A left-leaning advocacy group called the Fairness Project has created a playbook for using ballot initiatives to go around GOP-led state legislatures. Since 2016, it has backed successful initiatives to raise the minimum wage and expand Medicaid.
Ballot Measure Leader Sets Sights on Nebraska Effort to End Housing Discrimination
The Fairness Project, a major backer of the Lincoln for Fair Housing campaign, celebrates milestone as organizers turn in more than 15,000 signatures to qualify for the ballot
Nearly 8 Million Americans to get a Raise Beginning January 1 Thanks to Ballot Measures
Minimum wage workers in eight states to receive billions in increased pay in 2025 following ballot measure campaigns backed by the Fairness Project
NEW REPORT: Ballot Measures Ushered in Massive Wins for Abortion Rights and Working Families, Even in Deep Red States
Leading ballot measure organization the Fairness Project overturned abortion bans for 5.6M women of reproductive age, secured sick leave for 1M+, and raised wages for 560,000 Americans in red and purple states
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.
Abortion Rights, Economic Justice Ballot Measures Win With Voters Nationwide
Despite unprecedented interference with direct democracy, voters across party lines support reproductive rights, workers’ rights in record numbers on Election Day
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.]
ABORTION RIGHTS VICTORY IN MONTANA: Voters Approve Abortion Ballot Measure, Cementing State Constitutional Right to Reproductive Freedom
Voters across political spectrum vote overwhelmingly to protect abortion rights for Montanans statewide
ABORTION RIGHTS VICTORY IN ARIZONA: Voters Approve Abortion Ballot Measure, Cementing State Constitutional Right to Reproductive Freedom
Voters across political spectrum vote overwhelmingly to protect abortion rights for Arizonans statewide