The Women’s March “Power to the Polls” rally unfolded 2,417 miles from the Capitol, in a city where the daily work of Washington feels even further away. The shutdown, which many activists said they had not expected, had clarified just what those politics were. In Democratic thinking, Nevada had become Exhibit A in how the party could overwhelm Republican voters by activating the base. They’re acculturated, and they know the language, and that changed minds.”At Sunday’s rally, and around Las Vegas, organizers were working once again to make dreamers famous. Tamika Mallory, another co-founder of the Women’s March, used her speech to tell white women that they had “stood on the backs” of black women.

Source: Washington Post January 22, 2018 00:21 UTC