The Virginia House of Delegates seated a record number of women in January, and those women aren't messing around.

We share conversations with a class of firsts who are bringing fresh perspectives and boundless energy to their state's legislature.

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The 2017 election for Virginia's House of Delegates captivated the nation.

What began as one more Trump-focused 2018 test case became so much more as inspiring woman after woman was elected to office for the first time.

From Danica Round, the first transgender woman elected to state office to Jennifer Carol Foley, who gave birth to twins during the campaign.

This group continues to show how the changing face of American politics positively impacts the legislative process.

We sat down with seven members of this history-making class of freshman delegates and asked what they thought led to this wave of change.

Now, you're going to hear a lot of background noise because we were having these conversations during the VIP reception before the Arlington Democrats Blue Victory Dinner, which honored volunteers who helped get the vote out for many of the women we talked with.

First, you're going to hear from Delegate Carrie Delaney, the daughter of a U.S. Army veteran and mother of two small children.

She had worked in the nonprofit world on issues such as foster care and sex trafficking before her election to the House of Delegates.

For me, I mentioned before I have an 8-year-old and a 5-year-old and I have to think about the world that they're growing up in and their outlook on politics when they pick up whatever they do about these issues and they have their worldview about government and leadership and what that looks like.

I want to make sure that they have a very positive image of what government leadership looks like.

I think many of us would argue that if you're watching the national headlines, our children are not really growing up with that vision.

For me, we get asked a lot, I think, this must be really hard because you've got kids. It's too hard.

Of course, there's a lot of sacrifice that we make to be away from our families. For longer than we want to be, just the time commitment that you've acquired, the effort that we put in.

We have to put our children in what children in their peer groups, in their witness, and we have the opportunity to see that this is accessible to them.

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