Today was my mother’s birthday. She loved her special connection to Valentine’s Day, and when I was a little girl, I bought some heart-shaped pans at the dime store and started baking her heart-shaped cakes every year. I’ve kept that tradition up to remember her.
After my mother died of a massive heart attack, the doctors realized that she’d had advanced heart disease—never diagnosed, never treated, even though she got regular check-ups. Later, I would learn that heart disease is the #1 killer of women.
Today, it’s no longer considered just a “man’s disease,” and doctors do a much better job screening and treating women for cardiovascular disease than they did when my mother had her heart attack.
I remember my mother with these heart-shaped cakes, and I fight for medical research funding and health care as a basic human right so more people can live longer, healthier lives and celebrate more birthdays with their loved ones.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is an exceptional choice.
It’s been an honor to fight alongside these two champions for working people, from launching the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to serving in the U.S. Senate. Happy #PresidentsDay!
Today is #InternationalWomensDay, and March is Women’s History Month. I’m thinking about all the hugs and pinkie promises I’ve shared with girls on the campaign trail. They’re going to make so much history—because that’s what girls do—and make us proud in so many ways.
Today is #InternationalWomensDay, and March is Women’s History Month. I’m thinking about all the hugs and pinkie promises I’ve shared with girls on the campaign trail. They’re going to make so much history—because that’s what girls do—and make us proud in so many ways.
Today is #InternationalWomensDay, and March is Women’s History Month. I’m thinking about all the hugs and pinkie promises I’ve shared with girls on the campaign trail. They’re going to make so much history—because that’s what girls do—and make us proud in so many ways.
Today is #InternationalWomensDay, and March is Women’s History Month. I’m thinking about all the hugs and pinkie promises I’ve shared with girls on the campaign trail. They’re going to make so much history—because that’s what girls do—and make us proud in so many ways.
As a young mom, I came about an inch away from having to quit my job because of child care, but then my Aunt Bee moved in and rescued me. I asked people to share their own stories. Responses poured in. Here’s one reminder of why we fight for universal child care—more to come:
Stories like Colin’s are why I won’t stop fighting for quality, affordable child care.
I visited Starbucks workers organizing with Boston Starbucks Workers United—who’ve been on strike for more than three weeks—to say that their fight is my fight. I stand in solidarity with them, and when working people fight, working people win.
Putin’s government is run on corruption. Oligarchs keep him in power. We’re putting the squeeze on those corrupt elites to make sure they feel consequences for Putin’s horrific attacks on Ukraine.
Five years ago today, Mitch McConnell kicked me off the Senate floor for reading a letter from Coretta Scott King—the same letter this quote is from. Today, I’m reflecting on that moment and what it became. I want to call attention to her words and to the fight for the right to vote. Brave activists have pushed America to protect voting rights, but a partisan Supreme Court has opened the floodgates for Republican state legislatures to engage in voter suppression—and the Senate GOP has used the filibuster, a Jim Crow relic, to stop Democrats from fighting back. We’ve got to keep fighting to hold Republicans accountable, elect more Democrats to get past the filibuster, and ensure the right to vote and the right to have that vote counted. We’ve got to persist.
Five years ago today, Mitch McConnell kicked me off the Senate floor for reading a letter from Coretta Scott King—the same letter this quote is from. Today, I’m reflecting on that moment and what it became. I want to call attention to her words and to the fight for the right to vote. Brave activists have pushed America to protect voting rights, but a partisan Supreme Court has opened the floodgates for Republican state legislatures to engage in voter suppression—and the Senate GOP has used the filibuster, a Jim Crow relic, to stop Democrats from fighting back. We’ve got to keep fighting to hold Republicans accountable, elect more Democrats to get past the filibuster, and ensure the right to vote and the right to have that vote counted. We’ve got to persist.
Five years ago today, Mitch McConnell kicked me off the Senate floor for reading a letter from Coretta Scott King—the same letter this quote is from. Today, I’m reflecting on that moment and what it became. I want to call attention to her words and to the fight for the right to vote. Brave activists have pushed America to protect voting rights, but a partisan Supreme Court has opened the floodgates for Republican state legislatures to engage in voter suppression—and the Senate GOP has used the filibuster, a Jim Crow relic, to stop Democrats from fighting back. We’ve got to keep fighting to hold Republicans accountable, elect more Democrats to get past the filibuster, and ensure the right to vote and the right to have that vote counted. We’ve got to persist.
Five years ago today, Mitch McConnell kicked me off the Senate floor for reading a letter from Coretta Scott King—the same letter this quote is from. Today, I’m reflecting on that moment and what it became. I want to call attention to her words and to the fight for the right to vote. Brave activists have pushed America to protect voting rights, but a partisan Supreme Court has opened the floodgates for Republican state legislatures to engage in voter suppression—and the Senate GOP has used the filibuster, a Jim Crow relic, to stop Democrats from fighting back. We’ve got to keep fighting to hold Republicans accountable, elect more Democrats to get past the filibuster, and ensure the right to vote and the right to have that vote counted. We’ve got to persist.
Five years ago today, Mitch McConnell kicked me off the Senate floor for reading a letter from Coretta Scott King—the same letter this quote is from. Today, I’m reflecting on that moment and what it became. I want to call attention to her words and to the fight for the right to vote. Brave activists have pushed America to protect voting rights, but a partisan Supreme Court has opened the floodgates for Republican state legislatures to engage in voter suppression—and the Senate GOP has used the filibuster, a Jim Crow relic, to stop Democrats from fighting back. We’ve got to keep fighting to hold Republicans accountable, elect more Democrats to get past the filibuster, and ensure the right to vote and the right to have that vote counted. We’ve got to persist.
Five years ago today, Mitch McConnell kicked me off the Senate floor for reading a letter from Coretta Scott King—the same letter this quote is from. Today, I’m reflecting on that moment and what it became. I want to call attention to her words and to the fight for the right to vote. Brave activists have pushed America to protect voting rights, but a partisan Supreme Court has opened the floodgates for Republican state legislatures to engage in voter suppression—and the Senate GOP has used the filibuster, a Jim Crow relic, to stop Democrats from fighting back. We’ve got to keep fighting to hold Republicans accountable, elect more Democrats to get past the filibuster, and ensure the right to vote and the right to have that vote counted. We’ve got to persist.
We got here because we fought for it—because we organized and raised our voices to #CancelStudentDebt, and because President Biden is committed to putting our government on the side of working people.
We had a great Meet and Greet in Greenfield today. We talked about fighting climate change with the Inflation Reduction Act, investing in infrastructure for Massachusetts communities, and protecting our democracy.
We had a great Meet and Greet in Greenfield today. We talked about fighting climate change with the Inflation Reduction Act, investing in infrastructure for Massachusetts communities, and protecting our democracy.
We had a great Meet and Greet in Greenfield today. We talked about fighting climate change with the Inflation Reduction Act, investing in infrastructure for Massachusetts communities, and protecting our democracy.
I visited the picket line at this Boston Starbucks to show my support and hear from workers on the front lines of this fight. Here’s what they want everyone to know.
When people like Patricia reach out to me about issues that touch their lives—and the lives of those around them—I carry their stories in my heart. As a nation, we must make quality, affordable child care a reality for all.
@AyannaPressley is one of the main leaders who fought to get student debt cancellation over the finish line. We talked about how this transformative policy will touch so many people’s lives:
