Caroline Spears
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AZ Primary: Arizona Corporation Commission results at 92% reporting. Turning Point's candidate Ralph Heap looks set to be on the ballot in November, knocking out incumbent Nick Myers. Incumbent Kevin Thompson will be on the ballot in November as well: Voters will pick their favorite 2/4.
AZ Primaries: On the Democratic side of the Arizona Corporation Commission, candidates Clara Pratte and Jonathon Hill will advance to make the November ballot. In 2024, Jonathon ran, but fell 1.6% short of winning (about 140,000 votes).
Election night 2026: On the Arizona Corporation Commission, incumbent Nick Myers is not in great shape to win re-election. With 4,000 votes in between him and Heap, interesting to see how the last 25% of votes come in.
Kicking off Aspen Climate with the Political Climate crew! From the panel: property insurance is up 57% in less than a decade (!!) because of climate disasters
New Mexico’s Land Commissioner is one of the races I’m watching tonight. With 2% of the vote reporting, results so far:
Last week's Supreme Court decision means that state capitols just got more powerful. Great article out today from Gaby Goldstein -
Hello from Climate Week! Today is Transportation Day. Highlights from today’s panel with @dave.bzky.team, Darwin Moosavi & Jeff Tumlin. 1. Policy solutions to move billions into zero carbon transportation (via state budgets). 2. Use dollars better: simplify gov’t priorities to deliver services.
Rev. Dr. Rodney Sadler's victory email specifically calling out electricity rates.
Update from the other site: The SHAMWOW guy has lost his election and is claiming voter fraud.
Today in PA: Governor Shapiro's Budget Address lays out specifics on data centers - cost structure, ratepayer protection goals, etc. The TLDR: "Bring Your Own Power" www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Extremely normal discourse about the Texas Railroad Commission, an elected office that regulates oil and gas in the state and is up for election in 2026.
Today in AI testing 🤖 I sent ChatGPT and Claude the same set of 10 blurry photos of people who have RSVP'd to our Climate + Affordability policy launch this Thursday. I asked them both to create a .csv of registrants. 💥ChatGPT got 5 registrants. Claude got.... 156 💥
🚨Potential supermajority in the Virginia House of Delegates for @donscott757.bsky.social and @abigailspanberger.com. Not something I thought I'd be tracking tonight.
Checking our supermajority calculator right now.... Not something I thought I'd say tonight.
Georgia Public Service Commission is showing 2/2 flips: Here’s some of the messaging that put Johnson over the top.
NextEra's September investor slide deck: Why build a gas plant when you could build batteries instead?
🔥 quote today from @janeaflegal.bsky.social, ft. @jessedjenkins.com, & ezra: "If you do not have the political permission structure, it actually doesn't matter. So that is the core of the problem." (You could, if you wanted, go to www.climatecabinet.org for more) www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/o...
Testing out a new software tool today and ChatGPT just... built a landing page for me. The step changes keep happening
Here's how states can step up: great new report from @jeffstjohn.bsky.social @evergreenaction.bsky.social @rockymtninst.bsky.social www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...
Do we really trust the "Let's Bring Back Teal + Brown" generation to pick good color schemes...?