how that state might take an aggressive, strategic approach to outflank the new trump administration on policy stuff, particularly on immigration. but beyond that, there were also these almost human interest politics story about california seceding. this new tech savvy slick, kind of appealing, vaguely liberal sounding yes california movement. that was calling for california to not just resist the u.s. government under trump but for california to become its own country. and, in fact, yes california submitted language to the california secretary of state so they could start collecting signatures to get california secession on the ballot for the midterms for november 2018. they made yes california t-shirts. they started getting more and more media attention. more and more social media attention. more and more sign-ups on their website. then it got weird. our election was november. in december, this happened. they opened up an embassy for the republic of california. see what it says right there