Ideas By Ilyse Hogue January 21, 2025 9:09 AM EST Hogue is the co-founder and CEO of Democratic Futures Institute and a senior fellow at New America T en days before the 2016 election, I was standing in a cinderblock room in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with Cecile Richards and other leaders of prominent women’s groups, all of us out to make the case for Hillary Clinton’s historic run for President. A jubilant crowd packed the town square waiting for the show to start, but Hillary was running late. It