Erin Vilardi
Role at the time: Founder and CEO of Vote Run Lead Action, in a joint statement of women-led organizations published by Higher Heights for America
Statement summary
Vote Run Lead Action founder and CEO Erin Vilardi said "we denounce these attacks without reservation" and described the repeated attacks on Black women in public life as a pattern rooted in structural racism and misogyny.
“From Florida U.S. Senate nominee Angie Nixon to U.S. Representatives Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar, former Congresswoman Cori Bush, and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Different offices, different states, the same attacks. We denounce these attacks without reservation, and we refuse to treat them as isolated incidents. When the same attacks are repeatedly directed at Black women in public life, that is a pattern rooted in structural racism and misogyny.”
Joint release published by Higher Heights for America, dated September 4, 2026, with a group statement, individual statements from 22 participating organizations, and a list of 28 participants and signers.
Archived copy (opens in a new tab)Why we used this label
The case's reference point is Laura Loomer's remarks about Angie Nixon and other Black women in politics. Vilardi says "we denounce these attacks without reservation" and calls the repeated attacks on Black women in public life a pattern rooted in structural racism and misogyny, so we labeled it Condemned.