TAKE ACTION: Repair the Voting Rights Act (Blog) 6/24/2016 Saturday marks the three-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision to gut key provisions of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). We’ve had three years…
Reflections on the State of Women (Blog) 6/15/2016 Yesterday, along with the League’s president Elisabeth MacNamara, and some senior League of Women Voters staff, I attended the United State of…
League Members to Lobby Congress on Voting Rights (Blog) 6/15/2016 Hundreds of League members from around the country will be lobbying their U.S. Senators and Representatives on Capitol Hill tomorrow in advance of…
EPA’s Clean Power Plan Continues to be Tested (Blog) 5/26/2016 The fight to stop manmade contributions to climate change is not over, we’ve taken big steps in the last year. Last year, when the Environmental…
EPA issues Final Regulation to Limit Methane Emissions in the Oil and Gas Sector (Blog) 5/13/2016 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued its final regulation aimed at reducing methane emissions in the oil and gas sector. Released on…
What’s Happening in the States? A Voters’ Rights Legislative Round-up (Blog) 5/12/2016 With most state legislative sessions coming to a close at the end of April, the action on voting rights in 2016 is shaping up to be very similar to…
Take Action: Fix the Federal Election Commission (Blog) 4/27/2016 The agency that is tasked with overseeing federal laws governing money in politics, the Federal Election Commission (FEC), is broken. Paralyzed by…
155 Countries to Sign Paris Agreement on Earth Day (Blog) 4/21/2016 Friday, April 22 marks the 41st anniversary of the first Earth Day. On this day, world leaders will gather at the United Nations (UN) to sign the…
Help Us Recognize a Local League that Effectively Engaged their Community (Blog) 4/15/2016 We’ll be presenting three Making Democracy Work® - For All awards at our National Convention, held in Washington, DC later this spring. The awards…
Updating the Presidential Public Financing System is Key to Removing Big Money from Politics (Blog) 4/12/2016 For 25 years the presidential public financing system, which has put value on small donors in our electoral process, has served the nation well.…