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We tell ourselves stories in order to live, Joan Didion famously wrote, and the one Democrats in California repeated for decades was Proposition 187. Californians of a certain age can recite it by ...

See the stunning results of the anti-187 campaign and what it took to get there. Building a movement doesn’t happen by chance. See how different organizations came together in a concerted effort ...

Twenty years ago this month, 59 percent of California voters passed a ballot measure designed to set up a state-run immigration system and deny most public benefits — including K-12 education — to ...

Learn more about the factors that led to the introduction and eventual passage of Prop 187 Learn more about the factors that led to the introduction and eventual passage of Proposition 187: radical ...