by Erin Reed | Aug 1, 2026 | 2026 midterms, Ballot Initiatives, LGBTQ Rights, News Analysis, Trans, Trans Rights
As the 2026 elections approach, transgender people across the country are watching one fight in particular: a wave of anti-trans ballot measures heading directly to voters this November. Five states — Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, and Washington — are set to put measures before the electorate that would target transgender people in sports, medical care, and in Arizona’s case…
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by Sonali Kolhatkar | Nov 14, 2025 | Ballot Initiatives, Campaign Contributions, citizens united, constitutional amendment, Corporations, Dark Money, elections, FEC, Federal Election commission, Montana, News, Supreme Court, Zohran Mamdani
Fifteen years after a landmark Supreme Court case turbocharged corporate spending in the political process, a group hopes it may have a way to finally rein in some of the outsized influence of the ultrawealthy. The 2010 ruling on Citizens United v. FEC opened the floodgates of political spending in elections. Every year since then, untraceable financial political contributions…
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by Chris Walker | Nov 12, 2025 | Ballot Initiatives, Gerrymandering, Impeachment, independent redistricting commissions, News, Redistricting, Utah
Utah Republicans appear to be readying articles of impeachment against a state judge who ruled the congressional maps they had redrawn were unconstitutional gerrymanders and in violation of a ballot initiative passed by voters seven years ago. On Monday, Judge Dianna Gibson rejected congressional boundaries offered by Republicans in a lawsuit over the party originally drawing maps improperly…
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by Chris Walker | Nov 5, 2025 | 2025 elections, Ballot Initiatives, Colorado, News, school lunch programs, School meals, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Colorado voters overwhelmingly supported a pair of ballot measures that aim to ensure every public school child in the state is able to access free meals at their schools. Proposition MM increases taxes on wealthy households earning more than $300,000 annually. The measure supplements a previously passed referendum from 2022 that also called for increases in taxes in order to help fund…
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