Kelly Dittmar

Who are the Democrats voting with Republicans on the government shutdown deal? | CNN Politics A group of Democrats and one Democratic-aligned independent have helped clinch an agreement to end the government shutdown, saying they had secured a vote on the Affordable Care Act subsidies at the c...

Not one of the Democrats who voted to end the shutdown is up for re-election in 2026 (and two are retiring). www.cnn.com/2025/11/09/p...

Nancy Pelosi, a master legislator and partisan warrior A formidable member of Congress will step down next year.

Check out this great assessment of Nancy Pelosi's legacy, from my good friend Michele Swers, one of the nation's leading Congressional experts. Hard to overstate how effective Pelosi was; those are big stilettos to fill! goodauthority.org/news/nancy-p...

Opinion | The Ruling About Passports Isn’t About ID. It’s About Social Control.

Great @mashagessen.bsky.social on the true purpose of Trump's cruel passport gender marker rules: exerting social control. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...

What Mamdani, Sherrill, Spanberger, other Dems' wins tell us - WHYY Democrats had a big night Tuesday and outperformed in races across the country. This hour, we’ll break down the results, and talk about the lessons Democrats and Republicans might carry into the 2026…

Tuesday's #Election2025 brought in victories for the Democratic Party across New York, Virginia, and California. @kdittmar.bsky.social (Rutgers University) joins @dhopkins1776.bsky.social, @avi-wa.bsky.social, and Cherri Gregg to discuss key takeaways.

Listen from WHYY-FM: whyy.org/episodes/mam...

2025 Elections Make Clear That Women Are Key To Democratic Success Women candidates and voters were central to the Democratic success in election 2025 and they will be key to continuing Democratic momentum into next year’s midterm elections.

Women candidates and voters were central to the Democratic success in Tuesday's election and they will be key to continuing Democratic momentum into next year’s midterm elections. (me for @forbes.com)
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Exit polls: Election 2025 | CNN Politics See exit polls data for the 2025 US elections. For more information on voting and election results, visit cnn.com/election.

NJ exit poll: current numbers show a 13 point gender gap for Sherrill. She has support of 59% women, 46% men. Women's vote is +20pts for Sherrill over Ciatterelli. Notable: Sherrill also +3 with white women voters. www.cnn.com/election/202...

NYC will see highest turnout in decades Almost 2 million New Yorkers have already voted in the race between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo, and the polls are still open.

NYC is on pace to see its highest voter turnout since the 1960s.

Nearly 2 million New Yorkers have already cast their ballots in the mayoral race between Mamdani and Cuomo — and the polls are still open.

Exit polls: Election 2025 | CNN Politics See exit polls data for the 2025 US elections. For more information on voting and election results, visit cnn.com/election.

VA Exit Polls now up - current numbers show a 16 point gender gap for Spanberger. She has support of 61% women, 45% men. Women's vote is +24pts for Spanberger over Earle-Sears. Notable: Spanberger also +5 with white women voters. www.cnn.com/election/202...

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

Live Updates: At Least 2 Killed and 17 Injured in Shooting at Minneapolis Catholic School

I am sick and heartbroken hearing about the horrific shooting at Annunciation Catholic.

Gun violence is a policy choice. Everyone, especially our kids, deserves to go to school, to worship, to the grocery or the movies, without fear of senseless & preventable violence.

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:

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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.