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It's rural v. urban. farmland v. concrete jungle. and, yes, red v. blue. The latest headline grabbing effort to divvy up the Golden State comes from the founders of the state of New California. With the reading of their own version of the Declaration of Independence, the group announced they want to remain in the United States, just leave California. Map of New California Here is a section from the group's Declaration, "The history of the present Governor and Government of California is a his

Kevin McCormick is running for governor of Arizona with $6,500. Would you do something that crazy? As a Libertarian, he faces voter petition laws that are more restrictive than ever before. As a candidate, he faces pushback from many Libertarians for using a government resource unique to Arizona politics: The Clean Elections Commission. How are tax dollars going to help a Libertarian run for public office on a “clean election” platform? Does this sound crazy? Maybe. And, it might just work.

T.J. O'Hara is joined by Josh Silver. Josh is a veteran election and media reform executive. He was the campaign manager for the successful 1998 Arizona Clean Elections ballot initiative, and is the co-founder and former CEO of Free Press, a leading media and technology reform advocacy organization. Silver has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal and featured in outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Newsweek, NPR, and CBS Sunday Morning. The two discuss the gro

Over the years, many a prominent politician has said, to paraphrase, “I may not be the smartest guy in the world, but I can count votes.” Such is the case with President Donald Trump, and it may be the bottom line reason he has decided to openly endorse Judge Roy Moore for the United States Senate. While politicians from both sides of the aisle have been falling all over to distance themselves from, or flat out reject the Moore candidacy, Trump is in fact, truthful and pragmatic. Let’s first

Read our centrist recap for the week below. We shine a light on the spin and useless stories from the Left and Right and detail what you should focus on, before people can pull wool over your eyes. What the partisans will focus on and you should avoid: * This week, just like last, and for a few weeks to come, both sides are going to be finger pointing and attempting to prove the other side is worse than they are. After all the sexual misconduct in Congress and politics, the parties will attem

This week, T.J. O’Hara is joined by Lenny Mendonca on the IVN podcast, A Civil Assessment. Lenny Mendonca is a Senior Partner Emeritus from the Washington D.C. and San Francisco offices of McKinsey & Company, a global management consulting firm. He is a Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and co-chair of California Forward. He is also an advisor to several entrepreneurs. Over the course of his career he helped dozens of government, corporate, and nonprofit clients solve their

Supporters of a 2018 ballot initiative to legalize psychedelic mushrooms in California were given the green light by the state attorney general's office earlier this month to circulate petitions and gather signatures. They now have until April 30 to gather and submit 365,880 valid signatures from registered voters in the first state to ever legalize medical marijuana under Proposition 215 in 1996. That ballot proposition, as well as Prop. 64 -- the 2016 voter initiative titled "The Adult Use o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x52hu0ilm4E Video Credit: RT A widely circulated article by Fox News Tuesday reports that the U.S. Army, struggling to meet its recruitment quotas, will be lowering its standards for new recruits by lifting a previous ban on recruiting "people with a history of mental illness, self-mutilation and drug abuse to serve in the military." The Army signed off on the new policy earlier this year because it is behind schedule to meet its target of recruiting 80,000 new

Liberal democracy is in crisis, but there are reasons for hope. That is the message coming from several voices in the reform community, including CA FWD's Lenny Mendonca and Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University. In a recent opinion piece, Diamond says that in order to fix democracy on the broader national and global scale, "we must first address toxic partisanship and polarization here at home." He writes: "The United States and its liberal democratic al

During a time of deep political dysfunction in the United States, it is easy to assume that American democracy has gone off the rails, perhaps for good. But if Americans can look past the slow-motion travesty unfolding in Washington, DC, they will find that it is still within their power to effect meaningful change. BERKELEY – It has been one year since Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, and America’s democratic institutions are clearly under strain. A mere 20% of American