'It's a Women's Wave Coming.' The Women's March Is Turning Into a True Political Force

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Dixie O’Connell’s older brother cast a write-in ballot for Mickey Mouse in the 2016 presidential election. Fifteen months later, O’Connell marched in the 2018 New York Women’s March with a sign that said, “I’m pissed.”

She couldn’t vote in 2016, but O’Connell is already doing everything she can to cancel out her brother’s throwaway ballot. She and her friends, Kaitlyn Viola and Briana Taddeo, both 17, plan to march whenever they can, make phone calls for candidates, and encourage their older relatives to vote responsibly. And this November, they’ll be showing up to the polls. “I’m definitely going to vote,” says O’Connell, who canvassed and phone banked for Bernie Sanders during the 2016 election, “even if I don’t have a candidate I strongly believe in.” (Taddeo, who will still be 17 in November, plans to convince her homebound grandmother to vote in her stead.)

One year after the Women’s March became the largest single-day protest in U.S. history, O’Connell and her friends represent the movement’s new direction: Doing anything and everything to wrestle control of Congress from a Republican Party that has largely worked to advance President Trump’s agenda. An unprecedented surge of Democratic women are running for office this year, but that’s just the crest of the “Pink Wave.” In interviews with some of those among the estimated 120,000 people who marched in New York City Saturday, a pattern emerged. If they’re not running, they’re organizing. If they’re not organizing, they’re donating. If they’re not donating, they’re voting. Nobody is doing nothing.

The official Women’s March organizers have translated this motivation into a new strategy for 2018: Power to the Polls, a nationwide voter registration drive targeting first-timers in swing states ahead of the midterms. Marchers have created their own ways to expand their political impact, too.

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http://time.com/5111480/womens-march/

[Skittles]

1. two ladies just knocked on my door, representing two gals running for office

I assured them I would be voting!

[Wounded Bear]

2. People were worried last year...

commenting that there wasn't enough organizing and "signing up" going on.

This looks like those fears were unfounded. I see a lot of activism going on. Anybody paying attention can see the thousands of women running for office this year, and the number of women and men pledging to support and work for candidates.

I look forward to a wave of progressive women taking over Congress.

[L. Coyote]

3. Power to the Polls, a nationwide voter registration drive targeting first-timers in swing states

is going to sweep the trumpistas out. We will have millions of new voters in the mid-term, a real first.

[trueblue2007]

4. remember ladies ..... THEY DON'T OWN YOU !!!

[bluestarone]

5. i feel the power

LET'S ROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[xmas74]

6. My 17 year old daughter

Registered yesterday while at a march. I was very proud.