California is a disaster...

Editor's note: ...and it just became worse for Governor White Teeth. Under the leadership of Governor White Teeth has developed some of the highest gasoline prices in the US due to a combination of heavy fuel taxes, strict environmental regulations, and declining refinery capacity. The state imposes the nation's highest gasoline tax while also requiring a special fuel blend regulated by the California Air Resources Board (an unresourceful board) that is more expensive to produce and limits supply from other states. At the same time, refinery closures and policies discouraging domestic oil production have tightened fuel supply, leaving California more dependent on imported crude. These policies, while intended to advance aggressive climate goals (fraud) and accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels (abiotic oil), have significantly increased energy costs for residents and businesses and contributed to the state's broader cost-of-living crisis.
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1.3 Million Californians Just Forced a Voter ID Fight — and Gavin Newsom Can't Stop It This Time

By Demetrius Gardner | March 6, 2026

Something remarkable happened in California this week, and it deserves more attention than it has gotten. A grassroots petition effort to require voter identification in the nation's most populous state didn't just limp past its legal threshold — it blew past it.

Reform California submitted more than 1.3 million signatures to county officials, nearly 50 percent above the 875,000 required to qualify the "California Voter ID Initiative" for the November 2026 ballot. In a state where Democrats hold a legislative supermajority and have spent years insulating their election policies from voter scrutiny, this is not a minor development.

The initiative, if passed by voters, would amend the California state constitution directly — bypassing the very legislative supermajority that has blocked every previous attempt at commonsense election reform. It would require voters to present identification when casting a ballot, compel election officials to verify the citizenship of registered voters, and mandate that the state maintain accurate, up-to-date voter rolls.

These are not radical demands. They are standard practices in dozens of countries around the world, including many that progressive activists routinely hold up as models of healthy democracy.

State Assembly Member Carl DeMaio, a Republican who chairs Reform California, has been emphatic that this is not a partisan crusade. His group says nearly half of the 1.35 million signatures came from Democrats and independents, representing all 58 of California's counties.

"Polling overwhelmingly shows a supermajority consensus for voter I.D. requirements," DeMaio said, citing internal data showing 71% of Californians favor the initiative. He framed the measure as "a common-sense and bipartisan way to restore the trust and confidence all voters should have in our election system."

His logic is straightforward — and difficult to argue with seriously. "If you need an I.D. to board an airplane or buy a pack of cigarettes or buy a case of beer," DeMaio said, "you should make it pretty easy to use an I.D. to vote in an election. This is not hard, it's not rocket science, it’s quite simple."

Critics who insist that requiring identification to vote is an act of suppression have never adequately explained why the same standard applied to alcohol purchases or airport security is considered reasonable everywhere except the ballot box.

Under current California law, voters are technically required to be U.S. citizens, but the state relies entirely on registrants to simply attest to that fact. There is no verification mechanism. The California Secretary of State's own documentation confirms that the state does not generally require voters to show identification at the polls. In most cases, a person walks in, states their name, and votes. The only exception applies to first-time federal election voters who registered by mail or online and did not provide a California ID or Social Security number when doing so — and even then, acceptable forms of identification include a utility bill, a bank statement, or a paycheck. The standard is, to put it gently, not exacting.

This is the system Governor Gavin Newsom has not only defended but actively strengthened. In 2024, he signed legislation explicitly banning local jurisdictions from requiring identification to vote — a direct response to voters in Huntington Beach, California, who had approved a measure allowing city officials to require voter ID in municipal elections. The will of the local electorate was effectively nullified by the stroke of a pen. Newsom's action made clear that he views voter ID not as a debatable policy question but as an existential threat to be stamped out wherever it appears.

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🚨 BREAKING: Gavin Newsom is now facing MASSIVE pressure from his own residents and lawmakers after CA gas prices could hit $8 per gallon

Newsom faces demands to abolish a policy that ARTIFICIALLY inflates prices for "carbon emissions"

CA is a DISASTER!pic.twitter.com/dnlfnBMdi6

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 6, 2026