By BRENDA WINTRODE | A Baltimore lawmaker’s former campaign treasurer has been charged with taking money from his campaign account — more than $87,000 — without his knowledge, according to court documents. Maryland State Prosecutor Charlton T. Howard, III charged Melissa Ann Smith in the Circuit Cou
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Donald Trump has been making increasingly wild claims about how much he won the 2024 election by. He didn't even win a majority of the popular vote in that election, but has been saying he won in a "landslide" for over a year. He apparently found a way to claim that he won the el...
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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is getting pretty quiet on social media, posting a short message implying that she is very relaxed as the vote count continues to go against her reelection. Boebert is currently down by about 1% of the vote total in Colorado's Fourth Congressional Distr...
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NBC News declared that Colorado's Proposition 134 passed with 94.4% of the vote counted. The current vote count shows that 52.4% of Colorado voters responded "Yes" to Prop 134. The AP said yesterday that Washington's Initiative 638, another sports ban that received 56.8% of the v...
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LGBTQ elected officials around the world have welcomed the U.S. midterm election results. New Hampshire Congressman Chris Pappas on Tuesday became the first openly gay man elected to the U.S. Senate. He will join U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), who in 2012 became the first open...
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Florida voters elected Republican Marshall Rawson, a man with neo-Nazi ties who has called for executing queer people, to the Florida State House of Representatives on Tuesday. He defeated his Democratic opponent, Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, by 36.4 percentage points. Rawson, age 3...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A ban on transgender female athletes in Long Island has been lifted by an appellate court, the latest ruling in a case that has been ongoing with varying outcomes since 2024 — and another political blow to its mastermind.The New York...
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who made anti-transgender politics a key feature of his governorship, criticized the Republican Party yesterday for spending millions on anti-trans ads. Online commenters say his comments are an attempt to distance himself from his party's national ...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A senior official in President Donald Trump’s Justice Department senior official who consistently targeted the LGBTQ+ community is out after a controversial 18-month run.Harmeet Dhillon, who oversaw the Justice Department’s Civil Rig...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a 2028 presidential contender with a long history of anti-transgender politics, suggested Republicans this year could have toned down anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric.A day after a massive blue wave Midterm election, D...
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Out US Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee and the panel's chairman-in-waiting, had a two-word message on Wednesday for everyone given a pass on corruption while Republicans controlled the committee and its vast powers of investigation: "L...
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. was outraged when Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) asked him about how he suggested that antidepressants played a role in last week's Minneapolis school shooting, where a shooter killed two children and injured 17 other people befor...
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Harmeet Dhillon, the assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, resigned on Thursday. LGBTQ+ people are celebrating, as she used her office to persecute schools and organizations that supported transgender-inclusion as well as diversit...
