While Texas officially kicked off primary season back on March 1, May is when primary season really picks up steam. More than a dozen states will hold their primary elections next month (including Texas again, which will be holding runoffs for races where no candidate reached 50% of the vote.) Before diving in any further, I want to raise up some of the awesome work being done by The Democracy Group to safeguard American democracy.

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Upcoming Primary Elections - May 2022

Tuesday, May 3rd - Indiana and Ohio

Tuesday, May 10th - Nebraska and West Virginia

Tuesday, May 17th - Idaho, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oregon and Pennsylvania

Tuesday, May 24th - Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia and Texas (runoffs)

If you live in any of the above states, click on your state to receive essential voting information straight from your board of elections.

For the month of May, my content will follow the path of the upcoming primaries:

• Mondays will still focus on redistricting content to finish out any remaining states that I still haven’t covered (with preference given to upcoming primary states.)

• Tuesdays will spotlight the day’s primaries with a special focus on highlighting candidates in uncontested races who will sail on through to the general election in November.

• Thursdays will be devoted to reviewing election results and pulling out major takeaways for elections moving forward.

This also serves as your reminder to ensure you’re registered to vote! While the voting registration deadline has passed for nearly all of the states holding primaries in May, there’s still time to get registered for later primaries as well as the general election in November.