Patty Murray

Yesterday, the anti-choice group Susan B. Anthony List endorsed GOP Senate candidate Dino Rossi. Not a surprise, considering Rossi hasn’t made a habit of concealing his anti-choice, anti-woman views – but don’t think for a minute that this endorsement wasn’t conveniently timed to coincide with an event for Democratic Sen. Patty Murray that will feature Gov. Chris Gregoire and Planned Parenthood Action Fund President Cecile Richards.

EMILY's List Chair Ellen R. Malcolm, just recorded this message from our Election War Room letting all the West Coast voters know how important it is for them to get out and vote before the polls close.

They might be few, but they sure are mighty.

The handful of women who attended yesterday's health care summit may have made for a small contingency of the attendees, but they didn't hold back when it came to voicing women's issues during the meeting.

We’ve been keeping close watch on H.R. 3, the GOP-supported bill that would be harmful to women and their families by limiting their access to abortion and overall reproductive health care. Earlier this week, Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Richard Blumenthal wrote for the EMILY’s List blog about this restrictive legislation and how dangerous it is for American women.

“When our soldiers sign up for service, there isn’t a waiting line and there shouldn’t be a waiting line when they come home and need a job."

Faced with increasingly likelihood of a government shutdown, EMILY’s List women in Congress are doing what they do best – representing our interests by telling it like it is. In their own words, here’s what our advocates have to say about Republican brinksmanship over funding Planned Parenthood, which has nothing to do with fiscal responsibility and everything to do with an anti-woman agenda.

As EMILY's List Political Director, I live and breathe polls: which candidate is up and which is down, which race is tightening, which congressional district is leaning Democratic this year.

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Blazing the trail. Breaking new ground. Making history.

That's exactly how our women in Congress have been described and, even though we know it's true, it sure is great when others take notice of their incredible work.

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Karl Rove's shadowy right-wing groups American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS have already poured $14 million in races this cycle, and now they've gone on another spending spree to the tune of $4.2 million.

In the final week of what has been an election cycle for the record books, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced they'll be dropping one last round of ad buys in Washington state: $1,000,000 to attack Sen. Patty Murray. President Obama, the First Lady, and our own EMILY's List Chair Ellen Malcom have all joined Sen. Murray to rally support. There's no question: this race is a national priority for both parties.