Team,

In a significant victory for affordable and accessible health care, South Dakota voters have overwhelmingly voted YES on the Fairness Project-backed ballot measure Amendment D, expanding Medicaid to the thousands of South Dakotans in need of this critical coverage!

This victory means over 40,000 South Dakotans without coverage will now have access to health care, bringing hundreds of millions of dollars back into the state to create more than 4,000 new jobs while protecting remote, rural hospitals.

Our team worked with a broad coalition of local partners, including doctors, teachers, and farmers, to win this Medicaid ballot measure, despite strong opposition from obstructionist South Dakota politicians and outside special interest groups.

The decision by South Dakotans to approve expanding Medicaid underscores the importance of proactively working in red states to help change the lives of working people in America.

This victory makes South Dakota the SEVENTH red or purple state where Fairness Project has successfully used a ballot measure to win Medicaid expansion when extremist officials refused to roll out lifesaving care to their constituents after the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2009.

However, the success in South Dakota is not the end of our work, team. 11 states still remain in the fight to expand Medicaid to working people in America, so there is still much to do.

But we can’t do it without you, team. If you can, will you donate today to help us fight in these last few states to fund ballot measure campaigns and win health care for ALL Americans?