Billionaire tax proposal angers Bay Area’s 1% | Airports’ traffic up and down | Chaotic SJ police shooting

By Take Back San Jose | January 24, 2026

California Billionaires Tax Act: A union-backed ballot initiative to take a 5% bite out of each billionaire’s wealth to stabilize the state’s health care system has upset the Bay Area’s ultra-wealthy. It has sparked a debate about whether the measure would help California’s finances or make them worse by driving away billionaires and their income taxes.…

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Trump administration approves plan backed by Newsom to build largest California reservoir in 50 years

By Take Back San Jose | January 24, 2026

Sites Reservoir would be 8th largest in California, providing water to Bay Area, farms, LA A drone view of rural land near unincorporated Sites, Calif., left, on Thursday, March 14, 2024. The area is planned for Sites Reservoir, proposed to be constructed in rural Colusa County. The 1.5 million-acre-foot reservoir would be California’s eighth largest…

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Saving Trump.

By Take Back San Jose | January 24, 2026

Dear John, This won’t make headlines – yet. But if you care about what happens to President Trump, you need to see this.Steve Hilton just announced something we didn’t expect. Some are already saying he may be the only person who can stop what’s coming. We can’t share the full story in an email.But the…

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Research proves definitively: CA’s ridiculous housing prices due to wild gov’t regulatory overreach

By Take Back San Jose | January 19, 2026

May 21, 2025 Image by Wayne S. Grazio RAND Corporation does a gigantic study on CA’s housing affordability crisis and notes that onerous regulations, as well as built-in labor-friendly contracts, make costs for new housing soar. Take a look at Texas, they recommend, where prices are half of CA’s. We found the following:  • California…

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