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Ohio Gov. John Kasich just blinked and everyone saw it.  On Wednesday, Gov. Kasich said he wanted to come to a deal with public sector unions on his anti-worker bill SB 5, or as it’s now known, Issue 2 on the November ballot.  It certainly looks like the governor and his anti-worker allies are getting nervous and they should be.  The people of Ohio spoke loud and clear when they turned in 1.3 million signatures, more than four times they needed, for a repeal referendum on this bill.

It may be August recess, but politics never rest! Here's what's happening in Progressive Majority's 9 target states this week:

Thank you, Big Mike.

Once a week flights to the middle of prairie lands. Rigourous psychology tests and counseling. A 72 hour holding period.

Are you training to be a clandestine operative? Are you Indiana Jones?

No, you're a young woman waiting to exercise her right to choose.

Increasingly, states like South Dakota are making it harder than ever before to get an abortion. In South Dakota's case, there is only one abortion doctor for the 77,000 square feet of the state. And that doctor has to be flown in from Minnesota once a week to Sioux Falls, SD.

On July 25 2011,  Jerry Brown, the Governor of California signed AB 130 better known as the first part of the California Dream Act into law. This law provides high school graduates in California who immigrated to the United States without documentation under the age of 16 and have met the state residency requirements for in-state tuition the rights and privileges to access private scholarships to the University of California, California Community Colleges, and Cal Tech University.