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By Errin Haines and Amanda Becker, The 19th | When bulldozers began to tear down the East Wing of the White House this week to clear the way for President Donald Trump’s $250 million ballroom, historians raised alarms that important American history was being buried in the rubble, including chapters about previous first ladies and their roles uplifting women going back nearly a century.

Among the offices housed in the East Wing is the Office of the First Lady, first professionalized by Eleanor Roosevelt during her husband’s administration.

“To me, this demolition suggests that the current White House does not think that the first lady does anything of value,” said Katherine A.S. Sibley, professor of history. “I’m not talking about [Melania Trump] particularly, but the office itself—they’re not cognizant of the history.” 

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By Leseliey Welch | The U.S. has been doing birth backwards for decades, providing highly medicalized, costly care despite poor outcomes, and ignoring data that estimates at least 60 percent of U.S. pregnancies are low-risk and could be safely supported by midwives in a community setting.

Alice Walker writes, “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” It is this self-defeating pattern in the face of authoritarianism that the current U.S. federal government is counting on. And sadly, a pattern to which some of our most powerful institutions have succumbed. Fear and chaos are tried and true tools of oppression. Vision and courage, however, are exponentially stronger.

America’s birth care system can be reset, but not by fearfully resisting its collapse or playing in its rubble.

(This essay is part of a collection presented by Ms. and the Groundswell Fund highlighting the work of Groundswell partners advancing inclusive democracy.)

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By Teresa Cisneros Burton | California’s legislation breaks new ground, creating robust protections for patients and providers facing potential criminal investigations, prosecutions and civil lawsuits from states where abortion is banned—in addition to protection from anti-abortion threats. Authored by Assembly Majority Leader Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, AB 260 doesn’t just protect abortion access—it actively dismantles the infrastructure of intimidation that anti-choice activists have built to terrorize providers and track patients across state lines. 

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This last Supreme Court term was harrowing—from momentous merits decisions about the First Amendment, parental rights, trans rights and more, to the stream of shocking “shadow docket” decisions and its enabling of many of the Trump administration’s executive actions. What does the 2025-2026 term have in store for our nation? What do we think will advance through the Court? What do we think will come up, when it comes to the shadow docket? And perhaps most importantly, how will the Court choose to mediate the Trump administration’s continued onslaught of executive actions?

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