League of Women Voters of the Spokane Area

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League of Women Voters of the Spokane Area

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10/12/2025

DECLINE TO SIGN I-126 !

10/07/2025

Assemble along North Division & Garland. WE HAVE A CONSTITUTION TO SUPPORT SPOKANE!

09/21/2025

Candidate Forum on Housing Oct 7. For LWV Spokane Affordable Housing & Homelessness Solutions events https://lwvspokane.org SEE Affordable Housing & Homelessness Solutions- https://my.lwv.org/washington/spokane-area/affordable-housing-and-homelessness-solutions

09/20/2025

09/18/2025

Constitution Day is Sept. 17th but sometimes it seems like EVERYDAY we need to be reminded that we must work to protect our constitutional rights. Tell SENATORS NO TO THE SAVE ACT!

08/16/2025

Join our League. Empowering Voters, Defending Democracy! https://lwvspokane.org

07/28/2025

Unnecessary & maybe disastrous. https://www.lwv.org/blog/what-one-big-beautiful-bill-and-its-impact Read one LWV take on the Big Beautiful Bill.

On July 4th, the President signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), a nearly 1,000-page bill that changes federal spending levels by stripping tens of millions of our most vulnerable neighbors of their health care and nutrition. The OBBB slashes vital programs like Medicaid, Medicare,....

07/02/2025

Carrying forward the fight for justice, voting rights and dignity for all. Thurs. July 17, BA Clark Park, 4:00-6:00pm https://my.lwv.org/washington/spokane-area/event/good-trouble-demonstration

06/28/2025

Spokane League of Women Voters will ALWAYS support the right of individuals non-violently protest. Protesters founded our country,

The League of Women Voters calls on the government to adhere to the US Constitution and respect our First Amendment right to protest.

Read more: https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/league-women-voters-supports-right-protest

06/13/2025

Doesn't FREEDOM of SPEECH apply to questions at press a conference?

Following the violent removal of US Senator Alex Padilla at a press conference held by the Department of Homeland Security in Los Angeles, California, the League of Women Voters of the United States and the League of Women Voters of California issued a joint statement: https://www.lwv.org/newsroom/press-releases/league-women-voters-condemns-violent-removal-senator-alex-padilla-dhs-press

06/04/2025

1 in 5 Americans rely on Medicaid for their healthcare. LWV urges the Senate (and House) to OPPOSE MEDICAID CUTS. https://www.lwv.org/health-care-reform/lwvus-urges-senate-oppose-medicaid-cuts Shouldn't you contact your representatives?
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05/06/2025

LWV Spokane spoke at the May 1 march supporting IMMIGRANTS & WORKERS. https://youtu.be/TbtshDrsX0M?feature=shared LWV is non-partisan but we speak-out on policy issues.

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2404 N Howard St
Spokane, WA
99205

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http://www.lwvspokane.org/

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In her address to the National American Woman Suffrage Association's (NAWSA) 50th convention in St. Louis, Missouri, President Carrie Chapman Catt proposed the creation of a "league of women voters to finish the fight and aid in the reconstruction of the nation." Women Voters was formed within the NAWSA, composed of the organizations in the states where suffrage had already been attained.

The next year, on February 14, 1920 - six months before the 19th amendment to the Constitution was ratified - the League was formally organized in Chicago as the national League of Women Voters. Catt described the purpose of the new organization: