Day 1,790: foot soldier, referendum

Its foot soldiers carry clipboards. Tens of thousands of volunteers have gathered millions of signatures to put abortion rules to state referendums.

The pro-choice movement that could help Joe Biden win

Artwork of the day 
Royal Austrian Infantry
Heinrich Papin
Original Title: K. K. Osterreiche Granz-Infanterie
Date: c.1820
Style: Romanticism
Series: Royal Austrian Troops
Genre: genre painting
Media: lithography
Dimensions: 45.72 x 38.1 cm

Word of the day 
foot soldier: an infantryman; a soldier who fights on foot
referendum: a vote in which all the people in a country or an area are asked to give their opinion about or decide an important political or socialquestion:

Quote of the day
“I would never again be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand.”

― Tara Westover, Educated