Ever since the day of desolation when Donald Trump was elected, women have been re-energized.

Let's call it radicalized in the political sphere. Gloria Steinem says that in her 80 plus years,

she's never seen anything like it. And women will be a crucial voting block come November.

The media covers the stuffing out of those shabby Trump rallies, but we've all noticed that women

are marching and running and agitating, educating, and organizing in record numbers.

As we all head to the polls, the waves is doing a special episode on the issues most important

to women voters and the female candidates to watch on election day.

Hosts for this special include Hannah Rosen, co-host of NPR's Invisibility, Celeste Katz,

Senior Political Reporter for Glamour Magazine, Latifa Liles, a former Obama administration official

and former director of the Department of Labor's Women's Bureau, and Christina Kateruchi,

a staff writer for Slate. So before we get to this episode, I want to remind you to tune into

the waves. It regularly tackles politics, feminism, culture, and gender. They have talked about

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the treatment of Stormy Daniels, the future of Roe vs. Wade and more. If you like the show,

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enjoy the show. The following podcast contains explicit language.

Hello and welcome to the waves for Thursday, October 25th, the She's Running Edition.

I'm Christina Kateruchi, a staff writer at Slate and host of the Slate podcast outward,

and you are in for a treat this week. In anticipation of the upcoming midterm elections,

we have a very special episode, TM, planned for today. And because of that, I am pleased to welcome

a waves host from the other week of the show, Hana Rosen of NPR's Invisibilia. We overlap at last.

I know. I'm so excited. And I've gotten so into the midterms, it's unusual for me. I'm like listening

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