The Together for School Meals campaign has submitted 57,229 petition signatures to the North Dakota Secretary of State in an effort to qualify a ballot initiative that would guarantee universal school meals for all K-12 students statewide, marking a major step toward providing free breakfast and lunch to children across North Dakota.
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed Senate Bill 1027 into law, which restricts citizens’ ability to initiate ballot measures and imposes a county-based vote weighting system that dilutes the influence of urban voters, while critics say it is an attack on direct democracy and the principle of “one person, one vote”.
The Fairness Project is opposing Joint Resolution 73, a measure that would allow Missouri lawmakers to ban abortion, by highlighting its misleading language and the broader attempt to undermine reproductive rights and bodily autonomy in the state.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 1205 into law, restricting voter’s ability to place policy measures on the ballot and effectively ending the citizen-led ballot measure process.