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Repealing DOMA Will Ease the Warren Sting

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics

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Emma Ruby-Sachs

Repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell has been floated as one opportunity for Obama, but I encourage the new President to try frying a bigger fish -- the Defense of Marriage Act.

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The LGBT Community Happy to Join the Campaign for Change

Tanene Allison | Posted 10.28.2008 | Home

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Tanene Allison

We've never before had a Presidential and Vice Presidential ticket that was so actively supportive of members of the LGBT community and understanding of how our stories and lives are intricately connected to the story that is America.

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Michelle, Hillary, and Maureen at the DNC

Aubrey Sarvis | Posted 08.27.2008 | Politics

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Aubrey Sarvis

Senator Clinton gave a performance that even Maureen described as "electrifying." Until I read the Dowd column this morning, I thought the hardest of the hardcore Hillary haters would be won over. But no.

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Friday Talking Points [26]

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Since the campaigns of both Senator Hillary Clinton and Senator Barack Obama have seemingly taken my advice earlier this week, and are both concentrat...

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A Warning to Our Superdelegates

Paul Jenkins | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

It is increasingly unseemly for superdelegates to stand by as the Clinton campaign resorts to techniques that would have made Jesse Helms blush 20 years ago.

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Cheney Impeachment: Courageous, But Not Surprising

Elizabeth Holtzman | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics

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Elizabeth Holtzman

It's surprising that it took this long for members of Congress to invoke impeachment and that they do so against political resistance and indifference from the media.

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