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Commemorating Juneteenth

Today we celebrate Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. President Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President of the United States, issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, which declared more than 3 million slaves to be freed. However, it would take two years before the news would reach parts of Texas. On June 19, 1865, Union General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston and ordered all enslaved people to be freed. The first Juneteenth celebration was held on the one

June 19, 2021 No Comments

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“Opportunity Housing” De-Zones Single Family Neighborhoods

Single family home zoning and ownership is under attack by Democrats at every level: Senate Bill SB9 has passed the State Senate and is now before the State Assembly. If SB9 were approved, it would allow two units within each single-family lot within your city without a hearing or environmental reviews. And with accessory dwelling units and junior dwelling units, or ADUs and JDUs, you could effectively have six families living on each of today’s lots. San José 2020 Task Force proposes the same,

June 17, 2021 No Comments

Last chance to oppose AB101

Assembly Bill 101 was recently passed in the State Assembly and is now making its way through the State Senate, with a major vote coming up as early as this week (the bill was referred to the State Senate’s Committee on Education, but the hearing was postponed). AB101 will force students to take a course of Ethnic Studies before graduating from California public and charter high schools. We now have a great opportunity to tell our State Senators our thoughts on this bill and

June 16, 2021 No Comments

CAGOP Launches Election Integrity Day in Santa Clara County

June 15th kicks off election integrity awareness We encourage all citizens to engage in California’s election process by checking your voter registration, signing up to volunteer as a poll observer, and more! CA Election Integrity is our hub for people to get involved and find resources to stay educated and up to date. Partnering together we can secure our elections! Our Democracy works when people have full faith in our elections. Help protect election integrity, apply to be a Poll worker, contribute to the

June 15, 2021 No Comments

Podcast #5: Governor Newsom’s Buddies in the Teacher Unions Continue Roadblocks

Partial Transcript California’s chronically dysfunctional governing administration lead by Governor Newsom and a self-serving teacher unions continue to throw roadblocks in the path to reopening schools. School closures have significantly depressed children’s learning, emotional health and social development. According to news sources, Mental health-related emergency room cases have increased 24 percent for 5- to 11-year-olds and 31 percent for 12- to 17-year-olds since the pandemic began, as children struggle with isolation and impersonal learning. Math test scores have decreased by as much as 10

June 9, 2021 No Comments

Steel: ‘Zuckerbucks’ Corrupted the 2020 Election for Big Tech

By Shawn Steel, Republican National Committeeman representing California Dark Money. Citizens United. The Koch Brothers. Remember when Democrats used to decry the corrupting influence of corporate money in politics? “Today, the Supreme Court kept open the floodgates to uninhibited special interest spending in our campaigns and in our politics,” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi lamented following a 2012 Supreme Court decision to uphold Citizens United. “Their disappointing decision to uphold Citizens United deals yet another blow to a fundamental American value: that the voices of the

June 5, 2021 No Comments

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