Far too often, progressives in power only shows up in Black churches and community centers during election season. Virginia and Alabama proved once again that Black women are the most...
Posted by | June 13, 2018
Women candidates encounter a myriad of obstacles to running for office that their men counterparts rarely face. Yet LGBTQ women candidates face the additional challenges of homophobia and transphobia—not to...
Posted by | June 5, 2018
https://www.facebook.com/NetrootsNation/videos/10156392911789827 Movements like #MeToo and #TIMESUP have drawn an influx of new people, media and policy attention to longstanding efforts to end our society’s culture of sexual violence. But with...
Posted by | June 5, 2018
https://www.facebook.com/NetrootsNation/videos/10156400118709827 2018 marks many of the first federal elections since Donald Trump was elected to office. False claims of voter fraud and fears of foreign interference have shaken many people’s...
Posted by | June 5, 2018
https://www.facebook.com/NetrootsNation/videos/10156392931989827 Nuts & Bolts represents a longstanding series on Daily Kos built around the development of successful small campaigns. While the series focuses on state and local races, Nuts &...
Posted by | June 5, 2018
https://www.facebook.com/NetrootsNation/videos/10156392881174827 Following Hurricane Katrina, the state of Louisiana took more than 120 public schools in New Orleans in the name of "recovery." A state-appointed board fired 7,500 unionized school employees...
Posted by | June 5, 2018
https://www.facebook.com/NetrootsNation/videos/10156392896244827 The United States is the incarceration capital of the world, and Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate in the country. Louisiana's incarceration rate is nearly five times Iran's, 13...
Posted by | June 5, 2018
https://www.facebook.com/NetrootsNation/videos/10156400124164827 The past 18 months have been a whirlwind for public interest litigation, starting with the Trump travel ban, and ending ... never. And one of the things we have...
Posted by | June 5, 2018
https://www.facebook.com/NetrootsNation/videos/10156400091239827 There is no longer any question that Russia played a role in the 2016 election of Donald Trump. Learn about how we can fight back in 2018 and beyond,...
Posted by | June 5, 2018
https://www.facebook.com/NetrootsNation/videos/10156392937509827 The far-right has long dismissed concerns about widespread fake news and online hate since the 2016 election, suggesting that these realities are mere figments of progressive imagination. But the...
