How SNAP benefits for 42 million Americans could be saved during the shutdown
Trump's USDA has refused to release contingency funds for SNAP benefits, and Congress remains gridlocked.
October 31, 2025
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Texas House moves toward repealing anti-sodomy law
The law has been unenforceable since 2003, but it remains on the books. More votes are needed to repeal it.
May 15, 2025
Anti-LGBTQ+ Texas AG Ken Paxton announces U.S. Senate bid
The very MAGA Paxton will challenge incumbent John Cornyn in the Republican primary next year.
April 9, 2025
John Thune, South Dakota Republican senator with a poor LGBTQ+ rights record, elected as majority leader
Thune, a senator from South Dakota, has differed with Donald Trump at times but now says he's committed to Trump's agenda.
November 13, 2024
Sen Cornyn Grills Judge Jackson on Marriage Equality in SCOTUS Hearing
Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, questioning nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, asserted that with marriage equality, the Supreme Court created a right not in the Constitution.
March 22, 2022
LIVE BLOG: Senate Debates Gun Control Measures
The U.S. Senate today is debating several gun control bills in the wake of the Orlando tragedy.
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June 20, 2016
Not Even Orlando Could Get the Senate to Act on Guns
Today the U.S. Senate voted down four gun control measures.
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June 20, 2016
Texas Republican Platform: Being Gay Is 'Abnormal Lifestyle Choice'
The platform, adopted over the weekend, also opposes "all efforts to validate transgender identity."
June 20, 2022
Senate Dems to Try to Pass Hate Crime Measure
Senate Democrats are trying to force President Bush to sign hate crimes legislation he has threatened to veto by attaching it to a massive bill funding the Defense Department and the Iraq war. Writing violent attacks on gays into federal hate crime laws is related to the war because both are strikes against terrorism, according to a Republican senator and other supporters of the measure.
September 27, 2007
Marriage Equality Bill Could Pass Senate Despite Some GOP Opposition
Republican senators mostly balked at the House-passed bill that would codify marriage equality into federal law, but a narrow path to overcome a filibuster seems to exist.
July 22, 2022
Senate Democrats Tack Hate-Crimes Bill Onto Pentagon Spending Legislation
The Senate attached hate-crimes legislation to a must-pass Pentagon spending bill Thursday, but opponents predicted it ultimately would fail. In a bipartisan vote of 60-39, the Senate accepted cloture, which ended debate on the bill, and then moved to approve the Matthew Shepard Act by a voice vote -- attaching it as an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2008 Department of Defense Authorization Bill. ''The president is not going to agree to this social legislation on the defense authorization bill,'' said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. ''This bill will get vetoed.''
September 28, 2007
Texas's anti-LGBTQ+ attorney general sues Tylenol company over autism claims
This lawsuit comes a month after RFK Jr.'s updated guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen, citing it as a possible cause of autism.
October 28, 2025
Republican Lawmakers Side With Trump, Support LGBTQ Discrimination
Eight senators and 45 House members don't think the Civil Rights Act applies to you.
August 28, 2019
Actress Piper Perabo Arrested for Protesting at Kavanaugh Hearing
The star of the lesbian-themed films Imagine Me & You and Lost and Delirious tweeted that she was arrested with organizers of the national Women's March.
September 5, 2018
Gay Republican Richard Grenell Urges Texas GOP to Lift Ban on Log Cabin
Texas is set to host the party's 2028 national convention.
August 30, 2023