Victories For Criminal Justice, LGBTQIA+, Racial Inclusion, and Workers' Rights On Election Day

     While Americans nervously await the results of the presidential election, there are victories to be celebrated:

1. Mississippi voters overwhelmingly decided to remove the Confederate flag from their state flag.

2. Rhode Island removed "and Providence Plantations," a reference to slavery, from their name.

3. Arizona, New Jersey, Montana, and South Dakota voted to legalize marijuana, while Mississippi voted to legalize medical marijuana. 

4. Oregon gave credibility to the movement to legalize shrooms by doing so, as legalization had thusfar been limited to cities. Washington, D.C. also decriminalized them, which is the biggest symbolic victory we could hope for.

5. Oregon also decriminalized all drugs, instead offering fines or rehab, which is the first step toward ending the war on drugs in the United States.

6. The first 2 LGBTQIA+ black men, both from New York, were elected to Congress. The first transgender woman, Sally McBride, was elected to a state legislature, in Delaware.

7. Florida raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour.

8. A record number of Native American women were elected to Congress.

     We are breaking down barriers, ending the War on Drugs that remains a Jim Crow-style barrier for black people, and getting closer to the $16.14 wage required to live in the United States.