The Rebranded Women’s March Takes Place Tomorrow

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Remember when the Women’s March was a big thing back in 2017? It really was huge that year and pink “pussy hats” were all the rage. And then there were those awkward accusations of anti-Semitism and by 2019 the march wasn’t drawing nearly as many people.

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Whether it was stormy weather, reports of controversy or the simple waning of interest over time, the third annual Women’s March events on Saturday attracted much smaller crowds than in years past.

In Washington, in a frigid marble plaza only blocks from the White House, early attendees at first seemed to be outnumbered by barkers hawking T-shirts and buttons.

“I’m disappointed. It’s definitely not the turnout I was looking for,” said Peggy Baron, 53, a lawyer from Dublin, Ohio, who said that the first Washington march two years ago had been “wall-to-wall women.”

And then Biden was elected and the marches went away. But with Trump’s election to a 2nd term, the organizers are trying to bring it back but only after rebranding it as the People’s March.

Organizers say the rebranded and reorganized march has absorbed criticism and moved past the internal tumult that consumed the movement after the hugely successful march eight years ago on the day after Trump’s first inauguration.

Now, with Democratic political leaders across the country searching for ways to reconnect with voters after the party’s devastating election losses last fall, People’s March organizers are hoping to broaden their base, stake out a new direction and move beyond a single day of action to help progressive voters find a political home.

Saturday’s march is expected to draw as many as 50,000 people, far fewer than the Women’s March in 2017. It’s one of several protests, rallies and vigils focused on abortion, rights, immigration rights and the Israel-Hamas war planned in advance of inauguration Monday.

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Will 50,000 show up? That’s still a big crowd but Reuters is reporting the number will be more like 25,000.

While the ‘Women’s March’ organization is coordinating another protest this Saturday, it is now dubbed the ‘People’s March’ and just 25,000 are expected in Washington, compared to an estimated 500,000 in 2017. Dozens of cities around the country are also holding demonstrations, but they are expected to be low-key.

Feminist icon Gloria Steinem and musicians Madonna and Alicia Keys were among the 2017 stars, but the Washington People’s March doesn’t have any big headliners. Steinem made the “hard decision” not to attend as the 90-year-old scales back on her travels, a representative said.

The reason for the declining interest isn’t exactly clear but some activists claim the movement is simply exhausted from successive losses and also divided internally.

The crushing defeat of Kamala Harris, the second Democratic woman to challenge Donald Trump to the presidency and lose, has left liberal women exhausted and laid bare racial divides in the women’s rights movements that will take some time to heal, more than a dozen activists and organizers told Reuters…

Rachel Noerdlinger is a senior advisor with Win With Black Women, a group of thousands of Black political advisers, fundraisers and strategists who poured money and organizing muscle into getting Harris elected. She said the women’s movement was fractured: “We’ve got some tough conversations to be had, and we have to recognize we have commonalities and we have differences.”…

Several Black activists told Reuters they felt betrayed by white women.

“They do need to interrogate why they tend to align with the patriarchy, why their allegiance to their race supersedes their allegiance to their gender,” said Amara Enyia, interim co-executive director for the Movement for Black Lives.

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It sounds to me like the Women’s March succumbed to the same internal frictions that have been plaguing all left-wing groups for several years. I’ll return again to that Ryan Grim’s 2022 piece for the Intercept about organizations that spend 90% of their time on internal controversies rather than achieving their stated goals.

Wokeism is a double-edged sword. It gave the left a lot of openings to grab power in social, academic and corporate settings but a movement founded on constant racial criticism has also made it nearly impossible for the left to organize itself. Wokeism encourages the formation of factions along racial lines and also places white women at the bottom of a hierarchy of oppression, i.e. the most privileged. There’s no way out of this trap. The criticism aimed at other groups over grievances old and new is effectively endless.

All that to say, I’m not surprised the Women’s March fell apart or that it can’t return to what it once was. But who knows, maybe the People’s March will strike a chord. We’ll have a better idea tomorrow. 

Deep Question of the Week: Will Trump Execute Generals, Assassinate Media Figures?

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I was promised that Donald Trump would jail and kill media figures, execute generals, and build re-education camps for liberals. 

It is why I voted for him. 

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Sure, Donald Trump never said or even intimated that he would do anything like this, but plenty of Pravda Media figures assured me that this would be so. Donald Trump Jr. would become the next in line to become President-for-life, and Barron would be waiting in the wings should something happen to his brother. 

Now, I am afraid that none of that will happen. None of these media figures has gone into hiding in some attack somewhere as far as I know, nor have they fled to non-extradition countries. They seem unconcerned about death camps and continue their nonstop attacks on the president-elect as if media free speech and protections still exist. 

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I’m not so hot on interracial marriages being broken up. My own marriage is a bit racially ambiguous, with a wife named Martín, and I doubt J.D. Vance wants to dump Usha, but perhaps they are on the chopping block, too, for all I know. 

Or not.

We at least need a few of the executions we were told were going to happen. I kept hearing about how they would happen–assured by all the best people that they would–and the American people DID vote for Trump. That means that the executions have a mandate, right?

Adam Schiff doesn’t appear to be quaking in his boots about his fate under Trump, although maybe he is packing an AR-15 to shoot it out with Trump’s Praetorian Guard once they come for him. Liz Cheney remains in the country, but perhaps she will hole up in a Wyoming militia camp along with her dad to go out guns blazing. 

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It could be a “remember the Alamo” moment. 

If I sound a bit snarky, it’s because I am so damned tired of these liars, knaves, and traitors to the American Spirit. They are among the lowest of the low, doing everything they can to sound the alarm about a non-problem. They are political opportunists who will do anything, say anything, and, in the case of their jihad against Trump, commit actual crimes to retain their power and prestige. 

If any of them committed actual crimes, off to jail with them. But if they haven’t, each and every one of them should lose security clearances, be blackballed from dealing with the federal government, be shunned by all Republicans and people who remain decent of any party, and most of all be ridiculed. 

We should create a clock: Day 365 of Liz Cheney not going before a firing squad… Day 366…Day 367. 

LAT: People Fleeing Dem-Controlled States May Be a Problem For Progs

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Fact check: True. And false in another way, or at least incomplete.

The Los Angeles Times may not have gotten to the Dem Demo Dystopia story first; we’ve covered it here from other sources, for instance. However, it takes on more significance in light of the distillation of progressive Democrat governance in the catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles. People had already begun fleeing California in droves over the last few years, with the Golden State holding U-Haul’s top exit position for five years running

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The LAT catches up to the political implications for progressives in this Great Migration, or better put, a national flight to sanity:

Texas and Florida are growing rapidly. California, Illinois and New York have been shrinking.

With America’s population shifting to the South, political influence is seeping from reliably Democratic states to areas controlled by Republicans. Coming out of a presidential election where they lost all seven swing states, Democrats are facing a demographic challenge that could reduce their path to winning the U.S. House of Representatives or the White House for the long term.

If current trends hold through the 2030 census, states that voted for Vice President Kamala Harris will lose around a dozen House seats — and Electoral College votes — to states that voted for President-elect Donald Trump. The Democratic path to 270 Electoral College votes, the minimum needed to win the presidency, will get much narrower.

“At the end of the day, Democrats have to be able to win in the South or compete in the South” if they want to control the levers of government, said Michael Li, senior counsel for the Democracy Program at New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice. “Otherwise, it’s a really uphill battle every time.”

This may become particularly acute in Southern California in the wake of the events of the past two weeks. Many of those who lost their homes in the wildfires may face years of effort to rebuild and return to their homes. If they were fortunate enough to retain their insurance, though, the payout would likely allow them to find much cheaper housing with similar amenities elsewhere — without the incompetent and malevolent progressive bureaucracy that made this disaster exponentially worse. Some of them may not be mobile enough to move away from income streams, but only a fool would fail to look at that option rather than wait until the end of the decade to have a home again. 

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One can bet that other Californians who aren’t impacted by the wildfires are thinking the same thing. For one, the destruction of housing on this scale will have the immediate effect of raising property values everywhere else in the Greater Los Angeles Area. Anyone who had been considering an exit to sanity but hadn’t yet pulled the trigger will realize that the financial incentives will never be better, while the political incentives for staying will never be worse. And for that matter, the same is true for the fiscal incentives in the long run, as Calfornia’s progressives will have to soak its residents even more to pay for the damage done by their incompetence as the bills run into the hundreds of billions of dollars. 

Ironically, this will benefit California progressives in one sense, as their political opposition will leave the field to solidify Democrat control at the local and state level. But as the LAT and others have noticed, it will make California a lot less politically relevant at the national level. And given the fiscal woes in Sacramento, for which Newsom and the state legislature will need federal help to resolve since Democrats won’t stop spending money they don’t have, that will be very bad news for progressive California and the other coastal states in the grips of incompetent progressives. Which includes every state on the West Coast and every state north of the Carolinas on the East Coast. 

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What does that mean for progressives and these states in Congress and in presidential elections? A doom loop:

The Brennan Center projects that California will lose four seats and New York two in the 2030 census. Illinois, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Wisconsin would lose one seat each. Except for Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, which are swing states, all of those states have consistently backed Democrats for president and sent Democratic majorities to the House.

No GOP strongholds are projected to lose seats.

Overall, the Brennan Center estimates a loss of 12 seats from blue states to red states. The conservative American Redistricting Project estimates it at 11 seats. Either way, the shift in 2030 — assuming it comes to pass — will mean a rightward shift in a near-evenly split of the House. It also portends a subtle rightward shift in the Senate, as a flood of disaffected conservatives flows out of California and New York to states they find more politically palatable. And of course, the Electoral College will begin to tilt significantly to the GOP if Democrats can’t rid themselves of the radical-progressive elite clique that currently controls their party. 

So all of this is true enough, but it still doesn’t tell the whole story. The problem for progressives isn’t just that their conservative residents are migrating. As Gallup’s latest party affiliation data shows, Americans are also migrating to the GOP overall:

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Americans’ political party preferences remained closely divided in 2024, with the Republican Party having a slight edge for the third consecutive year. Overall, 46% of Americans identified as Republicans or independents who leaned toward the Republican Party, compared with 45% who identified as Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents. Prior to 2022, Republicans only had a slight edge once before, in 1991.

Without leaners, a plurality of voters identify as independents, still at a record-high 43%. However, when Gallup adds in the leaners, Republicans have gotten the edge for the last three years. That makes the COVID pandemic look like an inflection point, and perhaps that is what finally broke the spell, as the destination states all have the same thing in common — either no lockdowns or very brief restrictions. Americans have a pretty good sense of freedom and dangers to it, and are flocking toward liberty and away from the bureaucrats and progressive incompetents that want to eliminate it. And that may well accelerate as progressives clamp down even harder on whoever is unfortunately unable to escape.

U-Haul had better invest some big money in their outbound California infrastructure, in other words. 

Detransitioned Student Prevented from Speaking About His Experience on Campus

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Last month, Simon Price graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston. But his last semester in school turned into an ugly scene after he was assigned a project for a class called “Songwriting and Social Change.” The project was to put together a public event about a social issue the student felt passionate about. White other students did projects about homelessness and eating disorders, Price decided he would talk about his own experience living as a trans person for 3 years before detransitioning.

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In middle school, my peers targeted me with homophobic bullying. They called me slurs, threatened me, and made me afraid and uncomfortable in my own body. At 13, I told my parents that I was bisexual. A year later, I declared that I was a girl. I demanded — with the support of my therapist and pediatrician — access to cross-sex hormones…

At 17, I started the long process of desistance and social detransition.

Price went through all the normal steps to complete his assignment. He discussed his plans with his professor. He secured a room to hold the event. He arranged for security and even got funding from the Office of Diversity & Inclusion to fund it. It wasn’t until he took the next step of advertising the event online that things took a turn.

Individuals on Instagram said they were going to throw “expired groceries” at him, demanded that he be kicked out of school, and told him he should be “scared” to host the event. 

Students also got 1,998 signatures for an online petition urging the college to cancel the event, claiming it was “expected to harm the mental well-being of individuals in the transgender community.”

On Oct. 17, Amaya Price met with Berklee Vice President and Executive Director Ron Savage, who recommended postponing the event for safety reasons and promised to help Amaya Price find a different venue. But instead, the Office of Diversity & Inclusion posted to its Instagram that the event “will no longer take place as planned on October 20” and will “not be sponsored” by the Office.

On Oct. 21, Savage indefinitely postponed the event.

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Indefinitely postponed but not canceled even as the semester was ending and Price was about to graduate. At this point the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression got involved.

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression sent Berklee a letter on Nov. 1, in which it showed how the school’s decision to indefinitely postpone my event is a breach of the school’s speech code. The college responded nearly a month later, on Nov. 26, with a statement from a lawyer, claiming “it was ultimately postponed due to safety and other logistical concerns.”…

Since Oct. 21, I have heard from countless Berklee students, alumni, and professors who feel that Berklee preferentially protects free speech along lines of identity and political affiliation. The attempts by my classmates and Berklee administration to sweep my event under the rug has, ironically, caused it to receive far more publicity than it would have otherwise. I worked with a number of groups, including Democrats for an Informed Approach to Gender and MIT’s Open Discourse Society, to put my event on at MIT. It took place on Nov. 24, and there were nearly 50 attendees at my event and a small protest, but there were no safety issues. What is Berklee afraid of?

We all know the answer to that last question. The school is afraid of the vicious trans activists who threaten and bully anyone who deviates from their approved ideology. Standing up to them would have take a lot more backbone than the Berklee College of Music has. Instead they cowered behind an indefinite postponement, too afraid to even state plainly what they were doing (canceling the event).

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The event he held at MIT was filmed and you can watch it here. He details some of the messages he received from other Berklee students. However, this interview below is a bit easier to listen to. Simon explains that he was miserable in Middle School and after spending time on Google decided he must be trans. He announced this to his family but his father said no and refused to let him make any changes to his body. “I hated him for it at the time, but I’m really happy he did that,” Simon said. He added, “Without him I would be in a much worse place today.”

Real America's Voice Guest Calls For Violence Against Michael Cohen

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A supporter of Donald Trump called for violence against attorney Michael Cohen because his testimony could result in an indictment for the former president.

During a Monday interview on MAGA network Real America’s Voice, host Ed Henry spoke to a guest named Jared.

“He lives in New York, right? Michael Cohen? He lives in Manhattan?” Jared pointed out. “I hope he’s being protected, because even though the president doesn’t condone violence, that man needs his ass handed to him.”

“Maybe not violence,” Henry interrupted. “We’re not calling for violence.”

“I mean, he’s a lying sack of crap, man,” Jared continued. “It pisses me off. And I’d slap a figure-four leg lock on him in seconds. That guy is disgusting. You talk about a horse face.”

“He’s like, I can’t stand that guy,” he added. “Right between the eyes, he needs it. Anyway, that’s my opinion on Michael Cohen. You can’t let somebody like that off the hook. You can’t let him off the hook.”

Co-host Karyn Turk downplayed the guest’s calls for violence.

“Well, and being from Jersey myself, I want to say that like the things that you say, you know, these are normal speak for someone from Jersey,” she opined. “They’re not to be taken totally, literally.”

“Don’t blame Jersey,” Jared quipped. “Just blame me. I’m a man of loyalty. I’m a man of passion. I’m a man of conviction. And for that man to do what he did alone, he needs his ass handed to him.”

The guest insisted that he was usually a “gentle man.”

“It doesn’t sound like it this morning,” Henry observed.

Trump has also suggested his supporters engage in violent protest as he faces a possible indictment concerning hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Police Sargent Who Grabbed Officer By The Throat Now Charged With Assault

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You might remember this story from earlier in the year. Pullease was pepper-spraying a suspect directly in the face, apparently while he was handcuffed in the back of a squad car when another officer objected. He became irate, grabbed her by the throat and pepper-sprayed her as well. Well, after a long investigation he’s now under arrest. He had been on paid administrative leave ever since.

Source: NBC News

A Florida police sergeant who was seen in body camera video grabbing another officer by her throat last year was charged with battery and assault on a law enforcement officer, officials said Thursday.

Christopher Pullease, 47, was also charged with evidence tampering and assaulting a civilian during the Nov. 19 incident, the Broward State Attorney’s office said in a statement.

Pullease, who was relieved of his supervisory duties in January, was accused of “intentionally touching or striking” the female officer against her will and assaulting her when he held pepper spray to her face, the statement said.

The assault charge against the civilian, who was being arrested on what authorities described as a violent felony when the incident occurred, was prompted by Pullease holding the spray to the man’s face, the prosecutor’s office said.

Photo gallery: San Juan Island springtime for momma foxes and their baby kits

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There is a population of foxes on San Juan Island in northwestern Washington state, where I live. They are non-natives who were brought here in the 1930s by island dwellers who were trying to come up with a solution for dealing with the island’s other main invasive species, rabbits (who seem to have arrived sometime in the 1850s with early British settlers). It didn’t really work—the foxes mostly just spread out across the whole island, while the rabbits remain centered at its southern end. But since foxes are not good swimmers, the species did not spread. They have remained here and have become accepted members of the island ecosystem, having survived some tough years in the 1990s.

These are red foxes, but there is a black/silver (technically, “melanistic”) variant among them. So some are red and some are black, sometimes in the same family. And every spring, fox mommas bear litters of their kits, and the island’s residents get to enjoy watching them grow up, while trying to keep them safe from passing cars. (It’s also taboo to feed them—naturalists dealing with the starving populations we saw in the ‘90s realized the problem was dependency on humans. They thrive when they’re on their own, because there’s plenty of prey for them here.) In any event, I was able to enjoy a couple of late afternoons this past month observing them from an appropriate distance with my telephoto lens in hand. Hope you enjoy the results.

These two siblings played together for a long time, and I thought I might keel over from a cuteness overdose.

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The black one thinks he’s being sneaky.

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First, a greeting.

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Then they just played and played.

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This kit was staying close to its momma up the hill a bit.

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Two more siblings hanging out atop the rock overlook.

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The kits generally were quite wary of the nearby traffic, which was light and sporadic, and thanks to local signage, mostly cautious.

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Two tough guys playing outside the den.

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While one kit nurses, the momma and another kit watch their neighboring fox family intently.

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The other momma was a black/silver female. Both had mixed litters.

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Some of the kits, like this one, weren’t the bright red we saw on many of them, but kind of a mixed auburn color.

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The mother was clearly teaching them how to eat solid food, bringing them prey that they all devoured. I wasn’t able to tell what it was.

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Still playing with their food.

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One or two of the kits would wander into the road while momma went to hunt, but eventually would make their way back to the safety of the hillside where their den was.

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I happened to catch the black/silver female out hunting for the kits a little further down the road later.

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Daily Kos Elections presents our comprehensive guide to the 117th Congress’ members and districts

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Following the conclusion of the 2020 congressional elections, Daily Kos Elections is pleased to unveil the most comprehensive guide you’ll find anywhere to the members of the new 117th Congress. This spreadsheet includes a wealth of demographic and electoral data on senators and representatives, as well as the states and districts they represent, providing key insight on the makeup of Congress and statistics that play a critical role in understanding both chambers. We’ve also visualized much of this data in maps and charts below.

The guide includes our own calculations of the 2008-2020 presidential elections by congressional district that we recently finished for 2020, the 2012-2020 House election results, and the most recent Senate elections by state. It also includes vital census demographic statistics, such as the racial breakdowns (including by citizenship status) to provide the most accurate estimation of the eligible voter population. It further contains statistics about college educational attainment, median household income, and an estimate of the share of eligible voters who are white without a college degree, a demographic marker that has become highly salient in the Trump era and beyond.

For each voting member of the House and Senate, we also have statistics on their gender, race or ethnicity, age, LGBTQ status, religious affiliation, and even a name-pronunciation guide. The 117th Congress will be both the most racially diverse and have the highest share of women on record, building on the record-breaking 116th Congress. Be sure to bookmark the 117th Congress Guide, since we will keep it updated as new information becomes available or whenever there are changes in congressional memberships. Below we’ll explore these new member demographics.

The chart below summarizes those stats by party for the House. (Note that we have assigned vacant seats to the party, if any, that last held them following the 2020 elections.)

The new House has more than 100 women for the second time in its history, though at 28% of the full chamber, women are still far from parity with men. As shown on the map below, 2020 saw a rebound for Republicans by doubling their proportion of the GOP after it had reached a historic low in 2018, though women are still only 14% of House Republicans compared to 40% of Democrats.

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The next map below illustrates which members are new to the House and which are returning veterans. In a reversal of 2018, 2020 saw three times as many Republicans than Democrats who were elected for the first time. (Note that Republican Reps. Claudia Tenney, Darrell Issa, and David Valadao are included among the new members because their previous tenures in Congress were non-consecutive with their current terms.)

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In a sharp contrast to 2018, when only one of the 30 newly elected Republicans was a woman, the map below shows that women represent 19 of the 46 Republicans first elected last November. Just as in 2018, a majority of newly elected Democrats were women, with nine out of a total 15.

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And as shown on map below, which breaks down membership by race and ethnicity, 2020 saw a very small increase in the proportion of members who are people of color—now more than 27% of the total—but that means we’ve once again set an all-time record.

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The partisan divide in race and ethnicity remains sharp, as shown on the two maps below: Among Democrats, just 56% are of solely white-European ancestry, but 91% of House Republicans are.

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Our final maps illustrate the religious affiliation of the 117th House members, which the Pew Research Center authoritatively catalogs every two years. Christians comprise 88% of the House, Jews are 6%, those who refused to say or whose affiliation is unknown are 3%, and Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and Unitarian Universalists are each 1% or less. Further breaking down the 88% of members who identify as Christians, 54% of House members are Protestants (including both mainline and evangelicals), 31% are Catholics, 2% are Eastern Orthodox, and 1% are Mormons.

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As shown below in the final two maps, the partisan differences in religious affiliation are even starker than racial and ethnic differences. Christians make up only 79% of Democrats but are 99% of Republicans. All but three of the 50 members who don’t identify as Christians are Democrats.

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In total, heterosexual, Christian, non-Hispanic white men still make up 49% of the House, roughly double their share of the total population according to estimates from the 2019 Cooperative Congressional Election Study. However, those numbers also sharply diverge by party: This group makes up just 25% of House Democrats but 79% of House Republicans.

Turning to the Senate, the upper chamber is much less demographically representative of the nation as a whole than the House, as shown in the chart below.

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Women make up 24% of the total (a similar proportion to the House): 32% of Democrats and 16% of Republicans. The Senate is significantly whiter than the House: Only 11% of senators are people of color, including just 16% of Democrats and 6% of Republicans. Heterosexual, Christian, non-Hispanic white men comprise 60% of the Senate, but just like in the House, those numbers differ significantly by party: They make up 42% of Democratic senators but 78% of Republicans.

This guide was compiled by Daily Kos Elections’ Stephen Wolf and Daniel Donner. In addition to data from Pew, we owe a special thanks to the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies, the Center for Responsive Politics, the Forward, Indian Country Today, the Justice Education Technology Political Advocacy Center, the LGBTQ Victory Fund, and Rutgers University’s Center for American Women and Politics for sharing a host of demographic data with us.

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