This summer, the Supreme Court upheld some critical checks and balances crucial to sustaining our democracy. But the threat of rightwing attempts to undermine a free and fair presidential election isn’t completely gone. SCOTUS ruled that state legislatures do not have absolute power to create rules for federal elections outside of their state constitutions without […]
Read More… from Virginia’s State Legislative Elections Are Uniquely Dangerous
“It turns out that when we bring dollars, data, and doorknocking to the state legislative campaigns that have so often been overlooked, we can change outcomes.” —Adam Pritzker, Founding Partner, The States Project Six percentage points. According to an independent analysis conducted by a top research organization, districts that TSP’s program impacted last November had […]
This November we’ll be working in Virginia to hold majority power in the State Senate and shift power in the House of Delegates. The stakes are high, and the margins are narrow — we MUST win at least one chamber to block Governor Youngkin’s rightwing agenda in the state. These Virginia-based Giving Circles are powering […]
“The Elections Clause does not vest exclusive and independent authority in state legislatures to set the rules regarding federal elections.” — Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. With these words, the Supreme Court has ruled against rightwing extremists in Moore v. Harper — rejecting for now the radical argument that state legislative majorities have unchecked […]
Nearly one year ago the Supreme Court issued a decision that stripped Americans of a constitutional right that had been protected for nearly half a century — the freedom to access a safe, legal abortion. With that decision, the court handed state lawmakers the power to decide if and when the people they serve have […]
Read More… from One Year After Dobbs: The Fight for Abortion Continues
MICHIGAN In 2022, The States Project contributed 8x more than the next largest funder in Michigan, fueling new majorities in the State House and Senate. Those lawmakers took office in January — and so far, have delivered these results for working families in record time: MINNESOTA In Minnesota, where The States Project was the largest […]
On May 16, in three separate states, we saw just how much a one-seat margin matters. In Pennsylvania, we helped power Representative-elect Heather Boyd to win a critical special election, defending the one-seat House majority for the second time since we helped flip the chamber in November. This session, that majority has: This victory means […]
On May 16, we defend the Pennsylvania House Majority! In 2022, The States Project invested nearly 80 times the next largest group to help win a majority in the Pennsylvania House for the first time in 12 years. The new House majority is at risk once more in a special election on May 16. One […]
It’s official. It’s time to join us in Virginia this year. State legislative races in Virginia this November could either set the stage for a trifecta committed to improving lives by 2025 or a rightwing trifecta after the election. The rightwing is two seats away from the majority in the Virginia State Senate. In the […]
Read More… from It’s official. Join us in Virginia this November!
Last night’s racist, anti-democratic expulsion of two Black lawmakers left 130,000 Tennesseans without representation in their House of Representatives. In the wake of a tragic school shooting, lawmakers in Tennessee’s rightwing supermajority ignored the outcry from students and their parents and refused to consider popular, effective gun safety policies that would make their communities safer—and […]
