Last week marked the anniversary of Congress passing the 19th Amendment.

In 1919, that constitutional amendment gave women the right to vote, although for decades,

that right only applied in practice to white women.

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and Jim Crow-era state laws prevented black women from voting.

Fast forward 107 years, and now a growing conservative movement wants to repeal that

and other hard-fought rights for women and people of color.

It's called masculinism, and its goal is to combat what its believers see as a feminized U.S. society.

For the next part of our ongoing politics and democracy series, if you can keep it, how a right-wing-fringed movement has shifted toward the center of power in America, thanks to its connections to the Trump administration and its influence on Republican policy.

What do followers of this movement want? What does it mean for our democracy if a growing movement

in conservative politics, one that could gain power in the future, wants to re-institute

patriarchy in U.S. politics? And as a result, eliminate the right for women, black people, and

other people of color to have a role in public life.

I'm Jen White.

And I'm Todd's Willey.

You're listening to The 1A Podcast.

We'll be back with more after this short break.

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Welcome back to the 1A podcast.

We're talking about how a right-wing fringe movement has shifted toward the center of power and its influence on the Republican Party.

Joining us from London is Helen Lewis.

She's a staff writer at The Atlantic.

She wrote the magazine's June cover story titled The Men Who Want Women to Be Quiet.

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