League of Women Voters of Albany County

06/03/2026

Join us and the Visibility Brigade this Saturday, June 6 , 3-5 pm at Washington Park near the playground. 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Drum for Democracy participation & performance with Albany Women Drummers. Bring any percussion you like!
4:00 - 5:00 P.M. The Rigged Race* - Hands-on participation to help show how partisan gerrymandering silences voters and rigs our democracy, in an accessible event for all ages and abilities--walk, jog, roll or stroll.
PLUS a 3-4 pm “Bridge Party” on Western Avenue's Route 85 Overpass - Flags, Banners, Signs honoring veterans and fallen heroes, and demanding peace.
See https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/952378/
D-Day Partners include Albany Visibility Brigade, Veterans for Peace, No Kings Albany, Delmar Indivisible, Ranked Choice Voting Albany, LWVAC.

05/31/2026

We stand with Leagues of Women Voters of the US, New Jersey and New York in calling for the closure of Delaney Hall and the immediate release of all detainees, some of whom are New Yorkers. Congress must act NOW. We demand accountability for this abuse of power

05/31/2026

As May comes to an end, we want to acknowledge Jewish Americans who have been part of the fabric of this nation. Happy Jewish American Heritage Month!

05/30/2026

Delaney Hall. The U.S. Constitution, in the 5th Amendment, says No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.

In which I try to answer your questions about modern politics....From Politics Chat, May 26, 2026The live streamed version is available here: https://www.you...

05/28/2026

In 2013, the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a single ruling. Millions of voters lost federal protections overnight.

Shelby County v. Holder removed the requirement that states with histories of discrimination get federal approval before changing voting laws. Within hours of the ruling, states began passing restrictive voting legislation. The infrastructure that had protected Black voters for nearly 50 years was gone, and no replacement existed at the federal level.

Sherrilyn Ifill, then president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, moved immediately. She led legal challenges in state after state, targeting voter ID laws, polling place closures and registration purges that disproportionately blocked Black voters. Under her leadership, the LDF litigated some of the most consequential voting rights cases of the decade, winning restored access in North Carolina, Alabama and beyond. She held that position until 2022, a nine-year campaign conducted almost entirely through courts that were growing more hostile by the term.

The Supreme Court took one decision and one morning. Ifill spent a decade rebuilding what it erased.

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05/28/2026

Celebrate our country's 250th at the James T. Foley U.S Courthouse, 445 Broadway in Albany, on Tuesday, June 9 at 5:30. The Public is welcome!

05/26/2026

June 6, 3-5 pm, D-Day is Democracy day. We're joining hundreds of groups across the country to honor the men & women who fought fascism on the beaches of Normandy, and to promote peace, democracy and voting. Join us for one or all of these empowering and joyful events:
3 to 4: A “Bridge Party” on Western Ave & Route 85 Overpass
3 to 4:30: Car Caravan with flags, messages, signs on the Four Freedoms
3 to 5: Washington Park near the playground, voter registration, Drum for Democracy, a Rigged Race
Albany Bridge Brigade, League of Women Voters Albany County, Delmar Indivisible, NoKings Albany NY, Tom Paine Chapter Veterans for Peace, Ranked Choice Voting Albany, Albany Women Drummers
Details at https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/952378/

05/22/2026

CHANGE HAPPENS with local and state elections. June 23, Primary Voting in New York State.

CHANGE HAPPENS with local and state elections.
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June 2 AR, CA, IA, MT, NJ, NM, SC, SD
June 6 IN, SD TX
June 9 FL, GA, ME, ND, NJ, NV, SC
June 13 TX
June 16 AL, CA, DC, GA, OK
June 20 IN
June 23 MD, NY, SC, UT
June 27 LA, SD, TX
June 28 MI
June 30 AR, CO

05/21/2026

And maybe that is the real call of this moment.
Not blind optimism.
Not naïve faith in institutions.
Not pretending everything is fine.

But refusing to emotionally surrender before the fight is actually over.

Keep writing.
Keep organizing.
Keep documenting.
Keep protesting.
Keep voting.
Keep dragging truth screaming into daylight.
Keep building communities stronger than propaganda.
Keep reminding people that patriotism is loyalty to democratic principles … not loyalty to powerful men demanding immunity from them.

Because authoritarianism always wants the same thing before anything else:
silence.
Exhaustion.
Cynicism.
Withdrawal.

It wants good people to convince themselves that resistance is pointless before resistance has actually failed.

Do not give it that victory.

The loudest systems are not always the strongest ones.
Sometimes they are the systems cracking loudly enough for everyone to finally hear it.

Robert Arnold May 21 2026, defiance13.substack.com