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Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on Nov. 29, 2022. Baldwin was the first openly LGBTQ member in the U.S. Senate. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images)

BY CLIO MORRISON | On Tuesday night, the U.S. Senate passed the Respect for Marriage Act, which protects same-sex and interracial marriages. In a statement, President Biden said the vote reaffirmed “a fundamental truth: Love is love, and Americans should have the right to marry the person they love.”

RMA needed just 60 votes—including 10 Republican votes—to break a filibuster and pass. In the end, RMA, which was led by Sens. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), passed by a vote of 61 to 36, with 12 Republicans voting with their Democratic colleagues.

Thirty-six Republicans, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, voted against the bill—standing in stark contrast to the rest of the United States: 71 percent of Americans say they support legal same-sex marriage.

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Jasmine Whitecloud, 2, takes part in a prayer given by OC Native Voices before the Women’s March in Santa Ana, Calif., on Jan. 19, 2019. (Mindy Schauer / Digital First Media / Orange County Register via Getty Images)

BY EQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES | Native American women have one of the largest wage gaps in the country, earning approximately 51 cents per dollar paid to the average white man. This gap can lead to losses of over $1.1 million over a 40-year career compared with non-Latino white men.

While it would take almost a full additional year to catch up on earnings, Native Women’s Equal Pay Day is being observed on Nov. 30, the last day of Native American Heritage Month.

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BY RICKEY GARD DIAMOND | Since 2008, U.S. newspapers and media companies lost 60 percent of their newsroom jobs, diminishing our fourth estate’s ability to speak truth to power—”power” being in the U.S. another word for “money.”

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