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Mailers come first right now
One of the most important ways to help right now is working on mailing projects. You can hand-address envelopes to target voters using mail kits we provide to you, or stuff envelopes at the campaign headquarters nearest you. It’s a simple, high-volume job that helps us reach voters fast and keeps the campaign moving.
- Hand address envelopes to target voters using the mail kits we provide.
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- Follow the official instruction sheet carefully so every mail piece is prepared correctly.
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Our most important overall need right now is for volunteers to commit to canvassing at least 26 voters in a neighborhood near them. Personal conversations at the door are the most effective way to reach voters and win elections, and that’s why our 26 in 2026 campaign is putting a massive emphasis on direct voter contact.
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- Stay with it until you complete at least 26 conversations at the door.
- This is about real voter conversations — not just dropping off literature.
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26 in 2026
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To truly reform California, we need to change the people who write the laws. Our "26 in 2026" campaign is focused on flipping 26 seats in the State Legislature to break the supermajority control of the far-left politicians. This is how we restore sanity and accountability in Sacramento.
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Helping prep the letters? Follow the official instruction sheet exactly — the one rule everyone forgets: DO NOT SEAL the envelopes. You'll need a black or blue pen and a yellow highlighter.
Time matters: each mailing tray takes about 12 hours to complete — please return your completed tray within seven (7) business days of picking it up so we can keep the mailing schedule on track.
- Place the return-address sticker on the middle of the back side of the envelope.
- Fold the letter into thirds with the address visible on top.
- Write the recipient's name & street address — found on each letter you received — on the middle of the front of the envelope.
- Write TIME SENSITIVE in the bottom-left corner and highlight it in yellow.
- Insert the letter into the envelope and DO NOT SEAL.
- Before placing envelopes back in the tray, make sure all flaps are folded down but left unsealed.
- Place all envelopes facing the same direction, with the addresses pointing toward the Processing Center Tag.
- Check that the Processing Center Tag is still attached and intact.
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Reform California’s positions
14 statewide measures · Reform California recommends Yes on 6 and No on 8.
No on Proposition 1:Prop 1Borrows $11.25 Billion for Costly Housing Projects
Politicians want to borrow $10 Billion on the taxpayers' credit card — and you'll pay back over $17 billion with interest. Provides taxpayer-funded subsidies to developers without reforming costly mandates that make housing so expensive. Prop 1 does nothing to make housing more affordable. Many of the boondoggle projects supported by this bond will cost more than $1 MILLION per unit! Campaign contributors to politicians also get special contracts under Prop 1.
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No on Proposition 2:Prop 2Guts State Budget Spending Limit and Cancels Tax RebatesDeception alert
Deception alert Appears on your ballot with the politicians' FALSE ballot title of “Increases State's Rainy Day Fund.”
Prop 2 claims to create a bigger rainy day fund in the state budget, but in reality it creates a new slush fund for politicians to engage in more wasteful spending. Prop 2 eviscerates the current voter-imposed spending limit on state politicians. Worse, it virtually eliminates the requirement that taxpayers receive tax rebates if revenues exceed the spending limit. With Prop 2, politicians get to keep more of your money so they can waste more of your money.
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No on Proposition 3:Prop 3Income Tax IncreaseDeception alert
Deception alert Biased title plays up funding for schools and health care without accountability for how the money is spent.
Makes permanent California's highest-in-the-nation income tax rates at a time when California is losing employers, jobs and taxpayers to other states and seeing lower tax revenues as a result. Worse, Prop 3 does nothing to reform wasteful spending in the programs it purports to fund, so taxpayers will not see better services. This tax was sold as “temporary” in 2012, extended in 2016 and now politicians want to make it permanent before it even expires.
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No on Proposition 4:Prop 4Gives Your Tax Dollars to Politicians' CampaignsDeception alert
Deception alert False cost estimate of only a “few hundred thousand dollars each year” when it will cost MILLIONS a year.
Repeals a previously approved ban on public financing of politicians' campaigns. Voters wisely decided years ago that their tax dollars should never be used to fund the campaigns of politicians, but with Prop 4 the politicians are refusing to take no for an answer. They already tried to sneak this through the legislature in 2016. The courts threw it out and ruled that voters must decide. Ten years later they're back, hat in hand, asking to spend your tax dollars on their attack ads. Tell them the same thing the courts did: NO.
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No on Proposition 5:Prop 5Weakens Citizens' Right to Recall Politicians from Office
Makes it harder to Recall a politician from office and simultaneously replace them with a candidate of the voters' choosing. Under Prop 5, if the voters recall the Governor, you don't get to choose the replacement — the office is automatically handed to the political machine's second-in-command. The decision will be entirely out of the voters' control.
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No on Proposition 37:Prop 37Borrows $25 Billion for Costly Housing Projects
Provides taxpayer-funded subsidies to developers without reforming costly mandates that make housing so expensive. Worse, Prop 37 makes the State of California one of the biggest mortgage lenders in America overnight – and taxpayers are left holding the bag for any losses. Many of the boondoggle projects supported by this bond will cost more than $1M per unit! Campaign contributors to politicians also get special contracts under Prop 37.
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Yes on Proposition 38:Prop 38Public-Private Partnership Bonds for Immunology Research
Authorizes $8 billion in bonds to support immunology research with the repayment coming from proceeds of cures and treatments. This is the only bond on the ballot that puts the strings on the government instead of the taxpayer. Every drug and treatment developed with this funding must be sold in California at 20% BELOW the national average price. Half of the research money is required by law to target cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer's.
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Yes on Proposition 39:Prop 39Voter ID to Improve Trust in ElectionsDeception alert
Deception alert Appears on your ballot with the politicians' FALSE ballot title of “Prohibits Citizens From Voting.”
Prop 39 is a bipartisan solution for Voter ID! That's why it is supported by large majorities of Democratic, Republican and Independent voters. Prop 39 requires cleaning up and auditing of voter rolls and citizenship verification of anyone registering to vote. It keeps voting simple while adding integrity reforms to make voting more secure. The politicians falsely claim Prop 39 prohibits citizens from voting when it will only prevent non-citizens and ineligible individuals from voting. Prop 39 protects the right of every citizen to vote and restores public trust and confidence in our elections.
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No on Proposition 40:Prop 40“Billionaire” Tax that Is Really an “Everybody” Tax
Prop 40 is deceptively being sold as the “Billionaire's Tax” but it is really the “Everybody Tax!” Worse, Prop 40 creates the first-in-the-nation Wealth Tax (or Savings Tax) on Californians. Prop 40 contains a provision allowing state politicians to expand the Wealth Tax to everyone without another vote of the public. Prop 40 allows government to tax the value of your savings, checking account, 401k, stock portfolio, and current equity in your home. If you don't have the cash to pay the Wealth Tax, then you'd be forced to sell some of what you own.
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Yes on Proposition 41:Prop 41Audit Special Taxes
Prop 41 would make it harder for state and local politicians to impose special taxes on you. Prop 41 requires that all special taxes include audits on all revenues raised and programs funded through the tax to prevent waste, fraud and abuse or diversion of the funds by politicians. Prop 41 also requires that these special taxes adhere to the state's constitutionally-mandated spending limit. Under California law, when two conflicting measures pass, the one with more votes wins. Even if Prop 40 passes, a bigger yes on Prop 41 cancels it.
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Yes on Proposition 42:Prop 42Stop the Savings Tax
Prop 42 would prohibit state and local politicians from imposing a Savings Tax on Californians. Prop 42 would prohibit politicians from taxing the value of your savings, checking account, 401k, stock portfolio, and current equity in your home. We already pay the highest taxes on income, sales, property, gas and our cars— we don't need a Savings Tax on top of all that! If Prop 42 gets more votes than Prop 40, the Wealth Tax dies even if it passes. Every YES on 42 is a second NO on 40.
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Yes on Proposition 43:Prop 43Local Taxpayer Protection Initiative (Saves Prop 13)Deception alert
Deception alert Appears on your ballot with the FALSE title of “Limits Voters Ability to Raise Revenues for Local Government Services.”
Prop 43 is known as the Save Prop 13— Local Taxpayer Protection Initiative. Prop 43 makes it harder for local politicians to raise your taxes by restoring the two-thirds vote requirement on any local tax measures. It also closes loopholes the politicians have created in Prop 13 to violate the property tax caps that voters originally imposed. Opponents of Prop 43 simply want more of your money to fund their waste and fraud. Vote Yes on Prop 43 to turn the tide to make California more affordable.
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No on Proposition 44:Prop 44Imposes Costly Mandates on Community Health Clinics
Increases mandates and costs on community health clinics, threatening their ability to provide patient care. Clinics that miss the arbitrary 90% mandate pay penalties into a government account and hotwired to a narrow special interest group who is one of the politicians' biggest campaign contributors. Trusted healthcare experts warn that Prop 44 would trigger $1.7 billion in penalties in the first year alone and force clinics across California to close their doors.
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Yes on Proposition 45:Prop 45Reduce Housing Costs by Cutting Red Tape
Reduces regulation and combats frivolous lawsuits that have increased the cost of housing projects. California's environmental review law (CEQA) has been weaponized to block and delay housing, adding years and millions of dollars to every project. Prop 45 is the first time voters have ever been handed the chance to reform CEQA at the ballot box.
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