California’s Billionaire Tax Makes the Ballot, plus Courts Rule in Favor of Voter Privacy
The Stakes breaks down the 2026 political landscape. Hosted by Teresa Wierzbianska and Scott Baba, this KPFA News show delivers analysis of national, state, and local races and policy battles. Thursdays at 10 a.m.
On today’s show, we’ll speak with John Davisson, Deputy Director at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, or EPIC, about a federal court ruling blocking the Trump administration from using an expanded federal database of Americans’ personal information for voter verification.Then we turn to California’s fight over the so-called billionaire tax. Economist Emmanuel Saez of UC…
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