This article from Yahoo! is structured as a Democratic Party House of Representatives loss, but within that, it shows the ones who lost, including the one term fluke of a Congresswoman in southern New Mexico, were all corporate oriented Democrats. The article shows the Dems are more progressive than before and still have a majority of congress members.
Then, the article shows voters in Red and sometimes somewhat Blue states (Colorado) passed laws to legalize marijuana, provide pay for family leave, defeated a harsh anti-abortion bill, and raising the minimum wage statewide (Florida!). On the down side, CA voters were fooled by Uber and Lyft into giving more money for the executives at the expense of the gig workers (lots of advertising had the intended effect), and a few good procedural reforms went down to defeat in Missouri and elsewhere.
I am more convinced than ever we need a left economic populist set of politicians and a political party more interested in winning that way than the Democratic Party currently is standing these days. The pissing on AOC and her brand of very popular politics continues at the DNC and I am convinced this will not change without first leaving the Democratic Party, at least the national one and your state party if progressives are not prevailing at a sufficient rate. In NM, it is rather interesting to me to see progressives continuing to win power in the state apparatus, and in elected offices in the state legislature. I think it may be worth it to merely get the People's Party on the ballot here, and add laws to allow Fusion candidates, where a candidate gets more than one party's nomination for office, and a person may vote on either party line.
But then, there's this. Louisiana's anti-abortion constitutional amendment.
