Our Update---Not Just a Regular Tuesday Or maybe it is going fowards?

2018---you are next!

 Virginia’s most socially conservative state lawmaker was ousted from office by Danica Roem, who will be one of the nation’s first openly transgender elected officials.

- Andrea Jenkins became the first black transgender woman elected to public office when she won a seat on the Minneapolis City Council with over 70% of the vote.

- Melvin Carter III was elected St. Paul's first mayor of color.

- Jenny Durkan will be the first lesbian mayor of Seattle, and Zachary DeWolf became Seattle's first openly gay school board member.

- Democrat Vi Lyles will become Charlotte, NC's first African American female mayor.

- Hoboken voters chose Ravinder Bhalla, who became the first Sikh mayor to be elected in the state of New Jersey.

- In Manchester, N.H., Joyce Craig became the first woman to win the mayor's office.

- Michelle Kaufusi became the first woman elected mayor in the 157-year history of Provo, the third-largest city in Utah.

- Kathy Tran became the first Asian-American woman to be elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.

- Democrat Justin Fairfax won the lieutenant governor's office, becoming only the second African-American to win a statewide post in Virginia since Reconstruction.

- Jerry Shi and Falguni Patel, who were targeted in racist "Make Edison Great Again" mailers that made national headlines both won three-year terms on the Edison, NJ Township Public Schools board.

- Atlantic County, NJ freeholder Mays Landing (man) was defeated by Ashley Bennett (woman), who was inspired to run after Landing mocked the Women's March. 

- Chris Hurst — whose girlfriend was fatally shot during a live broadcast in 2015 — toppled pro-gun Republican incumbent Joseph Yost.

- The republican mayor of St. Petersberg, FL was defeated after aligning himself with Trump and denying climate change.

- Democrats, many of them unknown first-time candidates, are poised to pick up at least 14 seats in the Virginia House of Delegates.

- Maine voted to expand medicare.

- New Jersey and Virginia elected democratic governors.