A Message from Our Founder: We Saw This Coming. We’re Still Choosing Us.

Black women saw this coming. We’ve been saying it because it was already happening to us. We warned that electing this administration would come at the highest cost: our democracy itself.

We said they would use every tool available to erode our rights, ignore working people, target Black and brown communities, and push back the progress we’ve spent generations building. That they’d dismantle the very institutions meant to protect us.

And here we are.

As Vice President Kamala Harris said the other day, looking around at the political landscape, “these MFs are crazy.”

She’s not wrong. What we’re living through right now isn’t normal, and it isn’t sustainable. That’s why this moment demands something different from us—not just reaction, but redirection.

This moment isn’t just chaotic. It’s revealing what’s been broken all along. The cracks run through every place we’ve worked to make progress—our workplaces, our classrooms, and our politics—showing how quickly progress can vanish when everyone else stops paying attention.

In the first half of 2025, more than 300,000 Black women were pushed out of the workforce, the steepest decline of any group in the country. By summer, our unemployment rate had climbed to 6.7 percent, nearly two points above the national average.

But that’s only one measure of the fallout. From rollbacks on DEI to attacks on honest history, we’re witnessing how fragile progress can be when the systems we strengthened refuse to strengthen us back.

When Black women start losing ground, it’s not just our story, it’s the country’s warning sign.

If the past few years have taught us anything, it’s that nobody is coming to save us. But we have everything we need to move forward together.

That’s why we’re launching We Choose Us, a campaign to build the infrastructure that helps Black women turn our collective power into lasting change.

At its core, We Choose Us is about community—building a space where Black women come first. A place where we are safe, supported, and seen. Where can we bring our full selves, our stories, our joy, our lessons, and our brilliance without shrinking or explaining. The campaign is how we wield that collective power with strategy and purpose, using it to shape policy, move resources, and create the systems we deserve.

Not reaction. Not burnout disguised as progress. But clear, coordinated, data-informed strategy—the kind that turns our collective energy into real progress. That kind of infrastructure doesn’t happen by accident; it happens through intention and design.

We Choose Us is built around four connected parts that make our power real:

We learn from each other. Drawing from existing data, reputable polls, our own surveys, and conversations in community to understand what Black women are experiencing, demanding, and dreaming toward.

We turn priorities into action. Transforming what we learn into real plans, programs, and policy ideas for change.

We mobilize our networks. Connecting members and partners across Harris County to deepen voter engagement, share resources, and activate Black women leading into the 2026 primaries.

We champion the leaders we choose. Using our candidate scorecard and public forums to spotlight the leaders who reflect our values and commitments to Black women.

It’s about building power and belonging, strategically and sustainably, the kind that lasts long after any election cycle ends.

We’ve carried this country, its movements, its progress, its hope, often without the safety nets we built for everyone else. But this time, we’re building something different, something that centers our needs, our rest, and our leadership just as much as our labor.

We Choose Us is how we make that shift.

It means leading with purpose instead of pressure, and strategy instead of survival. It means creating systems where collaboration, care, and joy aren’t the reward—they’re the foundation.

I created the Black Girl Caucus because I love us. Because Black women are resourceful, resilient, brilliant, creative, funny, bold, beautiful, loving, and whole. We are all the things. We deserve all the things.

Black Girl Caucus was created for this moment—because no matter what this country throws our way, we’re still choosing us.

I hope you will join us for the We Choose Us Campaign Kick-off Rally featuring celebrated journalist Tiffany Cross this Saturday. You'll get to hear from powerful Black women leaders and celebrate the launch of this movement.

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