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You are invited to an URGENT community conversation about the SAVE Act and the Texas version of the SAVE Act on Monday, May 5, at 6:30 pm, hosted by League of Women Voters of Williamson County. We'll discuss how this legislation will affect us & share actions you can take to oppose it.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Shutting down Head Start might seem at odds with the administration's pronatalist aims. But they're actually closely aligned. Because moms who can't find/afford childcare often end up leaving the workforce. And once they're home full-time, it often seems reasonable to have more kids.

submitted 32 days ago • 26 comments

This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.

submitted 38 days ago • 1852 comments

A quiet voice is singing something to me An age old song 'bout the home of the brave in this land here of the free One time one night in America Los Lobos www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

This is what the GOP's SAVE Act would do at the federal level. Adding layers of complexity to voter ID requirements that would strategically disenfranchise women and others who've changed their names.

submitted 71 days ago • 17 comments

Take a minute (seriously, just a minute) to get a glimpse at what we accomplished last year... and how YOU can get involved with us now!

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

ALERT! The SAVE Act would require voter registration in person at county elections office by presenting birth certificate that matches your name. Anyone who had a name change and doesn’t have a passport showing their current name would not be able to vote. www.nonprofitvote.org/reject-save-...

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Do our Congressmen think that they will continue to keep their influence, money, power, and perks when all their donors realize that they can just go straight to Elon Musk to get what they want? New lines for the Niemöller poem: And then they came for us Congressmen And there was no one left.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

American democracy continues to be tested, and the League continues to defend it. Follow our national focus during the first 100 days of the new administration, and help build a stronger, multi-racial democracy. Goals and details here: www.lwv.org/fighting-vot...

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Dems are still operating in a political paradigm where the public has a set of concerns, roughly reflecting the reality of life in America, and elections are about who addresses them better. But that is not the political paradigm we’ve lived in, for a long time, and we’re getting further from it.

submitted 132 days ago • 92 comments

Exactly this

submitted 141 days ago • 771 comments

But, what I am wondering is: Where are the lower egg prices?

submitted 147 days ago • 0 comments

Tesla illegally dumped a bunch of toxic pollutants in the Austin area near its plant, and now Musk is jockeying for the power to keep the EPA from regulating toxic leaks just like that www.wsj.com/business/aut...

submitted 179 days ago • 7 comments

A propos of nothing, I just made a New Year's resolution to reread "Lord of the Flies."

submitted 178 days ago • 0 comments