In the wake of the 2016 election, both the California National Party and its call for independence (#freethebear) have picked up a lot of momentum. This leads to the impression that the movement is just an overreaction, a pushback over the election of someone the vast majority of Californians did not vote for. Which raises a […]

Walking around my small California beach town, it’s become harder and harder to not have a sense of a storm approaching, or a dimming of light, despite the beauty of my surroundings. Nothing has physically changed since the election; there’s been no great upheaval as of yet. But there’s something in the air that’s wrong. […]

As a member of the California National Party, I’m issuing the following challenge to Dewey Phillip Bryant, Governor of the state of Mississippi: Governor Bryant, in 2014 you signed into law House Bill 49, which requires certain applicants for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) in Mississippi to submit to mandatory drug testing before receiving […]

I was born in sunny SoCal, but spent most of my life in religious states.  My parents returned to Utah the summer before I started Kindergarten.  My siblings were Kenny (12), Laura (11), Joe (9), Peggy (8), and at the end of August 1963, a baby brother joined us, named Vernon after a famous baseball […]

Something has been gnawing at me for a week now; well, besides the terrible results of the American presidential election. For someone like me who came to the U.S. when I was 7 years old, fleeing from a cruel civil war in Central America, coming here was a life-saving event. In the 1980’s Ronald Reagan […]

On November 8th, 2016, millions of Americans consciously, and with deliberate knowledge, voted for the personal embodiment of crony capitalism, anti-democratic values, and public corruption.  Donald J. Trump, through a legal mechanism (the electoral college) and not through a majority vote, has gained the right to be President of the United States of America.

We are not a new movement but the explosion of interest in our movement is new. One side effect of all that interest is that there are suddenly many rumors going around about this organization and its leadership. The current elected national leadership of the CNP is: Theo Slater – Chair Andria Franco – Vice […]

The Government of the United States is broken. Even the simple task of selecting a President between two main contenders has gone completely off the rails. Donald Trump, President-elect, is a bitter pill for Californians to swallow. A racist, misogynistic, far right “strong man” has promised to begin the largest deportation event in US history. […]

With the American presidential elections on the horizon many Californians have been so focused on that race that they have not researched the various ballot initiatives.  These ballot initiatives will have profound impacts on California’s future and so are worth researching in depth.  This voter guide will give you a high-level overview of what’s on […]

2016 has been a racially-charged marathon! Too many ethnic groups have been the target of institutional racism in a rigged system. Black people feel oppressed, Latino people feel unwanted, and Muslims are being used as scapegoats for the real problems. Movements like Black Lives Matter (BLM) exist because millions of Americans are tired of feeling like […]