Meet the Hell Cats — a key to Democrats’ hopes of taking the House
And she was right: A few months later, she was introduced to Cait Conley, a combat veteran and national security expert running in New York. Later she met JoAnna Mendoza and Maura Sullivan, Marine veterans running for Congress in Arizona and New Hampshire, respectively. If elected, Mendoza and Sullivan would be the first women Marine veterans in Congress. The four women, all Democrats, formed a fast friendship and started a Signal group chat that Mendoza named the “Hell Cats,” a reference to the first women Marines who served in World War I.