Six transgender and nonbinary candidates made history on Election Day by winning races in states that have never elected a trans person into their legislature before. These candidates will expand LGBTQ+ political power at a time when their rights are increasingly under attack nationwide. All races are called according to projections by Decision Desk HQ. Bentley Hudgins will be Georgia’s…
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As the sun set in Dearborn, Michigan — a city on Detroit’s western border that is often called the “capital of Arab America” — the sense of urgency to elect Abdul El-Sayed to the U.S. Senate was becoming palpable on an unseasonably warm November election day. The lines of hijab-wearing women and curly-haired young men at the polling stations on November 3 kept growing longer.
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Voters across the U.S. overwhelmingly rejected the Trump administration’s war on Iran on Tuesday, putting their faith in Democrats who now wield enormous power to end the war — and to prevent future wars from being started unilaterally by a figure like Donald Trump ever again. The historically unpopular war and its economic consequences were among the top reasons for Republicans’ collapse.
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With the Democratic Party’s landslide victory, a day of reckoning appears to have arrived for Trump and the far-right, white nationalist forces that have turned cruelty into a governing principle and hatred into a political language. Something has broken in the machinery of fear. The old fascist ideas, the politics of racial hatred, and the relentless assault on human dignity have encountered a…
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Michigan voters were clear in 2022 when they voted by a 13-point margin to codify the right to abortion care in the state constitution, and the state’s Republican US Senate candidate, former Rep. Mike Rogers, claimed two years ago that he had no interest in “going back to Washington, DC to undo what the people of Michigan decided to do.” But a recent campaign contribution from the National…
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Angela Gonzales-Torres, a Democratic candidate for Congress in California who is endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), has defeated establishment Democrat Rep. Jimmy Gomez, who has been in office since 2017. As of Thursday morning, Gonzales-Torres led Gomez by 18.4 points, with 74 percent of the vote in so far. The race has been called by all major news networks.
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