Coloradans veto all three statewide measures backed by conservatives

AxiosTexas voters pass statewide COVID-inspired measuresThe COVID-19 pandemic led to a pair of statewide constitutional amendments that passed Tuesday.Get market news worthy of your time with Axios Markets. Subscribe for free.Between the lines: Proposition 3, which was approved 63% to 37%, bars governments from taking any action that “prohibits or limits religious services.”The proposition is part of a much broader national COVID-19 debate that pits public health officials bent on stymieing the disease’s spread against pastors who say they were proteReutersChina tennis star Peng says ex-vice premier forced her into sexFormer world No.1 tennis doubles player Peng Shuai, one of China’s biggest sporting stars, has publicly accused a former Chinese vice premier of forcing her into sex several years ago in a social media post that was later deleted. According to a screenshot of her verified Weibo account late on Tuesday, Peng said that Zhang Gaoli, who became a member of the Politburo Standing Committee – China’s top decision-making body – coerced her into sex and they later had an on-off consensual relationship. The post was deleted around half an hour after it was published, although searches for Peng’s name on China’s tightly controlled internet surged after the posting, and screenshots were shared among private WeChat groups and over iMessage.AxiosMarjorie Taylor Greene defiant after being fined quarter of her salary over mask mandateRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has already been fined a quarter of her congressional salary for not wearing a mask on the House floor, yet she says that pales in comparison to the price paid by other public employees.Why it matters: Republicans have defied a slate of measures put in place by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to mitigate the spread of coronavirus and bolster security following the Jan. 6 attack. And Greene has the personal wealth to withstand fines aimed at enforcing them.Stay on tThe Daily BeastDear Moderates: The Left Isn’t Why McAuliffe Lost VirginiaWin McNamee/Getty ImagesNothing motivates conservative Democrats like an excuse for inaction, and Virginia’s sucker punch of a gubernatorial election Tuesday night offered a golden opportunity for them to pump the legislative brakes.Let’s own the bad news: after an increasingly vitriolic campaign centered around the bogeyman of “Critical Race Theory,” Republican Glenn Youngkin beat Democrat and former Governor Terry McAuliffe to end what has been a successful and effective streak of Democratic v