Heather Cox Richardson
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Gradually, Western states and territories permitted women to vote in certain elections until by nineteen twenty, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, California, Oregon, Arizona, Kansas, Alaska Territory, Montana, and Nevada recognized women's right to vote in at least some elections.
Suffragists recognized that action at the federal level would be more effective than a state by state strategy.
The day before Democratic President Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated in nineteen thirteen, they organized a suffrage parade in Washington DC that grabbed media attention.
They continued civil disobedience to pressure Wilson into supporting their movement.
Still, it took another war effort, that of World War I, which the US entered in nineteen seventeen, to light a fire under the lawmakers whose votes would be necessary to get a suffrage amendment through Congress and send it off to the states for ratification.
Wilson, finally on board as he faced a difficult midterm election in nineteen eighteen, backed a constitutional amendment, asking Congressman, shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil, and not to a partnership of privilege and right?
Congress passed the measure in a special session on june fourth, nineteen nineteen, and Tennessee's ratification on august eighteenth, nineteen twenty made it the law of the land as soon as the official notice was in the hands of the Secretary of State.
Twenty-six million American women had the right to vote in the nineteen twenty presidential election.
Crucially, as the black suffragists had known all too well when they found themselves caught between the drives for black male voting and women's suffrage, Jim Crow and Juan Crow laws meant that most black women and women of color would remain unable to vote for another forty five years.
And yet, they never stopped fighting for that right.
Women like Fannie Lou Hamer, Amelia Boynton, Rosa Parks, Viola Liuzzo and Constance Baker Motley were key organizers of voting rights initiatives, spreading information, arranging marches, sparking key protests, and preparing legal cases.
They were some of the leading voices behind the nineteen sixty five Voting Rights Act that finally made black voting a reality.
Now, in 2026, Christian nationalists, whose ideas are powerful in the Trump administration, want to repeal women's right to vote.
They say that voting should be by household, and that women must defer to men.
It's a plan that seems designed to resurrect the world in which Americans lived before august eighteenth, nineteen twenty.
August seventeenth, twenty twenty six,
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From Friday through Sunday, Trump continued his now habitual weekend flooding of social media with fantasies that he is smart, beloved, and powerful.
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The post closest to reality on Friday touted the story by Steve Thompson, Frederica Kacko, and Christopher Rowland of the Washington Post on Thursday, august thirteenth, reporting that prescription drug prices have fallen three point one percent this year, the biggest rate of price decrease since nineteen sixty three.
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While that drop is real, the journalists note, much of the drop reflects the falling price of GLP one weight loss drugs, whose price has dropped dramatically because of competition from generic versions.
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For other drugs, experts say the price drop comes from the Inflation Reduction Act, passed by Democrats without a single Republican vote in twenty twenty two during the Biden administration.
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