Every four years the fall issue of Ms. is — to be perfectly honest—pretty much the same. We do our best to explain what’s at stake in the upcoming election and how the outcome will affect our lives and future.

This year that wasn’t necessary. Project 2025 did the job for us.

The 887-page Project 2025 Presidential Transition Project laid out exactly how the next Republican president would engineer the reversal of more than 50 years of hard-fought gains for women and girls.

The list on our Fall cover is just the beginning. What else does Project 2025 have in the crosshairs? Ms. contributor Carrie N. Baker read the “misogynist manifesto” front to back so you don’t have to.

Conservatives being forthright about their unpopular plans wasn’t the only shock this election season. In July, we witnessed a man willingly set aside the reins of power, supporting a Black and South Asian woman to take his place. President Joe Biden—he’s what a feminist looks like.

Vice President Kamala Harris’ late entry into the race spurred on voter mobilization efforts working to turn out women, especially young, Black, Latina and Asian American and Pacific Islander women. Writer Belle Taylor-McGhee talked to excited organizers on the ground in places like North Carolina and Georgia.

Democrats are counting on abortion being a deciding issue in the election, not only to retain the White House but also to keep control of the Senate and perhaps take over the House. The media, however, is predicting that the issue has lost its potency. Ms. asked Jodi Enda of The Fuller Project to interview polling experts on what will really matter to voters in November. Media polls, they say, are greatly flawed. People are “voting on the thing that’s pissing them off,” says Democratic pollster Jill Normington.

Of course, this came as no surprise to any of us at Ms. Polling conducted for Ms. and the Feminist Majority Foundation by Lake Research Partners one year ago found that the combination of abortion rights and the Equal Rights Amendment would be a strong draw for voter turnout in 2024.

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Kathy Spillar
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