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Hundreds Heckle and Boo Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz at Utah Town Hall 

As thousands more of his angry constituents demonstrated outside, the congressman who proposes eliminating the Department of Education was shouted down for his support of President Trump.

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LGBTQ+ stories take center stage nationwide on National Day of Reading in an era of book bans

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Black LGBTQ+ leader derides Trump’s cuts to HIV funding after State of the Union

Kelley Robinson and other leaders spoke about Black groups stepping up to fill in dangerous gaps left by the Trump administration.

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Clinton depositions spur Democrats’ demand for Donald Trump’s Epstein files testimony

“The person who actually appears more times in the files than the former president, who we want to speak with, is President Donald Trump," Rep. Robert Garcia said.

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Chuck Schumer leads New York Democrats’ bill to protect Pride flags at Stonewall & national park sites

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From left, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, both Democrats from New York, host a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 26.
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Space Force colonel running for Congress slams Trump for making SOTU Medal of Honor awards ‘about himself’

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US President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 24, 2026.

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Bree Fram, a retired Space Force officer and Democratic candidate for Congress in Virginia, delivered a blistering response to President Donald Trump’s more than 100-minute State of the Union address Tuesday night, accusing him of offering “delusion, division, and distraction” instead of solutions and arguing that Virginians deserve leaders who will “fight back” for everyday families. Keep Reading →

Stand up to Trump's SOTU attack on trans kids

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Donald Trump gestures as he delivers the State of the Union in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 24, 2026. The president took aim at transgender young people in his address.

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There is a comforting story many of us tell about progress. We imagine rights arrive because the world improves, knowledge spreads, time passes, and people naturally become kinder. We picture history as a staircase that society slowly climbs together. Keep Reading →

Trump uses State of the Union to demonize transgender kids and their families

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U.S. President Donald Trump, with Vice President JD Vance and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson looking on, delivers his State of the Union address during a Joint Session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on February 24, 2026, in Washington, DC.

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President Donald Trump used Tuesday night’s State of the Union address to single out a teenage girl’s story and, in doing so, cast the broader transgender community as a political target, turning the nation’s most-watched annual speech into a familiar culture war flashpoint. Keep Reading →
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