Volume 2, Issue 3
March 21th, 2025
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Welcome to Sisters Lead Sisters Votes, Sisterhood News—where information meets action and sisterhood reigns supreme. This is where we give you the most up to date information on what is happening with Black women across the country and how you can take action. Together, we celebrate the strength of our sisterhood.
In this edition:
- Black Women Running: Identifying black women who ran for office in March.
- Candidate Spotlight: A section to amplify Black women candidates running for office in 2025.
- Candidate Candidate Conversations: An opportunity for Black Women candidates to share their platforms, values, and vision in a respectful, empowering environment.
- Clapback: Get the Facts: Our podcast that highlights the news going on in the sisterhood and clapping back against attacks on Black women and the community.
Get ready to dive in and let’s turn information into impact, one story at a time!
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Greetings Sisters and Allies,
If you are like me, many days I am in information overload, and I just need it to be simple. Well, we can’t make it simple BUT we can break it down and make sure that we share accurate information to fuel our fight for democracy and prosperity.
Sisters Lead Sisters Vote (SLSV) was founded by Black Women leaders to support and champion Black Women and the issues most important to them and their families. We are the only organization doing this research and tracking this data. It is vitally important because it is how we make sure that Black women are seen and not invisible. To be seen is to be valuable and powerful.
Support for SLSV allows us to amplify the voices of Black women leaders as they champion for our community. Now more than ever is it essential to support Black women leaders and their pursuit to advance Black women's voices in public office and protect their communities. Be a part of the Sisterhood. Donate today, use this link. A monthly $10 contribution can help support candidate research.
In Solidarity,
Holli Holliday,
President
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Sisters Lead Sisters Vote has identified 16 Black women who have either ran for re-election, ran as a challenger, or ran for an open seat for Missouri's March 4th local primary election. Municipal and school board elections took place on March 4th. Below are the results of Missouri's local primary election for municipal and school board elections.
Municipal Elections: St Louis, MO - March 4th Primary
School Board Elections: St Louis, MO - March 4th Primary
School Board Elections: Kansas City, MO - March 4th Primary
Number of Black women tracked with completed Primaries (so far): 22
Number of Black women advancing to the general election (so far): 20
Click and share the Bitly code below to let us know about additional Black women running for office.
Sisters Lead, Sisters Vote 2025 Black Women Candidate Form
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Tune in every Tuesday at 9pm for Candid Candidate Conversations with Chantel Mullen! The latest episode from March 18th featured New York City mayoral candidate and current Speaker of the New York City councilmember Adrienne Adams. Click on the link to watch the interview/.
Use the linked Bitly code if you are a Black women running in 2025 or share with Black women running in 2025 who would like to be featured on the show.
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On March 18th, the candidate spotlight shinned on Adrienne Adams. She is currently serving as New York City's Speaker of the Council, and she has entered the hotly contested New York City mayoral race that takes place on November 4, 2025. You can find Speaker Adams's mayoral campaign website right here: adrienneforthepeople.com.
- Council Speaker Adams was first elected to the City Council in 2017.
- She is term limited, making 2025 the last year Adams can serve on the council.
- Council Speaker Adams went on to be elected Speaker of the Council in 2022.
- Speaker Adams became the first Black lawmaker to be elected to the positions.
- Council Speaker Adams led the lawmaking body to advance women's health by passing legislative packages to address persistent racial disparities in maternal health and expand access to abortion and reproductive healthcare.
- Council Speaker has expanded support for crime victims in communities that experience high levels of violence but are underserved by traditional victim services.
- She created a new $5.1 million budget imitative to fund community safety and victim services at the neighborhood level, and secured funding to establish New York State's first four Trauma Recovery Centers.
- Speaker Adams' leadership has set a new tone for the Council's leadership in addressing the City's housing crisis.
- Under her leadership, the Council approved over 40 land use projects in 2022, which will produce more than 12,000 units of housing, over 63% of which are affordable.
Reminder: New York City has ranked-choice voting, meaning voters would need to select her as their first choice for the mayoral seat to support her.
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Clapback: Get The Facts is back! Tune in for Holli and crew to clapback and give you the facts!
The current episode, "We Stand Up and Strike Back: how black women are protecting their communities from attacks.", aired Thursday, March 20th and is available on all streaming platforms. Click on the link to catch the episode.
In case you missed, be sure to listen to our previous episode titled, "The New Administration: The status of Executive Orders" Click on the link to catch up on the episode. Lastly, tune in for Episode 4, "Social Media Censorship: What is considered a trusted source for information?" airing Thursday 27th, 2025.
Clapback: Get Facts was created to combat the heap of mis and disinformation concerning Black women/ the Black women community and providing listeners with the truth! Whether it is providing the facts on how the Trump administration is attacking the Black community to highlighting the progressive actions Black women are taking to advance the community, Clapback is here give the facts!
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2025 may not seem like an election year, but there are a number of incredibly important elections that will greatly impact your daily life. The elections are as followed:
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Wisconsin’s statewide spring general election will take place on April 1st. The most impactful races from the spring general election are: the state Supreme Court seat and the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
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Florida has two special US House of Representatives general elections. Florida’s 1st Congressional District (Escambia, Holmes, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Walton counties) and its 6th Congressional District (Flagler, Lake, St. Johns, Volusia counties) special general elections will take place on April 1st, 2025.
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The polls are open on Election Day, from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. (local time). Any voters waiting in line at 7:00 p.m. will have the opportunity to cast a ballot.
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The deadline to request that a ballot be mailed is no later than 5 p.m. on the 12th day before the election. A Supervisor of Elections must mail the ballot out within 2 business days after a request but no later than the 10th day before election day.
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Deadline to register: March 3, 2025
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Deadline to request vote-by-mail ballot be mailed: March 20, 2025
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Mandatory early voting period: March 22 – 29, 2025
(Up to 6 additional days may be offered by county)
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Election Day: April 1, 2025
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Missouri has a St. Louis mayoral general election taking place on April 1st, 2025.
- Polling places are open from 6:00 AM to 7:00 PM on Election Day.
- Mail-in or faxed absentee ballot requests must be received by the election authority no later than the 5:00 p.m. on the second Wednesday prior to any election. Voters can vote by absentee in the office of the local election authority until 5:00 p.m. the night before the election.
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