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Hanging around with neo-Nazis isn’t enough for Steve King to lose re-election
Despite losing corporate sponsors, King will be free to keep promoting his white supremacist and anti-LGBTQ beliefs for another term in Congress.
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Andrew Gillum loses his bid to become Florida governor to a mini-Trump
Instead of electing their first black governor, Florida voters chose an anti-LGBTQ Republican who embraced Trumpism.
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Texas voters give Ted Cruz six more years to make us miserable
Pro-LGBTQ Democrat Beto O’Rourke made the race a lot closer than it should have been, but not enough to force Cruz out of the Senate.
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Jared Polis becomes the nation’s first openly gay governor
Polis’s election is a turnaround in a state that not that long ago was a stronghold of the anti-LGBTQ right.
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How dangerous will the right wing backlash be if there’s a blue wave?
Meanwhile, the liberal backlash to the coming conservative backlash is also picking up steam as both sides prepare for what happens after the election.
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Republicans are finally shunning Steve King, but what about all the other bigots?
Steve King is just one of the extremists poisoning the Republican party, but the leadership is silent about other incumbents.
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The religious right is already waging war on LGBTQ legislation in the next Congress
The religious right is conceding that Republicans will lose the House in the midterm election and they’ve started to panic.
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These Republican candidates are so awful, their own families won’t vote for them
Not only do these candidates suck, even their families are encouraging voters to pick their opponents.
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Log Cabin Republicans somehow found a few congressional candidates to endorse
As the GOP becomes increasingly beholden to the religious right, gay Republicans are holding tight to the few candidates who aren’t raving homophobes.
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As bad as it is, there’s even more damage that Trump can do to us
Trump’s anti-trans policy may be his worst attack to date, but there’s no end to the assaults that his administration can undertake.