Good things are (still) happening! While the presidential race has received most of the attention, Election Day delivered considerable wins downballot. Thanks to state ballot measures across the country, voters enshrined abortion rights, struck back at oligarch election meddling, funded public schools, and championed workers’ rights, among other issues.

Voters Choose The Right To Choose

Voters in seven states dramatically expanded access to reproductive health by passing measures to guarantee abortion rights in their state constitutions. The votes come in the wake of states enacting abortion bans in the two years since the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, eliminating federal abortion protections.