....we're the ONLY political force pushing back against those aggravating interests; most of the resistance to those efforts coming from the republican opposition, almost unanimously among their members and supporters.
People need to recognize and acknowledge that Democrats are the ONLY political coalition of elected who regularly defend and promote the interests of women against a white-male dominated majority.
Fucked up to step away from all of our defense of those interests to tar our party with the actions or beliefs of people who divert from those principles which we regularly represent and defend.
I mean, we've made a progression from the days of Kennedy-type boys-club misogyny, mostly because Democrats, and the candidates we've put forward, have represented and defended the values and principles that reject past abuses and wrongs. Democrats are basically why we're even having this discussion on a national level, auguring to set things right.
There is no equivalent in the republican opposition, and all of this resistance didn't occur in a political vacuum. It was established and generated by our present-day, progressive Democratic party. Indeed, that resistance is against republican party and president which is engaged in dismantling the protections Democrats legislated into existence and practice.
THIS is the true representation of the Democratic party today, in the summer of 2026:
Record Number of Democratic Women Running for U.S. House
A new record has been set for Democratic women running for U.S. House seats, according to the latest data from the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. In the 2026 midterms, 364 Democratic women have filed to run for House seats, beating the previous record of 356, set in 2020. Candidate filing is not yet complete in six states, so this number is likely to rise, and a new record may also be set for the total number of women running for House. Currently, 523 women have filed to run for House seats; the record was set in 2020 at 583. The number of filed Republican women House candidates in 2026 is 159; the record for Republican women House candidates was set in 2022 at 261.
https://cawp.rutgers.edu/news-media/press-releases/record-number-democratic-women-running-us-house
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