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Mother Of Parkland Victim Alyssa Alhadeff Wins Her Local Election
Andrea González-R...
Aug 29, 2018
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Cynthia Nixon Says Andrew Cuomo Is Trying To "Ice" Her Out Of Wednesday's Debate
Natalie Gontcharova
Aug 28, 2018
Politics
Carol Hafner Wants To Represent Alaska In Congress. She's Never Been There.
Andrea González-R...
Aug 21, 2018
Politics
Liuba Grechen Shirley Says Mothers Like Her Should Serve In Congress
The first few months after Liuba Grechen Shirley launched her congressional bid for New York's 2nd District were spent in a blur of calls. The 37-year
by
Andrea González-R...
Politics
Christine Hallquist Is A New Kind Of Politician (& Not Just Becau...
Christine Hallquist sailed to victory Tuesday night, beating three other opponents in the Democratic primary in Vermont to become the first transgender per
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Amelia Harnish
US News
Marching To Nowhere: Women Are More Politically Active, But Still...
In the Year of The Woman a new poll finds just 30% of young women will “definitely” vote in November. What will it take to get them to the polls?
by
Torey Van Oot
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2018 election
About Half Of Millennial Women Don’t Identify As Feminists. Here’...
For millennial women, feminism is more complicated than a simple trend.
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Ashley Alese Edwards
Politics
I Pay My Landlord $1700/Month — & I'm Running For Office To Lower...
Mitra Jalali Nelson has long been a big comic book fan. But growing up, the daughter of immigrants had a hard time seeing herself in the pages of the stori
by
Torey Van Oot
US News
Inside The Complicated World Of The Millennial Woman Voter
A new poll from Refinery29 and CBS News breaks down the mysterious, often contradictory views of young American women.
by
Amelia Harnish
2018 election
New Poll Reveals What Young Women Really Think About The Midterm ...
2018 Midterm Elections Between the unprecedented number of women running for office—and the fact that millennial women are poised to become the country?
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Us
Politics
A Record Number Of Women Are Major Party Nominees In
Women running for office have been unstoppable during this primary season. And now, they've official made history: After Tuesday's primaries in K
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Andrea González-R...
Politics
Missouri Candidate Cori Bush Is Confident Progressives
Can
Can a Black Lives Matter organizer running for Congress on the $15 minimum wage, Medicare For All, and tuition-free college, win in Missouri? Cori Bush res
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Amelia Harnish
Politics
Is The Michigan Gubernatorial Race The Hillary Clinton vs. Bernie...
If the 2016 presidential election is the ruler with which all elections will be measured in the future, the gubernatorial Democratic race in Michigan is ab
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Andrea González-R...
US News
The Best Thing You Can Do Now To Protect Abortion Rights
Quick question: Do you know who your state representatives are? If you care about reproductive rights, now is the time to find out. As the adage goes, elec
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Amelia Harnish
US News
This Woman Is Challenging The Minnesota Republican Who Likes To C...
Where there's a male politician behaving like a sexist buffoon, there's a woman getting ready to beat him. Rep. Jason Lewis, a Republican congres
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Natalie Gontcharova
US News
Cynthia Nixon Takes On President Trump & The White House Over ICE
Cynthia Nixon continues to deliver the type of in-your-face, progressive realness that helped her fellow New Yorker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez soar to an unl
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Natalie Gontcharova
Politics
Trump Doubles Down On 2020 Campaign Theme From
The Purge
“Keep America Great”? President Donald Trump announced plans to stick with that campaign slogan for 2020, and the odds that the new Purge movie
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Ashley Chervinski
US News
Cynthia Nixon: "If Mike Pence Is Attacking Me, I'm Doing Somethin...
New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon fired back at Vice President Mike Pence on Friday for slamming her after she called Immigration and Customs
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Natalie Gontcharova
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Rep. Janelle Bynum Says Someone Called Police While She Was Campa...
Janelle Bynum is a State Representative for Oregon's House District 51, which includes parts of East Portland. She is an engineer and a restaurant own
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Natalie Gontcharova
Politics
DNC Launches The "Seat At The Table" Tour, A New Black Women Outr...
The Democratic National Committee has launched a new initiative, the Seat At the Table Tour, a Black women outreach tour designed to “rebuild relatio
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Ashley Alese Edwards
Politics
Democrats Aren’t Just Coming For The GOP. They’re Taking On Their...
Just 24 hours ago, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi were calling for unity and “civility” after Democratic R
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Lily Herman
Politics
Meet The Bronx-Born Puerto Rican Challenging One Of The Most Powe...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says women like her are not supposed to be elected to Congress. But the Bronx-born 28-year-old is ready to fight for what's right.
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Andrea González-R...
2018 election
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Just Defeated One Of The Most Powerful H...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won against all odds. The 28-year-old Bronx-born boricua just defeated Rep. Joe Crowley, one of the most powerful House Democrats.
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Andrea González-R...
Politics
How Do I Register To Vote In The 2018 Midterm Elections?
Every state except North Dakota requires you to register before voting in an election.
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Kate Guarino
Politics
Cynthia Nixon & Other Progressives Want To Abolish ICE. Will It W...
The idea of abolishing ICE is not new, but has gained steam in the Trump era. The question now is whether progressives can push it to the mainstream.
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Andrea González-R...
Politics
Former Miss America Mallory Hagan Wants To Change Alabama — & Ame...
“Absolutely I can beat him,” Mallory Hagan says without hesitation about her opponent Mike Rogers, an NRA-endorsed Republican who cheerleads Tr
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Natalie Gontcharova
2018 election
California’s Primary Shows A Blue Wave Of Progressive Democrats I...
Hundreds of thousands of people head to the polls today in California, the nation’s most populous state. There’s a lot of talk about California being a
by
Lily Herman
US News
Black Women Are Running In Record Numbers — But Are They Getting ...
When Dr. Adia McClellan Winfrey, a Democrat competing for a U.S. House seat in Alabama’s 3rd District, was first exploring her run, she met with a higher
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Natalie Gontcharova
Politics
Can Women 30 & Under Get Elected To Congress This Year?
No woman under the age of 30 has ever been elected to Congress and only one 30-year-old woman has been elected. These candidates are trying to change that.
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Andrea González-R...
US News
Stacey Abrams’ Alter Ego Might Be The Key To Winning Georgia’s El...
Who is Selena Montgomery?
by
Nicola Pardy
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