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Blue Wave Recap: Here Are Some "Firsts"
The Blue Wave on November 6, 2018 included so much good news it was difficult to process it all. Over the next few weeks, Smart Dissent will attempt to recap the progress we made together including well-publicized topics and less covered ones.
Our sixth post includes some exciting and long overdue "firsts" that will lead our nation into the future we deserve. This list is not complete as we continue to learn about new "firsts" and we may add a new post with more in the coming weeks.
—@TishJames, first Black woman elected to statewide office in New York
—@sharicedavids and @Deb4CongressNM, first Native American women in Congress
—@vgescobar and @SenatorSylvia, first Latina women elected to Congress in TexasThe future is bright.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 7, 2018
Per the NBC News article linked here, the first two Native American and Muslim congresswomen are headed to the House, Massachusetts is getting its first black congresswoman, and Arizona and Tennessee are getting their first female senators.
Please do not discount the history being made today:
The first Muslim women to serve in the House
The first Latinas in the House from Texas
The first Native American women in the House
The first Native American woman elected statewide in Minnesota
AND MORE....— Christina Reynolds (@creynoldsnc) November 7, 2018
Remarkable to learn that Democrat Safiya Wazir, 27, who fled the Taliban in Afghanistan, won election to New Hampshire's House of Representatives on Tuesday, the first former refugee to win a seat in the state legislature. Read more here.
Congressional #Firsts
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Youngest woman elected
Rashida Tlaib & Ilhan Omar: 1st Muslim women
Ayanna Pressley: Massachusetts' 1st black woman
Veronica Escobar & Sylvia Garcia, Texas’s 1st Latina women
Sharice Davids & Deb Haaland: 1st Native women
— Jessica Bennett (@jessicabennett) November 7, 2018
Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee’s 1st female senator
Tish James, NY AG, 1st black woman to hold statewide office in NY
Janet Mills, 1st woman elected governor of Maine
Kristi Noem, 1st woman elected governor of SD
Michelle Lujan Grisham, 1st Democratic Latina gov of NM
— Jessica Bennett (@jessicabennett) November 7, 2018
Sources:
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/safiya-wazir-elected-refugee-taliban_us_5be2a7f7e4b0769d24c7100b