Why States Matter: Virginia v. Environment

Ah, summer! 2023: the season of Barbie, farm-stand tomatoes, supermoons, and the Apocalypse. Raging floods, searing heat, torrential rains, scalding oceans, tornadoes, hurricanes — good god, what’s next, boils and frogs? It would seem an opportune moment to combat — or, at the very least, not exacerbate — climate change. Virginia has been doing just […]

Empowering Grassroots Change: 2023 State Bridges Impact Stories

In 2023, the State Bridges Program supported 8 grassroots organizations who are building sustained progressive power across 5 critical states: Virginia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Arizona. In this blog post, we highlight achievements, testimonials, and goals of the partners we supported this year.

2022 Immediate Sister District Post-Election Results

Democrats did something extremely special in state legislatures across the country: they largely held the line and even made gains in most battleground state legislative chambers. Read about our immediate results now!

Partisan control over time: Antecedents to flipping state legislatures

This analysis was a correlational study using archival data that sought to determine if the state-wide election results for President, Governor, and/or U.S. Senate flipping from one party to another could serve as a reliable antecedent to, 1) state legislative chambers subsequently flipping to that same party, and/or 2) the state becoming a trifecta for that party.

2021 Post-Election Analysis: Political Landscape & Larger Trends

Virginia’s 2021 elections were challenging for Democrats. Nearly a week later, votes continue to be counted in the two races that could leave the House in a partisan tie — Sister District candidates Alex Askew and Martha Mugler. As we’ve written, the Sister District community had a tremendous and creative year providing fundraising, field support, […]

2021 Election Results Analysis

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The 2021 Virginia elections have come to an end. Though votes will continue to be counted, we know enough to begin to reflect on the work that Sister District did in Virginia this year.

Barbershop Series: Reverend Al Sharpton

Hear from our Organizing and Political Director, Jarvis Houston and the Reverend Al Sharpton to learn about the For The People Act, about the “March on for Voting Rights”, and how we stand up for our civil rights.

Candidate Spotlight: Wendy Gooditis

Virginia Delegate Wendy Gooditis discussed COVID relief legislation in the Commonwealth, paying teachers a fair wage, and why we have to protect the Democratic majority to increase the minimum wage. Interview by Sister District Co-Founder Lyzz Schwegler.

Why States Matter: ALEC

Last week, we received a phone call at home from a number identified as “Washington, DC.” Our country calling! Of course we picked up. And, ooh boy, was it a doozy. A voice asked our party affiliation, then asked Question #1: Do we support live-streamed vote-counting (i.e. having a web-cam going at polling sites)? Would […]