A'shanti F. Gholar

President & CEO @emergeamerica. Nevadan. Astrology girlie. Iced coffee aficionado. My📕 “Still Rising” debuts March ‘27. 🪬

[A'shanti F. Gholar @AshantiGholar]

If you're on #Medicaid, Republicans won’t let you go to a doctor that provides abortions, even if you're going for something like cancer screenings.

#PlannedParenthood provides tons of other life-saving care for women. Republicans are doing everything they can to take that away.

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

Josh Hokit won the biggest fight of his career at the White House and decides to finish his interview by calling Michelle Obama a Man.

What a disgrace.

It takes a really small man to use his biggest moment to attack a woman by calling her a man.

Especially with the history behind calling black women men.

[Jaime Harrison @harrisonjaime]

Let’s see …

Karen Bass - first Black woman Speaker of the CA House of Representatives; Chair of the CBC; Chair of the Foreign Affairs Africa Subcommittee; short list for Joe Biden’s VP; Mayor of Los Angeles

Xavier Becerra - member of the CA legislature; Chair of the CHC; Vice Chair of the US House Democratic Caucus; member of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee; CA Attorney General; US Secty of Health and Human Services

These are ACCOMPLISHED leaders, glass ceiling breakers in their respective communities and not folks … “just hanging around.”

@KarenBassLA @XavierBecerra

[Jaime Harrison @harrisonjaime]

Putting folks on notice: the @scdp, led by @ChristaleSpain, with a little help from yours truly, did what folks said couldn’t be done: recruited Democrats to run in ALL 124 State House seats and every statewide and congressional race in South Carolina.

Every district. Every corner of this state. No hiding spots. No free rides. No uncontested power.

And let me say this plainly: we are about to walk out of this wilderness. The giant’s slumber is over.

For too long folks counted South Carolina out. Too long they banked on apathy, low turnout, division, and hopelessness.

But something is shifting. People are tired of the corruption. Tired of the chaos. Tired of politicians who serve themselves instead of the people.

We have the candidates. We have the fight. We have the energy.

Now we need the voters. Because if our people show up, South Carolina WILL change.

#LFG #WeWillNotGoBack

[Katherine Clark @WhipKClark]

Republicans are using YOUR money to:

1) Fund Trump’s ballroom.
2) Pay Jan. 6 insurrectionists.
3) Enrich themselves and their donors.

But not a penny to lower costs.

[Rachel Coyle @RachelCoyleOhio]

Last year, Ohio Republicans passed a law forcing every district to let LifeWise take kids from class during the school day. We fought for months to add basic protections to the bill — like a background check requirement for LifeWise staff

They ignored us.

[Jaime Harrison @harrisonjaime]

This is bigger than Democrats versus Republicans.

For many of us in South Carolina and across the South, this is personal.
It's about the sacrifices our parents and grandparents made so we could finally have a voice.

Now that voice is being divided and diminished for political power.

Watch.
Share.
Speak out.
We cannot go back.

https://t.co/2mYHQ87yAc

#scpol #votingrights #redistricting #SouthCarolina

[Jaime Harrison @harrisonjaime]

Glad you were in the South my friend! Thank you for blocking out the noise and focusing on this historic attempt to silence Black voices and diminish Black voting power. @thedemocrats

[A'shanti F. Gholar @AshantiGholar]

@sloyoroll01973 @sheajordansmith Here is an effort people can join!

[A'shanti F. Gholar @AshantiGholar]

Let’s do it!!! 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

[KT @sloyoroll01973]

This year's Juneteenth should be used to encourage Black people who are not registered to vote...TO REGISTER. Registration drives at all events. Reminds the racists that we aren't going anywhere.

[Emerge @EmergeAmerica]

Lauren Babb Tomlinson (@LBTforCongress) knew that as a mother she needed to step up and run for office.

In a conversation with Emerge President & CEO A’shanti Gholar (@ashantigholar) and Amanda McGonigle (@catsonacouch), the #EmergeAlum was galvanized by the horrors of today’s leadership to run for California’s 6th Congressional District. Because who would know better the price of groceries, the ridiculous gas prices, the unaffordable childcare, than a mom?

Although this was a part of the Women Talk Politics Day celebration, let’s keep the conversation going! Find our toolkit here: https://t.co/h6sfPi59UH

[A'shanti F. Gholar @AshantiGholar]

@kinney4dc @EricHolder Love this!!! 🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾

[Jaime Harrison @harrisonjaime]

Honored to join @EricHolder in supporting my dear friend @kinney4dc for DC Delegate.

[Kinney Zalesne @kinney4dc]

I am so honored and privileged to have the former Attorney General @EricHolder behind me in the DC Delegate's race.

He says that: “This moment demands more than another politician. Replacing the legendary Eleanor Holmes Norton requires someone with toughness, resilience and the ability to fight and win on the national stage.

Kinney Zalesne is that person.

She has Eleanor‘s backbone and persistence and the experience of getting results that DC urgently needs as Trump‘s attacks leave the city more vulnerable than at any point in my lifetime.”

Thank you so much for your endorsement, Eric!

[Chiamaka Nwakalor-Egemba @chef_amakaa]

We have spent years being told it is “just a period problem” while our skin, our weight, our mood, and our energy were all falling apart. Today, the medical world finally admitted you were right.
PCOS is now PMOS.

[Emerge @EmergeAmerica]

NEW: @KamalaHarris is joining today’s webinar on redistricting. 🖥️ Hear from former Vice President Harris alongside #EmergeAlums Tennessee State Sen. London Lamar, Georgia State Rep. Saira Draper (@SairaForGeorgia), South Carolina State Sen. Tameika Isaac Devine (@TIDEVINE), Alabama State Sen. Merika Coleman, and Louisiana State Rep. Mandie Landry (@votelandry) at our emergency #LeadersMatter salon, tonight, May 13 at 6pm ET.

RSVP: https://t.co/CaTQWQ1JhU

[Jaime Harrison @harrisonjaime]

.@Sen_JoeManchin and @kyrstensinema will go down in history as two of the people who stood at the doorway and blocked the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act when democracy and Black political power were under assault.

History teaches us what happens when leaders choose political comfort over moral courage. The Hayes Tilden Compromise ended Reconstruction and unleashed nearly a century of disenfranchisement, terror, and the systematic destruction of Black political power across the South.

Different era. Different names. Same devastating consequences.

When people ask how we got here, their failure to lead and act in that moment will be part of the answer.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

[Jaime Harrison @harrisonjaime]

100% agree!

[Emerge @EmergeAmerica]

Emerge President & CEO @AshantiGholar joined @ElizabethPrann on @thehill's Raising America to talk about the women who already are, and are in the process of, stepping up to run for office. https://t.co/TM2o7xau5q

[Emerge @EmergeAmerica]

Emerge President & CEO @ashantigholar will speak at the Black Policy Conference at @Kennedy_School, alongside @knicole_a, and President of @NCLRights Imani Rupert-Gordon. RSVP: https://t.co/KikmglsE7H