Friends,

The AP just called it: Joe Biden has been elected the next President of the United States!

This has been a long week—trust me, I know. But we have so, so much cause for celebration and hope. 

• Kamala Harris just made history! She’s the first woman, first Black American, and first South Asian American to be elected vice president of the United States. And the timing couldn’t be more symbolic—this milestone comes exactly 100 years after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.

• We turned Georgia blue for the first time in nearly 30 years. That’s a testament to my friend Stacey Abrams and the organizers who have been in the trenches there for over a decade. We owe them not just our gratitude, but our sustained investment and support.

• Control of the Senate is up for grabs. I’ll be honest: The fact that Democrats didn’t pick up more seats (and that our phenomenal women candidates fell short) hurts. But we re-elected Senators Jeanne Shaheen, Tina Smith and Gary Peters in competitive, purple states. We helped Mark Kelly in Arizona and John Hickenlooper in Colorado flip their seats blue (and that’s a credit to a groundswell of grassroots support—neither took a DIME of corporate PAC money). And both Georgia Senate races are headed to a runoff! If we elect both Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff on January 5, we’ll take the Senate majority.

• We held our House majority. Let’s not forget: We took the House in 2018 by electing a brilliant, diverse group of women in purple districts across the country. We weathered some losses—and there should and will be a time to examine what happened. But our investments in freshman congresswomen like Lucy McBath in Georgia, Elissa Slotkin in Michigan, Sharice Davids in Kansas, Katie Porter in California and Chrissy Houlahan in Pennsylvania helped them hold their seats. There’s a lot still in flux, and we’ll share a larger debrief in the next few days.

So, we should celebrate these wins. But, more importantly, we must stay engaged. I’ll be following up over the next few days about where we go from here. Most urgently, that’s going all-in to win our two run-offs in Georgia and flip the Senate (you can split a donation between Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff here).

The activism I’ve seen from this community and across the country over the past four years has been both vital and inspiring—we can’t lose that fire when so much remains at stake. Thank you for staying in this fight. 

With love and gratitude,

Kirsten