Jeff Pertl, right, speaks with a voter.
Progressives are closely watching three Dane County Board races in which political newcomers are challenging right-wing incumbents.
A special election in Iowa on Nov. 8 provided a big victory for marriage equality in the state by allowing Democrats to maintain their narrow 26-24 majority in the Senate.
Democrat Liz Mathis won a Senate seat in a Republican-leaning district by a margin of 55 to 43, defeating right-wing Republican Cindy Golding, who received strong backing from the anti-gay National Organization for Marriage.
Former U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold today endorsed Elizabeth Warren’s campaign for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts. Warren is fighting to take back the seat that Republican Scott Brown picked up following Ted Kennedy’s death in 2009.
President Barack Obama will accept the Democratic Party’s nomination for another term later tonight. His speech will focus on a set of goals for the country and the choice “between two different paths for America.”
The president will ask the country to rally around goals on manufacturing, education, national security and the deficit to create jobs, expand opportunity and ensure an economy “built to last.”
U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, supports adding a plank supporting marriage equality to the Democratic Party platform. – Photo: Courtesy
Gay rights advocates want the Democratic Party to include a marriage equality plank in the platform that will be adopted at the national convention in September.
Adam Ebbin. – Photo: Courtesy
Virginia elected its first openly gay senator, Democrat Adam Ebbin, in a district that encompasses a swath of suburban Washington, D.C., making him one of more than 50 LGBT candidates elected to office in the Nov. 8 election.
Tammy Baldwin – Photo: Courtesy
Although the election is more than a year away, Tammy Baldwin is the current Democratic frontrunner in what is destined to be a fiercely competitive race for retiring Herb Kohl’s U.S. Senate seat.
Organizers of the March on Wall Street South expect thousands to participate in the demonstration on Sunday in Charlotte, N.C., just days before the start of the Democratic National Convention.
The march assembly begins at 11 a.m. in Charlotte’s Frazier Park on Sunday (Sept. 2).
Rick Santorum debates Mitt Romney in New Hampshire. Although Santorum nearly tied Romney in Iowa, he finished fifth on Jan. 10. – Photo: Courtesy
Rick Santorum's surge to second in Iowa sent his religious right devotees over the moon and left his LGBT detractors dismayed.
''Every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law,'' Obama told HRC supporters in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 1. – Photo: Courtesy
President Barack Obama did not stake out any new positions during a speech Oct. 1 to the members of the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights groups. But the president did take on the Republicans who want his job, rebuking the candidates who did not defend a gay servicemember booed by the audience at a recent debate in Florida.
A political group that promotes the corporate interests of billionaire David Koch has begun phone bank operations on behalf of Republican state senators targeted for recall in Wisconsin.
