As a nuclear threat from North Korea looms in the distance, it seems like California has already gone to war against Donald Trump. The tension between America’s 31st state and the country’s leader – over issues like the border wall, sanctuary cities, environmentalism, women, immigrant, minority and LGBTQI rights, and gun control – have pushed the usually liberal California even further to the left. As the Golden State resists Trump’s agenda, Alta has put together our picks of the best writing on the subject from around the nation. We’ll also use this space to host polls, publish our own content, and update the news as California and President Trump continue to battle it out.
• Inside California’s War On Trump: The New Yorker
• Trump’s Immigration War With California Has Reached a Fever Pitch: Los Angeles Times
• Jerry Brown Pardons Five Ex-Convicts Facing Deportation, Provoking Trump: The New York Times
• In Clash Between California and Trump, It’s One America Versus Another: The New York Times
• Defiance, Resistance: The Front Lines Of California’s War Against The Trump Administration: Washington Post
• Trump vs. California, Again and Again and Again: CNN
• ‘I Am a Pawn’: Trump’s Immigration Fight With California Squeezes Those Caught in the Middle: The New York Times
• Jeff Sessions’s Wrongheaded War on California: The New Republic
• 7 Ways California Is Fighting Back Against President Trump’s Administration: TIME
• Resistance State: California in the Age of Trump: CALmatters
• Patagonia vs. Donald Trump: GQ
• Sessions Lashes Out at California Officials for Resisting Immigration Orders: Politico
• Jeff Sessions Suit Against California is Political Bad News for Republicans: San Francisco Chronicle
• Thanks, Jeff Sessions, For Suing California — You Might Be Doing the State a Favor: Los Angeles Times (opinion)
• In Stunning Reversal, Trump Could Open California Desert To More Solar And Wind Farms: Desert Sun
• 2018 Women’s Marches Get Serious About A New Political Landscape: San Francisco Chronicle
• California Voters Split On Idea Of Police Helping Immigration Officers, With Violence Swaying Their Opinion: Los Angeles Daily News
