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#WomenoftheCentury It is such an honor to be recognized along with so many outstanding women. Congratulations to all those amazing trailblazers! Women can and do change the world. bit.ly/3g4zSzb
#Leaders
#activists
#womenempowerment
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Egyptian-American surgeon Adam Hamawy, who volunteered in Gaza during the genocidal war and performed more than 100 surgical operations, has won a seat in the U.S. Congress representing the state of New Jersey, becoming the first Muslim to represent the state in its history.
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One thing is clear after last night: JD Vance is finished. He will NEVER be president.
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To think it took them almost 90 years to get a brain and a heart lol
The last time a Kansas Democrat was in the Senate, the Wizard of Oz was in cinemas bbc.in/4zvk7uC
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As additional seats come in, the takeaway is becoming even clearer: This election was truly historic.
THIS is what makes America great:
1) Keisha Lance Bottoms, Georgia’s first Black woman governor.
2) Deb Haaland, New Mexico’s first Native American woman governor.
3) Peggy Flanagan, the first Native American woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
4) Gina Hinojosa, Texas’s first Latina governor.
5) Juliana Stratton, a Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Illinois.
6) Claire Valdez, a Native American woman elected to Congress from New York.
7) David Crowley, Wisconsin's first Black governor.
Religious diversity:
1) Abdul El-Sayed, Muslim, Michigan U.S. Senate.
2) Adam Hamawy, Muslim, New Jersey Congress.
3) Darializa Avila Chevalier, Muslim, New York Congress.
4) Amy Acton, Jewish, Ohio governor.
Women making history:
At least 139 women will serve in Congress in 2027.
At least 17 women will serve as governors.
At least 101 women will hold statewide executive offices.
Women won 15 gubernatorial contests and 74 statewide executive contests.
Different backgrounds. Different faiths. Different cultures. Different life experiences.
One country. One democracy. One extraordinary reminder that America belongs to ALL of us.
THIS IS WHAT MAKES AMERICA GREAT! 🇺🇸💙
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Ilhan Omar has won re-election to the United States House of Representatives, defeating Republican John Nagel to secure a fifth term in Minnesota. Few members of Congress have faced what she has faced from Donald Trump. He told her to "go back" to her home country, called her "garbage" and said she "should be in jail" and "sent back to Somalia."
When a man sprayed a liquid at her during a town hall meeting in Minneapolis, Trump suggested that she "probably sprayed herself."
Then he turned the power of the state on her. Trump said the Justice Department and Congress were looking into her finances, and three weeks before the election, about two dozen federal agents raided her Washington home, taking her phone, notebooks, computers and passport.
Her family received subpoenas, as the administration reportedly sought to strip her of her citizenship and deport her. She has not been charged with any crime, and no evidence of wrongdoing has been made public.
Trump used everything he had to destroy a refugee from Somalia, and the voters of Minneapolis sent her back to Congress!
Ilhan Omar won 263,166 votes, or 76.5%, against 55,805 votes, or 16.2%, for Republican John Nagel, a margin of about 207,000 votes. Independent candidate DeVelle Jackson took 24,215 votes, or 7.0%.
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Greg Abbott... OUT
Susan Collins.... OUT
Lauren Boebert... OUT
Mike Johnson... OUT
Vivek Swamasay... OUT
Elon Musk... OUT (of $500 million 🤣🤣🤣)
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I’ll never forget Greg Abbott saying “it could have been worse” after those grown men stood outside that classroom for 77 minutes in Uvalde listening to those babies get slaughtered
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For the first time in US history, a gay man, a Black woman, a Muslim, Native American woman, Palestinian, and Latina have won their respective midterm elections.
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Chris Christie UNLOADS on Vivek Ramswamy losing the Ohio governor’s race...
“You not only have to question the judgement of a man who would take a woman — an elderly woman, out of the car she was living in out of the parking lot in a church in Pennsylvania with her cats and put her in front of a video camera, and make that a TV add in the gubernatorial race. We know what Vivek Ramswamy is, and voters have judged him as such. But here is the real problem going forward. J.D. Vance stood 100 percent with Vivek Ramaswamy. Not only as a person and a candidate, but he stood behind that advertisement. And Vivek Ramaswamy will be forgotten. He is going to be sent to the dustbin of history. But J.D. Vance is going to be remembered, I think, for this campaign, for more than anything else, David, that he stood by that ad, a man who wrote a book on Catholicism, stood behind that ad. It’s a disgrace.”