Read the full article. Election after election, Black women organize, donate, volunteer, knock on doors, and show up at the ballot box. Black women have higher voter turnout than any other demographic and we overwhelmingly vote blue. Yet, when it’s time for the party to invest in the Black women that are running for office or defend them once they’re there, that loyalty is met with a deafening silence. Former Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush’s primary defeat is the most rece

Read the full article. Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan easily won Minnesota’s Democratic primary for a U.S. Senate seat, according to Decision Desk HQ, putting her a step closer to becoming the first Native American woman elected to the chamber. Flanagan, a member of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, is not the only Native woman who could make history this year: In New Mexico, former Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, a Laguna Pueblo member, is widely expected to become New Mexico’

Fresh off the press and the most useful new resource of the week. There are 16 million eligible AAPI voters in 2026, including 1.6 million newly eligible since 2022. Eligible voters grew 19 percent for Asian Americans and 14 percent for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders between 2020 and 2024, against 3 percent growth for the electorate overall. More at: https://aapidata.com/surveys/2026-aapi-voters-data-and-narrative-toolkit

Black Women's Roundtable Releases Part II of the Power of the Sister Vote Poll The Root | August 6, 2026 The National Coalition on Black Civic Participation's Black Women's Roundtable dropped the second installment of its 10th annual survey on the 61st anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, released exclusively through The Root. The headline finding: Black women head into the midterms angry, financially stretched, and skeptical of Washington, but nowhere near checked out. Prot

This opinion piece is from The Hill. Read the full article. It’s no secret that with each election cycle, the costs become higher and the results become tighter. And every election cycle, pundits, party strategists, campaign operatives and consultants scramble to identify the coalition and the hot new silver bullet tactic that will carry Democrats over the finish line, bending over backwards to reinvent the wheel. Cycle after cycle, they overlook the fastest-growing communit