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,...
Third-quarter fundraising totals were officially released last week, and the numbers continue to tell a story about the political gender giving gap: 1️⃣ Reps. Katie Porter and Barbara Lee lag in California’s US Senate race. Rep. Adam Schiff was first...
Election Day is a little more than three weeks away, meaning time is running out to support women running in this year’s most-important state legislative elections: Virginia. The state is a bellwether for next year’s national elections, and right-wing policies—including...
We were so excited yesterday to welcome a new woman to the US Senate: Laphonza Butler, who will be officially sworn in on Wednesday. Senator-designate Butler comes to Congress after a lifetime of working in Democratic politics, most recently as...
Last week, our partners at Elect Black Women PAC released 5 new endorsements for 2023 candidates. Election Day for these women is in 40 days, so they need funding ASAP to make it across the finish line: Victoria Ward Masika,...
Like all of you, we woke up this morning to the news that Sen. Dianne Feinstein—a trailblazer for women as San Francisco’s first female mayor and the first woman elected to the US Senate from California—had died. This news was...
