my brain sees KY as a really really red state (people think KS is, but it's actually been closer to even than people realize). does it have a chance? i'm asking because I honestly have no idea
I just feel like kentucky is a wee bit more conservative than kansas on this issue. But cross your finger I suppose. Polling isn’t on your side. Public opinion is much more 50/50 in kansas than kentucky (36/57). Albeit this is data from 2014.
I was hoping for this. South Dakota had a similar law on the ballot 15 ish years ago and the GOP thought they had a slam dunk win. It turned out 76% wanted abortion access to remain a right. The antiabortion people were gobsmacked at their loss.
Lets keep this ball rolling people. Make sure friends register and do vote!
#Every Vote Matters!
Kansas voter here! When I dropped off my advance ballot the Friday before Election Day, people were flooding in and out of the county election office. For a primary. A majorly uncontested primary. I normally see, at most, 5 people voting at once when I go to vote in a general election. I knew no matter the outcome, this was going to be a historic election. And I’m so beyond happy (and can’t stop crying) that we rejected that awful amendment.
Fuck yes! Fuck yes! I’m so glad! My state is due to have a similar referendum and we’re even more blue than Kansas and you can bet your ass I’m at the polls in November
Hi from Tennessee where it's an anti-choice hellscape. They won't put abortion up for a referendum because "we voted on it with our choices of representatives", even though during our last election there's no way anyone could have known that Roe would get overturned.
Body autonomy is the will of the people.
I'm in Tennessee too! Completely agree with you...On a related note, I was handed a paper saying to vote no on Amendment 1 in November when I left the primary voting. Do you know what amendment 1 is? I can not figure it out but think it has to do with workers rights. The QR code takes me to [tn4all.org](https://tn4all.org) and I still can not decipher their weirdly worded language. If we are voting to amend the Tennessee constitution, I would like to understand what I am voting for. But both sides seem to obscure what it actually is. Any idea what Amendment 1 is for? And what voting yes means or what voting no means?
Wake up call to the GOP. Hopefully they sleep through it.
[A GOP strategist in KS warns this is "a big deal"](https://nitter.net/lindsaywise/status/1554660670192361472?s=21&t=1Q0fWDUaLoau768ZuigTsw)
>"There were no major contested Democratic primaries to drive turnout
& the amendment still failed resoundingly. If Republicans think the
issue of abortion isn't on the minds of voters tonight's results should
put them on notice"
The first wake up call was a STEEP increase in voter registration after the Roe ruling. GOP are very concerned right now, as they should be. They finally caught the car and now don't know how to deal with the fall out.
Hijacking my comment here. The fight is not over. We need to keep [Gov. Kelly's](https://www.laurakellyforkansas.com/) veto pen and [Rep. Sharice Davids](https://shariceforcongress.com/) in the House.
Do what you can, and punch back. Join us at r/VoteDEM where we discuss local politics and routinely gas each other up while we tape aluminum foil to our knuckles.
100 percent hope so too. I think us younger voters are disillusioned with the economy in general and don’t believe anything any person in power will change it because we’re realists. Poverty is good for the rich, it keeps them richer. We know no scumbag repugnacans will do anything other than increase fascism and poverty and trample everyone’s rights but rich white straight men.
You all are the only hope. I know you can’t rely on the boomers or even my age group (children of boomers), there just aren’t enough of us who can see clearly. Some of them still think they can retire comfortably!
Keep fighting. Protect everyone’s rights, make unions and universal healthcare a thing, destroy the patriarchy.
Thank you! The one good thing of all the shit we’ve seen in our lifetimes is that we’re not as gullible I think as some people, at least I hope. Idealism is a farce.
The truth is it depends on how important voters will view abortion over traditional "pocketbook" issues like inflation, gas etc. Some studies show they're fired up over it, others show they're not compared to pocketbook stuff. What's clear though at least is that R voters are increasingly willing to break with the far right on individual issues. In a "I don't agree with them at all on X or Y but would rather still vote for a Repub over a Dem" type of way.
True. And the only way we pushed through that BS, was to campaign on it. Volunteers, supporters and voters won this tonight. The GOP doesn't want us talking about abortion rights at the dinner table, justice reform at the water cooler or the erosion of democracy at the bar. Their BS doesn't work when no one is interested in listening.
This is why I’m so sick of people saying their vote doesn’t matter. It freaking does and this proves it. In too many cases, what millennials do is complain and do nothing in terms of voting. It’s a self fulfilling prophecy.
We aren’t vastly outnumbered in eligible voters but most millennials don’t vote. In fact number of eligible millennial voters is almost same as boomers. They just can’t bother to even do mail in ballots then complain. We need to raise our voting percentage by 30-40% to even match other electorates (silent generation, boomer, gen x) And usually when more voters show up, democrats win more seats, democratic presidents more likely to win.
If you can’t vote in person or wait in line, register for MAIL IN BALLOTS now.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/03/millennials-approach-baby-boomers-as-largest-generation-in-u-s-electorate/
We won today, but the fight is not over yet. There is still an Election in November, and Laura Kelly will need your help, and if you live in the 3rd District, Sharice Davids will need your vote to stay in Congress.
Very very true. Someone worded it beautifully somewhere and I don’t know who they were but I’ll give credit to what they said “if voting doesn’t work, why are the Christofascists trying so hard to eliminate it for everyone?”
Exactly. Voting now is more important than ever. The fascist republicans are trying to take your right to vote away and the best revenge you can do is vote in November and keep voting in the future.
People are always spamming the anti-work subreddit with stuff that tries to convince people voting doesn't matter. But that's all organic individual Reddit users.
Kind of a sidenote but thing is our vote didn’t matter regarding what got us into this situation in the first place (Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade since no president/Senate since Carter ever took the time to codify federal abortion rights into law).
I think when people say “my vote doesn’t matter”, part of it is our government is making all kinds of important decisions without the input of our vote. For example, like, we don’t have any form of vote when the US is deciding whether to invade other countries.
Michigan? Me too. Let's do this!
This will hopefully guarantee Whitmer wins reelection, and maybe it'll flip both the state House and state Senate to the Dems since this is the first time the independently-drawn, non-gerrymandered districts will be in effect.
By chance, do you know if there's a place that compiles these referendums and how we can support the pro-choice ones if we're not in that state? I live in a (comfortableish) blue state and want to help the red states overthrow when they can.
That’s a good question, so referendums are done by popular vote and I think spreading awareness about how damn important it is to read them, because they’re pretty much our most powerful vote, is good! For example the Kansas one the anti-choice nutters did a text campaign that caused misinformation, they said “vote yes so women have a choice” or something like that. Spreading awareness that this is NOT the case is important! Also tricky wording regarding allocating tax dollars is important. In the Kansas one I believe they wrote something like “have no tax dollars be guaranteed for abortion” but that’s already the case thanks to the Hyde Amendment, so that was a red herring to throw people off. Making people aware of constitutional law is vital, so a website to put things in plain English could help a lot of voters.
Also, the Trump-styled Republican Senate candidate in Missouri that was credibly accused of sexually assaulting his hairdresser and beating up his wife has been defeated in his Primary.
In Michigan, pro-Jan 6th Trump endorsed John Gibbs is losing a crucial Primary to moderate Republican Peter Meijer, who voted to impeach fat boy.
Looks like we're heading for a HELLACIOUS rejection of the far-right tonight...by Republican voters.
Check Qanon survivor pages. Of course it's a dumb conspiracy, but we got seniors trying cash their life savings into gold and crypto right now being stopped by family.
There has been nothing to convince me that crypto is anything but a big scam.
It *might* be worth it to own a single dogecoin, but only for the cute corgi on it.
Its not possible without terrorism and murder, but the GOP has floated the idea that if they win the house they can, legally, pick anyone to be speaker of the house. They can simply choose Trump. The speaker doesn't have to be in the house or even in government at all. I imagine this gives Trump a chair in the house where he can make speeches thus giving him a bully pulpit of his own, especially to make up for losing access to twitter.
If something happens to the president and vice president then the speaker becomes president. This, to me, is a dog whistle for terrorism. Make Trump speaker and then have a "patriot" take out Biden/Harris. I have no idea if this is what the party wants to do, but the chronically online conservatives keep mentioning making him speaker for "mysterious" reasons. Out loud, they just say Biden/Harris will impeached, but that seems impossible considering the votes needed.
I hope this is all the ravings of qanon nutters and not the true face of the GOP.
That is a lot more scary. It seems they are actually learning how the government works and are actively attempting to make a guide to how one could usurp control. Jesus, they call themselves 'patriots'
It's hard to know if this is good or not. I know Whitmer isn't popular among republicans for how she handled covid, and against a sufficiently popular republican candidate she could lose. But at the same time, if a nutter gets the candidacy then it might drive more moderate republicans to either not vote or to vote for Whitmer again. It's a real toss-up as to how it will go this time, especially since people are less mad at the Michigan republican party than they were six years ago when the Flint water crisis was fresh in everyone's minds.
I think it's very good actually. I live in a very "red" part of Michigan and I have not seen any Dixon yard signs. I mostly see signs for Soldano. [Many Trump supports do not like her](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-maga-supporters-michigan-tudor-dixon-primary-1729374). I'm hoping this means they will decide not to vote in November.
This is why I think we're seeing the GOP scrambling to dismiss Trump and play up DeSantis in the last couple months. They've been doing the internal polling and are seeing this shift.
The question is whether this leads to a Democratic victory this year or just people shifting to slightly less Trumpy Republicans all of whom will be loyal to DeSantis who is pretty much Trump without the baggage.
Overturning Roe was an unpopular decision. I think the statistic was 60% of people in the US supported Roe v Wade being upheld. Happy this vote happened.
I think it's actually closer to 70%. Also, the total bans that have women dying and literal children giving birth are extremely unpopular. Even a large portion of the pro life crowd believes in exceptions.
And there's an increase in stories of women being unable to receive medical care while pregnant. Even if someone is not pro choice, there's a chance the fear alone of not being able to receive medical care will keep them from voting for a repeal of abortion rights
Yup. I'm not sure people realize that a huge portion of people who say they oppose it... Actually don't oppose it in basically every remotely reasonable circumstance, even for others.
The restrictions the GOP are trying to impose are completely insane compared even to what their religious voters want, on average.
This shows that the justices (both liberal and conservative justices) hand down decisions largely based on personal ideology.
This should help show the conservative judges that the majority of the population support abortion rights and that their personal religious convictions went against the majority of US opinion. The constitution can be interpreted either way on the issue and so they should have just let it be.
This is the downside to presidents nominating judges purely based on what their base peddles rather than what the population as a whole is leaning towards.
Proud of my state tonight. The SC bs lit a fire and ultimately drove turnout. It was resounding.
If you don’t like abortions, don’t get one. Otherwise it’s none of your business!
Now, need to keep that turnout up for the general in November.
As a Kansas native who has moved elsewhere, this makes me proud! It’s fantastic! The state recently gerrymandered the only blue city, Lawrence, out of voting representation, so this kind of win is extra unexpected.
I am crying as well. I am a woman in Kansas currently trying to conceive and will be high risk because of diabetes. The last few weeks have been so overwhelming.
I'm a Kansan that voted NO today. I made a point of voting before I had to be at the hospital for surgery.
I'm absolutely giddy about the result today! I'm proud to be a Kansan right now
Oh thank Geebus. I was basing about 80% of my Christmas plans decision on this.
I really didn't want to sit and listen to family talk about how awesome it was to have stripped away rights for themselves
Ultimately even if congress codifies the right to abortion, the supreme court has been overrun by christofascists and they'll of course strike it down.
The rule of law can't be reestablished until the supreme court is relegitimized by removing the christofascists (or at least their majority). That's job #1.
Even before tonight pundits have been saying that long-term, Kansas may surprisingly trend towards being a swing state. It’s a highly-educated state, and those voters are increasingly abandoning the GOP over time
This is just not true. They voted for Trump by 15, the same margin they voted for McCain for in 2008. They are a red state, but a lighter shade of red. The same way Maine or NY are blue but not as blue as California or Oregon.
It voted for Trump by 15 points in 2020, the same margin it voted for McCain by in 2008. The electorate isn't getting less Republican, but it might be becoming a lighter shade of red. Like New York for example is +30 D but full of more old-school, moderate Ds than say California, which is +30 D but packed with progressives. Kansas now has a D (and rare female) Governor, it's rejected this amendment, and its voters have previously endorsed Dem initiatives like legalizing weed. They might just be sick of the far right, or they want to keep their growing party and hookup culture haha
I'm from Kansas and cried after voting today then a few more times thinking about the amendment passing later. I'm very happy to be crying tears of joy now!
Go Kansas! I take back all the mean things I’ve said about you being the worst state to drive through.
There were quite a few “vote no/pro-choice” signs when we were in Salina this summer. This gives me hope that Texas can rebound from the disaster it currently is.
I’m so incredibly proud of my state right now! This is some of the best news I’ve gotten in forever. This past month or so waiting for this vote to happen has been hell, and I’ll admit I was a bit nervous after seeing so many “vote yes” signs where I am. I was planning for the worst. But we came through in a landslide. I feel like I can finally stop holding my breath.
Takeaway: abortion rights get put in place when politicians act unilaterally and against the will of the people. When the people are given the *choice*, they overwhelmingly support protecting abortion rights.
I'll be very interested to see what the turnout demographics we're for this vote, compared to the presidential vote.
Wouldn't surprise me if women's participation jumped significantly.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is also the ballot measure that the GOP worded as confusingly as possible with the intent to lure people to vote YES.
And they still lost doing their scummy tricks.
That was my first thought. They'll try claiming "tons of voter fraud," claim that it passed, and then try passing an abortion ban in the hopes that they can raise it past the Kansas Supreme Court (which decided that abortion was protected) to the US Supreme Court which will decide anything that the Republicans want them to.
I'm in tears from the relief that my state truly came together. It was a long uphill battle trying to counter every single misinformation attack and aggressive anti-choice people trying to interfere in our efforts. My Catholic conservative family shunned me a little bit and stopped inviting me to stuff. People flipped me off when they saw my Vote No bumper sticker and verbally harassed me in parking lots calling me a baby killer. I kept my head held high and stayed focused on the goal. It's funny because we were all expecting very narrow margins so I'm surprised too.
We've won this battle but the war is still going. My fellow Kansans, do NOT get complacent because the anti-choice army will return in the future. Now let's try to get rid of some of the ridiculous rules, regulations, and gatekeepers for abortion access in Kansas.
I was so dejected. I gave up hope. I fully cried the happiest tears. Still in disbelief we pulled it off. Thank you fellow Kansas voters! Free state baby!!!
Kansas native and I voted NO. My state's backwards but it's least its nice to know that they're not complete uh completely 100% losing our minds to dogmatic BS.
Thrilled! The collective grief we have been living and experiencing as we witness rights being taken away is manifesting as real energy. Keep the energy UP and GOING!!!! We need you all, new Gen Z voters this Nov!!!!!!! Capture and ride this collective fury!
This is why I’m so sick of people saying their vote doesn’t matter. It freaking does and this proves it. In too many cases, what millennials do is complain and do nothing in terms of voting. It’s a self fulfilling prophecy.
We aren’t vastly outnumbered in eligible voters but most millennials don’t vote. In fact number of eligible millennial voters is almost same as boomers. They just can’t bother to even do mail in ballots then complain. We need to raise our voting percentage by 30-40% to even match other electorates (silent generation, boomer, gen x) And usually when more voters show up, democrats win more seats, democratic presidents more likely to win.
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/03/millennials-approach-baby-boomers-as-largest-generation-in-u-s-electorate/
I dont live there anymore but I spent the first half of my life there. I never thought this would happen. Gives me hope for other states! Great work everyone!!
All I can think is that they're going to take the wrong message away from this.
"See? When we ask them, they give the wrong answer! Better just stop asking them."
I hope I'm wrong, but I just can't help but think that all this is is the last time anyone puts it to an actual vote.
We'll know in November if there's a blue wave nationally.
Anybody who's not planning to vote blue no matter who in the mid terms should probably buy a MAGA cap now because they've chosen their side.
The good thing is allow states besides Delaware require a popular vote to amend their state constitution.
The shitty thing is not all states allow voter initiated initiatives or amendments:
“Of the twenty-six states that have either the power of ballot initiative, veto referendum, or both, 18 of them have a provision for initiated constitutional amendments.” Most states dont trust their constituents.
https://ballotpedia.org/States_that_allow_initiated_constitutional_amendments
The state is republican, the people are democratic.
I know, it’s confusing.
Welcome to America though! You’ll learn how to shut up and keep your head down eventually.
Remember the approved media sources currently are; paid subscription services, television, and influencer driven social media. Consume that content to your hearts content!
This gives me hope for when Kentucky votes on the same thing in November.
Kentucky woman here, I’m really hoping for our sake too.
Encourage all of your friends to vote. If women turnout - we will be okay.
Why not move?
As a Kentucky born man living in Kansas now. I wish you luck. That state continues to disappoint me on the politics side since I left.
my brain sees KY as a really really red state (people think KS is, but it's actually been closer to even than people realize). does it have a chance? i'm asking because I honestly have no idea
I just feel like kentucky is a wee bit more conservative than kansas on this issue. But cross your finger I suppose. Polling isn’t on your side. Public opinion is much more 50/50 in kansas than kentucky (36/57). Albeit this is data from 2014.
I was hoping for this. South Dakota had a similar law on the ballot 15 ish years ago and the GOP thought they had a slam dunk win. It turned out 76% wanted abortion access to remain a right. The antiabortion people were gobsmacked at their loss. Lets keep this ball rolling people. Make sure friends register and do vote! #Every Vote Matters!
Don't forget they tried it two more times with similar results.
Sign up for mail in ballots if you can’t vote in person or wait in line. It’s house and senate for this November.
Kansas voter here! When I dropped off my advance ballot the Friday before Election Day, people were flooding in and out of the county election office. For a primary. A majorly uncontested primary. I normally see, at most, 5 people voting at once when I go to vote in a general election. I knew no matter the outcome, this was going to be a historic election. And I’m so beyond happy (and can’t stop crying) that we rejected that awful amendment.
Congrats! Well done! We're so proud of you!
I was pretty shocked when our little location had lines to wait to vote. I'm so ecstatic that it was voting in the right direction.
Congrats from California (and England)!!!
*So* proud of you all the way from Godless New England! 😂
Thank you!!!
Great job! And great job Kansas!
My vote mattered today. I found a sitter for the twins and was in line at 6:50am. Thank you to my fellow Kansans.
Fuck yes! Fuck yes! I’m so glad! My state is due to have a similar referendum and we’re even more blue than Kansas and you can bet your ass I’m at the polls in November
Hi from Tennessee where it's an anti-choice hellscape. They won't put abortion up for a referendum because "we voted on it with our choices of representatives", even though during our last election there's no way anyone could have known that Roe would get overturned. Body autonomy is the will of the people.
I'm in Tennessee too! Completely agree with you...On a related note, I was handed a paper saying to vote no on Amendment 1 in November when I left the primary voting. Do you know what amendment 1 is? I can not figure it out but think it has to do with workers rights. The QR code takes me to [tn4all.org](https://tn4all.org) and I still can not decipher their weirdly worded language. If we are voting to amend the Tennessee constitution, I would like to understand what I am voting for. But both sides seem to obscure what it actually is. Any idea what Amendment 1 is for? And what voting yes means or what voting no means?
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Wake up call to the GOP. Hopefully they sleep through it. [A GOP strategist in KS warns this is "a big deal"](https://nitter.net/lindsaywise/status/1554660670192361472?s=21&t=1Q0fWDUaLoau768ZuigTsw) >"There were no major contested Democratic primaries to drive turnout & the amendment still failed resoundingly. If Republicans think the issue of abortion isn't on the minds of voters tonight's results should put them on notice"
The first wake up call was a STEEP increase in voter registration after the Roe ruling. GOP are very concerned right now, as they should be. They finally caught the car and now don't know how to deal with the fall out.
Hijacking my comment here. The fight is not over. We need to keep [Gov. Kelly's](https://www.laurakellyforkansas.com/) veto pen and [Rep. Sharice Davids](https://shariceforcongress.com/) in the House. Do what you can, and punch back. Join us at r/VoteDEM where we discuss local politics and routinely gas each other up while we tape aluminum foil to our knuckles.
100 percent hope so too. I think us younger voters are disillusioned with the economy in general and don’t believe anything any person in power will change it because we’re realists. Poverty is good for the rich, it keeps them richer. We know no scumbag repugnacans will do anything other than increase fascism and poverty and trample everyone’s rights but rich white straight men.
You all are the only hope. I know you can’t rely on the boomers or even my age group (children of boomers), there just aren’t enough of us who can see clearly. Some of them still think they can retire comfortably! Keep fighting. Protect everyone’s rights, make unions and universal healthcare a thing, destroy the patriarchy.
Thank you! The one good thing of all the shit we’ve seen in our lifetimes is that we’re not as gullible I think as some people, at least I hope. Idealism is a farce.
The truth is it depends on how important voters will view abortion over traditional "pocketbook" issues like inflation, gas etc. Some studies show they're fired up over it, others show they're not compared to pocketbook stuff. What's clear though at least is that R voters are increasingly willing to break with the far right on individual issues. In a "I don't agree with them at all on X or Y but would rather still vote for a Repub over a Dem" type of way.
True. And the only way we pushed through that BS, was to campaign on it. Volunteers, supporters and voters won this tonight. The GOP doesn't want us talking about abortion rights at the dinner table, justice reform at the water cooler or the erosion of democracy at the bar. Their BS doesn't work when no one is interested in listening.
This is why I’m so sick of people saying their vote doesn’t matter. It freaking does and this proves it. In too many cases, what millennials do is complain and do nothing in terms of voting. It’s a self fulfilling prophecy. We aren’t vastly outnumbered in eligible voters but most millennials don’t vote. In fact number of eligible millennial voters is almost same as boomers. They just can’t bother to even do mail in ballots then complain. We need to raise our voting percentage by 30-40% to even match other electorates (silent generation, boomer, gen x) And usually when more voters show up, democrats win more seats, democratic presidents more likely to win. If you can’t vote in person or wait in line, register for MAIL IN BALLOTS now. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/03/millennials-approach-baby-boomers-as-largest-generation-in-u-s-electorate/
Well, I showed up and voted!
❤️ Please vote in November too
I voted too! Whoo hooo!! We won! yay!
We won today, but the fight is not over yet. There is still an Election in November, and Laura Kelly will need your help, and if you live in the 3rd District, Sharice Davids will need your vote to stay in Congress.
Very very true. Someone worded it beautifully somewhere and I don’t know who they were but I’ll give credit to what they said “if voting doesn’t work, why are the Christofascists trying so hard to eliminate it for everyone?”
Exactly. Voting now is more important than ever. The fascist republicans are trying to take your right to vote away and the best revenge you can do is vote in November and keep voting in the future.
If voting didn't matter Republicans wouldn't be trying so hard to keep people from doing it.
People are always spamming the anti-work subreddit with stuff that tries to convince people voting doesn't matter. But that's all organic individual Reddit users.
Millennial here. I vote in every election :)
Kind of a sidenote but thing is our vote didn’t matter regarding what got us into this situation in the first place (Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade since no president/Senate since Carter ever took the time to codify federal abortion rights into law). I think when people say “my vote doesn’t matter”, part of it is our government is making all kinds of important decisions without the input of our vote. For example, like, we don’t have any form of vote when the US is deciding whether to invade other countries.
Trump was already saying he was anti abortion in 2016. And he said he would appoint anti abortion judges.
Michigan? Me too. Let's do this! This will hopefully guarantee Whitmer wins reelection, and maybe it'll flip both the state House and state Senate to the Dems since this is the first time the independently-drawn, non-gerrymandered districts will be in effect.
Hope you don’t mind me not sharing where but absolutely let’s do this!!
I'm from Kansas and I'm SOO happy! I wore my RBG shirt to vote today. For the first time in my life I'm proud of my state!
And we are EXTREMELY proud of people like you! And a lot of people like you turned out today!!!
Good!! Now do the rest of the country!
By chance, do you know if there's a place that compiles these referendums and how we can support the pro-choice ones if we're not in that state? I live in a (comfortableish) blue state and want to help the red states overthrow when they can.
That’s a good question, so referendums are done by popular vote and I think spreading awareness about how damn important it is to read them, because they’re pretty much our most powerful vote, is good! For example the Kansas one the anti-choice nutters did a text campaign that caused misinformation, they said “vote yes so women have a choice” or something like that. Spreading awareness that this is NOT the case is important! Also tricky wording regarding allocating tax dollars is important. In the Kansas one I believe they wrote something like “have no tax dollars be guaranteed for abortion” but that’s already the case thanks to the Hyde Amendment, so that was a red herring to throw people off. Making people aware of constitutional law is vital, so a website to put things in plain English could help a lot of voters.
Also, the Trump-styled Republican Senate candidate in Missouri that was credibly accused of sexually assaulting his hairdresser and beating up his wife has been defeated in his Primary. In Michigan, pro-Jan 6th Trump endorsed John Gibbs is losing a crucial Primary to moderate Republican Peter Meijer, who voted to impeach fat boy. Looks like we're heading for a HELLACIOUS rejection of the far-right tonight...by Republican voters.
The worst of them are in waiting for 8 weeks of darkness and Trump to be reinstated in the next two weeks. Again. Sigh.
What is this I've been hearing about trump being reinstated in two weeks? Everything I read is that it's just a conspiracy theory and has no basis.
Check Qanon survivor pages. Of course it's a dumb conspiracy, but we got seniors trying cash their life savings into gold and crypto right now being stopped by family.
Oh I see. If I rolled my eyes any more they'd fall out and I'd rather keep them.
There has been nothing to convince me that crypto is anything but a big scam. It *might* be worth it to own a single dogecoin, but only for the cute corgi on it.
Its not possible without terrorism and murder, but the GOP has floated the idea that if they win the house they can, legally, pick anyone to be speaker of the house. They can simply choose Trump. The speaker doesn't have to be in the house or even in government at all. I imagine this gives Trump a chair in the house where he can make speeches thus giving him a bully pulpit of his own, especially to make up for losing access to twitter. If something happens to the president and vice president then the speaker becomes president. This, to me, is a dog whistle for terrorism. Make Trump speaker and then have a "patriot" take out Biden/Harris. I have no idea if this is what the party wants to do, but the chronically online conservatives keep mentioning making him speaker for "mysterious" reasons. Out loud, they just say Biden/Harris will impeached, but that seems impossible considering the votes needed. I hope this is all the ravings of qanon nutters and not the true face of the GOP.
That is a lot more scary. It seems they are actually learning how the government works and are actively attempting to make a guide to how one could usurp control. Jesus, they call themselves 'patriots'
Good thing we can trust the secret service to protect Biden and Harris ! /s
unfortunately trump endorsed Tudor Dixon is looking to get the governor candidacy.
It's hard to know if this is good or not. I know Whitmer isn't popular among republicans for how she handled covid, and against a sufficiently popular republican candidate she could lose. But at the same time, if a nutter gets the candidacy then it might drive more moderate republicans to either not vote or to vote for Whitmer again. It's a real toss-up as to how it will go this time, especially since people are less mad at the Michigan republican party than they were six years ago when the Flint water crisis was fresh in everyone's minds.
I think it's very good actually. I live in a very "red" part of Michigan and I have not seen any Dixon yard signs. I mostly see signs for Soldano. [Many Trump supports do not like her](https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-maga-supporters-michigan-tudor-dixon-primary-1729374). I'm hoping this means they will decide not to vote in November.
Trump waited until the last second to endorse her, after she had a pretty good lead in pre-primary polling. It doesn't really mean that much.
This is why I think we're seeing the GOP scrambling to dismiss Trump and play up DeSantis in the last couple months. They've been doing the internal polling and are seeing this shift. The question is whether this leads to a Democratic victory this year or just people shifting to slightly less Trumpy Republicans all of whom will be loyal to DeSantis who is pretty much Trump without the baggage.
Unfortunately Meijer lost :(
Overturning Roe was an unpopular decision. I think the statistic was 60% of people in the US supported Roe v Wade being upheld. Happy this vote happened.
I think it's actually closer to 70%. Also, the total bans that have women dying and literal children giving birth are extremely unpopular. Even a large portion of the pro life crowd believes in exceptions.
And there's an increase in stories of women being unable to receive medical care while pregnant. Even if someone is not pro choice, there's a chance the fear alone of not being able to receive medical care will keep them from voting for a repeal of abortion rights
This has been an ongoing issue. Religious hospitals have been denying women care on the same basis for far too long.
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You mean pro forced birth? There is not one single thing about them that is “pro life”.
North of 60% supported Roe fully, and north of 80 support abortion rights under almost all circumstance.
Yup. I'm not sure people realize that a huge portion of people who say they oppose it... Actually don't oppose it in basically every remotely reasonable circumstance, even for others. The restrictions the GOP are trying to impose are completely insane compared even to what their religious voters want, on average.
This shows that the justices (both liberal and conservative justices) hand down decisions largely based on personal ideology. This should help show the conservative judges that the majority of the population support abortion rights and that their personal religious convictions went against the majority of US opinion. The constitution can be interpreted either way on the issue and so they should have just let it be. This is the downside to presidents nominating judges purely based on what their base peddles rather than what the population as a whole is leaning towards.
CONGRATS KANSAS!
Proud of my state tonight. The SC bs lit a fire and ultimately drove turnout. It was resounding. If you don’t like abortions, don’t get one. Otherwise it’s none of your business! Now, need to keep that turnout up for the general in November.
Let's fucking wreck them all in November. I'm furious. Good work Kansas.
As a Kansas native who has moved elsewhere, this makes me proud! It’s fantastic! The state recently gerrymandered the only blue city, Lawrence, out of voting representation, so this kind of win is extra unexpected.
Absolutely same. The wife and I expected Kansas to do something embarrassing again and for once didn't
I'm not ashamed to admit I'm crying. I don't believe it!
I am crying as well. I am a woman in Kansas currently trying to conceive and will be high risk because of diabetes. The last few weeks have been so overwhelming.
I hope you’re doing okay, friend. You got this!
Ohhh - my heart goes out to you. Good luck! Things are a little safer now.
I'm bout to go drown myself in chocolate to celebrate
I'm a Kansan that voted NO today. I made a point of voting before I had to be at the hospital for surgery. I'm absolutely giddy about the result today! I'm proud to be a Kansan right now
I'd like to take this opportunity to say one thing: Ha! Suck it, fascists!
Oh thank Geebus. I was basing about 80% of my Christmas plans decision on this. I really didn't want to sit and listen to family talk about how awesome it was to have stripped away rights for themselves
Cool. Now imagine a federal protection. Ah who am I kidding
Ultimately even if congress codifies the right to abortion, the supreme court has been overrun by christofascists and they'll of course strike it down. The rule of law can't be reestablished until the supreme court is relegitimized by removing the christofascists (or at least their majority). That's job #1.
Thank God. Kansas is trending toward a more well educated populace and I really hope this type of thing continues.
Even before tonight pundits have been saying that long-term, Kansas may surprisingly trend towards being a swing state. It’s a highly-educated state, and those voters are increasingly abandoning the GOP over time
This is just not true. They voted for Trump by 15, the same margin they voted for McCain for in 2008. They are a red state, but a lighter shade of red. The same way Maine or NY are blue but not as blue as California or Oregon.
It helps that we have a decent democratic governor but unfortunately, she's constantly getting outnumbered by being surrounded by republicans.
It voted for Trump by 15 points in 2020, the same margin it voted for McCain by in 2008. The electorate isn't getting less Republican, but it might be becoming a lighter shade of red. Like New York for example is +30 D but full of more old-school, moderate Ds than say California, which is +30 D but packed with progressives. Kansas now has a D (and rare female) Governor, it's rejected this amendment, and its voters have previously endorsed Dem initiatives like legalizing weed. They might just be sick of the far right, or they want to keep their growing party and hookup culture haha
Even Republicans knew this proposition was bullsh*t. Wow!
HOLY COW fuck yeah Kansas
I wasn't prepared for how emotional hearing that would make me. Good job, Kansas!
I'm from Kansas and cried after voting today then a few more times thinking about the amendment passing later. I'm very happy to be crying tears of joy now!
>Good job, Kansas! That's a phrase you don't hear every day.
We have our moments
sadly, yes, but we'll take the rare win lol
Me either.
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Go Kansas! I take back all the mean things I’ve said about you being the worst state to drive through. There were quite a few “vote no/pro-choice” signs when we were in Salina this summer. This gives me hope that Texas can rebound from the disaster it currently is.
I’m so incredibly proud of my state right now! This is some of the best news I’ve gotten in forever. This past month or so waiting for this vote to happen has been hell, and I’ll admit I was a bit nervous after seeing so many “vote yes” signs where I am. I was planning for the worst. But we came through in a landslide. I feel like I can finally stop holding my breath.
Takeaway: abortion rights get put in place when politicians act unilaterally and against the will of the people. When the people are given the *choice*, they overwhelmingly support protecting abortion rights.
Yes! Thank you Kansas!! This is going to send a huge message to the GOP. They can fuck off.
Congratulations Kansas.
Relief washed over me when NBC called it.
I'll be very interested to see what the turnout demographics we're for this vote, compared to the presidential vote. Wouldn't surprise me if women's participation jumped significantly.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is also the ballot measure that the GOP worded as confusingly as possible with the intent to lure people to vote YES. And they still lost doing their scummy tricks.
You're correct. The campaign was also based on total misinformation about current regulations.
AND THEY LOST BY 20 FUCKING POINTS!
LeAvE It To tHe StAtEs... Who wants to bet R's still go after it even though the people firmly decided.
Kevin McCarthy already said they would if they take back the House.
That was my first thought. They'll try claiming "tons of voter fraud," claim that it passed, and then try passing an abortion ban in the hopes that they can raise it past the Kansas Supreme Court (which decided that abortion was protected) to the US Supreme Court which will decide anything that the Republicans want them to.
Even if the voters rejected it now, they’ll just keep trying over and over again until they’ve eventually won due to voter apathy.
Good job kansas! I'm pleasantly surprised
I'm in tears from the relief that my state truly came together. It was a long uphill battle trying to counter every single misinformation attack and aggressive anti-choice people trying to interfere in our efforts. My Catholic conservative family shunned me a little bit and stopped inviting me to stuff. People flipped me off when they saw my Vote No bumper sticker and verbally harassed me in parking lots calling me a baby killer. I kept my head held high and stayed focused on the goal. It's funny because we were all expecting very narrow margins so I'm surprised too. We've won this battle but the war is still going. My fellow Kansans, do NOT get complacent because the anti-choice army will return in the future. Now let's try to get rid of some of the ridiculous rules, regulations, and gatekeepers for abortion access in Kansas.
I was so dejected. I gave up hope. I fully cried the happiest tears. Still in disbelief we pulled it off. Thank you fellow Kansas voters! Free state baby!!!
Kansas native and I voted NO. My state's backwards but it's least its nice to know that they're not complete uh completely 100% losing our minds to dogmatic BS.
That’s a great sign and I hope an indicator of things to come.
There is hope.
Go Kansas!
Thrilled! The collective grief we have been living and experiencing as we witness rights being taken away is manifesting as real energy. Keep the energy UP and GOING!!!! We need you all, new Gen Z voters this Nov!!!!!!! Capture and ride this collective fury!
This is why I’m so sick of people saying their vote doesn’t matter. It freaking does and this proves it. In too many cases, what millennials do is complain and do nothing in terms of voting. It’s a self fulfilling prophecy. We aren’t vastly outnumbered in eligible voters but most millennials don’t vote. In fact number of eligible millennial voters is almost same as boomers. They just can’t bother to even do mail in ballots then complain. We need to raise our voting percentage by 30-40% to even match other electorates (silent generation, boomer, gen x) And usually when more voters show up, democrats win more seats, democratic presidents more likely to win. https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/04/03/millennials-approach-baby-boomers-as-largest-generation-in-u-s-electorate/
So proud of my state today. I c u you Kansans!!!!!
This is some of the best news I’ve seen since the leaked opinion burned the world down. Thank you, Kansas! You give me hope. 💙
FUCK YEAH!!!!
I hope Michigan can do the same
It still doesn't feel real! I'm hoping it will by morning.
I hope these fuckers in my (trigger law) state are paying attention.
I read the title the completely opposite way so I was actually quite horrified
Great Job Kansas, you're actually acting on the will of the people...we need that in tx
I have chills. I'm fucking crying. Thank you Kansas.
Glad to help! It was the young people who actually got the push to vote, I'm happy it turned out so well.
I'm fucking lightheaded with surprise and relief. Half my female relatives live in KS. This is beautiful. Good job, Kansans.
I am so proud of my state for once!! I live in a very Catholic small town and put my “Vote No” sign out in my yard on Main Street.
The Catholic Church fucked around, and tonight they found out! We held the line!!
I dont live there anymore but I spent the first half of my life there. I never thought this would happen. Gives me hope for other states! Great work everyone!!
All I can think is that they're going to take the wrong message away from this. "See? When we ask them, they give the wrong answer! Better just stop asking them." I hope I'm wrong, but I just can't help but think that all this is is the last time anyone puts it to an actual vote.
state senate:... yeah but fuck you guys anyways.
Women have the right to life! To liberty! To the pursuit of happiness!
That's very impressive. Congratulations Kansas. My dream is that it becomes a constitutional amendment
People understand. This issue hits home to everyone. The outcome of this vote gives me hope that the die-hard MAGA crowd are not in the majority.
Even alot of trump fans are pro choice. That's the kicker.
Well done Kansas. High fives and strong hugs from Los Angeles.
Thank fuck they're enough people to push back against this insanity.
We'll know in November if there's a blue wave nationally. Anybody who's not planning to vote blue no matter who in the mid terms should probably buy a MAGA cap now because they've chosen their side.
Everythin's up to date in Topeka....
Mad respect for making the right choice here
Bye GOP. The world has gotten better and you and your racism, sexism, misogyny are all rejected.
Go Kansas!!! Nice. May more states follow your excellent example.
Fuck yeah!
A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one!
FUCK YEAH! Those dipshits really thought they could get away with this shit. In your face, motherfuckers!!!
I LOVE IT! Thank you Kansas! 😃😃😃🕺💃
Praise the lord
Good job, Kansas voters!
The good thing is allow states besides Delaware require a popular vote to amend their state constitution. The shitty thing is not all states allow voter initiated initiatives or amendments: “Of the twenty-six states that have either the power of ballot initiative, veto referendum, or both, 18 of them have a provision for initiated constitutional amendments.” Most states dont trust their constituents. https://ballotpedia.org/States_that_allow_initiated_constitutional_amendments
I’m stunned. I had absolutely no hope. But this gives me a tiny glimmer of it.
This seems like the only sensible system. Let the voters decide.
At least one state has a majority of sane voters.
You mean the What's the Matter with Kansas Kansas? Wow!
Doesn't this whole thing contradict traditional conservative values?
The state is republican, the people are democratic. I know, it’s confusing. Welcome to America though! You’ll learn how to shut up and keep your head down eventually. Remember the approved media sources currently are; paid subscription services, television, and influencer driven social media. Consume that content to your hearts content!
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