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Keeping Score: Cracking Down on QAnon; Savannah Guthrie Holds Trump Accountable

In every issue of Ms., we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can’t-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement’s many milestones. We’re Keeping Score online, too—in in this biweekly round-up.

This week: authors speak out in support of trans rights; the four year anniversary of Colin Kaepernick’s famous protest; Ben Sasse breaks with Trump; Megan Thee Stallion demands, “Protect Black women”; mourning the loss of Monica Roberts; the first openly gay state SCOTUS judge; social media giants crack down on QAnon content; honoring health care workers who have died; Jaime Harrison shatters fundrasing records; Women’s March; record-high support for the ACA; and more!

Three Ways to Channel Election Fatigue and Fight for U.S. Democracy

Sophie Dorf-Kamienny

It’s easy to feel hopeless, frustrated or worried about the future of U.S. democracy. However, channeling that frustration and fear is crucial to combatting voter suppression and ensuring American democracy can continue.

Black Women Voters are Ready for November 3rd

Dr. Tawanna Jones Morrison

Black women, a formidable voting block with one of the largest voter turnouts in the 2018 general election, are poised to take a seat at the table and set the agenda.

The Weekly Pulse: SCOTUS and Our Health; Pandemic Worsens as Winter Approaches

Corinne Ahrens

For The Weekly Pulse (a revisit of an old Ms. column!), we’ve scoured the most trusted journalistic sources—and, of course, our Twitter feeds—to bring you this week’s most important news stories related to health and wellness.

In this edition: analyzing the Supreme Court’s impact on our health, a repro rundown while Roe is at risk, pandemic predicted to worsen with colder months ahead and why we need to care about LGBTQ health, now.

2020 May Be the Year for LGBTQ Women Candidates and Voters

Democrats Are Overlooking a Key Demographic: LGBTQ Women

Jim Grossfeld

“LGBTQ women are volunteers, donors, activists, and voters. We’re the engine of the progressive movement.”

So why are they still so underrepresented in government?

International Election Monitors Arrive in the U.S. for the Nov. 3 Poll

Allison Lecce

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, a global election monitoring group, is deploying across the United States in the lead-up to the Nov. 3 elections to help ensure free and fair polling.

War on Women: Pence Hostile Toward Reproductive Rights, Election Disinformation Hurts Democracy

War on Women: Pence Hostile Toward Repro Rights; Election Disinformation Hurts Democracy

Sarah Rosenberg

This week, Ms.’s War on Women Report examines Pence and Harris on abortion; the ways election disinformation hurts our democracy; Trump’s “Deterrence Project” to dissuade Black voters from voting; and break down the ACB SCOTUS hearings.

Women’s Representation: Is Amy Coney Barrett a Mother? We Hadn’t Noticed.

Cynthia Richie Terrell

Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.

This week: how the U.S. went from 48th to 87th in women’s representation; pro-democracy measures on the ballot this November; the best (and worst) states to be a woman; new rules regarding mandates for women’s representation on publicly-owned company boards; a Black, queer, Muslim candidate could make history in Oklahoma; feminist reading recommendations; and is Amy Coney Barrett a mother? We hadn’t noticed.

Five Need-to-Know Moments From Amy Coney Barrett’s Confirmation Hearings

Roxy Szal

After four days of dodged questions by Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett—and barrages of disapproving remarks by Senate Democrats—Congress and the American public seem no more informed on Barrett than they were when Trump rushed her appointment, just a week after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing.