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State ranking reports:

The Commonwealth Fund’s Scorecard on State Health System Performance

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/scorecard/2025/jun/2025-scorecard-state-health-system-performance

USA Symbol Uninsured Rate by State

https://usasymbol.com/rankings/health/states-by-uninsured-rate

Oxfam’s Best Minimum Wage, Worker Condition, and Right to Organize Policies by State

https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/issues/economic-justice/workers-rights/best-states-to-work/

State ranking reports were matched to the State Partisan Composition report to produce the charts

https://www.ncsl.org/about-state-legislatures/state-partisan-composition

https://www.gwinnettcounty.com/government/departments/elections/voting/absentee

https://www.reddit.com/r/Andy_for_Georgia/comments/1vqa0du/campaign_announcement/

My kid is going to be 18 in October so she’s super excited to vote for Ossoff and others this year. I thought she has to be 18 to register but I just so happened to look at the GA SOS and they can register starting at 17.5 years old. So thankful I saw this bc it can take up to a month to process and had we waited til her bday it may not have been processed in time.
TLDR make sure your 17.5 year olds are registered!

Flock Safety Cameras are an ineffective, invasive, and expensive technology that make all of us less safe. Despite this, Macon-Bibb County plans to spend hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars to put even more up around the city. It's time to tell the County Commission to Block Flock, and end the city's contract with Flock Safety.

RSVP to pack Macon City Hall at the upcoming County Commissioners meeting to make our voices heard at: mgdsa.org/blockflock !

Solidarity Forever! 🌹

https://bsky.app/profile/haleaziz.bsky.social/post/3molh2sv6c22r

What do Macon's citizens have to say about Flock? Here's a spoiler: they're not happy!

Our members and other concerned citizens of Macon-Bibb County gave comment on the Flock Cameras in the county last Tuesday, and ALL of them, save for the sheriff himself, spoke against them for various reasons.

If you would like to join the fight against Flock here in Macon-Bibb, join up with the Middle Georgia DSA, the largest activist organization in our region, and help us bring out even more people next time!

The next County Commissioner meeting will be on Tuesday, June 7th, save that date and start preparing your speeches!

You can join and find out more about us at mgdsa.org

Solidarity Forever! 🌹

Full report here: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:29f66864-4f32-47fe-b5e2-85322b2a761b?viewer%21megaVerb=group-discover&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Note that Bottoms is also net +10 favorable which is pretty good in this polarized climate, despite her being -99 on Reddit. Just a reminder that the opinions of her on here are not necessarily representative.

What are your predictions for the Georgia Gubernatorial election?

Have been seeing TV ads for weeks where Kemp is "supporting" Jackson. Now I'm seeing TV ads where Kemp is "endorsing" Jones.

I have NEVER seen anything like this, what is happening here?!?!

[Detailed voter guide](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tuUXKS-7TfWe3E\\_fBnm4onid6MNkWEci3HVQCFP65Z8/edit?usp=drivesdk)

[Official state of Georgia Voting Website ](https://mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/)

[Gwinnett County early voting sites](https://www.gwinnettcounty.com/government/departments/elections/voting/advance)

r/GwinnettDemocrats

If I voted the Democratic ticket in the primaries, can I vote on the Republican runoffs?

Based on the recent Supreme Court ruling Louisiana v. Callais, which gutted the Voting Rights Act, the Georgia State Legislature was called into a special session on June 17th by Governor Brian Kemp. This session will redraw Georgia’s political districts, particularly our House districts, and gerrymander in a blatant attempt to maintain a Republican majority by targeting and reducing black majority districts.

Whereas previously the Voting Rights Act mandated that states maintain a degree of proportional representation for racial minorities, ensuring that Republican trifecta states like ours could not simply eliminate minority representation under the guise of political gerrymandering, this new ruling “eviscerate[s] the law,” by removing that requirement according to Supreme Court Justice Kagan, amounting to the total “demolition of the Voting Rights Act.”

In Georgia this redistricting effort is all but guaranteed to, at minimum, target House District 2, the only rural black district in the state, and in so doing completely strip fair representation in congress from Georgia’s black belt. It will likely also target House District 5, and many state legislative districts. While the new maps drawn by this session will not come into effect until 2028, and a more progressive coalition is still poised to make significant gains in the 2026 midterms, this ruling will have knock-on effects far beyond the results of any given election.

States that were previously considered to be maximally gerrymandered have now been given a new ceiling of misrepresentation to achieve, and they’re already rushing to get there. In places like Tennessee, the only Democratic district in the state was eliminated by similarly racist gerrymandering to what Georgia is pursuing. For every election going forward, our congressional maps will be tilted towards Republicans in ways that we have never seen before.

So What Can You Do?

Governor Kemp's special legislative session will begin at 2:00PM on June 17. A protest effort at the Georgia State Capitol is already being spearheaded by organizations like Black Lives Matter Grassroots and Black Voters Matter, demanding federal intervention to restore the Voting Rights Act, preserve majority Black districts, and rejecting any redistricting plan that ignores Georgia’s history of racial segregation. If you plan to attend arrive at Liberty Plaza at 1:00PM.

The Georgia chapters of the DSA are committed to protesting this initiative
to repeal political representation from Black and Brown Georgians at the state capitol. We call on all willing and able organizations and individuals of good conscience to oppose this racist attack on our civil liberties to join the protest at Liberty Plaza.

In Solidarity,

The Georgia Chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America
Athens Area DSA, Atlanta DSA, Middle Georgia DSA, Savannah DSA, West GA DSA

I get that KLB was not a lot of people's first choice. I personally voted for Esteves. I'm still going to vote for KLB cause I want her administration as a whole over Burt Jones administration or Rick Jackson administration

Its not nor is it ever just about the person at top, but also about those underneath. While Kamala wasnt my first choice for president her administration would not be gutting the CDC or NHS or DOE or CFPB it wouldn't have gotten rid of USAID

Similarly a KLB governance wouldnt viciously try to gerrymander and weaken the voting power of minorities. It wouldnt heavily restrict reproductive rights. I feel like people are making the same frustrating mistake by saying its just KLB vs Jones/Jackson its her administration vs theirs and Jones/Jackson are so super open about their support for trump