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“We come to this work in part because we are deeply committed to the research and the topics that we study,” Bell told The 19th. “And so someone telling us we can’t do it — or if we want to do it, we have to cloak it in different language — just feels really wrong.”

Court records show that in 2023, Beltran filed a defamation lawsuit on behalf of Chris Dorworth, a former Republican state legislator and lobbyist, claiming that the woman had falsely testified against Dorworth and defamed him in statements to federal law enforcement officials.

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“There’s so many Native women running for all the seats now, and it’s pretty awesome,” Juneau said. “What’s cool about it now is we don’t have Native people who are serving the state legislature who are just from reservations. Katie is representing an urban area; that’s been a huge progression”

“We’re really looking at a long-term plan of helping anyone on the internet find comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date information,” Nall said. “So we see abortion.org being a place to house all of those properties as they grow and being the umbrella landing page.”

“The biggest concern in those early stages is that lack of control, not knowing what money is there and not having the ability to spend it when you need to,” Cates said.

“She needs to get out of detention immediately,” said Dexter, who is a physician. “She is not in a safe situation. It is egregious that we are keeping her in custody with a high-risk pregnancy.”

“I hope my neighbors will not vote for an individual with those kinds of accusations,” Noble said of Miller. “It kind of breaks my heart,” she added. “It’s going to be hard to live here if he’s reelected.”

“I’ve never worried like this before. I’ve never worried that I don’t have the proper ID. I’ve never worried that somebody is going to intimidate me. Will I encounter somebody that’s going to threaten me or make me feel less than?”

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In a contest marked by sharp personal attacks and partisan rancor, Ramaswamy’s latest attempt to paint Acton as unfit for office came in the form of a minute-long ad that began circulating Monday night featuring Donna Arthur, Acton’s estranged mother.

“They carry that weight of not being there,” Stone, who works at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh, told The 19th.

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“It is a match made in heaven, the business model of social media and people pushing hate,” Sarah Oates, a professor of communications at the University of Maryland, told Uncloseted Media and The 19th. “Because the social media companies know that these are the things that engage people.”

“Women are done accepting predators in power, and we are fighting back with every lever available to us,” Hunt said.

“That’s a horrible place to put a pregnant woman in,” said Holden, who on October 11 made the painful, hourlong trip to Greenville Memorial Hospital to deliver her son Tucker.

The suit was filed last week on behalf of a Texas-based woman who, because of the state’s abortion ban, is now a mother of two. The plaintiff seeks just under a half million dollars — enough, the suit says, to raise two children in Texas.

Chrissy, a 44-year-old woman from Michigan, said that two years ago, she was “lazy” in basing her vote on political ads and discussions with others instead of her own research.

If elected, Nixon would become Florida’s first Black senator and could be one of a record four Black women senators serving simultaneously. Her candidacy has expanded the political imagination of her state and country about who can win statewide — and who gets to claim Florida’s future.

Nearly half of LGBTQ+-related ballot initiatives this year would restrict trans student-athletes from competing in line with their gender identity. Others would ban certain transition-related treatments for minors.

“I see it as not caring about the victim,” Snogren told The 19th. “And not taking the time to listen to the woman in the story.”

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The lawsuits against patients were instigated before Marshall’s election to the Senate in 2020. Marshall regularly charged an 18 percent annual interest rate for unpaid bills, a highly unusual sum for doctors in the state. In some cases, women were arrested over missed court dates.

Trans people across Kansas are carrying incorrect IDs due to this new law. The midterms are the first test of whether this causes issues at the ballot box. So far, when it comes to voting, these mismatched IDs don’t seem to be a problem.

While the number of chapters has exploded and thousands of young women have shown up to events, the organization’s influence and ability to mobilize young voters as it has in the past is uncertain.

Idaho’s initiative would restore abortion access. Missouri’s measure seeks to reinstate a near-total ban jettisoned by voters two years ago.

“Teachers were disappearing and we weren’t understanding why,” said Chloe Haynes, a small business owner whose two sons attend the childcare center at the Second Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia.

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U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, the Republican candidate for governor in Wisconsin, calls his state’s 20-week abortion limit “settled law.” Just three years ago, he co-sponsored a bill that would have banned abortion six weeks into pregnancy.

“It’s great to see that people are rightfully enraged by it,” Newman said of Doe’s case. “But, on the other hand, it’s like, this has been happening. I’m just concerned that this outrage won’t last.”

“She’d say, ‘Get me out of here. Would you please get me out of here? When am I getting out of here?’” recalled the lawyer, Sue Jamieson, in an oral history for the Atlanta Legal Aid Society.

This election cycle, 90 percent of Gen Z women also say the cost of housing and everyday expenses is a critical or important issue — ranking it just above healthcare, abortion and immigration issues, according to a Sept. poll by the Public Religion Research Institute and the Brookings Institution.

“It’s a district where Obama’s message and Trump’s message resonated,” Chergosky said. “I hesitate to make any long-term predictions about the partisanship of this district because we have seen people as different as Obama and Trump do well here.”

Nearly 60 percent of Gen Z voters favor increasing federal spending on childcare — more, even, than the 49 percent of millennials who said the same.

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The reopened criminal investigation into an alleged gang rape at Cornell University has sharpened scrutiny on voluntary intoxication laws. In 19 states, voluntary intoxication laws can make it harder to prosecute an assault when the person who was attacked chose to drink or use drugs.

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“We’ve been laughing and crying and celebrating, and also, you know, preparing because we know that this is just one step in the fight,” said Marci Marie Simmons, director of communications for Lioness. Simmons spent a decade incarcerated in a Texas prison.

“It was like clicking a puzzle again,” Harris told The 19th in a phone call from prison. “And it was so relieving because I really thought I was losing my mind.”

“Some of the enforcement that we have seen this year is not the way — is not what we need to do with immigration,” Salazar said. “I have departed from my party on this. And thank God for that.”

On Tuesday, Nixon’s case ended in a resolution meaning she did not have to plead guilty but instead must pay a $250 fine and perform 15 hours of community service. She faced up to two years of jail time.

FitzGerald felt like the algorithm knew she was struggling. It knew she was not as prepared for parenting as she thought. “The algorithm completely clocks that,” she said.

Reps. Laurel Lee, a Florida Republican, and Lucy McBath, a Georgia Democrat, have introduced legislation directing the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, to strengthen safety at evacuation shelters and establish reporting protocols for issues like domestic violence and sexual assault.