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**The Electorette**

The Electorette is one of the longest running feminist podcasts, and offers analyses and solutions to the world’s biggest political and social challenges, all through the lens of women. Hosted by Jennifer Taylor-Skinner, The Electorette regularly features award-winning authors, politicians, academics, activists, and organizers like the founder of Mom’s Demand Action, Shannon Watts, Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and author and MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ Fellow, Nicole Fleetwood. The Electorette is independently owned and operated—please support us by subscribing to the podcast on your favorite platform!

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US Census Data & Building Power Via State Legislatures with Lala Wu Sep 13, 2021

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Lala Wu, the Cofounder and Executive Director of Sister District,

Lala Wu, the Cofounder and Executive Director of Sister District, an organization focused on building progressive political power via state legislative seats, discusses the outcome of the 2020 Census Data. Additionally, we discuss how the GOP has been able to use the census data over the past decade to build unfair redistricting maps, and use their power in state legislatures to create Draconian laws like the recent Texas Heartbeat abortion can. Lastly, we talk about what Democrats and Progressives can do to counter the Republican power grab.

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Partisan composition of state legislatures

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Transform State Legislatures to 51% Women's Representation by 2024 Jul 05, 2021

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In this two-part episode, Erin Vilardi, the Founder and CEO of the Vote Run Lead, discusses the organization's plans to elect women to the majority of state legislative seats by 2024, with their RUN/51 campaign. In Part 2 of this episode, Rhonda Briggins, Co-Founder, and Board Member of Vote Run Lead, discusses the unique barriers women face when they seek elected office, and how Vote Run Lead trains them to run successful campaigns, and to win.

Vote Run Lead's Run/51 Project

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Tatenda Musapatike: Mobilizing Voters from Underrepresented Communities with Technology Jun 14, 2021

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Tatenda Musapatike, the Founder and CEO of the Voter Formation Project, discusses how they leverage technology, and employ unconventional digital strategies to mobilize voters in underrepresented communities. Before launching the Voter Formation Project, Musapatike was with AnotherAcronym.org (an org we discuss at the beginning of the episode), a nonprofit that creates digital infrastructures to build progressive movements.

Voter Formation Project

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Analyzing the Latest Data on Anti-Asian Hate Crimes with Janelle Wong May 17, 2021

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Janelle Wong is an AAPI Victory Alliance board member and professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland and a core faculty member in its Asian American Studies Program. In this episode, she delves into recent survey results and resulting data around anti-Asian hate incidents, and hate crimes. We also discuss these incidents in the broader context of racial bias in America, as well as, building multi-racial coalitions.

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DATA REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE: Anti-Asian Hate Incidents and the Broader Landscape of Racial Bias

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Lorelei Williams, Senior Vice President of Grants Programs for Comic Relief (Red Nose Day) May 10, 2021

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Lorelei Williams, Senior Vice President of Grants Programs for Comic Relief US, a nonprofit organization which uses the power of entertainment to create a more just world, and a world free, discusses America's crisis of child poverty, and food insecurity. We discuss how the American Rescue Plan addresses child poverty, and what's needed to create sustainable, long-term change to address his crisis.

Comic Relief is also the organization behind Red Nose Day.

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Karen Boykin-Towns, Vice Chairman of the NAACP Discusses Racial Equity & the Biden Administration Apr 19, 2021

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Karen Boykin-Towns, Vice Chairman of the NAACP discusses the goals around racial equity outlined by the NAACP for the Biden/Harris administration. We also discuss how recent events involving police violence, the Derek Chauvin trial, and the death Daunte Wright have elevated the urgency for police reform and police accountability.

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Jaslin Kaur, Candidate for New York City Council District 23 Mar 31, 2021

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Jaslin Kaur, candidate for New York City Council District 23, if elected would be the first South Asian person and youngest woman ever elected to the New York City Council. In our conversation, Jaslin explains what drives her leadership, and why she was inspired to run for office in the first place.

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The White House Gender Policy Council with Jennifer Klein Mar 31, 2021

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Jennifer Klein, the Executive Director, and Co-Chair of the newly formed White House Gender Policy Council discusses the administration's plans to address gender-based inequality. The goal of the Gender Policy Council is to advance a government wide agenda to address systemic factors that have lead to gender-based inequality for women and girls. They will tackle everything from pay inequality, gender-based violence, and the childcare and caregiving crisis, just to name a few.

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Andrea Mercado, Executive Director of Florida Rising Mar 22, 2021

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Andrea Mercado, the Executive Director of Florida Rising, an independent organization working to increase the voting and political power of Florida's black and brown communities, discusses what went wrong for Democrats during the 2020 election cycle, and what they can do to flip the sunshine state Blue during the upcoming midterms, and the 2024 election.

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Tiffany Gardner, CEO of Reflect.US Mar 15, 2021

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Tiffany Gardner, CEO of Reflect.US, a nonpartisan coalition working to increase the number of women in office, looks back at the 2020 election cycle with an analysis of how women candidates faired at all levels of government.

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