i know all eyes are on the presidential candidates for this election, and rightfully so, but some very wonderful and important things are happening statewide that should be celebrated and highlighted, so here’s a few:

• Florida passed Amendment 2, which will raise minimum wage to $15/hour by 2026
• South Dakota, Montana, Arizona and New Jersey both passed an Amendment that legalized marijuana 
• Utah will now be removing gendered language in the Utah Constitution and will replace it with gender-neutral language
• California passed Prop 17, which restores voting rights to previously imprisoned citizens
• Delaware elected the first ever openly trans state senator
• Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones are the first ever openly gay black members of congress
• Cori Bush is the first ever woman of color to win a seat in Congress in Missouri
• Mauree Turner became the first non-binary state lawmaker in America and the first Muslim member of the Oklahoma state house
• Oregon has become the first state to decriminalize all drugs
  
• Kim Jackson is the first out LGBTQ+ state senator in Georgia