When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.

Mitt Romney has won the 2012 presidential nomination by promising Republicans that he would end a so-called 'culture of dependency' on welfare - welfare defined as 'free stuff' and food stamps for poor folks, not tax breaks for Big Oil or tax shelters for Bain executives.

When it comes to voting rights, Democrats push voter protection while Republicans shout voter fraud in a crowded polling place. Democrats think anyone who can vote should vote; Republicans think everyone who should vote can vote.

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

When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.

After President Obama's election, efforts at othering Obama quickly became about smearing his non-partisan allies and ambassadors.

Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, 'We should have boot camps.'