Keep sharing this folks. & take action. This is a major bill that has republican’s support. It is essentially the reversal of the 19th amendment using citizenship as a scapegoat
There will be a lot of distractions preventing folks from focusing on this bill. Because this is the one that will bring democracy down.
This would also affect shitloads of trans people, BTW. They know what they’re doing.
FYI this horror show has PASSED THE HOUSE.
First, call your senators and tell them if they vote yes on this BS that they’re going to lose their job.
Second, find out how your rep voted and if they voted yet, remember to vote them the fuck out of office.
Third, if you are a cis woman who has taken your spouse’s name, and you don’t have one, GO GET YOUR PASSPORT. Get the process started now because I guarantee you passport processing is about to slow to a crawl.
If you are a TRANS person, be very very very very careful about trying to get a passport right now. I’m hearing of people presenting the necessary documentation and having the documents taken away and not returned, leaving you completely without documentation.
We’ve got to find a way to stop this. This is BLATANT voter suppression and this won’t be the first time the administration tries it.
Turns out my democrat representative was one of 5 who voted for this
Because she’s too concerned about the threat of undocumented Mexicans at our country’s southern border. (& I’m living in one of the furthest states from Mexico btw) that was literally her email back to me about this issue.
So fight like hell, contact your senators explain the gravity of 140 million people having the right to vote disenfranchised. (155 million people voted in the 2024 elections) and the nearly 75 million people who have legally changed their last name – the majority of which are married women. (77 million voted for trump) which this bill threatens to disenfranchise.
Explain that you support mail in voting, online voter registration.
And explain that your continued support of them relies on them stopping this bill. It is your top priority (because without voting any hope of stopping the fascist takeover is completely gone & the GOP knows this.)
Personally, This is the bill for me that signals when it’s time to leave the US. It’s the red flag that I decided to keep in mind about if to stay or leave.
A previous version of the bill passed the House in the last session, but that bill died bc the Senate did not take up the bill before the session ended.
So this is a new bill. Same text, butlogistically, an entirely new bill. It has to go through every stage again, from House committee on up.
Introduced on Jan 3, 2025
This bill is in the first stage of the legislative process. It was introduced into Congress on January 3, 2025. It will typically be considered by committee next before it is possibly sent on to the House or Senate as a whole.
Other activity may have occurred on another bill with identical or similar provisions.
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This bill is NOT CURRENTLY BEFORE THE SENATE.
While you can contact your Senator preemptively about it, they can’t do anything about this bill right now. It is not even before the various committees in the House that it has to pass before the House actually votes on it and passes it up to the Senate.
Please please please please please please stop scaring people about bills that died last session and aren’t before the Senate and have been sitting doing nothing for six weeks. There is plenty to be scared about. There are plenty of urgent calls to action to be made. This isn’t one of them as of 2/15/25.
This is a nothingburger bill at this point. Put it on your bill tracker and move on to something that you can actually do something about.
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