SAVE Act would require birth cert or passport that matches voters legal name.
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... ending no fault divorce, promoting child marriage, no ratification of the ERA, forced AI adoption, book bans & illiteracy, ending independence in institutions & higher education, eroding LGBTQ civil rights, & shielding sexual predators.
Republican against child marriage ban calls teens "ripe, fertile"
Lawmaker Jess Edwards opposed a child marriage ban and described teens as being of a "ripe, fertile" age.
Newsweek (www.newsweek.com)
Why Are Some Republican Lawmakers Hellbent on Preserving Child Marriage?
GOP lawmakers across the U.S. have opposed raising the marriage age, with some arguing child marriage bans would encourage abortion.
Rolling Stone (www.rollingstone.com)
Republicans Are Really Into This Whole Child Marriage Thing
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
Jezebel (www.jezebel.com)
They fund disinformation about the "male loneliness epidemic" which is really homophobia & "sudden divorce syndrome" hitting misogynists hard.
They fund efforts at male supremacy
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Project 2025: Affirmative action
Over the course of U.S. history, Americans have attempted to level the playing field (e.g. Civil War, women's suffrage, civil rights movement). According to Project 2025, these changes begat “woke diversificrats” who believe the federal government can produce equality. It advocates “states’ rights” — the path of Southerners who championed slavery.
The Fulcrum (thefulcrum.us)
The Same Dark Money Groups That Helped Overturn Roe Are Also Behind Attacks on Abortion Pill
Dark money groups are fighting to eliminate one of the easiest to access and safest forms of abortion in this country — abortion pills.
Ms. Magazine (msmagazine.com)
Charles Koch & his ilk are unparalleled bullshit artists determined to fry the planet & end democracy.
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/tech/26/02/50321116/charles-koch-says-his-fathers-letter-left-him-a-stark-warning-that-changed-how-he-viewed-inherited-wealth-beware-of-this-curseA Koch-funded group is tapping star marketers for a $250 million push to 'reignite the American spirit'
The Koch-funded Stand Together is supporting a new effort that's lined up top marketers to boost civic engagement around America's 250th birthday.
Business Insider (www.businessinsider.com)
Misogynist Manifesto: Project 2025 Says Yes to ‘Biblically Based Marriages’ and No to Reproductive Rights
Misogynist Manifesto: Right-Wing Republican Blueprint Project 2025 Says Yes to ‘Biblically Based Marriages’ and No to Reproductive Rights
Ms. Magazine (msmagazine.com)
The Same Groups That Helped Overturn Roe and Attack Abortion Pills Are Also Lobbying Against the ERA
Anti-abortion groups are fighting to overturn Roe v. Wade, attack medication abortion pills, and stop the Equal Rights Amendment.
Ms. Magazine (msmagazine.com)
Dark Money “Women’s Groups” Are Using Anti-Trans Scaremongering to Oppose the Equal Rights Amendment
Anti-feminist women’s groups set on quashing the Equal Rights Amendment are stoking baseless fears about trans women.
Truthout (truthout.org)
Project 2025: The Right’s Dystopian Plan to Dismantle Civil Rights and What It Means for Women
Project 2025: The right-wing Heritage Foundation plan on civil rights, abortion access, gender studies, woke, and what it means for women.
Ms. Magazine (msmagazine.com)
Revealed: how top pop stars are used to ‘launder the reputation’ of Koch family
Stand Together Music, part of rightwing billionaire Charles Koch’s advocacy network, collaborates with Pitbull, Machine Gun Kelly and others
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
E&E News: Koch-backed group launches permitting push
The Americans for Prosperity campaign joins a drive from other industry lobby groups.
(subscriber.politicopro.com)
‘Project 2025’: plan to dismantle US climate policy for next Republican president
Rightwing groups penned a conservative wish list of proposals for the next conservative president to gut environmental protections
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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Project 2025: Affirmative action
Over the course of U.S. history, Americans have attempted to level the playing field (e.g. Civil War, women's suffrage, civil rights movement). According to Project 2025, these changes begat “woke diversificrats” who believe the federal government can produce equality. It advocates “states’ rights” — the path of Southerners who championed slavery.
The Fulcrum (thefulcrum.us)
The Same Dark Money Groups That Helped Overturn Roe Are Also Behind Attacks on Abortion Pill
Dark money groups are fighting to eliminate one of the easiest to access and safest forms of abortion in this country — abortion pills.
Ms. Magazine (msmagazine.com)
Charles Koch & his ilk are unparalleled bullshit artists determined to fry the planet & end democracy.
https://www.benzinga.com/markets/tech/26/02/50321116/charles-koch-says-his-fathers-letter-left-him-a-stark-warning-that-changed-how-he-viewed-inherited-wealth-beware-of-this-curseA Koch-funded group is tapping star marketers for a $250 million push to 'reignite the American spirit'
The Koch-funded Stand Together is supporting a new effort that's lined up top marketers to boost civic engagement around America's 250th birthday.
Business Insider (www.businessinsider.com)
Misogynist Manifesto: Project 2025 Says Yes to ‘Biblically Based Marriages’ and No to Reproductive Rights
Misogynist Manifesto: Right-Wing Republican Blueprint Project 2025 Says Yes to ‘Biblically Based Marriages’ and No to Reproductive Rights
Ms. Magazine (msmagazine.com)
The Same Groups That Helped Overturn Roe and Attack Abortion Pills Are Also Lobbying Against the ERA
Anti-abortion groups are fighting to overturn Roe v. Wade, attack medication abortion pills, and stop the Equal Rights Amendment.
Ms. Magazine (msmagazine.com)
Dark Money “Women’s Groups” Are Using Anti-Trans Scaremongering to Oppose the Equal Rights Amendment
Anti-feminist women’s groups set on quashing the Equal Rights Amendment are stoking baseless fears about trans women.
Truthout (truthout.org)
Project 2025: The Right’s Dystopian Plan to Dismantle Civil Rights and What It Means for Women
Project 2025: The right-wing Heritage Foundation plan on civil rights, abortion access, gender studies, woke, and what it means for women.
Ms. Magazine (msmagazine.com)
Revealed: how top pop stars are used to ‘launder the reputation’ of Koch family
Stand Together Music, part of rightwing billionaire Charles Koch’s advocacy network, collaborates with Pitbull, Machine Gun Kelly and others
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
E&E News: Koch-backed group launches permitting push
The Americans for Prosperity campaign joins a drive from other industry lobby groups.
(subscriber.politicopro.com)
‘Project 2025’: plan to dismantle US climate policy for next Republican president
Rightwing groups penned a conservative wish list of proposals for the next conservative president to gut environmental protections
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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The Billionaire Kingmaker (Still) Dividing the Nation
Despite a rebrand, Charles Koch won’t stop until U.S. democracy is dead.
Progressive.org (progressive.org)
Morrison v. Olson and the triumph of the unitary executive theory
Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. […]
SCOTUSblog (www.scotusblog.com)
‘Get the right cases to the supreme court’: inside Charles Koch’s network
Billionaire’s web of rightwing groups works to bring cases to court that could undermine core functionings of the US government
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
The dangerous legal theory behind Trump’s power grabs
There was no “unitary executive” until some dudes made the idea up to save Nixon.
Mother Jones (www.motherjones.com)
Despite Aggressive Rebrand, Charles Koch is Still Fighting Against Democracy
The media have latched on to Charles Koch's recent expressions of regret over partisanship. But this is a rebranding, not a redirection.
HNN (www.hnn.us)
The Koch dynasty wants to rule from beyond the grave, just like the Bradley Foundation & Scaife Foundation & their attacks on voting rights.
https://popular.info/p/charles-kochs-5-billion-tax-loopholehttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/27/koch-americans-for-prosperity-trump-tax-breaks
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The Billionaire Kingmaker (Still) Dividing the Nation
Despite a rebrand, Charles Koch won’t stop until U.S. democracy is dead.
Progressive.org (progressive.org)
Morrison v. Olson and the triumph of the unitary executive theory
Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. […]
SCOTUSblog (www.scotusblog.com)
‘Get the right cases to the supreme court’: inside Charles Koch’s network
Billionaire’s web of rightwing groups works to bring cases to court that could undermine core functionings of the US government
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
The dangerous legal theory behind Trump’s power grabs
There was no “unitary executive” until some dudes made the idea up to save Nixon.
Mother Jones (www.motherjones.com)
Despite Aggressive Rebrand, Charles Koch is Still Fighting Against Democracy
The media have latched on to Charles Koch's recent expressions of regret over partisanship. But this is a rebranding, not a redirection.
HNN (www.hnn.us)
The Koch dynasty wants to rule from beyond the grave, just like the Bradley Foundation & Scaife Foundation & their attacks on voting rights.
https://popular.info/p/charles-kochs-5-billion-tax-loopholehttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/us/politics/koch-network-2024-election-trump.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/27/koch-americans-for-prosperity-trump-tax-breaks
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Does the Unitary Executive Theory Exist? Not really. - Legal Planet
At Legal Planet, we often bemoan and gnash our teeth at the Unitary Executive Theory, which supposedly holds that because “the Executive Power shall be vested in the President of the United States,” Congress can not circumscribe the President’s removal authority or even his ability to manage federal agencies in any way. But last week, … Continue reading "Does the Unitary Executive Theory Exist? Not really."
Legal Planet (legal-planet.org)
Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife Mellon, Seid, Uihlein fund public corruption, coup attempts, political 'divide & conquer', and efforts at a White Supremacist Constitution.
People who spent their lives polluting the planet now spend billions on polluting knowledge & information to thwart free & fair elections using AI.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/11/the-koch-network-is-pushing-trump-to-accelerate-ai-documents-show/https://washingtonspectator.org/project-2025-the-latest-plot-against-america/
Climate science deniers at forefront of downplaying coronavirus pandemic
Vocal influencers such as the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and the Heartland Institute are hitting back at a time when people’s trust in science is rising
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
How Donald Trump Kingmaker-Billionaires Robert and Rebekah Mercer Have Poured Millions Into Climate Science Denial
When it comes to climate science denial, some names come easily and deservingly to mind. There’s oil giant ExxonMobil — a company that contributed millions of dollars to organizations that told the public there was no risk from burning fossil fuels. There are the oil billionaire Koch brothers — Charles and David — and their ideological zeal against […]
DeSmog (www.desmog.com)
How to Cause a Dysfunctional Government
On RFK, Jr., Trump v. Slaughter, and the serious flaw of the right’s unitary executive theory.
The Texas Observer (www.texasobserver.org)
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@zakalwe @amydiehl It wouldn’t backfire on Republicans.
2024 data: https://vividmaps.com/presidential-election-if-only-white-men-voted/
2018 data: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-if-only-men-voted-only-women-only-nonwhite-voters/
@ridogi@mastodon.social @amydiehl@mstdn.social Thanks for the information! I was a little skeptical about the claim myself but wasn't sure where to look for evidence for or against.
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SAVE Act would require birth cert or passport that matches voters legal name. 69M women may have a legal name that doesn’t match their birth cert. An estimated 21M would be turned away at polls. This act is an attempt to disenfranchise women voters.
https://www.thepersistent.com/this-bill-in-the-senate-could-disenfranchise-millions-of-women-voters/ -
@amydiehl For a nation that advertises itself as a bastion of democracy, Americans put a lot of effort into denying people their right to vote.
I prefer our system, where you get in trouble if you *don't* vote. It's inclusive.@anne_twain @amydiehl Not Americans but rather anti-American Republicans.
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SAVE Act would require birth cert or passport that matches voters legal name. 69M women may have a legal name that doesn’t match their birth cert. An estimated 21M would be turned away at polls. This act is an attempt to disenfranchise women voters.
https://www.thepersistent.com/this-bill-in-the-senate-could-disenfranchise-millions-of-women-voters/For a bunch of fragile patriarchs who are afraid of the world not conforming to their every beliefs, that is one wild way to end the name change tradition.
BTW, did it not occur to them that women could change BACK to their maiden names?
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SAVE Act would require birth cert or passport that matches voters legal name. 69M women may have a legal name that doesn’t match their birth cert. An estimated 21M would be turned away at polls. This act is an attempt to disenfranchise women voters.
https://www.thepersistent.com/this-bill-in-the-senate-could-disenfranchise-millions-of-women-voters/This Should end the name change on marriage cultural practice, and yay! to that.
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SAVE Act would require birth cert or passport that matches voters legal name. 69M women may have a legal name that doesn’t match their birth cert. An estimated 21M would be turned away at polls. This act is an attempt to disenfranchise women voters.
https://www.thepersistent.com/this-bill-in-the-senate-could-disenfranchise-millions-of-women-voters/@amydiehl Catholic women keep their name, so it will liberate Protestant woman from the misogyny of male marriage contracts? All the Catholics have to do is recognise that sexism; gender inequality has no place in the 21c; love not war for chauvinism, racism, sexism and ableism is a greater commandment than injustice; inequality of the law favouring paedophilia and rape? #TheVote #DemocraticRights #DiverseInterests #Freedom
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SAVE Act would require birth cert or passport that matches voters legal name. 69M women may have a legal name that doesn’t match their birth cert. An estimated 21M would be turned away at polls. This act is an attempt to disenfranchise women voters.
https://www.thepersistent.com/this-bill-in-the-senate-could-disenfranchise-millions-of-women-voters/Another way of skewing elections to the right.
Republicans have always hated that women predominately vote more left and in favor of families, communities and mutual benefits.
This is an easy way to cut them off - until women get away and change their names back to their maiden names en masse.
But if I am frank, you'll be lucky if there even are elections in the future of the rogue US. Trump will do his best to ensure a win, and if that's not possible, he'll cut elections.
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SAVE Act would require birth cert or passport that matches voters legal name. 69M women may have a legal name that doesn’t match their birth cert. An estimated 21M would be turned away at polls. This act is an attempt to disenfranchise women voters.
https://www.thepersistent.com/this-bill-in-the-senate-could-disenfranchise-millions-of-women-voters/ -
It's useful to know who has funded a war on women for over 60 years.
The fossil fuel industry.
Koch Network, Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society.
All avatars of the same billionaire bigots.
Charles Koch - abortion criminalization was supposed to be a felony disenfranchisement scheme.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/11/koch-brothers-pouring-money-into-anti-abortion-agenda-through-the-center-to-protect-patient-rights-and-freedom-partners.html
Anatomy of the War on Women: How the Koch Brothers Are Funding the Anti-Choice Agenda
The assault had been years, even decades, in the making. But three years ago, a Supreme Court case, the U.S. Census, and anti-Obama backlash set the course for the arsonists who trained their flame-throwers on women's fundamental freedoms.
Rewire News Group (rewirenewsgroup.com)
Mothers Want Federally Funded Childcare. Why Are These Koch-Funded Women Opposing It?
The right-wing, anti-feminist, Koch-funded “Independent Women’s Forum” has been at the forefront of assaults on federally funded childcare.
Ms. Magazine (msmagazine.com)
Efforts at no sex education, no contraception, deprofessionalization of nursing & teaching, no daycare, ...
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SAVE Act would require birth cert or passport that matches voters legal name. 69M women may have a legal name that doesn’t match their birth cert. An estimated 21M would be turned away at polls. This act is an attempt to disenfranchise women voters.
https://www.thepersistent.com/this-bill-in-the-senate-could-disenfranchise-millions-of-women-voters/@amydiehl The headline should change "Could" to "Would" and editors need to remember that most people don't know what "disenfranchise" means.
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SAVE Act would require birth cert or passport that matches voters legal name. 69M women may have a legal name that doesn’t match their birth cert. An estimated 21M would be turned away at polls. This act is an attempt to disenfranchise women voters.
https://www.thepersistent.com/this-bill-in-the-senate-could-disenfranchise-millions-of-women-voters/@amydiehl Trump will not stop rigging the election as he knows that if everything goes by the rules he will lose heavily! And still 9 months to go!
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SAVE Act would require birth cert or passport that matches voters legal name. 69M women may have a legal name that doesn’t match their birth cert. An estimated 21M would be turned away at polls. This act is an attempt to disenfranchise women voters.
https://www.thepersistent.com/this-bill-in-the-senate-could-disenfranchise-millions-of-women-voters/@amydiehl
I would like to also point out this lets them revoke passports for ANYONE they want prior to election. Just like they IMMEDIATELY did for trans people who had changed gender markers. -
@ridogi@mastodon.social @amydiehl@mstdn.social Thanks for the information! I was a little skeptical about the claim myself but wasn't sure where to look for evidence for or against.
The only silver lining is that JD Vance does not have a current legal name that matches the name on his birth certificate.
James Donald Bowman -->
James David Hamel -->
James David (J.D.) Vance -->
JD VanceWhy did JD feel the need to transition to his current identity? I'm not sure, but I do respect his right to transition to an identity that makes him feel like himself.
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SAVE Act would require birth cert or passport that matches voters legal name. 69M women may have a legal name that doesn’t match their birth cert. An estimated 21M would be turned away at polls. This act is an attempt to disenfranchise women voters.
https://www.thepersistent.com/this-bill-in-the-senate-could-disenfranchise-millions-of-women-voters/I also heard an unconfirmed rumor that some people's passport records have been cancelled. Only saw it on you tube, but it is distressing if true.
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@zakalwe @amydiehl It wouldn’t backfire on Republicans.
2024 data: https://vividmaps.com/presidential-election-if-only-white-men-voted/
2018 data: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-if-only-men-voted-only-women-only-nonwhite-voters/
@ridogi yup
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The only silver lining is that JD Vance does not have a current legal name that matches the name on his birth certificate.
James Donald Bowman -->
James David Hamel -->
James David (J.D.) Vance -->
JD VanceWhy did JD feel the need to transition to his current identity? I'm not sure, but I do respect his right to transition to an identity that makes him feel like himself.
@SeanPLynch @zakalwe @amydiehl @ridogi In the south—maybe in other parts of the country too; I don't know—there's a general assumption that any man who goes by "JD" is actually named after Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy.
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@amydiehl@mstdn.social That could backfire on them. I saw it asserted a day or two ago that without white women voting disproportionately conservative, no conservative would have won election in the last century.
I don't know how true the assertion is.
[UPDATE (see below): Looks like it's not.]I believe what was meant by that is that white women are a crucial pivot point. It’s assumed most white men will vote Republican. White women shift more, like independents, and have more effect on elections. But most low educated white women also vote Republican, and so in every presidential election, the GOP wins the white vote overall.
