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Guests attend The Awakening, a gathering of 25,000 Promise Keepers, on June 10, 2006, in Razorback Stadium in Fayettville, Ark. (Charles Ommanney / Getty Images)

By Carrie N. Baker | In the 1990s, Promise Keepers were an evangelical group of Christian men who pledged to keep their promises to their wives and children in exchange for female submission and service. Relatively apolitical at the time, Promise Keepers even pledged to work toward “racial reconciliation.”

Filling football stadiums, evangelical men and boys felt safe to cry and hug, while reaffirming each other’s masculinity and entitlement to male dominance. By the end of the 1990s, Promise Keepers had faded from the headlines, but now thirty years later they are staging a revival. 

Ms. sat down with Jackson Katz to get his take on the Promise Keepers revival. “Elements on the Trumpist right understand very well that right-wing, white evangelical men are an incredibly important constituency within the larger MAGA coalition. … The ‘crisis in masculinity’ has now become a crisis in democracy.”

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A Fulton County Elections worker stretches his arms as voters cast ballots in Georgia’s primary election at a polling location on May 21, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. Among the races on the ballot in Fulton County is Scott McAfee, the Fulton County Superior Court Judge overseeing former president Donald Trump’s election interference criminal trial. (Photo by Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

By Eric Petry and Daniel I. Weiner | Since 2020, election officials across the country have been thrust into the middle of election deniers’ campaign to undermine faith in American democracy. Scapegoated for outcomes that some politicians and voters don’t like, election officials have faced increasingly violent rhetoric and attempts to criminalize their work that are fueled by disinformation and conspiracy theories.

Fortunately, these dedicated public servants have largely withstood the attacks, and the election denial movement faltered at the ballot box in the midterms, as voters across the country rejected many of the candidates touting its baseless conspiracy theories.

But election officials now face a new set of threats from Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda that not only proposes to withhold critical federal support for their work but also threatens to weaponize the Justice Department and other federal agencies to further politicize election administration and revive unfounded attacks on election officials.

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Vice President Kamala Harris introduces President Joe Biden during a campaign rally on May 29, 2024, in Philadelphia, (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images)

By Alfonsina Peñaloza | In the push for stronger democracies and gender justice, there is a missing element: a full-throated feminist philanthropy movement.

Feminist philanthropy abides by three distinct tenets: respecting local contexts and knowledge; providing long-term, flexible funding to women’s rights organizations working on systemic change; and supporting women’s leadership at all levels.

(This essay is part of a Women & Democracy package focused on who’s funding the women and LGBTQ people on the frontlines of democracy. We’re manifesting a new era for philanthropy—one that centers feminism. The need is real: Funding for women and girls amounts to less than 2 percent of all philanthropic giving; for women of color, it’s less than 1 percent. Explore the “Feminist Philanthropy Is Essential to Democracy” collection.)

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