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Posted by | June 16, 2020
Say ‘No’ to Burnout Culture: Executing Sustainable, Winning Campaigns

Learn from a badass team of women of how to execute sustainable campaigns based on progressive values. Why should you listen to what we had to say? We won the...

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Posted by | June 16, 2020
Healing and Joy as Power

Audre Lorde said: "Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." Working to change the world while neglecting ourselves and our...

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Posted by | June 16, 2020
Building Effective Political Allyship with Women of Color

Women have demonstrated our collective power through recent political successes: the historic number of women elected to Congress, running for President, and Virginia's ratification of the ERA. Yet in 2020,...

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Posted by | June 16, 2020
Later Abortions: Why Progressives Must Talk About Them in 2020

Anti-abortion extremists have enormously influenced how Americans talk about abortions later in pregnancy. Manipulative, inaccurate terms like partial-birth abortion distort how even pro-choice progressives perceive the procedure, creating ambivalence and...

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Posted by | June 16, 2020
The Great Political Puzzle: How Muslims are Organizing in 2020

Islamophobic attacks, smear campaigns and other propaganda tactics have long been used by special interest groups through well-funded, coordinated transnational networks, using social media and other powerful digital tools to...

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Posted by | June 16, 2020
Pride Outside Cities: How LGBTQ+ Candidates Are Running and Winning Everywhere

Conventional wisdom often leads us to believe that LGBTQ+ candidates can only run successfully for seats in certain areas. However, with the recent surge of candidates of all backgrounds stepping...

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Posted by | June 16, 2020
The Alt-Right’s Anti-Transgender Backlash

The political and legislative anti-trans backlash has exploded this year with more than 18 states and localities across the country considering the penalization of people for their gender identity. But...

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Posted by | June 16, 2020
What Matters to Native Voters and Why the Presidential Candidate Must Listen

As we organize to get out the vote in this historic 2020 election, we need to elevate what matters to Native and Indigenous voters. As the often forgotten and disenfranchised...

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Posted by | June 16, 2020
Taking on White Supremacy: The Charlottesville Case

Three years ago, neo-Nazis and white supremacists descended on Charlottesville. This October, they'll be put on trial for the hate-fueled violence they orchestrated. With white supremacist violence on the rise,...

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Posted by | June 16, 2020
Democracy No Longer Deferred: Why Following the Most Impacted is a Winning Strategy

The most oppressed, lead the best. In our current democracy, wealthy interests disenfranchise, disregard and exploit groups that have historically been labeled as "other." Our efforts to achieve a fair,...

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