[What Sacramento Is Deciding](/posts/what-sacramento-is-deciding), [Austin's Long Recess](/posts/austin-s-long-recess), [Beacon Hill's Interval Training](/posts/beacon-hill-s-interval-training), and [The View from Tallahassee](/posts/the-view-from-tallahassee) each read one state capital's session for what it actually decides about social liberty, bill by bill. [The South Rises](/posts/the-south-rises) broke that pattern once […]
[The South Rises](/posts/the-south-rises) took the East South Central states as a single unit because all four were governed, this year, by the same coalition with enough margin that the ordinary checks on that coalition had mostly stopped checking. The Great […]
[What Sacramento Is Deciding](/posts/what-sacramento-is-deciding), [Austin's Long Recess](/posts/austin-s-long-recess), and [Beacon Hill's Interval Training](/posts/beacon-hill-s-interval-training) each took a single state capital as the unit worth watching. This entry breaks that pattern on purpose. [Growing a Movement as a Design Problem](/posts/growing-a-movement-as-a-design-problem) argued that the […]
[What Sacramento Is Deciding](/posts/what-sacramento-is-deciding) and [Austin's Long Recess](/posts/austin-s-long-recess) gave this beat two structural patterns already: a legislature in continuous annual session against a hard floor deadline, and a legislature that meets once every two years and spends the other nineteen […]
[What Sacramento Is Deciding](/posts/what-sacramento-is-deciding) opened this site's legislature beat with California, mid-session, bills moving through committee on a clock. Texas is the second region on that beat, and it immediately breaks the format that piece assumed: there is no Texas […]
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