Bill Essayli turns DOJ threats on California election workers
By threatening local officials over flawed voter lists, Bill Essayli and federal prosecutors are using fear to sabotage democratic participation before midterms.
By Alma Cordero ·
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Newport Beach throws sand at a crisis fossil fuels created
California cities are spending millions on temporary sand berms to fight record tides, but this reactive spending ignores the thermal expansion driven by global carbon emissions.
By Sophie Naimi ·
Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin are gaming California's Prop 40
As billionaires use stock deals and millions in spending to dodge a 5% wealth tax, California voters must decide if healthcare is worth more than oligarchs' hoards.
By Maya Ellison ·
Feds stage vote fraud theater to break California ballots
The Trump administration weaponizes bad data and theatrical arrests to disenfranchise California voters, proving that policing the border now means policing the ballot box.
By Alma Cordero ·
Rare storms in Arizona prove West Coast rain is a warning
A storm bringing flood watches to 7 million people signals a volatile winter that turns burn scars into death traps across the West.
By Daniel Okafor ·
Justice Department's flawed lists fail the California voter test
The Justice Department is wrong. It is attempting to use a criminal statute to force a civil administrative change based on data that cannot survive a basic audit. The Department seeks an emergency order to segregate ballots from 20,000 people it labels as likely noncitizens. This is not a request for precision. It is a demand for a purge.
By Adele Rutherford ·
The DOJ uses Operation Protect the Vote to terrorize California
The Department of Justice arrested residents like Omar Muñoz using flawed lists to purge voter rolls, a move that serves as political theater rather than a pursuit of justice.
By Alma Cordero ·
DOJ's flawed voter list is a reckless stunt in California
Kamlesh Shah is 68 years old. He is disabled and lives with heart conditions that make stress a danger to his life. For 30 years, he has called the United States home as a legal permanent resident. He thought he was qualified to vote. He asked the election officer at a community center, and the officer just asked for his ID. Now, the Department of Justice is charging him with a federal crime.
By Alma Cordero ·
The Justice Department terrorizes California green card holders
Federal prosecutors charged 28 permanent residents with election crimes and threatened local election workers to manufacture a panic before the midterm elections.
By Alma Cordero ·
The Justice Department threatens California and abandons the law
The Justice Department threatened California election workers with prosecution over unverified voter rolls, trading statutory procedure for executive intimidation that destroys the rule of law.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Trump targets California election workers with raw intimidation
The Justice Department is threatening California officials with prison over an unvetted list of voters, abusing federal authority to bully local workers and suppress the vote.
By Alma Cordero ·
A super El Niño winter is coming and the first official forecast is in
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecasts a powerful El Niño that threatens the southern United States with floods, proving that record rainfall on dry soil brings disaster instead of relief.
By Daniel Okafor ·
The Justice Department's California suit fails on process
The Justice Department sued California after officials rejected an eleventh-hour thumb drive, but executive ultimatums cannot displace established statutory procedures when tested against the law.
By Adele Rutherford ·
Thousands more North Bay customers face potential PG&E power shutoffs
By Imani Sutton ·
Justice Department threatens California over voter rolls
The Justice Department's forty-eight-hour ultimatum to California over mail ballots weaponizes unvetted data and abuses federal process.
By Adele Rutherford ·
California faces an extraordinary winter as El Niño strengthens
Climate models project extraordinary rainfall across California as El Niño strengthens, leaving emergency response agencies unready for compound disasters unless governments immediately fund structural reinforcements.
By Daniel Okafor ·