Emily's List President Stephanie Schriock with Hillary Clinton

It's a little schizoid with Democratic leadership saying they will support anti-choice candidates in what can only be called an abandonment of the party's long-standing commitment to a woman's right to control her own body autonomy. The Boys Club is rolling in high gear in Democratic politics, giving us more migraines in Trumplandia. Who do we trust? The Washington Post shares good news.

EMILY's List is putting 50 House and Senate Republicans "On Notice" for 2018 in a new campaign. Hopefully, Emily's List will also take seriously the threat from Democratic leadership and develop -- in concert with Planned Parenthood, NARAL and other non-negotiable stalwarts of women's rights -- a strategy to deal with this self-defeating Democratic-leadership male stupidity. We can then contribute to special campaigns targeting anti-choice Democratic candidates wooed by the new Democrats Boys Club. They've got my money.

Maybe Hillary Can Help

Onward Together, the political action group formed earlier this year between Hillary Clinton and former Vermont governor and DNC chair Howard Dean, has hired Emmy Ruiz and Adam Parkhomenko, political operative veterans of her 2008 and 2016 presidential campaigns, according to BuzzFeed.

Some Democrats don't want Hillary to have a role at all in Democratic politics. They are often the same Dems who are now willing to sell-out women's rights as identity politics, with a new strategy to court anti-choice candidates if their economics are in concert with Democrats.

Ruiz and Parkhomenko, who both started their work at Onward Together this summer, will join a small core team that includes Dean, the former Vermont governor and DNC chair, along with Judith McHale, an undersecretary under Clinton at the State Department, and Amy Rao, a Silicon Valley businesswoman and a longtime supporter and donor. The aides in Clinton’s New York office, including former campaign vice chair Huma Abedin, finance director Dennis Cheng, and press secretary Nick Merrill, are also working on the project.

This is the EXACT strategy that I said about the Bernie Sanders campaign from day one. As president, I never doubted that Bernie would trade the defunding of Planned Parenthood for an infrastructure bill. His new influence in the Democratic party -- as an Independent -- and this announcement about the party courting candidates not committed to women's body autonomy confirms my deepest suspicions about him and his disproportionately white male supporters. Welcome to Trumplandia. ~ Anne