Today we should be celebrating the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Instead, we're in the fight of a generation to preserve abortion access in every way possible. Right now women are fighting back state by state, driving pro-abortion electoral victories...
The first Congressional primaries are **checks notes** eight weeks away, which means we’ll have new slates incoming. First up: Four competitive general election House contests in smaller markets where your dollars can go furthest toward changing the shape of the...
Welcome to 2024. It’s about to get real. The first presidential primaries are this month, and the first Congressional primaries—on Super Tuesday, March 5—are only 60 days away. All of this against the backdrop of the anniversary of the Jan. 6...
Thanks for being a loyal member of the WomenCount community. We’re reaching out one last time before the end of the year to tout our successes in 2023—and get a jump on fundraising for 2024. First things first: We want...
Next year, California will be key to winning back the House of Representatives, and the races there will dominate Super Tuesday. The Cook Political Report is currently tracking 10 California US House races: three that Democrats need to hold and...
With 11 House women retiring, expected to retire or leaving to run for other positions, we’re again staring down another cycle where women’s representation in Congress could drop if we’re not proactive about supporting them early and often. So we’re...
Hope we caught you before the Giving Tuesday rush! Just dropping a short note to remind you that WomenCount is a small, budget-conscious organization with a big goal: Elect more women up and down the ballot, while making political giving...
By now you’ve seen the news: Sen. Joe Manchin will not run for re-election in 2024, essentially guaranteeing that his West Virginia seat will go to a Republican. A quick look at Cook Political Report shows they’ve already revised their race rating...
Doesn’t winning feel good? After the straight-up trauma of four Trump years, and eight lackluster years of down-ballot performances under Obama, the fact that we’ve found a winning issue in abortion—the most charged political-third-rail issue of most of our lifetimes—still makes our...
“Off-year” elections are less than a week away, so we’ve narrowed our top 2023 slate to FIVE races to support with your final donations. Some of these are leaning-R races where late cash could make the difference in a wave,...