State legislature

The Data Center Backlash That’s Uniting America

June 17, 2026 Nick Engelfried, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! Data Center Moratorium, Data Centers, New York (NY), State legislature

The New York State Assembly made history this month by passing what could become the country’s first statewide moratorium on large new data centers. To activists all over the U.S. who are fighting these facilities and their massive social and environmental impact, the development seems like a turning point. “In almost all 50 states, there’s immense grassroots pressure to institute moratoriums on data centers and halt the spread of this industry,” said Seth Gladstone of Food and Water Watch, which supported the New York bill. “There’s a feeling the boom in data center construction has come about so quickly, the only adequate response is to press the pause button.”

Hawaii Just Found A Way To Keep Corporations Out Of Politics

May 19, 2026 Harold Meyerson, Portside. Create! Citizens United, Corporations, Hawaii, Money in Politics, Politics and Policy, State legislature

At a time when giant tech companies and other corporate behemoths loom over our economic, social, and political life, the state of Hawaii has just found a way to limit their hold. Last Thursday, Gov. Josh Green signed into law the first piece of American legislation that curtails corporations’ ability to engage in electoral politics. It doesn’t—because it couldn’t—undo the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United, which holds that corporations have the right to spend their resources on political campaigns. That would require another Court ruling striking down Citizens United, or a constitutional amendment banning such spending.

Governor To Sign Billl Protecting Descendant Communities, Black Burial Grounds

May 12, 2026 Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition, Popular Resistance. Create! African Cemetery, Maryland, Racism, State legislature

Annapolis, MD — Advocates with the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition (BACC) and Maryland Cemetery Legislative Advocates joined Governor Wes Moore May on 12th as he signed SB233 into law at the Maryland State House. SB233 establishes new legal protections for descendant communities seeking to preserve and protect cemeteries from desecration or improper transfer. Advocates fought for legislation that mirrors the Fair Housing Act and other civil rights laws to ensure descendant communities have meaningful legal recourse when burial grounds are threatened.

Officials And Activists Are Working To Overturn Illinois’s Anti-BDS Law

May 11, 2026 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. Strategize! Anti-BDS Law, BDS Movement, Illinois, State legislature

Since 2014, U.S. lawmakers have introduced over 200 bills targeting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The vast majority of these efforts have failed to pass, but more than 30 states have adopted anti-BDS laws. The first state-based measure to take specific action against Israel boycotts was passed in Illinois in 2015; 49-0 in the Senate and 102-0 in the House. “This historic legislation is an important first step in the fight against boycotts of Israel and I hope other states move quickly to follow our lead,” declared then-Governor Bruce Rauner after signing it into law.

Wisconsin City Passes Nation’s First Anti-Data Center Referendum

April 10, 2026 Tyler Katzenberger, Portside. Resist! Data Center Moratorium, Data Centers, Referendum, State legislature, Wisconsin

A small Wisconsin city home to a data center project backed by President Donald Trump voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to restrict future data centers, in a first-of-its-kind referendum that backers said could offer a blueprint for AI infrastructure opponents around the country. Voters in the Milwaukee suburb of Port Washington approved the measure by a roughly 2-to-1 margin, according to unofficial results. City residents who sponsored the voter initiative said it marks an escalation of tactics to oppose the massive facilities needed to power artificial intelligence and could inspire activists in other towns to follow suit.

Rhode Island Becomes First State To Codify Student Unionization Rights

August 12, 2025 Ethan Schenker, Portside. Educate! Graduate Students, Higher Education, Rhode Island, State legislature, Unions, Worker Rights

A new law signed by Gov. Dan McKee has made Rhode Island the first state to explicitly protect graduate student workers’ right to unionize if the National Labor Relations Board declines to do so. McKee signed House Bill 5187 on July 2, capping off a monthslong effort by Brown’s Graduate Labor Organization to codify federal labor organizing protections in state law. GLO leaders had worked with the Rhode Island AFL-CIO and state legislators to advocate for the bill’s passage since its introduction in January. The law, which was sponsored by state Rep. Arthur Corvese (D-North Providence), extends collective bargaining rights and other existing organizing rights for public employees to student workers “when not already protected by the National Labor Relations Board.”

Utah’s Anti-Union Bill Sparks Outcry As Labor Movement Fights Back

February 15, 2025 Devin B. Martinez, People's Dispatch. Resist! Federal Employees, Labor Movement, State legislature, Unions, Utah, Worker Rights

A controversial bill in the US state of Utah, HB 267, is making its way through the state legislature, sparking intense debate and widespread opposition. If signed into law, the bill would make it illegal for any federal agency in Utah to recognize labor unions or engage in collective bargaining with their employees. This sweeping measure would impact thousands of workers, including teachers, health care workers, emergency responders, and a variety of other workers employed by federal agencies. Many federal employees rely on unions to fight for fair wages, benefits, and working conditions.

Vermont Could Become First State To Make Emitters Pay For Climate Damages

May 10, 2024 Paige Bennett, EcoWatch. Create! Accountability, Big Oil, climate crisis, State legislature, Vermont

Vermont’s House of Representatives has passed S.259, a state bill aimed at collecting recovery costs for climate-related damages from the biggest emitters, such as fossil fuel companies. The bill, called the Climate Superfund Act, was introduced to create a Climate Superfund Cost Recovery Program, in which fossil fuel businesses would undergo an assessment to determine their share of costs for fossil fuel extraction or refinement actions that led to increased greenhouse gases and related costs in the state. As reported by NBC News, the agency would measure extreme weather linked to climate change in the state and the cost of damages from extreme weather events through attribution science.

Dozens Of Organizations Urge Legislators To Pass Red Hill Remediation, Water Bill

April 24, 2024 Wayne Tanaka, Popular Resistance. Resist! Hawaii, Red Hill, State legislature, US military, Water

Honolulu, HI - A bill seeking to facilitate the cleanup of contamination from the Red Hill Fuel Facility, and further insulate the Hawaiʻi Commission on Water Resource Management from political favoritism and undue influence, has received another wave of widespread community support, as 46 community organizations urged Hawaiʻi legislators to ensure its passage before the end of the 2024 legislative session. Representing medical, public health, labor, religious, agricultural, cultural, and environmental stakeholders, among others, the organizations submitted a joint letter to conference committee members on HB2690 HD2 SD1, emphasizing the importance of the bill.

California Assembly Shut Down By Protest For Cease-Fire In Palestine

January 4, 2024 Laurel Rosenhall and Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times. Resist! California, Ceasefire, Direct Action, Israel, Palestine, State legislature

Sacramento - On the day California lawmakers returned to Sacramento for the new year, hundreds of protesters convened at the state Capitol on Wednesday and shut down the Assembly with calls for Israel to stop its war against Hamas. Legislators filed out of the Assembly chamber as at least 250 demonstrators chanted, “Cease fire now.” Filling the Capitol rotunda, protesters unfurled a banner stating “No U.S. Funding for Israel’s Genocide in Palestine” and made paper flowers representing more than 22,000 Palestinians killed in the war that began after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing about 1,200 people and taking 240 others hostage.

ALEC’s Stand Your Ground Laws Created Culture Of Shoot-First Vigilantism

October 28, 2023 Juliana Broad and Alice Herman, Exposed CMD. Educate! ALEC, Gun violence, Stand Your Ground Laws, State legislature

In early October, a Florida state senator introduced legislation to repeal the state’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law allowing individuals to use deadly force in self-defense outside their homes. Florida was the first state to enact such a measure, and in the 18 years since its passage, studies have shown that more Floridians are dying because of it. “The data is clear: homicide rates and gun deaths are higher where these discriminatory, dangerous policies are on the books,” Sen. Shevrin Jones (D-34), the bill’s sponsor, told the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD). What’s less widely known is the pivotal role the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has played in ensuring the widespread adoption of such laws.

Boston Demands Indigenous Peoples Day!

October 10, 2023 Will Hodgkinson, Workers' World. Resist! Boston, Indigenous Peoples Day, Massachusetts, State legislature

On Oct. 7, over 200 Indigenous activists and their allies gathered on Boston Common to demand that the Commonwealth of Massachusetts abolish Columbus Day and immediately designate the second Monday in October as Indigenous Peoples Day. This action continued the Indigenous-led movement to end the racist cult glorifying Christopher Columbus, a Genoese mercenary backed by Spanish monarchs and mercantile investors. He commanded the 1492 voyage to the Caribbean that initiated the transatlantic slave trade and began the ongoing settler-colonial genocide of Indigenous peoples.

The Climate Culprits Hiding Their Role In California’s Extreme Weather

August 23, 2023 Rebecca Burns, The Lever. Educate! California, climate crisis, Corporatism, Extreme weather, State legislature

One of the nation’s most important climate fights is currently playing out under the radar in California, where state residents are weathering an unprecedented tropical storm. Oil and industry lobbying groups are spending millions in a last-ditch attempt to block first-of-its-kind legislation that would require thousands of large companies doing business in the state to fully disclose their carbon emissions, a move that would effectively set national policy. In the final weeks of California’s legislative session, which ends in mid-September, Assembly members are expected to vote on the climate transparency bill.

Texas Cities Are Getting Ready For The State’s ‘Death Star’ Law

August 13, 2023 Christian Betancourt, Next City. Educate! Death Star Law, State legislature, Texas, Worker Rights and Jobs

In 2015, El Paso became the second city in the country to safeguard its workers by passing a historic wage theft ordinance. As a sweeping new state law aimed at handicapping Texas’s more liberal city governments is set to take effect Sept. 1, that protection is now facing an existential threat. House Bill 2127 — also known as the Super Preemption Bill or, among opponents, the “Death Star” bill — aims to regulate many aspects of commerce and trade in local jurisdictions that differ from state-imposed directives. Passed in May and signed into law by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott a month later, the legislation could affect local policies dealing with ordinances – including agriculture, insurance, labor, natural resources, and occupation codes — that contradict the state.

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