Kansas organizers built a diverse voting bloc strong enough to beat back a movement of Christian nationalists.
Far Right
Both events were the major public actions of the moderate and extreme sides of an alliance formed around Trump.
Approval of the majority conservative Supreme Court is down 23 points among Democrats since September.
The lawsuit is part of the right’s escalating attacks on LGBTQ peoples’ right to exist in the U.S.
Bill sponsor Sen. Ed Markey said that the GOP wants “no abortions, and no birth control to prevent the need for one.”
Lawmakers say that the bill is necessary to combat the far right’s hold on the nation’s highest court.
Lawyer Jonathan Mitchell is most well-known for helping to craft Texas’s abortion bill, last year’s first blow to “Roe.”
Our current crises are structural, and relying on the Democrats and the Constitution is not going to save us.
Ocasio-Cortez said voting against the contraceptive access bill was the “first step” to attacking contraception.
The bill comes as a response to Clarence Thomas’s warning that birth control could be next on the chopping block.