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The Fairness Project is backing eight ballot measure campaigns on key issues in 2022 and has won 24 ballot measure campaigns since 2016.

A new article in the The New York Times highlights the unlikely coalition fighting to pass Amendment D, a Medicaid expansion proposal in South Dakota backed by the Fairness Project.

Will of the People AZ is currently executing “No” campaigns on Props 128, 129, and 132 — proposals that would end majority rule for ballot measures and grant additional powers to the state legislature to restrict citizen-initiated proposals.

"We are seeing a real-time backlash from politicians who are unhappy with voters using ballot measures to pass progressive legislation around the country."

Millions of voters in dozens of states will vote on issues directly when they head to the polls, deciding on topics from abortion and Medicaid expansion to cannabis decriminalization and minimum wage increases.

Voters in Nebraska will soon decide whether to be the next state to pass a higher minimum wage.

“From abortion and Medicaid expansion, to raising the minimum wage and enacting police accountability, there is enormous potential for progressive issues to win big in November regardless of which candidates prevail."

In response to the success of progressive ballot measures on issues like Medicaid expansion and minimum wage, several state legislatures have moved to make citizen-initiated ballot measures more difficult to pass.