LWVMO President Marilyn McLeod shares her opposition to SJR43, calling the citizen initiative petition process the most direct form of voter participation in our democracy
Hybrid Fall Conference featured exceptional speakers. Topics included tips on testifying, a key Supreme Court case, rural hospital closures, and maternal and infant mortality.
Members delivered more than 100 signed voter solicitation forms to the Secretary of State’s office on Sept. 7 to comply with HB1878. A temporary injunction has those new restrictions on hold.
The League of Women Voters of Missouri and Missouri NAACP are challenging several sections of a new anti-voter law in court, including requiring an unexpired government-issued photo ID to vote.
We will discuss The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride on Dec. 10 at 4 pm. This best-selling novel focuses on relations between Blacks, Jews and white residents of a small town where a skeleton is found in a well.
Anticipating that efforts to close the primary in 2024 will intensify, MOVPC and Open Primaries are partnering to build awareness about this attack on democracy.
Members enjoyed the election documentary No Time to Fail on Sept. 25. After the film, a panel of election officials discussed the challenges they faced in 2020 and expect in 2024. We heard from St.
The Western District Court of Appeals on Oct. 31 affirmed a lower court decision that the summary the Secretary of State proposed to a Reproductive Rights Initiative was "insufficient and unfair."
The U.S. Supreme Court just rejected a theory in Moore v. Harper that would have given state legislatures nearly unrestricted authority to set the rules for federal elections.
With a changing political landscape and a variety of challenges to our democracy, we need one League with a shared mission that speaks with one voice, LWVUS President Deborah Turner stressed at the LWVUS Council meeting, "Framin
Vivian Gibson, author of The Last Children of Mill Creek, shared her memories of growing up in a segregated St. Louis neighborhood named Mill Creek with the LWVMO DEI book club on Feb. 26.
Since Judge Jon Beetem issued a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit challenging provisions of HB1878, the state cannot enforce new restrictions on voter registration and absentee ballot solicitation until after the court hears the case and issues
