Success
We Help Women Win
The National Women’s Political Caucus offers endorsements to progressive, pro-choice women who support our bottom-line issues, and often they win their elections.
These candidates and their campaign staffs work hard for these victories. Sometimes these women run for the same office multiple times before winning. We take pride in knowing that we play a part in the greater movement to increase women’s involvement in politics and to help put women in elected and appointed offices nationwide.
MORE THAN 50 YEARS OF WINNING
From the beginning, the National Women’s Political Caucus has endorsed and supported winning women candidates. Several NWPC co-founders attend a 1971 meeting: (front, from L to R) activists/authors Betty Friedan and Elinor Guggenheimer, Chair of the New York City Human Rights Commission Eleanor Holmes Norton and co-founder of “Ms. Magazine” Gloria Steinem. Norton was later elected to the U.S. Congress in 1990, where she has continued to represent the District of Columbia for more than three decades.
Women Winning
A Few of the Many Recent Successes
Ilhan Omar
U.S. Congresswoman, Minnesota District 5
Omar defeated Don Samuels in 2022. She is the first Somali American congresswoman and first woman of color to represent Minnesota.
Katie Hobbs
Governor, Arizona
In 2022, Hobbs defeated Republican Kari Lake, an election denier, to become the state’s fifth woman governor. She has enacted significant reproductive freedoms legislation in Arizona.
Angie Craig
U.S. Congresswoman, Minnesota District 2
Craig defeated Tyler Kistner in 2022. In 2019, she became the first openly lesbian mother to serve in Congress and the first openly LGBT+ member of Congress from Minnesota.
Linda Sánchez
U.S. Congresswoman, California District 38
Sánchez defeated Eric Ching in 2022. She made history in 2003 when she and her sister Congresswoman Loretta Sánchez became the first sisters to serve in Congress simultaneously.
Karen Bass
Mayor, Los Angeles, California, 2nd largest U.S. city
Bass defeated Rick Caruso in 2022 to become the first woman and second African American to be elected mayor in the city’s 241-year history. Bass was also a member of the U.S. Congress from 2011–2022.
Maggie Hassan
U.S. Senator, New Hampshire
Hassan, a former state legislator and governor, defeated Don Bolduc in 2022. She first won in 2016 in one of the most competitive Senate races in the country by 1,017 votes.
Anna Eshoo
U.S. Congresswoman, California District 16
Eshoo defeated Democrat Rishi Kumar in 2022. She is currently serving her 33rd year in Congress. She is a founding member of NWPC-CA local chapters and a fierce advocate for the ERA. She is not seeking re-election.
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
U.S. Congresswoman, Washington District 3
In 2022, she defeated Joe Kent, a Donald Trump-endorsed Republican, who ousted six-term incumbent Republican Jaime Herrera Beutler in the primary. Gluesenkamp Perez flipped a district that had been red for 12 years.
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