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Texas forces Dem candidate for governor to file affidavit to vote
October 30, 2013"Texas Governor Rick Perry's voter ID law is a blatant effort to defeat Wendy Davis by disenfranchising tens of thousands of women voters."
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Today in labor history: Women win right to vote, Women’s Equality Day declared
August 26, 2013On Aug. 26, 1920, women finally won the right to vote when the necessary number of states ratified the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.
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Enshrine voting right in the Constitution
August 7, 2013On August 5, 48 years ago, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, announcing, "This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless."
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Senate to vote by July 31 on all five NLRB nominees
July 25, 2013The Senate will vote during the week of July 29 on all five of President Obama's nominees.
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Pennsylvania unions launch massive campaign against voter ID law
July 18, 2013The Pa. AFL-CIO is pushing a huge online petition demanding the GOP-run state legislature repeal the state's "voter ID" law.
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