From The New Republic
How the Republican War on Women Extends to Voting Rights
Most women vote Democratic. And most still change their name when they marry. And that’s where the GOP sees an Achilles’ heel.
Thom Hartmann
September 19, 2024
Republicans don’t want women to vote. They now think they may have a strategy that could prevent them from doing so. House Speaker Mike Johnson and former President Donald Trump were pushing the Safeguard American Eligibility, or SAVE, Act, demanding it be part of must-pass legislation to fund the federal government for another year (the funding runs out at the end of this month, and then the shutdown begins).
It died in the House Wednesday night, but, like a bad penny, you can bet it’ll return.*
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Trump, Johnson, and J.D. Vance claim that the SAVE Act is necessary to prevent people who aren’t citizens from voting, but they are entirely unable to prove that any meaningful number of noncitizens have ever illegally voted in any American election. After all, it’s a felony for a noncitizen to vote, and few are stupid enough to take that sort of a chance.
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As NBC News noted: “The Brennan Center found just 30 suspected noncitizen votes amid 23.5 million votes in 2016, suggesting that suspected noncitizen votes accounted for 0.0001% of votes cast. Trump’s own election integrity commission disbanded without releasing evidence of voter fraud, even though he’d claimed 3 million undocumented immigrants had voted in 2016 costing him the popular vote.”
Not only will illegal voting get you years in prison, but it’s one of the most easily discovered crimes. Sean Morales-Doyle, a lawyer for the Brennan Center, laid it out: “This is a crime where not only are the consequences really high and the payoff really low—you’re not getting millions of dollars, it’s not robbing a bank, you [just] get to cast one ballot. But what also makes this somewhat unique is that committing this crime actually entails the creation of a government record of your crime.”
So why is this the hill Republicans are willing to die on? Why would Johnson, Trump, and Vance (and so many other Republicans) put so much effort into a lie that will, if acted on, create chaos for American voters?
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The SAVE Act is a proposed federal law, so, first off, it would put a future president (say, Trump) in charge of enforcing it, taking that power away from the states. Millions of voter registrations in any states the president decides are problematic could be removed until those voters “cure” their registrations, and state authorities would have no say in it.
And what will the law require citizens who want to vote do? Lacking a passport or other proof of citizenship with their married names, they must produce both a birth certificate (with the seal of the state where it was issued; no copies allowed) and a current form of identification—both with the exact same name on them. That could instantly disqualify about 90 percent of all married women without passports or other proof that matches their birth certificates or proof of a legal name change.
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As a result, as the National Organization for Women details in a report on how Republican voter suppression efforts harm women:
Voter ID laws have a disproportionately negative effect on women. According to the Brennan Center for Justice, one third of all women have citizenship documents that do not identically match their current names primarily because of name changes at marriage. Roughly 90 percent of women who marry adopt their husband’s last name.
That means that roughly 90 percent of married female voters have a different name on their ID than the one on their birth certificate. An estimated 34 percent of women could be turned away from the polls unless they have precisely the right documents.
I’m not married and it would disqualify me, because I only have a copy of my birth certificate.
And, what about the high number of Black Seniors who were born during the time of Jim Crow, when they weren’t allowed in Whites Only hospitals, and the likelihood was that they were born at home with a midwife attending.
And, what about Native Americans?
This is another GOP Voter Suppression law…that they want to take nation-wide.
Donate to Downballot Democrats (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 10:10 AM on Tue, Sep 24, 2024:
Three reasons why the legacy media endeavored to hide the Harris candidacy:
~Low-key Bernie supporters still mad that Bernie ever got it
~White patriarchy, still opposed to the idea of a woman president
~White feminism, that deeply hates that WOC ever advance in life
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1838596859465551937?s=03)
Drew Comments (@sjs856) posted at 10:06 AM on Tue, Sep 24, 2024:
Not only is Kamala Harris’ father a Black man, he’s literally an academic hotep. Brotha is BLACK Black! Why did yall lie saying this man was Indian and Irish? Nobody of that ethnic background looks or thinks like this. Agree/disagree on his ideas, but he’s Black. https://t.co/3KWSPHvlkU
(https://x.com/sjs856/status/1838595779541320101?t=YOMfr8usiepHomMiLC-gXQ&s=03)
Malcolm Nance (@MalcolmNance) posted at 1:52 PM on Tue, Sep 24, 2024:
WARNING: Project 2025 maybe the single
most dangerous policy document written in American history.
It’s the manual for transforming America into dictatorship … in less than 40 days YOU get to decide IF that happens.
#DumpTrumpsProject2025
(https://x.com/MalcolmNance/status/1838652792262578443?t=OgVz_1UklfBtbecGX4QXtQ&s=03)
👑 Mr. Weeks 👑 (@WonderKing82) posted at 10:16 AM on Tue, Sep 24, 2024:
I love how Vice President Kamala Harris campaign is keeping her away from corporate media. Job well done. They’re talking to local radio and news stations. Talking directly to the people.
(https://x.com/WonderKing82/status/1838598416378515882?t=MED8tjAOUox9xfYZvy9M6Q&s=03)
I Smoked Diddy (@BlackKnight10k) posted at 11:50 AM on Tue, Sep 24, 2024:
Nothing more infuriating than watching every single media outlet sit on the Trump campaign emails when they blasted Hillary’s campaign emails for months.
If Trump wins and has you executed, you did it to yourselves.
(https://x.com/BlackKnight10k/status/1838621929323815321?t=d-c35silLBmBWSRxdiELmw&s=03)
Nicky Frank (@NickyFrank30) posted at 11:42 AM on Tue, Sep 24, 2024:
We need to start entertaining the reality that many Muslim men in the US are using Gaza as a veil to cover their real feelings, which is why they love Trump for the same reason white men do – he will put women, LGBTQ people and other “lesser” people in their places and make them feel superior again.
(https://x.com/NickyFrank30/status/1838620126213443984?t=_cfyHj6mfRxTp2STVralLg&s=03)
philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) posted at 11:18 AM on Tue, Sep 24, 2024:
In 1906, four men tried to build an upscale Black suburb near DC. White residents & developers shut it down before they could even fully start.
On Saturday, a historical marker honoring Belmont was unveiled — and their descendants were in attendance
https://t.co/z4pUvQ22AV
(https://x.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1838614072935264644?t=9ePb-JTAX8-W9CvsiXACGA&s=03)
Brad (@BraddrofliT) posted at 3:19 PM on Mon, Sep 23, 2024:
Walmart hiked prices on its Great Value brands. The result? Its net income spiked 93% to $10.5 billion towards the end of 2023. Walmart rewarded shareholders with $5.9 billion in buybacks and dividends. When you read price gouging is driving inflation, this is what it means.
(https://x.com/BraddrofliT/status/1838312137598603486?t=hBmBg_X6pJ89ZCFXGPVWyg&s=03)
lies
Acyn (@Acyn) posted at 1:08 PM on Tue, Sep 24, 2024:
Trump on Springfield: The mayor is actually looking for interpreters.. because they can’t understand. The language is totally different. What the hell. I’m sorry. You have to move the people back to the country from which they came. You have to. https://t.co/7puXVmG5aC
(https://x.com/Acyn/status/1838641595345981545?t=bRouS0TqX5VTgmCCmdM8Tg&s=03)
Renee 🪷 (@PettyLupone) posted at 1:56 PM on Mon, Sep 23, 2024:
She suffered a pregnancy loss, got charged w/murder, held for 22 days, released to house arrest w/an ankle bracelet, and later cleared by a grand jury.
She was never even pulled over for a traffic stop before.
This is the legacy of trump’s Supreme Court.
https://t.co/Y99ZO127Oj
(https://x.com/PettyLupone/status/1838291394865311891?t=7INvg3fgGd7_iu86yHz70A&s=03)
🪷💛🐝Samantha💛🐝🪷 (@ChiTownSam723) posted at 3:26 PM on Mon, Sep 23, 2024:
You’ll notice that the women dying and being charged with murder are Black Women. This is outrageous.
(https://x.com/ChiTownSam723/status/1838314096778973283?t=9YaAed4EI8PVe7e4B84yYQ&s=03)
David Roberts (@drvolts) posted at 1:13 PM on Tue, Sep 24, 2024:
Guy finally pulled the US out of a misbegotten war we should have gotten out of years ago, showing genuine political courage, and US political & media elites *savaged* him for it. That’s when coverage of his administration went full negative & never came back.
(https://x.com/drvolts/status/1838642912760074379?t=lEgvEq0rFTmlrhDT7JR1OQ&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 9:20 AM on Tue, Sep 24, 2024:
Biden, speaking to the UN General Assembly, talks about pulling out of Afghanistan and says “it was a hard decision. But the right decision. Four American presidents had to face that decision. But I was determined not to leave it to a fifth.” https://t.co/QkNjERAVbC
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1838584401799557405?s=03)
this is why I am so hoping that the NC Democratic Party is focusing on something other than the VP. That people need to know about the GOP nightmares, up and down the ticket.
Justin Parmenter (@JustinParmenter) posted at 5:09 PM on Mon, Sep 23, 2024:
Still can’t wrap my head around the fact that a homeschooling mom named @MicheleMorrowNC who has never worked in a school and who called for Obama to be executed on live pay per view television is the Republican candidate to be NC’s superintendent of k-12 schools.
#nced #ncpol https://t.co/YR3FWZZEvq
(https://x.com/JustinParmenter/status/1838339845946491119?s=03)
oh my….
angry buni 🤬 (@theangriestbuni) posted at 9:34 AM on Tue, Sep 24, 2024:
Wait. Corey DeAngelis… the evangelical anti-LGBTQ supporter of school choice and NC fraud Tricia Cotham was in gay porn under the name of Seth Rose??
Hold on… I think I left my shocked face in my other purse. https://t.co/LWzK9RoiPW
(https://x.com/theangriestbuni/status/1838587714045690351?t=-nd4W-QzmceRm66hrjiqHA&s=03)
MSNBC (@MSNBC) posted at 2:35 PM on Tue, Sep 24, 2024:
BREAKING: Judge Chutkin approves Jack Smith’s request to file a new 180-page brief in Trump’s election interference case. https://t.co/uMRabVwBup
(https://x.com/MSNBC/status/1838663545048686702?t=8jtPCbWe2fj3x2I98onN5w&s=03)
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) posted at 0:04 PM on Tue, Sep 24, 2024:
‼️THIS CAN’T BE SHARED ENOUGH‼️
PROJECT 2025 will reshape our labor laws:
🔘 Overtime pay: GONE
🔘 Protections for children: WEAKENED
🔘 Workplace discrimination: ALLOWED
Millions of Americans are at risk.
#DumpTrumpsProject2025
https://t.co/NEz5RlwEXl
(https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/1838625460990939361?t=LjFkPKyXYjhq8YdfNWAjvw&s=03)
Candidly Tiff 🪷💛 (@tify330) posted at 11:34 AM on Tue, Sep 24, 2024:
I am still deeply disturbed at how Larry handled the covid vaccine distribution especially since he lied on Black and Brown Marylanders saying they were hesitant, when in fact more access was needed. https://t.co/SbdliUr0xU
(https://x.com/tify330/status/1838618044102291716?t=UutxKFhvtAr9hg1Quni5qQ&s=03)
All SHOULD Be Equal Before THEE Law🪷🇺🇲🇺🇦🌻🟦 (@EqualUnderLaw12) posted at 11:25 AM on Tue, Sep 24, 2024:
Larry Hogan botched COVID vaccine distribution. He started slow & never caught up. Hogan spent tens of millions of $$$ on consultants for MD to be among the slowest states for vax distribution. With MD’s deep healthcare resources, this was a massive fail.
https://t.co/KJ7UoRNvoV https://t.co/iA58sNbRcw
(https://x.com/EqualUnderLaw12/status/1838615846731592064?s=03)
Portia ♍️ McGonagal (@PortiaMcGonagal) posted at 11:07 AM on Tue, Sep 24, 2024:
In re: Trump’s view as a “protector”. The only people I’ve ever wanted protection from are the types of people who support him. Racists, bigots, misogynists…creepy men who don’t know that “No” is a complete sentence. Nationalists ignorant of US and world history. 1/
(https://x.com/PortiaMcGonagal/status/1838611179553652928?t=LAs6Qu7ayw4gESorBlAJAA&s=03)
Portia ♍️ McGonagal (@PortiaMcGonagal) posted at 11:09 AM on Tue, Sep 24, 2024:
2/2
Mean girl women like Megyn Kelly who create drama for non-white and especially Black women in the workplace. “Boy Moms” and Moms for Liberty WW who use passive aggressive tactics to position themselves as victims of the “angry Black woman”.
(https://x.com/PortiaMcGonagal/status/1838611716344807620?t=0-quxmn3lk28NxIUi4oHYw&s=03)
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 5:59 AM on Tue, Sep 24, 2024:
Could Mark Robinson’s implosion really cause Trump to lose North Carolina, and with it the election? On the pod, AG Josh Stein’s chief strategist offers a granular, fascinating look at what this would look like. You will learn a ton about NC here:
https://t.co/JaPPuYP2fT
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1838533801548407145?t=N0cjLxbkatSKoqALu2G6YQ&s=03)
ABC News Politics
@ABCPolitics
“Today is the fourth time I’ve had the great honor of speaking to this assembly as president of the United States. It will be my last.”
Pres. Biden makes farewell speech to world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly. https://trib.al/fEZr0PH
https://x.com/ABCPolitics/status/1838585008136597673
Victor Shi
@Victorshi2020
Actually, one more, because this gave me the chills: President Biden ended his speech by saying, “I love being President. But I love my country more…Some things are more important than staying in power.” We do not deserve Joe Biden. Endlessly grateful. /END (for real)
Victor Shi
@Victorshi2020
Wow. The most reliable youth poll just came out & shows, among young voters:
—31-point lead for Harris over Trump
—Only *6%* have a favorable impression of Project 2024
—73% of young women prefer Harris
—Harris dominates Trump on EVERY issue & character quality
This is amazing.
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Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) posted at 11:00 PM on Mon, Sep 23, 2024:
The Arizona GOP is fighting against the state’s proof of citizenship law after it was found that a data error could prevent nearly 100K voters, majority Republican, from voting – a complete contradiction to their past legal arguments on the law. https://t.co/T6TYB0GCbE
(https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/1838428200445104449?t=RzbJv4nUbzd99-crMvSPTA&s=03)
The Associated Press (@AP) posted at 0:15 PM on Sun, Sep 22, 2024:
Republican activists in swing states say they have seen little sign of the teams tasked with knocking on doors and turning out infrequent voters on behalf of Donald Trump. https://t.co/XaXEq3bvts
(https://x.com/AP/status/1837903455496601902?t=90eR7rLezT0gfRWI7r7wcw&s=03)
Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) posted at 10:41 AM on Mon, Sep 23, 2024:
Trump isn’t planning to turn out voters. He hopes to suppress them.
It isn’t that complicated.
(https://x.com/marceelias/status/1838242195293233469?t=LCeAu9-kSb0GK7NFi5dGZA&s=03)
Jazz the Professor
@Jazzieeiswhoiam
#OTD Sept 24, 1957: Prez Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the 327th Airborne Battle Group of the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, AR, to escort 9 Black students, AKA the “Little Rock 9”, to Central HS, as part of an effort to enforce school integration following a Supreme Court ruling and against the resistance of Arkansas Gov Orval Faubus; this action was called “Operation Arkansas”.
#History
https://eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/civil-rights-little-rock-school-integration-crisis
https://x.com/Jazzieeiswhoiam/status/1838532959139152114
Dr. Virgo 🐝💛
@DrVirgo1981
What’s crazy about the whole thing is America absolutely knew she was black that’s why they bussed her. And y’all trying to tell a 60 year old woman she has to go by biracial, a term that wasn’t around on the US census until she was 40 years old. Be FFR Youngblood
https://x.com/DrVirgo1981/status/1838207755938672969
Ben Tribbett
@notlarrysabato
No matter the outcome of this election Democrats would be wise to figure out how to talk to a broader base of voters in the country. MAGA should not be able to get around half the votes so easily.
8:08 AM · Sep 23, 2024
https://x.com/notlarrysabato/status/1838203758607573034
DFW Sports 4Life
@Kennymack1971
As a Black man in America do me a favor Ben. STFU. Democrats have no way to message around racism and white grievance to those who truly believe in it and I’m tired of clueless white people acting like there is. YOU talk to them gotdamnit.
https://x.com/Kennymack1971/status/1838224645113221486
Skeptical Brotha 💛🐝🌈🪷 (@skepticalbrotha) posted at 7:37 AM on Mon, Sep 23, 2024:
@TerryWatkinsJr1 It is impressive how hard Wesley Bell is fighting to save Marcellus Williams from execution. I’ve never seen a DA file a joint brief with a defendant’s defense team asking an appellate court to do anything. It’s in the State Supreme Court’s hands now.
(https://x.com/skepticalbrotha/status/1838195982774792503?t=OXVp-OikKV-baN0c5DaHWQ&s=03)
The Tennessee Holler
@TheTNHoller
Here’s
@semafor
editor Ben Smith arguing it’s ok for reporters to have sex with people they’re covering as long as they tell their editor. Imagine actually clicking “publish” on this. https://semafor.com/newsletter/09/22/2024/getting-out-there
https://x.com/TheTNHoller/status/1838199154935292084
New democrat….. unless dems act like wimps😎 (@reesetheone1) posted at 7:45 AM on Mon, Sep 23, 2024:
If y’all gonna fall apart everytime you see polls you don’t like, all I can say is MAGA is more mentally tough than dems.
They ignored every poll they say in 16 and 20 and made it a race both times.
WHITE NO COLLEGE IS TRUMP’S SUPERPOWER.
That’s what makes him a tough out.
(https://x.com/reesetheone1/status/1838198106845798632?t=_vJI_WZ8p1g0jspsH9hOYA&s=03)
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 6:55 AM on Mon, Sep 23, 2024:
Trump’s outreach to female voters has been reduced to browbeating them into forgetting his presidency entirely and instructing them to stop thinking about reproductive rights.
On the pod, @joanwalsh is brilliant on Harris and the long arc of feminism:
https://t.co/vZq7FkBLNj
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1838185337119502362?t=oy0A2a1qRtMErtdQ1KO6gQ&s=03)
Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) posted at 1:02 PM on Thu, Jul 04, 2024:
In January, I began hearing similar stories from Democratic officials, activists, and donors who came away from interactions with Joe Biden disturbed by what they had seen. For @NYMag, I wrote about the conspiracy of silence to protect the president: https://t.co/clKmksK9D8
(https://x.com/Olivianuzzi/status/1808924240529535352?t=IuC2JTnGul_4YG2LtNth7g&s=03)
Ragnarok Lobster 🐺 (@eclecticbrotha) posted at 9:34 AM on Sun, Sep 22, 2024:
Weird coincidence how Olivia Nuzzi claims she started hearing negative stories about Biden from “Democratic officials” around the same time she started her undisclosed nine month sexting relationship with Biden’s opponent RFK Jr.
Investigative journos might wanna look into that.
(https://x.com/eclecticbrotha/status/1837863045327933689?t=0UYnCwKF9F5GzxqI1PkIrQ&s=03)
I feel this:
Ebony Jade Hilton, MD (@EbonyJHilton_MD) posted at 6:50 AM on Mon, Sep 23, 2024:
Dear introverts,
I know it’s Monday. And as we know the extroverts have been waiting all weekend for it bc they get to see their coworkers they’ve missed so much, & that co-worker happens to be you. It’s ok. Take a deep breath & muster out a hello. Remember, it’s only 5 more days
(https://x.com/EbonyJHilton_MD/status/1838184099179036869?t=ybbXggLUFoG4N2R3dl4x1g&s=03)
Kenny BooYah! 🖖🏾 (@KwikWarren) posted at 8:02 AM on Mon, Sep 23, 2024:
Welps, media’s gotten their wish. The “It’s a horse race!” narrative is going full force&will continue thru Election Day. They’re going2do everything possible2keep us on edge of our seats, anxiously tuned in. But NEVER forget: they want trump2win bc he’s like chasing an ambulance
(https://x.com/KwikWarren/status/1838202216869474793?t=d7lguwVT6o8zV5MwER_knw&s=03)
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊