May is set to be a quiet month for elections, with most primaries postponed until June because of coronavirus. Except for one of the most important elections this year.f Coming up in less than two weeks, on May 12, is...
Local businesses, closed for weeks, are struggling to stay afloat. And Democratic women candidates, who rely more on individual donors, are alsostruggling to stay afloat as the economic fallout trickles down. We wanted to find a way for WomenCount to...
The votes are in from our Veepstakes contest, and the winner is: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, with 29 percent! This lines up with two polls by polling firms recently, in Wisconsin and Michigan, where a majority of Democratic primary voters said...
That’s right — today, you’re voting for who you want to be Joe Biden’s running mate. With Bernie Sanders officially out of the primary, we know the Veep pick will be a woman since the former Vice President has made...
Governors are being thrown into the national spotlight by coronavirus—and Democratic women are shining. New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham pushed back on Donald Trump when he told a group of governors to get their own medical supplies. In Kansas,...
We passed two 2020 milestones yesterday. It’s the first fundraising deadline of the year for US House and Senate candidates—and it's Equal Pay Day, the day when women's earnings catch up to what men made during the previous year. As...
Since it opened last year, Manny's cafe in San Francisco's Mission District has become a hub of progressive organizing. The combination restaurant, political bookshop, and event space has hosted civic leaders, artists, activists, business leaders, journalists, writers, and political candidates,...
What would we do without Nancy Pelosi in charge? Two weeks ago, when the public was first learning how bad the coronavirus pandemic could get, Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats quickly passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, an emergency...
We’ve heard some calls to set aside politics because of this crisis, but we can’t do that. Because we can’t ignore that Mitch McConnell took a weekend off while a coronavirus aid bill passed by the House sat on his...
The situation across the country is deteriorating: Hospitals are preparing for equipment shortages, 48 states are in a "state of emergency," and residents of the Bay Area—where WomenCount is based—have been told to “shelter in place.” The President and his...
