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Katie Paris

Katie Paris is the founder of Red Wine & Blue, a national community of suburban women that organizes friend to friend on issues including public schools, reproductive freedom, and voting rights. She started the organization in 2019 after leaving a career in national politics. Earlier she was Executive Vice President of Media Matters, which she helped launch as its first research director, and Program and Communications Director at Faith in Public Life, which she also helped found.

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What DI has documented

DI has documented statements by Katie Paris on Racism and Sexism. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Katie Paris

Katie Paris

Role at the time: Founder of Red Wine & Blue, in a statement of support released by Higher Heights for America

Condemned

Statement summary

Red Wine & Blue founder Katie Paris said the group is 650,000 women from all political backgrounds across all 50 states and that Laura Loomer speaks for literally none of them, adding that racism costs everyone.

“Red Wine & Blue is 650,000 women from all political backgrounds across all 50 states, and Laura Loomer speaks for literally none of us. Racism doesn’t stop at the people it targets. It costs all of us.”
Read the official statement (opens in a new tab)WOMEN-LED ORGANIZATIONS STAND UNITED AGAINST RACIST AND MISOGYNISTIC ATTACKS ON BLACK WOMEN LEADERSSection "Organization and Leadership Statements of Support", statements from individual leaders
Why we used this label

The case's reference point is Laura Loomer's remarks about Angie Nixon and other Black women in politics. Paris says Loomer speaks for none of the women in Red Wine & Blue and that racism costs everyone, in a release condemning Loomer's language, so we labeled it Condemned.

Read statementLaura Loomer’s remarks about Angie Nixon and other Black women in politics

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