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Smaller states overrepresented in Congress tend to lean conservative and Republican and, as big blue states like California grow, the power of smaller counterparts actually increases “LA Weekly: Backers of California Secession Say State’s Senate Representation Is Dire”
The area of each state on this map shows how much representation in the U.S. Senate the average resident gets. For example, the average Wyomingite “Representation in the U.S. Senate (Map)”
Last Friday, California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood) announced that he was hitting the pause button on SB 562, a bill to establish a single-payer health “Speaker Rendon’s Bizarre Plan to Kick Single-Payer into the Initiative System”
In January, I wrote “What a model ‘Calexit’ initiative looks like,” which not only detailed all the problems with Yes California’s “independence plebiscite” initiative, but “What a real “Calexit” initiative looks like”
In 2017, current and former board members Timothy Vollmer, Coyote Marin, and Shankar Singam, along with two other people, submitted an initiative entitled “California’s Future: “Initiative 17-0005: California Autonomy from Federal Government”
Why all Californians should take independence seriously The idea of California as an independent country has been around for a long time, but it’s gotten “Why California should pack its bags (even if we’re never going to leave)”
This article outlines a simple way that any U.S. state can: control the total amount of taxes (state and federal) that state residents and businesses pay stabilize “How any state can declare fiscal independence”
How the U.S. could set a state free, without a constitutional amendment
Could the United States let a state become an independent country, if the political will existed to do so? Or would such an effort founder on the United States’ extremely high bar for amending its constitution?
