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...
We are mapping out priorities for the next two years—and we need your help. We know, broadly, the themes that will dominate: Democrats maintaining control of both chambers of Congress, and recovering our society from both the coronavirus pandemic and...
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...
Today, we can finally exhale the collective breath we’ve been holding in for 1,461 days. Because today we didn’t just inaugurate a new President—we inaugurated the post-Trump era, starting with the historic swearing in of the first female Vice President...
After what happened last week, things will not be ‘normal’ in America for a long time. It’s not clear what normal even looks like in a democracy as fractured as ours. Only time, combined with an effort at seeking justice,...
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...
