Pence. It was just a little dig at the very anti abortion conservative incoming vice president. Please send certificate of receipt for my donation to the indiana state house. When liberals and democrats try to figure out what to do next in the aftermath of the 2016 election, troll mike pence was a funny option. A huge influx of people chose to donate to progressive rights protection groups that presumably would be working over time in the election. Overtime in the new administration. By the end of the transition and start of the new administration, the next widely chosen option was for people to march. The womens marches in new york city and washington, d. C. Made National News for days, in part for their sheer size. Some of the biggest demonstrations weve ever had in this country. Womens marches turned up in pockets of the country really all over the place. Places like jackson, mississippi, or fairbanks, alaska. Almost 2,000 people braving snow and sleet in fairbanks. Salt lake city,
the women featured in that footage there, jennifer carol foi, kathie tran, they ended up being some of the first time candidates in virginia who flipped 15 seats in virginia s house of delegates from republican to democrat. it s been decades since democrats flipped more than one seat in that legislature and they just flipped 15 in one night at least. those democrats include the first latino woman in the house of delegates, the first asian american woman in the house of delegates and the first openly transgendered person to sit in any state legislature. that night they won the governorship in virginia and new jersey. and then a week later democrats in oklahoma flipped a very unlikely seat. they flipped a state senate seat that had gone for trump by 40 points in november. the woman that won it is a democrat, a woman and mother of three and she s 26 years old,