We have all lived through Republicans being in power, it’s not a thing we have to speculate about. Also, I think if you looked at the demographics of who doesn’t vote, it is already the downtrodden.

I guess that they’re saying to the Democratic party: “don’t expect us to vote for your candidate unless that candidate supports getting rid of the Hyde amendment”. It’s telling the party that they’d better seek out, groom and support candidates that support the issues that are important to Black women, or Black women…

The small grassroots group wanted to get the FDA to agree to full access to OTC emergency contraception without any restrictions, but Brown said Planned Parenthood and NARAL preached caution. According to Brown, leaders of those groups were worried about the optics of advocating for teenagers’ right to access the…

No, it’s not false what I wrote is that PP is far and away the biggest provider (when the affiliates are viewed collectively) not that it provides a majority of abortions- no single independent provider performs as many abortions as PP in total (and frankly no independent provider performs as many abortions as several…

It’s pretty frocking important to point out that Planned Parenthood affiliates are far and away the biggest grouping of abortion providers in the country— the advocacy arm is incredibly important (I’d note that the vast, vast majority of the smaller abortion funds do little political advocacy work at the state or…

right? WTF is this horseshit? Oh, McGrath is a moderate Democrat? The horror! Since when is opposing the elimination of private insurance “kinda shitty”? A decade ago Medicare-for-all and no private insurance wasn’t even the median Democrat position, and now a moderate Dem with a military background running in fucking…

She's offering the exact moderate Democratic political profile Kyrsten Sinema just ran on in crimson red Arizona. And won.

Anyone who can take the Senate floor away from that evil turtle is good enough for me.  I don’t care if she’s Manchin’s long lost twin and won’t hang with the democrats on key votes. For now, just unseat that asshole. 

...but McGrath is a self-described moderate who believes the Democrats currently running for president are veering too far to the left. She doesn’t support eliminating private insurance under a Medicare-for-all plan, nor does she support subsidizing healthcare for undocumented immigrants. She also describes herself as…

I don’t need her to be a leftist dream, I need her to be better than Mitch. It’s a pretty low bar. Campaigning in a way that talks to voters she needs to win over, conservatives who have probably voted red their whole lives (or voted southern democrat when that was still a thing) is smart.