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Haaland and Flanagan Make History Faster Than the Old Templates
· New York time
New Mexico elected former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland governor, making her the first Native American woman elected to lead a U.S. state. In Minnesota, Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan became the first Native American woman senator. The two victories mark distinct milestones in state and federal government. Haaland will lead New Mexico's executive branch, while Flanagan's election brings a Native American woman to the Senate for the first time. Both won through elections in which voters chose the people who would represent them. American political history has an impressive collection of firsts, along with an equally impressive habit of arriving at some of them very late. These results require the old lists to be updated in two places at once. The institutions involved are familiar; the assumption about who gets to occupy their offices has just been revised.
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