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21st-century American women politicians

  • Hillary ClintonAround 1961, a girl from the Chicago suburbs wrote a letter to NASA. Hillary Rodham, later known as Hillary Clinton, wanted to know what she could do to become an astronaut. The reply was blunt. Women were not being accepted into the…
  • Kamala HarrisKamala Harris raised 81 million dollars in small-dollar donations during the first 24 hours of her 2024 presidential campaign, the highest single-day total of any presidential candidate in history. The race that followed lasted only 107…
  • Nancy PelosiOn the 4th of January 2007, Nancy Pelosi defeated Republican John Boehner of Ohio by 233 votes to 202 in the election for speaker of the House. Standing in the chamber afterward, she declared, "today, we have broken the marble ceiling."…
  • Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Warren began her bankruptcy research thinking most filers were gaming the system. She found abuse was rare.
  • Marjorie Taylor GreeneMarjorie Taylor Greene walked onto the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on her first day in office wearing a face mask that read “Trump Won.” Donald Trump had lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. The mask told…
  • Tulsi GabbardTulsi Gabbard, an American politician and Army officer, faced the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the 30th of January 2025 and turned a hostile question into a punchline. Her critics, she said, implied she was loyal to something…
  • Chelsea ManningChelsea Manning is an American activist and whistleblower who, as a young Army intelligence analyst in Iraq, copied nearly 750,000 classified or sensitive military and diplomatic documents and passed them to WikiLeaks. To carry the files…
  • Kristi NoemKristi Noem left college at 22 to run her late father's ranch. She later became South Dakota's governor.
  • Pam BondiPam Bondi, the United States attorney general, faced the House Judiciary Committee on the 11th of February 2026 and was asked a direct question. How many of Jeffrey Epstein's accomplices had she indicted? Her reply was about the stock…
  • Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez, known widely as AOC, won a Democratic primary in New York's 14th congressional district on the 26th of June 2018. She collected 15,897 votes to 11,761 for Joe Crowley, a ten-term incumbent who chaired the…
  • Laura LoomerLaura Loomer is an American activist whose surname has become a verb. To be "Loomered" is to be fired or damaged in some way for alleged disloyalty to Donald Trump. Few people earn that kind of reputation, and fewer earn it after being…

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