Hi Friend,
Although tomorrow is Election Day, the election has been underway for weeks—and the record-breaking early voting and absentee voting numbers indicate that it will take some time for us to know the results.* What we do know is that there are thousands of important races taking place across the country beyond the presidential that will impact millions of lives.
Flippable joined the Swing Left family in 2019 to bolster our work in the states. Thanks to the Flippable and Swing Left community, we’re heading into Election Day having invested millions of dollars toward building up pro-democracy, Democratic power in 10 states. That’s a lot of states, so we’ve written a blog post explaining what’s at stake in each one.
In North Carolina and Pennsylvania, flipping both chambers of the state legislatures would establish unified Democratic control—a game changer for fair maps and the passage of progressive policies. Chamber flips in the Sun Belt states of Arizona, Florida, Georgia, and Texas would spell the end of GOP trifectas and would enable Democrats to meaningfully participate in redistricting and rein in conservative policy-making.
Preventing GOP supermajorities in Ohio and Wisconsin will give Democrats a say in Ohio’s redistricting process and will protect Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers’s veto, respectively. Flipping the Michigan State House will provide Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer with much-needed support in the legislature, and flipping the Iowa State House would break a GOP trifecta and give Democrats input over how maps are drawn next year.
Read our blog for a more detailed look at what flips would mean in each of the 10 states we targeted this year. And bookmark Swing Left's results page, which, starting tomorrow, will track results in 157 state legislative races as well as results in the presidential and key Senate races.
As always, thank you for working with us to build better government—and a stronger democracy for all—from the ground up.
*Democracy Docket has a blog post explaining how ballot counting and results reporting works.
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