California Political News and Blogs

• Rough and Tumble (news update)
• Fox & Hounds Daily
• Politico California
• CALMatters
• Capitol Weekly
• Flash Report
  
• California Majority Report
• Calitics
• Around the Capitol
• SF Chronicle blog

Elections

• Secretary of State election info
• CA Elections Data Archive (local, since 1995)
• Join California (CA elections, historical)
• CA Ballot Propositions since 1911 -- Database
• IGS database on districts
• Calvoter: Current CA election info
• California Democrats
• California Republicans
• LA City election info
• Maplight (campaign money)
• PowerSearch (campaign money)
• Citizens Redistricting Commission

California Government, Politics, Data

• California home page
• Data.CA.gov
• California bills and laws
• California Legislative Analyst
• California district profiles
• California Volunteers
• California Courts
• California Budget Challenge
• CA Jrnl of Politics & Policy           
• CalFacts
• Database of gifts to legislators
• Government compensation in CA

Think Tanks & Advocacy Groups

• Rose Institute
• CA Inst for Fed Policy Research
• Public Policy Institute of California
• CA Budget and Policy Center 
• Institute for Governmental Studies
• Consumer Watchdog
• California Forward
• Next 10
• Deliberative Polling: California

• Open States (legislator and bill tracking)
• LegiScan (bill tracking)
• National Conference of State Legislatures
• Stateline (news & info)
• Statemaster (facts & stats)
• Pew Center on the States
• Council of State Governments
• National Governors Association
• Western Governors' Association
• National Association of Counties
• Census data on state & local governments
• US Conference of Mayors
• State and local government reference (LOC)
• Publius: The Journal of Federalism