UPDATE: New from Strong Arm Press

UPDATE: The Lie the Binds, a book revealing how right-wing abortion propaganda is the lynchpin of Trumpism, is in the TOP TEN at Barnes & Noble. If you haven't ordered your copy yet, you can help get it to #1! The following is a message from Ryan Grim, DC Bureau Chief for the Intercept and co-founder of Strong Arm Press, a progressive non-profit publishing house. Spoiler alert: Strong Arm Press just released a great book and Ryan thinks you should buy it. I am incredibly proud to be able to share news of our latest book: The Lie That Binds, by Ilyse Hogue. It's a fast-moving history of what eventually became the movement to oppose abortion rights. The book's important for a number of reasons, but two are at the top of my list: It exposes the cynicism and fraud that underlies the movement. But it also points to a path not just toward winning the fight for reproductive freedom, but at the same time stripping Republicans of a critical organizing tool they've used to prop up their broader reactionary project. Put simply, abortion politics were not actually controversial in the 1970s, and even a majority of evangelicals supported the right to legal abortion access. But as school desegregation faded in the 1970s as a useful issue for right-wing movement leaders to organize white voters around, they went hunting for a replacement to keep the culture wars raging. That's just the beginning of this fascinating book, which draws on years of work done by NARAL's storied research team, where Hogue serves as president. The upshot is that if Democrats recognize that legal access to abortion is actually extraordinarily popular with the public, and take that fight on rather than run from it, they can undercut what has become a driver of the evangelical vote -- the lie that binds their coalition together -- which then breaks apart the forces that came together to elect Trump. If you want to use Amazon the book there too. -Ryan DONATE NOW Sent via ActionNetwork.org. To update your email address, change your name or address, or to stop receiving emails from Progress America, please click here.