As the nation gears up for the 2026 midterm elections, we are drawing a line beneath the first phase of the 250 to 250 project.

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is a lawyer, an author, and a staunch advocate for women, children, and families, she is an active force for progress and human rights. She recalls Eleanor Roosevelt’s role in creating The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. #WeAreAmerica250

Chuck Cooper III is President and CEO of the Chuck Cooper Foundation, which honors and carries forward the legacy of his father, Hall of Famer Chuck Cooper, the first African American drafted into the NBA. He celebrates the life of activist and athlete, basketball’s Bill Russell. #WeAreAmerica250

Lina Khan served as chair of the FTC from June 2021 to January 2025. She teaches and writes about antitrust law, infrastructure industries law, the antimonopoly tradition, and law and political economy. She captures the complicated story of America’s first transcontinental railroad. #WeAreAmerica

Thavolia Glymph is an author and a professor of history and law at Duke University. Signed by Lincoln on January 1, 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation declared that all enslaved people fighting against the Union were legally free and allowed black men to join the Union Army. #WeAreAmerica250

Colin Makoto Craig is a fourth generation veteran who served in the US Air Force. With the G.I. Bill, he graduated from Cornell University and is a JD candidate at St John's University. Craig examines how the bill reshaped postwar America. #WeAreAmerica250

Award-winning Senior writer at Slate, Aymann Ismail is an author, and president of the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association. His work has appeared in the NYT and GQ, and on CNN and NPR. He tells the story of the oldest mosque in the US, in the tiny town of Ross, North Dakota. #WeAreAmeri

Christopher D. Mitchell is a retired health care marketing, communications consultant, and educator. Mitchell celebrates South Dakota's Corn Palace, the last of the Midwest's grain palaces and a distinctly American blend of art, agriculture, and civic pride. #WeAreAmerica250

Nicholas Stubblefield, a proud former member of the HCR posse, is a writer and stand-up comedian based in in Boston. He's won awards, though none that you've heard of. He celebrates landscape architect, author, conservationist and public servant, Frederick Law Olmsted. #WeAreAmerica250

Dr. David Erickson, senior vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, leads a team focused on community development. Alexander Hamilton’s work laid the foundation for central banking in the United States and, eventually, for the Federal Reserve. #WeAreAmerica250

Kahlil Greene, the “Gen-Z Historian,” is a Peabody Award winner, two-time Emmy nominee, and author of “History Can’t Hide” on Substack. He recounts the history of Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Greenwood District, a prosperous African American community known as “Black Wall Street.” #WeAreAmeric