California has funneled $41 million in taxpayer dollars over the last five years to the Council on American-Islamic Relations — the same organization that Texas and Florida have formally designated a terrorist organization. But sure, tell me again how Sacramento is looking out for the little guy.

Only in California can you fail a background check in Texas and still cash a government check. That’s not a joke — that’s literally what happened.

Let’s rewind. CAIR — which calls itself a “Muslim civil rights organization” — has been dogged for years by allegations tying it to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. These aren’t fringe accusations from some guy in his basement. Governor Greg Abbott’s Texas formally designated CAIR a terrorist organization back in November 2025. Florida followed suit the very next month in December 2025. Two entire states looked at this group and said, “Yeah, no.”

California looked at that same group and said, “Here’s forty-one million dollars.”

Much of the money reportedly came from the federal government and was passed through the California Department of Social Services to CAIR’s California chapter. So just to be clear — federal tax dollars, collected from people in all fifty states including Texas and Florida, were routed through Sacramento to an organization those states consider a terror-linked entity. Your money. Their pipeline.

Now the Department of Justice is finally getting involved. The DOJ is investigating whether CAIR should remain eligible to receive taxpayer funds at all, following complaints about irregularities in the California chapter’s financial reporting and allegations of supporting terrorism. According to Just the News, the DOJ confirmed its scrutiny as far back as July 7, 2025 — months before Texas even made its designation official.

So the feds knew there were red flags. Texas knew. Florida knew. And California’s response was to keep writing checks.

CAIR, for its part, is suing Texas over the terror designation. Because of course they are. When two states call you a terrorist organization and the DOJ is sniffing around your books, the natural move in 2026 is to lawyer up and play victim.

Here’s what drives me nuts about this. We’re not talking about some ambiguous policy disagreement. We’re talking about an organization with documented ties to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood receiving tens of millions of dollars from a state government that apparently doesn’t bother to check what the other forty-nine states think before cutting a check.

And this is the same California that lectures the rest of the country about morality. The same state that wants to regulate your gas stove and your pickup truck but can’t be bothered to Google whether the nonprofits it’s funding have been designated as terror-linked by its own countrymen.

The $41 million question isn’t whether CAIR deserves the money. It’s whether anyone in Sacramento even asked. The answer, based on every available piece of evidence, is no. They didn’t ask because they didn’t want to know.

When your state government is funding organizations that other states classify alongside Hamas, you don’t have a vetting problem. You have a values problem. And California has had one for a very long time.