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In May, Ohio Republicans passed a measure that created an August 8 election, when constituents will decide whether to end the state’s citizens’ rights to amend their state constitution with a simple majority vote. The conservative proposal would increase the threshold from 50% to 60%, which would dramatically affect a practice that has existed for centuries. Among other issues, changing the threshold would make it far more difficult for an abortion rights amendment, which was just approved to appear on the November ballot, to pass. When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, Oh...
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Nazi sympathizers and white supremacists protested on Tuesday outside a Wadsworth, Ohio, drag queen story hour. Many right-wing protestors shouted “Seig heil” while carrying flags adorned with swastikas, leading to skirmishes where two protestors were arrested. A clash between right-wing demonstrators and LGBT activists ended in two charges of misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Protestors reported a man pointing a gun at the crowd. Hate groups like The Proud Boys, Patriot Front and White Lives Matter declared their presence at the event. The extremist presence underscores the violence that gay ar...
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Trump-backed Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance (R) clarified his comments after receiving backlash from critics saying he advocated for women staying in abusive marriages to keep children happy. “I reject the premise of your bogus question,” Vance said in a statement. “As anyone who studies these issues knows: domestic violence has skyrocketed in recent years, and is much higher among non-married couples. That’s the ‘trick’ I reference: that domestic violence would somehow go down if progressives got what they want, when in fact modern society’s war on families has made our domestic violence si...
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Gerson Fuentes, the man accused of raping and impregnating a 10-year-old Ohio girl who had to travel out of state to have an abortion, has been indicted. Fuentes, 27, faces two felony accounts of rape after being identified by the victim and admitting to the crime on multiple occasions. The story of the 10-year-old girl who crossed state lines to Indiana for the procedure, following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, sent shockwaves around the country. The decision returned the right to individual states to determine what their’ abortion laws will be, and in Ohio, the law is now t...
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A new Ohio bill that would allow for genital exams to be administered if the sex of a student was disputed is being debated by Ohio’s state representatives. Bill 151 is meant for any student who decides to go into sports, and their gender is disputed. Critics say that the law specifically targets transgender youth unfairly. State Rep. Jessica Miranda (D-Ohio) said abuses could come about from the law, which passed the Republican-controlled Ohio House. “We stand to protect all children from child sexual abuse … as state-sanctioned child sexual abuse, which we believe this particular piece of le...
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A female Republican lawmaker from Ohio sparked outrage after making controversial comments about pregnancy resulting from rape. State Rep. Rich Brown (D) presented a hypothetical instance of a 13-year-old girl becoming pregnant after being raped, as part of the hearing for House Bill 598, otherwise known as “The Human Life Protection Act.” “It is a shame that it happens, but there’s an opportunity for that woman, no matter how young or old she is, to make a determination about what she’s going to do to help that life be a productive human being,” State Rep. Jean Schmidt (R) said. The proposed ...
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The Ohio Supreme Court rejected the third effort of state House and Senate maps drawn by state Republicans in a 4-3 decision. Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor, a moderate conservative, sided with the Democrats in the ruling, saying the map hindered the Democratic Party and did not reflect the state’s 54% Republican to 46% Democrat ratio. The court’s decision voiced concern that each of the three maps had been drawn solely by Republican members. “The commission should retain an independent map drawer – who answers to all commission members, not only to the Republican legislative leaders – to draf...
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Rep. Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio), one of ten Republican House members to vote for former President Donald Trump’s impeachment, is retiring. In his announcement, Gonzalez called Trump a “cancer on the party.” The 36-year-old congressman is retiring over fears for his family’s safety. After voting to impeach Trump over his involvement in the January 6 insurrection, Gonzalez and his family faced intense backlash and harassment from supporters of the ex-president, which eventually convinced the young politician to prematurely end his career. Though Gonzalez said he is retiring in order to seek a “fu...
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After Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) announced he would not be running for reelection to the U.S. Senate, several Ohio lawmakers have indicated interest in filling the seat. Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) has represented Ohio’s 13th congressional district since 2013, and recently won reelection in 2020. After a short-lived presidential campaign, which ended in 2019, Ryan seemingly turned his focus to state politics. In the past week, Ryan has been making calls indicating he will run for Portman’s Senate seat. Ryan released a statement that further indicated his interest. “I’ve been hearing from Democrats a...
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Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) surprised even his Republican colleagues when he announced Monday that he would not be running to keep his U.S. Senate seat in 2022. Portman, 65, was expected to easily maintain his Ohio seat in the next election, but his choice to leave has left both parties scrambling. “It’s a harder time to find that middle ground,” said Portman in a Fox News interview. “I love public service, and I hope more people who are interested in making a difference in people’s lives get into it, but it is a tougher time to do it.” Former colleagues of Portman have been more direct in citin...
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