As the cost of living continues to rise, Maine state lawmakers committed to improving lives passed a budget tackling the affordability crisis on all fronts, including:
State lawmakers enacted these critical bills to make Mainers’ everyday lives better because of the trifecta TSP helped preserve in 2024.
This November, it’s essential we continue to protect and build on this governing power.
In 2026, The States Project is working to defend the majority in the House and support President Daughtry in expanding the Senate majority. We first helped flip the Senate in 2018, and have successfully defended both chambers every cycle since. This November, we know the races that will decide chamber control could come down to a tiny number of votes. For example, in 2024, the closest Maine House race was decided by a single vote — that’s right, ONE vote.
These results show the importance of our sustained work in the state to ensure that lawmakers delivering real solutions for Mainers continue to hold governing power. We’ve honed the tools, tactics, and strategies to achieve our goals in Maine over the last eight years. What we need now is you.
We helped defend majorities in both chambers by investing in state lawmakers committed to protecting personal freedoms, defending democracy, and improving the lives of all Mainers. The Senate majority that we helped defend has elected Senator Mattie Daughtry to serve as Senate President — the youngest person in state history to ever serve in this role.
In 2022, The States Project worked to protect majorities in both chambers. To hold the Senate majority we helped to create in 2018 and expand in 2020, we won five crucial seats. If 1,709 voters had changed across these five districts, the radical right would now control this chamber.
New maps made the Maine House majority vulnerable, so in 2022 The States Project worked in the chamber for the first time. With just one seat lost under the new maps, we helped hold ground in the Maine House. If just 616 voters had changed across the nine closest districts, there would be a rightwing Maine House majority.
Maine elected its most diverse majorities ever in 2022. The House majority we helped defend elected the first Black Speaker of the House to ever serve in Maine: Rachel Talbot Ross.
Candidates that our efforts supported gained a new seat to expand the State Senate majority that we helped flip in 2018. Maine has its largest majority in more than 30 years, and more importantly, a majority committed to improving the lives of all Mainers. Two of our wins came from districts that Donald Trump carried:
The 2020 Maine electoral results show the importance of sustained, multicycle work in the states. In a year when, on average, Maine Democratic State Senate candidates performed 3 percent worse than the top of the ticket, candidates The States Project supported performed about 3 percent better on average.
All 35 of Maine’s State Senate seats were up for election in 2018. In an election where every tipping point district supported by TSP was a potential flip, three State Senators won critical battleground seats to shift the balance of power and create a new majority and a trifecta.
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