This week’s confirmation hearings for Judge Amy Coney Barrett are a stark reminder that no matter who is president, women’s rights are at risk if Mitch McConnell is still running the Senate. That’s why NOW is working so hard to elect a new, feminist Senate this November. Imagine what a difference a feminist Senate could make—one that’s presided Read more …
Donald Trump’s reckless disregard for truth and callous indifference to the lives of others is on full display this week. His joyride around Walter Reed put everyone around him at risk, as did his balcony pose without a mask at the White House. Now, Trump is making up the most dangerous false narrative of his presidency, Read more …
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, October 1, 2020, marks the date that Native women financially catch up to what their white male counterparts made in 2019. In the United States, it takes the average Native woman 22 months to make what the average white man makes over the course of one year. As NOW observes Native Women’s Equal Pay Day, we must address the ways in which Native women are continually disenfranchised by Read more …
Last night, Donald Trump was rude, loud, abusive, angry, incoherent, racist—and dangerous. He once again refused to denounce white supremacy and made his intentions clear: he plans to pack the Supreme Court with a nominee handpicked to ratify his stolen election—and overturn both Roe v. Wade and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Joe Biden warned the country and reminded us that the ACA and women’s legal right to abortion could Read more …
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Donald Trump has made clear what he wants from the Supreme Court. Like all of his other appointments, Trump wants personal allies who will validate his lawlessness, enable his authoritarianism, and protect him from accountability. Trump has demonstrated time and time again that he does not care about the rights of women, the LGBTQIA+ community, people of color, immigrants, or our most Read more …
The death of feminist champion Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a painful reminder of how precarious our freedoms remain. The delicate balance of a 5-4 Supreme Court, with Justice Ginsburg leading the liberal side, will now crash and reassemble as a 6-3 conservative powerhouse—unless we stop it. We must stop Trump from seating yet another Justice who shares Trump’s view that the Supreme Court must Read more …
September 22, 2020 We must mobilize immediately to ensure that there is no vote to appoint a new Supreme Court justice until a new administration is in place – not before the election, and not in the lame duck session. Contact your Senators and demand that your voice be heard: No confirmation before inauguration! We wish to honor Justice Read more …
WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week marks the start of Hispanic Heritage Month. From now until October 15, we celebrate the cultures and heritage of Hispanic and Latinx Americans as well as the countless achievements these communities have made throughout history. NOW honors activists like Dolores Huerta, the civil rights and labor movement pioneer who co-founded the National Farmworkers Association in the 1960s, working tirelessly to make certain that U.S. farmworkers received labor rights. We also honor Sylvia Rivera, the Read more …
Sept. 9, 2020 Good news, hopefully! We may have a ruling soon from the U.S. District Court for the District of the District of Columbia on the Equal Rights Amendment. The Democratic state attorneys general from Nevada, Illinois and Virginia asked the court in mid-August to declare that the ERA is valid and part of Read more …
As I wrote to you recently, I’m excited to have begun my work as the new National NOW president with a focus on doing more to adopt an intersectional lens when it comes to all aspects of our lives, and more to ensure that we are providing an inclusive safe space for one another. One urgent challenge facing us today Read more …