27 interactive dashboards examining California's most pressing policy failures — and the pattern that connects them all. Data-driven. Source-cited. Balanced where possible. Blunt where necessary.
Refinery closures, boutique fuel mandates, and the Jones Act.
Double the price, half the usage. Wildfire costs dominate.
80% to agriculture. Desal rejected. Drought overstated.
3D globe showing the absurd journey of CA gasoline.
PG&E liability, federal forest mismanagement, and the fires that reshaped the state.
Highest taxes, gas, utilities, and groceries on the mainland.
82% priced out. 3M unit shortage. 25 years to save.
Wildfires + Prop 103 = insurer exodus. FAIR Plan overwhelmed.
Worst tax climate. Highest regulation. 5th largest economy.
AB 1228 at two years. Six studies. Two opposite stories.
SB 525 sectoral minimum. Four tiers. Same target, very different timelines.
$24B spent. Numbers went up. 7 die daily in LA County.
18 years, $18B spent. Zero passengers. Zero track laid.
Spending more per pupil but 31st adjusted. UC system is world-class.
Data says safer. Experience says worse. Accountability collapsed.
$216B funding gap. 30% of roads poor. 65% of bridges past design life.
Gas tax is dying. The mileage-fee replacement: what's real and what isn't.
One 1970 law. 55 years unreformed. The hidden engine behind every crisis on this site.
One-party supermajority. Union-funded campaigns. Gerrymandered maps. No accountability.
Supermajority rules, propositions, money, and the legislative calendar.
How California's labor movement shapes wage law and the legislative agenda.
The largest mid-decade redistricting cycle in 60 years. Texas, California, and four more.
$20B in pandemic fraud. 280+ hospice licenses revoked. The real numbers and the inflated ones.
How Medicare, Medi-Cal, and private insurance actually work — and why the cross-subsidy is breaking.
1.46M domestic out-migration vs. 934K international arrivals. The fiscal math no one has formally studied.
1.7M residents gone. Companies, tax revenue, talent leaving.
26 crises. One pattern. What caused them, who benefits, and what would fix them.
Across gasoline, electricity, water, housing, insurance, and business — the same playbook repeats:
California's crises are not random. They are the predictable result of a governance model that prioritizes regulation over outcomes, incumbents over consumers, and coastal interests over inland communities.