League of Women Voters | Dearborn-Dearborn Hts

League of Women Voters | Dearborn-Dearborn Hts LWV, founded in 1920, is a nonpartisan political organization that educates and advocates. We work to empower voters and to defend democracy.

Open to all age 16 and older. The League of Women Voters is a national non-partisan political organization, financed by members and public-spirited individuals and organizations, which encourages the informed and active participation of citizens in government and influences public policy through education and advocacy. The League does not support or oppose political parties or candidates. Membership is open to all age 16 or older.

08/26/2026

A Mighty Girl Pick of the Day: "Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics" by Dolly Parton. The first song Dolly Parton ever wrote, at the age of six, was an ode to her corncob doll Tasseltop. She was the fourth of twelve children in a two-room cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, singing before she could read and writing lyrics on scraps of paper her mother saved for her.

In the over seventy years since, she has written more than three thousand songs -- Jolene, 9 to 5, Coat of Many Colors, I Will Always Love You, and hundreds of others that people around the world know by heart -- built a business empire, opened a theme park in the mountains she grew up in, and funded a children's literacy program that has given away more than three hundred million books. "I may look like a show pony," she writes in this book, "but I'm a workhorse."

In "Songteller," Dolly walks her readers through 175 of her own songs, telling the story of where each one came from and what it meant to her. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of previously unpublished photographs from her personal and business archives -- childhood snapshots, sequined stage costumes, handwritten lyric sheets, backstage moments with everyone from Porter Wagoner to Emmylou Harris -- this New York Times bestselling memoir is at once an intimate self-portrait and a working songwriter's master class.

Dolly writes candidly about her painful split from Porter Wagoner, about the years she was underestimated as a woman in country music, and about the private grief and self-doubt that fed some of her most enduring songs. The result is a portrait of one of the most prolific songwriters in American music history, told in the only way that would ever do her justice: song by song, in her own words. Highly recommended for adult readers.

"Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics" is available at https://amzn.to/4xgl9ta (Amazon) and https://bookshop.org/a/8011/9781797224732 (Bookshop)

For an uplifting picture book about her childhood growing up poor in rural Tennessee -- which helped spark her desire to help others -- we highly recommend "Coat of Many Colors" for ages 4 to 8, visit https://www.amightygirl.com/coat-of-many-colors

For more books to introduce kids to the extraordinary Dolly Parton, we recommend the picture books "Dolly Parton: Little People, Big Dreams” for ages 5 to 8 (https://www.amightygirl.com/dolly-parton-little-people) and "Dazzlin' Dolly" for ages 5 to 9 (https://www.amightygirl.com/dazzlin-dolly), and the illustrated biography "Who Is Dolly Parton?" for ages 8 to 12 (https://www.amightygirl.com/who-is-dolly-parton)

There is also a fascinating biography on her life and impact on working women, "She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived By Her Songs," at https://www.amightygirl.com/she-come-by-it-natural

08/26/2026

USPS rule remains blocked due to preliminary injunction in League of Women Voters Massachusetts v. Trump

08/20/2026

Today marks the anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment—a milestone in the fight for voting rights, but not the end of that fight.

The amendment prohibited denying the right to vote on the basis of s*x, but in practice, it did not give all women the right to vote. Women of color continued to face discriminatory laws, intimidation, and other barriers to the ballot. It took decades of organizing and advocacy—and the Voting Rights Act of 1965—to strengthen federal protections against racial discrimination in voting.

That history matters today.

As the SAVE Act threatens to create new barriers to voter registration, we have to remember the lessons of our history: when access to the ballot gets harder, the people most affected are often those who have had to fight the hardest to gain that access in the first place.

The fight for voting rights continues. Tell your senators to vote 'NO' on the SAVE Act!

08/20/2026

As the 2026 midterms approach, voters are at risk of finding their ballots suppressed by federal voter ID legislation like the SAVE Act. It's essential to push back against this anti-voter legislation!

08/18/2026

The post-election county canvass is currently underway. Here’s what you need to know about the canvass and how it helps ensure secure and accurate elections.

08/13/2026

ICYMI: Michiganders voted in record numbers in last week’s primary!

08/12/2026

WASHINGTON, DC — As the Trump administration's oppressive actions in Washington, DC reach a one-year mark - including the unnecessary deployment of the National Guard to the District - the League of Women Voters today renewed its call for federal leaders to end this deployment, providing relief to...

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