California is not perfect, and we are working hard to fix what is broken. But here are a few things you will never hear on Fox News or from #MAGA. California Facts by the Numbers

Financially distressed means families cannot keep up with the bills. Lenders let people skip payments they cannot afford, bankruptcy filings rise, and searches for debt help climb. WalletHub studied all 50 states.

Is Trump encouraging pedophilia? Not a single American male in the Epstein files has been held accountable for child rape.

In the last 30 days: Trump renewed his push to take Greenland, the Pentagon is threatening military action in Cuba, he threatened Canada with tariffs over wildfire smoke, attacked Italy’s prime minister, he ordered an end to all US trade with Spain,

Trump is still trying to acquire Greenland, even threatening America’s NATO relationships over territory that is not his to take. This demented obsession is not foreign policy. It is an imperial fantasy from a president who cannot take no for an answer.

Trump’s threat is real. His science is not. Wildfires can start from lightning or human activity, but climate change is making Canada hotter, drier and more fire-prone. Its forests span 369 million hectares. You cannot rake a continent.

When a family loses its car, a quiet catastrophe begins. No car means no way to work. No work means no rent or mortgage. No rent means no home. A society that repossesses its way through hard times is manufacturing its own homelessness, and we as a society pay the price. #TrumpEconomy

🚨Trump promised to lower your costs. Instead, nearly 1 in 3 Americans now owe more on their credit cards than they have in savings, card interest sits near 21%. U.S. household debt is nearing a record $19 trillion, and families can’t keep up.

90% of guns used in children’s fatal accidental shootings were left loaded and unlocked. Democrats keep proposing the fix, Ethan’s Law. What is Ethan’s Law?

Buying your first zero-emission vehicle is now way more affordable. And now, 13 major automakers are backing California's instant rebate of $3,500 for new models and $1,750 for used models. We're proving that lowering costs and growing American manufacturing go hand-in-hand.

More than 1 in 3 women in America will face violence from a partner, says the CDC. 77% of people shot and killed by an intimate partner are women, per CDC data. Disarming abusers saves lives.

Is Trump encouraging pedophilia? Not a single American male in the Epstein files has been held accountable for child rape.

News flash: Republicans, today July 16, 2026, are trying to cut future VETERANS benefits.

Is Trump encouraging pedophilia. Not a single American male in the Epstein files has been held accountable for child rape.

When a rural hospital closes its maternity ward, the damage spreads. Pregnant women driving an hour to deliver face higher rates of complications and infant death.

Republicans said the SNAP cuts would only remove fraud and the unwilling. Penn Wharton and the CBO show otherwise: the people losing food are working parents, seniors, veterans, children, and disabled adults who still qualify.

The nonpartisan Penn Wharton model scored Trump’s 2025 tax law. The poorest fifth of Americans lose $27,500 over a lifetime, a full seventh of their income, gutted by Medicaid and food cuts.

While Trump exempts coal plants from pollution limits, his Energy Department killed 223 clean energy projects worth 7.6 billion dollars in a single day.

Harvard scientists proved that fine particle pollution from coal plants kills, and the EPA set a limit to prevent 4,500 deaths a year. Coal plant mercury and soot cause heart disease, cancer, and early death.

🌴 FLORIDA: THE REPUBLICAN RECORD Republicans have controlled the governorship and both legislative chambers continuously since January 1999. Almost 3 DECADES. 🏦 FRAUD, RENT AND COST OF LIVING ❌ Worst in America per capita for fraud & identity theft in 2024, with $866.1 million in reported losses

Is Trump encouraging pedophilia? Not a single American male in the Epstein Files has been held accountable for raping children.

🤠 TEXAS: THREE DECADES WITHOUT A DEMOCRATIC STATEWIDE WIN No Democrat has won a Texas statewide office since 1994. Republicans have held the governorship since 1995, the Senate since 1997 and the House since 2003. 😣 QUALITY OF LIFE

Yale researchers matched actual voter files to death records in Florida and Ohio. Once vaccines became available, excess deaths among Republican-registered voters ran 43 percent higher than among Democrats, a gap that barely existed before the shots.

Why do educated Americans live nearly eight years longer? A Nobel Laureate from Princeton University has spent a decade documenting who dies in America and why.

California’s investment in public education in the past 7 years has led to: ✅ Universal Transitional Kindergarten ✅ Before- after- school programs ✅ Summer school programs ✅ Free school meals A whole child approach has created more opportunity for both students and communities alike.

The research keeps piling up. University of Chicago economists, using Census death records through 2022, estimate Medicaid expansion has saved about 27,400 lives, and that roughly 1,600 people still die needlessly every year in the states refusing it.

Americans die younger than people in nearly every other wealthy nation. Insurers profit by predicting death, and here’s what their math knows about red states: a baby born in Mississippi will die years before one in Hawaii. That gap is not fate.

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RFK Jr. spent decades as an anti-vaccine activist. Trump made him America’s top health official. The result: the worst measles year since 1991, two dead Texas children, and kids hospitalized with vitamin A poisoning after RFK pushed it as a treatment.

Here’s what Ron DeSantis won’t say on Fox: almost 90% of Florida’s population growth now comes from international immigration, the very thing he and Trump are racing to cut. With deaths already outpacing births, choke that off and Florida’s growth nearly grinds to a halt.