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Notes from the Field: Student Walkouts and Marches (Blog)

Our volunteers have been out in force, working with passionate students to register new voters at their school walkouts, marches, and other events across the country. 

Bustle: March For Our Lives' Gun Control Agenda Is Clear. Now It Needs To Turn Protesters Into Voters. (News Clips)

"It is safe to say that we have never registered this many people, so early in the year, during a non-presidential election year."

League Sends Letter to U.S. Senate on Need to Reduce Gun Violence (Article)

The League sent a letter to the U.S. Senate outlining the policies needed to curb gun violence.

League Supports Legislation to Strengthen Reporting to National Background Check Database  (Blog)

The Fix NICS Act, legislation that will improve and enforce reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

NPR: Trump's Election Integrity Commission Could Have A 'Chilling Effect' On Voting Rights (News Clips)

This interview originally appeared on NPR.

League Initiates Making Democracy Work® Campaign for 2016 Elections (Press Release)

League set agenda for the next biennium and elected unanimously Chris Carson of Burbank, California as the organization's 19th national president.

House Committee Takes Up Open Carry, Campus Carry Bills (News Clips)

Grace Chimene, a board member of the League of Women Voters of Texas, testified against both bills.

Expanded Background Check on Guns Wins in Washington (Blog)

For the League of Women Voters of Washington (LWVWA), it was an Election Day we’ll never forget: over one million Washington voters said YES to backgrounds checks on gun purchases.

Shooting Target Left Outside Capitol Hill Office of League of Women Voters (News Clips)

In an apparent attempt at intimidation, an anonymous person or group left a paper target riddled with bullet holes outside the League of Women Voters of Seattle-King County office over the July 4th

Women's Political Group Threatened for Supporting Gun Background Checks (Video) (News Clips)

The League believes this was a threat against them for supporting I-594, The Washington Universal Background Checks for Gun Purchases, which is a proposed measure that would make background checks