How The Roe Decision Mobilized a First-Time Voter (News Clips) 11/7/2022 This interview was originally published by TheSkimm. College freshman Cassidy Recio Brenes is excited to vote for the first time. Like, really…
VICTORY: Missouri Judge Blocks Restrictions on Voter Registration Activity and Distribution of Absentee Ballot Applications (Press Release) 11/4/2022 Jefferson City, Mo. — This afternoon, a judge for the Cole County Circuit Court granted a preliminary injunction in our LWV MO and Missouri NAACP v.…
Reproductive Rights Are on the Ballot (Blog) 11/1/2022 In June 2022, the US Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and…, Which States Have Reproductive Rights on the Ballot? Kansas Unlike the other five ballot measures, Kansas voters already voted on a…, Montana Montana voters will vote on a legislatively referred state statute (LR-131), known as the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act. Adoption…, Michigan’s Constitution currently protects the rights to equal protection and due process. A Michigan court pointed to these rights to block the…
Dottye Ricks: Reject the deceit, misinformation, and just plain hogwash (News Clips) 10/30/2022 This commentary was originally published in VTDigger. In this Age of Fake News and Alternative Truths, a barrage of misleading propaganda has…
LWVUS Urges the US Department of Health and Human Services to Allow DACA Recipients to Enroll in Health Insurance Programs (Legal Document) 10/25/2022 The League signed onto a letter to Secretary Becerra of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), urging HHS to allow recipients of the…
Latina Activist You Should Know: Jamie Sarai Margolin (Blog) 10/6/2022 Each year from September 15 through October 15, we celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month. During this time, we honor the significant…, We tried our best to make a change. In terms of how Zero Hour started, I had a vision of youth across the US and the world marching for urgent…, Over the course of centuries of Spanish subjugation, the colonial project of "Mestization" encouraged people to leave behind their local languages,…
League of Women Voters dedicated to educating, registering voters (News Clips) 10/1/2022 This story was originally published by The City Journals. Many voters have paged through a booklet of candidates and chances are, it came from the…
VOTE411: Information you need to get out and vote (News Clips) 9/26/2022 This story originally aired on WANE's Living Local 15. The League of Women Voters speaks with Living Local 15 host Jessica Williams about the…
League of Women Voters plant 19th Amendment garden at courthouse (News Clips) 9/25/2022 This story was originally published in The Herald-Dispatch. Members of the League of Women Voters of the Huntington Area recently established a…
LWVUS Joins Public Statement of Concerns Related to the Impact of Police Funding Bills in the Wake of Dobbs (Legal Document) 9/21/2022 The League of Women Voters of the United States joined a public statement urging Congress not to enact laws that expand federal resources for…