State and Local Elections

New York voters waiting

These Election Results Will Define America These Election Results Will Define America

What’s the measure of a mandate? What will happen with the Senate? Will votes call for overturning Citizens United? Will a Somali-American immigrant win while Trump loses?

Nov 8, 2016 / John Nichols

Bernie Sanders Yes on 61

Bernie Sanders’s Our Revolution Faces Its First Big Test Bernie Sanders’s Our Revolution Faces Its First Big Test

The organization has invested heavily in down-ballot races where a few thousand dollars can make a crucial difference.

Nov 7, 2016 / D.D. Guttenplan

Don’t Tell Trump: Minnesota Is About to Elect a Pioneering Somali-American Muslim Woman

Don’t Tell Trump: Minnesota Is About to Elect a Pioneering Somali-American Muslim Woman Don’t Tell Trump: Minnesota Is About to Elect a Pioneering Somali-American Muslim Woman

It matters that Ilhan Omar will be elected to the Minnesota state legislature on the same day that Minnesotans reject Donald Trump.

Nov 7, 2016 / John Nichols

How a Somali-American Muslim Woman Candidate Is Mobilizing Millennial Voters in Minnesota

How a Somali-American Muslim Woman Candidate Is Mobilizing Millennial Voters in Minnesota How a Somali-American Muslim Woman Candidate Is Mobilizing Millennial Voters in Minnesota

Omar’s platform focuses on economic, social, racial, and environmental justice.

Nov 3, 2016 / StudentNation / Cirien Saadeh

Amendment One Protest

This Governor Wants to Take Over ‘Failing’ Public Schools and Turn Them Into Charters This Governor Wants to Take Over ‘Failing’ Public Schools and Turn Them Into Charters

These activists are telling Georgia’s Nathan Deal: That’s not how it works.

Nov 3, 2016 / StudentNation / Anna Simonton and Allie McCullen

clean energy reovlution

Are Voters Getting Greenwashed at the Polls? Are Voters Getting Greenwashed at the Polls?

Contentious—and confusing—environmental issues are on the ballot in these states. 

Nov 3, 2016 / Zoë Carpenter

Zephyr Teachout Working Families Party

Can the Working Families Party Break the Dem-GOP Duopoly? Can the Working Families Party Break the Dem-GOP Duopoly?

Its lawsuit in Pennsylvania just might allow the spread of “fusion” voting, which used to be the norm in American elections.

Nov 3, 2016 / Samantha Schuyler

Peopel vote in Glens Falls, NY

Sign Our Pledge and Help Make Voting Easy and Inclusive Sign Our Pledge and Help Make Voting Easy and Inclusive

We’ve joined with voting and civil rights organizations across the country to respond to voter suppression by getting out the vote. 

Nov 1, 2016 / NationAction

Iceland Woman

Iceland’s Election Draws 79 Percent Turnout. The US? Not So Much. Iceland’s Election Draws 79 Percent Turnout. The US? Not So Much.

Bernie Sanders wants Election Day to be a holiday. That reform would dramatically increase turnout.

Oct 31, 2016 / John Nichols

Maine ranked choice voting

This Maine Initiative Could Shake Up the Two-Party System This Maine Initiative Could Shake Up the Two-Party System

Ranked-choice voting opens up elections to a broader, more diverse range of candidates and ideas.

Oct 27, 2016 / Hendrik Hertzberg

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