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The GOP nominee in a Virginia state House race this fall has dropped out. He says he lost his government contracting job and has no income, so he's had to take a job out of state & move away. That's... literally what Dems are campaigning on to win VA. www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/gop-nom...

JUST IN: Josh Kraft is dropping out of the mayoral election in Boston. This means that Mayor Michelle Wu, the progressive incumbent, is certain to win a second term. via WCVB: www.wcvb.com/article/josh...

JUST IN: Democrats have won the congressional special election in northern Virginia. AP just called the blue district for James Walkinshaw, who'll replace Democrat Gerry Connolly, who passed away this spring. (Final margin to come, but Walkinshaw up huge so far.)

NEW in Bolts: Fines doled by out by NYPD have exploded under Eric Adams' mayorship. Surina Venkat took a look at the data for Bolts — and at how things may shift after next week's election to replace Adams. boltsmag.org/under-eric-a...

super important, under-appreciated thread, give it a read:

Last week, we reported on the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who were supposed to have the right to vote this year — noncitizens with legal status who'd been enfranchised by a 2021 reform, until a court struck down the reform this spring. This week, we also published that article in Spanish:

we added some new elections to my cheat sheet for Tuesday: —school board elections in Idaho's largest school board race, featuring now-familiar debates around whether teachers can be inclusive —city council elections in Missoula, where DSA is running a slate of four candidates.

ICYMI today: Virginia Democrats passed step 1 (of many) of their middecade redistricting scheme through the state House, 51-42. Next up: the Senate this week. (And then: they'll have to retain House Tuesday, then pass it again thru both chambers in January, then win a referendum in the spring.)

I wish ppl weren't so quick to attack. I spend all day boosting local races: I've been posting on GA multiple times a day, hyping turnout #s + promoting our big story: boltsmag.org/georgia-publ... I didn't name Atlanta in quick list of mayoral races... drawn from my own list that mentions Atlanta.

Just a selection of 11 cities other than NYC with mayoral races this Tuesday: Albuquerque Detroit Minneapolis Seattle Dearborn Miami Topeka Cincinnati (ft. JD Vance's half-brother) Bristol Columbia Manchester boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

Important redistricting news tonight: Ohio is the rare state that *HAS* to redraw its congressional map this year, & the GOP was mulling a map that'd lock in a 13-2 delegation. (It's 10-5 now, though 2-3 of the Dem seats very fragile.) Politico is reporting that Ohio Republicans have...

Marist drops a midnight poll of New York City's mayoral race... ... and finds virtually no movement. Mamdani leads 48% to 32% to 16%. (He led 46% to 30% to 18% a month ago.) maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/nyc-ma...

Mamdani led Emerson's poll in September by 15%. Emerson just teased their poll to be fully released tomorrow as follows: