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Year-Old ‘Resistance’ Now Sets it Sights on the Ballot Box

Washington, they’re hold-
ing a “Power to the Polls”
rally in the Nevada city on
Sunday, launching a voter
registration tour and put-
ting out the message that
the next step is all about
votes.
“The year 2018 is really
where the rubber meets
the road,” says Linda Sar-
sour, one of the original or-
ganizers along with Bland.
A year on, Sarsour says
what she’s proudest of is
that “the march set the
tone for the resistance ... if
you look at so many of the
fights that happened this
year, whether it be around
health care, the tax bill, the
dreamers, if you really look,
it was led by women.”
The group pointedly de-
cided to spend the anni-
versary in a battleground
state, won narrowly by Hill-
ary Clinton in November.
“If it can happen in Ne-
vada, it can happen any-
where,” she says.
In this Jan. 21, 2017, file photo, a crowd fills Independence Avenue during the Women’s March on Washington, in Washington. The
astounding sea of women in bright pink “pussy hats” in Washington, across the nation and beyond, often described as the largest Nevada is also, she says, at
single-day protest in U.S. history, became the face of the resistance to Trump and his agenda. It inspired thousands of women to do the crossroads of crucial is-
something they’d never done before: explore a run for political office. sues like immigration and
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon) gun control; in October, it
By JOCELYN NOVECK with her own message. women to do something the nation, with men and suffered the deadliest mass
BILL BARROW “Who wants to join me?!?” they’d never done before: women raising money and shooting in modern U.S. his-
Associated Press she asked. explore a run for political knocking on doors and sup- tory.
The idea first came to Tere- Turns out, a whole lot of office. porting hundreds of pro- Fueling these electoral am-
sa Shook, a Hawaii retiree, people did. The jolt of energy, and gressive candidates — is bitions is an infusion of first-
in the hours after Donald The astounding sea of unity, also laid the cultural setting its sights on the 2018 time women candidates.
Trump was elected. women in bright pink “pussy groundwork, many believe, midterm elections, hoping Emily’s List, which helps
Perhaps, she suggested to hats” — half a million in for the “#MeToo” phenom- to deal the White House Democratic, pro-abortion
a few friends on Facebook, Washington alone, and enon to catch fire later in and the all-GOP govern- rights candidates run for
women could march on many more in hundreds of the year, calling powerful ment in Washington a per- office, has proudly kept
Washington to show the marches elsewhere — be- men to account for sexual manent setback. a tally all year of women
depth of their resistance. came the face of the re- misconduct. Next stop for the Women’s who’ve expressed interest
Two days later, New York sistance to Trump and his Now, the loosely defined March organizers: Las Ve- in running, via its website.
fashion designer Bob Bland agenda. “resistance movement” — gas.
joined the call for action It inspired thousands of a network of groups around Rather than returning to Continued on Page 3