Voters in GOP-controlled states are passing progressive policies at the ballot—only to watch Republican legislators repeal them. Will it change how voters choose candidates?

Seven states passed ballot measures expanding or protecting the right to abortion. But with hostile law enforcement and Trump in office, that might not go as far as voters hope.

Environmentalists, Amazon, and BP are uniting to fend off a challenge to the state’s recent climate law. But a different, equally right-wing ballot initiative might pass.

A proposition to expand the right to the procedure will be on the ballot in this critical swing state, and it could be a decisive boost for Kamala Harris.

Maine voters could set a model for other areas of the country to follow with a rare hostile takeover of the electric powers that be.

The battle over reproductive rights is culminating in a fight over whether to allow voters to simply read the truth about the amendment they’re voting on.

It's beginning to look as if anti-abortion policies are profoundly unpopular with ordinary Americans.

Republicans lost a big ballot initiative fight in Ohio this week, but their war against voters is destined to continue.

Republicans noticed that their policies are even unpopular with the voters who elected them. They’re working to thwart their will.

The fight over reproductive rights in the Buckeye State begins with an August special election on an obscure ballot measure.

A slew of ballot initiatives are allowing millions of Americans the chance to overhaul how their elections are run.

The Golden State’s use of recall elections and ballot initiatives was a bad idea from the beginning. It’s an immeasurably worse one now.

Gavin Newsom’s wayward political career is not the biggest thing at stake.

In 2016, voters passed a raft of liberal ballot initiatives. Now Republicans are throwing them out.

Democrats hope to reprise 2004, when anti-gay marriage initiatives helped George W. Bush. But liberal measures may not have the same oomph.

In 2016, ballot measures in states could raise the political stakes of the issue.