MAGA attacks on women voters are no joke

Left photo: Women hold banners campaigning for the right to vote at the White House gates January 11, 1917. Attribution: “‘Silent sentinels’ begin 2 ½ year campaign (2): 1917” by Washington Area Spark via Flickr. Public Domain Mark. Right photo: Suffragist Miss Lucy Burns in front of an Occoquan Workhouse prison cell – November 1917. Photo credit: Harris & Ewing, photographer via the Library of Congress. Call Number: LC-H261- 9798 [P&P] per Wikimedia Commons. No known copyright restrictions. Commentary article by Amanda Marcotte. Salon – October 26, 2026.

If the polls are correct, Republicans are set for a shellacking in the Nov. 3 midterms, losing the House and quite possibly the Senate, and likely some prominent governorships across the country. If that happens, there’s a good chance that online chatter about repealing the 19th Amendment will heat up once again. For a decade now, MAGA social media users have been aggrieved at the way women vote for Democrats at higher rates then men, such as in 2024, when 53% of women voted for Kamala Harris over Donald Trump, who received 55% of the male vote. Their solution to this imbalance began in 2016 as a trolling hashtag on what was then called Twitter: #RepealThe19th, a reference to the constitutional amendment, ratified in 1920, that extended suffrage to all women in theory […]

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