Kelly Dittmar

ICYMI: @kdittmar.bsky.social joined @redwineblueusa.bsky.social‬'s national webinar “Women Are Winning (Really!): The Story the Media is Missing.” The conversation featured insights from Dittmar alongside Ghida Dagher + Dr. Shana Hardin of @newamericanld.bsky.social. Watch: youtu.be/sKoc5UmB_AU?...

In Wisconsin, Evers’ retirement opens up governor’s race Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez has already jumped in to the Democratic primary, and other candidates are likely to follow.

Wisconsin is a perennial swing state with close statewide elections where voters split their tickets between Democrats and Republicans.

Remember when scholars of authoritarianism told us he would go after his political opponents, unions, academia, and the media and people were like, “But Tim Walz got the date wrong from when he was in Tiananmen Square?”

In the Critical Perspectives collection’s introduction, “Whither Politics & Gender Research? Reflections on US Election 2024,” CAWP scholars Kira Sanbonmatsu, @kdittmar.bsky.social, and ‪@pshah.bsky.social spotlight four featured essays. Read more: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Sen. Murkowski, feeling ‘cheated’ by Trump actions against wind and solar, says she’ll go to bat for Alaska projects Murkowski won a concession in the Big, Beautiful Bill to protect tax credits for 12 months for wind and solar. But she said a recent presidential order and Interior directive undercut those plans.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she feels “cheated” after she won a concession in the tax and spending bill to protect wind and solar projects, only to see the Trump administration issue orders that she said seem designed to quash such projects.

Read @kdittmar.bsky.social's newest @forbes.com article: www.forbes.com/sites/kellyd...

Adelita Grijalva Is Poised To Make History For Latinas In Congress If successful in September, Adelita Grijalva will become the first Latina to represent Arizona in Congress and will bump Latina representation in Congress to an all-time high.

Here's a short piece I wrote for ForbesWomen that gives a bit more context to this week's special primary election in AZ-7. www.forbes.com/sites/kellyd...

Did you know? CAWP scholars Kira Sanbonmatsu, @kdittmar.bsky.social, and @pshah.bsky.social introduced a new Critical Perspectives collection in the journal @politicsgenderj.bsky.social, exploring the gender and racial dynamics of the 2024 US election cycle.

Why Women Governors May See Highs And Lows In The Next Two Years Three of four gubernatorial nominees in 2025 are women. But half of the current women governors will be leaving office by 2027.

Women could pick up two gubernatorial seats in 2025, but 6 of 12 current women governors can’t or won’t run for re-election in 2026. I wrote about it for @forbes. www.forbes.com/sites/kellyd...

Critical Perspectives introduction "Whither Politics & Gender Research? Reflections on US Election 2024" by Kira Sanbonmatsu, Kelly Dittmar and Paru Shah. Article begins: "The 2024 elections made US history in numerous ways. Vice President Kamala Harris became the first Black and South Asian woman to be nominated by a major party for the presidency. Former president Donald Trump made history by becoming the oldest person and the first convicted felon to become president. 2024 marked the first presidential election following the historic Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in 2022. We asked leading experts in the field to reflect on the gender and racial dynamics of the 2024 election cycle and consider which aspects of the election are illuminated by gender scholarship. We asked what theories help explain the dynamics of the campaigns, voting behavior, and the outcome, as well as which election aspects were unanticipated."

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@cawp-ru.bsky.social‬ scholars Kira Sanbonmatsu, @kdittmar.bsky.social‬, @pshah.bsky.social introduce our new Critical Perspectives collection on the gender and racial dynamics of the 2024 US election cycle.

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Check out our full analysis of how women fared in yesterday's NJ contests on our Election Analysis page: cawp.rutgers.edu/blog/results...
Complete context about women in the 2025 elections can be found on CAWP's Election Watch: cawp.rutgers.edu/election-watch

U.S. Representative Mikie Sherrill has won the Democratic nomination for New Jersey Governor. Should she win in November, she will be the second woman and first Democratic woman to serve as governor of the Garden State.

Learn more about women in NJ politics here:

cawp.rutgers.edu/facts/new-je...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mikie Sherrill wins Democratic nomination for governor in New Jersey primary election.

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

Result: Gina Ortiz Jones will be the next mayor of San Antonio. The Democrat, and former Biden admin official, just defeated Republican Rolando Pablos in the country’s seventh most populous city. (She’s going to replace a retiring Dem.)

Simone Biles, continuing to prove she’s the GOAT

Trans Troops, Facing a Deadline, Opt to Stay and Fight the Ban

“It hurts when you love what you do, you love your country, and someone comes in and can take it all away because they don’t like what you are,” Sgt. First Class Julia Becraft said.

Figure showing agreement with the statement "Men are being expected to do too much to support equality" by generation. 59% of Gen Z men and 57% of Millennial men agree, compared to 53% of Gen X and 43% of Baby Boomers. By contrast, rates of agreement are much lower for women.

Take a look, for example, at the data from the 2025 Ipsos International Women's Day Poll. The data show that Gen Z and Millennial men are actually more likely than older men to believe that men are expected to do too much to support gender equality.

To trust the polling, the trends are perhaps more distressing among those still too young to have even dipped their toes into the work force. According to the data analyst David Waldron’s assessment of the world-class Monitoring the Future Survey, run by the University of Michigan, in 2018, 84 percent of eighth- and 10th-grade boys said they agreed either “completely” or “mostly” that women should have the same job opportunities as men. Five years later, the number had fallen to 72 percent. The share who agreed “at all” that men and women should be paid the same money for the same work had fallen from 87 percent to 79 percent. The share who said they agreed “completely” with equal pay for equal work had fallen from 72 percent to 57 percent — just over half.

This isn't a stalled gender revolution. It's a gender counter-revolution. And the most troubling part is that it's younger men and boys the leading charge.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...

So much this. Insulting men by calling them women/feminine is upholding the sexism that privileges men in positions of political (and other types of) leadership.

Please stop.

“The girls are fighting” to describe Trump vs Elon is an insult to girls.

My statement on the charges filed against me:

This was SB99 from 2023. I spoke against this bill on 3 different occasions on the house floor, including the "blood on your hands" speech.

I am glad this bill has been permanently defeated. And that Montana's constitution continues to protect trans people from government overreach and animus.

New poll: Americans oppose cuts to Medicaid, want Democrats to control the U.S. House ...and Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in a hypothetical 2024 rematch. Results from the inaugural Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll

NEW Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll out this AM. We find cuts to Medicaid deeply unpopular (58% oppose to 14%), Trump underwater on most issues (-16 net approval), Democrats ahead on the generic ballot by 6 points, and Harris leading a 2024 rematch

Full results in this thread

This is the moment I was invited into Delaney Hall. Nobody was kicking or shoving like the coverage suggests. We were invited in.

New AP poll on Trump/higher education:

Maintain fed'l funding for scientific/medical research?
62% approve

Remove colleges' tax-exempt status?
30% approve

Withhold fed'l funds unless they comply w/ Trump's demands?
27% approve

Overall on Trump/colleges?
56%👎, 42%👍

apnorc.org/projects/few...

Federal Court Grants Preliminary Injunction on Behalf of Rutgers International Students Targeted by ICE The preliminary injunction granted today requires the government to fully restore the students’ records retroactive to the original date of termination and provides due process protections.

BREAKING: A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction on behalf of our clients, six Rutgers international students who had their student status effectively terminated by ICE.

This means our clients’ records must be fully restored.

Read more: www.aclu-nj.org/en/press-rel...

You mean to tell me that Chicago gets to claim Michael Jordan, the first Black President AND the first American Pope? Good lord you ain't going to be able to tell them NOTHING.

John Fetterman finds himself increasingly alone The Pennsylvania senator has always had a go-it-alone attitude. Now, in the wake of an article that said staff had concerns about his mental health, he finds himself with little political support from...

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman's tendency to rebuff professional relationships is coming back to bite him.