Dr. Lori Riverstone has successfully published another volume of The Local Power & Politics Review. The LPPR is a space where researchers and advocates engaged in documenting, understanding, and combating abusive state preemption share insights, strategies, and resources.

This latest edition features articles on Texas’s “Death Star 2.0” legislation; the erosion of local election authority; abusive preemption laws targeting the LGBTQ+ community and how its fighting back; protecting prosecutorial reform; reproductive rights in a post-Dobbs era; and climate change.

As Riverstone writes in her introductory piece, “As attacks on our nation’s vulnerable groups and localities grow increasingly bold and hostile, advocates, researchers, and many local leaders are keeping pace, evolving and adapting their skills and strategies to protect the rights and freedoms that are promised to all. This edition of the Local Power & Politics Review is a testament and tribute to them—to you—to all who have chosen to believe in abundance over scarcity.”