General Discussion

President Donald Trump and the GOP are attacking voting rights through executive orders to roll back mail-in voting and the SAVE America Act, which would impose strict ID requirements.

But to some far-right Christian influencers, that’s small potatoes.

They’re pushing for even harsher voting restrictions. Among them: revoking women’s right to vote, instituting “family voting,” and only allowing property owners the right to vote.

These ideas haven’t made it into legislation — yet. But they’re growing in popularity among far-right Christian nationalists, many of whom are motivated by a belief that women should have no role at all in public affairs.

Kai Schwemmer — an influential conservative influencer who was recently appointed as political director for the College Republicans of America — said in an online debate last year that women shouldn’t be able to vote, according to The Guardian.

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In August 2025, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reposted a CNN interview with Doug Wilson, Hegseth’s Christian nationalist pastor, who doesn’t believe women should vote.

“Women are the kind of people that people come out of,” Wilson told CNN. “The wife and mother, who is the chief executive of the home, is entrusted with three or four or five eternal souls.”