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A secret Facebook group sprung up in the final days of the 2016 presidential election, bringing together Hillary Clinton supporters who simply wanted to champion their candidate among fellow enthusiasts.

Now numbering just under four million members, Pantsuit Nation is a space for progressive women and their allies to share personal stories many uplifting, others heartbreaking in a nation divided under President Donald Trump.

Its easy to get hopeless as supporters of Secretary Clinton, as liberals and Democrats, (and) to feel alone, founder Libby Chamberlain told AFP.

We have so many members who live in communities or families where they dont have like-minded individuals... they cant go next door to commiserate with the neighbour about whats happening at the national level, but they can go to this space online.

The 33-year-old runs Pantsuit Nation from a spare bedroom in her home in tiny Brooklin, Maine, a coastal town of 800 residents primarily known for boat-building.

She started the Facebook group on October 20, while working two part-time jobs at nearby high schools. Her idea was to encourage Clinton supporters to wear pantsuits the Democratic former secretary of states go-to outfit to the polls on November 8.

Overnight, the group ballooned to 24,000 people as members added friends, who then added their friends. By November 5, Pantsuit Nation had grown to a million members, reaching 3.1 million by the end of Election Day.

Pantsuit Nation founder Libby Chamberlain (AFP Photo)

Photos of exuberant pantsuit-clad women at polling sites quickly gave way to posts brimming with anger and despair following Trumps electoral win.

These days, Pantsuit Nations content centres around Trumps conservative agenda, with members describing the real-life effects of his moves to restrict immigration, tear up health care laws or remove protections for transgender people.

I think there is a hunger in this country for personal stories that humanize the impact of policy that is happening at the national, state and local level, Chamberlain said.

It feels immediate and human and it allows people to hold onto something, she said.

Double whammy

Darla Barar, a 30-year-old marketing copywriter in Austin, Texas, wrote on Pantsuit Nation about her late-term abortion and voiced opposition to a measure in Congress seeking to define human life as beginning at fertilization.

This bill really hit us hard because the wording is such that it would essentially put a ban on IVF procedures as well as abortion, said Barar. It was a double whammy for us.

She was expecting twins, conceived through IVF, when a scan at the midpoint of her pregnancy revealed one of her daughters had grave issues including a neural tube defect that was allowing brain matter to leak out of her skull.

If the baby she and her husband Peter had already named Catherine survived delivery, she would have been severely disabled, if not a vegetable. Meanwhile, the growth of Catherines amniotic sac was restricting that of her twin, Olivia, putting both babies in danger.

Barar ultimately decided to abort Catherine to give Olivia a better chance of being born healthy.

On June 22 at 3:30 pm, the doctor let us see and hear Cate one last time. I remember she danced for us. And then, guided by ultrasound, the doctor injected a medication into Cates heart, stopping it. When they checked for a heartbeat 30 minutes later, the silence was deafening. And then they found Olivias strong beating heart and we cried. We cried for Olivias survival and for Cates loss, our loss, Olivias loss, she wrote in Pantsuit Nation.

Ours is the story of late-term abortion. We are the issue that pro-birthers debate without knowing, without having been there.

Olivia was born healthy and is now five months old.

Future impact?

Chamberlain, who said she has not profited from Pantsuit Nation, is in the process of establishing it as a non-profit group, giving it a structure to grow outside of Facebook.

She hopes to hire three or four employees soon to replace some of her 65 volunteers, who in addition to running the Facebook page and other social media platforms also support 20 local Pantsuit Nation chapters that formed organically post-election.

Chamberlain is also editing a Pantsuit Nation book, due out on May 9, which has drawn a fair amount of criticism by some who allege that she is selling the stories of others.

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She defends herself, saying the people featured are enthusiastic about being included and that her ultimate goal, which she says may be naive and impossible, is for the book to find its way to people who may never be part of the Facebook group.

I want to create change and facilitate dialogue and push Pantsuit Nation as far as I can in terms of changing future elections, she said.

Its a crucial time for Pantsuit Nation, as keeping grassroots organizations going can be very challenging, said Linda Fowler, a professor of government at Dartmouth College.

Telling those stories is important and a lot of people have those stories. They can continue to do that but that wont have political impact unless its accompanied by an agenda and a strategy for accomplishing specific political goals, she said.

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When asked what she would change about the 2016 presidential election, former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton gave a pretty obvious response: "I'd win."

Clinton delivered the quip during a question-and-answer session at her alma mater of Wellesley College on Thursday, where she also opened up on the challenges of being a female candidate.

The first female nominated for president by a major party commented on some of the critiques she faced while running for office.

"You know you're going to be subject to unfair and besides-the-point criticism," said Clinton.

"Compromise is not a dirty word in democracy," the former secretary of state added.

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Clinton's Thursday appearance was initially to be lived streamed by Wellesley College, but an email was sent out by the school's president Paula Johnson saying the school would be taking measures to "ensure this remains a private Wellesley event."

The event was attended by about 1,000 of the college's faculty, staffers and students, and guests were asked to turn off all cellphones before Clinton gave her remarks.

The former first lady is set to deliver the commencement speech at Wellesley College on May 26, where she graduated in 1969.

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The Gender of Incremental Leadership Inside Higher Ed University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan and U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton have a similar leadership style, writes Charlie Tyson, and public reaction to it says a good deal about how our society pigeonholes women with power.

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In this March 12, 2012, file photo, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton checks her mobile phone after her address to the Security Council at United Nations headquarters. Richard DrewAP

Is "schadenfreude" trending? If it isn't already, it probably will be soon.

That's because a photo of former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton reading about the hack on Vice President Mike Pence's emails when he was Governor of Indiana has the Internet in a tizzy this weekend.

As the unconfirmed but now-vi r al story goes , a passenger on the same short-haul flight as Clinton and her trusted advisor Huma Abedin from Boston's Logan Airport to New York's LaGuardia on Friday snapped an almost unbelievable smartphone photo. (Pictures, or it didn't happen, right?) In the split-second moment, the passenger captured a relatively stable, non-fuzzy photo of Clinton reading that day's issue of USA Today , with the headline above the fold: "Pence used personal email in office."

The Indianapolis Star last week reported that Pence used a private AOL email account to conduct public business and homeland security matters as Indiana's governor, and that his personal email account was hacked last summer.

Given how the debate over Clinton's email practices and private servers were at the core of the bitter rhetoric of the 2016 presidential election, the Pence situation has critics questioning if there is a double standard in the public responseas well as that by Pence and Republican leadersso far. Pence's office has since responded that there was "no comparison whatsoever" between his use of a private email account for state business and Clinton's while she was Secretary of State.

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At the very least, it has many Internet users batting around the word " schadenfreude ," a German term referring to pleasure derived by someone from another person's bad luck or misfortune. Thus, this single photomuch like another photo of Clinton reading while travelinghas also spawned numerous memes, many of which can be found on Twitter ( twtr ) under the hashtag "# ButHerEmails ."

And in an even further meta moment, USA Today followed up with a report on the photo, too.

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Former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was at Harvard Friday.

CAMBRIDGE Hillary Clinton visited Harvard University Friday morning for a private event with a small group of students and was interviewed about her time as secretary of state.

Clintons appearance in Cambridge came after an event Thursday night at her alma mater, Wellesley College, where she was interviewed by the colleges president in front of students.

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Both events were closed to the news media and the public. Even a planned livestream of the Wellesley event was canceled, and by Friday morning, some tweets from the Wellesley college newspaper covering the event were deleted.

At Harvard, Clinton participated in the American Secretaries of State Project: Diplomacy, Negotiation, and Statecraft interview series, which is a joint project of the schools business, law, and government schools, the Harvard Crimson reported.

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Students lined up behind a rope in the courtyard at Kirkland House to greet Clinton. A ticket was required to attend the event.

Some students held signs with messages like, You are an inspiration, and 2020?

The crowd erupted into cheers as Clinton walked into the courtyard just before 10 a.m. and some chanted her name.

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Savannah Fritz, 22, a Harvard senior from Greencastle, Pa., campaigned for Clinton last fall and lamented her loss in the presidential election, saying it put a lot of people in danger.

Hillarys a huge role model to me, she said.

Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said Clinton spent Thursday night in Boston and had no other events planned in Boston during this trip.

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