There is a growing movement to ban books. Book bans have very real, harmful consequences for children. All this harm is being caused by a loud but small group of people. The majority of us — more than 80% — don’t want book bans, so we also have to be loud and push back.
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Do This: Preventing Gun Violence
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been discussing gun violence in America. And in just that short period of time, our country has been rocked by another mass shooting at a high school and a second alleged assassination attempt on a former president. It is clear that gun...
Watch This: Preventing Gun Violence
According to research by Everytown For Gun Safety, 59% of adults in America have personally experienced gun violence, or know someone who has. Gun violence includes mass shootings, homicides, assaults, suicides and suicide attempts, domestic violence, unintentional...
Read This: Preventing Gun Violence
Our hearts are breaking with the families of Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia today as they grieve in the aftermath of a tragic mass shooting. Every day, more than 120 Americans are killed with guns and more than 200 are shot and wounded.1 Yesterday, at least...
Do This: Momonomics
It’s no surprise to us that, according to a July 2024 KFF survey, half of women voters “worry a lot” about being able to afford food and groceries. That means many women you know have this issue on their mind — and it’s likely to be a factor when they decide who they...
Watch This: Momonomics
In the past few weeks, Senator Elizabeth Warren joined us to discuss the economic threat of Project 2025, and financial advisor Shereen Boyer joined us for an “Ask Me Anything” event about the economy. More than 12,000 of you showed up for these two events! Wow. We...
Read This: Momonomics
We hear it from our community members all the time. Whether it’s an election year or not, the economy is top of mind for suburban women. Of course it is! In many households, it’s the women who are making the day-to-day financial decisions. We’re doing the weekly...
Do This: PragerU: Coming To A School Near You
Now that you know about the extreme-right ideology being taught in public schools using PragerU materials, you're probably wondering what you can do to stop it. Whether you’re in one of the four states that approved PragerU (Florida, Montana, New Hampshire, and...
Watch This: PragerU: Coming To A School Near You
Last week, we shared some examples of PragerU videos that are being shown to children in public school classrooms in the U.S. They may have seemed too extreme to believe, so this week, we want you to see for yourself! Watch this video where Jo from Red Wine and Blue...
Read This: PragerU: Coming To A School Near You
Picture this: a classroom full of third graders settles down to watch a colorful, animated video together. A cartoon Frederick Douglass — the abolitionist, writer, and orator who escaped slavery — confidently explains that while he isn’t “okay with slavery, … the...
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Watch This: Sacred Politics and the Threat of Christian Nationalism
Christian Nationalists, who are mostly white evangelicals, are a shrinking minority in our population.1 They are desperate to maintain the political power that white Christian men have historically had in American society. They resent the social progress that has...
Read This: Sacred Politics and the Threat of Christian Nationalism
One of the biggest threats to American democracy, especially as Donald Trump returns to the presidency, is the influence of Christian Nationalism. We took a deep dive into the movement with our limited series podcast, Sacred Politics, so let’s take a look at what we...
We want to hear from you!
Happy New Year! Or, maybe you’re feeling something other than happy about 2025? We get it. We’re all still feeling and thinking a lot of things about what lies ahead this year, so we really want to hear from you. It’s time for our annual Community Survey! Everything...
Do This: We Got This! Because We’ve Got Each Other.
Historians like Heather Cox Richardson and Timothy Snyder agree, one of the ways we protect democracy is to maintain a strong community of people that stand up to the threats of extremism together. That’s exactly what Red Wine & Blue does. We help suburban women...
Watch This: We Got This! Because We’ve Got Each Other
We wish you could see the messages we get every day from our community members. We hear from so many of you — literally daily — either by email, DMs on social media, or in direct conversations with our regional organizers, about how important the Red Wine & Blue...