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Republicans Spent Nearly $200 Million on Ads Attacking Trans People and Lost
The election was a stunning rebuke of anti-transgender politics, and Democrats should take note moving forward.
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By now, you have likely seen the results of the 2026 midterms: a wave election for Democrats the likes of which we have not seen in years. Republicans and their allies spent nearly $200 million on anti-transgender ads alone, bankrolled in part by billionaires like Elon Musk. Virtually every Democrat in a highly contested race was the target of these kinds of ads. And what did it buy the Republican…
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