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Joan Hubbard, Mary Toy, Victoria Turner, Julie Gaebe, Jean Dugan and Kathleen Farrell accept award at the 40th Annual Bayer YMCA Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast.

LWVSTL Receives Servant Leader Award from Gateway YMCA

Joan Hubbard, Mary Toy, Victoria Turner, Julie Gaebe, Jean Dugan and Kathleen Farrell accept award at the 40th Annual Bayer YMCA Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast.

Volunteers package more than 10,000 guides for distribution

Voters Guides

Volunteers package more than 10,000 nonpartisan guides for distribution to area sites.

Informing Voters. Empowering People.

Info for Upcoming Elections

We're contacting hundreds of candidates who will be on the April ballot. For unbiased information on candidates and ballot measures, go to LWVMO | VOTE411.

Online Voters Guide
Members at Fall Kickoff

2024 Fall Kickoff

Members gathered at Tilles Park.

Voter registration team helping students at McCluer North High School

Registering Young Voters

Our voter registration teams worked at 302 events in 2024. 

 

SOS

Challenging HB1878

LWVMO and the Missouri NAACP filed lawsuits challenging several provisions of HB1878. 

Talking with Rep. Bill Lucas

Advocacy in Jefferson City

Members discuss rights restoration with Rep. Bill Lucas (R-115) at a Jan. 28 Voting Rights Legislative Day in Jefferson City.

Policing Study Group in League Office

Policing Equity

Members of the League's Policing Study Group.

Hearing

Speaking Out Against Anti-Voter Legislation

Asking legislators to make voting easier, not more difficult.

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Marching for Voting Rights

Voting Rights Group in Webster Groves Parade on July 4

Marquette

Registering Youth Voters

Marquette High School's first Festival of Nations

CC

Encouraging Students to Vote

Volunteers at St. Louis Community College - Florissant Valley

LWV St Louis members march for Equal Rights Amendment 2020

Educating and Empowering Voters for 100 Years

Our members marching for equality at the Equal Rights Amendment March 2020

Read about the LWV Centennial Anniversary

Metro St. Louis

Mission: Empowering Voters. Defending Democracy.
Vision: We envision a democracy where every person has the desire, the right and the knowledge and the confidence to participate.
 
Trivia Night - Feb. 22
Event Date: 
02/22/2025 - 6:00pm
Event location: 

First Congregational Church of Webster Groves

Don't miss the 2025 Trivia Night! This fundraiser to support the League’s work includes FREE beer, soda, water and snacks.  

You can purchase game tickets that night for $5 each. There also will be mulligans and 50/50 tickets for sale.

2024 candidate forum in Hazelwood

The League of Women Voters of Metro St. Louis believes one of the best ways for voters to learn about people seeking election is to hear candidates speak and answer questions in a public forum. The public is invited to submit questions for all the candidates at the following forums.

St. Louis Mayor and Ward 3 Alderpersons - Feb. 9, 2 pm, https://forms.gle/dPKcnoDbtL8ztrnF8

Why switch?
News

New unified membership structure takes effect in February.

Graphic on scope of LWVUS Federal Judiciary Study
News

Like all Leagues across the U.S., our League is studying the federal judiciary system, including not only the Supreme Court but also all judges described in Article III of the U.S.

Karen Francis, Nancy Price and Sara Ruiz at Holiday Brunch
Event Date: 
12/14/2024 - 11:00am

Members enjoyed the Dec. 14 brunch at Orlando’s  in South County.  Sara Ruiz, Executive Director of the Ashrei Foundation, updated us on the work of the Missouri State ID Access Coalition.

The four blocked provisions include criminal prohibitions on compensating non-governmental employees from registering voters; soliciting a voter to obtain an absentee ballot application; anyone other than Missouri registered voters engaging in voter regis
News

Judge Jon Beetem has made permanent an injunction blocking four provisions of HB1878 challenged by the League of Women Voters of Missouri (LWVMO) and the Missouri State Conference of the NAACP, finding “they are overbroad and impair a wide swath o

There is no job too small when it comes to making elections safe, secure, accurate and accessible.
News

Voters approved three of the five constitutional amendments and one statutory change on Nov. 5.

Goal of Amendment 3 is to protect the rights of Missourians to make our own reproductive health decisions, including our options for birth control, miscarriage care, and abortion care.
News

The League of Women Voters of Missouri supported Amendment 3 to restore reproductive rights. See the LWVMO fact sheet on the initiative and an op-ed published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch containing facts to counter disinformation spread about Amendment 3.