Note: BHM: 2021 Governors is the last slate in our Black History Month series, but it definitely won’t be our last new slate featuring Black women. This cycle, promoting Black women candidates for all levels of elected office will be something we’re...
Mayors have a critical role in public policy, as elected officials standing on the front lines of crises—mitigating climate change, furthering racial justice, and of course, managing the coronavirus pandemic. They're also an important part of the political pipeline: Mayors...
On Election Day 2020 (or rather, Election Week 2020), Black women set a new record for representation in the House of Representatives by winning 24 seats, up from the previous record of 22. Now, upcoming special elections can help us...
We know it seems early, but right now is prime recruitment season for 2022’s Senate races. There are already many potential candidates being floated for the most competitive Republican-held seats, in Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina and Florida. But we’re noticing...
Welcome to the post-Trump era. Let’s get to work! WomenCount has spent nearly six years working to advance women’s political participation through crowdfunding, work that culminated last week in the swearing in of the first female Vice President of the...
The national conversation will be focused for a long time on what went wrong at the Capitol last week. Police who were unprepared, Congressional Republicans who lied, and the President who incited the riot all bear blame. But we would...
Did you know WomenCount is a nonprofit? That’s right: the $2.8 million we crowdfunded for Democratic women this cycle—a small group of part-time contractors, volunteers and interns made that possible. We expand and increase our fundraising for candidates every election...
By now you've seen the news: CA Gov. Gavin Newsom has picked CA Secretary of State Alex Padilla to fill the US Senate seat currently held by Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Women have now lost a seat in the Senate,...
Yes, we’re already thinking about what the political map looks like in 2022. And no, it’s not too early, because it’s well-known in politics that a surge in early fundraising can help ward off a primary or general election challenger...
New slate alert! Today we’re rolling out our Madame President (of the Senate) slate — three organizations working on the ground to get Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff into the US Senate: Fair Fight Action, New Georgia Project, and...
