Voting Rights Act Marks 51st Anniversary (Blog) 8/5/2016 August 6 marks the 51st Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act (VRA). Here at LWVUS, we are taking the day to celebrate our recent voting rights…
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…
League Volunteers, Grammy Winners Reach Tens of Thousands of Voters (Blog) 6/2/2016 The League team is taking a moment to reflect on this spring’s “Use Your Voice” tour, carried out by Grammy award-winning artists Patty Griffin and…
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…
Help the Class of 2016 to Register to Vote (Blog) 5/17/2016 Each Spring, millions of students across the country start a new chapter in their lives. Graduation is a major milestone after which many young…
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…