Governor Gavin Newsom will leave office in January having shaped California through some of the most turbulent years in state history — a pandemic, record wildfires, a historic housing collapse, […]
Mail Ballots, Federal Muscle: How Trump’s Election Rhetoric Is Reshaping State Law
By Jose E. Navarro, The Navarro Report SAN DIEGO — Five months before the midterms, the rules for how Americans vote are being rewritten on two tracks at once — […]
No Tolls, No Deal: Trump’s Hormuz Ultimatum Tests a Peace Agreement Still Wet With Ink
By Jose E. Navarro, The Navarro Report SAN DIEGO — A cease-fire signed with hand-shakes and a Truth Social victory lap is now being tested by the oldest instrument in […]
From SNAP Fraud to Stalled Track: California’s Pattern of Oversight Failure
By Jose E. Navarro, The Navarro Report SAN DIEGO — California’s state government spent part of this month celebrating a milestone: the California High-Speed Rail Authority opened its 61st completed […]
Three Years to Recover: The Fight Over How Long Fire Survivors Get a Mortgage Break
A year and a half after the Palisades and Eaton fires reduced entire neighborhoods to ash, the families who lost everything are running into a second deadline — not from […]
Sacramento Pays for Audits It Then Ignores
California’s legislature has a process for identifying government waste. It pays the California State Auditor — a nonpartisan watchdog funded entirely by taxpayers — to conduct dozens of audits each […]
Five Men, Nineteen Suspects, and a Plot to Massacre a Crowd at the White House
On June 14, 2026 — President Trump’s 80th birthday — thousands of people gathered on the South Lawn of the White House to watch UFC Freedom 250. What most of […]
The U.S.-Iran Deal: A Page and a Half That Could Reshape the Middle East
It took about a page and a half of text — signed in English and Farsi at the Palace of Versailles over dinner — to officially end the U.S.-Iran war. […]
The Price of Closed Waters: How the Strait of Hormuz Standoff Is Reshaping Global Trade
A war, a blockade, and a near-peace deal — the world’s most critical oil chokepoint may never function the same way again. By Jose E. Navarro | The Navarro Report […]
Bigger Than the Economy: America’s Debt Crosses a WWII-Era Threshold — With No Wartime Excuse
For the first time since 1946, U.S. public debt exceeds the size of the entire national economy. Unlike the postwar peak, there is no victory to show for it. By […]