Republican elected officials are trying to roll back passed measures and place restrictions on citizen-led initiatives.

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 ...

Since Dobbs, the rhetoric around personhood has become much more extreme—for example, so-called abortion abolitionists ...

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 ...

Arizona legislators are proposing to raise the bar for voters to pass new laws at the ballot box, just months after the state’s voters approved two measures opposed by many GOP lawmakers.

James Carville’s advice for Democrats to sit back and watch Trump unravel is a dangerous gamble. What’s more, it would do ...

A civil war has broken out among the Democratic wonks. The casus belli is a new set of ideas known as the abundance agenda.

They required initiative sponsors to detail how their proposal would be funded and, if it makes the ballot, pay for costly publication of the ballot language in newspapers across the state ...