California doesn’t require a data center to tell anyone how much water it will drink before it opens. A bill up in Senate Appropriations on Monday would make operators swear to that number—maximum day, maximum month, average year—under penalty of perjury.

The petition to force a House floor vote on permanent status for people brought here as children sits 8 names short of the 218 it needs, and hasn’t moved since July 23. Every House seat is on the 2026 ballot, so the question now goes to the candidates asking for your vote.

Pass the DREAM Act

Grant permanent status and a clear path to citizenship for people brought to this country as children. DACA is a stopgap one administration created and another can end; Congress has had bipartisan majorities for the underlying policy for twenty years and has never managed to vote on a clean bill.

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A House bill would let the state where an animal is raised set the only production rules that apply, leaving California’s Proposition 12 unenforceable against out-of-state pork. Senate Agriculture marks up its farm bill Thursday with that language left out of the base text.

HR4673 U.S. House: Save Our Bacon Act (Introduced)

Ensures free movement of livestock-derived products in interstate commerce.

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California’s Senate Appropriations Committee hears a bill Monday that would make every party, independent, and write-in candidate certify under penalty of perjury that their presidential nominee is eligible under the 22nd Amendment. Miss the deadline and the name stays off the ballot.

AB1539 California: Presidential elections: qualifications… (Engrossed)

California AB1539 mandates that presidential candidates must be certified as eligible under the U.S. Constitution.

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🧵 Courts have ordered roughly $165 billion in tariff refunds after the Supreme Court struck down the IEEPA tariffs in February, and those checks go to the importers who paid the duties. A new bill in New Jersey would tax the state’s share of them.

On August 12, Colorado’s Board of Health starts setting its vaccine schedule using recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics and three other medical groups, not just the federal ACIP. If ACIP drops a recommendation, Colorado’s insurance commissioner can still require coverage.

SB032 Colorado: Promoting Immunization Access (Passed)

Colorado SB032 promotes immunization access by limiting liability for vaccine-related injuries, updating vaccine schedules, and expanding coverage.

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Texas redrew its congressional map mid-decade, California answered, and Missouri and North Carolina followed—whoever moves first sets the map. The Freedom to Vote Act would replace that scramble with one national standard, and every House candidate on your 2026 ballot can be asked to back it.

Pass the Freedom to Vote Act

Restore federal voting rights protections, including automatic registration, expanded early and mail voting, and a ban on partisan gerrymandering. The basic rules of American elections cannot keep being decided state by state.

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🧵 Voiding a finished federal regulation now takes its own vote in Congress, one rule at a time. A bill that cleared the House 212-208 would let one simple-majority vote erase an unlimited number of an outgoing president’s rules at once. A Senate committee votes on it Wednesday.

🧵 Smart glasses record without anyone nearby knowing. California’s Assembly Appropriations Committee votes Wednesday on a bill making it a crime to point a wearable camera at someone inside a business, in any area where they reasonably expect privacy, without their explicit consent.

Massachusetts sent the PROTECT Act to Gov. Healey’s desk on a 137-21 House vote. It bans warrantless immigration arrests at courthouses, schools, child care centers, and health care providers, and lets people whose constitutional rights were violated sue in state court.

H5620 Massachusetts: Promoting rule of law, oversight… (Enrolled)

Massachusetts H5620 aims to promote rule of law, oversight, trust, and equal constitutional treatment.

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In April, Congress wiped out the 20-year mining ban on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest, the watershed feeding the Boundary Waters. It used the Congressional Review Act, so no agency can put that protection back—only Congress can, which puts it in front of every 2026 candidate.

Protect America’s Public Lands and the Boundary Waters

Permanently protect America’s public lands, national forests, and the Boundary Waters from mining, logging, and fire-sale giveaways. These places belong to all of us, and once a watershed or old-growth forest is sold off or drilled, no future Congress can give it back.

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🧵 The Senate voted 50-47 to bundle 74 presidential nominations into a single confirmation vote. One vote instead of 74.

California’s Assembly Appropriations Committee hears a bill Wednesday that would extend the state’s ban on masked police to officers at state agencies—the one category the law left out. A masked officer who commits assault or false arrest would lose immunity and owe at least $10,000.

SB1004 California: Law enforcement: masks. (Engrossed)

California SB1004 mandates law enforcement agencies to publicly post policies on facial coverings, prohibiting officers from concealing their.

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Delaware just became the only state in the country with an active ban on private equity buying its nonprofit hospitals, and any deal that tries anyway is void. It catches creeping control too: a minority stake, the right to name executives, even a single board observer seat.

SB313 Delaware: An Act To Amend Titles 16 And 29 Of The… (Passed)

Delaware SB313 imposes a moratorium on transactions involving nonprofit acute care hospitals to prevent private equity firms from gaining control.

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The House passed a congressional stock-trading ban 232-198 last month, then exempted the president from it. The candidates on your 2026 ballot can say whether they’d close the loophole for good: no selling pardons, no slush funds, no public money steered to private projects.

Ban Presidential Self-Dealing and Close Corruption Loopholes

Ban presidents and members of Congress from profiting off their office: no selling pardons, no slush funds, no steering taxpayer money to personal projects. Public office is a public trust, and the loopholes that let officials cash in should be closed for good.

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🎙️ Two laws took effect 72 hours apart—one passed by three votes, one without a single no. Both are now equally in force. The Tenth, Amendment’s podcast, spends 14 minutes this week on four laws switching on across four states.

Four Laws in Seven Days — and the Machine That Only Takes Money In

Podcast Episode · The Tenth · Aug 2 · 14m

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California’s Senate Appropriations Committee hears a bill Monday that would give election officials one day to report a subpoena or seizure of election records or voting machines. The Secretary of State or Attorney General could then fight it in court, and it would take effect in time for November.

AB1664 California: Elections: law enforcement… (Engrossed)

California AB1664 requires officials to notify the Secretary of State and Attorney General of any law enforcement investigations involving election.

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🧵 A new Louisiana bail law took effect yesterday. District courts must now set bail no lower than $50,000 for possessing child sexual abuse materials and $100,000 for producing them, and judges can’t reduce it below those floors.

Kansans vote Tuesday on whether to elect their Supreme Court justices directly. The measure would abolish the nominating commission that has vetted every applicant since 1958, and it cleared the legislature by the bare two-thirds minimum—27 Senate votes, 84 House, none to spare.

SCR1611 Kansas: Proposing a constitutional amendment to… (Passed)

Proposing a constitutional amendment to allow direct election of Kansas supreme court justices and abolish the nominating commission.

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With bipartisan votes in 2019, Congress created an independent watchdog to take complaints from people in immigration detention and investigate deaths in custody. DHS shut it down in May—the candidates on your 2026 ballot can say whether they’ll turn it back on.

Rein In ICE and Restore Independent Detention Oversight

Cut the funding behind ICE’s lawless detention and enforcement abuses and restore the independent detention ombudsman meant to hold the agency accountable. No agency should run on a blank check with no oversight while people are detained without due process.

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California bars have to sell you a drink-spiking test strip and hand you a lid for your glass if you ask. That requirement expires January 1, 2027 unless lawmakers renew it, and the Senate Appropriations Committee takes up the renewal Monday morning.

A Maine law that took effect this week bars landlords from handing over a tenant’s personal information—immigration status included—to force that tenant out without going through a court. A subpoena or judicial warrant still gets an answer; anything else costs the landlord at least $1,000.

LD2176 Maine: An Act to Safeguard Personal Information and… (Passed)

Maine LD2176 strengthens tenant rights and safeguards personal information by clarifying legal definitions and actions.

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The Massachusetts House voted 119-33 to rewrite the state’s law on abortion at 24 weeks or later. A Senate committee cleared the bill for a floor vote Thursday and formal sessions end today—if the Senate doesn’t act by tonight, it dies for the year.

Senate Commerce votes Wednesday on a bipartisan bill that would let parents stop a chatbot from messaging their kid unprompted, cap how long it talks to them, and force it to display a label saying it isn’t a person. Every one of those controls would default to the most protective setting.

S4407 U.S. Senate: CHATBOT Act Children’s Health… (Introduced)

CHATBOT Act regulates artificial intelligence chatbots to protect children and teens.

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California’s Senate Appropriations Committee hears a bill Monday that would delay the state’s ban on stay-or-pay employment contracts by a full year, to January 2027. That ban took effect January 1 and bars employers from charging workers for training costs or fees when the job ends.

AB1697 California: Employment contracts: stay-or-pay… (Engrossed)

California AB1697 prohibits certain stay-or-pay provisions in employment contracts starting January 1, 2027.

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🧵 Starting Saturday, crypto ATMs are illegal in Minnesota. Gov. Tim Walz signed the bipartisan ban in May, after scammers used the machines to drain close to $1 million from state residents.

Tianeptine, the "gas station heroin" sold in colorful shot-sized bottles at the register, hits the same receptor as fentanyl. California’s Assembly voted 74-0 to bar it from store shelves, and Senate Appropriations, the last stop before the floor, takes it up Monday, August 3.

🧵 Illinois now recognizes gambling disorder as an addiction, under the same state law that covers alcohol and drugs. That shift lets the Department of Human Services run treatment, prevention, and recovery programs for compulsive gamblers and their families.

Congress funded the NIH and NSF this year with votes from both parties, but only about 30% of the NIH’s usual research grants have reached labs. Every U.S. House seat is on the 2026 ballot, and the candidates asking for your vote can commit to getting that money out the door.

Missouri just expanded Medicaid coverage of doula care from 6 visits to 16, spanning pregnancy, birth, and the months after. The same law lets people on private insurance pick up a year of birth control at once, and requires insurers to cover blood pressure monitors for a year postpartum.

HB2372 Missouri: Modifies provisions relating to health care (Passed)

Expands Medicaid doula coverage from 6 to 16 visits, allows a 12-month supply of birth control at once on private insurance, and requires postpartum blood pressure monitor coverage.

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