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The GOP Taliban to women, shut up, sit down, and stay home on election days.

The Republican Taliban does not want my wife, Louise Hartman, to vote.

And they may well put that desire into law this year.

Republicans have always been wary of women voting or even engaging in politics,

while Democrats are welcoming of women.

About two-thirds of all female state legislators serve in blue states, for example. Nevada is 61.9 percent, New Mexico, 53 percent,

Colorado, 51 percent female, all-democratic-leaning states, and they rank as the top three for

women's representation in 2025. By contrast,

Republican-dominated states are consistently at the bottom of the rankings for women's

representation. For example, West Virginia, only 11% of their state legislators are women. South

Carolina, 12.9%, Mississippi 14.9%. All these Republican-controlled states have the lowest

percentages of women in their legislatures. And Republican activists and candidates are often

surprisingly open about their craving to strip women of their voting rights. J.D. Vance's billionaire

patron Peter Thiel, for example, wrote in his 2009 essay for Cato Unbound, quote,

The 1920s for the last decade in American history during which one could genuinely be optimistic about politics.

Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women,

two constituents that are

notoriously contuff for libertarians, have rendered the notion of capitalist democracy into an

oxymoron. Similarly, when Donald Trump endorsed Michigan politician John Gibbs for the House

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