Remember the Blue Wave that swept Congress in the mid-term cycle after Trump’s first election? Democrats gained 41 US House seats, with 24 of those flipped by women. Overall, 35 new Democratic women joined Congress during that cycle, the largest...
On July 31, Texas Republicans revealed new congressional maps that could eliminate five Democratic US House seats. Texas Republicans did this at the request of President Trump. In return, Texas Democrats took drastic measures, leaving the state this week to...
This week, former Vice President Kamala Harris announced she won't run for governor of California in 2026. WomenCount has a long history with Kamala. As Alameda County DA in 1996, she was an original co-founder of our organization. We supported...
Here’s a first look into second-quarter fundraising numbers for our women candidates. Right now, the Senate and House numbers tell vastly different stories. Here’s what they’re saying: Men still sit atop US Senate fundraising US Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (IL) and...
With state primaries done, no more local primaries until August and Congress out of session, the dog days of summer are officially here—and so is another edition of our periodic community newsletter. As their last act before taking a vacation...
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...
