The fights in school board meetings last summer were driven by a loud minority that’s since been balanced by more “mainstream voices” focused on issues like teacher shortages and stricter gun laws in the wake of recent mass shootings, said Katie Paris, a parent and...
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Ohio Democrats see abortion restrictions as an opening against DeWine
CLEVELAND — When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last month, Ohio’s previously unconstitutional “heartbeat bill” that effectively bans most abortions snapped into place. For Republicans, including Gov. Mike DeWine, an abortion-rights foe who signed the bill...
Democrats hope Roe v. Wade ruling is game-changer for suburban women
Katie Paris says it best: "We don’t like extremism,” said Katie Paris, an organizer who founded Red Wine & Blue, a group working to mobilize suburban women in battleground states like Ohio, Michigan and North Carolina. “We’re seeing it in deeply personal, local...
After national backlash, Ohio GOP leader says ‘genital inspections’ won’t be part of anti-transgender athlete bill
Mother and Northeast Ohio Democratic activist Katie Paris knew former U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was speaking at the City Club event, however, she didn't know that Huffman was there. "No child, regardless of gender, should be subject to internal genital...
Parents push for parental rights when it comes to school books
“When our children don't get to see people who look like them in the stories they are reading at school then they have to think well, maybe I'm not a part of this society. Maybe I'm not a part of this world.” Proud of our very own Julie Collins and Katie Paris,...
Opinion: Let’s not stifle teachers or students
Source: The Washington Post. Thanks to Katie Paris, who is leading a network of about 300,000 people in her Red Wine and Blue group and helping save our democracy, as reported in the Feb. 10 Politics & the Nation article, “ ‘Blue’ suburban moms mobilize to counter...
‘Blue’ suburban moms are mobilizing to counter conservatives in fights over masks, book bans and diversity education
Source: The Washington Post. Dozens of suburban moms from around the country dialed into an Ohio-based Zoom training session last month with the same goal — to learn how to combat the increasingly vitriolic rhetoric from parents whose protests over mask mandates and...