Here are the 20 counties that cast the most votes in GA's EV and how ballot choice + turnout changed vs the 2022 primary's EV Counties highlighted in yellow are the blue counties of greater ATL

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Orange County's infamously NIMBY city of Huntington Beach is now getting fined for not following California housing law. Given how much pain other cities have historically taken to not build housing, we may need to increase the size of the fines though. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

Morning! Lots of data to review from GA Early Vote! Key points: - Dem turnout was 2.4x of 2024, compared to Rep 1.4x - At end of EV, younger voters turned out! 1/3 of voters yesterday were <45 years old. - N. Metro ATL (Forsyth, Cherokee, Bartow, Paulding) saw >3x turnout compared to '24 #gapol

The Watertown School District, in Wisconsin, voted to ban students from performing a song that’s dedicated to the Stonewall uprising, leading to major protests by students. www.wpr.org/news/waterto...

Breaking the Nebraska GOP’s filibuster-proof majority would block: 1️⃣ Passing new voting restrictions. 2️⃣ Gerrymandering the light blue 2nd District. 3️⃣ Erasing the 2nd’s “blue dot” to stop Dems from winning the Electoral College just by flipping MI, PA, & WI. Dems currently rely on GOP defections

yes. the clearest path to deal with the SCVA ruling is just to say that it wasn’t a constitutionally valid exercise of judicial review. because it wasn’t!

Nebraska Democrats outpolled Republicans in three legislative districts in the all-candidate primaries this week. They want to flip at least one in the fall to break the GOP supermajority, which in this state matters a ton. nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news...

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I've been waiting for an analysis like this. Looking at their methodology, I'd say this report actually lowballs the amount of housing that you could potentially get out of USPS properties in high-demand areas. www.brookings.edu/articles/del...

There were a few hundred in Georgia who cast a vote last night after 10:20pm, just to make the blue vote share a solid 580k. I think the Democratic party ID for the judicial election is working. I really do.

56.6%D-41.8%R. Like I said, I'd rather be us than them right now!

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If you want a Governor of California who supports single-payer health care, VOTE STEYER!

There were still people in line at 9:20 tonight. Like 2k more votes cast. Will be hilarious if we get a 10:20 update.

You /will/ Pokemon Go to the polls

I have seen the world of the Based Posters and I fucking hate it. Bring back the Cringe. Bring back boring politics. Bring back the civility. I want it all back. All of it. Now.

Wait! There's more!

polis ought to go to fucking jail

To add to all the posts reporting this...we're seeing massive EV turnout in the Atlanta Metro. This is the latest from Dekalb Co, GA. Remember...if you are in line at 7pm...stay in line! #gapol

Polls close at 7 PM and this is the line outside the Sandy Springs Library 👀👀💙💙🌊🌊 #gapol #voteblue

Disgusting. I regret ever volunteering for him when he first got into Congress.

Very good

Major news! A state court in Kansas has just blocked the states gender affirming care ban! Nobody is at our desk right now so we can’t draft up a story but you all deserve to know this incredible news. assets.aclu.org/live/uploads...

KHive hates RCV because of a bunch of takes last year which said that RCV would allow Mamdani to win the primary (turns out he would have won in FPTP anyway)

Powerful

We will win.

Ok, now it's starting to make some sense why Jared Polis is America's worst Democratic Governor. He's another Ivy Leaguer, produced by Princeton, which also produced Pete Hegseth and Samuel Alito. And he did his thesis under the direction of MAGA Carol Swain.

That was quick.

According to oil analysts, the world is about to exhaust its standing oil reserves, at which point the demand destruction from the strait closure will bite relatively suddenly, oil will shoot up as much as 2X, & we could very well enter a second Great Depression. Look around. Do we seem ready?

lol

White Democratic primary voter demographics in Georgia

That stove must be plenty hot #gapol

...Gov Kemp calling a special session for post-Callais redistricting over Juneteenth(‼️). People are pissed, and the primary appears to be one of the modes that the electorate is expressing their anger. To that end, today's EV turnout will probably exceed all expectations.

...have also trended younger (see image), with voters under 65 out-performing trends observed in '24. Yesterday, turnout for voters pull Dem ballots 18 to 44 was also double what was observed in '24. My guess is that the fallout from the VRA decision is turbo-charging turnout - esp. with...

It's a big day for Dems in GA with today, 5/15 being the last day of EV. The gap between Dem & Rep turnout is widening at ~100k / +12.1 adv to Dems. Compared to '24, Dems are voting at 2.2x compared to Reps at 1.45 This week (Mon-Thurs), Dem voters...🧵👇 civicforge.solutions/data/ga-2026...

How pathetic it is for law professors to write things like “vote for these judges because Donald Trump would want you to” or have agents promote their book because they’re “pro-MAGA” and have “hot takes.” Absolutely garbage stuff.

Out-of-state law professors writing op-eds about our judicial elections and tying it to what Trump would want? Get out of here.

Virginiafication continues apace.

He had a good run. Statehood for West Tennessee. Repel the fascist Appalachian colonizers.

Great news on the e-bike front! The two bad e-bike bills, ones that would have truly threatened the e-bike industry in California, are dead in the Appropriations Committee.

The counter-playbook must include litigation for proportional representation.

the thing is in terms of organizing bsky blows twitter out of the water

This one hits harder as Seattle has become sort of the capital of trans people. Like, can we just have one (1) place in this country where we don't have to deal with this? For me it brings back the same painful feelings of when racism in the media during Covid led to random attacks in Chinatowns.

so good

Folks have forgotten that the ATL suburbs have realigned solidly to the left, that Georgia's population growth has been driven disproportionately by voters of color, and that the state's growth has relied on highly educated transplants. The GAGOP is playing out of a 2006 playbook in a 2026 world.

Interesting thread #GApol

Extortionists all around us

So cool

The main drivers for primary turnout outside metro Atlanta are mayoral elections in Columbus-Muscogee, Athens-Clarke and Augusta-Richmond, compared to Macon-Bibb, which holds mayoral elections in presidential years. All four are consolidated city-counties holding municipal elections in even years.