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. After having the first panic attack of her life, she wondered, as she described in an essay for Medium: “Do I, a Muslim American who has lived in this country for close to 50 years, have a home in this country any longer?”
Virginia, with its legislative elections in odd-numbered years and its swing state status, is often watched as a bellwether of national trends. Indeed, the first sign of 2018’s wave came from the 2017 House of Delegates election, in which Democrats flipped 15 seats, 11 of them with women candidates. The proportion of women in Virginia’s House jumped from 17 percent in 2015 to 28 percent in 2018.
Some are first-time candidates like Hashmi. Others, like Danica Roem, the first openly transgender state legislator, are defending their seats in tough districts. Shelly Simonds tied her Republican opponent in 2017 but lost the random drawing to determine who would take office; in 2019, she’s trying again. And while 2017’s surge in women candidates came from Democrats, this year Republican women are on the ticket in a number of Virginia’s most competitive races.
When Emerge Louisiana started recruiting its first class at the end of 2017, demand for its candidate-training program far exceeded expectations. “It was a tsunami of inspiration from the national level down but also the local level up,” executive director Melanie Oubre toldTwo years later, 18 Emerge alums qualified for the Oct. 12 open primary for the state legislature. Many are first-time candidates, and one-third are African American women.
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