Episode 132 -- "Repeal the 19th"
In Bed With The Right
Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan
4.8 • 654 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In recent months, the call to repeal the 19th amendment and rescind American women's right to vote, has proliferated as a hashtag, meme and a shibboleth in certain far-right spaces. But how serious are those championing the cause? In this episode, Moira explains to Adrian that while we needn't worry that the 1920 amendment is going anywhere soon, this demand is about jockeying within the masculinist coalition that brought Donald Trump to power. While the supposed "arguments" for a repeal don't really bear engaging with, the history of the demand and its proliferation at this moment tells us a lot about gender and the (far) right: specifically about an alliance and a competition between tech bros and religious fundamentalists.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm Adrienne Daugh. And I'm Moira Donagan. Whether we like it or not, we're in bed with the right. |
| 0:13.7 | So, Adrian, you may have seen the hashtag, or you may have seen the t-shirts, or you may have read the social media posts made |
| 0:24.5 | by the Secretary of Defense, or maybe you've heard the jeers coming from a nearby frat house. |
| 0:31.5 | So today I'm going to ask you, what do you know about hashtag repeal the 19th? |
| 0:37.1 | I mean, I don't know much. |
| 0:38.9 | And I was looking forward to this episode partly because I'm trying to figure out what the fuck this is. |
| 0:44.3 | Like, is this a genuine movement? |
| 0:47.8 | Is it a genuine mainstreaming of a once fringe demand, right, to repeal the 19th Amendment and end women's right to vote? |
| 0:55.5 | Or is this about a few exceedingly well-placed weirdos? |
| 1:01.3 | Is this a mass movement, or is this just that some of the worst people on the planet have the ear of our government? |
| 1:07.8 | It's a little bit of both, I think. |
| 1:10.0 | So today we are going to talk about the call, the movement, and the mainstreaming of this |
| 1:16.5 | once fringe demand to repeal the 19th Amendment and end women's right to vote. |
| 1:22.7 | And before we get too deep into it, Adrian, just tell our listeners about the 19th Amendment. |
| 1:27.0 | Yeah. It passed in 1920, and it guaranteed. deep into it. Adrian, just tell our listeners about the 19th Amendment. |
| 1:37.6 | Yeah. It passed in 1920 and it guarantees the right to vote to women. In effect, it only affected white women in 1920. The 19th Amendment bars, bans on the franchise that are based on sex. |
| 1:44.8 | It says nobody, neither the federal government nor any state nor any municipality within those states may say that voters who are citizens cannot vote in our elections because they're women. |
| 1:55.8 | That was a framework. |
| 1:58.9 | We're banning any kind of discrimination on the basis of sex. It was taken |
| 2:02.5 | from the 15th Amendment, right? We're banning any discrimination on the basis of race in the franchise. |
| 2:07.7 | As we know, what happened to the 15th Amendment? It got curtailed in the Jim Crow era by a large |
| 2:14.8 | amount of voter disenfranchised efforts that then had to be sort of dismantled via the Voting Rights Act and which are now sort of being put back in place because the Roberts Court hates the Voting Rights Act. |
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