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Don Lemon defiant in first remarks after arrest and release from federal custody

"I will not be silenced," the journalist said to reporters outside the federal courthouse in Los Angeles.

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Don Lemon's arrest prompts Jane Fonda, HRC, and more to rally for freedom of the press

The Human Rights Campaign, Stand Up for America and others join forces to protest government's targeting of journalists.

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Marriage Equality is back in conservatives' crosshairs as new coaltion targets SCOTUS decision

“These are the same opponents of marriage equality that lost the first round,” Lambda Legal attorney Karen Loewy told The Advocate.

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Jonathan Capehart on being seen, coming out, and ‘chosen family’ with Michelle Obama

“No one has a right to your time, your energy, your thoughts and feelings, especially when they are a drain,” the Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist and host of MS NOW’s The Weekend told The Advocate.

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Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino and some of his masked agents will leave Minneapolis

After two American citizens were killed under his watch, the Trump administration's face of hardline deportation policies is leaving Minnesota.

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Donald Trump uses the anniversary of the Capitol insurrection to attack transgender people

“We can’t dismiss these as ‘greatest hits,’” TransLash media CEO Imara Jones told The Advocate about Trump’s constant mentions of transgender people.

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Fraudster George Santos claims he’s going to Venezuela ‘to help with aid’

“I look forward to being part of the solution and ending the problems of a people oppressed for far too long,” the former Republican congressman said.

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Rachel Maddow on standing up to government lies and her Walter Cronkite Award

The out MS NOW anchor spoke with The Advocate about being honored with a journalism award and her podcast, Burn Order, which traces how government lies led to the detention of Japanese Americans during World War II.