Efforts will be online and off, and it will work closely with Pantsuit Nation, the Facebook group turned community organization that began in 2016 to support Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid. Supermajority also aims to connect women across racial, generational and socioeconomic lines.

“It is about creating a home for women’s activism,” said Richards, noting that the name Supermajority is a nod to the fact that women make up the majority of the United States population.

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Women “are still treated as a special interest group,” said Poo, referring to issues thought of as women’s issues, or “soft issues”: voting rights, gun control, paid family leave, equal pay and others. “It’s time for women to run things,” she said.

Despite historic gains made in the 2018 midterm election — a record number of women were voted into Congress — women make up only a quarter of congressional seats, far from their proportion in the population. Now, a record number of women, including four senators, are seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.

What sets Supermajority apart from the many other groups with a similar mission, like the Women’s March or even the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, Planned Parenthood’s nonpartisan political action committee put in place before Richards’ tenure began in 2006?

It doesn’t matter, said the trio, because it isn’t a competition — it’s about power in numbers. We want to “add oxygen” to other groups’ efforts, Poo said.

“Women are really the superheroes of this moment,” Garza added. “We’re sending out the bat signal.”

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