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JANUARY 16, 2025
2025 Women Winning Training Series: Join us for our Caucus & Convention Training on January 25th!
[[link removed]] At Women Winning, the work of electing pro-choice champions never stops!
We’re excited to announce the first event in our 2025 Training Series highlighting Minnesota’s Caucus and Convention processes and what it will take for pro-choice champions to win party endorsements in 2025.
We’ll cover the Caucus and Convention logistics, candidate tips and imperatives, and learn more about what success looks like in the time leading up to these important steps on the journey to getting elected to office.
Join us on Saturday, January 25th at 11AM via Zoom to learn more!
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Minnesota House DFLers boycott opening session; Republicans elect their own speaker
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DFLers on Tuesday made good on their threat to keep the Minnesota House in limbo, boycotting the session’s opening as the parties fight over control. House Republicans responded by pushing ahead in the half-empty chamber and electing their leader as the new House speaker. It’s not clear what comes next, but all of it is likely headed for legal challenges. DFL leaders later Tuesday vowed to take their case to the Minnesota Supreme Court.
"What the Republicans did in the Minnesota House chamber today is absolutely stunning," Hortman told MPR News in an interview later Tuesday, calling the continuation of the session after Simon's ruling “a complete sham.”
The GOP, she added, “clearly lost on quorum, and they just couldn't handle it. So they had to have a fake House of Representatives.”
She said Democrats are preparing to file a lawsuit with the Minnesota Supreme Court to declare the House actions, including Demuth's speaker election, invalid. "There's several statutes that pertain to how the Legislature functions that were violated today by Republicans," she said.
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Trump and his new Republican Congress will make *all* U.S. taxpayers fund unregulated crisis pregnancy clinics
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Within days of the election, antiabortion leaders started calling on the incoming administration to defund Planned Parenthood and family planning clinics that refer patients for abortion, and redirect that funding to “pro-life” pregnancy centers.
While serial attacks on abortion rights seize the headlines, the anti-choice movement has quietly built an on-the-ground network of unregulated pregnancy clinics—also known as crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs) and antiabortion centers (AACs)—that is eroding access to comprehensive reproductive healthcare and electioneering against abortion rights, mostly under the radar and increasingly on the public dime.
CPCs pose as harmless community resources and licensed health clinics in need of public support. They are, in fact, part of a multi-billion-dollar industry that is directly tied to the extremist legal and advocacy groups that overturned Roe and are now going after medication abortion, contraception, IVF and no-fault divorce.
With a staggering $1.7 billion in annual revenue, an estimated 3,000 locations and 100,000 staff and volunteers, the CPC industry is the grassroots backbone of the anti-choice movement. Radical groups including Heartbeat International, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, Students for Life, Turning Point USA and others—many involved in Project 2025—leverage this 50-state network to influence state policy and, under the guise of providing healthcare, siphon escalating taxpayer dollars into the antiabortion movement.
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Jimmy Carter was a champion for women’s rights
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Many Americans have flocked to the U.S. Capitol last week to pay their respects to former President Jimmy Carter, who died on December 29 at the age of 100. A cornerstone of the 39th president’s legacy is his fight for gender equity. For decades, Carter championed women and girls through his domestic policy and global advocacy work — and even channeled his values to advocate for gender equity in his church denomination.
“Knowing the world as I do, I can tell you without any equivocation that the number one abuse of human rights on Earth, strangely not addressed quite often, is the abuse of women and girls,” Carter said in a 2015 TED Talk in Monterrey, California.
Elected in 1976, Carter became president at a pivotal moment for the women’s rights movement. He championed the Equal Rights Amendment, which would explicitly prohibit sex discrimination in the Constitution, and appointed an unprecedented number of women to key positions in his administration.
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