As millions of democracy-loving Americans gathered across the country last Saturday to demonstrate peacefully against the Trump administration, right-wing political violence shattered that peace. A Trump-voting, anti-abortion rights zealot fatally shot former Speaker of the Minnesota House Melissa Hortman and...
Despite an onslaught of negative ads and narrowing polls in the final weeks of the campaign, Rep. Mikie Sherrill notched a decisive victory in yesterday’s Democratic primary, beating the rest of the 6-candidate field with a solid 34 percent. It...
Around 3 am on May 14, as the House Energy and Commerce Committee was on the verge of passing the healthcare-cutting, deficit-exploding Republican budget bill, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez turned to the C-SPAN cameras. “There are 13.7 million Americans on the...
The next major off-year election is less than a week away. It’s in New Jersey, where Rep. Mikie Sherrill is the only woman running to win the Democratic governor nomination on June 10. Although the polls have her with a...
June 1 is Equal Political Giving Day. But what does that mean exactly? You’re already familiar with Equal Pay Day—the day of the year that a woman’s earnings would finally equal what a man made doing the same job the...
On May 3, the San Antonio mayoral election went into a runoff, with Democrat and former Air Force undersecretary Gina Ortiz Jones leading Republican and former senior advisor to Gov. Greg Abbott Rolando Pablos 27% to 17%. Polling for the...
Democrats have been notching victories and landing blows for democracy in a string of special elections this spring. Now, we’re shifting focus to the next battleground: Virginia. All 100 House of Delegates districts plus the governor’s, lieutenant governor’s and attorney...
Welcome back to our new periodic community newsletter, where you’ll get a glimpse into what the greater WomenCount community is reading, watching and listening to as we make our way through Trump’s second term. Tuesday marked the first 100 days...
When we launched the WomenCount donation platform 10 years ago, we had two goals: Make political giving more personal and strategic and involve more women in the process—as both candidates and donors. But the whole history of our organization actually...
Yesterday, Oakland, California residents went to the polls to elect their next mayor and—with former Rep. Barbara Lee on the ballot—it looked like we were on the cusp of seeing a woman take power in one of the country’s largest...
