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In the winter months before Scott Walker really got rumbling with his extremist agenda -- destroying bargaining rights, public education and stripping communities of their power to fix things -- le

News events seem to have caught up with the speculation I raised in the August Labor Press and in a related online story last week about Emerge America: Has the time truly arrived for the widesprea

One of the issues facing women running for office is being labeled 'the outsider' or the 'risky choice' among candidates on a ballot.

I have been unable to get my head around the endless series of attacks on women, women's rights, reproductive rights, choice, and now the rights of working families.

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Karen Middleton, 415-344-0323 or 720-427-3239 kmiddleton@emergeamerica.org

The U.S. lags behind the world when electing women to office. Is that about to change?

Even as the recent primaries ushered in a new set of faces into the world of politics, a group of determined Bay Area women - many of them local community leaders - are working to equip other women

KTVU recently did a piece on the California gubernatorial race, asking why there are so few choices on the ballot.

A boot camp for Democratic women aims to decimate the gender gap in Oregon politics

Emerge America President & Founder, Andrea Dew Steele, gives her opinion on the importance of training candidates - and the difference it might have made in last night's special election.