Time cover features first-time female candidates on Women's March anniversary

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/369506-time-cover-features-first-time-female-candidates-on-anniversary-of

Time cover features first-time female candidates on Women's March anniversary
By Avery Anapol - 01/18/18 09:30 AM EST


The new Time magazine cover features the portraits of first-time female candidates who say they were inspired to run for office by the Women’s March one year ago.

The cover story, “The Avengers,” by Time correspondent Charlotte Alter, highlights individuals and groups that make up the grass-roots movement of women running for office nationwide.

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“Call it payback, call it a revolution, call it the Pink Wave, inspired by marchers in their magenta hats, and the activism that followed,” Alter writes.

“There is an unprecedented surge of first-time female candidates, overwhelmingly Democratic, running for offices big and small, from the U.S. Senate and state legislatures to local school boards.”

According to Time, four times as many Democratic women are running for House seats as Republican women, and twice as many Democrats in Senate races.

The cover story notes that while some women interviewed have long been involved in politics, many said they felt they underwent a “metamorphosis” due to President Trump’s election that inspired them to take part.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/369506-time-cover-features-first-time-female-candidates-on-anniversary-of

[demmiblue]

1. K&R

[bluecollar2]

2. Kick and rec...n/t

[marble falls]

3. Call it who I am voting for if I ever get the chance here in Texas. People who look like me ....

have really screwed things up. Its time to give real, honest diversity a chance.

[DownriverDem]

5. Why they vote repub

They vote repub because it's all about ending abortion rights to them. That's all they care about. That is why they excuse trump. Also they were promised pence if they voted for trump. Unfortunately pence would not be better. He is a radical religious RWNJ repub. Go Dem women!!!!!

[marble falls]

6. I so agree with you: Pence is the real truly scary one. Go Dem women!

[Nitram]

4. Excellent!

[llmart]

7. This needs more recs!

I heard Hillary on the Ellen show talk about the thousands of more women running for office since the debacle of the fake election.

I've said for decades that we need more women in office, especially at the higher levels. Women tend to be more collaborative and empathetic.

[Wounded Bear]

8. K & R...for visibility...

This sounds great to me.

[Lucinda]

9. KNR Thank you!

[zentrum]

10. I regret very much Alter's frame on all this.

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It's not "pay back" or avenging by "avengers". The dictionary definition of "avenge" is to "cause harm".

This is simply "justice". Setting things up for the first time in history in a Just way. It's equality. These women are the "equality seekers".

It's not vengeance and using language to present it this way makes the movement threatening instead of what is it: Good for everyone.

Feminists are not man-haters, which "avengers", brings to mind, but freedom-fighters.

[lunatica]

11. I thank Trump for this

Who knew he could be so great for our cause?

[raven mad]

12. GO GIRLS!

Got a revolution!

[Control-Z]

13. One of the best covers ever!

It must really piss off the deplorable women. They are worse than the men.

[Hekate]

14. They are giving me some hope