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...
We’ve got whiplash. For weeks before Super Tuesday, Elizabeth Warren was erased by the media, left out of every conversation about “frontrunners,” her speeches and events essentially blacked out. But now that she’s out of the race cable news panels...
It’s been a rough week for our presidential women. With Amy Klobuchar suspending her campaign, and Elizabeth Warren posting disappointing results on Super Tuesday, our hopes of electing a woman president in 2020 are dwindling. It’s a frustrating, maddening turn...
Though they’ll be critical to keeping Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren in the presidential race, Nevada and South Carolina are more important than presidential politics this year. There are two critical down-ballot races that can help Democrats keep and increase...
Something really important got downplayed last week, in between the confusion in Iowa and the rush to New Hampshire. In a very competitive, very blue, special election primary that could have put another woman in Congress—Maya Rockeymoore Cummings—the male-dominated politics...
Senate Republicans' cover-up of Donald Trump's crimes is complete. Today, they voted to acquit the President on two articles of impeachment: Abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Before that, they voted not to hear witnesses or consider other evidence,...
