Pro-democracy candidates and direct democracy won big in last night's elections.
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Ohio voters overwhelmingly approved a measure to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution despite Republicans enacting a new sweeping photo ID law, attempting to raise the threshold for the measure to pass and more.
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Democratic candidate Judge Daniel McCaffrey won the race for Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Democrats now have a 5-2 majority on the court.
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Virginia Democrats won control of the state legislature after keeping a majority in the Senate and taking the House. This is a massive victory for voting rights, abortion rights and more as the legislature can limit Gov. Glenn Youngkin's (R) anti-democratic agenda.
Here are some Trumpdates.
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A Michigan court will hear two lawsuits alleging that the 14th Amendment disqualifies former President Donald Trump from the state's 2024 ballot due to his involvement in Jan. 6. The court will also hear a case from Trump trying to prevent the state from disqualifying him from the race.
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The Minnesota Supreme Court permitted Trump to be on the state's Republican presidential primary ballot. A new petition could be filed challenging Trump's eligibility under the 14th Amendment for the general election ballot.
Here are some other updates.
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In Oregon, Republican lawmakers filed a federal lawsuit challenging a voter-approved constitutional amendment that makes them ineligible to run for re-election due to unexcused absences from the state legislature. The absences came from walkouts Republicans staged to protest Democratic bills.
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At least nine polling locations in the most populous county in Mississippi — Hinds County — ran out of ballots multiple times throughout Election Day yesterday. The fight to extend polling hours became a jumble of legal filings and contradicting orders all as voters waited in line — or left entirely due to the lack of ballots.
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