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A Persistent Trailblazer

When Elizabeth Warren was elected to the US Senate on November 6, 2012, she became the first female senator from Massachusetts. But her trailblazing didn’t start or end there. Sen. Warren’s very first “first” was at the precocious age of...
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Gillibrand just made it official!

We’re taking the two weeks remaining in Women’s History Month to celebrate the ways our four leading women running for president have been first—shattering ceilings along the way to hopefully shattering the biggest glass ceiling in 2020. We’re shining the...
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Let’s shatter the ceiling

We’re celebrating International Women’s Day with a big announcement: the creation of WomenCount’s Shatter the Ceiling Fund! This is a special slate where you can donate $5, $50 or any amount now to the eventual 2020 Democratic nominee—but the nominee...
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Senate Shakeup

Our potential 2020 Senate map got shaken up a bit last week. So we're adding a new familiar name to our Recruit Them To Run slate of the most viable potential 2020 Senate nominees. Crisanta Duran, the former Speaker of...
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Where we could lose next year

These last few weeks the political media have been completely focused on the 2020 presidential hopefuls. That’s why it’s flown under the radar that on Feb. 8, the National Republican Congressional Committee released its first list of the Democratic 2020...
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Countdown to the First Debate

The news last week really showed us why we must succeed in our Presidents’ Day mission—putting a woman in the White House. It also gave us a challenge. First up, the Democratic National Committee has officially laid down the rules...
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#4

The fourth candidate on our slate of top-tier women running for president has announced! Sen. Amy Klobuchar made it official today in Minneapolis, becoming the ninth major Democratic candidate to officially declare a presidential candidacy or exploratory committee. Entering the...
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Breaking 2020 Senate Wish List

The political buzz is fully centered on the 2020 presidential field right now, but it’s going to be just as important to focus on winning back the US Senate next year. The Senate has been the sticking point for so...
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Get Them on the Stage!

The response to our Get Them on The Stage slate has been incredible, Friend. In just one week, we’ve moved more than halfway to our initial $2,020 goal—but obviously we need to go a lot further. Some news from the...
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Realizing the Dream

It’s official—Sen. Kamala Harris is running! In entering the race, she becomes only the second Black woman ever to mount a serious candidacy for a major-party nomination. It’s fitting then that she announced on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and...