Proposed Head Start Regulations Overseen By RFK Jr.

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5FHRM-6gjFo

 

Several states are weighing new curbs on direct democracy : NPR

Republican lawmakers pushing for these changes say a simple majority threshold makes amending their state constitution too easy — and thus too frequent of an occurrence...

 https://www.npr.org/2026/07/14/nx-s1-5877715/direct-democracy-state-constitutional-amendment-thresholds

 

Rep. Raskin will force GOP to take a stand against Trump’s ‘MAGA millionaire slush fund

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dr7qZ2g9f8

Why MAGA Wants To End the Department of Education

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Hxrpv-JRBYM

‘Scum’: Trump attacks US states’ efforts to regulate prediction markets

Trump has said he “was never much in favor” of prediction markets. But he and his family are involved in the industry. His media company released a prediction market product last year, and his son Donald Jr has ties to two top prediction market companies, according to the New York Times. 

Prediction market bets have also raised novel ethical problems, since people with insider knowledge and political influence have the ability to predict or shape the current events that now command billions in weekly trading…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/26/trump-prediction-markets-kalshi-polymarket

 

New York state lawmakers take aim at House AI talks - POLITICO

In a letter sent on Thursday to each House Democrat from New York, state Assembly member Alex Bores and state Sen. Andrew Gounardes, both Democrats, urged their congressional counterparts to “oppose federal efforts to preempt state regulations that protect residents from the harms of artificial intelligence.”…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/21/house-ai-talks-spark-backlash-from-ny-state-lawmakers-00933075

 

Push for state-level voting rights acts renewed after supreme court ruling

Nine states have a version of voting rights act and 11 more, including several in the south, have introduced bills to protect voters in absence of federal protections…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/01/state-voting-rights-acts-supreme-court-ruling

 

Emily Gregory wins District 87 seat

She defeated Trump-Endorsed candidate Jon Maples. The district is where Mar-A-Lago is, and with the victory, democrats now hold the House, Senate, and US House seats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgrlOENMwvw

 

Several Republican-led states have passed SAVE Act replicas : NPR

The Republican-backed legislation is a top priority for President Trump, who has long railed — falsely — about widespread voting by non-U.S citizens. And while the bill is unlikely to overcome Democratic opposition and the Senate's legislative filibuster, GOP-led states have taken up the cause. 

 Proof-of-citizenship bills are now sitting on governors' desks in Florida, South Dakota and Utah. Those follow similar laws passed in recent years in Louisiana, New Hampshire and Wyoming, according to the Voting Rights Lab, which tracks election policy, and narrower measures in places like Ohio...

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/19/nx-s1-5750510/state-save-acts-florida 

 

The local special election sparking intrigue in Donald Trump’s backyard - POLITICO

Florida Democrats are trying to flip the Palm Beach state House district that includes Mar-a-Lago this month, in a race that could test President Donald Trump's Sunshine State influence and symbolically hit him on his home turf. 

A Democratic win on March 24 in the District 87 special election would embolden Florida's beleaguered Democratic Party ahead of the midterms and add to a string of recent nationwide victories and overperformances. After a slew of losses in recent cycles, Florida Democrats in particular have tried to show they can return the state to swing status and end the Legislature's GOP supermajority in November...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/13/florida-special-election-palm-beach-00826611 

 

Democrats are trouncing Republicans in state elections since Trump took office - POLITICO

Democrats have flipped 28 Republican-held seats in state legislatures across the country over the past 14 months, a sign that the GOP is indeed at risk of losing control of the House, and maybe even the Senate, in the midterms...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/12/dems-flip-28-state-legislature-seats-in-trump-2-0-00827125 

 

How Trump’s EPA rollbacks give US states new tools in climate suits

"We believe the rescission of the endangerment finding was wrong, that they were wrong to claim they don't have the authority to regulate greenhouse gases," said Daly. "But if they are going to say that, that then they can't possibly preempt states from stepping in to do the same thing."…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/trump-epa-rollbacks-vermont-new-york-climate-suits 

 

Republicans blocked my amendment

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/prfGUthe7No

 

More red states eye the no-income-tax model. Will it work? - CSMonitor.com

Kansas stands out as a cautionary tale. In what was dubbed "the revolution in the cornfield," Gov. Sam Brownback in 2012 brought the tax rate to near zero for many Kansas wage earners. He promised the effort would boost the state economy. 

But by 2017, the Republican-led legislature overrode Governor Brownback's veto to scrap some of the tax cuts, which had not improved employment or wages and instead led to missed state payments, a sense of constant fiscal crisis, and unfixed potholes...

https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2026/0224/republicans-state-income-tax-georgia 

 

These US states want polluters to pay for the rising insurance costs of climate disasters

Proposals by California, Hawaii and New York lawmakers aim to hold fossil fuel industry accountable for soaring rates… These US states want polluters to pay for the rising insurance costs of climate disasters  

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/08/proposal-fossil-fuel-companies-insurance-costs  

State election officials brace for possible Trump interference in midterm results - POLITICO

"The things that have been said publicly, frankly, are quite appalling," Henderson said to White House Deputy Director of Intergovernmental Affairs Jared Borg as several of her colleagues and reporters looked on, referencing comments from the Department of Justice attacking states for not complying with its request for voter rolls across the country, a move that has confused — and frustrated — many state election officials. 

 The DOJ "pretty much slandered all of us to publicly claim that secretaries of state are not doing our jobs and that the federal government has to do it for us. Not OK," Henderson said during a question-and-answer session...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/06/trump-state-election-officials-midterms-federal-power-00768050 

 

Why Local and State Police Rarely Investigate Federal Agents — ProPublica

"Residents have every right and should be demanding that, 'Hey, state authorities, police, local police: Protect us. Arrest people who kill us, who batter us, who point guns at us and threaten and assault us without legal cause to do so.'"…

 https://www.propublica.org/article/why-local-state-police-rarely-investigate-ice-cbp-fbi

Democrats have a constitutional power they aren’t using

Today, state legislative resolutions would have far more political weight than any poll, provide a galvanizing mechanism to drive public opinion, and solidify the states as defenders of basic American rights seeking to safeguard constitutional freedoms and the safety of electoral processes. State resolutions would expose the brazen hypocrisy of the Trump administration as it tramples on the formerly sanctified principles of states' rights and free speech, and as Trump poses a clear and present danger to free and fair elections in 2026 and 2028.

Using such resolutions, the state legislatures could organize debate within the legislatures, stage public hearings with witnesses and experts, hold legislative votes that force Republicans on the record, conduct signing ceremonies by governors, and send delegations for formal presentations to the Congress. The process would command both local and national media attention, especially since the Democratic-controlled states are among the largest ones and include the media capitals in New York and California. And states could either have varied resolutions or coordinate their language...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/03/democrats-constitutional-power-state-resolutions

 

Meta drops $65 million into super PACs to boost tech-friendly state candidates - POLITICO

The efforts launched last fall to counter what the company cast as a flood of overly burdensome AI bills from state governments...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/02/meta-drops-65-million-into-super-pacs-to-boost-tech-friendly-state-candidates-00759567 

 

Trump says Republicans should ‘nationalize’ elections - POLITICO

The suggestion — which runs contrary to the Constitution's delegation of election administration to state governments — comes less than a week after the FBI raided an elections office outside Atlanta, seizing ballots and other voting records from the 2020 election...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/02/trump-nationalize-elections-2026-midterms-00760015