🌟 Celebrating Women's History Month 🌟
Our incredible staff and Democracy Fellows are reflecting on the powerful contributions women have made around the world throughout history.
Who is your Women's History Month Hero? Let's celebrate their legacies together!
Inventions that wouldnt exist without Black Women. #WomensHistoryMonth
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Valerie Thomas, NASA physicist, invented 3D Movies
In 1977, she developed the illusion transmitter, the 1st mechanism that allowed images to be viewed in 3D using concave mirrors & light rays.
Judith Love Cohen was an American aerospace engineer who helped create the Abort-Guidance System that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts.
When she went into labor, she went to work.
She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished the problem and gave birth to Jack Black.
Kansans resoundingly support expanding Medicaid. This week, more than 900 testimonies in support of Medicaid expansion were submitted to the #ksleg hearings. Let's listen to Kansans and get this bill a debate and vote on the House and Senate floors now. https://t.co/AdSTsrT7Gd
ATTN: Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Kansas and Ohio!
You have elections happening today! Find everything you need to vote by visiting https://t.co/euP9KWM03v 🗳️
When you wake up and realize that the Equal Rights Amendment is NOT in the Constitution.
Tell your representatives that equality belongs in the Constitution➡️ https://t.co/lLEzsRS1OA
#KansasCity nonprofits @KCHealthyKids and @AmethystPlace announced they received grants from Scott through her organization, Yield Giving. Source: @fox4kc
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🌟 Celebrating Women's History Month 🌟
Our incredible Democracy Fellows are reflecting on the powerful contributions women have made around the world throughout history.
Who is your Women's History Month Hero? Let's celebrate their legacies together!
The legislative landscape of 2023 was a whirlwind of activity, with new laws that both empower and challenge democracy on the fronts of voting rights, reproductive rights, and so much more:
https://t.co/K4fD3u500O
“The use of artificial intelligence to discourage voters from participating in elections is an egregious action which must be stopped." - Celina Stewart, @LWV chief counsel
Full statement from LWVUS and #LWVNewHampshire: https://t.co/zmU5z7LfEY
A Raytown man will spend the next nearly six years in federal prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks on the U.S. Capitol. https://t.co/uldHpTDwE5