Led by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Democrats in California have “reached a $50 million agreement to shore up state and local legal defenses against the incoming Trump administration just a week ahead of the president-elect’s inauguration. Half the money would go to fending off any mass deportation plan the new president might enact early in his administration,” Politico reports. “The move — the first of its kind in the nation that positions California to lead a second term resistance against Trump — comes as Republicans bash state Democratic leaders for focusing on the highly partisan issue even as the southern part of the state suffers from historically devastating fires.”