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‘We should all be represented’: Rhode Island could send the first Afro-Latina to Congress
Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos is one of three Latinas and 12 Democrats in an upcoming special election.
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Women farmers were discriminated against. Now they're owed compensation.
A push led by House Democratic women for ranchers and farmers to receive settlement money comes as an October 31 deadline looms.
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Montana voters rejected an anti-abortion measure. State GOP lawmakers passed a similar bill anyway.
The new law contains a couple of significant differences from the measure voters rebuffed last fall.
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How the Education Department is responding to GOP attacks on public education
Miguel Cardona is wading into the fray in the wake of GOP attacks of public education and Supreme Court rulings that impact higher education.
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House Republicans are adding dozens of anti-LGBTQ+ measures to must-pass bills
Advocates are sounding the alarm about the high number of attacks against gender-affirming care, marriage protections and discrimination prevention.
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How some Republican officials are trying to make sure abortion isn’t directly on the ballot
Ohio Republicans added back a previously canceled August special election to make it harder to amend the state constitution ahead of a November vote on abortion rights.
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The Democrat running against the woman who ended Roe
Greta Kemp Martin is challenging Lynn Fitch, Mississippi’s first woman attorney general, whose office represented the state in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization
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Sen. Duckworth took her daughters to see ‘Barbie.’ Because she uses a wheelchair, she had to wait outside.
Thirty-three years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, much of society remains inaccessible, even to a U.S. senator.
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