• Calexit group ends effort to break from U.S.

About a dozen supporters gathered outside the state Capitol were met by a nearly equal number of American flag-carrying protesters who want California to remain part of the United States. The California Freedom Coalition delivered paperwork to the Attorney General's office to put a initiative on the ballot to make California an independent nation, The group must collect more than 585,000 signatures to qualify for next year's ballot.
California independence supporters submit their second formal bid for a 2018 ballot concerning Calexit.