SAVE Act would require birth cert or passport that matches voters legal name. 69M women may have a legal name that doesn’t match their birth cert. An estimated 21M would be turned away at polls. This act is an attempt to disenfranchise women voters.
https://www.thepersistent.com/this-bill-in-the-senate-could-disenfranchise-millions-of-women-voters/
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This Should end the name change on marriage cultural practice, and yay! to that.
It's useful to know who has funded a war on women for over 60 years.
The fossil fuel industry.
Koch Network, Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society.
All avatars of the same billionaire bigots.
Charles Koch - abortion criminalization was supposed to be a felony disenfranchisement scheme.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/11/koch-brothers-pouring-money-into-anti-abortion-agenda-through-the-center-to-protect-patient-rights-and-freedom-partners.html
https://msmagazine.com/2022/05/06/childcare-koch-women-independent-womens-forum/
Efforts at no sex education, no contraception, deprofessionalization of nursing & teaching, no daycare, ...
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... ending no fault divorce, promoting child marriage, no ratification of the ERA, forced AI adoption, book bans & illiteracy, ending independence in institutions & higher education, eroding LGBTQ civil rights, & shielding sexual predators.
They fund disinformation about the "male loneliness epidemic" which is really homophobia & "sudden divorce syndrome" hitting misogynists hard.
They fund efforts at male supremacy
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https://thefulcrum.us/inclusion-diversity/project-2025-affirmative-action
https://msmagazine.com/2023/02/06/fda-abortion-pills/
Charles Koch & his ilk are unparalleled bullshit artists determined to fry the planet & end democracy.
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/tech/26/02/50321116/charles-koch-says-his-fathers-letter-left-him-a-stark-warning-that-changed-how-he-viewed-inherited-wealth-beware-of-this-curse
https://msmagazine.com/2023/04/11/anti-abortion-groups-era-equal-rights-amendment/
https://msmagazine.com/2024/02/08/project-2025-conservative-right-wing-trump-woke/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/07/koch-family-stand-together-music
@amydiehl For a nation that advertises itself as a bastion of democracy, Americans put a lot of effort into denying people their right to vote.
I prefer our system, where you get in trouble if you *don't* vote. It's inclusive.
@amydiehl@mstdn.social That could backfire on them. I saw it asserted a day or two ago that without white women voting disproportionately conservative, no conservative would have won election in the last century.
I don't know how true the assertion is.
@zakalwe @amydiehl It wouldn’t backfire on Republicans.
2024 data: https://vividmaps.com/presidential-election-if-only-white-men-voted/
2018 data: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-if-only-men-voted-only-women-only-nonwhite-voters/
@ridogi@mastodon.social @amydiehl@mstdn.social Thanks for the information! I was a little skeptical about the claim myself but wasn't sure where to look for evidence for or against.
The only silver lining is that JD Vance does not have a current legal name that matches the name on his birth certificate.
James Donald Bowman -->
James David Hamel -->
James David (J.D.) Vance -->
JD Vance
Why did JD feel the need to transition to his current identity? I'm not sure, but I do respect his right to transition to an identity that makes him feel like himself.