Before this year there were 39 women of color in Congress. Now there are 47. 2018 was a recordbreaking year for women winning political office; in 2019, they will start to make their mark. In an original documentary, The Washington Post goes behind the scenes with two newly elected women as they take their place in the 116th Congress: Deb Haaland, one of the first two Native American women to serve in Congress, and Ayanna Pressley, the first African American woman to represent Massachusetts.

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