Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), who has already announced her presidential campaign, has introduced a bill that would double down on one of the rare successful tech upgrade programs in the government today: the U.S. Digital Service. Ultimately she wants this quietly effective program to go from federal to state and local level, and command a much larger $65 million yearly budget.
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‘The time is right’—a startup wants to get 100 progressive women elected to Congress
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After election results this November, we’re starting to see what happens when people outraged by their politicians’ sexism and transphobia run for office.
A new platform, built by a Google Politics alum and founding members of the Obama White House U.S. Digital Service, wants to make sure we don’t lose that momentumProject 100 is a tool to help progressive women get elected—and to help voters find the right progressive women to support and vote for.
“We developed an organization purpose-built to support the new wave of exciting women running around the country so women can actually win,” co-founder Danielle Gram said. Read more…
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