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Equinox Moon

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Wed Nov 30, 2016, 12:08 AM Nov 2016

Something to Celebrate! 6 Women Who Won Historic Firsts

http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-power/something-to-celebrate-6-women-who-won-historic-firsts-20161109

Kate Brown
(D-OR) First elected openly LGBTQ governor

Tammy Duckworth
(D-IL) First Thai American woman elected to Senate

Kamala Harris
(D-CA) First biracial and Indian American woman elected to Senate

Pramila Jayapal
(D-WA) First Indian American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

Catherine Cortez Masto
(D-NV) First Latina elected to Senate and first female senator from Nevada

Ilhan Omar
(Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party-MN) First Somali American Muslim woman elected to state legislature



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K&R! Sunny05 Nov 2016 #1
Here is your chance DU - Support the women! Equinox Moon Nov 2016 #2
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