The events unfolding in Iran right now are enormous. The collapse of a terror regime, the elimination of the ayatollah’s leadership structure, and the ripple effects across the Middle East will reshape the balance of power for decades. America will benefit greatly from that outcome. A regime that funded terrorism, threatened Israel, destabilized Arab nations, and pursued nuclear weapons is no longer in a position to do so.

That matters for world order.

But as important as foreign policy victories may be, nothing America faces externally is more important than protecting the integrity of our own elections.

And voters in the deepest blue state in the country are proving it.

California — a state whose political leadership has spent years mocking election security efforts — has just seen a voter ID initiative clear the signature threshold to appear on the November ballot. If approved, the measure would require voters in California to present identification at the polls before casting a ballot, a policy already common in most of the civilized world.

Think about what that means.

Even in California — a state where Democrats hold overwhelming power — the people themselves are demanding something that Washington elites have spent years trying to dismiss: basic voter verification.

According to reports, organizers gathered more than enough signatures to force a statewide vote on the proposal. That means Californians themselves will soon decide whether voter ID should become the law in their state.

And the polling tells us something remarkable.

Across the United States, support for........

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