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Published in Why States Matter

·Dec 27, 2022

Why States Matter: Virginia, Democrats, and Guns

Mirabile dictu! In June 2022, after the massacre of schoolchildren in Uvalde, TX, a piece of Congressional gun-safety legislation made it into law. The legislation incentivizes states to pass Extreme Risk Protection Order, aka “Red Flag,” laws, which allow temporary removal of weapons from someone deemed a danger; expands background…

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Why States Matter: Virginia, Democrats, and Guns
Why States Matter: Virginia, Democrats, and Guns
Statesmatter

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Published in Why States Matter

·Oct 30, 2022

Why States Matter: Blue State, Red Laws

As the midterms barrel toward us, I find myself thanking the Powers that Be that I’m in Massachusetts, a relatively sane state. (To clarify, that’s “state” as in “geographical area,” not “state of mind,” about which less said the better.) In general, our elected state legislators tend to pass laws…

Massachusetts

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Massachusetts

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Published in Why States Matter

·Jul 30, 2022

Why States Matter: A Little-Known, Big-Deal Vote in the Bay State

Attention, Massachusetts residents! Do you live in Middlesex County (Arlington, Belmont, Brookline, Lexington, Newton, Waltham, Watertown, and others), or in parts of Suffolk or Worcester Counties? If so, there’s a gripping political drama in store for you this September: a Democratic Primary race for the Massachusetts Governor’s Council, Third District! …

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Published in Why States Matter

·Jul 6, 2022

So, Abortion Goes Back to the States? Alright, Then.

Well, it’s official: the Supreme Court’s right-wing majority has decided to “return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.” It’s now up to each state to decide how much it values women, and how far it will go to protect women’s reproductive — human — rights. This would…

Abortion

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Abortion

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Published in Why States Matter

·Jun 2, 2022

Why States Matter: Our Alumni, Doing Good

It’s easy to fall into the abyss — that would be the dark pit of “the world is bleak, everything is hopeless, and nothing I do matters anyway” — after these few weeks of horror. Here’s a lifeline: updates on some of the candidates and grassroots groups SDP MA-RI has…

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Why States Matter: Our Alumni, Doing Good
Why States Matter: Our Alumni, Doing Good
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Published in Why States Matter

·Apr 4, 2022

Up-Ballot, Down-Ballot, All Around- and-Round the Ballot in North Carolina

There’s a lot bubbling in the cauldron of North Carolina politics right now. For one, last month, the US Supreme Court rejected GOP challenges and allowed court-ordered Congressional NC maps to stand. Given that NC is historically one of the top-ten worst-gerrymandered states in the nation — per the NYT…

North Carolina

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Up-Ballot, Down-Ballot, All Around- and-Round the Ballot in North Carolina
Up-Ballot, Down-Ballot, All Around- and-Round the Ballot in North Carolina
North Carolina

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Published in Why States Matter

·Jan 31, 2022

Make America Vote Again! Plus, Why Massachusetts is (Almost) Hitting it Out of the Park

“Let us march on ballot boxes until race-baiters disappear from the political arena. Let us march on ballot boxes until the Wallaces of our nation tremble away in silence. Let us march on ballot boxes until all over Alabama, God’s children will be able to walk the earth in decency…

Politics

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Make America Vote Again! Plus, Why Massachusetts is (Almost) Hitting it Out of the Park
Make America Vote Again! Plus, Why Massachusetts is (Almost) Hitting it Out of the Park
Politics

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Published in Why States Matter

·Sep 6, 2021

Why States Matter: Texas, SB8, and “Hostis Humani Generis”

Private Right of Action: the right of an individual to bring suit to remedy or prevent an injury that results from another party’s actual or threatened violation of a legal requirement (Landegger v. Cohen, 5 F. Supp. 3d 1278, 1284 (D. Colo. 2013)). Hostis Humani Generis (Lat.): Literally “enemy of…

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Why States Matter: Texas, SB8, and “Hostis Humani Generis”
Why States Matter: Texas, SB8, and “Hostis Humani Generis”
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Published in Why States Matter

·Jul 16, 2021

Volunteer Spotlight: Elisabet Michaelsen on Phonebanking, Postcarding, and Strengthening Democracy

By Elisabet Michaelsen, Volunteer, SDP MA-RI A political candidate’s message has to be disseminated in multiple ways to be effective and reach as many voters as possible. The classical ways are mailers and canvassing (i.e. knocking doors and speaking with voters). We have such busy lives and only spend a…

Phone Bank

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Volunteer Spotlight: Elisabet Michaelsen on Phonebanking, Postcarding, and Strengthening Democracy
Volunteer Spotlight: Elisabet Michaelsen on Phonebanking, Postcarding, and Strengthening Democracy
Phone Bank

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Published in Why States Matter

·Jun 26, 2021

Why States Matter: Virginia’s Elizabeth Guzman, Progressive Paragon

Does the name Elizabeth Guzman sound familiar? Perhaps you remember her delivering the 2018 Spanish language response to Trump’s State of the Union address. If you’re an environmentalist, you might know her as a co-founder of the Virginia Green New Deal. …

Politics

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Why States Matter: Virginia’s Elizabeth Guzman, Progressive Paragon
Why States Matter: Virginia’s Elizabeth Guzman, Progressive Paragon
Politics

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