{"id":81077,"date":"2026-11-08T16:55:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T21:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/seismic-shift-native-american-women-made-significant-gains-in-us-midterms\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T16:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T21:55:03","slug":"seismic-shift-native-american-women-made-significant-gains-in-us-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/seismic-shift-native-american-women-made-significant-gains-in-us-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Seismic shift\u2019: Native American women made significant gains in US midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nationwide, voters elected at least 75 Native women or non-binary candidates in Tuesday\u2019s elections, report says<\/p>\n<p>The US midterm elections saw voters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/04\/us-midterms-historic-firsts\">elect a slew of historic representatives<\/a> \u2013 from the country\u2019s first Muslim senator to the first Black female governor \u2013 but among the most significant gains were those for Native American women.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, voters elected the first Native American woman governor, senator and leaders of two tribal nations. Nationwide, <a href=\"https:\/\/datastudio.google.com\/u\/0\/reporting\/4a3c6635-0bab-4426-9b45-57cef799c991\/page\/p_fimkm0s1qd\">voters elected at least 75 Native women or non-binary and Two Spirit candidates<\/a> in the November midterms, according to Advance Native Political Leadership and the news site <a href=\"https:\/\/ictnews.org\/\">ICT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/08\/native-american-women-midterm-elections\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationwide, voters elected at least 75 Native women or non-binary candidates in Tuesday\u2019s elections, report says The US midterm elections saw voters elect a slew of historic representatives \u2013 from the country\u2019s first Muslim senator to the first Black female governor \u2013 but among the most significant gains were those for Native American women. On &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Seismic shift\u2019: Native American women made significant gains in US midterms\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/08\/seismic-shift-native-american-women-made-significant-gains-in-us-midterms\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Seismic shift\u2019: Native American women made significant gains in US midterms\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}