We always knew this race would be close. We knew the presidency—and every other swing race down ballot—was a coin flip. And still nothing could have prepared us for the pain and disappointment of this loss.

We are all scared about what Donald Trump’s second term will bring. Much of the campaign focused on attacking and hurting women, transgender people and immigrants especially, and we’ll all need to come together to get through this.

The country is in a crisis, and there’s no sugar coating that. But we are also counting several victories today for women candidates, including several who we supported.

• Angela Alsobrooks and Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester will become the third and fourth Black women elected to the US Senate. This is the first time two Black women will have served at once.
  
• Sarah McBride will become the first transgender person elected to the US House. Sarah, Angela and Lisa will need our support as they walk into the racist, anti-woman, anti-transgender lion’s den that will be the 119th Congress.
  
• Sen. Tammy Baldwin (WI) won her re-election, and it looks likely that Jacky Rosen (NV) and Elissa Slotkin (MI) will also win. These wins, along with Angela’s and Lisa’s, will maintain women’s current levels in the US Senate (25). We’ll note that these three women will hang on but the three men in the most competitive races lost, even as the men outraised women more than 2:1.
  
• Pro-reproductive rights initiatives passed in: Arizona (62%), Colorado (61%), Maryland (74%), Missouri (52%), Montana (57%), Nevada (63%) and New York (62%). Though Florida’s didn’t secure the 60% it needed to pass, it won a strong majority (57%).

We’ll be in touch again soon with a fuller debrief and where we go from here. In the meantime, please take time to grieve. It’s absolutely necessary if we want to stay in this fight.