You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.

If have to undergo preschool safety checks every morning, why does a random thug get to own an assault rifle?

I co-founded the DNC Veterans and Military Families Council in 2005.

President Obama and Democrats won a mandate to move us forward with jobs, healthcare reform, equality, and nation building here at home.

Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.

The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.

You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility.