They also voted down the gerrymandered map that the supreme court had to shut down three times.
Great news to be sure but damn, only flipped a single seat to Democrat. Still following the grand tradition of keeping on voting the same people who wants to strip your rights you just voted for away.
Again, still great news all around!
Yeah. I been tossing away my vote here for decades :-\
Not only did we tell them to fuck off with their stupid redistricting that would have lost a dem seat, the dems actually gained a seat! Fuck yeah!
Kept abortion legal and banned the legislature from hindering ballot measures. The state sovereign wealth fund was voted down, which I’m ambivalent about and requiring county sheriffs to be an elected position keeps going back and forth but looks like it passed.
God damn, is there any bad news at all from yesterday’s voting?
The California billionaire tax didn’t pass, which imo was the most important measure on the ballot.
Yes, trans people lost rights in propositions that passed across 3 or 4 states.
They tried to push Amendment 3 over the line by adding in some anti-trans nonsense then running all the yes on 3 ads saying it will protect kids from forced trans surgery or some nonsense. Luckily MO GOP have tried so much bullshit like that over the last 15 years or so that even MO voters won’t fall for it.
Which states? I’m sure that they are already “dangerous” states for the trans community anyways.
And while I know that it comes across as snark, it’s to be expected in certain states.
The Washington state “genital exam” measure for girls sports passed.
That’s sickening. Hope they’re ready for their entire girls sports program to come to a grinding halt.
Wait a fucking min…if I’m a young girl and want to play sports id have to show my hoohaw to some doctor because Republicans are dumber than all fuck?? Jesus tapdancing Christ on a cracker Darwin was wrong
It’s show your hoohaw to a doctor or submit a DNA test result.
That doesn’t surprise me. I was forced to live next door in Idaho for 5 years. WA state is not nearly as progressive outside of Seattle as you’d hope. I found out once I visited a few times.
The whole eastern half of WA is pretty shit, politics included, imo.
And Virginia enshrined abortion rights in their constitution yesterday
It even looks like Idaho voted Yes for their Prop 1. Only by 2000 votes, but it’s shocking.
That’s like a third of the population though, right? 😉
And we finally fucking got rid of Ann Wagner
https://www.trackaipac.com/tracker/people/candidate-candidates-1-88
Basically all the dems take money from AIPAC in MO so it never feels like a true victory
Edit: not to discredit the victory entirely, just to highlight my personal frustrations
Unfortunately Cori Busch crowded out any other challengers to Bell in MO-1 due to her formerly holding that seat and being high profile but she is deeply unpopular and lost decisively in the primary. Maybe in 2 years I will register to run against bell and soundly lose by refusing to take money from lobbyist/special interest groups but it would be fun just to be able to vote for myself.
another banger for the history books
