I started watching The Handmaid's Tale and now I can't sleep.

Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid's Tale in 1985 with a rule: nothing goes in the book that hadn't already happened somewhere. Romania. Iran. Salem. She wasn't writing fiction. She was writing a warning. And then a summit happened and some women said they'd give up their right to vote and I had a lot of feelings about it. "For a society that claims to value individual freedom, evidently you don't think this individual freedom extends to women." — Margaret Atwood, 2019 "I vote the same way he does, so honestly, I would be okay with giving up my right to vote." — Alexus DeGraaf, TPUSA Women's Leadership Summit, San Antonio, junio 2026