Progressive ballot measures in California have suffered crushing defeats, even as similar initiatives succeed in red states. These losses show that ballot initiatives can backfire on the Left ...

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Voters in 24 states and the District of Columbia can bypass their legislatures by gathering signatures to get proposed laws or constitutional amendments on the ballot. But about 40 bills in roughly a ...

a group that supports progressive ballot initiatives. “Because of how widely successful reproductive freedom ballot measures have been, we are seeing this as a tactic used to confuse and ...

Our California ballot ... the initiative (in which citizens can introduce a law) and the referendum (in which they veto one passed by lawmakers) as a cure for the era’s populist and progressive ...

marijuana legalization and other progressive initiatives on the ballot. GOP lawmakers contend their measures are shielding state constitutions from outside interests. “This is not a bill to ...

Here are key themes from those initiatives ... says ballot items like these signal a backlash. “Most of the ballot measures that we were voting on in 2020 were more progressive in nature ...

marijuana legalization and other progressive initiatives on the ballot. GOP lawmakers contend their measures are shielding state constitutions from outside interests. “This is not a bill to ...