HeyJaredKate Brower
Weekly conversations about the women who shaped the thought leaders of today, and weekly digging into the forgotten women — and the misunderstood ones — in American history.
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“Silence Is a Stance:” Sitting Out the Midterms Disrespects the Sacrifices that Make Your Vote Possible (opens the original)
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In 2024, more eligible Americans stayed home than voted for either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. Historian wants to change that before this midterm, and he has the history to show how. I’ve long admired his Substack, , and how he frames what’s happening today in the context of the past. There’s so much at stake in November. Not voting in the midterms undermines the sacrifices our ancestors made - in my case my great grandmother, Minnie Rae Haines, who was a progressive activist and a suffragist
“The Hag of Misery:” Outtakes from WE THE WOMEN (opens the original)
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“I Wouldn’t Tell Her a Thing”: New York Times Bestselling Author Amie Parnes on the 12-Year-Old Who Got Her Here (opens the original)
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has covered presidents, co-written #1 NYT bestsellers, and survived her share of nasty calls from White House handlers. We go way back to the White House briefing room during the Obama years, when I worked for Bloomberg News and Amie worked for Politico. She surprised me today. When I asked who shaped her path, one of her answers was herself at 12: shy, insecure, bullied, and living through the hardest year of her life. That girl took the journalism class her sixth-grade teacher signed her up fo
I’m Opening the Door (opens the original)
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I started this newsletter because a woman - my mom Valerie - is the reason I believed in myself. And as I interviewed Presidents, First Ladies, and had conversations with the presidents’ personal secretaries, housekeepers and butlers at the White House, I came to realize that everyone has that someone. Or they are that someone - even if they don’t realize it yet. So I want “How She Led To Me” to be about more than their resume or the highlight reel. I created it to find out who shaped my guests
For Your Eyes Only: Outtakes from My Book THE RESIDENCE (opens the original)
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I want to share the stories that didn’t make the cut. Sometimes because there wasn’t room, sometimes because they were too controversial, and sometimes because they didn’t work with the narrative. I hope it shows that writing nonfiction is storytelling, but it’s also recording history by collecting interviews with the people who lived it.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QuH6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-
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