The blue wave took the midterms by storm on a national level, and it also saw trans and nonbinary candidates winning state and local elections across the country, giving trans people more say over their own rights at a time when they’re politically threatened daily. While Congress is set to have the
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By LEE O. SANDERLIN | Well, after a year of Gov. Wes Moore cajoling lawmakers, a special legislation session and a state Supreme Court decision, Maryland is poised to redraw its congressional maps to hand Democrats an 8-0 advantage. Voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed Questio...
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By GINNY BIXBY | Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will serve on Will Jawando’s transition steering committee, he announced Wednesday. “We worked together in the trenches, two doors down from each other in the Obama White House,” Jawando, the county executive-...
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Many Democratic elected officials reveled in victory yesterday as a blue wave swept the nation. But no one celebrated having their hands in as many victories as former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who spent Wednesday posting pictures of himself with Democrats he campa...
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Donald Trump is facing scrutiny online after a clip went viral showing him falling asleep in the Oval Office during a press event, waking up, and falling asleep again. The clip is from an event where Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr announced a new deal with ...
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Out California state Sen. Scott Wiener (D) is projected to win his election to represent California's 11th Congressional District in the House of Representatives, meaning he will succeed Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D) in the district that encompasses San Francisco, despite not ...
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MS NOW host Chris Hayes eloquently described the blue tsunami of Democratic wins in last night's midterm elections as a "repudiation" of the Republicans' "grossness" and "cruelty" of attacking transgender people. "I was really upset by the the grossness and the cruelty of the clo...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Alabama voters have elected the state’s first openly gay sheriff, ousting a two-term Republican in Madison County.Democrat Brett Jones defeated incumbent Sheriff Kevin Turner on Tuesday after campaigning on jail reform and ending the...
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D.C. Mayor-elect Janeese Lewis George has named Gautam Raghavan, an openly gay former White House official under the administrations of Presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden as one of five co-chairs for her mayoral transition team. On the day following the Nov. 3 D.C. general ele...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Vermont voters approved a constitutional amendment Tuesday explicitly protecting LGBTQ+ people against discrimination, delivering a victory for civil rights advocates seeking stronger state safeguards against unequal treatment.The As...
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Minnesota voters yesterday paid tribute to Renee Good, the 37-year-old queer mother of three who was lethally killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent on January 7 in Minneapolis, by placing their "I voted" stickers from yesterday's historic midterm elections ...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Gay Army Black Hawk pilot Chris Gallant lost his bid to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Nick LaLota in New York’s 1st Congressional District, conceding Wednesday with a message that had defined his campaign: Public service should be judg...
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Update: Scott Wiener has claimed victory in California, raising the number to 17 out LGBTQ+ lawmakers next year. At least 16 LGBTQ+ lawmakers will be sworn in to the House and Senate next year, making them the largest group of queer legislators ever to serve in Congress. This num...
