We, the daughters of the suffragist movement, write in our opposition to the SAVE Act (S. 128), which was passed by the House and is currently before the Senate. Karen shares ancestry with Susan B.
One hundred years ago this month, the Nineteenth Amendment became part of the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote in the single largest voting rights expansion in our nation’s history.
The idea that women should lose the right to vote is shaping up to be more than a crass punchline or a dystopian viewpoint, but one that Pete Hegseth, a member of the president’s cabinet, appears to ...
The Trump administration on Thursday sought to clarify Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s support for women’s voting rights following controversy spurred by his repost of a video tied to a pastor who ...
In August 2025, a rumor spread online about U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's views on women and voting after he shared a CNN report about a conservative evangelical church he has attended.
This article is part of HuffPost’s biweekly politics newsletter. Click here to subscribe. “In my ideal society, we would vote as households,” Doug Wilson, an extreme right-wing pastor said in a video ...
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In 1797 the “petticoat band” showed up to vote for the New Jersey state legislature, but only on a technicality. Their impact sent lawmakers into a scramble to shut them out. POLLS APARTHoward Pyle’s ...
As the Supreme Court revisits the Voting Rights Act, we remember that the journey to that decision was long and hard. Black Americans labored tirelessly for civil rights, including the right to vote—a ...