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North Carolina's Supreme Court election is one of the nation's most important, & Democrats holding Riggs' seat is pivotal for retaking the majority by 2028. Winning the court is the key to ending Republican gerrymandering, protecting voting rights, & securing access to abortion

NEW: 12 states are selecting the officials who'll run their elections. So I took a look at all of them with Alex Burness, & we wrote a state-by-state guide. Spoiler alert: Election deniers still abound. boltsmag.org/elections-chie…

Billionaires who coalition with fascists (Andr*ssen, Hor*witz, etc) and openly fascist billionaires (M*sk, Thi*l, etc) are showing how extreme wealth inequality is a threat to democracy and the rule of law. Even hardcore neoliberals are recognizing this. It’s quite a moment.

This ruling was 4-3, strictly along party lines—but Dems can win a majority on the OH Supreme Court in November. A difficult task, but if they sweep all three seats that are up this year, that would do it

NEW: Mississippi mail voting case at the Fifth Circuit could quickly become a national issue. On Monday, the conservative appeals court announced a trio of Trump appointees—Judges Ho, Duncan & Oldham—will be hearing the appeal. At Law Dork, I dig in: lawdork.com/p/mississippi-…

The chief justice who emerged last term is done with compromise and middle ground. He's powering the 6–3 supermajority to new extremes, freezing out the liberals while basking in the glow of the conservatives' sycophancy. The mask is well and truly off. slate.com/news-and-polit…

Kamala Harris now has a net positive favorability rating for the first time since July 2021 projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorabi…

BREAKING: Eligibility of 97,000 Arizona voters in limbo after state discovers error, just before ballots go out votebeat.org/arizona/2024/0…

🧵 A major new special report from The Downballot: Estimates of the Haitian population in Springfield, OH are all over the place—and they're all wrong. David Jarman digs deep into the data to discover the real answer the-downballot.com/p/all-the-esti…

You may remember this viral NYT graph on the huge gender gap among Gen Z. But it turns out that three other surveys don't show this pattern. Let's take a look.

#NEW: Citizens Not Politicians has launched its first TV advertisement, urging Ohioans to vote 'Yes' on Issue 1 to create an Independent Redistricting Commission.

Doing the work on the state level to enshrine and protect voting rights that have been eroded on the federal level

Georgia’s Republican-led State Election Board is preparing to vote on nearly a dozen rule changes Friday that could take effect before the upcoming election. That’s an unsettling prospect for election officials in the swing state: npr.org/2024/09/18/nx-…

Too close to an election for election officials to properly prepare. These changes should have been voted on a long time ago...unless your purpose is to sabotage the election

Oh, this is important: The REPUBLICAN chair of the Maricopa County board endorses a Democrat in the race to replace him. What's up here? Sellers lost the August primary to Stewart, a candidate aligned with AZ's far-right who has refused to say if he'd certify future elections.