So, it's an exciting night, but I want to talk about a couple smaller things from my home state of Missouri:
A big one, we voted down an Abortion Ban for the second time in 2 years.
Proposition A, which was an attempt by Republicans to do some redistricting, was struck down.
Missouri has the right to citizen led initiatives, we have used that to end the abortion ban, legalize Marijuana, raise the minimum wage, among many others. Republican law makers only needed a 60% margin to repeal them, but Amendment 6 demands 80% in both the House and the Senate, and it must come back to a vote. News Outlets are already reporting it has passed, giving Missourians more control over our own government.
I first met Suzanne Luther in a coffee house, when she started organizing her grassroots campaign, and I would see her around, in my favorite bookstore, handing out pamphlets at festivals, and several times knocking at my own door. I'm very proud to say she won her House of Representative Seat.
Feel free to share some wins of your own.
@RickiTarr Vermont voted to put in our constitution both the right to unionize for all workers in the state, and an anti-discrimination policy that includes gender preference and sexual orientation. I'd venture to say we now have the most trans-positive protections in the country.
We also flipped my county from red to blue at the state level. I'm proud to say I worked on those campaigns, and we kicked out a couple of real good-old-boys, at least one of whom who was taking big tobacco money.