Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wilmot Collins, the newly elected mayor of Helena, Montana. She defeated the incumbent Robert Marshall, who had previously described himself as Virginia’s “chief homophobe” and proposed a “bathroom bill” – which would have prevented transgender people from using certain bathrooms. … prove the power of the resistance movement ...That string of Democratic wins can be attributed to the activist resistance to Trump, writes LA Kauffman here at the Guardian. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Women have been driving the resistance. Photograph: Erik M/Pacific/Barcroft ImagesAccording to Skocpol, “resistance groups usually revolve” around a pair of women who are friends.

Source: The Guardian November 11, 2017 10:52 UTC