The rumors are true: The proposed SAVE Act, now considered a priority for Republicans in the House, will make it harder, if not practically impossible, for millions of women to vote.
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This is just pure unadulterated bull shit! The republicans have f*ckin lost their minds! Most women I know don’t want to get married anyway & this will be the icing on the cake that will keep them unmarried. And others will divorce & take back their maiden name. 2 can play that crap ass game. 🤬
The fact that #women are fighting #misogynists for the right to vote in this day and age? Shame on #America. Pull them from office now. Shut down government. Re-vote with credibility in the swing states + stop antagonizing other countries + people. Your Bone Spur is a name-calling piece of shyte.
Divorced ladies, do not shred your marriage licenses. You need those to reflect name changes. If you don’t have it (them) contact the county clerks where the license was issued to get a copy now. These are needed along with your original birth certificate to get a Real ID or update Passports.
I am getting married this June. Several months ago, I told my partner I can’t take his name until Trump is out of office for this reason & he was incredulous. This week I showed him the SAVE Act & he was absolutely disgusted. Call your reps people! Call every day. Give them hell.
I hope the daughters, wives, and mothers in the Ratpublican camp realize this includes them! This is how the Ratpublicans like their women! Silent, obedient, and powerless! It makes them feel like they’re “men”!
I have always believed that (barring certain circumstances) folks should NOT change their name when they get married. Regardless, this is a stupid and dangerous act.
I guess America was great in the 18th Century when neither blacks nor women could vote. But oppression won't happen so easily in our time; WOMEN, MINORITIES AND DECENT PEOPLE RESIST.
I have a question, and if you have an answer, thank you for responding: if I'm already registered to vote under my married name, will the SAVE Act force me to re-register to vote? I'm just trying to figure out if I should change my name now...
Hey all of you Nazi MCP's, guard your family jewels, before us women go all Lorena Bobbit on you. You think we are the weaker sex? Try giving birth. We just let you believe that you are stronger. You have to sleep sometime.
Any woman who supports giving away her God given right to have a voice away is a shell of a person, if that. These fools are giving away their voice to a sick Patriarchy that doesn't want equality, that just wants to be the big cheese, a White Supremist Swiss full of ass HOLES.
Actually, I think they’re actually worse than the Taliban they’re hurting middle class and and poor people and making the rich get richer and they don’t care about middle class and poor people. That’s sad America’s gone to hell and Democrats are Republicans. Don’t care until it’s selection time.
I hope you guys write and protest if I had a car, I would go right and protest myself. I’d go right up to the White House. I’m not kidding and every day I see Donald Trump. I try to throw eggs at his damn car. He’s a fucking idiot along with Elon Musk. It’s just very sad with this countries become.
I took a look at the act and it doesn't say your name has to match your birth certificate. There are 12 forms of ID you can use for voting including Real ID. Keep in mind, your ID and your voter registration must match each other, not your birth certificate.
The REAL ID option has been looked at; most REAL IDs (mine included) don't actually include acceptable proof of citizenship. A married person who takes a spouse’s last name would have to provide more documentation than others to prove citizenship. And that's unconstitutional.
The act says any id obtained using a birth certificate can be used. In California, I got my driver's license and had to bring my birth certificate and marriage license. I now have a Real ID where I also had to provide my b.c. and m.l. Don't get me wrong, Rs suck, I just don't want to scare people.
I also had to provide those IDs to get the REAL ID. But that doesn't make a REAL ID acceptable. It has to contain acceptable-to-the-SAVE-Act proof of citizenship, and a lot of them don't actually contain that.
I want people to be scared of things they should be scared of. And hopefully take action.
I know it lists REAL IDs. I read it too. But I'm saying that in real life, they actually won't accept many REAL IDs bc they don't contain acceptable proof of citizenship.
Legislators writing a deceptive bill that makes things look better than they are! (To deploy the sarcasm tool from my toolbox.)
WE THE PEOPLE hold all the power against Trump, Musk, and the Republican Party. I'm calling for a national strike. Every AMERICAN PATRIOT, not Trump supporters, walk off the job until Trump is thrown in prison, Musk is deported, and every Republican resign from office.
More and more young women I know are staying single by choice, and many of the soon-to-be married ones are not taking the husband’s name. Many don’t want to have children either. This is the world the GOP is creating by their need to control women.
What about women or men who have had their name changed legally? I have a passport. So I guess that helps? I had to show my birth certificate and my marriage license to get it.
I encouraged my wife to keep her maiden name when we got married 8 years ago. Her family name was special to her and she was proud of it. Mine, not so much. Never in a million lifetimes would I have seen this as a reason to be grateful for that decision. America is on life support.
I wanted to keep my maiden name because it was a strong signifier of my heritage and my family's local history. My husband told me 2 years after our wedding that he wished I would have changed it but wouldn't ask me to do it. Because he was decent about it, I did it for him and now I regret it.
If this country does ever achieve gender equality (which I highly doubt), I hope it includes ending the archaic tradition of the woman automatically taking the mans name.
Law of unintended consequences will take over. Create a disincentive to marry… result: less marriages. Or at the very least women not choosing to take their husband’s name (as the law is based on the name you had on your original birth certificate).
I have asked this question before, but I will ask AGAIN.
Does this act require voters who are ALREADY registered to vote to RE- register?
Do all women who've changed their surnames when they married have to go to court to have their names changed BACK to maiden names in order to be allowed to vote?
What the utter hell is wrong with female Republicans who will support this? Don't they realize what will follow? Women not being allowed to hold public offices of any kind.
They've already descrated most of the BoR, and the 14th amendment, and now they're taking aim at the 19th.
All in the name of Christian nationalism.
And yet, the Traitor's favorability rating will drop from 45% to 42% next week. Millions of women are literally voting against their right to vote.
This is such BULLSHIT. Most ppl don't have a passport, nor can they afford one! It takes time and money to get a passport, or to have your name legally changed back to your birth certificate name. These assholes WISH they could control women. House Republicans can eat a bag of 🍆s.
People in this country voted for this shit. We told them what would happen, but "Noo," they had to get rid of the migrants, police our uteruses, use the "N", and eat cheap fucking eggs. Stupid idiots. Are you happy now?
I hyphenated my last name when I got married. It’s old ass thinking to drop your maiden name and take your husbands name only, to show the world that you’re the property of your husband. Nope, never. Every legal document has my hyphenated name. Let anyone tell me I can’t vote…
I've been saying it since 2016... "MAGA" really means dragging America backwards to where white heterosexual Protestant men again control everything at the expense of everyone else.
Why do people always think this is some sort of point? You gotta start somewhere and I support any woman in keeping her name or changing her name, whatever serves her interest here.
This is in reference to the Save Act that the GOP plans to bring up for vote. It prevents 65 million women from voting, due to their birth certificates have their maiden name instead of their married name. It costs $$ to change or you can show a current passport, which lots don’t have, and cost $$.
I'm aware of all that already. What I don't like is people saying "Oh but if you change your name back to your maiden name that's still a man's name" as if it's some kind of own. That's why I made that point.
Don't even wait to see if it passes. Start telling all your friends/fam to make sure they have a valid passport right now. I realized mine was expired a few weeks ago. I renewed online and already have my new one.
But if you’re a person that doesn’t listen to news at all, and I know plenty, nothing has really happened yet. Literally paint will have to be eliminated for painters. Ink will have to be elimated for writers. Wood will have to be eliminated for builders…the -‘s will have to directly impact them.
Not all white women didn’t vote for Kamala. I am white! I voted for Kamala!!! I have several white friends who voted for Kamala. I also have many friends of color who voted for her. So I resent those who keep lumping ALL white women into that bracket. Quit stereotyping!!
I'm a white female, 57 yrs old, divorced, veteran, one child I raised alone, with a bachelor's degree who has always voted Democrat! Sorry if my voting offends you!!!
Over 25 million white women voted for Harris. No, it's not enough. But I think the respondent to your post is merely pointing out there is a pretty significant number of white women who are voting for more than "cheaper eggs."
Looking from the outside in it's not just white women, it's all women, Pocs, Hispanics, people on welfare/medicaid, the list goes on. The only people voting for Trump should have been white multimillionaires.
But everyone only heard 'cheaper groceries', which he can't control.
Eight in 10 married women in opposite-sex marriages took their spouse’s last name, and the bill could exclude over 69 million married American women whose names do not match their birth certificate
Tell JD to do some research on the Dark Ages and see how society faired with such plans, and while he is at it, have him research the French Revolution.
in the Brennan Center webinar today, they specifically focused on SAVE act, mentioning that several Dems voted for it the first time around. People need to call their Reps, even the Dems.
All blue states : please issue a free of charge process for all women that need to take action for their birth certification and cut red tape for any court
Please propose anything to help women get their voice heard and not lost
This makes no sense. Real IDs check for citizenship. You have to bring your birth certificate or passport with you. For my mom, I had to bring: birth and marriage certificate and proof of current address. Women should change their names. We should not lose our identities when we marry.
Someone( with money) should assist anyone who wants to to change their name to their birth name, women should refuse to assume their future partner’s name and end this ridiculous habit.
My MAGA mom has been divorced twice and widowed twice. She will never see this coming. LOL. I will change my name back to my maiden name. My husband won’t care since he can’t vote and I can. He needs me to vote!
I had another thought. Will Asst Manager JoshDuggar, John David, Joe Dierté, JD, Bowman-Vance-Armstrong-Johnson-Jones even be able to vote? Has anybody ever seen his real birth certificate?
All about white, male dominance. We can't let this happen. The role of American women is being diminished...we are being forced backward. All women need to stand up against this!
I have been screaming at the ladies who are anti-abortion that you are the minority voicing for the many and to watch out because next they will come for your vote. You fucked every woman in America including your daughters your nieces your granddaughters.
Democrats, DO NOT LET THIS PASS!!! We women are watching! We will take action and we will defeat this Republican regime!! I am so over this crap every damn day but won’t give up!
It amounts to a poll tax and should be kicked just on that basis. The initial fees for a passport (card) is $65, and only if you plan weeks in advance. (The book is $130, plus a $35 "acceptance fee.")
Thus proving that they don’t actually believe women are weak or inferior- quite the opposite. They are scared shitless of us. As they should be. 💪🏻. Viva la resistance!
They can't be serious. So, what's their strategy? MAGA took suggestions from every oppressive government, religion, and historical event, and each day, they pull one out of a red hat and put a stamp of approval on it?
Voter fraud is another republican lie. There is no voter fraud worth mentioning other than in their fucking minds. They are fucking disgusting people who do nothing but lie, cheat, and steal.
Guess it’s time all
Us married woman legally drop our husband’s names and return to our given names!! We weren’t the ones who wanted to change them to begin with!!
That's only going to make more women say no to marriage. And probably kids, and sex. Horses and dogs are more fun than men, anyway, certainly more trustworthy, and they make these things called vibrators now.
Download the 5 calls app. It gives you the phone numbers to call the representatives in your state. It also gives you a script to follow if that feels more comfortable to people.
I somewhat agree with that, but I also know this past month has been overwhelming to keep up with and wrap your head around for people who aren't political junkies like me and others.
Aye, fair enough. It has been a miserable onslaught of action. Not to mention it’s a very depressing experience when one tries to catch up on what they’ve missed!
These are Democrats who hate trump. I think they believe the GOP wouldn't do something that suicidal to their party. Personally, everything they're doing will kill their party, unless they kill us first.
Christian nationalist movement believes the purpose of the government should enforce far-right Christianity on the whole world; "secularism is a hollow construct" should be replaced by a government-run according to "evangelicals" With Trump control of federal powers.
Christian nationalist movement believes the purpose of the government should enforce far-right Christianity on the whole world; "secularism is a hollow construct" should be replaced by a government-run according to "evangelicals" With Trump control of federal powers.
Keep all women coring.Jesus christ,what's happened to America? How did these arseholes manage to become so empowered? Dark age shit here it actually makes me want to boycott all things America, but there are so many good people being oppressed it's astonishing.. it's 2025, you mysoginistic bastards
The whole point of their faith is found in the freedom to choose. Without it, how can one be saved? It's not Christianity and it's not salvation they seek; it is raw power and everything that Christ renounced.
I hope the National League of Women Voters makes a statement soon. The League started after women won the right to vote to help women learn about candidates and their rights. The suffragettes are dying a second death right now.
In the 1970s, I was told I could not legally keep my maiden name. I did and never had any problems. Women changed their names in a time where they went from being property of their fathers to being property of their husbands.
My husband and I have been legally divorced for 5 years I kept his name because I had it for 25 years. We are also still living under the same roof because the COVID lock down was almost immediately after our divorce. I don't even know how I would change my name back now.?
Go to legal aid, get a form, fill it out, submit it according to your state laws. Get a stamped copy. Then get your birth certificate (also stamped) and take both to the passport office. Get the passport card too it’s considered a Real ID.
Why not just go to the Social Security office? That is what I really need changed is my SS card. There is no reason for me to obtain a passport just for the purpose of voting. In Ohio, at least in my area, I haven't had one problem showing my state ID to vote. Aren't passports like $100?
It’s really isn’t that hard . My husband would have no problem with me changing my name back to my maiden name . I will never freely give up my right to vote . We’ve come to far to go back .
I just got my first Social Security deposit. I’m afraid if I try and go back to my maiden name I won’t get my money. Also, Republicans are going to try and take that money away anyway.
But on the flip side, if you go back to your maiden name, you'll match your birth certificate and they'll let you vote under the SAVE Act. Well, until the next Executive Order!
So given that there are more liberal women who keep their maiden names (or are single) then conservatives who adopt their husband’s, doesn’t this favor liberals when all the votes are counted?
Ok first, I do agree this is a voter suppression attempt, however, the bill specifies:
“1) A form of identification issued consistent with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005 that indicates the applicant is a citizen of the United States.”
REAL IDs are required in all states now, and you have to prove you are a citizen to get one.
Anyone who has gotten a REAL ID can still vote, based on the verbiage of this law.
I do agree this will create a burden for anyone who registering in person or who is unable to provide a BC due to their age or location of birth (some older Americans were born when/where there was no official documentation at the time)
But it is also irresponsible of us to spread misinformation
@joncooper-us.bsky.social They already have an organization out there challenging votes on a massive scale. There is a documentary everyone needs to see. Anyone that doesn't support the regime will get their voting rights suppressed
This is the kind of thing that MAGA female voters didn’t think he would do. Just like he disavowed Project 2025 and said we wasn’t in favor of a national abortion ban.
I still legally have my full name but with my husband's name added to the end, not hyphenated. On my DL, social security card and passport. I don't understand this new law but if I was told I could not vote because of my husband's name I would get a lawyer and drop his name or divorce & live togethr
I talked to my husband about it and he was astounded that Republicans would actually vote for this. So many people are really not keeping up. I am not waiting; am looking for a lawyer. Good to have that connection anyway.
Passports are expensive too. It's outrageous that after 36 years of marriage, the fact that I use my husband's name will cost me my vote. I'll do whatever I have to do so I can vote against these monsters
Plus the time it takes. With all the federal jobs on the chopping block, plus the sheer volume of women who would need this service, there is no way the majority of women who need to will be able to get their docs in time. Exactly what MAGA wants.
But worth every penny! Let’s start a go fund me site for all married women who decided to take their husbands last name. You are still YOU! Everyone should have a voice, a choice, and count! The world is not made by and for men only. They wouldn’t exist without us! Women are 50% of the population!
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Either have the same last name as your kids, or be able to vote.
#WarOnWomen
For me it is erasing or hiding your past and where you come from. and now, also, a way to not let you exercise your right to vote.
Just one option, but it doesn't make you any less married.
Also VP Vance is on record as saying only the male head of households should vote.
Take to your local town hall meetings & hold them accountable.
Pressure these “leaders” to do their job & defend our constitutional freedoms!
That will really piss off the GOP and force GOP women to do the same.
I want people to be scared of things they should be scared of. And hopefully take action.
Legislators writing a deceptive bill that makes things look better than they are! (To deploy the sarcasm tool from my toolbox.)
Traitors and Constitutional Rejectionist should hang.
You have voted to take away your vote.
Well done.
This bill sneakily sets up the situation to make the next one happen. Just like the massive amounts of voter suppression already taking place!
Does this act require voters who are ALREADY registered to vote to RE- register?
Do all women who've changed their surnames when they married have to go to court to have their names changed BACK to maiden names in order to be allowed to vote?
All in the name of Christian nationalism.
And yet, the Traitor's favorability rating will drop from 45% to 42% next week. Millions of women are literally voting against their right to vote.
Republicans approve of this Coup. Treat them accordingly!
Revelation 18:13
No need to rely on distant agencies.
I see a situation similar to TX where Republicans said a handgun license is an accepted personal ID for voting but college IDs are not!
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-save-act-overview-and-facts/
Why? WHY NOT KAMALA??
But everyone only heard 'cheaper groceries', which he can't control.
So, these women would be denied their vote
Evict these maniacs
Please propose anything to help women get their voice heard and not lost
Millions Of Us Knew This Was On The Make America Grate Again / PJ-2025 Agenda…🤦🏽♀️
It's about inventing a roundabout way to stop women from voting.
EVERY WOMAN IN THIS COUNTRY SHOULD RISE UP AND FIGHT THIS ONE!
I had another thought. Will Asst Manager JoshDuggar, John David, Joe Dierté, JD, Bowman-Vance-Armstrong-Johnson-Jones even be able to vote? Has anybody ever seen his real birth certificate?
Us married woman legally drop our husband’s names and return to our given names!! We weren’t the ones who wanted to change them to begin with!!
If they had it their way, black folks would not even get the chance to vote.
Its disgusting, they are pieces of shit.
See, they are part of the problem!! That ambivalence, that complacency
Just kidding but maybe not.
Fuck this shit !!
“1) A form of identification issued consistent with the requirements of the REAL ID Act of 2005 that indicates the applicant is a citizen of the United States.”
Anyone who has gotten a REAL ID can still vote, based on the verbiage of this law.
But it is also irresponsible of us to spread misinformation
https://youtu.be/P_XdtAQXnGE?si=eywIDtEjH2GE1z7X
SURPRISE! He was lying about all of it!
We will not have out vote taken from us.
Christian Nationalists are a fucking shitstain on our country. I wish they could be made illegal.
Do what you have to for now and straighten it out later.
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fffking galaxy brains