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In October 2024, a flyer appeared in the mailboxes of Kentucky residents, promoting an amendment to the state’s constitution. “WE NEED TO UPDATE KENTUCKY’S CONSTITUTION: Because Moms Deserve a Choice in Education,” declared the mailer’s text, above a sepia-toned image of six early-twentieth-century White suffragists holding “VOTE” placards. To hammer the point home, it added: “When Kentucky’s constitution was ratified in 1891…WOMEN WEREN’T ALLOWED TO VOTE.” Now, the flyer implied, they should exercise that right —for school “choice.”