CalMatters
Sacramento-based non-profit, non-partisan news organisation covering California policy and politics.
CalMatters, the Sacramento non-profit newsroom, has been a main source on California's 2026 redistricting fight, including Sheriff Chad Bianco's vow to take his case to federal court after the state Supreme Court ruled against his ballot seizure on 24 September.
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CalMatters is a non-profit, non-partisan news organisation based in Sacramento that covers California policy and politics. It began publishing in 2015 and offers its reporting free for other outlets to republish, so its stories run in newspapers and on sites across the state that have cut their own statehouse coverage.
Its reporting has tracked Proposition 50, the 2025 measure that put the Legislature's congressional maps in force through 2030, through each legal challenge. By May 2026 that measure was the only Democratic redistricting effort still standing nationally.
When California's Supreme Court ordered Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco to return roughly 650,000 seized ballots, CalMatters carried the sheriff's reply, in which Bianco defended the seizure as proper police work and promised a federal appeal.
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