GOP Group Seeks To Create New CA State: Report

A new Republican-led group in the Golden State is pushing to garner support for a plan to reimagine California.

No, it's not a succession effort like Calexit. This time, a new movement gaining traction seeks to break California into two different states.

President of the New California project, Paul Preston, told Newsweek that his group aims to create a red 51st state.

"We're doing this because we think that we have a totalitarian government in California today, and have had for quite some time," he told the newspaper.

Preson, who's also a talk show host for One Radio Network, says his group formally declared independence in 2018. Since then, he says his supporters have held weekly demonstrations to educate the public on the effort to discuss "why we feel we are living in tyranny."

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"We are going to be New California within two years, so I hope everybody starts to climb on board with what we're doing," Preson said in a recent video, urging people to check out the movement's map.

That map is based on the "rural areas" of California. The movement aims to assume control of all the state's counties except Sacramento, Marin, San Mateo, Alameda, Santa Clara and Los Angeles counties.

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