This has been noted for almost a year, but why do we not hear screams of outrage from women across America? (Via Substack):

The Republican Senate will pass the SAVE Act at the midnight hour before the midterms, and tens of millions of women will discover their names don’t match their birth certificates when fixing the crisis has become impossible.

Imagine arriving at your polling place in November only to be turned away because you changed your name when you got married. You’ve voted for 20 years with valid identification. Nothing matters. The SAVE Act passed the House in April, and 69 million American women are about to discover their names don’t match their birth certificates while the deadline to fix the problem has already closed.

You arrive at your polling place the same as every election since 2004 with the same precinct, same poll workers, and same ritual of civic participation, but this time the worker scans your driver’s license, frowns, types into the computer, then looks up with an apologetic expression that will replay in nightmares.

“I’m sorry, but your documents don’t match. Your license says Martinez, but your birth certificate says Chen. I can’t give you a ballot.”

Twenty years of voting with valid ID, Social Security records, tax returns, and a mortgage in your name mean nothing when the system decides your marriage certificate makes you unverifiable.

This scenario becomes reality for millions of American women if Republicans deploy the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act in the final weeks before the 2026 midterms.

The SAVE Act passed the House in April 2025 by 220 to 208 and awaits Senate action, where Republicans hold the majority needed to advance the bill without warning. Trump’s campaign and congressional allies positioned the legislation as central to their 2026 election strategy, and timing ensures maximum disruption by forcing women to discover their records don’t align when reconciling inconsistencies before official’s issue ballots becomes impossible. Last-minute deployment creates immediate documentation crisis affecting 69 million American women whose birth certificates no longer match current legal names—nearly twice the number who voted for Trump in 2024.

We can’t expect Republican MAGA women to be upset about this, because they believe women shouldn’t vote. But Democratic women should be out in the streets yelling.

Women have had the right to vote since 1920, as the above photo shows. The fact that occurred almost two and a half centuries since the United States was founded is just one of many scars on American history. Every Republican in the House voted for this bill knowing that it would disenfranchise women.

The country is speeding along a highway of totalitarianism, and with Republicans in the drivers’ seat, they’ve already blown past the off ramp to protect our rights.