Tomorrow in Lorton: Witnessing the Next Chapter of ERA History

Exciting opportunity to be part of ERA history on Saturday, March 7, 2026 at the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial at 10:30 a.m. All are welcome to attend!

Dear Members and Friends,

The Golden Flyer is planned to arrive at the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial in Lorton, VA, at 10:30 am on Saturday March 7. Please plan to be there.  

We are asking that on Saturday, March 7, 2026 you join to be part of events in Virginia showing your support for the Equal Rights Amendment to the United States Constitution.

As a part of Women’s History Month, the Driving the Vote for Equality Tour (described below) will be stopping at Turning Point Suffragists Memorial in Lorton, at Fredericksburg Area Museum, and Richmond Capital.

As background, in 1916, two suffragists climbed into a bright gold Saxon motorcar, named the Golden Flyer, and drove 11,000 miles across the United States - through towns that had never seen a woman behind the wheel - carrying one radical idea: women deserve the right to vote. Many mocked them. Others said it was impossible. But that gold car kept moving through town by town, mile by mile from New York to California and back - and four years later, women won the vote.

In March 2026 - exactly 110 years later - ERA supporters are doing it again and hopefully you can join us, in spirit, with your support and even in person. 

An original Saxon motorcar is being restored, painted the original gold color, and readied for the launching of Driving the Vote for Equality - a national tour to finish what those suffragists started: putting equality of rights under the law for all people into the United States Constitution.



From March through June, the Golden Flyer II will travel around the country, first from New York and New Jersey to D.C. and Virginia, from Atlanta and San Francisco to Seattle, from Chicago to Detroit - stopping in communities where people are fighting for gender equality in healthcare, safety, equal pay, and dignity. The goal of the Tour is to raise awareness and activate people to act in support of the ERA. 

This is an article in the current issue of Ms. magazine that describes the Suffrage Tour, connections to Women’s History Month and the ERA:  Driving the Vote in Ms.

Although the ERA has met every constitutional requirement to become the 28th Amendment, its recognition and enforcement are still being obstructed—by outdated arguments about arbitrary timelines and rescissions and by a legal environment in which long-settled rights are increasingly fragile.

The ERA is the law of the land, to quote President Biden. The American Bar Association agrees. So do leading constitutional scholars. But we also know that this Supreme Court will likely be asked to weigh in - and when it does, congressional recognition will matter profoundly.



Laurence Tribe and Erwin Chemerinsky, two of the nation’s most respected constitutional scholars, have made this plain: if Congress passes a joint resolution affirming the ERA as part of the Constitution, no court - not even this Supreme Court - could credibly deny its status as the 28th Amendment.

Please join in and attend this March 7th event in Lorton at the Occoquan Regional Park, site of the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial, 9751 Ox Rd, Lorton, VA.  No need to R.S.V.P. - just show up with friends and family.  

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