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ALERT: Don’t want your free speech banned on social media? Act now!

Monday, September 29, 2025, 9:23 am | Randy Thomasson

It’s one of the worst attacks on constitutional free speech we’ve ever seen.

Please add your voice to others demanding a veto of the awful SB 771, which would blatantly ban conservative speech on social media platforms. Put the spotlight on presidential wannabe Gavin Newsom!

Newsom now says he’s against censorship, so urge him to veto SB 771 today!

1. Web form: Go to https://www.gov.ca.gov/contact, then select “Legislation Issues/Concerns,” then “Leave a Comment,” then select “Con,” then type a subject such as “Veto SB 771”, then type or paste in your message, then enter your contact information, then click “submit.”

2. Phone: Call (916) 445-2841 Monday-Friday 9am-5pm: Tell Newsom’s office you’re calling to urge Governor Newsom to “VETO SB 771. This is blatant, unconstitutional censorship.”

The text of SB 771 lists the kind of speech it would censor:

“anti-immigrant slurs”

“anti-LGBTQ+ disinformation and harmful rhetoric”

“anti-Islamic bias”

“coercive harassment”

“hate-motivated harm”

In other words, anything and everything the New Communist Democrats don’t want to see or hear, or whatever they don’t want the general public to know.

From the Daily Caller 9/24/25:

“If people think platforms remove their content too much now, they should expect to see the pattern significantly intensify with this law,” Shoshana Weissmann, director of digital media at the R Street Institute, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Rather than risk liability for showing users content one could argue (even if it doesn’t actually) violate a law, platforms will over-moderate and remove posts in order to stay out of court.”

Weissman added that platforms may also find it challenging to differentiate sarcasm, serious posts and sincere discussions about sensitive subjects, adding that over-removing content will be the only way they will be able to avoid liability.

Whoever would overthrow the Liberty of a Nation, must begin by subduing the Freeness of Speech.
U.S. founding father Benjamin Franklin, writing as “Silence Dogood” in The New England Courant, July 9, 1722

TAKE ACTION: 3 vetoable, outrageous, anti-family bills

Thursday, September 11, 2025, 9:57 am | Randy Thomasson

With the Democrat-Party-controlled California State Legislature coming to its end of session this weekend, please focus your attention on the Governor’s office.

SaveCalifornia.com has identified 3 anti-family bills that Gavin Newsom, who’s still running for U.S. President, might be motivated to veto: AB 495 legal kidnapping, AB 727 requiring a transsexual group’s phone number on student ID cards, and AB 932 permitting males to invade females’ sports, restrooms, and locker rooms statewide.

TAKE QUICK ACTION: Please be part of a flood of emails and phone calls to Governor Newsom (send a separate webform message for each bill), who has until Oct. 12 to sign or veto bills.

To oppose AB 495, send this suggested message: “Governor Newsom, please veto AB 495. This bad bill is written so broadly, it would allow strangers, using a one-page form, to take physical custody of a child, move that child into their residence, decide the child’s schooling, and decide the child’s medical treatment — without any court oversight, background check, or verification with the child’s parent or legal guardian. Please veto this poorly-drafted bill threatening California parents and their children.”

To oppose AB 727, please send this separate message: “Governor Newsom, please veto AB 727. This invasive bill is not what parents want or children need. Mandating a transgender group’s phone number on student ID cards is inappropriate and offensive. The Trevor Project provides anonymous online forums for adult-child sex via its TrevorSpace chatrooms. AB 727 would drive a wedge between parents and their children — please veto this bad bill.”

To oppose AB 932, please send this separate message: “Governor Newsom, please veto AB 932. This deceptive bill would permit men and boys to invade women’s and girls’ sports teams, locker rooms, and showers. ‘Gender’ in the existing statutes includes ‘gender identity’ and ‘gender expression’ — meaning men and boys could force themselves into women’s and girls’ spaces in every public school, and every city and county in California. Please protect females and VETO this anti-girl bill!”

3 ways to contact Newsom’s legislative staff:

1. Web form: Go to the Governor’s web form, then select “Legislation Issues/Concerns,” then “Leave a Comment,” then select “Con,” then paste in your message, then enter your contact information, then click “submit.”

2. Phone: The Governor’s “constituent services” phones are answered by staffers who are paid to take your message. Call 916-445-2841 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday with a short verbal message: “I’m calling to urge the governor to VETO _____, a bad bill that would _____.”

3. Postal mail: You can write to Gov. Gavin Newsom, 1021 O Street, Suite 9000, Sacramento, CA 95814. Please put on the envelope and your letter (depending on which bad bill you’re opposing), “Re: AB 495 — Veto This Anti-Parent Bill” or “Re: AB 727 — Veto This Bill Promoting Adult-Child Sex.” or “Re: AB 932 — Veto This Anti-Girl Bill.”

See details of these 3 horrible bills and more at our SaveCalifornia.com Legislation Center

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice;
But when a wicked man rules, the people groan.

The Bible, Proverbs 29:2

Out-of-control, unsustainable union pensions are costing average Californians

Sunday, August 31, 2025, 6:22 pm | Randy Thomasson

Have you noticed how California cities and counties are incrementally costing you more in higher taxes, fees, and bonds, while providing fewer or slower services?

The dirty little secret of California local governments is how their budgets are being eaten up by pension liabilities created by police unions, firefighter unions, and other government unions.

And they’re deceptively passing off the costs to you — telling voters they can’t have a library, or sewer lines, or a functional police or fire department without “increases.” And they do this with without disclosing to voters that these “higher costs” are all due to overly-generous and ever-growing pension contracts with local government unions.

And meanwhile, your local government tax bill keeps going up, and local government services keep decreasing. Does this concern you enough stop “feeding the beast” however you can?

Read these eye-opening California Policy Center articles to understand. Then learn how to resign your union but keep your job and money:

Is California doomed to repeat pension history? (4/30/25)
Pension costs are still eating government budgets (12/1/22)
Are government pension funds in crisis again? (10/7/22)
Why are we not talking about California’s pension problems? (5/14/21)
California is not creating jobs fast enough to support tax increases for pensions (8/27/18)
How to restore financial sustainability to public pensions (2/14/18)
Government cut services, staff to afford pension costs (6/27/17)
“Unsustainable” pension costs are the driving force behind local tax increases (10/17/16)
Average Costa Mesa firefighter makes nearly $250,000 per year. Why? Pensions. (9/20/16)
The pension monster and how much it’s costing you to keep it fed (8/1/16)

The American public at large, and unionized workers in particular, want a free choice when it comes to affiliating with a union. Around eight in 10 Americans consistently express agreement with the Right to Work principle, and polls of unionized workers show similar sentiment. The truth is, American workers by and large want to make a living free from coercive union power: Most say that they have “no interest at all” in joining a labor union. American workers thrive on freedom, and policymakers who claim to care about them should be prepared to defend workers’ freedoms.
Mark Mix, National Right to Work Committee, August 31, 2025