Midterm election season has begun.

Happening off-campus: State representative James Talarico won the Democratic nomination for Senate in Texas last night in a close race against representative Jasmine Crockett. Crockett conceded the race early today, after a last minute legal fight where she pointed to reports of voter disenfranchisement in Dallas. Incumbent Senator John Cornyn and his challenger Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will compete in a runoff vote in May after neither candidate secured enough votes for the Senate seat nomination last night. These primary results set up a high stakes general election which is expected to gain national attention and significant outside spending, as both parties view Texas as a critical battleground in the fight for control of the Senate. (NYT)

Happening near campus: The New York attorney general’s office has directed NYU Langone Health to reinstate medical treatments for transgender and nonbinary youth, including puberty blockers and hormone therapy, after the hospital system ended its Transgender Youth Health Program last month. According to the attorney general’s office, state law bars discrimination on the basis of gender identity, and the office pointed out that the hospital network continues to provide the same treatments to other adolescent patients. The attorney general has given the hospital ten days to demonstrate that it is complying with the law. This dispute underscores a broader clash between New York’s anti-discrimination protections and efforts by the Trump administration to reshape federal policy in ways that would restrict care options for transgender and nonbinary minors. The White House has warned that hospitals offering these treatments could face financial consequences. (Gothamist) 

Happening on campus: Writer Cristina Rivera Garza, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Liliana’s Invincible Summer and Autobiography of Cotton will speak in conversation with Professor Chloé Cooper Jones tonight in Dodge Hall 501 from 7:30 to 9 pm. Cristina Rivera Garza is a MacArthur Fellow, the Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Chair and founder of the PhD Program in Creative Writing in Spanish at the University of Houston. No registration is required for students to attend. Find more information here.

Song of the Day: “It Ain’t Over ‘TIl It’s Over” by Lenny Kravitz