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Melissa Walker 🇺🇸
@melissacwalker.bsky.social
author of YA books, mom, vassar girl, tarheel at ❤, Head of Giving Circles @statesprojectus. It starts in state legislatures.
NYC ♥️🇺🇸
#handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The specials, Wisconsin, and this guy. 🇺🇸 We can do this y’all.
April 2, 2025 at 9:28 AM
There’s a great book called THE PARTICULAR SADNESS OF LEMON CAKE by Aimee Bender and today I was sad and I made lemon cake. The end.
February 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
That's what we do at @statesprojectus.bsky.social. We focus not where the glamour is, just where the power is. The tipping point seats needed to shift power in AZ, and beyond. statesproject.org/our-states/
February 16, 2024 at 11:10 AM
Good news! State legislatures matter. This happened because the MI House and MI Senate flipped in 2022. It changes outcomes for THE WHOLE COUNTRY to expand voting this way. Pay attention to who is in power in your state capital—they control your rights more than DC.
www.npr.org/2023/12/15/1...
December 15, 2023 at 3:24 PM
“‘When people get elected, there’s no real road map to being able to take the things that you campaigned on and turn them into real, tangible efforts....'" -MI Sen. Erika Geiss, adding the States Project’s policy library had been helpful for drafting a paid family leave bill.
September 25, 2023 at 4:55 PM
“The work [The States Project] did with us while we were in the minority was very crucial in helping us to have a governing one-seat majority in a split legislature.” -Joanna McClinton, Pennsylvania Speaker of the House
September 25, 2023 at 4:50 PM
Don't take it from me. Listen to the lawmakers who have new majorities and are improving people's lives with them...
September 25, 2023 at 4:50 PM
I make weird dinners.
🍳 🥞 🌶️ edamame + yogurt
September 4, 2023 at 11:23 PM
BOUT TIME.
(Also think about the cost of federal races, tens of millions, and understand that state legislative races are foundational to policy in this country and where the rightwing builds power… time to pay attention!)
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
September 3, 2023 at 4:07 PM