At Turning Point USA conference, women offer away their right to vote

Several women said they’d be willing to give up their right to vote if it meant creating a more conservative country at the Turning Point USA Women’s Leadership Summit recently held in San Antonio, Texas.

“My perspective as a Christian woman is that my husband and I are one flesh,” Alexus DeGraaf told the Canadian CBC news outlet at the Christian Right mega-convention. “I vote the same way he does, so honestly, I would be okay with giving up my right to vote, because I know that he would represent me well.”

She was one of a few women who expressed this to the CBC, including rising conservative star influencer Savannah Stone, who peddled the idea that there should be just one vote per household, instead of per person, with deference to the husband’s choice of candidate.

“If my husband’s the head of the household, I am the neck, and we work very cohesively together,” Brooke Foxworthy told the CBC. “So, I would imagine if he was voting on behalf of our household, I would be fine with that.”

Stone, who has nearly 500,000 followers on Instagram and more than 300,000 on TikTok, was one of the keynote speakers at the Turning Point women’s conference. However, The Atlantic and the CBC both reported that there seemed to be a stronger embrace for women’s suffrage among the attendees, despite the inclusion of Stone as a keynote. 

In her 2025 interview on the podcast “The Pocket with Chris Griffin” – where they labeled her “the female Andrew Tate” – Stone said, “I know for a fact that if women couldn’t vote then abortion wouldn’t be legal in the first place.”

Ideas about restricting women voting seemed connected at the summit to ideas about restricting voting in general: A reporter from The Nation reported seeing “No Voter ID, No Vote” stickers throughout the conference.

The women’s leadership summit was headed by Erika Kirk, the widow of the ultraconservative founder of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk, who was murdered last September. 

President Donald Trump has credited Turning Point for mobilizing young voters for his campaign and drafting scores of young people to the Christian Right movement. 

In April, Democracy Docket reported that the idea that women shouldn’t vote seems to be occupying an increasingly louder space in the Christian Right movement, particularly among Christian nationalists.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reposted a video of Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson saying on CNN that women shouldn’t vote. Hegseth’s family are members of the Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship church in Tennessee, which is part of Wilson’s Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches network that espouses household voting and opposes women voting.