Campaigns & Elections: How One Progressive Group is Trying to Retain Talent Between Elections
The Fairness Project, which supported abortion ballot measures in five states last cycle, is launching a talent-retention program in hopes of remaining on the offensive in 2025. The goal, the group’s executive director said, is to keep campaign leaders active in the off-year and avoid the brain drain among ballot measure campaigners.
Common Dreams: ‘A Triumph for All Missourians’
Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, applauded the ruling as "a decisive win for the people, for reproductive freedom, and for direct democracy."
Rolling Stone: How to Build Political Power When You Have None
Citizen-led ballot measures triumphed on Tuesday, even as Democrats flopped — and could offer hope of progress in the next Trump era.
The Washington Post: For abortion ballot measures, strong success or guarded victory?
“It is incredible that in a country that has such a deep rightward shift, almost coast to coast, voters in Missouri — one of the reddest states in the country — rallied together, put a question of a right to abortion on the ballot and passed it, [said Kelly Hall of the Fairness Project.]
Los Angeles Times: Battleground Arizona: A final push on abortion, immigration in whisker-thin presidential race
By several counts, momentum is on the abortion-rights side. One in five registered voters in Arizona signed the petition to put Proposition 139 on the ballot, said Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, an abortion rights group.
The Guardian: ‘A Trojan horse’: how the right is using ‘parental rights’ to fight abortion ballot measures
Part of what makes Missouri attractive, according to Hall, is that the state is “smack dab in the middle of the country that many progressives think is so dark red. In a state that many progressives and Democrats have written off, it’s an incredibly attractive moment to show both the power of direct democracy..."
New York Times: As Election Day Nears, Democrats Test Just How Powerful Abortion Really Is
“This is our first presidential year since the fall of Roe. It means that voters are turning out for a lot of other reasons beside the ballot measure,” said Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project, which supports abortion rights ballot measures in red and purple states.