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Women's suffrage efforts in Texas began in 1868 at the first Texas Constitutional Convention. In both Constitutional Conventions and subsequent legislative sessions, efforts to provide women the right to vote were introduced, only to be defeated. Early Texas suffragists such as Martha Goodwin Tunstall and Mariana Thompson Folsom worked with ...
February 29, 2024 at 1:02 PM. Democrats vying to take on GOP Sen. Ted Cruz in Texas have been running hard on abortion rights ahead of Tuesday's primary. But that isn’t just a message they're ...
Judith Pappas Zaffirini (born February 13, 1946) is an American politician serving as a Democratic member of the Texas State Senate from the 21st District, which includes her home city of Laredo in south Texas . Zaffririni is the first female dean of the Texas Senate. [1] Zaffirini has been named among the "Top 100 Most Influential Hispanics in ...
Molly Cook. Molly Cook (born June 7, 1991) [1] is an American registered nurse and politician who is a member of the Texas Senate for the 15th district. A Democrat, she was elected in a May special election to fill the vacancy from John Whitmire resigning to become Mayor of Houston. Cook is openly bisexual, [2] and her win in the May special ...
Women have actually fallen behind on the voter rolls in Texas since the June 24 U.S. Supreme Court ruling against abortion rights, according to Democratic analysts from Washington, D.C.-based ...
Democrats are forcing a vote on women's right to IVF in an election-year push on reproductive care. STEPHEN GROVES. June 13, 2024 at 12:30 AM. WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats are seeking to ...
Timeline of women's suffrage in Texas. Travis County women register to vote in the Texas primary election in July 1918. This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Texas. Women's suffrage was brought up in Texas at the first state constitutional convention, which began in 1868. However, there was a lack of support for the proposal at the time to ...
Democrats are putting reproductive rights front-and-center at the State of the Union, inviting guests affected by Alabama's IVF ruling and the Supreme Court's decision to overturn abortion rights.