Lorissa Rinehart
@lorissa.bsky.social
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Women’s historian, Author of First to the Front & Winning the Earthquake.
This Thursday, Annelise Riles of Everyday Ambassador and I will be getting to the bottom of what’s really behind the Trump Regime’s tilt toward global war, what the international law community is saying, and what We The Women can do to stop it. Tune in.
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I'm on NPR. Don't tell me dreams don't come true.
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Winning the Earthquake by Lorissa Rinehart
Spotify video
https://open.spotify.com/episode/70YUuXKKKYmnfkWm72BYFr?si=91d0b31a9c4e416d
8 days ago
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Let’s let freedom ring in the New Year, not with platitudes, but with demands. These are my resolutions for defending democracy and claiming the power we’re owed. I’d love to hear yours in the comments!
#womeninpower
#2026
#NYEResolutions
#USPolitics
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Damn The Torpedos & Other New Year's Resolutions
It’s been a tough year.
https://thefemalebodypolitic.substack.com/p/damn-the-torpedos-and-other-new-years
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Start your New Year off right with the FREE RepresentWomen Visionary Women’s 2026 Planner! Set your goals, create your agenda, and manifest your best year yet with inspiring herstories, milestones, and birthdays. Bonus! I’m incredibly honored my birthday is listed! Get yours today!
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Join me & Jane Lynch (yes THAT Jane Lynch) at Godmothers Books on Fri, Jan 16. We'll be talking about my new bio of Jeannette Rankin, America's 1st Congresswoman, unflinching advocate for democracy, and fierce peace activist.
#santabarbaraevents
#bookevents
#janelynch
#democracy
#goodbooks
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Godmothers Gather: Lorissa Rinehart & Jane Lynch
“An unlikely, against-all-odds tale of power, tenacity, and ambition."
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/godmothers-gather-lorissa-rinehart-jane-lynch-tickets-1977560449539?aff=oddtdtcreator
12 days ago
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The Trump Regime wants to destroy the United States Constitution because coded within it is the wisdom of Jigonhsasee, a Haudenosaunee woman, peacemaker, and the Mother of Nations. Find out more in this week’s edition of The Female Body Politic.
#womenshistory
#peacemakers
#USpolitics
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Blessed Are The Peacemakers
I have long had a love-hate relationship with Christmas.
https://thefemalebodypolitic.substack.com/p/blessed-are-the-peacemakers
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Looking for a last minute holiday gift? Consider Winning The Earthquake, my new biography of Jeannette Rankin, America’s first woman in Congress, who above all spent her life in service of the pursuit of peace on earth.
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/winning-th...
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Winning the Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become the First Woman in Congress|Hardcover
The first major biography of Jeannette Rankin, a groundbreaking suffragist, activist, and the first American woman to hold federal office.“Few members of Congress have ever stood more alone while bein...
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/winning-the-earthquake-lorissa-rinehart/1146657355
17 days ago
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Without Jigonhsasee, there would be no United States of America. In the face of so much evidence to the contrary, I still believe her spirit resides in our Constitution, and in that, the possibility for Peace On Earth.
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Blessed Are The Peacemakers
I have long had a love-hate relationship with Christmas.
https://thefemalebodypolitic.substack.com/p/blessed-are-the-peacemakers
20 days ago
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Local elections matter. Like, A LOT. Imagine if all of our city council members were like Phylicia Porter. That would transform American democracy. Full stop. And, it's the easiest place to effect change - and where your voice will be heard the loudest. Don't believe me? Listen to my latest.
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Rewriting the Blueprint of Local Democracy
Listen now | Phylicia Porter on Policy, Power, and the Emerge Seated Together Program
https://thefemalebodypolitic.substack.com/p/rewriting-the-blueprint-of-local
25 days ago
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Looking for the perfect gift for that special patriot in your life dead set on smashing the oligarchy? Look no further! Consider my bio of Jeannette Rankin, America’s 1st congresswoman who stood for workers, women, peace, & democracy, no matter how fiercely the winds of corporate power howled. 🎁📚
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Winning the Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become the First Woman in Congress
How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become the First Woman in Congress
https://bookshop.org/p/books/winning-the-earthquake-how-jeannette-rankin-defied-all-odds-to-become-the-first-woman-in-congress-lorissa-rinehart/adf46870f48b30ac?ean=9781250353047&next=t&next=t&affiliate=3214
about 1 month ago
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All I want for Christmas is a female president, 9 female Supreme Court Justices, and a female majority Senate and Congress. Please Santa? I’ve been so good this year!
about 1 month ago
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I will never not be pissed off that we don’t have high speed rail in this country.
about 1 month ago
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Lorissa Rinehart
Freedom of the Press Foundation
about 1 month ago
Every journalist hit with a stinger grenade or pepper ball by law enforcement while covering a protest is a message from the government: Stop showing the truth. Journalists must speak out.
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Journalists’ cameras become targets at Oregon protests
Federal agents in Portland are waging war on the press
https://freedom.press/issues/journalists-cameras-become-targets-at-oregon-protests/
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I’ll be live with the Alice Paul Center for Gender Justice this Thursday for their Champions of Equality series talking about Jeannette Rankin, democracy, and why her fight still matters.
#ChampionsOfEquality
#JeannetteRankin
#WomenLead
#GenderJustice
#Democracy
#WinningTheEarthquake
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Champions of Equality: Jeannette Rankin – Alice Paul Center for Gender Justice
https://www.alicepaul.org/champions-of-equality-jeannette-rankin/
about 1 month ago
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This Thursday! My greatest childhood aspirations come true!!! I'm talking about MY BOOK about an AMERICAN SHERO with CHILDHOOD MY SHERO State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson at my HOMETOWN LOCAL, WOMAN OWNED BOOKSTORE! I won. Come celebrate with me.
#Santabarbaraevents
#SantaBarbara
#womenshistory
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Winning The Earthquake: Book Talk & Signing
Please join us at Chaucer’s Books on Thursday, December 4, at 6 PM for a conversation with former State Senator
https://www.independent.com/events/winning-the-earthquake-book-talk-signing/
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Hey Santa Barbara! Please join me this Thursday at Chaucer's Books where I’ll be discussing my book, Winning The Earthquake, the biography of Jeannette Rankin with political trailblazer and Former State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson. I’d love to see you there!
www.independent.com/events/winni...
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Winning The Earthquake: Book Talk & Signing
Please join us at Chaucer’s Books on Thursday, December 4, at 6 PM for a conversation with former State Senator
https://www.independent.com/events/winning-the-earthquake-book-talk-signing/
about 1 month ago
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Lorissa Rinehart
Catherine Rampell
about 1 month ago
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The American Women's Rights Movement owes its very existence to Indigenous women.
#womensrights
#womenshistory
#Indigenousrights
#Thanksgiving
#americanpolitics
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A Nation Of Women
How the Lenape Shaped the American Women's Rights Movement
https://thefemalebodypolitic.substack.com/p/a-nation-of-women
about 1 month ago
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I know I'm a bit late to the game, but Clara Bingham's essay on the NYT bs podcast about women in the work place totally nails it.
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Did Feminism 'Fail' Women? Misogyny In The Trump Regime -- And The New York Times
The 51st anniversary of the Equal Credit Act – the law that for the first time in history enabled women to be treated like adults and not minors, both financially and in the workplace – came and went ...
https://www.nationalmemo.com/maga-antifeminist
about 1 month ago
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This violence cannot stand.
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about 1 month ago
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Lorissa Rinehart
about 1 month ago
Those damn Antifa orca whales!
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All justice is local.
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When Local Justice Becomes Democracy’s Front Line
A discussion with Emerge Gavel In Alum Huma Ahsan
https://thefemalebodypolitic.substack.com/p/when-local-justice-becomes-democracys
about 1 month ago
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I guess they're just saying the quiet part OUT LOUD now.
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about 1 month ago
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My book got reviewed in
@thespectator1828.bsky.social
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@josiecox.bsky.social
My happy death is guaranteed.
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How Jeannette Rankin became the first woman in Congress
For all the praise Rinehart offers Rankin, she resists the temptation to lionize a figure who was undeniably flawed
https://thespectator.com/book-and-art/jeannette-rankin-became-first-woman-congress/
about 1 month ago
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Y’all. Mamdani did not “charm” Trump. He Jedi mind tricked him. And I think we all need to acknowledge and respect that, for the good of the nation.
about 2 months ago
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They’re not coordinated, they’re orcastrated.
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North Atlantic alert as orcas begin targeting commercial ships in what experts describe as coordinated attacks
What began as rare encounters off the Iberian coast now shows up in captain’s logs from Galicia to the Strait of Gibraltar, and in wary chatter on VHF.
https://www.reteuro.co.uk/21-165258-north-atlantic-alert-as-orcas/
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
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Perfection.
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One of the most moving moments of my Winning The Earthquake book tour so far was sitting on Jeannette Rankin’s own couch during my swing through her adopted home of Georgia, with the pillow she so fittingly embroidered with the word VOTE.
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/winning-th...
about 2 months ago
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So honored to be included in this extraordinary line up of guests on
@deanobeidallah.bsky.social
! Thanks for having me to talk about my new bio of Jeannette Rankin, Winning The Earthquake.
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about 2 months ago
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#Atlanta
join me tonight at Inman Park Sanctuary to hear about a founding mother of the Progressive Movement Jeannette Rankin, the first woman in Congress, peace activist, and fierce advocate for democratic electoral reform.
#AtlantaEvents
#AtlantaBookCulture
#WomenInPolitics
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Winning the Earthquake Book Tour @ Inman Park United Methodist Church
https://secure.qgiv.com/for/winningtheearthquakebooktour/event/inmanpark/
about 2 months ago
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Valuable resource!!!!
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about 2 months ago
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Why are all these horrible people like Nuzzi and MTG running for cover all of a sudden? 🤔 🌊🐀⛵️
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about 2 months ago
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This Thursday! Please join me at Georgia Public Broadcasting for a live recording of The Narrative Edge Podcast as part of my Jeannette Rankin Foundation Winning The Earthquake Book Tour!
#womenshistory
#newbooks
#publicradio
#biography
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Winning the Earthquake: A Live Narrative Edge Podcast
Join us at 6:30 for a reception with light refreshments. The discussion (which will have video and audio recording) will begin at 7pm.
https://www.gpb.org/events/community/2025/11/19/winning-the-earthquake-live-narrative-edge-podcast
about 2 months ago
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Look Ma! I’m on Public Radio! I can’t tell you how proud I am to have been on
@mtpublicradio.bsky.social
The Write Question to talk about my book, Winning The Earthquake, the first comprehensive bio of Jeannette Rankin, America’s first woman in Congress and a Progressive trailblazer.
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TWQ Mini with Lorissa Rinehart: Jeannette Rankin, “a North star,” and ‘Winning the Earthquake’
This mini episode of ‘The Write Question’ is actually an excerpt of a much longer conversation with Lorissa Rinehart, author of ‘Winning the Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become ...
https://www.mtpr.org/podcast/the-write-question/2025-11-02/twq-mini-with-lorissa-rinehart-jeannette-rankin-a-north-star-and-winning-the-earthquake
about 2 months ago
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The rain right now in Southern California is insane.
about 2 months ago
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That’s a wrap! I had the most incredible time on the Jeannette Rankin Foundation Winning The Earthquake Montana tour!
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about 2 months ago
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Winning The Earthquake, my bio of America’s first woman in Congress and Progresssive trailblazer Jeannette Rankin is now available as an audiobook!
#womeninpolitics
#americanhistory
#progressivepolitics
#mustreads
#biography
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Winning the Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become the First Woman in Congress|Audiobook
The first major biography of Jeannette Rankin, a groundbreaking suffragist, activist, and the first American woman to hold federal office.“Few members of Congress have ever stood more alone while bein...
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/winning-the-earthquake-lorissa-rinehart/1146657355?ean=2940195333546
about 2 months ago
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I was so honored to be able to talk to Paul Zeitz on the Revolutionary Optimism Podcast about the enduring legacy of Jeannette Rankin who, against all odds, stood up, spoke up, and made a difference in the lives of all Americans. Please take a listen!
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Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds as America’s First Congresswoman
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Lu6B5NLvLrvXXtwnhdoQV?si=XEw8QbimToupRKNG28zNBg
about 2 months ago
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Kelly thinks it's ok for adult men to rape 15 y/o girls. Gaetz (allegedly) raped a 17 year old girl. Trump is hiding protecting child rapists. The GOP has no moral compass and no bottom to their depravity. WE THE WOMEN must stand united against this regime of rape.
about 2 months ago
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Daily Reminder: MAGA’s obsession with the Epstein Files didn’t start yesterday. It’s 100 years in the making. Not even Trump can outrun history. Think it’s about justice? Think again. Read my article to find out the true motivation behind this movement.
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Why MAGA Is Obsessed With Epstein
The Answer Lies In Women’s History.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-168568883
about 2 months ago
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“If you’re in a mood to thank someone, thank Amy Shuster.” That’s how
@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com
opened The Last Word just hours after the Oversight Committee unleashed the first torrent of emails linking Trump to Epstein. I’m absolutely in the mood to say thank you. We are in her debt.
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Lawrence: In newly public emails Epstein says 'of course' Trump 'knew about the girls'
YouTube video by MSNBC
https://youtu.be/Ik07YmrDJA4
about 2 months ago
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Megyn Kelly’s daughter is 14. According to Megyn, in one year it’s ok if an adult man has sex with her. Let that sink in.
about 2 months ago
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MAGA’s have obsession with Epstein has nothing to do with justice and everything to do with control. We need to understand this if we are to exploit this rift to its full extent.
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Why MAGA Is Obsessed With Epstein
The Answer Lies In Women’s History.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thefemalebodypolitic/p/why-maga-is-obsessed-with-epstein?r=1dg8x&utm_medium=ios
about 2 months ago
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St. Paul airport is playing Grimes and I’m not sure I’m ready yet
about 2 months ago
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I sold every single copy. Thank you Missoula!
about 2 months ago
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Ok, I know I’m a nerd. But ever since I was a like girl I’ve wanted to be interviewed on Public Radio. Well dreams come true.
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New biography highlights Jeannette Rankin’s 'radically principled' legacy
More than 100 years ago, Montana sent the first woman to Congress, before women had the right to vote. Jeannette Rankin blazed a trail for suffrage and the anti-war movement. Now, a new biography of R...
https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2025-11-06/new-biography-highlights-jeannette-rankins-radically-principled-legacy
2 months ago
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Tune into MT Public Radio’s The Write Question for my conversation with Rankin Foundation CEO Karen Sterk about Jeannette Rankin’s enduring legacy.
#womeninpolitics
#americandemocracy
#npr
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TWQ Mini with Lorissa Rinehart: Jeannette Rankin, “a North star,” and ‘Winning the Earthquake’
This mini episode of ‘The Write Question’ is actually an excerpt of a much longer conversation with Lorissa Rinehart, author of ‘Winning the Earthquake: How Jeannette Rankin Defied All Odds to Become ...
https://www.mtpr.org/podcast/the-write-question/2025-11-02/twq-mini-with-lorissa-rinehart-jeannette-rankin-a-north-star-and-winning-the-earthquake
2 months ago
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