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President Trump’s appearance in Georgia comes a day after audio surfaced of a Jan. 2 phone call in which Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat. Via @washingtonpost:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/d45acb92-4dc4-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html …

Many have attributed Trump’s defeat in Georgia to Stacey Abrams and other on-the-ground organizers who have been working to mobilize voters in the state for years. Joe Biden was the first Democratic presidential nominee to win the state since 1992.https://bit.ly/3hGOsPG 

Ahead of early voting for the runoff races, 80 percent of Black women said they “care a good deal about who wins” and that their vote has “a lot of power” to affect what happens in their community.https://bit.ly/3m6Xje4 

What’s exactly at stake for Georgia and the nation at-large? First, health care. Any sweeping policy reforms related to the Affordable Care Act or reproductive health will be an uphill battle made more difficult if the Republicans control the Senate.https://bit.ly/3pNInUy 

Second, a follow-up to December’s coronavirus relief bill. While this bill tackled paid leave, child care and food insecurity, experts say it’s not enough to undo much of the damage the pandemic dealt to women.https://bit.ly/38Ic2aL 

Women — already the most vulnerable to job loss, the most likely to be sole heads of households, the ones who are most often the sole providers for their children — are also the most likely to be evicted from their homes during the pandemic.https://bit.ly/3rljdhz