The state continues to lead in conservative health care innovations, including lowering health care costs by expanding access to association health plans. 

The Mississippi State Legislature has gotten more conservative over the past year, earning its best ranking since 2016, according to the American Conservative Union Foundation’s annual ratings of state legislatures. 

House Republicans (79%) once again had more conservative voting records than their Republican colleagues in the Senate, supporting the conservative position on nearly eight of ten issues.

The state’s rating was helped in large part by Democrats in the state legislature who received an average score of forty-eight percent — significantly higher than where Democrats are scoring in other states.

The Wisconsin State Legislature last year had one of the largest partisan divides in the country, according to the American Conservative Union Foundation’s annual ratings of state legislatures.

In 2018, New Hampshire Republicans lost trifecta control of state government, with the Democrats flipping both chambers of the legislature and leading to a worse overall rating for the legislature as a whole.

Despite the leftward trend amongst Democrats, the Oregon Legislature’s overall conservative score rose three points compared to the previous session (28.08% to 31.14%).

“In 2019 alone, the socialist policies enacted by once-moderate Democrats have resulted in higher health insurance costs, weakened election integrity and a loss of individual liberties.”

“While Speaker Madigan’s near-five-decade reign appears to be coming to a disgraceful end, the Illinois Democrats he helped convert into socialists have so far survived his criminal scandal.”

“Despite the fact Massachusetts leads the country with the highest per capita debt in the country, leftists of the General Court doubled down on their demands for wasteful and unnecessary spending.”