Kansas organizers built a diverse voting bloc strong enough to beat back a movement of Christian nationalists.
, with hundreds of thousands more hovering above the buckling ground of economic precarity.
When we look at referendums like the one in Kansas, we should see more than just a singular act of defiance — we should recognize the rumblings of aof popular opinion being awakened into political action. In the 2020 elections, over 850,000 eligible voters in Kansas had household incomes of less than $50,000. More than 60 percent of this segment of “poor and low-income voters,” across a range of household sizes, participated in that year’s presidential election.
In Kansas, we are witnessing what is possible when our electorate is mobilized around issues of real and pressing concern for everyday people. There is a lesson here for all of us; the kind of voting coalitions that can be forged in defense of reproductive rights are the very same that could unite people around a transformative vision for the nation, on everything from climate to housing to labor.
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