Mel Manuel hopes to unseat ultra-conservative Rep. Steve Scalise
Manuel's key platform issues include universal basic income, a single payer health system, reproductive rights, gun control, environmental protections, investing in public education, and equality for everyone—with a focus on people of color, women and the LGBTQ+ community.
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We Are The BreadCrumbs: What Trans Alabamians Already Know About The Election
"The point is that even 'progressive' candidates have also proceeded to do what Alabama legislators have continuously strategized in the past four years: to make the rights and healthcare of transgender folks a topic to be questioned when it shouldn't be questioned in the first place. Waiting around for candidates to see trans folks as…
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The Candy Shop: Columbia SC Rallies to Honor Landmark Black Gay Bar
Commemoration is also meant to speak to a young generation of LGBTQIA+ South Carolinians, letting them know that today's struggles have long histories, their queer elders are standing with them, and they belong.
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