INTERNATIONAL DESK — More than 100 years after women were granted the right to vote in the US Constitution, a coalition of MAGA extremists wants women to go back to a time when men vote for their households. The development comes as prominent far-right activists gather in Dallas, Texas, for a three-day conference dubbed "Christ is King – America After Trump".
Among the 11 speakers are conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, former British television presenter Calvin Robinson and Buckley Carlson, who previously served as US Vice President JD Vance's deputy press secretary. The meeting has been arranged by Texas pastor Joel Webbon, a self-described Christian nationalist who believes that women's suffrage is a "mistake". Early book registrants were given signed copies of their books, including one advocating repeal of the 19th Amendment.
The event follows a series of big losses for the Republicans in the US midterm elections. During his election-night livestream Jones declared he was "100 per cent at war with Trump." American religion analyst Matthew Taylor says disagreements over Israel's Gaza conflict and the US military intervention in Iran have widened divisions in Trump's Christian nationalist base. The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in August 1920, bans the denial of the right to vote to American citizens based on sex.