Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen’s (D. NH) re-election campaign: 26. That’s the number of women currently serving in the U.S. Senate. We’ve come a long way since trailblazing women activists secured our right to vote a century ago and since the
MSNBC commentator Zerlina Maxwell did not pull any punches as she admonished an unfair system biased against women. She was speaking about the breaking news that Elizabeth Warren had suspended her campaign for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Zerlina Maxwell nails
Dr. Victoria Dewey pointed out an important reality while in Las Vegas Nevada speaking to Bernie Sanders supporters. The fact that black women's healthcare is systemically undermined, only when all have health insurance are Black women able to secure equitable health care. And that is Medicare
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D. IL) in support of MJ Hegar (D. TX), Theresa Greenfield (D. IA) and Amy McGrath’s (D. KY) U.S. Senate campaigns: Iowa. Kentucky. Texas. Dick Durbin is supporting exceptional Democratic Senate candidates in each
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Bob Casey, Jr. (D. PA) in support of Sara Gideon (D. ME), Theresa Greenfield (D. IA), MJ Hegar (D. TX) and Amy McGrath’s (D. KY) U.S. Senate campaigns: If we flip just four seats, we'll flip the Senate. Fortunately,
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D. NY) in support of Sara Gideon (D. ME), Theresa Greenfield (D. IA), MJ Hegar (D. TX) and Amy McGrath’s (D. KY) U.S. Senate campaigns: Democrats need to net just four Senate seats in 2020 to
Let’s see. Socially conservative state- Kentucky – that supposedly obsesses about abortions. Check. Big reason many Kentucky voters said they were voting for loathsome Republican Matt Bevin for governor. Check. Said Republican governor tries to shut down last abortion provider in state. Check. State legislature passes
No, Michelle Obama is not running for president, or any other office. But her husband thinks that in general it wouldn’t be a bad idea. From the BBC: Barack Obama: Women are better leaders than men. If women ran every country in the world there
I think one of the most exciting primaries for the U.S. Senate is the Democratic primary in Georgia to unseat U.S. Senator David Perdue (R. GA). Democrats are proving to be competitive in this changing deep red to purple state. With U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson
Remember when Gerald Ford took all the credit for America’s bicentennial? No, of course not. He just stumbled down staircases every once in a while. Man, I miss those days. While signing the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commemorative Coin Act yesterday, Donald Trump wondered why it
This is simply reprehensible: Facing South.org “Voters in Houston, Texas, elected 19 black women to local judgeships last year. The new judges, all Democrats, have instituted wide-ranging reforms to the county’s bail system. Voters also sent Democratic judges to the state appeals court. A
Not only did President Donald Trump shut down the federal government by refusing to back down for his ridiculous demand for a border wall border steel slat barrier boondoggle at the expense of American taxpayers, Congress failed to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA):
Cross-posted from Eclectablog.com For weeks and weeks now the Indivisible group in Dexter, Michigan (“Indivisible Dexter”) and other residents of Michigan's 7th Congressional District have been asking Republican Congressman Tim Walberg to meet with them to answer questions and clarify his positions on repealing the
Well, unless the Obama administration screws the pooch on its followup. Okay, there are about a million diaries here about how this is reinforcing the War on Women, how its institutionalized discrimination, how the sky is falling. It's worse elsewhere online. In my opinion, the
