Meet your new members of Congress: New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland
A new crop of House members are descending on Washington ahead of Thursday’s swearing-in ceremony. We caught up with incoming Rep. Deb Haaland in the first installment of The Point’s new feature: Meet Your New Members of Congress! The Democrat from New Mexico is looking to prioritize the… Read More
Warren’s jump into the presidential campaign kicks the 2020 race into high gear
The 2020 Democratic campaign to defeat President Trump launched in earnest on New Year’s Eve when Sen. Elizabeth Warren finally made her ambitions clear: She is running for president. The Massachusetts Democrat’s long-expected announcement that she had filed legal paperwork to open a campaign did not… Read More
California maneuvers to make bigger impact in 2020 election
Go west, 2020 presidential candidates? Early voting in California’s primary will overlap with the traditional early nominating contests in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. That could force the sprawling field of Democrats to navigate those states as well as California’s notoriously complex landscape, where campaigning is done through… Read More
Michelle Obama Wants to Save Politics By Staying Out of Them
Michelle Obama is not running for president, people close to her insist. And she’s not running for mayor of Chicago, or for Congress, or for the Board of Overseers at Harvard, where her older daughter Malia started last year. She’s made that clear, repeatedly and painstakingly, describing how she was… Read More
Banner Year for Female Candidates Doesn’t Extend to Republican Women
It is the year of the woman, all right. But only for Democrats. The number of Republican women in Congress next year will actually drop, even as the ranks of Democratic women swell to record heights. With a few races still undecided, the new Congress will… Read More
This is not a pink wave. It’s just the beginning.
After two years of divisive political rhetoric and policies that have hurt the very Americans that so many women ran this year to protect, it comes as a refreshing surprise that our government can, and is, changing. The resounding narrative that emerged from Tuesday night’s election was women. Women ran… Read More
The 2018 Midterms Saw Women Winning in Record-Breaking Numbers
A historic number of women dominated the polls on Tuesday, November 6. Projections vary, but the morning after the 2018 midterms CNN reported that 100 women are expected on their way to Congress, helping push the Democrats to retake control of the House of Representatives. Twelve women were elected… Read More
A lot of women just won their elections, and hopefully someday this will stop being remarkable
If we gain nothing else from the 2018 midterms, my fervent wish for the people of America is that we never again have to use the heinous phrase “pink wave.” Which, at best, sounded like something out of a Tampax Pearl commercial and, at worst, sounded flukish and… Read More
Women Turn the Tide
From the U.S. capitol dome to statehouses across the country, women on Tuesday affirmed the confident slogan on a trendy T-shirt: The Future is Female. Voters will send a historic 100-plus women to Congress, including at least 98 women to the House, an all-time high, and a dozen females to… Read More
Hundreds of women candidates are ready to make history
Tracking hundreds of women candidates running in races at every level, in every U.S. state and territory, requires spreadsheets. Lots of spreadsheets. Volunteers and staff at Emerge America‘s headquarters are following high-profile congressional races all the way down to women running to serve on their school district governing board, as… Read More