Men & Allies brings together supporters of Reproductive Freedom from across the state to highlight the importance of all people, regardless of their gender, advocating for Reproductive Freedom. This is a FREE event, where $1 from every beverage purchased goes to supporting our work electing pro-choice champions! Bring all your friends!

Join us, TONIGHT Thursday, October 10, 2024 from 6-8PM at Bauhaus Brew Labs in Minneapolis!

Featured speakers for this year’s Men & Allies: Mayor Melvin Carter, Tom Weber, spouse of Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, and John Bessler, spouse of Senator Amy Klobuchar! 

Thank you to our 2024 Sponsors! 

Ally 

Pamela Deal | Traci Esades | Charles Nauen | Minnesota Senate DFL Caucus

Partner

Curtis Johnson | Harley Gee & Karen Hudson | Jean Spielman Housh | Rosemary & Mark Sump | Bob Rosenbaum

Supporter

Carol Ball | Dr. Annie Baietto | Sam Clark | Corey Day | Sen. Scott Dibble | Billy Dinkel - Living and Healing with Purpose | Sen. Nick Frentz | Jon Grebner | Julie Greene | Kathy Heltzer | Former Rep. Frank Hornstein | Caroline Marsili | Mary McKinley & Larry Young | Rep. Dave Pinto | Lee Sheehy | Betsy & Steve Sitkoff | Liz Young & Tim McKivergan

Friend

Michael Anderson  | Rick Brundage | Rep. Nathan Coulter | Elizabeth Carman | Mayor Melvin Carter | Sen. Steve Cwodzinski | Rep. Peter Fischer | Rep. Mike Freiberg | Bradley A. Gangnon | Former Rep. Betty Folliard | Ron Harris | w. h. | Melissa Hettmann | Marge Hoffa |  Mark Hortman | Judith Kahn | Rep. Larry Kraft | Majority Leader Jamie Long | Nevada Littlewolf | Kira Littlewolf | Ken Martin | Mike McCool | Brigette Mathiason | Polina Montes de Oca | Garrison McMurtrey | Mary & Del Moen | Toni Monster | Catherine Pearson | Daniel Pollock | Gerald Seck | Tim Stanley | Jane Willard | Gia Vitali | David Ziegler

Sponsorships are STILL AVAILABLE – add your name to our list of supporters before time runs out!

Sponsorships

Ally -  $1,000

Partner - $500

Supporter - $250

Friend - $100

Every year, Women Winning hosts the Action Series leading up to the General Election that supports our endorsed champions of reproductive freedom. With power from everyday people in the community, we knock doors and raise money for our incredible candidates to give them an extra boost before Election Day! 

NEXT WEEKEND

Door Knock with Sarah Kruger 

Special Guest Speaker of the House Melissa Hortman

Saturday, October 19 - 1PM

327 W King St

Winona, MN 55987

UPCOMING

SD 36 Door Knock with Janelle Calhoun & Rep. Brion Curran

Saturday, October 26 - 1PM

Tamarack Nature Center

5287 Otter Lake Rd

White Bear Township, MN 55110

More events coming soon!

Join Ayada Leads for their annual "Born to Lead" panel discussion about leadership and running for office as a woman of color!

This FREE event features Rep. Kaohly Her, Rep. María Isa Pérez-Vega, Anquam Mahamoud, and Hudda Ibrahim in conversation at Eat Street Crossing in Minneapolis this Tuesday, October 15th from 5:30-8PM!

Women Winning is thrilled to be partnering with Ayada Leads and these four incredible candidates!

We hope to see you there!

Vice President Kamala Harris was all business in an interview on the sex-positive “Call Her Daddy” podcast that aired Sunday. Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, spent the bulk of the roughly 40-minute conversation litigating her case against Donald Trump, blasting the Republican nominee’s track record on abortion and women’s rights. “There are now 20 states with Trump abortion bans,” Harris told “Call her Daddy” host Alex Cooper. “This is the same guy that said women should be punished for having abortions.”

In 2022, three Supreme Court justices whom Trump nominated during his presidency were part of a majority that overturned Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that for a half-century had said there was a federal right to abortion. The decision allowed individual states to restrict or permit abortions as they saw fit.

The “Call Her Daddy” podcast is largely popular with young women, a voter base Harris already polls strongly with. But the podcast does not typically broach political topics, Cooper noted.

“I am so aware I have a very mixed audience when it comes to politics, so please hear me when I say my goal today is not to change your political affiliation,” Cooper said on the podcast before she began interviewing Harris.

Harris’ appearance on “Call Her Daddy” is part of a larger media storm her campaign has scheduled for the upcoming week, an attempt to elbow Trump out of the news cycle.

Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan on Wednesday helped launch the Harris-Walz campaign’s new Native American coalition, seeking to energize the often overlooked but increasingly important Indigenous vote.

“Native people will absolutely help decide the results of this election,” Flanagan told the ballroom of Native leaders and attendees at the Mystic Lake Center in Prior Lake. “Native voters in Arizona in 2020 absolutely helped to deliver the presidential race for Biden-Harris, and that’s why I’m so grateful to be here with you … to talk about everything that we can do in this moment.”

Flanagan — a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe — would become the nation’s first Native American woman to serve as governor if Gov. Tim Walz is elected vice president. 

On VP debate night, as Donald Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance got pressed about his support for a national abortion ban on the debate stage, the former president turned to social media to issue an all-caps message. 

“EVERYONE KNOWS I WOULD NOT SUPPORT A FEDERAL ABORTION BAN, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, AND WOULD, IN FACT, VETO IT, BECAUSE IT IS UP TO THE STATES TO DECIDE BASED ON THE WILL OF THEIR VOTERS (THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!),” he wrote. “LIKE RONALD REAGAN BEFORE ME, I FULLY SUPPORT THE THREE EXCEPTIONS FOR RAPE, INCEST, AND THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER.”

The post set off a flurry of breathless media coverage characterizing Trump as changing his position on abortion and committing not to outlaw the procedure nationwide. But this is just a rhetorical trick; as writer Jessica Valenti has noted, following the overturn of Roe v. Wade, the anti-abortion movement has repeatedly tried to replace the term abortion ban with national minimum standard or national consensus. Abortion opponents use the word ban to describe legislation with no exceptions for abortion care whatsoever, while they use minimum standard to describe bills that do include what Trump called “the three exceptions.” 

To the rest of us, they would do the exact same thing: effectively outlaw abortion nationwide.