{"id":46697,"date":"2026-02-14T13:26:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=46697"},"modified":"2026-02-14T13:26:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:26:43","slug":"the-republican-women-senators-who-cosponsored-the-save-america-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/the-republican-women-senators-who-cosponsored-the-save-america-act\/","title":{"rendered":"The Republican Women Senators Who Cosponsored the SAVE America Act"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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We’re coming for every one of them. 60% of voting-age women are under attack, and we are fighting back.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
W. A. Lawrence<\/a> Feb 13, 2026 (wendy664@substack.com)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

#SaveHERVote <\/strong>Senators Accountable for Voter Erasure: Her Equal Right<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SAVE America Act passed the House recently, and the women who cosponsored it in the Senate are betting you won\u2019t read far enough to understand the damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. -Malala Yousafzai<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That estimate accounts for every woman who changed her name through marriage, adoption, divorce, domestic violence protection, gender transition, or cultural and religious assimilation. 60% of voting-age women in this country carry a legal name that no longer matches their original birth certificate, and the passage of the SAVE America Act would weaponize that mismatch to gut the constitutional right the 19th Amendment exists to protect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The SAVE Act passed the House in April 2025. Its successor, the SAVE America Act, passed on February 11, 2026, escalating every provision. The original demanded documentary proof of citizenship to register for any federal election. The new version adds a national voter ID requirement stricter than nearly every state law on the books, forcing voters to appear in person with a passport or birth certificate matching their current legal name exactly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Half of Americans have no valid passport while tens of millions of women carry a birth certificate bearing a name they shed at a courthouse altar decades ago. Supporters claim the bill requires states to build workarounds for name discrepancies. However, the same bill criminalizes registering anyone whose paperwork falls short, punishable by five years in federal prison. No election worker will gamble a felony on a workaround without a framework and lacking a deadline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to married women, damage hits adoptees with reissued birth certificates, transgender women who updated their legal names, divorced women carrying a name that no longer matches any government record, and domestic violence survivors who could be forced to produce documents that lead abusers straight back to the door. Therefore, 60% of voting-age women, six in every ten, face a new barrier between themselves and the ballot if this bill passes the Senate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 Republican women in the Senate have the power to kill this bill, and only one has voiced opposition, so here is where every last one has landed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi<\/strong> is a sponsor. She was the first woman elected to represent her state in Congress. Mississippi has among the lowest passport ownership rates in the nation, and women who changed their names decades ago would be the first erased from the voter rolls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joni Ernst of Iowa<\/strong> also signed on. She built her public identity around fiscal discipline and efficiency, but this bill created an expansive federal bureaucracy designed to obstruct women\u2019s access to the ballot, and she endorsed the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming<\/strong> added her name. Wyoming granted women the right to vote in 1869, before it achieved statehood, and she now supports legislation that reverses that legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katie Britt of Alabama<\/strong> delivered the Republican response to the State of the Union from her kitchen table, presenting herself as the voice of American mothers, but she has said nothing while 60% of those mothers carry a name that differs from the one on their birth certificate and this measure would punish every one of those women for the change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan Collins of Maine<\/strong> is equivocating. Her office has stated that the legislation extends beyond what she supports, but she has not committed to opposing the bill, and she faces reelection in a state that voted for Kamala Harris, and her silence looks far more like political calculation than principle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lisa Murkowski of Alaska<\/strong> stands alone as the only Republican woman in the Senate who has clearly opposed the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The remaining four senators, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia<\/strong>, Ashley Moody of Florida<\/strong>, Deb Fischer of Nebraska<\/strong>, and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee<\/strong>, are either sponsors or silent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Senators reverse course when the political cost becomes unavoidable. Lisa Murkowski supported earlier versions of the SAVE Act before opposing this one. Susan Collins signed onto early Republican healthcare bills before casting the deciding vote that ended the Affordable Care Act repeal. Pressure changes outcomes when it is sustained and visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill serves no legitimate purpose and exists to disenfranchise women in service of Project 2025. Noncitizen voting is already a federal crime, yet Georgia\u2019s own audit found just twenty cases out of 8.2 million voters, a rounding error elevated into pretext. Republicans are exploiting that fiction to impose the most aggressive voter suppression effort in modern American history. The original SAVE Act stalled, then returned in a harsher form: a national photo ID mandate stricter than nearly every state law, forced ID scans for mail-in voters, and unrestricted transfer of state voter rolls to Homeland Security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats oppose it unanimously, but the sixty-vote threshold matters only if the bill stands alone. The real strategy is to bury it inside must-pass spending legislation and dare opponents to shut down the government. That is why these ten Republican women are the only pressure point left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A woman\u2019s Senate seat means nothing if she will not defend a right women bled for a century to win. Every Republican woman senator who cosponsored, endorsed, or stayed silent has betrayed that fight. The 19th Amendment forbids denying any citizen the vote on account of sex, and a name change must never become the weapon that destroys that guarantee. These 10 senators are betting American women will not find out until the damage is irreversible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Call these 10 offices or reach any through the Capitol switchboard, because constituent status is irrelevant. Post #SaveHERVote everywhere and tag all 10 by name until their silence becomes politically fatal. The 19th Amendment is not negotiable, and any senator who refuses to defend it can resign. Share this with every woman in your life, because we are stronger together and we are done being silent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, be prepared as a safeguard because if the bill advances through procedural tactics, voters may need documentation they do not currently possess. Glass Empires has already developed free Master Emergency Voter Documentation Guides that explains how to obtain every required document to protect voting access under any naming circumstance, and is now working on the updated edition and expanded distribution to reach vulnerable communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Women won the right to vote once, and we will not let 10 female senators take it back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. -Audre Lorde<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. SAVE America Act, H.R. 7296 \u2014 https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/7296<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Original SAVE Act, H.R. 22 \u2014 https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/house-bill\/22<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Georgia citizenship audit, Georgia Recorder, October 2024 \u2014 https:\/\/georgiarecorder.com\/briefs\/georgia-gop-secretary-of-state-reports-audit-found-20-noncitizens-registered-to-vote-out-of-8-2m\/<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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