House Republican schemes to deprive millions of women in voting rights – People’s World

Supporters and volunteers of DNC President Candidate Ken Martin Cheer outside the ballroom in the hours before the votes for positions at the Democratic National Committee’s Winter Meeting at Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland, Saturday, February 1, 2025 – Rod Lamkey Jr./ AP

Washington — a prominent member of Hard Right House “Freedom Caucus”, rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, plans to deprive millions of women their rights to vote, says a prominent member of the progressive Democrats of America.

Roy pushes a bill, HR22, SAVE ACT, which PDA member Mickey Leader warned to cut female turnout by 30%.

The SAVE action as a goal that progressive could take on and defeat, using the methods, as it discussed session, said leader and Mike Fox, PDA’s Deputy CEO, who chaired the Zoom Session 6 February at 250 Plus people .

The limitation of the law that beats women is simple, Leader said. It requires someone to show up to vote to bring identification with a name identical to what they used when they first registered.

“If your voter registration says. ‘Mickey Liskin,’ and the driver’s license you present ‘To pick up a ballot’ says ‘Mickey leader,’ You are disqualified, ‘she warned. ”Thirty percent of women will be knocked out on the spot’ because they never registered say under their current names.

It’s not the only roadblock for registration, Fox added. “They want to take military IDs,” he said. “But you also need your service post. How many people carry their service post with them? “

“The other ID they will accept is your passport,” but it had better be relevant. “Find a way to get a new passport,” Fox said. People “don’t have time to investigate and get a passport” as they approach the polls, the leader replied.

The Non-Partisan Campaign Responsible Center HR22 would limit voter IDs and adopt other curbs.

The center said that more than 21 million people could not deliver the extra documents that the SAVE Act mandates sign up when they sign up to vote. People of color, married people who have changed the names as well as young and older people “are more likely to have difficulty accessing these documents.”

Normal drivers’ licenses would not be enough ID. “Improved” licenses now available in only five states would qualify.

SAVE ACT also prohibits mail and online voter registration. Combined used 18 million people these ways of registering by 2022. To help someone else register would be a crime that can be punished with five years in prison. And the SAVE ACT “would give mandate frequent voter cleansings”, which are also unfair to women and people in color, the center adds.

It is important to preserve the right to vote for women. For decades, women’s turnout has exceeded men’s turnout – and they voting more gradually. In the presidential race in 2020, exit polls show the democratic nominated, Vice President Kamala Harris, the first African American and Asian-American woman holding the country’s #2 job, beating Republican nominated, convicted criminals and misogynist Donald Trump 53%-43% among Women. But Trump beat Harris 55% -45% among men and won the election.

The threat to women’s voting rights came after a discussion of the recent judicial winner, especially a judge’s postponement of Trump’s plan to force mob from federal workers to stop.

In response to an emergency from government employees (discharge), departure and other unions, US district judge George O’Toole in Boston took hold of the president’s plan pending a 10th February hearing on its legality.

Faced with an original deadline for midnight, February 6, and the threat of being fired if they did not retire, 60,000 workers nationally took the “Buyout” Trump’s Minions promised. But this buyout is not guaranteed.

Trumpites’ emails dangling the bait when money runs out would “buyout” recipients flooded without the promised salary. So would the workers they left behind.

“We are pleased that the court was temporarily punching this deadline, while arguments are heard about the legality of the vulnerable severance program,” said Deputy President Everett Kelley. “We continue to believe that this program is violating the law, and we will continue to aggressively defend the rights of our members.”

“This is a fantastic first step,” said AFSCME president Lee Saunders. “We are all dependent on federal workers to keep our society in safety, healthy and strong, and politics should never come between them and the important services they provide. They deserve to be treated with respect for their public service. We look forward to presenting our full case in the coming days. “

PDA’s most important business were ways and means of pushing legislators to resist Trump all the time. It doesn’t happen now. Fox noticed a significant number of Senate Democrats, in addition to all Republicans, voted for most of the president’s cabinet nominees.

Other positive signs of progressive came from the previous week’s choice of democratic national committees and from the massive events against Trump and Multibillillionaire Elon Musk and especially Musk’s invasion of federal offices. Musk now hangs Trump like a doll.

“There was a huge audience at the Ministry of Finance,” Fox said, to protest what may be the worst of Musk’s couch against democracy-wholesale turnover for personal and financial information about millions of people to the multi-millionaire and 22-year-olds at Hans Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) TEAM. A federal judge has since limited the potential of this privacy invasion.

“I heard senators and representatives with the help of Bernie’s language,” Fox said, referring to Senator Bernie Sanders, Ind.-Vt., a self-described socialist and its leading supporter of workers. “When Chris Murphy,” D-Connn., “Starts talking about the billionaire class, yes, that’s a change for him.”

Fox also described the new party chairman Ken Martin from Minnesota, as “the most progressive chair I’ve seen this year.” Another PDA caller pointed out that David Hogg, who rose to national appearance as co-founder of the student-led-and politically successful march for our lives after Marjory Stoneman Douglas School Gun Massacre in Florida seven years ago, is now a DNC Vice -President.

Laid a particular plan

As for ways to push lawmakers to do whatever they can to block Trump, the PDA speakers made a detailed plan. A central point is to “spend time talking to voters” face to face, not just with posts and telephone bank. That’s the top way to counter the thorough right slope on social media, Fox said.

Another key is to emphasize the positive, including positive political alternatives. It’s a point Sanders has done ever since Kamala Harris lost against Trump.

“The more negative things we hear” on TV, social media, speech radio and elsewhere, “The worse we feel,” Fox explained. “And that’s what they want,” he said of the right -wing Trump, Musk and their supporters in politics and business class.

“We play into their goal if we try to follow all the shit storm they throw out. Focus on a few things ”and push them – hit the negativity, promote positive alternatives or both – he urged.

Progressive can also take advantage of three special choices for vacant US house places, participants said: Two in Florida and another in Upstate New York, all former Republicans. Included these three have GOP a majority of 220-215. The Floridians vote on April 1st. New York’s county chairs for each party choose their nominees.

Progressive is looking for all three, with Hoggs March for Our Lives Group -backing -melaging producer -farmer Blake Gendebien, the only Democrat, in New York’s 21st District reaching Watertown in Father North to Saratoga County in the East.

In the meantime, “call your senators,” Fox explained. They have more leeway to block Republican brainstorms, though Democrats are spuring 53-47. Say “you’ve let Radically Return People” to run the government. “Enough is enough.”

Progressive legislators actually took a baby step toward this goal the night before the PDA session, they led a filibuster all night against one of the most radicals of Trump’s choices, Russell Vought, a key author of Trump’s notorious “platform”, Project 2025, that be the director of the Office of Management and Budget, a post that is only in power for the Presidency itself.

Vought believes in “appointing congress evidence” and “make the legislation all too outdated,” said MSNBC analyst Hayes Brown on February 6th. The Senate broke the Filibuster and confirmed him after a party’s vote.

This demand for senators to keep their stands brought up another problem: Timidity. A asker raised it by quoting comments from the Senate’s minority leader Charles Schumer, DN.Y., to the large audience in Treasury Building three days before. Should PDA members, he asked, concentrating on pushing senators who have extra threat?

“If you are a component, yes,” you should definitely call them, Fox said. Calls, more than E emails, make a lasting impression. “If you’re not, call them after hours and leave a message. They log it in. “

His other ways of influencing legislators included driving to the party office at the local level, as local committees’ slots often go unfilled and progressive voices can make a difference-and to write up-eds for local papers. “And be loud about it.”

One last way to put pressure on legislators came up in the chat box, which quickly filled with more than 200 messages: Join the grassroots coalition that put together the mass protests in cities from coastal to coast against Trump on a wide range of questions. Its address is www.buildHeresistance.org/50501.

We hope you appreciated this article. On People’s worldWe believe that news and information should be free and available to everyone, but we need your help. Our journalism is free of the influence and payment walls of the company because we are completely reader that is supported. Only you, our readers and followers, make this possible. If you enjoy reading People’s world And the stories we bring you please Support our work by donating or becoming a monthly wearing today. Thanks!

---

Contributor