In 2024 we preserved a critical pro-democracy trifecta, defending governing power that has worked to improve millions of lives since 2018 when we first helped to flip the Senate.
Since 2018, Maine’s majorities have worked to enact policies to secure a healthy, prosperous, and sustainable future including:
Power our ability to select and invest in majority-making districts that can help build and defend governing power for state lawmakers committed to safeguarding our democracy, protecting personal freedoms, and improving lives across the country.
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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The States Project is a joint initiative between Future Now Action and The PAC For America’s Future, for more information click here. Paid for by The PAC for America’s Future, 611 Pennsylvania Ave SE, #143, Washington, DC 20003. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. To donate to support The States Project’s electoral work, please click here for online donation and check mailing instructions.
The States Project is a joint initiative between Future Now Action and The PAC For America’s Future, for more information click here. Paid for by The PAC for America’s Future, 611 Pennsylvania Ave SE, #143, Washington, DC 20003. Not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.
To donate to support The States Project’s electoral work, please click here for online donation and check mailing instructions.
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