California

Education Reform
SIECUS State Report Card: A Tool for Spotting Parental Rights Violations
Most parents assume they will be the primary voice guiding their children through conversations about sex, puberty, relationships, and values. But increasingly, those conversations are being replaced by curriculum pushed…
by Kali Fontanilla on July 8, 2025

Testimony
Climate Lawfare: Scott Walter’s Oral Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
It’s no accident, as the Marxists say, that China has deep ties to the environmentalist movement. Whatever their intentions, radical climate activists advocate policy after policy that objectively strengthens China…
by Scott Walter on July 1, 2025

Testimony
Scott Walter’s Written Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Climate lawfare poses an obvious threat to the lives of ordinary citizens, especially the poor. Polls show strong democratic majorities reject environmental policies that are expensive. Yet in opposition to…
by Scott Walter on June 25, 2025

Labor Watch
A Taft-Hartley Roundup of Recent Labor News
Despite loud noises from Senate backbenchers about throwing away the Taft-Hartley consensus and adopting the labor policies of former President Barack Obama, other Republicans in Congress are looking for piecemeal…
by Michael Watson on June 23, 2025

Organization Trends
Housing and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation: Pharmaceuticals and Propositions
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation's forays into low-income housing and associated public policy have become highly controversial within California. California voters responded by passing Proposition 34, which provides an opportunity to…
by Robert Stilson on June 17, 2025

Organization Trends
Housing and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation: Thoughts and Questions
The rhetoric of some prominent national homelessness advocacy groups tends to speak of the issue as a systemic societal harm inflicted upon the unhoused, generally with private-sector capitalism as the…
by Robert Stilson on June 17, 2025

Organization Trends
Housing and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation: Housing the Homeless?
Homelessness, according to the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, is largely the product of greedy developers and corporate landlords who are forcing people onto the streets. The foundation does not mention substance…
by Robert Stilson on June 16, 2025

Organization Trends
Housing and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation: The Ideology of Homelessness
Housing First emphasizes providing permanent housing immediately without any preconditions or requirements with respect to sobriety, mental health treatment, or other criteria. The idea is that stable housing must act…
by Robert Stilson on June 16, 2025

Organization Trends
When Schools Go Secret: How Oakland Unified and Teachers Unions Are Undermining Parental Rights
There was a time in the country when it was self-evident to everyone that parents have a fundamental right to direct their children's upbringing, education, and care. Now it is…
by Kali Fontanilla on June 6, 2025

Organization Trends
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
by Jonathan Harsh on March 14, 2025