""When I found Darshan Smaaladen earlier this month, she had joined several hundred of her neighbors at a "No Kings" demonstration in Orange County, California. Not that she was there to protest. "Rallies are great," Smaaladen told me, "but they don't get people out to vote.""
""Advocates and opponents of Prop 50 have already spent more than $200 million on ads starring political luminaries such as Barack Obama and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the "yes" side and Arnold Schwarzenegger on the "no" side. In an era of permanent campaigning, this race has become the closest thing America has to a snap election: At Newsom's urging, the California legislature placed the initiative on this fall's ballot in August as a response to Republican gerrymandering in Texas and elsewhere, directed by Donald Trump and his allies.""
""The campaign's final weeks have turned into a statewide scramble to persuade California voters to temporarily override the independent redistricting commission that they approved less than two decades ago. The Democratic Party's organizers have found plenty of voters who are eager for the chance to stand against the president and, in Newsom's words, "fight fire with fire" in the gerrymandering wars.""
Darshan Smaaladen joined several hundred neighbors at a "No Kings" demonstration in Orange County and used the event to campaign for Proposition 50. Prop 50, backed by Governor Gavin Newsom, would temporarily override California's independent redistricting commission and could add as many as five Democratic seats to Congress. Supporters and opponents have already spent more than $200 million on advertising featuring national figures. The legislature placed the initiative on the fall ballot in August as a response to Republican gerrymandering directed by Donald Trump and allies. Final weeks of the campaign have become a statewide scramble to persuade voters.
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