Today is a critical end-of-quarter deadline for the 2026 cycle, and so far: Many of the most vulnerable House women incumbents have staved off serious Republican challengers, and Non-incumbent women are showing up in droves to challenge vulnerable House Republicans....
This month, as we celebrated Pride with parades and protests, we dealt with another thing that’s become a feature of Pride month in recent years: a Supreme Court ruling that chips away at Americans’ fundamental rights. This year it was...
This week voters across Virginia nominated a strikingly diverse general election ballot, including Ghazala Hashmi for lieutenant governor—the first Muslim and person of southeast Asian descent nominated for statewide office. Black women specifically are nearly 20 percent of nominees in...
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...
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...
