John, If you haven't heard, term limits has scored some important victories this election. First, a record number of candidates who signed the pledge to support term limits were victorious in their election bids. This means that many of the 2023 state and congressional lawmakers promised to support an amendment to the Constitution limiting the number of terms Congress members may serve. There will be more than 130 members of Congress who pledged their commitment...in writing. This gives us leverage to advance the ball further than ever before in the upcoming legislative session. One of the best election day term limits victories is that the voters of North Dakota passed term limits on its state legislature and governor, making it the 36th state to do so on its chief administrator of the executive branch and the 17th state to impose term limits on its state lawmakers. And Speaker Nancy Pelosi has decided to uphold her term limits agreement to step down in 2023, after twenty years as House Democratic Party Leader. This has opened the door for a younger generation of Democratic leaders. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries is not only the first Black individual to be named a leader of a political party in the U.S. Congress, but he is also the youngest. At 52, he is thirty-years younger than his predecessor. All this is to say that, while these statistics are making headlines in a seniority system, imposing term limits on Congress would make these types of changes the norm. The sad news is, that without term limits on Congress, more than 95% of the congressional incumbents on the ballot in November were re-elected, despite having a 20% approval rating. If we want to see real institutional change, it is clear that term limits are required. Incumbents are just too powerful to be voted out. Read more important news in our latest "No Uncertain Terms" newsletter. In this issue: - Record Number of Pledge Signers Win Elections
- N.D. Passes Term Limits on Governor, State Legislature
- President’s Corner: Term Limits Win Big Across the U.S.
- The Mid-term Election Was an Incumbent Tsunami
- The Case for a National Amendment Proposal Convention
- Michigan Voters Deceived by Lobbyists and Politicians
- Pelosi Term Limits Herself as Leader After 20 Years
- Outrageous Congress: McConnell - longest serving senate leader in American history
 Looking forward to good things in 2023, Philip Blumel
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