What national and California outlets have reported about this movement, with links to the originals.
Every item below is linked, dated and quoted. These are other people’s words about this movement, not ours.
Republicans own three branches of government and the Supreme Court. They haven’t had that much power in close to a century.
A profile of the campaign and its Fresno origins, published the day after the Secretary of State cleared the initiative for signature gathering.
Read it at GV Wire →We believe that now is the best time to Calexit. We are better situated to make Calexit happen than in 2016.
Carried across CBS stations in Sacramento, the Bay Area and Los Angeles, and syndicated onward through CNN’s regional network.
Read it at CBS News →Calexit is left — we are progressive, and that’s why we don’t like Trump. But there are some very hardcore Republican concepts to Calexit, including the group saying don’t waste our tax money.
An outlet editorially opposed to most of what California stands for, reporting the campaign straight and quoting its president at length.
Read it at Fox News →Trump’s win will reignite the drive for California to leave America like never before.
National coverage the week after the 2024 election, quoting the movement’s president directly.
Read it at Newsweek →We’re absolutely confident the time is now.
Published the day the Secretary of State cleared the initiative for signature gathering.
Read it at The San Francisco Standard →When Trump was elected in 2016, Reuters and Stanford University both said about 32% of Californians were for full-blown secession.
Local television in the movement’s home city, on a Sinclair-owned Fox affiliate.
Read it at FOX26 Fresno (KMPH) →I think California values are completely different from American values, and they’ve been that way for a long time.
A second CBS segment a month after the first, following the campaign rather than the filing.
Read it at CBS News Bay Area →This means a lot to a lot of people.
The campaign missing its signature deadline, reported straight. A record that only contains good days is not a record.
Read it at Courthouse News Service →Every item above was opened and read before it was listed: the headline, the date, the byline and the quotation come from the article itself. Coverage we could not open and verify is not here, and neither are outlets we cannot show you.
The campaign has also been covered by the San Francisco Chronicle and SFGate, and Marcus Ruiz Evans has given long-form interviews to podcasts across the political spectrum. Reporting on California independence goes back to 2016. Much of that earlier coverage concerns a previous organization and a previous campaign, which is why it is not listed here as though it were ours.
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