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