On January 18, the Maryland Board of Elections determined that the Bread and Roses Party has enough valid signatures. It will be a qualified party in 2020 and 2022. Most of its signatures were collected in 2018. The party’s founder, Jerome Segal, wanted to run for U.S. Senate in 2018, but the petition wasn’t completed in time for the 2018 election, and also Segal was ineligible to be his party’s nominee because he had run in the Democratic primary for the same office in 2018. Thanks to Steve Rossignol for this news.

The Colorado Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee will hear SB 19-42 on Wednesday, January 23. This is the National Popular Vote Plan bill.

The archivist of the U.S. House of Representatives has compiled this interesting list of elections at which party control of the House switched. The chart begins with 1856. Thanks to Thomas Jones for the link.