California is the bell weather for the climate crisis, whether it's feeling and responding to the immediate impacts of extreme heat on our most vulnerable, flooding, and what it means for drinking water and agricultural production.
Alex Padilla: “California is the bell weather for the climate crisis, whether it's feeling and responding to the immediate impacts of…”
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Highlighting California's role in demonstrating the effects of climate change.
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Still, this incident is a stark reminder of the very real dangers facing those who serve the public and who help administer our elections in the face of increasingly hostile political rhetoric — especially from Donald Trump.
Their only hope for trying to maintain any sense of power is to interfere. It’s to change the rules. It’s to rig the elections.
I know how California elections work very, very well. They’re safe, they’re secure. They’re fair, they’re free, and they’re going to stay that way.
We’ve seen this coming: Donald Trump’s Department of Justice with no authority is now actively trying to interfere in the 2026 elections and strong-arm California into purging names from our voter rolls and blocking mail ballots based…





