Tulsi Gabbard Through The Years: What A Long Strange Trip It's Been- Civil Beat

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"Civil Beat has been covering Tulsi Gabbard since we launched our news site in 2010. Back then, Gabbard was a Honolulu City Council member from the downtown, Punchbowl and Makiki areas.

We followed her as she rose to become, at one point, Hawaii’s most popular politician and then as she took the national stage to run for president of the United States. There’s been a lot of political water under the bridge along the way and we haven’t always been her BFF.

But it’s been a heck of a trip, and looking back through our archives has been a good reminder of just how far the 43-year-old former congresswoman has come, from the youngest ever Hawaii state lawmaker to President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for the country’s director of national intelligence.

No Civil Beat reporter has known Tulsi Gabbard longer than Denby Fawcett, our longtime columnist. A former Vietnam War correspondent, television news reporter and anchor, and author, Fawcett has been reporting on Gabbard for more than 20 years as she wrote in this 2019 piece for Civil Beat, “Understanding What Drives Tulsi Gabbard Is A Futile Task.”