Power. The thing about power is its strongest when it is unspoken.

The kind of quiet power that roots down into our lives and grows up through our homes and our families, our

intimacies, the kind of power that really starts to feel immutable, like it's just there, and like it always will be. That is the power

that men have long held over society. It's got to be one of the first things I ever truly

internalize that to be one of the first things I ever truly internalized that to be male,

meant to be ready to lead, to take charge.

A male gender identity holds the kind of power you just take for granted. Or it did anyway. Do we retreat or do we fight? I say we fight.

I came here tonight to make you a promise. I'm just getting started.

We will be here and we are going to rock the world in the next two years.

So I want all the girls watching here and now to know that a new day is on the horizon.

We need to stand up for what we believe in.

We need to change the world.

And to those who would dare try and silence us,

we offer you two words.

Times up.

We are just weeks from an election. It is increasingly conventional wisdom that this will be a wave election, a big partisan shift toward the

Democratic Party. But it is more accurately described as a wave of women and

some men who are no longer taking that male power for granted.

November elections will see a record number of women on the ballot.

Including nearly 500 who have their sites set on the nation's capital.

You know, this is not a spectator sport, right?

We've got to get off the sidelines every part of this.

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