State Sen. Megan Hunt—who's under investigation for having a trans kid—talked to Jezebel about what it's like to be a Democrat in a red state right now.
On the federal level, progressive Democrats have been pushing to end the filibuster in the Senate since winning a very narrow majority in 2021. They emphasize that this would open the door for codifying reproductive rights, for one, and President Bidenfell last June. On the state level, Nebraska Democrats have shown the power that the filibuster affords those in the minority.
Instead, she sees this sort of retaliation as a mere distraction, as anti-trans bills continue to work through the Nebraska legislature and the state is likely to see more proposed abortion bans, too. “So, the filibuster continues. We aren’t letting a single bill pass until abortion rights and trans rights are protected here,” she said.
But even if tactics in Nebraska’s legislature might not neatly work in, say, Kentucky’s, Hunt believes the mindset of doom that some tend to have around abortion and trans rights in red states sets them up for failure.
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