Across multiple fronts, Democrats and their allies are stiffening their resistance to a surge of Republican-led book bans. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in the past month have conspicuously escalated their denunciations of the book bans...
Katie Paris
Abortion Pill Battle Threatens to Further Box In GOP
“It’s up to politicians to put it front and center in terms of the stakes of the campaign,” said Katie Paris, founder of Red Wine and Blue, a group that seeks to turn out the vote among suburban women. “I think any candidate who chooses to do that in 2024 is going to...
Interview: ‘We Were Having None of It’
Katie Paris founded Red Wine & Blue in 2019 to help suburban women engage in politics. By the end of the 2020 election, it had grown into ‘a pretty passionate fight against rightwing extremism.’
White women have long been unreliable voters for Democrats. Could that change in 2024?
Jennifer Pippin had been a registered Democrat since she was 18-years-old. But a decade later, in 2014, she switched to the Republican Party. "I felt like more of the Republican values were my values," said Pippin, a 37-year-old surgical and operating room nurse from...
Fresh off yet another loss, Ohio Democrats look for answers with Sherrod Brown’s 2024 reelection campaign on the horizon
Katie Paris, leader of Red Wine and Blue, a Democratic group that targets suburban women, said the failure to get an abortion-rights measure on the ballot this year hurt the Democrats this year. Meanwhile, voters overwhelmingly approved one in neighboring Michigan...
Grassroots women’s group Red Wine & Blue wants you to vote like lives depend on it — because they do: Leslie Kouba
I didn’t expect to see the big camera and boom mic at the “LGBTQ+ & You: Advocates, Allies, & Candidates” event hosted by Red Wine & Blue last Sunday at Cleveland’s LGBT Center. Found out one of CNN’s documentary teams was there to record Ember, and her...
Fox News Poll Shows GOP and Dems Tied Going into November, Dads Swung 28 Points to Democrats Since May
As the political map continues to shift ahead of November’s midterm elections, the latest Fox News poll, released last week, shows the Republicans and Democrats tied with 41 percent support on a generic Congressional ballot. In May, the same poll found Republicans...
As the school year begins, calls for book bans begin to accelerate in Ohio
“What the parents of the school district really want and are focused on are very different things than what we're seeing is coming in from the outside,” activist Katie Paris said. Paris is the founder of Red Wine and Blue, an advocacy group that encourages suburban...
Republicans Better Watch Out for the Suburbs in Abortion Battle
“What happened in Kansas Tuesday night wasn't a shock wave; it was just the first wave. For all who wondered what the overturn of Roe v. Wade might mean for the midterms, take note: The suburban woman backlash has started.” Read Katie's op-ed on Newsweek.
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Okay, But Why is Gay Marriage at Risk?
The U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in 2015, but recent events have people wondering, is gay marriage at risk? The laws of the United States are supposed to protect and lift up all of us. For hundreds of thousands of gay couples across America, the right to get married isn’t abstract – it affects their daily lives, their finances, their health, and their family. Why would we turn back the clock on the social progress we’ve made? And why is banning gay marriage a priority for some people when there are so many real issues affecting Americans?
Okay, But Why is AI a concern?
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