With just over two months until Election Day, while we are rightly focused on the fight for control of Congress, there is another electoral battle that may prove just as crucial: the fight for control of state legislatures.
Traditionally, Democrats haven’t prioritized building local power, instead largely ceding that to Republicans. That changed this year as the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC) surgically targets specific state legislative seats to win as many Democratic trifectas—states in which Democrats control the governorship, the state house and state senate—as possible. Building power at the state level is especially important this year as Democrats seek to redraw congressional districts and implement other progressive reforms ahead of 2028.
In tomorrow’s piece, ** takes a look at the DLCC’s state legislative target map and digs into which states could actually flip from divided government to a Democratic trifecta this year. Spoiler alert: it’s more than you think.**
And in case you missed it, yesterday ** did a deep dive into how Pete Hegseth is decimating the Pentagon through a combination of purging high-level officers deemed insufficiently loyal, walling the agency off from any independent press coverage, and implementing disastrous policy decisions the Pentagon’s own officers warned against. But how will this record of mismanagement play as he reportedly toys with a 2028 presidential run?**
