Nine of the 16 races that will determine which party controls the House of Representatives are in California. No state takes longer to tally votes.

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants the new Legislature to ‘protect’ California from Donald Trump on civil rights, reproductive freedom, climate action, and immigrant families. The session will start Dec. 2.

California sued the Trump administration more than 100 times in his first term and secured some major victories on the environment, immigration and health care.

Liccardo's campaign said the Democratic House leadership on Nov. 6 called to invite him to fly to Washington D.C., to meet with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

Torres was arrested for lewd acts with a child and is being held without bail tonight. It remained unclear this evening whether the arrest Tuesday afternoon was based on new revelations of sexual misconduct or on Torres' sexually explicit emails and videos revealed in an Oct. 1 police affidavit.

Shasta County supervisors hired an elections chief without experience just months before the election. While the most high-profile election conspiracies emanate from swing states like Michigan and Georgia, the battle over democracy continues to rage across California.

The county Registrar of Voters office reported 419,345 mail ballots counted as of Nov. 3

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein spoke Thursday night at the Naglee Park home of Karen and Richard Ajluni, an event attended by more than 30 persons, amongst which the local Palestinian American community was well represented. She was introduced by longtime nonprofit executive Ajluni, who cited the ongoing deaths of children in the current Middle East war and said that the two-party system would not change unless voters had the courage to walk away. Stein, sporting a black-and-white kaffiyeh draped around her neck, launched a blistering attack on the Democratic Party, accusing its leaders of selling out to large corporations and oil companies by failing to adequately address the climate crisis, suppressing progressive voices and complicity in what she repetitively described as a genocide.

Torres’ council chair was again conspicuously empty, and he continues to be a no-show at various boards and committees.

The restrictions on political ads around Election Day are being reinstated out of concern for political misinformation, heightened by the use of AI.

The debate at the end of the first week after ballots were mailed to registered voters was combative but offered voters few real differences of opinion between the progressive Evan Low and the moderate Sam Liccardo.

Defend the Vote said that Low’s state campaign committee is funded through money that is not permitted to be spent in federal elections, and that he is using impermissible funds on federal campaign ads.

The alliance between Kamala Harris and Laurene Powell Jobs is a genuine 20-year friendship that has thrust the press-shy billionaire philanthropist into the political spotlight.

On the first survey question posed to likely 16th District voters, Liccardo leads Low 42% to 28%, according to a memo from the pollsters. The margin of error is plus or minus 4%.

Low's Silicon Valley constituents could lose tens of millions of dollars in local tax revenues if Gavin Newsom signs a bill that allows casino-owning tribes to sue private card rooms, their competitors.

Senate Democratic leader Mike McGuire objects to the governor's plan, saying the Senate will not support convening a special session this fall.