Newsom portrays California as a free nation, providing protection against an America descending into fascism, hatred, violence, book-banning, and restrictions on the rights of immigrants, women and LGTBQ people.

Source: https://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/joe-mathews-were-still-in-the-recall-era/article_a9b4aaec-984b-11ed-9a6d-bb5834642cd4.html

Or consider further that our Constitution, the operating manual for our free nation, had to be amended to make slavery illegal.

Source: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/01/18/the-struggle-to-protect-life-continues/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-struggle-to-protect-life-continues

When facing this reality, a nuclear war must never be fought—because doing so would result in the loss of America’s most vital national interest: the survival of the U.S. as a free nation.

Source: https://time.com/6244330/russia-ukraine-war-nuclear-threat/