Democrat Judge Bars Release of Nashville Shooter’s Writings

Chancery Court Judge Lacia Miles ruled Thursday that the books of Audrey Hale, the transgender shooter who shot and killed three children and three adults at Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, cannot be made available to the public. Hale left behind 20 diaries, a suicide note and a memoir, court documents state. Multiple groups have […]

California Proposition 3 voter guide: Gay marriage

Rep. Evan Law (D-Campbell) has called Proposition 8's definition “discriminatory and unconstitutional” and has authored a bill that would ask voters to remove and replace it. The bill comes at a time when Democrats are distrustful of the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority. Prop. 3 supporters point to conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' concurring […]

California Proposition 35 voter guide: Managed care organization tax

Prop. 35 is supported by the Protecting Access to Health Care Coalition, which includes a variety of health care organizations, including the California Hospital Association, the California Medical Association, Planned Parenthood Federation of California, labor unions, first responders and community health centers. It is supported by both the California Democratic Party and the California Republican […]

Regime Media Realizes It’s Been Lying This Whole Time (Again)

Once again, the “right-wing media disinformation campaign” has proven true. By now, it is not surprising that the self-appointed arbiters of truth in the corporate media are arriving at this story, often with years of delay. School closures, masks, and vaccines were essential for years, the media insisted, only to turn out not to be. […]

California Proposition 34 voter guide: healthcare spending

The bill is sponsored by the California Apartment Association, which has long been at odds with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation over efforts to enact stricter rent control laws through ballot measures. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which makes $2 billion a year in revenue, mostly from a chain of pharmacies and clinics, has faced criticism that […]

California Proposition 5 voter guide: Local housing, road bonds

Currently, most local bond proposals require a two-thirds vote of the public to be approved. If voters pass Proposition 5, that threshold would be lowered to 55% for bonds that support low-income housing, road and transit expansion, parks, wildfire resilience and other public infrastructure projects. The supermajority vote currently required to approve local bonds dates […]

Republican candidates for Maricopa County sheriff debate

Joe Arpaio is no longer running for Maricopa County sheriff, but his legacy still looms large over the office, as was evident Wednesday during the Arizona Clean Elections debate between the three candidates vying for the Republican nomination for the sheriff's office. Two of the candidates touted their ties to Arpaio, even though he was […]