Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul said in a lawsuit that Senate Republicans don't have the authority to oust Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe and accused them of attacking the state's elections.

Dunnavant is facing Democrat Schuyler VanValkenburg in the election for Virginia's 16th state Senate District in November.

'No one should have to choose between being there for their family and a paycheck,' Whitmer said in a speech.

Republicans in the Tennessee Legislature ignored calls for gun safety laws from the parents of survivors of the mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville.

The GOP-controlled Wisconsin Legislature is proposing a budget bill with a $3.5 billion income tax cut that would benefit high earners more than it would lower earners.

Conservatives in the one-house Nebraska Legislature announced early this month that they would amend the trans health bill to squeeze in the abortion restrictions, combining the two most contentious measures of the session.

Voting along party lines, Republicans in North Carolina's House and Senate voted on Tuesday to shorten the window on abortion access in the state by eight weeks.

The first transgender legislator elected in the state's history was barred from the House floor, and she'll now have to be reelected before she can return in 2025.

In South Carolina, five female lawmakers, including three Republicans, led the filibuster that defeated the bill.

Montana Rep. Zooey Zephyr was not allowed to speak at all during sessions this week in the state's House of Representatives, including on anti-trans bills that the Republican majority is seeking to pass.

H.B. 1469, which would protect those who travel to Washington for health care services from legal repercussions in other states, now goes to Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee for his signature.

State Reps. Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson were accused of ‘disorderly behavior’ for chanting in support of gun safety legislation after a Nashville school shooting left six dead.

Wisconsin is one of just 11 states that haven’t expanded health care coverage to low-income Americans under the Affordable Care Act.

Republican lawmakers want to cut taxes for the rich, ban books from schools, and pass anti-abortion legislation.

Republican Juan Pablo Segura kicked off his campaign by attacking school equity efforts and using an antisemitic trope to attack progressive prosecutors.

Aaron Rouse’s victory adds to the Democrats’ majority in the state Senate, where they plan to block anti-abortion legislation the Republican governor wants to enact.

The Supreme Court of the United States may allow Republican-led state legislatures across the country to bypass other branches of their state’s government when it comes to regulating elections for federal office.

More than 56% of voters backed a constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights in the state.

Sen. Nancy Barto was one of 22 Arizona state legislators who signed a ‘joint resolution’ in December 2020 urging Congress to accept her state’s fake slate of electors.

Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers had called the special legislative session for Oct. 4 to discuss establishing a ballot initiative process in the state, which could be used to let residents vote on the state’s abortion law.

Six months after a deadly school shooting in Michigan, state Republican lawmakers still refuse to act.

More lawmakers are introducing and passing legislation to protect LGBTQ people in their jurisdictions from the discriminatory laws of other states.

TransSOCIAL in Florida and the HiDad Project in Arizona are two of the groups providing assistance to LGBTQ people.

‘They’re ringing the alarms for us by saying the quiet part out loud,’ said Cathryn Oakley of the Human Rights Campaign.

Transgender sports bans have spread quickly through state legislatures.

Conservative state lawmakers want to make it even harder for trans youth to access gender-affirming health care.

It didn’t have to be this way.

Republicans are chipping away at LGBTQ rights in state legislatures across the country.

Candidates are barred from filing to run for election in the state until the lawsuits, which claim voting maps were drawn in an unfair way to benefit Republicans, are resolved.

After Republican General Assembly member Dana Bumgardner died, the GOP committee in his district replaced him with Donnie Loftis, who was present at the Capitol on Jan. 6.