Are you waiting for next year — the 2018 midterms — to cast your first vote against the Trump/GOP agenda?
You might not have to wait that long.
We researched every election coming up next month, and we found that at least 100 million Americans have a state, city, or district election on November 7. That’s about 1 out of every 3 people nationwide!
We’ve compiled a handy list of these elections. Find out whether you have an election, and make your plan for voting. (If you live in Virginia or Washington state, check out our website for more info about these crucial elections — and donate to help Flippable candidates win.)
Statewide Elections
94 million Americans have statewide elections on November 7. There are lots of seats at stake in New Jersey and Virginia (including the governor and the state legislature), while other states have ballot initiatives on major issues like healthcare and criminal justice:
Maine: Ballot measure to expand Medicaid, plus 4 more
New Jersey: Governor, Lt. Governor, all 120 state legislative seats
New York: Ballot measure to call a state constitutional convention, plus 2 more
Ohio: Ballot measures on criminal justice and drug prices
Pennsylvania: State judicial elections (Supreme, Superior, and Commonwealth Courts)
Texas: Ballot measures (7 total)
Virginia: Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, all 100 seats in the State House
Washington state: Ballot measure on property tax, plus 2 more
City Elections
Some of America’s biggest cities have important elections this year — for mayor, city council, district attorney, & more:
Atlanta (GA): Mayor and city council
Aurora (CO): City council
Boise (ID): City council
Boston (MA): Mayor and city council
Buffalo (NY): Mayor and city court
Charlotte (NC): Mayor and city council
Cincinnati (OH): Mayor and city council
Cleveland (OH): Mayor and city council
Columbus (OH): City council, city attorney, and city auditor
Detroit (MI): Mayor, city clerk, and city council
Durham (NC): Mayor and city council
Greensboro (NC): Mayor and city council
Jersey City (NJ): Mayor and city council
Miami (FL): Mayor and city council
Minneapolis (MN): Mayor and city council
New York City (NY): Mayor, city council, comptroller, public advocate, and borough presidents
Orlando (FL): City council
Philadelphia (PA): District attorney and city controller
Pittsburgh (PA): Mayor and city council
Raleigh (NC): Mayor and city council
Seattle (WA): Mayor and city council
St. Petersburg (FL): Mayor and city council
St. Paul (MN): Mayor
Wichita (KS): City council
Congressional and Legislative Seats
There are 220 state legislative seats up for grabs in New Jersey & Virginia, plus 30 seats in other states across the country. Heads up, Utah: you have a U.S. Congressional election!
Georgia: State Senate districts 6 and 39, State House districts 4, 26, 42, 60, 89, 117, and 119
Maine: State House district 56
Massachusetts: State House districts Berkshire 1 and Essex 3
Michigan: State House districts 1 and 109
Mississippi: State House districts 38 and 54
Missouri: State Senate district 8, State House districts 23 and 151
New Hampshire: State House districts Hillsborough 15 and Sullivan 1
New Jersey: All 120 state legislative seats
South Carolina: State House district 113
Utah: 3rd Congressional district
Virginia: All 100 seats in the State House
Washington: State Senate districts 7, 31, 37, 45, and 48, State House districts 7, 31, and 48.
Make your voting plan
If you don’t see your state or town listed here, don’t assume you can’t vote on November 7. Follow these steps to make sure you’re ready on Election Day:
Check your registration.
Search for your local elections office.
Make a plan to vote (find your polling place, arrange a ride, put Election Day in your calendar).
There are even more elections in the month after Election Day (most notably the U.S. Senate race in Alabama on December 12). If you don’t have an election, you probably know someone who does. Reach out & encourage them to vote!
These off-year elections often see low turnout and razor-thin margins, so every vote is important. We aren’t waiting for 2018 to start winning big — and you don’t have to, either.
UPDATE: Since publishing, we’ve added three more state legislative races to our list: New York Assembly districts 27 and 71, and New York State Senate district 27.
*How did we get to 100 million? We added up the populations of all the states, cities, and districts with elections on Nov. 7, 2017. You can check our math on Statistical Atlas.
Watching desperate mayors plead for investment is a reminder that we need a major redistribution of wealth and power…
Every city in America wants Amazon to locate its second headquarters there. It’s the “trophy deal of the decade,” promising up to 50,000 jobs for a single lucky metro area. According to an NPR report, cities are resorting to desperate measures in order win Jeff Bezos’ heart. Birmingham littered its streets with enormous Amazon boxes. (See above.) The mayor of Kansas City bought a thousand items on Amazon and reviewed them all. Tucson sent Amazon a 21-foot saguaro cactus, which Amazon declined. Places as unlikely as Gary, Indiana and Fargo, North Dakota have gotten their hopes up. The Rochester Democrat and Chronicleproclaimed that “a great case can be made for the Buffalo Rochester Metro Corridor,” since while the region may lack some of Amazon’s stated search criteria, it makes up for it in “moxie.”
There’s something sad about watching suffering post-industrial cities like Gary plead for an investment from Amazon. (Gary’s mayor issued a heartfelt appeal, on the mistaken assumption that Jeff Bezos possesses a conscience.) It feels like the peasants are coming before the king, bearing whatever meager offerings they can scrape together, and begging him for his favor. Having humbled themselves at Bezos’ feet, praised his products and promoted his brand, nearly all of them will walk away with… nothing. Even though Bezos could single-handedly transform the economic fortunes of a place like Gary, the spoils will almost certainly go to a place that is already prospering.
Part of trying to lure Amazon, of course, involves bribery: cities are trying to put together a favorable package of financial inducements that will make them appear sufficiently “business-friendly.” As Slate’s Henry Grabar explained, “virtually every city and state will roll out a carpet of tax breaks, plum real estate, and other local incentives. (All for a company dedicated to undermining the local businesses that will pay taxes to support the services Amazon uses.)” It’s a common pattern among municipalities trying to convince large companies to move there. And as Grabar points out, even when a company accepts an offer, they also have a powerful means of extorting the city in the future, by constantly threatening to take their business elsewhere. The whole system “rewards corporations for being flighty, faithless partners to cities and punishes small and local businesses that cannot make credible threats to secure their own incentive packages.”
This dynamic is commonly called the “race to the bottom”: cities and states must compete with each other to give corporations the lowest taxes, the fewest labor regulations, the largest giveaways of property. The more a place is struggling, the more they need outside investment, and the more they’ll be willing to do in order to bring in new firms. This gives people like Jeff Bezos phenomenal leverage over the weak. If Bezos told the mayor of Detroit that his city would be a top-3 contender if and only ifthe mayor recorded a promo ad for Amazon in which he stood nude singing a song called “Hail To Thee, Amazon” while saluting the company logo, the mayor would have to consider the offer carefully. (A mayor who cared about the economic well-being of his residence probably ought to agree.) Honestly, that’s really not far off from what is happening: mayors are recording ads for Amazon, and the only thing that has kept them from fully debasing themselves is that Bezos hasn’t yet requested it.
This pattern recurs over and over. Louisiana nearly bankrupted its state treasury writing checks to the film industry, as part of a doomed effort to turn New Orleans into the “Hollywood of the South.” (When the checks dried up, the industry left.) The case of sports stadiums is notorious. Sports teams force municipalities to spend a fortune building new stadiums, on the promise that the local economy will be “stimulated.” They can then threaten to leave unless they receive further bribes. (And it turns out that they don’t stimulate much at all, bringing few economic benefits in return for the millions of dollars spent appeasing team owners.)
Health Insurance Companies were never designed to generate Great Wealth. They were designed to work with States, be Non-Profit, create jobs, assist in paying for health care, and make a moderate financial gains in return! They were not supposed to be Tradable Investment Commodities! Wealthy Capitalists Hijacked Them for their own uses!
Snowden is quite correct. His observation has complete Psychological Validity, in his understanding of NSA/CIA programs impact upon social beliefs and subsequent government actions.
Your inability to see this happening is the very proof of the program’s success!
Remember these democrats for the 2018 primaries, who could have passed Sanders’ amendment to lower prescription drug prices yet chose not to.
12 Republicans (including Ted Cruz) voted in support, and 14 Democrats did not, effectively denying the votes needed. These democratic senators then had the audacity to speak out against repealing Obamacare while moments ago selling out the American people’s access to affordable prescription drugs.
Cory Booker, in his defense, said the amendment, which I doubt most people have read in full, would not have ensured that the imported medications were safe for consumption/use. I don’t like Booker much and he does take money from BigPharma, but the amendment was flawed and he is on the record as support importing prescription drugs to reduce costs.
Don’t fall for his faux concern and lies my friend. He got that FDA safety concern BS straight from the Bush administration and Big Pharma as you can read HERE and HERE and see here:
“The actual text of the amendment restricts its applicability to “safe and affordable prescription drugs” ― language that should make clear to the committees drafting the more detailed legislation that they shouldn’t be clearing poison. It’s almost as if the lawmakers who voted “no” are using consumer concerns about medication safety to mask what might have been an industry-driven move.”
each year in july, hundreds of beluga whales congregate to mate and give birth in the mouth of the cunningham river in canada’s arctic somerset island. during high tide, they swim upstream with their backs barely covered by the shallow water and their stomachs rub the small rocks of the riverbed. (photos x, x, x)
“For all the Trump camp's talk of ‘political correctness’ and the hypersensitivity of minorities, most of this year has been dedicated to appeasing white people upset that American cultural and political life may no longer revolve around them.”
— Zak Cheney-Rice, 2016 was the year of coddling white people
Considering that indigenous lands hold 80% of global biodiversity, it is no surprise that extractive industries want their resources. If left to the industries, the Amazon’s Sacred Headwaters would become one big oil field, and the watersheds of the Brazilian Amazon would be destroyed by agribusiness and mega-dams.
The path to preserving the Amazon for future generations is through protecting the rights and lands of its indigenous stewards
Amazon Watch & I are working together to protect indigenous lands and rights across the Amazon Basin. Consider helping out: support.amazonwatch.org/fundraiser/866075
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