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MA State Rep. Peter Durant scored a victory Tuesday night in a special election for a state Senate seat in the Worcester-Hampshire district.

Voters in several states on Tuesday will head to the polls for the last major regularly scheduled general election before the presidency is on the ballot a year from now, and analysts and insiders are looking for clues about what may lie ahead from the results in many key races.

A “dissident group claiming the name Catholic” launched a pro-abortion billboard campaign across Ohio last week ahead of an election on Tuesday that could decide the future of abortion laws in the state, LifeSite News reported.

Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is the “law and order” candidate in the state’s gubernatorial race, and Democrat incumbent Gov. Andy Beshear is the “catch and release candidate,” Cameron said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday in the midst of his bus tour, says ahead of the election.

A gubernatorial victory for Kentucky Republican candidate Daniel Cameron would “help propel Donald Trump into the White House,” Cameron said.

Opponents of an abortion ballot measure currently being voted on by Ohioans released an advertisement claiming it would enable sexual abusers.

Ohioans have the opportunity through election day on November 7 to vote on Issue 1, a ballot measure that would enshrine — likely irreversibly — the supposed “right” to abortion in the state constitution.

Left-wing activists recruited singer and NBC’s “The Voice” host John Legend to promote an Ohio ballot measure that would enshrine abortion on demand into the state constitution.

As Ohioans vote on a ballot amendment that could enshrine the supposed “right” to abortion in the state constitution, left-wing activists pushing the amendment still refuse to clarify the broad language of the measure and what it could mean for parental rights and late-term abortions in Ohio.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) is warning against a radical abortion measure on the ballot in the state as Ohioans begin early voting for an election on November 7.

Early voting began on Thursday in the Ohio election — a poll which could decide whether or not the supposed “right” to abortion is codified into the state constitution.

Zimbabwe’s President Emerson Mnangagwa demanded the lifting of U.S. human rights sanctions at the U.N. General Assembly.

The ad makes no mention of more controversial aspects of the ballot measure, instead invoking conservative imagery, opposition to government overreach, and mentions of “faith” and “family.”

A coalition of pro-abortion groups filed a lawsuit against the Ohio Ballot Board this week, claiming that officials injected “politicized, deceptive” language — including the term “unborn child” — into the approved summary of a proposed abortion ballot amendment.

Democrats are “preparing to pour millions of dollars” into framing the upcoming Pennsylvania Supreme Court election around abortion.

Democrats gained the upper hand on the Wisconsin Supreme Court this month as a liberal justice, Janet Protasiewicz, begins a 10-year term, flipping the balance of that court to a partisan 4-3 advantage in a key battleground state both for the White House and control of the U.S. Senate.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky demanded the U.S. and EU send even more aid if the West wishes for elections to be held next year.

Democrats are “mobilizing” ahead of Virginia’s state legislature elections, viewing them as “the next major referendum on abortion rights.”

Pro-abortion groups have begun the push for a ballot measure in Arizona ahead of next year’s election that would enshrine the right to abortion into the state constitution. 

With the failure of Issue 1 in the Ohio special election, a youth-oriented pro-life organization is looking to galvanize young voters ahead of the state’s November election, when abortion on demand will be on the ballot.

In the Ohio special election on Tuesday night, Issue 1 — a measure that would have raised the threshold to pass amendments to the state constitution from 50 percent plus one to 60 percent — failed, with media outlets calling the election less than two hours after polls closed.

The passage of Issue 1 has extra significance, because if Ohioans vote “yes” and Issue 1 passes by a simple majority then a radical abortion amendment will likely have a harder time passing in November.

A pro-parent, pro-life group launched a $5.5 million ad buy on Tuesday ahead of the August 8 special election in Ohio that will determine how the state Constitution can be altered moving forward. 

The Kosovo parliament erupted in a melee on Thursday after a lawmaker from the opposition party approached the podium and threw water on Prime Minister Albin Kurti, who was giving a speech about reducing tensions between Serbs and Albanians.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), an election integrity group, has filed a federal lawsuit against North Dakota election officials for the state’s law allowing mail-in ballots to be accepted and counted after election day.

A coalition of left-wing groups in Ohio submitted the signatures on Wednesday needed to place an extremely broad, anti-parent abortion amendment on the fall statewide ballot. 

A seven-judge panel in Brazil on Friday barred former president Jair Bolsonaro from running for office until 2030, effectively ending his hopes for a political comeback after narrowly losing to left-wing Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who was himself convicted of taking bribes in 2017.

Senegal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Tuesday that its consulates overseas will be temporarily closed following “a series of aggressions that caused serious damage.”

Turkey’s currency, the lira, sank to a record low on Monday as markets reacted to the re-election of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Incumbent Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan entered his third decade in power on Sunday by winning the runoff election against challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu.

Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the opposition candidate seeking to dethrone President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a tense runoff election, which will conclude this weekend, went into the home stretch promising voters he will issue regulations to ease their credit card debts if he wins.

The coalition appears to be purposefully obscuring whether the proposed ballot language would undermine parental consent laws.

Turkish nationalist presidential candidate Sinan Ogan, who finished in third place with 5.2 percent of the vote in the May 14 presidential election, announced on Monday that he will throw his support behind incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the May 28 runoff election.

Turkey’s main opposition party, the Republican People’s Party (CHP), on Wednesday filed complaints about thousands of alleged irregularities at ballot boxes in Sunday’s election, when incumbent authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dramatically outperformed his poll numbers and came within half a point of winning an immediate victory over favored challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu.

Observers sent by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor the Turkish presidential election said on Monday that Turkey’s High Election Board (YSK) was not transparent in its handling of ballots.

Turkey’s tense presidential election, which will conclude with a runoff between incumbent President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu, saw three elderly voters in three different cities tragically die of heart attacks on Sunday.