Women's Votes In USA Under Threat - The Nineteenth Amendment - Heather Cox Richardson

28th August 2025

This is of interest when voting rights in USA appear to be under threat in the Trump administration.

Attacking voter rights is a blatant attempt to hold on to power in the future.

Heather Cox Richardson wrote -

Yesterday, I intended to write about the Nineteenth Amendment prohibiting states from denying women the right to vote because today is the anniversary of the amendment's certification in 1920. But I decided the political news yesterday couldn't wait, so I dropped the plan and wrote about Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker's stand against President Donald J. Trump.

Still, as right-wing Christian nationalists supported by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are calling for an end to women's right to vote, it seems crucial to remember the history of the drive for women's suffrage in the United States of America. While you won’t get the full letter about it I had intended, my team put together a 3-minute video about the history.

Who would have thought that a foremost democracy would now have reach a time when winding back women's right to vote would even be spoken about.

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