State Navigate December Progress Report
Including new data we've published for the 2024 state legislative elections.
Hello everyone! Welcome to the second issue of the State Navigate newsletter, and the last issue we’ll send out for 2024 as the year comes to a close. In case you missed it, here’s the first issue of the newsletter, where I went over the change in state legislatures since 2022 and general information on State Navigate.
Over the past month, the committees, officers and I have been working on various tasks related to the development of State Navigate: it’s been the busiest month for us since we announced the project in June this year. I’m very excited to be working on this project full time, and look forward to launching next Summer.
Here’s the full list of everything that’s been accomplished this month alone.
State Navigate is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our goal is to build a compass, and home, for state legislatures, but we can’t do it alone. We need to raise enough money by June to be able to pay staff and expenses for our first six months of operations from July through December 2025.
If you can chip in, whether it’s a one-time donation or monthly, we’d greatly appreciate your support. Your donation will be tax-deductible and go to a good cause for promoting accountability in state governance.
CNalysis
Wikipedia page updated with full list of year-by-year accuracy stats, and has since been renamed to “State Navigate,” which includes info on the organization.
When the website was still active, users were given a pop-up ahead of the shutdown notifying them that CNalysis’s content would be moved to State Navigate soon.
CNalysis shut down online operations and rerouted its URLs to the State Navigate homepage.
Organizational
The IRS granted State Navigate 501(c)(3) nonprofit status, making donations to the organization tax-deductible.
The first meeting for members of the Political & Data Science Committee has been scheduled for January 4th, 2025.
State Navigate opened a BlueSky account.
State Navigate signed up for Benevity.
State Navigate opened a PO Box for donors to choose to mail checks if preferred.
Stripe grants State Navigate a discount for its processing fees since it has acquired 501(c)(3) nonprofit status.
An additional five members have been added to the Political & Data Science Committee, and one member has been added to the State Government and Journalism Committee.
WhichSide Digital, who designed State Navigate’s logo and website, has been hired to continue working on the web buildout alongside the various committees.
Fundraising
State Navigate acquired its first grant from Future Now Action.
President Chaz Nuttycombe began fundraising for the organization: $12,469 has been raised this month.
Website
A pop-up is given to users who are redirected from a CNalysis URL, notifying them that CNalysis has moved its work over to State Navigate.
A history of our development has been added to the “Our Goals” page, including slated development plans by quarter.
The homepage has been redesigned to include donors across various professions including their title and why they support our organization. The general buildout has been placed on the homepage. One at a time where will be a current/former elected official, a journalist, a politico (i.e. party official, campaign consultant), organizational member/employee/lobbyist, and legislative staff. This part of the homepage will be finished next month.
The donation page got a new, custom buildout that gives users the option to cover processing fees or not to make sure their full intended donation goes to State Navigate.
Data
The GIS section of the Political & Data Science Committee has begun calculating how every state legislative district has voted in each statewide election in 2024, with the help of various volunteers as well. 24/50 states have been completed thus far, and it’s expected that by March the remaining 26 will be completed. Most should be done by February with a few holdouts that month.
In the first issue of the State Navigate newsletter, President Chaz Nuttycombe compiled a full list of districts that flipped on the state legislative level in 2024 and built a comparison for the change in state legislatures since the 2022 elections.
President Chaz Nuttycombe began tallying “Party Loyalty” in 2024, showing the number of districts that voted for a different party in its state legislative election than how it voted for President, based on the results collected by the GIS section of the Political & Data Science Committee and volunteers.
This month has been a busy one at State Navigate, and we’re only going to get busier. Thanks for following our mission and work, and Happy New Year to you!
State Navigate is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our goal is to build a compass, and home, for state legislatures, but we can’t do it alone. We need to raise enough money by June to be able to pay staff and expenses for our first six months of operations from July through December 2025.
If you can chip in, whether it’s a one-time donation or monthly, we’d greatly appreciate your support. Your donation will be tax-deductible and go to a good cause for promoting accountability in state governance.