MS NOW: Trump's Next Smithsonian Target: A Future Women's History Museum

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Read the article here.  This week, a group of House Republicans used a committee vote on a bill intended to establish a location for the forthcoming Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum to pass an amendment stipulating that the museum must not include transgender women in its exhibitions or content...Members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus called the…

NPR: Reproductive Health Clinics Scramble as Title X Funding Cliff Approaches

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Read the article here.  The letter, first shared with NPR, was drafted by the House Democratic Women's Caucus and Reproductive Freedom Caucus and sent to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday. "We call on HHS to immediately award a one-year full funding extension to all current Title X grantees as the funding process cannot be effectively executed before their…

Ms. Magazine: How the SAVE Act Could Impact Women's Participation in Democracy

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Read the article here.  On Tuesday evening, we (RepresentWomen) hosted a national public webinar on the rebranded SAVE America Act with members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus—Chair Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, Reps. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.) and Valerie Foushee (D-N.C.) —alongside election experts from FairVote and the Brennan Center for Justice. Hundreds of people joined from…

The Hill: Dem Rep Says Republicans 'Afraid of Women Voting'

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Read the article here. “This is not about protecting our elections. Republicans are not truly afraid of noncitizens voting, which we all know is already illegal, already grounds for deportation," Clark said at a press conference, flanked by fellow members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC).  

Spectrum News: Dems Want DHS To Stop Deporting Visa Applicants Claiming To Be Crime Victims

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Read the article here.  They are asking the Department of Homeland Security to release them from detention and not to deport them while their applications for refuge in the U.S. remain under review. Reps. Sydney Kamlager-Dove of California, Gwen Moore of Wisconsin, and Pramila Jayapal of Washington State led the letter, with 21 other members of the Democratic Women’s Caucus signing on.