Please enjoy the February 2026 issue of THE VOTER, the newsletter of the League of Women Voters of Stanislaus County. (To access full newsletter, click "Read more" then scroll to bottom of page to find PDF download link.)
Spring is arriving with extraordinary urgency for our democracy. At the League of Women Voters of California, we are stepping forward with determination - organizing, educating, and building the coalitions necessary to meet this moment.
The League of Women Voters honors the life and legacy of Bernard Lafayette Jr., a Freedom Rider and organizer of the Selma voting rights campaign whose leadership helped advance passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
A complicated legal system, the fraught history of international adoption, and the current Administration’s rhetoric around citizenship and immigration have caused concern for many adoptees. Are they at risk of being deported or losing citizenship?
The League of Women Voters of New Jersey, the Latino Action Network, and an individual New Jersey voter, represented by the ACLU of New Jersey and the ACLU Voting Rights Project, filed a motion to intervene in US v. Caldwell to prevent the Department of Justice (DOJ) from obtaining New Jersey voters’ personal data.
A growing coalition of civil rights and community organizations today announced their opposition to a proposed voter ID initiative that would impose sweeping new restrictions on how every Californian casts their ballot and harm communities that already face obstacles to voting.
