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    Orange County mothers a major force in California's midterm elections

    by Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times Oct 31, 2018 6 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Before 2016, the closest Katie Kalvoda got to political activism was paying $18 for a Barack Obama T-shirt.

    Kalvoda, then a working mother living in tony Laguna Hills, Calif., believed she was doing her civic duty just by voting. She was an independent and in the 2016 election, she split her ballot: Democrat Hillary Clinton for president and Republican Mimi Walters for Congress.

    But when President Donald Trump was elected, the stakes started to feel different. A mother from her daughter's school emailed a couple of dozen women, including Kalvoda, proposing they get together to vent, drink wine and write letters to Congress.

    That email planted the seeds of a movement. After dropping off their kids at school, about 12 moms met up at a San Juan Capistrano Mexican restaurant - a favorite of Richard Nixon's - where they talked about turning their anger and frustration into action. Most had never been politically

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