Press Releases

Sixty Percent of Americans Will Vote Based on a Candidate’s Stance on the Epstein Files

Released on March 10, 2026

National Survey Finds Americans Are Following Epstein Files Closely WASHINGTON — The  National Organization for Women (NOW), the nation’s leading grassroots membership-based advocacy group dedicated to defending women’s rights, today announced the results of a new nationwide survey showing that the release of the Epstein files will be a deciding factor in how 60% of people vote Read more …

What Women’s History Month Means NOW 

Released on March 6, 2026

March is Women’s History Month. Like every milestone along the timeline of women’s rights, this recognition has not come easily.  The historian Gerda Lerner, one of the founders of the academic field of women’s history, said, “When I started working on women’s history the field did not exist. Men didn’t think that women had a history worth knowing.”  Some still don’t.  In Read more …

Online Abuse of Women Escalating

Released on March 5, 2026

More than One in Four American Women Have Experienced Online Abuse WASHINGTON —  A new survey of 10,000 American women released today by the National Organization for Women (NOW) and Incogni, a data privacy company, shows that the problem of online abuse is escalating. More than one in four women (27%) have experienced online abuse, Read more …

Congress, Trump’s Just Not Into You

Released on February 24, 2026

By Kim Villanueva Our U.S. Constitution requires the President to report to Congress on “the State of the Union.”  The framers wanted to make clear that the President is no king, but rather an executive who serves alongside – and is accountable to — what they considered the pre-eminent branch of government: Congress. But Donald Read more …

This State of the Union is a Nightmare

Released on February 24, 2026

Statement by National NOW President Kim Villanueva  What is it about Donald Trump’s angry, domineering, patronizing, disrespectful, and self-centered State of the Union that women find so familiar?  A political movement has grown around a culture that glorifies aggression, division, and domination. In that world, women are vilified and attacked simply for demanding equality.  Today, that backlash is an animating Read more …