After the 2016 elections, there was a tremendous uproar around the country that those in power just didn’t really represent many people in the country. And so activists, many of them new to the political process, started organizing. The result, after Tuesday’s midterm elections, is government that looks more like the nation. A record number of women are heading to Congress, and at all levels, there are more women and minorities ready to serve. HuffPost profiled a dozen of these historic candidates, with illustrations by Kyle Hilton.

Source: Huffington Post November 07, 2018 18:56 UTC