Whip Clark Pens Boston Globe Op-Ed: “Mike Johnson’s War on Women”
December 20, 2025
MALDEN, MA — In case you missed it, Democratic Whip Katherine Clark (MA-5) published an op-ed in the Boston Globe calling out Mike Johnson’s misogyny and Republicans’ anti-woman, anti-family policies.
You can read the entire op-ed HERE or below:
Mike Johnson’s war on women
Representative Katherine Clark of Massachusetts is the House Democratic Whip.
“Amid all the political chaos in these final weeks of 2025, House Republicans have broken into another civil war. This one is personal — with Speaker Mike Johnson facing brutal accusations of misogyny from his own party members, even as he claims to be women’s “biggest champion.”
“‘He sidelines us and doesn’t take us seriously,’ Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia said.
“Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina said, ‘Women will never be taken seriously until leadership decides to take us seriously, and I’m no longer holding my breath.’
“They’re being generous.
“Johnson isn’t just a sexist boss. As a party leader and as a policymaker, he has systematically made life harder and more expensive for all women.
“This is someone who has never been shy about his thoughts on gender.
“He has, in public and on camera, blamed school shootings on no-fault divorce and ‘radical feminism.’
“He has referred to abortion as ‘a Holocaust.’
“Just a few weeks ago, he casually talked about the difference between the brains of men and women: ‘Men and women are different in this way, is that men can compartmentalize things.’
“In the same interview, he praised Conference Chair Lisa McClain — the highest-ranking Republican woman in the House — as the colleague he trusts most to make him dinner.
“That low opinion of GOP women is plainly reflected in how he runs the House.
“Under Johnson’s speakership, there are more Republican committee chairs named Mike than women chairs combined.
“He raged against a bipartisan bill allowing members of Congress who are pregnant or recovering from childbirth to vote by proxy. But when asked about a male colleague’s domestic abuse allegations, he shrugged off the question and said: ‘I’ve been a little busy.’
“This disdain for women is also shaping the actual policies that Johnson gavels through the House.
“This year alone, he has shepherded legislation closing down maternity wards, banning reproductive care for American servicewomen, and mandating creepy gender inspections for young girls who want to play sports.
“Even as he joined in on the White House’s new obsession with birth rates, he helped cut $1 trillion from Medicaid — a program that pays for 41 percent of births in America.
“He helped engineer an economy so catastrophic for regular families that at least 450,000 women have left the workforce.
“He looked at a country where moms’ child-care costs can outpace their rent, then wrote a budget that manages to make it even more expensive.
“He saw a third of single mothers going hungry, then enacted unprecedented cuts to federal food assistance.
“He supported a poll tax on married women — a bill requiring married women who took their spouse’s last name to get a $165 passport before they can vote.
“Yes, Mike Johnson has weird, retrograde views on women. But it’s so much worse. His leadership is a threat to the health and security that should be our daughters’ birthright.”
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Kat Pettibone 🎄🎅🏻
@kat__writes
Every one of these kids have proven they can cry on cue any time. But something about THESE tears felt so raw and real to me, like it was the actors, not their characters, saying goodbye to not just each other, but their childhood. Brutal. 😭😭😭 #StrangerThings
https://x.com/kat__writes/status/2006590942082408545?s=20
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻
@LongTimeHistory
ICE wrongfully detain father—the 24/7 caregiver for disabled son.
“My father knows how to keep me breathing, how to keep me alive,” he said. “He’s the reason I want to continue living.”
Wael Tarabishi has undergone 36 surgeries since diagnosed with Pompe disease at 6 years old.
“Twenty-two screws in his back, collapsed lung—he can’t even move his right arm anymore, his left arm is gone.”
ICE claims that his father, Maher Tarabishi, is a member of a “terrorist organization” because he is originally from Palestine—his family vehemently denies this.
The 62-year-old has now been sitting in an ICE detention facility for more than 2 months.
His son has had to be hospitalized at Methodist Mansfield Medical Center in Texas. #DemsUnited
https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2006489849977544950?s=20
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
🚨 BOMBSHELL: Federal judges say the U.S. government lied in 35+ court cases, falsified records, fake declarations, sworn statements built on fiction.
This isn’t a paperwork mistake. It’s systemic deception.
When judges and legal scholars are saying it looks intentional, the rule of law is already on life support.
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2006713559971926278?s=20
PBS News
@NewsHour
Americans give President Donald Trump his worst approval ratings ever for his handling of the economy, as they also express concerns about the cost of living, healthcare prices, and personal finances, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll.
https://x.com/NewsHour/status/2006002419956687005?s=20
Conversation
William A Goldsborough
@WmAG_V
America had an opportunity to avoid this and found every reason not to.
Frank Malone
@frankmalone110
Pretense of objectivity is one of worst media failures. Comparing relatively minor transgressions of Democratic politicians to the obscene corruption, staggering incompetence & legitimization of systemic racism & intolerance by Trump & his minions as equivalent is terribly wrong
9:12 AM · Jan 1, 2026
https://x.com/frankmalone110/status/2006745457062752401?s=20
Republicans against Trump
@RpsAgainstTrump
Q: Did you develop evidence that President Trump was responsible for the violence at the Capitol on January 6th?
Jack Smith: “Our view of the evidence was that he caused it and that he exploited it.”
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/2006472980030001611?s=20
Rod (Izzy) Ⓜ️Ⓜ️ 🇺🇸🦅
@1zzyzyx1
The administration is attempting to make it easier to end freedom of the press by ensuring nobody can lawfully film or photograph ICE or Border Patrol agents during their raids. This is an abuse of our rights as citizens. #DemsUnited
https://x.com/1zzyzyx1/status/2006487370372362721?s=20
Gandalv
@Microinteracti1
BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly furious after a major newspaper ran the numbers using his own “wars stopped” yardstick and concluded that Barack Obama stopped 119 wars, compared with Trump’s 8.
https://x.com/Microinteracti1/status/2006498353669157293?s=20
Eyal Yakoby
@EYakoby
BREAKING: President Trump rips into the Somali fraud at his NYE event.
“They stole $18 billion! And that’s just what we’ve heard about. It’s a giant scam. We’re going to get to the bottom of it. We’re going to get that money back. It’s all coming back!”
https://x.com/EYakoby/status/2006560464617324675?s=20
Tiff4Mahogany_44 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 NATO MEMBER
@tiff4mahogany
Imagine watching this man relentlessly attack the Haitian immigrant community with lies. Then your immigrant community makes a HUGE show of endorsing this man, and now your community is his target because he needs the racism for his rubes.
I can’t give anymore empathy. I’m out.
https://x.com/tiff4mahogany/status/2006601694772347127?s=20
Joni Askola
@joni_askola
Tech oligarchs don’t get enough hate for helping Trump win a second term and for hurting humanity as a whole
https://x.com/joni_askola/status/2005931582998053010?s=20
Emoluments Clause
@Emolclause
#BREAKING: Jason Johnson: “During Donald Trump’s transition to power, some of his people KNEW Homan was accused of serious political corruption, and they hired him anyway…How could a guy who was a subject of an OPEN federal bribery investigation even pass the background check to work in a sensitive government field like homeland security? Well, according to exclusive reporting…by…Carol Leonnig…NONE of the usual checks applied to Homan and his nomination by Trump as Border Czar.”🤦♀️
https://x.com/Emolclause/status/2006368194349392116?s=20
Hey, Dave!
@davegreenidge57
Jack Smith believed the crimes of Trump coconspirators Peter Navarro, Steve Bannon and Roger Stone were so egregious and their credibility so poor, that he dismissed the idea of immunizing any of them for their testimonies. Lock them up!
https://x.com/davegreenidge57/status/2006464212076474512?s=20
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻
@LongTimeHistory
Building owner holding immigrants hostage to work for free—threatening to call ICE.
“We are being held hostage inside a cell and forced to work for free,” man pleads for help.
“We are here forced to work in exchange for food for fear of immigration.”
“Please someone help us! Someone file a complaint—we need help!”
To be clear, this is felony extortion and false imprisonment—no matter what their immigration status is.
The man only says that he is in Charlotte, North Carolina. #DemsUnited
https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2006421070786543931?s=20
William A Goldsborough
@WmAG_V
Fuck 2028. This is 2026. Get this year’s midterms accomplished. 435 House seats & 33 Senate seats, along with thousands of state & local seats, are up for reelection THIS YEAR.
My 80 year old cousin is just as likely to run in 2028. SO WHAT?!!!!!
https://x.com/WmAG_V/status/2006756957252894728?s=20
Acyn
@Acyn
Mamdani: I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations, that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/2006815482905768312?s=20
Andrea Junker
@Strandjunker
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss:
🇦🇺 0
🇨🇦 0
🇩🇰 0
🇫🇮 0
🇫🇷 0
🇩🇪 0
🇮🇸 0
🇮🇪 0
🇮🇹 0
🇯🇵 0
🇳🇱 0
🇳🇴 0
🇵🇹 0
🇪🇸 0
🇸🇪 0
🇬🇧 0
🇺🇸 530,000
There’s a lesson there.
3:00 PM · Jan 1, 2026
https://x.com/Strandjunker/status/2006832931982188694?s=20
Tom Joseph
@TomJChicago
Jack Smith is forbidden by corrupt Judge Cannon for now, to discuss the really big crimes Trump committed with the classified documents- espionage. This exchange from Smith’s House testimony shows he’s holding back something huge. Smith already said in an Oct 23 court filing that he knew what Trump was doing with the classified docs and would prove it in court. Well the answer is in Smith’s final report that being hidden by Cannon, and it destroys Trump. Obviously Trump shared or sold classified docs with US adversaries.
https://x.com/TomJChicago/status/2006752652642730133?s=20
lips so pursed
Brian Allen
@allenanalysis
BREAKING
Drugmakers are raising U.S. prices on 350+ medicines starting Jan. 1, 2026 — despite White House pressure to cut costs.
5:13 PM · Jan 1, 2026
https://x.com/allenanalysis/status/2006866275704701224?s=20
Love this
Restoring Your Faith in Humanity
@HumanityChad
This Pennsylvania barbershop boosts kids’ confidence by paying young customers $3 to read stories aloud during haircuts, deserving endless retweets.
https://x.com/HumanityChad/status/2006523851614945467?s=20
Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon)
@PeterHotez
YEAR ONE MAHA:
1. Measles returns to America
2. Pertussis returns to America
3. Chronic hepatitis liver cancer returns
4. Pandemic preparedness gone
5. Swung & missed on autism
6. CDC disassembled
7. Biotech industry shutting down
8. Brain drain underway
https://x.com/PeterHotez/status/2006576216212382123?s=20
Peter Baker
@peterbakernyt
A compelling graphic look at all the ways that Trump and his family and friends have been monetizing the White House in his second term to enrich themselves more than any presidential clan has ever done before.
@LazaroGamio
https://x.com/peterbakernyt/status/2006861229563031581?s=20
Dr. Cole
@1drcole
Compelling, Peter—but the bigger picture? The Trump crime family has transformed the presidency into a full-scale kleptocracy, looting the nation while shredding norms. Unprecedented corruption, enabled by enablers. Disgraceful.
6:42 PM · Jan 1, 2026
https://x.com/1drcole/status/2006888713360384374?s=20
The Republicans control
The House
The Senate
The White House
WTF does this nonsense mean?
Jack
@jackunheard
🚨BREAKING: Elon Musk is reportedly going all-in funding Republicans to help President Trump take back full control in the November midterms.
https://x.com/jackunheard/status/2006767332673335579?s=20
Turnbull
@cturnbull1968
This is David Gentile. He put together a $1.6B Ponzi type investment scheme that would have made Bernie Madoff blush. Cops, teachers, farmers and other hard working folks lost their retirement.
Trump commuted his sentence and wiped all his restitution to victims.
Not Somali.
https://x.com/cturnbull1968/status/2006874726074036345?s=20
Ben Crump
@AttorneyCrump
Spelman graduate Blanca Burch is holding AI accountable by exposing how it misrepresents Black hairstyles. Her groundbreaking study reminds us that technology must reflect our culture accurately. Equity & representation must be built into the future of AI.
https://x.com/AttorneyCrump/status/2006782767380492700?s=20
The Art Of Dialogue
@ArtOfDialogue_
Actor Taye Diggs says his children’s books are banned in districts across the United States for the “crime” of being too multicultural.
https://x.com/ArtOfDialogue_/status/2006213072839475348?s=20
Christopher Hale
@chrisjollyhale
Pope Leo XIV ended 2025 with a fierce warning: “Stop using religion to conquer markets and justify violence.”
He followed that warning with a challenge: stop fearing strangers — and start welcoming them as neighbors.
https://x.com/chrisjollyhale/status/2006786485216026758?s=20
Paul Farhi
@farhip
Number of fatalities from major commercial airline accidents in the U.S. since 2010 (excludes private/charter and cargo planes):
2010: 0.
2011: 0.
2012: 0.
2013: 0.
2014: 0.
2015: 0.
2016: 0.
2017: 0.
2018: 1.
2019: 1.
2020: 0.
2021: 0.
2022: 0.
2023: 0.
2024: 0.
2025: 67.
11:57 AM · Jan 1, 2026
https://x.com/farhip/status/2006786760072900864?s=20
ProPublica
@propublica
In response to our questions, the NC GOP’s comms director, Matt Mercer, wrote that ProPublica was waging a “jihad” against “NC Republicans,” which would “not be met with dignifying any comments whatsoever.”
https://x.com/propublica/status/2006878138655977839?s=20
Scott MacFarlane
@MacFarlaneNews
Amid whitewashing of history of Capitol siege, new transcript of House interview w/ Jack Smith highlights police injuries:
“Cracked ribs, traumatic brain injuries, smashed spinal disks & heart attacks as rioters used bats, poles, chemical sprays, stolen police shields & batons”
https://x.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/2006804434723184976?s=20
Harry Sisson
@harryjsisson
MAGA talked about Biden’s health for 4 years but after this bombshell WSJ article came out about Trump’s health, which revealed he takes 4X the daily recommend dose of aspirin and still eats like crap, they’re silent. Wonder why!
9:55 PM · Jan 1, 2026
https://x.com/harryjsisson/status/2006937283589713944?s=20
Christopher Hale
@chrisjollyhale
Pope Leo is quietly mounting a long-term, moral confrontation with American authoritarianism — and history suggests he knows exactly what he’s doing.
Here’s how he can defeat Trump’s dictatorship of relativism once and for all.
https://x.com/chrisjollyhale/status/2006891953728925995?s=20
BigBlueWaveUSA2026® 🇺🇸🌊🇺🇦
@BigBlueWaveUSA
CBS News makes it official.
They are going full MAGA starting 2026. Their “news” will consist of what Trump and Bari Weiss want you to hear, aka Fox/Newsmax.
Don’t JUST boycott CBS News, boycott CBS completely with the obvious exception of: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
https://x.com/BigBlueWaveUSA/status/2006799996491018611?s=20
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren’t eager to let in some rando dudes asking “where are the kids?”
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2006117956388872656?s=20
obscene butch 𐂯
@muttbutch
I work part-time in a pre-k and if some fuckass guys came to our doors saying, “we’re not associated with anyone, show us children,” we would absolutely go into lockdown and probably assume they were there to shoot us up. how are you this weird and insane and stupid.
https://x.com/muttbutch/status/2006746898162757880?s=20
UH HUH
UH HUH
scary lawyerguy
@scarylawyerguy
Media outrage would blot out the sun if Joe Biden was MC’ing an auction at his private golf club on NYE and blithely dismissing a $2 million bid for a painting as “peanuts” while Americans struggle to pay the bills and ACA health insurance premiums go up – today – by 100% or more
https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/2006736132168626569?s=20
The Daily Beast
@thedailybeast
The Kennedy Center has put a perplexing PR spin on the abysmal ratings for the latest TV broadcast of the Kennedy Center Honors, hosted by Trump.
https://x.com/thedailybeast/status/2006941420892889149?s=20
Isaac Hayes III
@IsaacHayes3
It’s 2026
This year, a massive number of rap and R&B records become eligible for termination.
That means songwriters and artists finally have the legal right to reclaim their publishing and their masters.
If you know any of these songwriters or artists, tag them in this post.
This represents what could be the largest transfer of wealth to Black people in the history of the music industry.
But…
If you do not terminate your publishing and your masters within the legal window, you lose that right forever.
These labels and publishers will NOT tell you this but I will.
https://x.com/IsaacHayes3/status/2006855555336290581?s=20
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊