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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.

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."

Citizen-led ballot measures triumphed on Tuesday, even as Democrats flopped — and could offer hope of progress in the next Trump era.

“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.]

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.

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..."

“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.

“Ballot measures really enable voters to isolate a particular issue and the values that they hold around that issue, and maintain their other partisan identities,” Kelly Hall, executive director of the Fairness Project.