California voters have approved a ballot measure to redraw the state's congressional map to favor Democrats, marking the party's biggest victory to date in a national battle over redistricting ahead of the 2026 midterms.

California voters passed Proposition 50 on Tuesday, in a major win for Governor Gavin Newsom and the Democrats.

Calvert has survived previous redistricting rounds, including in 2021, when the overwhelmingly liberal Palm Springs — the first city in the nation to elect an all-LGBTQ+ city council — was added to his district and the Republican-heavy Temecula was taken out.

The privacy changes web browsers will be required to make under a new California law could set the de facto standard for the entire country, changing how Americans control their data when using the internet, according to experts.

CBS13 political analyst Gary Dietrich talks about candidates quickly announcing they'll run for new California congressional districts, a ballot initiative that could keep new maps for only the 2026 election and what this means for California Republicans.

Florida sent another 9 percent of new Texans, while Colorado contributed 4.5 percent, followed by Arizona, Illinois and Louisiana. Migration analysts say the mix shows people are leaving expensive coastal or high-growth states in favor of a place where their money and careers can stretch further.

A new law requires the Department of Water Resources to set targets for the amount of water to be provided for urban and agricultural use.”

California voters have passed Proposition 50 by a comfortable margin, codifying a freshly-gerrymandered congressional map for the rest of the decade.The passage of this new map — which is designed to protect a slew of vulnerable Democrats and will cost Republicans three to five seats in 2026 — is the most consequential development to date in the mid-decade redistricting wars due to the sheer number of seats that it impacts.