Establish the facts first
Every prior attempt asked Californians to vote on a question nobody had answered. We are asking the Legislature to answer it first.
This is the move that separates CalExit from every previous California independence campaign, and it is the reason the plan runs through Sacramento before it runs through a ballot box.
1. Why this move exists
In June 2025, 56% of Californians said the state would be better off as an independent country. Asked how they would vote on a ballot measure, the split was 44% yes to 54% no.
Ten points separate what Californians believe from how they would vote, and that gap is people who find the idea plausible and will not vote for it while the practical questions are unanswered. What happens to a Social Security check. What happens to the water, the border, the debt, the military installations.
You do not close that gap with advertising. You close it with answers. The polling in full.
2. What makes this different
Prior campaigns went straight for signatures. They asked Californians to sign for a vote on a question that nobody in authority had studied, and they were entitled to be met with the obvious objection: nobody knows what this would involve.
The Resolution asks the Legislature to establish a Blue Ribbon Commission on California Sovereignty and National Separation: fifteen members appointed across competing offices, meeting in public under Bagley-Keene, reporting within twelve months, publishing minority findings alongside the majority.
That is a slower route to a ballot and a far stronger one, because it arrives with a record instead of an assertion. Read the Resolution in full.
The sequence
Six steps, in order, each one earning the next.
Only the first is live. Everything after it describes what would have to happen, in the order it would have to happen, and none of it is scheduled.
Step 01
A legislator introduces it
One member of the Assembly or the Senate agrees to author it. This is the step the whole sequence rests on, and it has not happened yet.
Read step 01 →
Step 02
Members sign on as co-authors
Co-authors make a resolution harder to ignore and cheaper to support. An isolated author is easy to ignore; a list is not.
Read step 02 →
Step 03
It gets a committee hearing
Resolutions are referred to committee, where most of them stop. A hearing puts the arguments on both sides on the public record.
Read step 03 →
Step 04
The Legislature votes
A majority in both houses. It goes to no governor and changes no law. What it does is instruct the state to find out.
Read step 04 →
Step 05
The commission does the work
A body with the standing to get answers examines the questions people actually ask, and has to publish its dissent alongside them.
Read step 05 →
Step 06
Californians get an answer
Not independence: the first honest accounting of what independence would involve. What happens after that is a decision, not a plan.
Read step 06 →The ten-month path
From an author in December 2026 to a published commission report and a California team negotiating with Washington, these six steps can run in ten months. A joint resolution skips the 30-day wait that applies to bills and never goes to the Governor, and a Governor who wants the commission working can make appointments the week it is adopted. The ten-month path, month by month.