The BADASS crew is marching to the 9th Annual Women’s Summit - we are kicking off Friday June 27 at 4 pm with Postcard Palooza [Sponsor former Congressman Gerry Connolly] - then we get our boots on the ground at 6:30 pm in the ballroom with dance instructor Bella J [Sponsor Candi Mundon King] and the crew learning joyful moves to energize to get out the vote!
At 5 pm Friday, we have 5 Meetups hosted by various groups: See list here. Then the Abigail Spanberger bus pulls up and the party gets started! I don’t need to go thru the whole awesome weekend of action - you can view it here.
The most important part of doing this event - is the people and organizations who support us in our mission of to invest in our grassroots movement and tireless warriors who fight for democracy everyday. We also believe in supporting the candidates who step to run - all of them!
BIG THANK YOU TO OUR 2025 SPONSORS
TOP SPONSOR “DEMOCRACY”: Abigail Spanberger - we elected her in 2018 to Congress! She came to our Summit as a first time candidate and now she is running for Virginia Governor. You never know what happens when you show up at the Summit!
BLUE POWER: Delegate Dan Helmer; Red Wine & Blue; WinVA; Courier Virginia Dogwood. We met Dan Helmer when he ran for Congress to take out Republican Barbara Comstock. Then Dan ran against Tim Hugo (R) for House of Delegate and he beat that ERA hater! He is running the House Caucus this year again for the election, and is determined to go BIG - let’s get 60 House Delegate seats - please!
Then, our badass women friends at Red, Wine and Blue. Originally, the RWB crew was deep in Ohio and a few other red states running against all the book banners and crazy Moms for Liberty - it wasn’t long before they slide in Virginia politics with Gov. Youngkin’s all out attack on books and teachers. We are so stoked they are sponsoring us again — this time at the BLUE POWER LEVEL!
WINVA has a special place in our activist hearts. We met Shashi Gupta at Democracy Forward meeting where he was presenting his plan to win back the majority - and so were we! WinVA has supported our work as they appreciate the long strategic ground game we have built.
Recently are collaboration has resulted in a BIG REVEAL at the Women’s Summit with their new canassing tools for Dems and by Dems called VOCE. Read all about it here.
Dogwood: We know media and communication - and propaganda - is an issue we talked about and try to address with real solutions - we have spent many a Friday Power Lunches discussing the solutions. Our long time grassroot coalition friend and General/Digital consultant Christine Bachman is now at Courier News - and she is introducing their new pilot program to VA and to the Summit - influencers! We need to compete everywhere in the media world. This is going to be pretty cool!
BLUE CREW: Reid McCollum, Outreach Director, Progressive Turnout Project is a much loved voter guru and we are excited to have Reid back again!
Since 2015, Progressive Turnout Project has supported 2,227 Democrats in competitive campaigns, raised more than $368 million from more than 2.4 million unique donors, and deployed 38,962 paid team members. These organizers helped make more than 190 million voter contact attempts through our innovative field programs.
NWPC- VA and Feminist Majority are stalwart champions of women’s issues and electing women. Andrea Miller and Ellie Smeal both President and founder of their organizations - we are proud and honored to receive their sponsorship!
From Blue Roots, Summit Badass, Summit Champ, Blue Crew - to all the friends who donated to scholarship - thank you from the bottom our fearless hearts.
SUMMIT BADASS: Angela Chainer, Ms. Margaret Morrison, 4 Public Education, VA Senator Boysko, Rep. McClellan, Women’s National Dem Club, Speaker Don Scott, Finale Norton, Rep. Subramanyan, Honorable Dick Saslaw
YOU SUPPORT MEANS WE WILL SUCCEED! We make the event affordable so all can participate.
See you at the Summit!
Remember, no Friday Power Lunch! We will be back July 11, 2025
2017 - OUR FIRST SUMMIT!
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