Updated: Texas AG Ken Paxton calls James Talarico’s support for trans kids ‘weird’ in runoff victory speech
Texas Republicans on Tuesday chose Attorney General Ken Paxton, the embattled conservative firebrand who spent years under felony indictment while spearheading some of the nation’s most aggressive anti-LGBTQ+ legal campaigns, as their nominee for the United States…
The 33-year-old son of Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul allegedly hurled antisemitic language at a non-Jewish member of Congress, then apologized for calling him Jewish. New York Rep. Mike Lawler, also a Republican and the lawmaker targeted in the exchange, later alleged that Paul also made homophobic remarks.
William Paul, in view of a reporter from NOTUS, allegedly accosted Lawler at a…
Florida Republicans approved a new congressional map Wednesday, designed to lock in GOP power in Washington and hand their party as many as 4 additional U.S. House seats.
The Florida Legislature passed the mid-decade redraw during a special session called by Gov. Ron DeSantis, advancing a plan that could shift the state’s congressional delegation from a 20-8 Republican advantage to as much…
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has signed a resolution designating June 2026 as “Nuclear Family Month” in the state, defining the family unit as consisting of “one husband, one wife, and any biological, adopted, or fostered children.” Critics say it is a direct rebuke of LGBTQ+ families during Pride Month.
Lee signed House Joint Resolution 182 on April 9, two days after it was transmitted to his…
The Tennessee Senate on Monday passed an amended version of SB676, a bill that would require the state to collect detailed data on transgender patients. The legislation now returns to the Tennessee House of Representatives, where lawmakers must decide whether to accept the Senate’s changes before sending it to Republican Gov. Bill Lee.
The bill requires clinics and insurers to submit…
The Idaho Senate on Friday afternoon passed a GOP-backed bill that would criminalize transgender people for using bathrooms aligned with their gender identity, sending the measure to Gov. Brad Little for his signature. It is one of the harshest anti-trans measures in the U.S.
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U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, the Texas Republican who helped lead congressional efforts targeting transgender people’s health care, lost his party’s primary Tuesday, putting an expiration date on the career of one of Congress’s most outspoken critics of gender-affirming care.
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A Texas Republican congressional candidate who has said critics might call his views “bigoted and backward and oppressive and Nazi-ish” got a high-profile boost this week from President Donald Trump and is already drawing financial backing from Peter Thiel, the out gay tech billionaire and co-founder of Palantir Technologies.
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More than a decade after the U.S. Supreme Court declared marriage equality the law of the land, Tennessee Republicans are moving to test how durable that promise really is.
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On Thursday, the Tennessee House of Representatives passed House Bill 1473, a measure that asserts private…