EMILYs List Celebrates Native American Heritage Month

For Immediate Release
November 1, 2021

EMILYs List Celebrates Native American Heritage Month

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, recognized Native American Heritage Month, a month-long tribute to the history and culture of Native communities across the country. Laphonza Butler, president of EMILYs List, released the following statement:
 
“EMILYs List is proud to celebrate the resilience and accomplishments of Native Americans across the nation. The past few years have seen progress in Native American representation in government, but systems of oppression born from a violent history remain in place. EMILYs List is proud to support Democratic pro-choice Native women including Rep. Sharice Davids (KS-03), Shoshanna Kelly (NH-Nashua Board of Aldermen at-large), state Rep. Stephanie Byers (KS-HD86), state Rep. Debra Lekanoff (WA-HD40), and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan (MN). These and all the other Native candidates and elected officials bring their voices and the long-ignored voices of their communities to the halls of power, and we are grateful for their work.”

EMILYs List, the nation’s largest resource for women in politics, has raised over $700 million to elect Democratic pro-choice women candidates. With a grassroots community of over five million members, EMILY's List helps Democratic women win competitive campaigns – across the country and up and down the ballot – by recruiting and training candidates, supporting and helping build strong campaigns, researching the issues that impact women and families, running nearly $50 million in independent expenditures in the last cycle alone, and turning out women voters and voters of color to the polls. Since our founding in 1985, we have helped elect the country's first woman as vice president, 158 women to the House, 26 to the Senate, 16 governors, and more than 1,300 women to state and local office. More than 40 percent of the candidates EMILYs List has helped elect to Congress have been women of color. After the 2016 election, more than 60,000 women reached out to EMILY's List about running for office laying the groundwork for the next decade of candidates for local, state, and national offices. In our effort to elect more women in offices across the country, we have created our Run to Win program, expanded our training program, including a Training Center online, and trained thousands of women.