Mara Gandal-Powers · [email protected]

January 17, 2020 at 10:41 PM

BREAKING NEWS: Birth control access is at stake.

NWLC We will never stop fighting.   Dear John, Let me be clear: they’re coming for our birth control. But we’re not going to let them win. Today, the Supreme Court announced it will hear a case that could threaten birth control coverage. The Trump-Pence admin…

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  Hannah Finnie · [email protected]

January 16, 2020 at 4:01 PM

About Meghan Markle and her husband

NWLC 👑🏰   Hi John, New year, new….sletter! Rolls right off the tongue, right John?! As we settle into the new year, a lot of people take the time to reflect and make resolutions for the year ahead. Some people want to read more, others want to use their phone…

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  Mary-Frances Wain · [email protected]

December 31, 2019 at 8:05 PM

Which side of history will you be on?

NWLC Hours left: show your support for women and girls when it matters most.   Dear John, As my last note to you in 2019, I have a personal plea: please don’t miss this special triple match opportunity. This will be your LAST CHANCE this year to make three …

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  Fatima Goss Graves · [email protected]

December 31, 2019 at 1:03 PM

Last chance to TRIPLE your impact for women and girls

NWLC The stakes are high and the clock is ticking — donate now.       Your Supporter Status Report Name: John xxxxxx Email: [email protected] 2019 December Campaign Contribution: PENDING Suggested donation: $25 All gifts triple-mat…

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  Debra Katz  · [email protected]

December 30, 2019 at 9:30 PM

Surviving Survivor

NWLC No one should have to face sexual harassment.    Dear John, “You were right.” That sentence isn’t what corporations typically say to my clients. But recently, one of them got to hear it on national television. I’ve spent my life’s work protecting the righ…

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  Jodi Michael · [email protected]

December 30, 2019 at 3:49 PM

John Contribution Status:

NWLC Match offer unclaimed — expires 12/31!   Dear John, I’m spending the last days before 2020 crunching numbers, and unfortunately I don’t see your name on my list just yet: The last few days of the year are a critical budgeting time for us. Soon, we’ll kno…

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  Sharyn Tejani, · [email protected]

December 29, 2019 at 3:15 PM

Why I fight (and why I need you fighting, too)

NWLC Double your impact in the fight for gender justice — show up now.   Dear John, It is gut-wrenching to hear a fast food worker earning an unlivable wage talk about unwanted touching, taunting, and so much worse — and how they feel no one is there to suppor…

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  Jane Sherburne · [email protected]

December 26, 2019 at 4:19 PM

Who actually matches donations?

NWLC Spoiler: I do.   Dear John, I’m sure you’ve been getting emails recently promising that a group of donors will be matching any gift made before the end of the year. If you have ever wondered who those donors are, well, I’m one of them. As the board chair …

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  Michelle Banker, Senior Counsel, NWLC · [email protected]

December 21, 2019 at 4:30 PM

Stepping into the courtroom

NWLC Get in the fight with us — and double your impact — right now.    Dear John, I can tell you exactly what it’s like to step into a courtroom and fight on behalf of millions of women and girls. It’s nerve-wracking... daunting, if I’m honest. But also? Impor…

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  Hannah Finnie · [email protected]

December 19, 2019 at 5:31 PM

This is a dog email. 🐕🐶

NWLC Justice fur her. Justice fur all.   John, Fighting for gender justice can be ruff, so as we approach the tail end of the year, we figured: why not just send an email about dogs? Sure, we’ll talk about the pawtriarchy some, but we’ll really be spending mo…

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  Fatima Goss Graves · [email protected]

December 19, 2019 at 2:01 AM

On Impeachment

NWLC The rule of law matters   Dear John, Normally our emails are filled with pithy updates, feminist must-dos, action alerts for your members of Congress and the like. But tonight I’m writing not for those reasons, but to share our thoughts about the impeachm…

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  Fatima Goss Graves · [email protected]

December 18, 2019 at 3:31 PM

It’s time to change the narrative.

NWLC Double your impact in the fight for gender justice.   Dear John, This year has been full of headlines like these. Since Day 1, President Trump and his anti-women allies in Congress have made it their mission to go after our rights, wherever and however t…

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  Fatima Goss Graves · [email protected]

December 16, 2019 at 9:46 PM

This is why we fight (victories inside!)

NWLC Here’s some good news we all need ✊✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿   Dear John, This year has been a whirlwind. We have faced attacks on our reproductive freedom, attempts to undermine Title IX, assaults on low-income families, and an unassailable wage gap. Often, it feels li…

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  Uma Mehta Iyer · [email protected]

December 12, 2019 at 4:07 PM

DEADLINE: Order your patriarchy smashing tote by midnight

NWLC These totes are totes disappearing - don’t miss out on your chance to snag one!   Dear John, Your chance to be the proud owner — or gifter! — of this trail-blazing tote is about to slip away. Get your order in fast. We have a limited supply — and if you …

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  Hannah Finnie · [email protected]

December 11, 2019 at 9:38 PM

When the Trump administration says it’s putting on a “working families” summit 🤔

NWLC Yikes.   John, When we heard the White House was putting on a summit on paid leave and child care affordability later this week, we probably had the same thought you’re having right now, John: uh-oh. Because given this administration’s track record on wo…

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  Uma Mehta Iyer · [email protected]

December 11, 2019 at 4:35 PM

‘Tis the season to smash the patriarchy (tote inside!)

NWLC Help fuel the fight for gender justice and get your tote today!   GET YOURS → Dear John, We have a limited number of these awesome, one-of-a-kind totes and I wanted to make sure you got a chance to snag one before they disappear! Ma…

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  Mahzarine Chinoy, VP for Finance · [email protected]

December 3, 2019 at 10:09 PM

A few hours left to unlock $40,000

NWLC We need you and 329 others to unlock a critical $40,000 match…     CAMPAIGN UPDATE: 329 more supporters needed to unlock $40,000 in critical matching funds to continue to fight on the frontlines for the rights of women and girls across the country >> …

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  Fatima Goss Graves · [email protected]

December 3, 2019 at 6:10 PM

I’m still with Anita Hill

NWLC This time of year is critical, and your gift could help us unlock $40,000 right now. Dear John, Did you see Anita Hill’s message? She’s been an incredible champion for the National Women’s Law Center for years, as a board member and an advocate for gender justice, and her email r…

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  Anita Hill for National · [email protected]

December 3, 2019 at 1:11 PM

What Giving Tuesday means to me

NWLC Today’s the day: Help unlock $40,000 needed to protect women’s rights.   Dear John, This Giving Tuesday comes at an urgent moment. The Trump-Pence administration is systematically attacking the reproductive rights and health care needs of women, communit…

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  Anna Chu · [email protected]

December 2, 2019 at 9:47 PM

Tell Your Senators: Stop Pitlyk

NWLC The American Bar Association gave Sarah Pitlyk a ‘Not Qualified’ rating.   Dear John, We’re running out of time to keep an unqualified, unfit extremist off our federal courts. The Trump administration and its Republican allies are trying to radicalize our co…

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  [email protected] · [email protected]

December 2, 2019 at 5:04 PM

Not ever, ever, ever giving up on women

NWLC You are the key to unlocking the match 🔑 John — We just opened the Giving Tuesday Challenge and already 50 individuals have answered the call. It’s a great start, but to unlock that $40,000 match we need to get to 500 — which means Every. Single. Donor. Counts. Your gift can unlo…

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  Mary-Frances Wain · [email protected]

December 1, 2019 at 4:33 PM

Help us unlock $40,000 in critical matching funds to fight for women and girls TODAY

NWLC John, your gift can help unlock the funds we need to FIGHT.   BIG news, John. Our fight to stop the Trump administration’s mounting attacks on women and girls just got supercharged: A generous group of donors has offered to match up to $40,000 to the Nati…

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  Fatima Goss Graves · [email protected]

November 29, 2019 at 4:46 PM

No Black Friday sales pitch here

NWLC Millions of women don’t need great deals today. They need a better pay every day. Dear John, Your inbox is, no doubt, stuffed with offers for things to buy today. This email is not one of them. No, this email is for all the cashiers, folks stocking and restocking shelves, restaur…

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  Hannah Finnie · [email protected]

November 20, 2019 at 6:32 PM

Pay me what you owe me.

NWLC Paguenme lo que me deben.   Hi John, Don’t act like you forgot, John: it’s Latina Equal Pay Day! Today we recognize that Latinas nationally are paid just 54 cents for every dollar paid to white men 🤔. That means Latina women have to work nearly 23 months…

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  Mary-Frances Wain · [email protected]

November 15, 2019 at 6:17 PM

Justice for Her. Justice for All.

NWLC Inspired   Dear John, Earlier this week, supporters across the National Women’s Law Center community came together in D.C. for our annual gala. Each year, this celebration gives us the chance to reflect on the past year and recharge for the fights to com…

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  Melissa Boteach · [email protected]

November 13, 2019 at 5:46 PM

Tell Congress: Tax. The. Patriarchy.

NWLC Tax justice is gender justice is racial justice.   Dear John, Until 1995, there wasn’t a single woman on the Senate committee that’s responsible for writing our tax code. That means that until 1995, our tax code was written predominantly by men — mostly …

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  Leila Abolfazli · [email protected]

November 12, 2019 at 4:55 PM

Tell Congress to Support the Put Patients First Act

NWLC Our care should always come before a provider’s personal beliefs.   Dear John, Last week, we shared some amazing news with you. We sued the Trump administration over its discriminatory rule that would have let personal beliefs dictate patient care, a…

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  Maya Raghu · [email protected]

November 11, 2019 at 7:36 PM

Demand Pay Data Collection Before It’s Too Late!

NWLC Equal pay can’t wait. Dear John, We have less than 24 hours to demand that the Trump administration continue collecting pay data from employers. Without it, it’ll be even harder to uncover pay discrimination and close the gender wage gap! That’s why we need you to submit a co…

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  Gretchen Borchelt  · [email protected]

November 6, 2019 at 10:01 PM

BREAKING VICTORY: We STOPPED the Trump-Pence rule allowing personal beliefs to dictate patient care!

NWLC We went to court and demanded that the administration put patients first. We won.   Dear John, Time and again, it’s been Trump-Pence vs. Patients. But today, we won! When the Trump-Pence administration finalized its discriminatory rule that would have le…

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  Hannah Finnie · [email protected]

October 31, 2019 at 3:16 PM

Ghosts, Goblins, and Gender Justice

NWLC Boo! 🎃👻   Hi John, There are a lot of spooky things about Halloween: ghosts, goblins, the sheer amount of cultural appropriation squeezed into just one night. You want to know what’s scariest of all this Halloween, John? An inundation of Trump-appointed …

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  Sarah David Heydemann · [email protected]

October 22, 2019 at 9:01 PM

Tell Congress to Support the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act NOW!

NWLC Demand stronger protections against pregnancy discrimination!   Dear John, Congress passed the Pregnancy Discrimination Act more than 40 years ago, yet for far too many people, being pregnant at work still leads to being fired, pushed on to unpaid leave …

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  Melissa Boteach · [email protected]

October 18, 2019 at 2:31 PM

Time’s Running Out to Stop Trump’s Attack on Housing.

NWLC One. More. Day.   Hi John, Today is the LAST day to do everything we can to stop the Trump administration’s latest attempt to roll back our civil rights — this time on a key tool for fighting housing discrimination called disparate impact theory. …

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  Maya Raghu · [email protected]

October 15, 2019 at 8:36 PM

Tell Congress to Pass the BE HEARD in the Workplace Act!

NWLC On this #MeToo Anniversary, demand stronger protections against workplace harassment and discrimination! Dear John, Today marks two years since #MeToo went viral, when survivors all over the country put a spotlight on the prevalent and insidious nature of sexual violence and hara…

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  Hannah Finnie · [email protected]

October 7, 2019 at 3:31 PM

On the Basis of Sex

NWLC Yup, still a thing.   Hi John, Sabrina here — wait no, that’s not right. I guess I’ve gotten just as used to hearing from Sabrina and relying on her #hottakes on all things gender justice as you have, John! Well, the bad news is I’m not Sabrina. The good…

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  Gretchen Borchelt · [email protected]

October 4, 2019 at 5:01 PM

BREAKING: Supreme Court Takes Up Abortion Case

NWLC Precedent is on our side — but we must be vigilant.   Dear John, Today, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to review an erroneous lower court decision on abortion. In the case — called June Medical Services v. Gee — Louisiana is defending an anti-abortion la…

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  Emily Martin · [email protected]

September 30, 2019 at 2:31 PM

Tell the EEOC: Don’t Hide the Wage Gap

NWLC It has been a RIDE.   Dear John, Despite Ivanka Trump’s claims to the contrary, the Trump administration must REALLY hate equal pay. Back in 2017, the administration violated the law by abruptly abandoning the EEO-1 pay data collection initiative begun u…

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  Melissa Boteach · [email protected]

September 26, 2019 at 2:56 PM

Help Stop Covert Discrimination In Housing.

NWLC Who you are shouldn’t determine where you can live.   Hi John, Here are the numbers on “disparate impact theory” — a key civil rights protection safeguarding people from discrimination in housing: 45: How many years disparate impact theory has been a cr…

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  Emily Martin · [email protected]

September 16, 2019 at 2:16 PM

DEADLINE: Comments Due to the DOL TODAY!

NWLC Fight back against discrimination. Dear John, Today is the deadline to submit a comment to the Trump administration about its outrageous and harmful proposed rule that would allow employers who are federal contractors to discriminate against their employees under the guise of “re…

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  Emily Martin · [email protected]

September 10, 2019 at 2:16 PM

Tell Congress to Pass the BE HEARD in the Workplace Act NOW!!

NWLC Demand strengthened protections against workplace harassment and discrimination!   Dear John, How do we actually put a stop to workplace harassment once and for all? We have to fundamentally change the systems and laws that so often work against those wh…

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  Emily Martin · [email protected]

September 9, 2019 at 6:32 PM

Tell the DOL: Don’t Use Religion to Discriminate Against Working People

NWLC Go on the record opposing the Trump administration’s blatant attempts to discriminate.   Dear John, Since President Trump took office, his administration has proposed numerous regulations that would allow employers and businesses to use their personal be…

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  Melissa Boteach · [email protected]

August 28, 2019 at 3:16 PM

Take Action: Save SNAP from Trump!

NWLC Tell the USDA that the proposed rule to restrict eligibility for SNAP is a harmful attack against women, children, and families.   Dear John, Last month, the Trump administration published a new proposed rule targeting women, girls, and working families …

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  Gretchen Borchelt  · [email protected]

August 8, 2019 at 7:16 PM

Demand Trump & Pence Stop Their Proposed Rule to Roll Back Health Care Protections

NWLC Five days left to submit your comment to tell this administration to put patients first.   "John, our records show you’ve had an abortion, we can’t help you.” “I won’t treat trans people — John, please seek care somewhere else.” “John, since you are preg…

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  Sabrina Joy Stevens · [email protected]

August 6, 2019 at 6:16 PM

Need some good news?

NWLC States are answering #MeToo’s call to action.   John, the violence this weekend in Chicago, El Paso, and Dayton was just the latest heartbreaking reminder that our country needs to get serious about solving our appalling gun violence problem. Text MITCH …

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  Yumhee Park · [email protected]

July 31, 2019 at 3:11 PM

Tell the Trump-Pence Administration: Stop the Roll Back of the Health Care Rights Law

NWLC If you ever need health care, this rule could impact you. Demand this administration put patients first.   Dear John, Sometimes, discrimination isn’t obvious. A couple of years ago, my mom, whose first language is Korean, called to tell me about a doctor…

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  Kelli Garcia · [email protected]

July 23, 2019 at 4:31 PM

FREE WEBINAR TMRW @ 7 PM ET: How Millennials and Gen Z Can Fight Back Against Discrimination in Health Care

NWLC Find out how the Health Care Rights Law protects you and how to fight back against the recent attacks on the law.   Dear John, Thanks for reading my message last week and sharing your story about facing discrimination when trying to access health car…

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  Kelli Garcia · [email protected]

July 19, 2019 at 2:31 PM

FW: Tell the Trump-Pence Administration: Don’t Roll Back the Health Care Rights Law

NWLC Our health care matters too much to not get involved. John, I know firsthand what it’s like to be faced with a doctor who seemed to be treating the stereotype of a Latinx woman, rather than treating me, the patient in front of him. If you, like me, have ever been afraid of being …

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  Stephanie Hernandez · [email protected]

July 17, 2019 at 8:31 PM

Take Action: Congress Votes on Raising the Minimum Wage TOMORROW!

NWLC It’s your last chance to tell Congress to pass the Raise the Wage Act!   Dear John, The House of Representatives is voting on the Raise the Wage Act TOMORROW! If the bill passes, we are one step closer to a $15 federal minimum wage — and it’s about t…

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  Sabrina Joy Stevens · [email protected]

July 16, 2019 at 4:48 PM

When abortion rights are under attack...

NWLC What do we do? Rise up & fight back!   Hey, John. The Trump administration’s relentlessly cruel attacks on immigrants of color are at odds with everything we believe in. If you’re outraged want to do something about it, check out this list of ways to…

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  Sarah · [email protected]

July 10, 2019 at 8:06 PM

Why I Don’t Have Access to No-Cost Birth Control

NWLC Congress can right this wrong.   Dear John, I found out the hard way that non-active duty servicemembers and their families don’t have access to the same no-cost birth control coverage as everyone else. The fact that military families like mine have to t…

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  Emily Martin · [email protected]

July 10, 2019 at 2:34 PM

FW: It’s Time to Raise the Minimum Wage NOW

NWLC Congress must pass the Raise the Wage Act.     Dear John, Congress has failed to raise the federal minimum wage for more than a decade, while women and families are struggling to afford the rising costs of basic needs like food, shelter, and medical care. Working…

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