A Signal group chat has become a support system and a strategy hub for these Democratic women veterans running in high-stakes races.
A few days after President Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, Rebecca Bennett was standing in her bathroom talking to her husband when a switch flipped. “No one is coming to save us; we have to save ourselves,” she thought. That’s when she knew she had to run for office.
“I’m the kind of person that runs at problems, and I just had to do everything I could to stand up and fight for this country because I love it,” said Bennett, a former U.S. Navy helicopter pilot and mother of two daughters. “For me, this is about continuing to serve our country in a new capacity, but really it’s about fighting for the version of the country that I want to leave for my daughters.”
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