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May 4 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
A staggering loophole in Georgia law seems to say that, if a justice loses reelection, they could resign & cancel election post facto.

One of 2 justices on the May ballot assured to Bolts they won’t do that. The other didn’t answer. boltsmag.org/georgia-suprem…
The justice who didn’t answer was part of the majority opinion that expanded the loophole in 2020, raising fears that it may be used in this way into the future. One of the most bizarre stories we’ve had to cover at Bolts since 2022. boltsmag.org/dystopian-loop…
Especially given the extraordinarily tragic and frankly incomprehensible events of December 2024. In that case, the governor refused the judge’s resignation but critics of the loophole say the law has to change so this isn’t up to the governor. boltsmag.org/georgia-judici…

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Mar 2
tomorrow is with one of the biggest election days of the year. there's so much to go over it's hard to know where to start.

so, let me help:

here are the *10* elections i'm watching the most closely, *at the state and local level* (=no federal elections included!)

🧵:
1️⃣ Last summer, a Dem lawmaker in North Carolina gave the GOP *the* decisive vote to pass a pro-ICE law.

Now, she faces a primary from a local progressive pastor who has been part of the Moral Monday movement.
boltsmag.org/north-carolina…
2️⃣ Democrats are looking to flip a legislative seat in... Arkansas.

This is a GOP-held district that voted for Harris in 2024, so a golden opportunity for Dems.

It's featured in my guide to March elections, along with every other race in this thread: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the-b…
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Jun 14, 2025
Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota lawmaker assassinated last night, was Speaker of the MN House in 2023-2024, when her party part ran the state government.

So she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period. Brief 🧵 on that legacy:
Perhaps most famously (in that it became more of a national story when Walz ran for VP last fall), Minnesota made school meals free:

startribune.com/universal-free…
Minnesota restored the voting rights of tens of thousands of people in mid-2023:
boltsmag.org/minnesota-voti…
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May 4, 2025
RECAP: Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & restrictions on the rights of LGBT students suffered losses tonight in school board races.

I tracked these results in 4 boards tonight, so a 🧵 on each ICYMI:
1️⃣ Let's start with the Fort Bend school board, one of the largest in the entire state:
2️⃣ The Katy school board, another that's among Texas' largest:
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Dec 2, 2024
Moment of instability today again in France (not that the crisis ever stopped since Macron called snap elections), which may lead the new conservative government to fall. That'd pretty much leave the country in uncharted territory, again.

Quick thread to explain:
1. The (unnecessary) July snap elections resulted in a wildly fragmented Assembly — as you'll know well if you were following me.

The Left coalition got roughly 190 seats. The Macronist parties got roughly 170. The far-right (RN) got roughly 140. Conservatives got roughly 40.
2. In French, coalition that controls the Assembly gets to be Prime Minister — & effectively govern the country with little input from the president (if the PM + president are in different camps).

But no election in current regime had never resulted in such a fragmented chamber.
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Nov 22, 2024
Pam Bondi was Florida's attorney general during Trump's first campaign & some of his first first term—and that generated plenty of stories on her legal decisions.

Here's just a slice of what you should know, featuring great reporting from the mid-2010s:
1—As Florida AG, Bondi nixed suing Trump over Trump U after she solicited a contribution from him & he gave $25,000: floridapolitics.com/archives/21237…Image
2—Bondi's office justified nixing Trump U suit by saying she'd only receiving only one customer complaint, but the AP found this: jacksonville.com/story/news/201…Image
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Nov 4, 2024
these are getting underplayed this year, but the rules of democracy are *directly* on the ballot in many places

here, quickly, is my top 5 referendums on that
1️⃣ Arizona organizers worked hard to put an abortion rights measure on November's ballot.

But the GOP made its move too: They've put a separate referendum on the ballot.

It'd basically shut the door on future ballot initiatives in Arizona. boltsmag.org/arizona-ballot…
2️⃣ Connecticut, somehow, still requires an excuse for people to vote absentee.

A ballot measure this November will open the door to finally allowing everyone to vote by mail.

And this'll be particularly major for people with disabilities:

boltsmag.org/connecticut-ba…
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