valadao has won six of the last seven elections despite Democrats’ registration edge here. His only loss came in the 2018 blue wave. Another thing may play in Valadao’s favor. Mair said Central Valley farmers don’t fit the same mold as farmers elsewhere in the country. “I think when you’re looking at California Central Valley farmers, they do tend to be a more conservative lot. But they’re not conservative in the way that MAGA is. There’s like a libertarian versus big government conservative axis,” Mair said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106700/california-to-pay-10-million-to-settle-class-action-over-women-gassed-at-chowchilla-prison\">California agrees to pay $10 million in class action over women gassed at Chowchilla Prison\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California has reached a tentative $10 million agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of incarcerated women at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/central-california-womens-facility\">Central California Women’s Facility\u003c/a> who were held in a crowded dining hall and sprayed with tear gas and pepper spray in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“There’s no amount of money that can fix what we went through that day,” said Angelina Hernandez, who is no longer in prison. “I have really bad PTSD. It really messed me up in a lot of different ways.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the morning of Aug. 2, 2024, correctional officers at the Chowchilla facility moved more than 150 women to the dining hall to conduct a massive search of their unit, according to the suit, and seize any personal belongings that did not fit in a 6-cubic-foot box. After hours of being confined to the cafeteria without food, water or access to medication, tensions became heightened. Women shouted at the officers and banged on the tables, according to internal documents obtained by KQED. Officers deployed chemical grenades and pepper spray on the women — first inside the chow hall, and then again after the women were zip-tied and seated in the yard outside. At least one woman named Christina Wind was also beaten by officers with batons. Women suffered injuries ranging from seizures, stroke and loss of eyesight. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The mass use-of-force event led to the largest corrective action related to a single incident in state history, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Three correctional officers were fired and 31 more received discipline, ranging from reprimands to pay cuts. Several officers are still appealing those actions. Under the agreement, $7.45 million would be split among the class members, while $2.5 million would go to their attorneys. Another lawsuit filed on behalf of 13 women who were injured during the incident was settled for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077737/california-agrees-to-1-9m-settlement-in-prison-use-of-force-case\">$1.9 million in March\u003c/a>, bringing the combined value of the settlements to nearly $12 million.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/trump-noncitizen-voting-court/\">Judge says Trump could disenfranchise voters in purge of noncitizens from election rolls\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saying he had concerns it could disenfranchise voters during the midterm election, a federal judge on Tuesday seemed skeptical of the Trump administration’s demands that California election officials set aside 20,000 ballots that it claimed could have been mailed to noncitizens. “Some of these may be very valid voters, and that’s my concern about disenfranchisement,” said U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, an appointee of President Bill Clinton.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carter said he would issue a formal ruling by Wednesday, but he told the courtroom he was likely going to appoint a special master to weigh the evidence both sides present at a hearing in two weeks. That means his final ruling might not come until after the election. He said he didn’t want to “just wing it with a ruling” based on last-minute evidence the federal government submitted to the court the night before Tuesday’s hearing.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>Carter also suggested that his ruling would order federal authorities to stop telling election officials that they could face criminal charges if they didn’t comply with the Trump administration’s demands. The Trump administration on Friday sent letters to California election officials telling them to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/trump-voting-claims-counties/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">set aside ballots from suspected noncitizens\u003c/a>, and threatened them with criminal charges if they allowed those people to vote.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carter’s remarks point to yet another likely legal blow to the Trump administration as it seeks to validate President Donald Trump’s longstanding claims of widespread election fraud favoring Democrats. Experts and election officials say those claims are meritless. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bill Essayli, the first assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, acknowledged that the government’s list of 20,000 people may contain citizens, but he said the possibility that noncitizens were voting illegally was too great a threat. “I would ask the state how many illegal votes is OK for them?” Essayli said. “It cannot be that the state has a right to facilitate the counting and tabulation of noncitizen votes. There’s no right to that.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/trump-sues-california-voting/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued California earlier this month\u003c/a> saying election officials refused to comply with a 48-hour federal deadline to set aside the ballots of up to 20,000 people the administration had flagged as possible noncitizens until the voters’ citizenship could be verified. The administration sought a temporary restraining order forcing the state to comply. California officials argued there was no way they could since they were busy overseeing the election. They also called the demand an illegal effort to meddle in state-run elections that could disenfranchise legal voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Tuesday, October 27, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Proposition 40 proponents say the tax would help backfill federal Medical cuts. But as Governor Newsom weighs a presidential run, is he also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106033/the-political-calculus-behind-newsoms-opposition-to-californias-billionaire-tax\">looking ahead to how it might play to donors and voters?\u003c/a> \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>A federal court has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-noncitizen-voting-justice-department-lawsuit-ed14390afb8af8fde1c2d0f6a90a0761\">rejected a Trump administration demand\u003c/a> that it force California officials to set aside the ballots of 20,000 registered voters, who the Department of Justice alleges are not citizens. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Proposition 38 would allocate more than $8 billion for health research grants. That’s something supporters say is critical, at a time when the Trump administration has tried to claw back funding. But \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2026/10/prop-38-california/\">CalMatters has been digging into concerns\u003c/a> about how that money would be distributed, with roughly $4 billion going to a single institution.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106033/the-political-calculus-behind-newsoms-opposition-to-californias-billionaire-tax\">How Prop 40 could impact the future political aspirations of Gavin Newsom \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To hear \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> talk about billionaires and inequality, you’d think he would be squarely behind a proposal on California’s November ballot that would levy a wealth tax on the richest Californians to help pay for healthcare. In a \u003ca href=\"https://gavinnewsom.substack.com/p/its-time-for-a-national-billionaires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video\u003c/a> posted to his Substack and YouTube channel in June, Newsom argued that the country’s tax system is “fundamentally broken.” “Think about this: Just 10% of the people, 10% of the people in the country, own two-thirds of the wealth. A 30-year-old, for the first time in American history, is not doing better than his or her parents. That’s a five-alarm fire,” he said. “It’s time for an economic reset, a true minimum tax. A true minimum tax on billionaires that ensures the people at the very top pay at least the tax rate their own workers pay.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But like many high-profile Democrats and some of their strongest allies in this deep blue state, the governor is opposed to Proposition 40.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ballot measure, proposed by a healthcare union, would impose a one-time, 5% tax on the overall wealth of the state’s approximately 200 billionaires. The money would be used to backfill deep federal budget cuts to Medicaid, which provides health insurance to low-income Americans — including nearly 15 million Californians. Newsom has argued Proposition 40 is bad for California. He said this kind of tax should be imposed on the national level, so billionaires won’t just pack up and leave the state. And he insisted that the tax will ultimately hurt the state’s budget more than it will help, by chasing wealthy entrepreneurs and their businesses to other states with lower tax burdens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some progressives think the governor — who is eyeing a possible 2028 presidential run — is just wary of angering a donor class with deep pockets. Tech industry billionaires like Chris Larsen, Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen have become increasingly involved in funding campaigns in recent years. “There are a lot of elected officials who are so afraid of this billionaire class,” said California Federation of Labor Unions President Lorena Gonzalez, who supports Proposition 40.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saikat Chakrabarti, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in San Francisco this year, went farther. Chakrabarti is co-founder and president of the progressive think tank New Consensus. “He’s made no secret of it — he’s going to run for president. And that’s why he’s not just opposed to Prop. 40. He’s vehemently campaigning against it because he needs those billionaires on his side,” Chakrabarti said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the billionaires may not be Newsom’s only audience. Fernando Guerra, a political science professor at Loyola Marymount University, said he thinks Newsom’s opposition to the billionaire tax will help him with centrist Democrats he would need to capture the Democratic nomination in 2028. “It defuses him being the total lefty from California,” said Guerra, who predicted that the tax will get defeated. If it loses, Guerra said, that only gives Newsom more fuel — especially because the coalition opposing the tax includes the California Teachers Association and some other big unions with political muscle. Guerra said that coalition allows Newsom to make a credibility argument and not just with moderate Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jim Kessler at the center-left think tank Third Way said that while more left-leaning candidates could attack Newsom in a presidential primary for opposing Proposition 40, those critiques could backfire. “That might help him, even in a Democratic primary, because the top issue for Democratic primary voters in presidential elections is, is this person electable? And they don’t think someone overly progressive is electable,” Kessler said. “No one believes that California is an under-taxed state. So there isn’t a belief out there that, oh, there’s all sorts of tax breaks for people and wealthy people in California.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-noncitizen-voting-justice-department-lawsuit-ed14390afb8af8fde1c2d0f6a90a0761\">Appeals court declines to block California from counting 20,000 disputed ballots\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An appeals court on Monday declined to rule on whether California elections officials can count roughly 20,000 ballots that the Justice Department alleges likely belong to noncitizen voters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2-1 decision sets the Trump administration and state officials up for \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/midterm-elections-immigration-voter-fraud-trump-15f4270b4c43b088a633c8fcc365d027\">another legal showdown\u003c/a> on the matter on Tuesday in front of a federal district judge, giving the federal government a very short window to compel California to sequester votes before the Nov. 3 elections. The decision marks the latest in a string of legal setbacks for President Donald Trump’s administration as it seeks to assert greater federal control over state-run elections. Noncitizen voting has been a central focus of Trump’s political messaging for years, although available data indicates it is \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/noncitizens-voting-republicans-election-2024-immigration-09b86e6768f755fd875f3c51b0e8ea70\">exceedingly rare\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the panel primarily ruled it was premature for an appeals court to get involved, two of the three judges also wrote separate concurrences making it clear they wouldn’t support setting aside ballots at this late date. They questioned the accuracy of the federal government’s list of alleged noncitizen voters and argued that to set aside votes risks disenfranchising citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-justice-department-voting-noncitizens-lawsuit-12c62cf12a7db6480c60975b6dea49b8\">sued election officials\u003c/a> in the heavily Democratic state in mid-October, accusing them of failing to meet a 48-hour deadline to review a list of 20,000 people it alleged were likely noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls. The administration asked the judge to stop the state from counting those ballots until immigration status checks could be completed. The Justice Department made similar \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/washington-noncitizen-voting-63c17a3eadc9ed232fbd897afbd29b9d\">demands Monday in Washington\u003c/a>, another state with races that will help determine control of the U.S. Senate and House. Both state and federal law prohibit noncitizens from voting. But California officials say it’s not even clear the administration’s purported 20,000 noncitizen voters are actually not U.S. citizens. In court papers, Los Angeles election officials said the majority of a random sample of voters that the Department of Justice identified as immigrants seemed to have been born in the United States. 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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>To hear \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> talk about billionaires and inequality, you’d think he would be squarely behind a proposal on California’s November ballot that would levy a wealth tax on the richest Californians to help pay for healthcare. In a \u003ca href=\"https://gavinnewsom.substack.com/p/its-time-for-a-national-billionaires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video\u003c/a> posted to his Substack and YouTube channel in June, Newsom argued that the country’s tax system is “fundamentally broken.” “Think about this: Just 10% of the people, 10% of the people in the country, own two-thirds of the wealth. A 30-year-old, for the first time in American history, is not doing better than his or her parents. That’s a five-alarm fire,” he said. “It’s time for an economic reset, a true minimum tax. A true minimum tax on billionaires that ensures the people at the very top pay at least the tax rate their own workers pay.”\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>The ballot measure, proposed by a healthcare union, would impose a one-time, 5% tax on the overall wealth of the state’s approximately 200 billionaires. The money would be used to backfill deep federal budget cuts to Medicaid, which provides health insurance to low-income Americans — including nearly 15 million Californians. Newsom has argued Proposition 40 is bad for California. He said this kind of tax should be imposed on the national level, so billionaires won’t just pack up and leave the state. And he insisted that the tax will ultimately hurt the state’s budget more than it will help, by chasing wealthy entrepreneurs and their businesses to other states with lower tax burdens.\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Tuesday, October 27, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Proposition 40 proponents say the tax would help backfill federal Medical cuts. But as Governor Newsom weighs a presidential run, is he also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106033/the-political-calculus-behind-newsoms-opposition-to-californias-billionaire-tax\">looking ahead to how it might play to donors and voters?\u003c/a> \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>A federal court has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-noncitizen-voting-justice-department-lawsuit-ed14390afb8af8fde1c2d0f6a90a0761\">rejected a Trump administration demand\u003c/a> that it force California officials to set aside the ballots of 20,000 registered voters, who the Department of Justice alleges are not citizens. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>Proposition 38 would allocate more than $8 billion for health research grants. That’s something supporters say is critical, at a time when the Trump administration has tried to claw back funding. But \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2026/10/prop-38-california/\">CalMatters has been digging into concerns\u003c/a> about how that money would be distributed, with roughly $4 billion going to a single institution.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106033/the-political-calculus-behind-newsoms-opposition-to-californias-billionaire-tax\">How Prop 40 could impact the future political aspirations of Gavin Newsom \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To hear \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gov. Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> talk about billionaires and inequality, you’d think he would be squarely behind a proposal on California’s November ballot that would levy a wealth tax on the richest Californians to help pay for healthcare. In a \u003ca href=\"https://gavinnewsom.substack.com/p/its-time-for-a-national-billionaires\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video\u003c/a> posted to his Substack and YouTube channel in June, Newsom argued that the country’s tax system is “fundamentally broken.” “Think about this: Just 10% of the people, 10% of the people in the country, own two-thirds of the wealth. A 30-year-old, for the first time in American history, is not doing better than his or her parents. That’s a five-alarm fire,” he said. “It’s time for an economic reset, a true minimum tax. A true minimum tax on billionaires that ensures the people at the very top pay at least the tax rate their own workers pay.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But like many high-profile Democrats and some of their strongest allies in this deep blue state, the governor is opposed to Proposition 40.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ballot measure, proposed by a healthcare union, would impose a one-time, 5% tax on the overall wealth of the state’s approximately 200 billionaires. The money would be used to backfill deep federal budget cuts to Medicaid, which provides health insurance to low-income Americans — including nearly 15 million Californians. Newsom has argued Proposition 40 is bad for California. He said this kind of tax should be imposed on the national level, so billionaires won’t just pack up and leave the state. And he insisted that the tax will ultimately hurt the state’s budget more than it will help, by chasing wealthy entrepreneurs and their businesses to other states with lower tax burdens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some progressives think the governor — who is eyeing a possible 2028 presidential run — is just wary of angering a donor class with deep pockets. Tech industry billionaires like Chris Larsen, Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen have become increasingly involved in funding campaigns in recent years. “There are a lot of elected officials who are so afraid of this billionaire class,” said California Federation of Labor Unions President Lorena Gonzalez, who supports Proposition 40.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saikat Chakrabarti, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress in San Francisco this year, went farther. Chakrabarti is co-founder and president of the progressive think tank New Consensus. “He’s made no secret of it — he’s going to run for president. And that’s why he’s not just opposed to Prop. 40. He’s vehemently campaigning against it because he needs those billionaires on his side,” Chakrabarti said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the billionaires may not be Newsom’s only audience. Fernando Guerra, a political science professor at Loyola Marymount University, said he thinks Newsom’s opposition to the billionaire tax will help him with centrist Democrats he would need to capture the Democratic nomination in 2028. “It defuses him being the total lefty from California,” said Guerra, who predicted that the tax will get defeated. If it loses, Guerra said, that only gives Newsom more fuel — especially because the coalition opposing the tax includes the California Teachers Association and some other big unions with political muscle. Guerra said that coalition allows Newsom to make a credibility argument and not just with moderate Democrats.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jim Kessler at the center-left think tank Third Way said that while more left-leaning candidates could attack Newsom in a presidential primary for opposing Proposition 40, those critiques could backfire. “That might help him, even in a Democratic primary, because the top issue for Democratic primary voters in presidential elections is, is this person electable? And they don’t think someone overly progressive is electable,” Kessler said. “No one believes that California is an under-taxed state. So there isn’t a belief out there that, oh, there’s all sorts of tax breaks for people and wealthy people in California.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-noncitizen-voting-justice-department-lawsuit-ed14390afb8af8fde1c2d0f6a90a0761\">Appeals court declines to block California from counting 20,000 disputed ballots\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An appeals court on Monday declined to rule on whether California elections officials can count roughly 20,000 ballots that the Justice Department alleges likely belong to noncitizen voters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2-1 decision sets the Trump administration and state officials up for \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/midterm-elections-immigration-voter-fraud-trump-15f4270b4c43b088a633c8fcc365d027\">another legal showdown\u003c/a> on the matter on Tuesday in front of a federal district judge, giving the federal government a very short window to compel California to sequester votes before the Nov. 3 elections. The decision marks the latest in a string of legal setbacks for President Donald Trump’s administration as it seeks to assert greater federal control over state-run elections. Noncitizen voting has been a central focus of Trump’s political messaging for years, although available data indicates it is \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/noncitizens-voting-republicans-election-2024-immigration-09b86e6768f755fd875f3c51b0e8ea70\">exceedingly rare\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the panel primarily ruled it was premature for an appeals court to get involved, two of the three judges also wrote separate concurrences making it clear they wouldn’t support setting aside ballots at this late date. They questioned the accuracy of the federal government’s list of alleged noncitizen voters and argued that to set aside votes risks disenfranchising citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-justice-department-voting-noncitizens-lawsuit-12c62cf12a7db6480c60975b6dea49b8\">sued election officials\u003c/a> in the heavily Democratic state in mid-October, accusing them of failing to meet a 48-hour deadline to review a list of 20,000 people it alleged were likely noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls. The administration asked the judge to stop the state from counting those ballots until immigration status checks could be completed. The Justice Department made similar \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/washington-noncitizen-voting-63c17a3eadc9ed232fbd897afbd29b9d\">demands Monday in Washington\u003c/a>, another state with races that will help determine control of the U.S. Senate and House. Both state and federal law prohibit noncitizens from voting. But California officials say it’s not even clear the administration’s purported 20,000 noncitizen voters are actually not U.S. citizens. In court papers, Los Angeles election officials said the majority of a random sample of voters that the Department of Justice identified as immigrants seemed to have been born in the United States. The Justice Department, for its part, has said there is as much to lose from keeping the potentially illegal ballots in the count.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2026/10/prop-38-california/\">This institute could get $4 billion from a ballot measure. With just three workers, is it ready?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The science research institute that would likely receive $4.2 billion in public taxpayer money if voters approve \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2026/proposition-38-research-bond/\">Proposition 38\u003c/a> this November had only three employees as of last month — far fewer than the 51 staffers it planned to have hired by last year.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>Public statements and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28824106-responsive-documents-26-7631-redacted-copy/?q=email&mode=document#document/p1\">public records CalMatters\u003c/a> obtained raise questions about how well prepared the institute is to shepherd so much money if the bond measure passes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prop. 38 would allocate up to $8.4 billion in bonds for scientific research on diseases and cures concerning the immune system, with an emphasis on finding treatments for Alzheimer’s, cancer and heart disease. The ballot language stipulates that a single, unnamed research institute would receive half the bond’s money to conduct research and partner with other researchers if it meets highly specific criteria. Bonds are a type of debt that must be repaid. Previous \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2026/07/proposition-38-california/\">reporting by CalMatters\u003c/a> found only one institute in California currently meets those criteria: the California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy. The institute’s principal funder is billionaire Gary K. Michelson, who wrote Prop. 38 and is by far the largest donor to its political campaign. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Backers of the proposition said state bond money is needed to stabilize research funding after President Donald Trump \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2026/07/research-grants-california-2/\">repeatedly attempted\u003c/a> to cut existing and future federal science grants.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>The measure’s critics say Prop. 38 is well-intentioned but poorly designed because it overlooks the many established public and nonprofit university and hospital research labs in California. They also say California should not subsidize subsets of scientific research and instead should support research more broadly. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CalMatters obtained documents that included the five-year business plan of the California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy. 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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Monday, October 26, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>As immigration sweeps expand the number of detainees filling the nation’s detention centers, the amount of people who manage to be released is also growing. That means a steady stream of people are finding themselves in places they don’t know, including Kern County, which is home to four ICE detention facilities, the highest concentration of any county in California. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2026-10-14/in-kern-county-a-volunteer-network-helps-people-released-from-ice-custody-get-back-home\">A grassroots movement\u003c/a> there has risen to help people find their way back home. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>In \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/midterm-elections-immigration-voter-fraud-trump-15f4270b4c43b088a633c8fcc365d027\">a rare Sunday hearing\u003c/a>, a panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals questioned the timing and constitutionality of the Department of Justice efforts to intervene in California’s midterm election. The three judge panel seemed skeptical of the DOJ’s demand to hold aside 20,000 ballots, over concerns about the citizenship of voters.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2026-10-14/in-kern-county-a-volunteer-network-helps-people-released-from-ice-custody-get-back-home\">Kern County volunteers help people released from ICE custody get back home\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a Wednesday afternoon in September, the terminal inside the Bakersfield Amtrak and Greyhound station sat mostly empty. It was a regular day on the job for Ismael Larralde, who volunteers at the station to help passengers get to their bus or train.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But since the Trump administration has pushed for mass deportations and Congress approved historic funding for immigration enforcement and detention, Larralde has found himself doing something new: assisting people who have just been released from immigrant detention. “They’re very scared. They don’t know which direction to go, and if sometimes we approach them, they’re hesitant because of all the negativity they’ve been through,” Larralde said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On this day, Larralde stood next to two men inside the train station who had just been released hours earlier from a nearby detention center. Kern County is home to four Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities. It’s the highest concentration of any county in California. People released from the two detention centers in McFarland – Golden State Annex and Central Valley Annex – are sent to Fresno’s ICE field office for processing. Those released from the California City Detention Facility and the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center are received at the Bakersfield field office.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That field office is located on Truxtun Avenue, just down the street from the train station. It’s where the men released today came from, and it’s where the newly released detainees processed at this office usually end up. Larralde said over the last two years that he has worked at the terminal, he has met people from New York, Maryland, Florida and even as far as Puerto Rico. And he’s learned how to spot someone who just got out. “They come in with red bags. There are documents inside, like onion sacks. A lot of times they just show up with a yellow envelope,”Larralde said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the number of detainees filling the nation’s immigration detention centers grows, so does the amount of people who manage to be released, with an increasing number of people filing for petitions of habeas corpus. That’s a legal filing that challenges the government’s reasoning to hold someone in detention. ICE data shows more than 2,500 detainees have come through Kern County just this year. Their average detention was between 25 and 69 days.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the two men waiting in the terminal that day, only one man agreed to talk with KVPR. He requested his name not be used. He’s scheduled to appear in immigration court the following month and doesn’t want to jeopardize his case. The man said he’d been living and working in Salt Lake City for nine years with a legal work permit. But over the summer, ICE officers detained him on his way to a grocery store. He spent the past two months in the California City Detention Facility. “In reality, they’re rounding up a lot of people, including those who have [work] permits or who have started the paperwork process – and they’re just taking everyone indiscriminately,” the man said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeannie Parent is the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kwesi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Kern Welcoming and Extending Solidarity to Immigrants\u003c/u>\u003c/a> (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kwesi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>KWESI\u003c/u>\u003c/a>). The organization provides aid to people held in detention centers, and responds when someone is released. “So we’re trying to work together to get him home. That’s the main priority,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parent is also in frequent communication with \u003ca href=\"https://faithinthevalley.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Faith in the Valley\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, a faith-based organization with presence all over the Central Valley that has picked up its work with immigrants under the heightened enforcement environment. She said it’s unclear how anyone released from detention could ever find their way home without organizations like KWESI, Faith in the Valley and volunteers like Larralde. “They’ve been shuffled around the whole country. They’ve been trafficked, basically, and then left in California, 3,000 miles from home, with no resources, and often their IDs and their work permits and their passports have been taken by ICE as well,” Parent said. KVPR reached out to the Department of Homeland Security about its personal property policy. The agency said all personal property is “removed and secured while a detainee is in custody” and given back “upon arrival to their final destination.” However, DHS did not respond to a request to clarify whether “final destination” refers to their home state or the facility where they were processed for release.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/midterm-elections-immigration-voter-fraud-trump-15f4270b4c43b088a633c8fcc365d027\">\u003cstrong>9th Circuit questions DOJ demand to set aside 20,000 California mail ballots\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A panel of federal appellate judges on Sunday questioned the timing, constitutionality and authority of the Justice Department’s demand that California election officials set aside \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-election-naturalization-voting-62ebeea82da863d93ee4e112e5b9f86e\">thousands of mail ballots\u003c/a> from people the federal government suspects may not be citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During rare weekend arguments, two of the three judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appeared skeptical of a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-justice-department-voting-noncitizens-lawsuit-12c62cf12a7db6480c60975b6dea49b8\">lawsuit brought by President\u003c/a> Donald Trump’s administration in mid-October. The lawsuit accuses California officials of failing to meet a 48-hour deadline to review 20,000 names the administration flagged as likely noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls. The administration asked a federal judge to require the state to withhold counting those ballots until the voters’ immigration status could be verified. The district judge scheduled a hearing for Oct. 27, days after the case was assigned, but the federal government appealed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, seeking an expedited decision.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justice Department attorney Matthew Donnelly told the panel that California is causing irreparable harm “by allowing noncitizens to vote in violation of their own state laws. 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Donnelly argued that the schedule set by the lower court judge was too slow and effectively a denial of the government’s request, as state elections officials process thousands of mail ballots every day.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judge Gabriel Sanchez, appointed by former President Joe Biden, questioned whether the federal government was violating the Tenth Amendment, essentially commandeering the state to enforce a federal law that makes it a misdemeanor for a noncitizen to vote. The federal government is simply asking California to enforce their own law, which also bans noncitizens from voting, Donnelly said. He argued the state’s refusal to comply with the federal request to set aside the ballots for review was “frustrating the purpose” of the federal law against noncitizen voting. The Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution gives state legislatures the power to set the time, place and manner of congressional elections, Bennett said. The executive branch may be “unhappy with what they’re doing, and doesn’t like the manner,” Bennett said, but under the Election Clause the state has the right to determine those issues — including how it sorts out any noncitizen voters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Attorney Seth Waxman, representing Los Angeles County Clerk Dean Logan, said the federal government’s list was unreliable and that segregating the ballots for a review process would effectively disenfranchise thousands of eligible voters. Waxman cited a review of 200 records from the Trump administration’s list conducted by Los Angeles County staffers. Assistant Registrar-Recorder Monica Flores said in a court filing that the sample included canceled or inactive registrations, individuals with no voting history and voters who appeared to have been born in the United States, which the filing notes “is strong evidence of citizenship.”\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>On this day, Larralde stood next to two men inside the train station who had just been released hours earlier from a nearby detention center. Kern County is home to four Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities. It’s the highest concentration of any county in California. People released from the two detention centers in McFarland – Golden State Annex and Central Valley Annex – are sent to Fresno’s ICE field office for processing. Those released from the California City Detention Facility and the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center are received at the Bakersfield field office.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>That field office is located on Truxtun Avenue, just down the street from the train station. It’s where the men released today came from, and it’s where the newly released detainees processed at this office usually end up. Larralde said over the last two years that he has worked at the terminal, he has met people from New York, Maryland, Florida and even as far as Puerto Rico. And he’s learned how to spot someone who just got out. “They come in with red bags. There are documents inside, like onion sacks. A lot of times they just show up with a yellow envelope,”Larralde said.\u003c/p>\n",
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That means a steady stream of people are finding themselves in places they don’t know, including Kern County, which is home to four ICE detention facilities, the highest concentration of any county in California. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2026-10-14/in-kern-county-a-volunteer-network-helps-people-released-from-ice-custody-get-back-home\">A grassroots movement\u003c/a> there has risen to help people find their way back home. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>In \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/midterm-elections-immigration-voter-fraud-trump-15f4270b4c43b088a633c8fcc365d027\">a rare Sunday hearing\u003c/a>, a panel of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals questioned the timing and constitutionality of the Department of Justice efforts to intervene in California’s midterm election. The three judge panel seemed skeptical of the DOJ’s demand to hold aside 20,000 ballots, over concerns about the citizenship of voters.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/community/2026-10-14/in-kern-county-a-volunteer-network-helps-people-released-from-ice-custody-get-back-home\">Kern County volunteers help people released from ICE custody get back home\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a Wednesday afternoon in September, the terminal inside the Bakersfield Amtrak and Greyhound station sat mostly empty. It was a regular day on the job for Ismael Larralde, who volunteers at the station to help passengers get to their bus or train.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But since the Trump administration has pushed for mass deportations and Congress approved historic funding for immigration enforcement and detention, Larralde has found himself doing something new: assisting people who have just been released from immigrant detention. “They’re very scared. They don’t know which direction to go, and if sometimes we approach them, they’re hesitant because of all the negativity they’ve been through,” Larralde said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On this day, Larralde stood next to two men inside the train station who had just been released hours earlier from a nearby detention center. Kern County is home to four Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities. It’s the highest concentration of any county in California. People released from the two detention centers in McFarland – Golden State Annex and Central Valley Annex – are sent to Fresno’s ICE field office for processing. Those released from the California City Detention Facility and the Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center are received at the Bakersfield field office.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That field office is located on Truxtun Avenue, just down the street from the train station. It’s where the men released today came from, and it’s where the newly released detainees processed at this office usually end up. Larralde said over the last two years that he has worked at the terminal, he has met people from New York, Maryland, Florida and even as far as Puerto Rico. And he’s learned how to spot someone who just got out. “They come in with red bags. There are documents inside, like onion sacks. A lot of times they just show up with a yellow envelope,”Larralde said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the number of detainees filling the nation’s immigration detention centers grows, so does the amount of people who manage to be released, with an increasing number of people filing for petitions of habeas corpus. That’s a legal filing that challenges the government’s reasoning to hold someone in detention. ICE data shows more than 2,500 detainees have come through Kern County just this year. Their average detention was between 25 and 69 days.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of the two men waiting in the terminal that day, only one man agreed to talk with KVPR. He requested his name not be used. He’s scheduled to appear in immigration court the following month and doesn’t want to jeopardize his case. The man said he’d been living and working in Salt Lake City for nine years with a legal work permit. But over the summer, ICE officers detained him on his way to a grocery store. He spent the past two months in the California City Detention Facility. “In reality, they’re rounding up a lot of people, including those who have [work] permits or who have started the paperwork process – and they’re just taking everyone indiscriminately,” the man said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeannie Parent is the founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kwesi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Kern Welcoming and Extending Solidarity to Immigrants\u003c/u>\u003c/a> (\u003ca href=\"https://www.kwesi.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>KWESI\u003c/u>\u003c/a>). The organization provides aid to people held in detention centers, and responds when someone is released. “So we’re trying to work together to get him home. That’s the main priority,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parent is also in frequent communication with \u003ca href=\"https://faithinthevalley.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Faith in the Valley\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, a faith-based organization with presence all over the Central Valley that has picked up its work with immigrants under the heightened enforcement environment. She said it’s unclear how anyone released from detention could ever find their way home without organizations like KWESI, Faith in the Valley and volunteers like Larralde. “They’ve been shuffled around the whole country. They’ve been trafficked, basically, and then left in California, 3,000 miles from home, with no resources, and often their IDs and their work permits and their passports have been taken by ICE as well,” Parent said. KVPR reached out to the Department of Homeland Security about its personal property policy. The agency said all personal property is “removed and secured while a detainee is in custody” and given back “upon arrival to their final destination.” However, DHS did not respond to a request to clarify whether “final destination” refers to their home state or the facility where they were processed for release.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/midterm-elections-immigration-voter-fraud-trump-15f4270b4c43b088a633c8fcc365d027\">\u003cstrong>9th Circuit questions DOJ demand to set aside 20,000 California mail ballots\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A panel of federal appellate judges on Sunday questioned the timing, constitutionality and authority of the Justice Department’s demand that California election officials set aside \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-election-naturalization-voting-62ebeea82da863d93ee4e112e5b9f86e\">thousands of mail ballots\u003c/a> from people the federal government suspects may not be citizens.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During rare weekend arguments, two of the three judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appeared skeptical of a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-justice-department-voting-noncitizens-lawsuit-12c62cf12a7db6480c60975b6dea49b8\">lawsuit brought by President\u003c/a> Donald Trump’s administration in mid-October. The lawsuit accuses California officials of failing to meet a 48-hour deadline to review 20,000 names the administration flagged as likely noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls. The administration asked a federal judge to require the state to withhold counting those ballots until the voters’ immigration status could be verified. The district judge scheduled a hearing for Oct. 27, days after the case was assigned, but the federal government appealed to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, seeking an expedited decision.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justice Department attorney Matthew Donnelly told the panel that California is causing irreparable harm “by allowing noncitizens to vote in violation of their own state laws. The damage is irreversible and irrevocable.” The Trump administration has made efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/trump-noncitizen-voting-midterms-election-integrity-ids-3c24d72b0b91803ed097226ee00f9483\">identify noncitizen voters\u003c/a> a priority this year, even though noncitizen voting is \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/noncitizens-voting-republicans-election-2024-immigration-09b86e6768f755fd875f3c51b0e8ea70\">exceptionally rare.\u003c/a> Circuit Judge Mark Bennett, a Trump appointee, questioned whether the appellate court even has jurisdiction to hear the case even before a ruling by the lower court. Donnelly argued that the schedule set by the lower court judge was too slow and effectively a denial of the government’s request, as state elections officials process thousands of mail ballots every day.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Judge Gabriel Sanchez, appointed by former President Joe Biden, questioned whether the federal government was violating the Tenth Amendment, essentially commandeering the state to enforce a federal law that makes it a misdemeanor for a noncitizen to vote. The federal government is simply asking California to enforce their own law, which also bans noncitizens from voting, Donnelly said. He argued the state’s refusal to comply with the federal request to set aside the ballots for review was “frustrating the purpose” of the federal law against noncitizen voting. The Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution gives state legislatures the power to set the time, place and manner of congressional elections, Bennett said. 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Two cases have been reported this month.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://kvcr.org/news/local/2026-10-14/progressive-candidates-challenge-fontanas-longtime-mayor-but-might-face-uphill-battle\">Senator Bernie Sanders endorses progressive candidate in Fontana race, but it’s not resonating with voters\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A slate of progressive candidates, including one \u003ca href=\"https://berniesanders.com/endorse/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>endorsed\u003c/u>\u003c/a> by progressive stalwart Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), is trying to change the face of City Hall in Fontana in San Bernardino County. But the candidates face strong headwinds in the famously conservative town.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.jozsidaforfontana.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Joz Sida\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, 37, is running for mayor as a Democratic Socialist. At a recent gathering at Southridge Park in Fontana, she stood on a makeshift stage alongside a slate of progressive candidates running for offices ranging from city council to city treasurer. “Our campaign is about us going to the people, and the best way is at the local parks, is meeting them where they’re at,” Sida said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sida moved to Fontana as a teenager. She ran for a school board position in \u003ca href=\"https://results.rov.sbcounty.gov/results/20121106/default.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>2012,\u003c/u>\u003c/a> but lost. She left the Inland Empire and spent the next decade organizing and working on progressive campaigns across the country. “I’ve worked on reproductive rights. I’ve worked on immigrant rights,” said Sida. “I always hope to elect people that do good policy.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sida said she moved back home from Chicago in 2023 to bring the progressive fight to Fontana. She recruited a slate of candidates and decided to run for mayor against incumbent Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.acquanetta.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acquanetta Warren\u003c/a>, who has held the office for 16 years. During that time, Warren \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-27/fontana-california-warehouses-inland-empire-pollution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>has taken credit\u003c/u>\u003c/a> for building up the warehousing industry and helping Fontana prosper economically. But Sida believes Warren has discouraged free speech and protest by limiting public input and supporting restrictions on protests.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Warren and the city council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/2024-06-27/fontana-credits-4leaf-for-its-effective-street-vending-law-vendors-say-their-livelihoods-are-hurt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>cracked down\u003c/u>\u003c/a> on street vendors in 2023, sparking outrage from residents, street vendors and some activists. Protests that erupted disrupted council meetings for several weeks. “We have tried everything we can within our power to help people get legal,” said Warren in Oct. 2023, after the council voted unanimously to support the crackdown. “So, now it’s time to grab a couple of hammers. Done.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Protesters and influencers eventually gathered outside the mayor’s home to protest the street vendor laws. In response, the City Council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/2023-12-13/fontana-votes-4-1-to-ban-protests-within-300-feet-of-homes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>passed an ordinance\u003c/u>\u003c/a> making protesting and picketing illegal within 300 feet of a residence. Sida said the measure chilled public dissent over city policies and that the crackdown has largely affected Latino immigrants and families who live in Fontana. “I came back … street vendors were under attack. I came back, warehouses next to high schools. I come back and we’re still one of the worst in air quality,” Sida said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Allen, a senior columnist with the Southern California News Group who has followed Warren’s political career for 16 years, said Fontana has \u003ca href=\"https://livefromthefrontline.org/fontana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>deep blue-collar\u003c/u>\u003c/a> Democratic roots but was also a \u003ca href=\"https://calisphere.org/item/1315140305f7ae50f460f47e3ca77703/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>haven for white supremacists\u003c/u>\u003c/a> until the 1990s. In that context, Warren was a trailblazer when she became the city’s first Black mayor in 2010. “She’s certainly, you know, 100% pro Fontana. I think Fontana’s definitely improved economically. Its image has improved, kind of along with her tenure,” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While progressives such as Sida have tapped into residents’ growing opposition to warehouses, Warren has received endorsements from the region’s two largest carpenter unions and the Teamsters, who represent county workers and warehouse workers at Amazon. Randy Korgan, secretary-treasurer of \u003ca href=\"https://teamsters1932-my.sharepoint.com/personal/rgonzalez_teamsters1932_org/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?id=%2Fpersonal%2Frgonzalez%5Fteamsters1932%5Forg%2FDocuments%2FPAC%2Fendorsement%20guide%2Epdf&parent=%2Fpersonal%2Frgonzalez%5Fteamsters1932%5Forg%2FDocuments%2FPAC&ga=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Teamsters Local 1932\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, said Warren has supported pensions for city employees. “I think that she’s proven to be accessible,” Korgan said. “Look, I’ve been doing this long enough to know the difference between someone who’s going to work to get it done versus the lip service. She doesn’t give you lip service. 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Two cases have been reported this month.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://kvcr.org/news/local/2026-10-14/progressive-candidates-challenge-fontanas-longtime-mayor-but-might-face-uphill-battle\">Senator Bernie Sanders endorses progressive candidate in Fontana race, but it’s not resonating with voters\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A slate of progressive candidates, including one \u003ca href=\"https://berniesanders.com/endorse/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>endorsed\u003c/u>\u003c/a> by progressive stalwart Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), is trying to change the face of City Hall in Fontana in San Bernardino County. But the candidates face strong headwinds in the famously conservative town.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.jozsidaforfontana.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Joz Sida\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, 37, is running for mayor as a Democratic Socialist. At a recent gathering at Southridge Park in Fontana, she stood on a makeshift stage alongside a slate of progressive candidates running for offices ranging from city council to city treasurer. “Our campaign is about us going to the people, and the best way is at the local parks, is meeting them where they’re at,” Sida said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sida moved to Fontana as a teenager. She ran for a school board position in \u003ca href=\"https://results.rov.sbcounty.gov/results/20121106/default.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>2012,\u003c/u>\u003c/a> but lost. She left the Inland Empire and spent the next decade organizing and working on progressive campaigns across the country. “I’ve worked on reproductive rights. I’ve worked on immigrant rights,” said Sida. “I always hope to elect people that do good policy.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sida said she moved back home from Chicago in 2023 to bring the progressive fight to Fontana. She recruited a slate of candidates and decided to run for mayor against incumbent Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.acquanetta.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acquanetta Warren\u003c/a>, who has held the office for 16 years. During that time, Warren \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-27/fontana-california-warehouses-inland-empire-pollution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>has taken credit\u003c/u>\u003c/a> for building up the warehousing industry and helping Fontana prosper economically. But Sida believes Warren has discouraged free speech and protest by limiting public input and supporting restrictions on protests.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Warren and the city council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/2024-06-27/fontana-credits-4leaf-for-its-effective-street-vending-law-vendors-say-their-livelihoods-are-hurt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>cracked down\u003c/u>\u003c/a> on street vendors in 2023, sparking outrage from residents, street vendors and some activists. Protests that erupted disrupted council meetings for several weeks. “We have tried everything we can within our power to help people get legal,” said Warren in Oct. 2023, after the council voted unanimously to support the crackdown. “So, now it’s time to grab a couple of hammers. Done.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Protesters and influencers eventually gathered outside the mayor’s home to protest the street vendor laws. In response, the City Council \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/2023-12-13/fontana-votes-4-1-to-ban-protests-within-300-feet-of-homes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>passed an ordinance\u003c/u>\u003c/a> making protesting and picketing illegal within 300 feet of a residence. Sida said the measure chilled public dissent over city policies and that the crackdown has largely affected Latino immigrants and families who live in Fontana. “I came back … street vendors were under attack. I came back, warehouses next to high schools. I come back and we’re still one of the worst in air quality,” Sida said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">David Allen, a senior columnist with the Southern California News Group who has followed Warren’s political career for 16 years, said Fontana has \u003ca href=\"https://livefromthefrontline.org/fontana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>deep blue-collar\u003c/u>\u003c/a> Democratic roots but was also a \u003ca href=\"https://calisphere.org/item/1315140305f7ae50f460f47e3ca77703/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>haven for white supremacists\u003c/u>\u003c/a> until the 1990s. In that context, Warren was a trailblazer when she became the city’s first Black mayor in 2010. “She’s certainly, you know, 100% pro Fontana. I think Fontana’s definitely improved economically. Its image has improved, kind of along with her tenure,” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While progressives such as Sida have tapped into residents’ growing opposition to warehouses, Warren has received endorsements from the region’s two largest carpenter unions and the Teamsters, who represent county workers and warehouse workers at Amazon. Randy Korgan, secretary-treasurer of \u003ca href=\"https://teamsters1932-my.sharepoint.com/personal/rgonzalez_teamsters1932_org/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx?id=%2Fpersonal%2Frgonzalez%5Fteamsters1932%5Forg%2FDocuments%2FPAC%2Fendorsement%20guide%2Epdf&parent=%2Fpersonal%2Frgonzalez%5Fteamsters1932%5Forg%2FDocuments%2FPAC&ga=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Teamsters Local 1932\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, said Warren has supported pensions for city employees. “I think that she’s proven to be accessible,” Korgan said. “Look, I’ve been doing this long enough to know the difference between someone who’s going to work to get it done versus the lip service. She doesn’t give you lip service. Korgan said he is intrigued by Sida’s campaign, but that the Teamsters endorsed Warren because she has delivered for workers and that the mayor has focused on solving local problems, while staying away from issues that divide Americans nationally.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Bird flu detected again in California\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A highly contagious strain of bird flu has reappeared in California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Starting in 2022, highly pathogenic avian influenza ravaged the state’s poultry flocks and even dairy farms. The price of eggs skyrocketed as tens of millions of the state’s poultry had to be euthanized and hundreds of cattle herds were quarantined.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For years, all those efforts worked. 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And \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12102409/local-loyalties-and-trump-opposition-collide-in-san-diego-house-race\">in San Diego\u003c/a>, an ad for Marni von Wilpert “shows her at a gas station, where she promises to “bring your tax dollars home, not spend them on foreign wars that cost you money.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s all part of a nationwide Democratic push to turn the tables on an issue that haunted the party in the last two elections by hounding Republicans over price increases at the pump fueled by the war in Iran. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In California, however, the GOP is not yet ceding ground on the fuel price fight. Republicans remain confident that they can land attacks on Democrats over the state’s longstanding environmental policies, gas tax and supply constraints as the cost of living weighs on voters statewide. The blame game over gas prices is taking on heightened importance as California’s congressional battlegrounds move from the upscale coastal suburbs, where the Democratic “blue wave” first made landfall in 2018, to inland working-class communities where residents tend to drive more on average.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This year, California has three House contests widely considered to be the most competitive between Democrats and Republicans. An analysis by the Brookings Institution for KQED found that all three seats fall in the top third of California congressional districts in annual vehicle miles traveled per capita. “When [gas] prices go up … those who drive longer distances, those who have less room in their household budgets feel it the most,” said Adie Tomer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “Those households are really taking it on the chin right now.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When gas prices spiked in 2022, GOP groups pounded Central Valley Democrats Rudy Salas, who supported the state’s cap-and-trade program, and Adam Gray, who voted in favor of the gas tax increase. Both lost their campaigns that year, though Gray came back to win the 13th District in 2024. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Republicans took us to task on gas prices,” said Bill Wong, a Democratic strategist. 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On some days, lawyers said they gained entrance at 4 or 5 p.m. to discover dozens of people inside but were only given time to meet with two or three. On other days, they were not allowed inside ICE’s holding area at all. Then, within a day or so, those arrested were moved to other detention facilities — in California or as far away as Texas, she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In some instances, Corona Gómez said, she’s been given a name by a family member of a person who was arrested, but has been unable to locate them. \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>They’re back there, and I’m not getting access,” she said. “And after hours [of waiting], I’m then being told, ‘Oh, now they’re not here. Now they’re at this detention center.’ But then we show up at the detention center, and it’s ‘No, they’re not in my system.’ Well, this is day five. This is day nine. 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Advocates say detained immigrants are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12104940/as-central-valley-immigration-arrests-continue-advocates-say-ice-is-blocking-access-to-legal-counsel\">being denied access to legal counsel\u003c/a>, and dozens are disappearing into the detention system.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12104393/california-democrats-hope-iran-war-flips-the-script-on-gas-prices\">California Democrats hope Iran war reverses views on gas prices\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After years of bearing the political blame for the nation’s highest gas prices, California Democrats are turning the nozzle on Republicans in pivotal House battlegrounds this \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/electionsnews\">midterm election\u003c/a> cycle. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, Richard Pan is running ads blasting his opponent for supporting “the war that raised gas prices.” In Bakersfield, Randy Villegas stood outside a Shell station last week and pledged to suspend the federal gas tax. And \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12102409/local-loyalties-and-trump-opposition-collide-in-san-diego-house-race\">in San Diego\u003c/a>, an ad for Marni von Wilpert “shows her at a gas station, where she promises to “bring your tax dollars home, not spend them on foreign wars that cost you money.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>It’s all part of a nationwide Democratic push to turn the tables on an issue that haunted the party in the last two elections by hounding Republicans over price increases at the pump fueled by the war in Iran. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In California, however, the GOP is not yet ceding ground on the fuel price fight. Republicans remain confident that they can land attacks on Democrats over the state’s longstanding environmental policies, gas tax and supply constraints as the cost of living weighs on voters statewide. The blame game over gas prices is taking on heightened importance as California’s congressional battlegrounds move from the upscale coastal suburbs, where the Democratic “blue wave” first made landfall in 2018, to inland working-class communities where residents tend to drive more on average.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>This year, California has three House contests widely considered to be the most competitive between Democrats and Republicans. An analysis by the Brookings Institution for KQED found that all three seats fall in the top third of California congressional districts in annual vehicle miles traveled per capita. “When [gas] prices go up … those who drive longer distances, those who have less room in their household budgets feel it the most,” said Adie Tomer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. “Those households are really taking it on the chin right now.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>When gas prices spiked in 2022, GOP groups pounded Central Valley Democrats Rudy Salas, who supported the state’s cap-and-trade program, and Adam Gray, who voted in favor of the gas tax increase. Both lost their campaigns that year, though Gray came back to win the 13th District in 2024. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“Republicans took us to task on gas prices,” said Bill Wong, a Democratic strategist. Wong spent years leading the campaign arm for Democrats in the state Assembly, building a supermajority that allowed the party to pass the gas tax and an ambitious environmental agenda — and protecting it amid attacks from the GOP over fuel prices. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Now, he sees an opening for Democrats to at least neutralize the issue, as Iran’s attacks against ships carrying crude oil through the Strait of Hormuz sent prices soaring worldwide. Average gas prices have increased $1.35 per gallon since the beginning of the war, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcnews.com/data-graphics/gas-prices-iran-war-state-national-cost-trump-rcna265835\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according\u003c/a> to NBC News. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“There’s a direct tie to something that they did with the increase in gas price,” Wong said. “I think it’s time for the Democrats to really lean into it and say, ‘Hey, you held us responsible for gas prices in the past, and now you’re in charge.’” Across the country, Democrats have taken up that call to flip the script. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/19/gas-prices-midterms-affordability-ads-01041175\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Politico analysis\u003c/a> of ad transcripts from the firm AdImpact found that roughly two-thirds of ads mentioning gas or gas prices in House or Senate elections came from Democrats. 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On some days, lawyers said they gained entrance at 4 or 5 p.m. to discover dozens of people inside but were only given time to meet with two or three. On other days, they were not allowed inside ICE’s holding area at all. Then, within a day or so, those arrested were moved to other detention facilities — in California or as far away as Texas, she said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In some instances, Corona Gómez said, she’s been given a name by a family member of a person who was arrested, but has been unable to locate them. \u003cstrong>“\u003c/strong>They’re back there, and I’m not getting access,” she said. “And after hours [of waiting], I’m then being told, ‘Oh, now they’re not here. Now they’re at this detention center.’ But then we show up at the detention center, and it’s ‘No, they’re not in my system.’ Well, this is day five. This is day nine. 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"content": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Friday, October 16, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>This year, Silicon Valley has poured money into California’s legislative races at levels far above past elections. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12104544/in-this-north-bay-assembly-race-big-tech-and-labor-battle-it-out\">One district where that money looms large\u003c/a> is Assembly District 12 in Marin and Sonoma counties, where two Democrats are facing off. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>The Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12104425/california-officials-denounce-trump-dojs-demands-to-prove-voters-citizenship\">filed a lawsuit against California\u003c/a> on Thursday, aiming to block the state from counting the ballots of around 20,000 voters. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>California Attorney General Rob Bonta \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/10/california-100-trump-lawsuits/\">has filed his 100th lawsuit\u003c/a> against the Trump administration. It’s challenging the Immigration and Customs Enforcement practice of making immigration arrests inside state courthouses.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12104544/in-this-north-bay-assembly-race-big-tech-and-labor-battle-it-out\">In this North Bay Assembly race, big tech and labor battle it out\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On a recent Saturday morning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california/state-assembly-12th-district\">Jackie Elward\u003c/a> stood in a park facing dozens of volunteer canvassers, most of them union members, from sheet metal workers to school support staff. They grabbed coffee and campaign flyers, preparing to knock on doors and persuade voters to elect Elward to the state Assembly to represent this North Bay district. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Before they fanned out, Elward reminded them what was at stake. She said the race is about workers versus corporations. “We know that they are coming to steal our job[s], to make sure that people are out of jobs,” she said. “But guess what? We are not going to allow a billionaire to take over what we have built for so many years.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Elward, 47, is a labor organizer, educator and member of the Rohnert Park City Council who became the first Black woman elected to the council in 2020. She raised three children in the district with her husband after immigrating from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2003. Her pitch to voters is straightforward: She’s the labor candidate fighting for working families, running against steep spending by tech special interests. Her opponent, Marin County Supervisor Eric Lucan, is the main beneficiary of that money in this race. Both are Democrats. “We know that the crypto billionaires’ … priority [is] to elect [a] candidate that they can bring to Sacramento in order to push their agenda,” Elward said. “One of the crystal clear examples is my race.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Across California, tech special interests are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12102105/tech-is-spending-big-on-california-races-this-bay-area-group-wants-you-to-know\">pouring money into legislative races\u003c/a> at levels far above past elections, political analysts say. Two super PACs, Grow California and California Leads, have spent more than $34 million on downballot competitions this year. Grow California is financed by billionaire Chris Larsen, co-founder of the crypto firm Ripple, and billionaire Tim Draper, a venture capitalist and bitcoin investor. California Leads is funded mostly by Meta and Google.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the North Bay’s Assembly District 12, Grow California has spent nearly $3 million so far opposing Elward and supporting Lucan. Elsewhere, the two super PACs are backing mostly moderate, business-friendly candidates in 16 other legislative races, the bulk of them in Southern California. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Political analysts see it as part of a broader fight for power in Sacramento between business and labor interests, which traditionally spend millions every cycle. “What you are seeing is an attempt to moderate on the margins many of the potential members that could come into the Assembly and the Senate that would be perceived as too far one way or another,” said David McCuan, a political science professor at Sonoma State University. “They’re pushing these large [independent expenditure] campaigns that are essentially blowing off the doors of any previous level of finance.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Larsen rejected the idea that this can be boiled down to a business-versus-labor struggle. “We’re looking for problem solvers,” he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12104645/sf-billionaire-chris-larsen-on-ai-this-is-an-incredibly-dangerous-moment\">told KQED’s Political Breakdown\u003c/a> on Thursday. “I don’t even like to use the word ‘moderate.’ That just sounds like you’re doing too much.” Rather, Larsen said, the millions of dollars in political spending this year aims to bring a different perspective to Sacramento, which he said has been dominated by unions that are not focusing on key issues such as housing, energy, the insurance crisis and education.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While labor and tech face off in the independent expenditure arena, both sides see a vital opening to maximize their influence in California’s Democratic-controlled Legislature: Given that the Trump administration has signaled a resistance to regulating artificial intelligence, the state is in a clear position to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12093427/california-leads-us-with-new-ai-transparency-law\">set the standards\u003c/a> for the nation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12104425/california-officials-denounce-trump-dojs-demands-to-prove-voters-citizenship\">Trump administration sues California after demands to prove voters’ citizenship\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/trump-administration\">Trump administration\u003c/a> sued California and state elections officials on Thursday, two days after demanding that they prove U.S. citizenship for tens of thousands of registered voters — or set aside their ballots.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The unusual lawsuit, filed weeks before Election Day, immediately drew criticism from Gov. Gavin Newsom and state officials, who have accused President Donald Trump and the federal government of stoking unfounded concerns about voter fraud and trying to intimidate voters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In letters sent Tuesday to state and local officials, the U.S. Department of Justice gave officials two days to confirm the voters’ citizenship status, ramping up its pressure on the state to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/election-integrity\">root out alleged voter fraud\u003c/a> ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm election. The letters were accompanied by a password-protected thumb drive that the DOJ said contained the names of over 20,000 voters who the federal government “believes are likely noncitizens.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In its complaint filed Thursday, the Justice Department asked a federal court to order California to set aside the vote-by-mail ballots sent to those people and to block the state from counting those ballots until the voters’ citizenship status can be confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is a sad, desperate attempt by Trump to use his politicized Justice Department to try to suppress California voters just three weeks before Election Day,” Newsom said in a statement. “Courts have made clear the federal government has no role in running state elections. We will defend free and fair elections in the Golden State and call out every authoritarian attempt to undermine our democracy.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Legal experts say the lawsuit faces an uphill battle. Similar suits by the Trump administration over California’s voter rolls have been unsuccessful since the start of Trump’s second term.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/10/california-100-trump-lawsuits/\">California files its 100th lawsuit against Trump\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California Attorney General \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/rob-bonta/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rob Bonta\u003c/a> has filed the state’s 100th lawsuit against the federal government since \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President Trump\u003c/a> took office for a second time in 2025. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/complaintcaliforniavice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lawsuit filed Thursday\u003c/a> alleges that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement overstepped its Constitutional limits by taking people into custody at state courthouses, a practice \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/cases/pablo-sequen-v-albarran/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">forbidden by a U.S. District Court judge\u003c/a> that the lawsuit alleges ICE nevertheless continues to employ. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For instance, the California Justice Department found that ICE detained 34 people at state courthouses in June 2026. 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It’s challenging the Immigration and Customs Enforcement practice of making immigration arrests inside state courthouses.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12104544/in-this-north-bay-assembly-race-big-tech-and-labor-battle-it-out\">In this North Bay Assembly race, big tech and labor battle it out\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On a recent Saturday morning, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california/state-assembly-12th-district\">Jackie Elward\u003c/a> stood in a park facing dozens of volunteer canvassers, most of them union members, from sheet metal workers to school support staff. They grabbed coffee and campaign flyers, preparing to knock on doors and persuade voters to elect Elward to the state Assembly to represent this North Bay district. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Before they fanned out, Elward reminded them what was at stake. She said the race is about workers versus corporations. “We know that they are coming to steal our job[s], to make sure that people are out of jobs,” she said. “But guess what? We are not going to allow a billionaire to take over what we have built for so many years.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Elward, 47, is a labor organizer, educator and member of the Rohnert Park City Council who became the first Black woman elected to the council in 2020. She raised three children in the district with her husband after immigrating from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2003. Her pitch to voters is straightforward: She’s the labor candidate fighting for working families, running against steep spending by tech special interests. Her opponent, Marin County Supervisor Eric Lucan, is the main beneficiary of that money in this race. Both are Democrats. “We know that the crypto billionaires’ … priority [is] to elect [a] candidate that they can bring to Sacramento in order to push their agenda,” Elward said. “One of the crystal clear examples is my race.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Across California, tech special interests are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12102105/tech-is-spending-big-on-california-races-this-bay-area-group-wants-you-to-know\">pouring money into legislative races\u003c/a> at levels far above past elections, political analysts say. Two super PACs, Grow California and California Leads, have spent more than $34 million on downballot competitions this year. Grow California is financed by billionaire Chris Larsen, co-founder of the crypto firm Ripple, and billionaire Tim Draper, a venture capitalist and bitcoin investor. California Leads is funded mostly by Meta and Google.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In the North Bay’s Assembly District 12, Grow California has spent nearly $3 million so far opposing Elward and supporting Lucan. Elsewhere, the two super PACs are backing mostly moderate, business-friendly candidates in 16 other legislative races, the bulk of them in Southern California. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Political analysts see it as part of a broader fight for power in Sacramento between business and labor interests, which traditionally spend millions every cycle. “What you are seeing is an attempt to moderate on the margins many of the potential members that could come into the Assembly and the Senate that would be perceived as too far one way or another,” said David McCuan, a political science professor at Sonoma State University. “They’re pushing these large [independent expenditure] campaigns that are essentially blowing off the doors of any previous level of finance.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Larsen rejected the idea that this can be boiled down to a business-versus-labor struggle. “We’re looking for problem solvers,” he \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12104645/sf-billionaire-chris-larsen-on-ai-this-is-an-incredibly-dangerous-moment\">told KQED’s Political Breakdown\u003c/a> on Thursday. “I don’t even like to use the word ‘moderate.’ That just sounds like you’re doing too much.” Rather, Larsen said, the millions of dollars in political spending this year aims to bring a different perspective to Sacramento, which he said has been dominated by unions that are not focusing on key issues such as housing, energy, the insurance crisis and education.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While labor and tech face off in the independent expenditure arena, both sides see a vital opening to maximize their influence in California’s Democratic-controlled Legislature: Given that the Trump administration has signaled a resistance to regulating artificial intelligence, the state is in a clear position to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12093427/california-leads-us-with-new-ai-transparency-law\">set the standards\u003c/a> for the nation. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12104425/california-officials-denounce-trump-dojs-demands-to-prove-voters-citizenship\">Trump administration sues California after demands to prove voters’ citizenship\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/trump-administration\">Trump administration\u003c/a> sued California and state elections officials on Thursday, two days after demanding that they prove U.S. citizenship for tens of thousands of registered voters — or set aside their ballots.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The unusual lawsuit, filed weeks before Election Day, immediately drew criticism from Gov. Gavin Newsom and state officials, who have accused President Donald Trump and the federal government of stoking unfounded concerns about voter fraud and trying to intimidate voters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In letters sent Tuesday to state and local officials, the U.S. Department of Justice gave officials two days to confirm the voters’ citizenship status, ramping up its pressure on the state to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/election-integrity\">root out alleged voter fraud\u003c/a> ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm election. The letters were accompanied by a password-protected thumb drive that the DOJ said contained the names of over 20,000 voters who the federal government “believes are likely noncitizens.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>In its complaint filed Thursday, the Justice Department asked a federal court to order California to set aside the vote-by-mail ballots sent to those people and to block the state from counting those ballots until the voters’ citizenship status can be confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“This is a sad, desperate attempt by Trump to use his politicized Justice Department to try to suppress California voters just three weeks before Election Day,” Newsom said in a statement. “Courts have made clear the federal government has no role in running state elections. We will defend free and fair elections in the Golden State and call out every authoritarian attempt to undermine our democracy.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Legal experts say the lawsuit faces an uphill battle. Similar suits by the Trump administration over California’s voter rolls have been unsuccessful since the start of Trump’s second term.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/10/california-100-trump-lawsuits/\">California files its 100th lawsuit against Trump\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California Attorney General \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/rob-bonta/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rob Bonta\u003c/a> has filed the state’s 100th lawsuit against the federal government since \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/donald-trump/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">President Trump\u003c/a> took office for a second time in 2025. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/complaintcaliforniavice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lawsuit filed Thursday\u003c/a> alleges that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement overstepped its Constitutional limits by taking people into custody at state courthouses, a practice \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunorcal.org/cases/pablo-sequen-v-albarran/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">forbidden by a U.S. District Court judge\u003c/a> that the lawsuit alleges ICE nevertheless continues to employ. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>For instance, the California Justice Department found that ICE detained 34 people at state courthouses in June 2026. In July 2026, the month after the judicial order to stop making \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/09/ice-courthouse-arrests/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arrests at courthouses\u003c/a>, ICE detained 28 people at courthouses. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“ICE’s directive on courthouse enforcement and the resulting enforcement activities have had a profound chilling effect that has hindered California’s ability to enforce the law and protect public safety,” the state Justice Department said in a news release.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Picking people up at a courthouse can have a chilling effect on witnesses, victims and even suspects who are afraid to show up for court, California Supreme Court Chief Justice Patricia Guerrero \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/california-chief-justice-issues-statement-immigration-enforcement-california-courthouses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said last year.\u003c/a> “Making courthouses a focus of immigration enforcement hinders, rather than helps, the administration of justice by deterring witnesses and victims from coming forward and discouraging individuals from asserting their rights,” Guerrero said. \u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Kim is offering the boldest out-of-the-box policy idea, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2002294/could-a-public-wildfire-insurance-plan-work-in-california\">a publicly run nonprofit guaranteed disaster insurance for all program\u003c/a>. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>California lawmakers say a surge in immigration raids in the Golden State could suppress the vote come November. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>An ICE officer was charged this week with felony assault in Fresno, after he attacked two residents.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/2002294/could-a-public-wildfire-insurance-plan-work-in-california\">Insurance commissioner candidate has bold proposal to fix state system\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> Supervisor Jane Kim’s proposal to create a public, natural disaster insurance program for all is the boldest out-of-the-box idea in the race to become California’s next insurance commissioner.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The consumer advocate and attorney proposed a “guaranteed disaster for all insurance program that is publicly run and nonprofit.” “The state would collect some of the premiums that you’re already paying to this industry,” she said. “We would invest those dollars in the market, and then we would use excess capital to actually invest in driving down risk, meaning we would invest in fireproofing and floodproofing communities.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Kim has pointed to New Zealand and France’s arrangements as potential models. In these countries, the government and private companies share risk in the insurance market. She said she wants to see California’s insurance dollars at work to control the state’s insurance costs.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Could a similar program work here? How would it? KQED spoke with half a dozen experts to take a look at these questions, and many met the idea with skepticism, and also some hints of curiosity.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Public-private insurance partnerships exist in some form in dozens of countries, including England for flood risk and Spain for some risk reduction and emergency response. The U.S. also has a national flood insurance program. And states like Texas and Florida have schemes to socialize some of the costs of home insurance, owing to their frequent hurricanes and flooding.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Each country or state’s arrangement is unique. In New Zealand, a set amount of a homeowner’s property insurance, about 600 New Zealand dollars ($336), goes to the government program that covers seismic risk: earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and landslides. If a policyholder suffers a loss, they can receive up to 300,000 NZ$ (roughly $170,000). All claim values above that are paid by the insurance company they have coverage with. It only covers seismic hazards. In France, a surcharge of 20% is added to property insurance policies. Private insurance companies handle claims, but they are reinsured by a public reinsurance company backed by the French state. Spain also operates a public reinsurance and direct insurance program, also funded by mandatory surcharges.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>While some California insurance experts believe bold ideas are needed to decrease wildfire risk, most are skeptical of Kim’s idea. Their concerns overlap: public insurance programs spread out costs but don’t necessarily reduce them; they are often overly generous and fiscally irresponsible because they are set up by politicians who want to be reelected. Some experts argue that California’s climate-fueled disasters are so expensive and frequent that it would be foolish for the state to take on so much risk, and that California’s market is in the early phases of a recovery and that shocking it with major changes could delay or reverse the progress. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://kvcr.org/news/local/2026-10-14/california-lawmakers-warn-immigration-raids-could-suppress-latino-vote\">State officials warn immigration raids could suppress the vote\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>California lawmakers and immigrant rights advocates are warning that increased immigration enforcement across the state could discourage voters from participating in the November election.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Secretary of State Shirley Weber condemned the raids during a video conference with reporters Tuesday. Weber said the fear of being targeted by federal immigration agents could keep people away from the polls. “People feel that ICE is waiting for individuals who look a little different,” Weber said. “We see every day someone being attacked, someone being stopped.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security has launched enforcement campaigns in several parts of California, including San Diego, the Inland Empire and the Central Valley. The Central Valley is home to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvpr.org/podcast/central-valley-daily/2026-10-09/oct-9-critical-us-house-district-22-race-heats-up-ahead-of-election-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003cu>closely watched\u003c/u>\u003c/a> congressional race that could help Democrats flip a Republican-held district.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Last week, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and other Democratic legislative leaders \u003ca href=\"https://speaker.asmdc.org/press-releases/20261009-speaker-rivas-assembly-leaders-condemn-trumps-latest-ice-enforcement-and\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u003cu>accused \u003c/u>\u003c/a>the Trump administration of using immigration enforcement to intimidate communities ahead of the election. “Weeks before an election, Trump is unleashing indiscriminate ICE raids across the country,” Rivas said in a statement. “This isn’t about public safety. 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The department said federal agents would be at polling places only in response to a specific threat, not to intimidate voters\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>Off-Duty ICE officer charged with assault in Fresno\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>An ICE officer was \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnoda.org/News-Media/News-Releases/MAN-CHARGED-IN-ASSAULT-OF-ELDERLY-TOWER-DISTRICT-RESIDENT-AND-DAUGHTER\">charged this week\u003c/a> with felony assault in Fresno after he attacked two residents.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The Fresno County District Attorney also charged the officer, 32-year-old David Gonzalez of Texas, with elderly abuse, battery and vandalism.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>A homeowner and his daughter found Gonzalez sleeping on their front lawn last Friday while he was off duty, and asked him to leave. 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