League of Women Voters Applauds House of Representatives for Passing the For the People Act (Press Release) 3/8/2019 LWV Urges Senate Leaders to Vote on This Essential Bill WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed…
League Submits Amicus Brief in Juliana v. US (Legal Document) 3/5/2019 LWVUS and LWVOR submitted an amicus brief to the 9th Circuit in the case of Juliana v. U.S. The brief argues in favor of the young plaintiffs arguing…
League Urges Support of HR1 and Opposition to Tactics to Weaken Bill (Legal Document) 2/28/2019 The League of Women Voters joined other groups as part of the Declaration for American Democracy coalition in strongly urging members of…
99 Years Later – the League of Women Voters is Still Fighting for Voting Rights (Blog) 2/14/2019 Ninety-nine years ago today, the League of Women Voters was founded at the National American Woman…
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Blog) 2/12/2019 In December, the LWV UN Observer for Climate, Robin Tokmakian, and three Delegates (Rebecca Boyd of LWV Wilmette, IL, and Claudia…
Leagues Register A Record Number of New Citizens in 2018 (Blog) 2/4/2019 The United States welcomes approximately 700,000 – 750,000 new citizens every year through naturalization ceremonies in communities across the…
2018 Election Impact Report (Blog) 1/30/2019 Across the country, League volunteers in all 50 states worked to register, inform, and protect voters in 2018.…
League joins over 600 Organizations urging support for bold climate action (Legal Document) 1/10/2019 The League urged Congress to consider the following principles as the 116th Congress debates climate change legislation. Please note this is not an…
One of the first acts of patriotism as a new citizen: registering to vote (Blog) 12/21/2018 Exactly one week after the election, I had the privilege of joining fellow members of the League of Women Voters of DC to register new voters at a…
Activists Across the Country are “Dropping by” for Democracy (Blog) 12/20/2018 Today, League members and activists across the country are dropping by Congressional offices across the country in support of democracy reforms.…