Today's Elections
Key races in: California, New Jersey, New York City, Pennsylvania and Virginia
Today’s elections — scattered across California, New Jersey, New York City, Pennsylvania, and Virginia — may not carry the glittering drama of a presidential race, but their stakes are no less existential.
These contests will shape the moral direction of a country teetering between renewal and regression, between a future built for working people and one owned by billionaires and their political enforcers.
Every city council seat, every statehouse contest, every ballot measure matters — because together, they form the scaffolding of democracy itself.
In California, voters are being asked whether to stand up to MAGA gerrymandering.
In New Jersey, the fight is over who governs in the name of workers — those who build and teach and heal — versus those who exploit them.
In Pennsylvania and Virginia, Republicans have made no secret of their intent to roll back reproductive rights, dismantle labor protections, and inject Trumpism deep into the machinery of local government.
And in New York City, where inequality yawns as wide as the skyline, Democrats face the test of whether they can be the party of the people — not just in rhetoric, but in the rent checks, union contracts, and clean air that define real lives.
This isn’t about blind loyalty to a party. It’s about choosing progress over decay. A Democratic victory in these elections is a victory for the idea that government should serve the many, not the few. It’s about protecting libraries and schools instead of gutting them for tax cuts. It’s about climate resilience — building seawalls instead of pipelines, investing in solar jobs instead of subsidizing oil spills.
It’s about defending truth itself from the machinery of disinformation that Donald Trump and his allies have weaponized to erode trust in the institutions that keep democracy alive.
We are at the point where “normal politics” no longer apply. The stakes are elemental: clean air or choking heat, fair wages or corporate servitude, democracy or authoritarian rule dressed up in red, white, and blue. These local races are not small — they are the front lines of the greatest political struggle of our time.
If Democrats win today, it will not be because they are perfect, but because they still represent the only coalition with a fighting chance to build a world where people come before profit, where workers can live with dignity, and where the planet remains habitable for our children. If they lose, the next chapter of American history will be written by those who want to erase the rest of us from it.
California:
Vote YES on PROP 50 to allow California to re-assess its congressional district boundaries in a non-census year.
New Jersey:
Vote Mikie Sherrill for Governor.
New York City:
Vote Zohran Mamdani for Mayor.
Pennsylvania:
Vote YES to retain all three state Supreme Court Justices.
Virginia:
Vote Abigail Spanberger for Governor.
Vote Ghazala Hashmi for Lieutenant Governor.
Vote Jay Jones for Attorney General.
Vote Dems down the line for the Virginia House of Delegates
Other states holding elections today:
Alabama (Elmore County)
Arizona (Multiple)
Colorado (Multiple)
Florida (Multiple)
George (Multiple)
Iowa (Multiple)
Kansas (Multiple)
Massachusetts (Boston and Somerville)
Maryland (Annapolis and Greenbelt)
Maine (statewide)
Michigan (Dearborn, Detroit, Lansing)
Minnesota (Multiple)
Missouri (Jackson County and Jefferson City)
Mississippi (Special elections for state senate races across the state)
Montana (Helena)
North Carolina (Multiple)
Nebraska (Morrill County and Valley)
New Hampshire (Multiple)
New Mexico (Multiple)
Ohio (Multiple)
Oregon (Linn County, and Medford and Portland)
South Carolina (Multiple)
Texas (Multiple)
Utah (Salt Lake City and Aspen Peaks School District)
Washington (multiple)
Wyoming (Statewide general election)
Other upcoming elections:
Louisiana, November 18, 2025:
East Baton Rouge Parish and New Orleans
See the full list here.