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...
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...
The next major off-year election is less than a week away. It’s in New Jersey, where Rep. Mikie Sherrill is the only woman running to win the Democratic governor nomination on June 10. Although the polls have her with a...
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...
