Alabama elects its first openly gay sheriff.
In a Daily Kos post, TheCriticalMind reports that Madison County, Alabama, elected Brett Jones, an openly gay Democrat who defeated a two-term Republican incumbent in a county Trump won by 9 points in 2024, as what he says is the state's first openly gay sheriff. The post catalogs other 2026 firsts — Allison Montgomery as Alabama's first transgender legislator, Keisha Lance Bottoms as Georgia's first woman and Black governor, and Peggy Flanagan, Chris Pappas, and Abdul El Sayed as Senate firsts — and argues voters should choose candidates on capability, not identity.
