Hey y'all. I'm Ashanti Golar, host of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics.

The BGG is the one-stop shop for women of color who want to talk and shape the world of politics.

This season, we're getting deep into the details of Project 2025.

In 900-plus pages, it's proposing dramatic conservative changes to education,

health care, and foreign affairs. But underpinning it all is an entirely new vision for how

the government operates, and that could change everything. Thank you so much to our friends

at Way to Win for supporting us

and making this season possible. Listen to the Brown Girls Guide to Politics wherever you get

your podcast. Women of Color made great strides in the 2021 election, proving the new American majority is rising.

Boston has spoken.

Shell Wu will be the first female and first person of color to be the mayor of Boston.

You've given me the honor. As the first black woman mayor of Durham.

While many traditional white, wealthy male candidates failed to create excitement and energy for

many voters, women of the New American Majority soared and shattered glass ceilings.

I'm Ashanti Golar, host and founder of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics Podcast, and welcome to

season eight. In honor of Black History Month and Women's History Month, we will be

spotlighting black brown and indigenous women of color who are blazing trails in politics.

It was hard, like day-to-day, like throughout the campaign.

It was like, am I doing the right thing?

I always knew I was doing the right thing, but it's hard to just not hear those voices.

As parents, nurses, small business owners, and more, these women are using their lived experiences

to be the change makers their community needs.

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