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Editor’s note: For the vast majority of the past 10 years the Texas attorney general has waged a relentless campaign to limit the rights and equality of LGBTQ Texans, especially transgender Texans. Today’s vote is significant in terms of the possibility that a Senate conviction would offer a potential respite from Paxton’s attacks on the LGBTQ community. By Zach Despart and James Barragan

Pamela Pugh, the president of Michigan's Board of Education, announced Tuesday that she will seek the state's open U.S. Senate seat in 2024 and challenge U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin for the Democratic nomination. Pugh has served on the state Board of Education for the past eight years and received more than 2 million votes in November to win a second eight-year term on the board. She is the first

House Bill 648, a bill that would have banned gender-affirming care for transgender children in Louisiana was defeated by the Senate Health and Welfare Committee’s vote effectively killing the bill for this legislative session. “The Senate Health and Welfare Committee has chosen to protect Louisiana’s transgender children by rejecting HB 648. This is a powerful win for transgender children and

Several GOP senators trashed President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) debt ceiling deal, signaling more possible defections of the effort to avert a default. Aspects of the bill have drawn the ire of both sides of the aisle, threatening its ability to pass through Congress. The latest signs of dissent came from three Republican senators that expressed dismay with the bill