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Good News From the 2024 Elections

• Delaware state senator Sarah McBride became the first transgender person elected to Congress.
• For the first time, two Black women will serve in the Senate together: Angela Alsobrooks from Maryland and Lisa Blunt Rochester from Delaware.
• New York passed Proposal 1, which expands civil rights protections regarding “sex, including sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, pregnancy outcomes, and reproductive healthcare and autonomy.”
• Maryland, Colorado, and Missouri are adding articles to their state constitutions that protect “reproductive freedom.”
• Kentucky voted to ensure that public funding goes only to public schools, shoring up the public education system in the state.
• Democrat Josh Stein was elected North Carolina’s governor, keeping the state blue.
• Monique Worrell was reinstated as state attorney in Florida after being “ousted” by the governor.

PBS has more on Alsobrooks, Maryland’s first Black senator.

Learn more about Blunt Rochester, Delaware’s first Black senator, from the Associated Press.

Newsweek described an interview from The View with McBride.

NBC News shared an interview with newly elected Andy Kim, New Jersey’s first Asian American senator.

Seven states stood up for abortion rights, CNN reports. Along with Maryland, Colorado, and Missouri, Arizona, New York, Montana, and Nevada protected or expanded their reproductive rights measures.