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New Season Of The Podcast: Third parties & More

Excited to introduce our new mini season! We’ve teamed up with Third Way to bring you three new episodes as we approach the 2024 presidential election 🇺🇲 Many voters are dissatisfied with the two major parties and are considering third-party candidates. While a third-party candidate has never won, they’ve impacted election outcomes for decades. In […]

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Opinion Piece: The Kamala Harris I Know, and What It Could Mean for America

I know what it is like to live at a time when our leaders haven’t looked like me. They haven’t shared in my experiences. They haven’t known my fight. But I also know this is changing … faster than ever. As a young Black girl growing up in Nevada, one who preferred to watch C-SPAN […]

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Harris for President Organizing calls 7/28-8/2

Upcoming organizing calls for #HarrisForPresident:   Sunday: 7/28 Latinas for Harris https://tinyurl.com/2s2mnx3a   Native Women + Two Spirit for Harris! https://tinyurl.com/3sr9vjfj   Win With Black Men https://www.winwithblackmen.org/july2024conversation   Win With Black Women https://bit.ly/WWBWonevoiceonefight   Monday: 7/29 Women for Harris  https://events.democrats.org/event/653900/   White Dudes for Harris https://tinyurl.com/48tpf67z   Tuesday: 7/30 Caribbean-Americans for http://bit.ly/CAHarrisCall Filipino Americans for […]

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OPINION PIECE: America needs direct democracy more than ever — protect the ballot now By Chris Melody Fields Figueredo

OPINION PIECE: America needs direct democracy more than ever — protect the ballot now By Chris Melody Fields Figueredo top of page bottom of page

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Guest Post: On the Anniversary of the Dobbs Decision, Black Women Still Remember! By Krystal Leaphart

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Join Us For The First-Ever Women Talk Politics Day on May 2nd!

On Thursday, May 2, you are invited to join The BGG and participate in the first-ever Women Talk Politics Day on Instagram—#womentalkpolitics. Why May 2? We are taking the horrors of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that took away reproductive freedom for millions of Americans, leaked on this day in 2022, and turning it into a […]

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Report: Black Women Voters: Political Perceptions, Participation, and Power

The poll serves as an early snapshot heading into the 2024 elections. Black women are a powerful force in the American political system, and their political power continues to grow and garner recognition for the force it is.    The findings show that Black women have top concerns about a broad range of issues, but the […]

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51ST Anniversary of Roe V. Wade

51 years ago, on January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court issued a landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, protecting a woman’s constitutional right to choose. â—‹ The case reaffirmed basic principles of equality, reinforced the fundamental right to privacy, and enabled women in this country to make deeply personal decisions free from political interference A […]

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The Guardian Names The BGG A Best Podcast Of The Week

You can find the piece here. A’Shanti Gholar hosts this practical guide to progressive activism, a “one-stop shop for women of color who want to hear and talk about the world of politics”. As someone in the business of training Democratic women to run for office, there’s few better-placed voices than Gholar to help you […]

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Women of Color and Young Women are Energized to Vote

Read more from CAWP here. Women continued to vote at higher rates than men in the 2022 midterm elections, as they have done for more than four decades. However, understanding why women turn out at higher rates than their male counterparts – across age and racial/ethnic groups – is at least partly context-dependent and specific […]