How the DAR Rewrites Its Own Rules Who Counts as a Daughter? Bloodline, Belonging, and the Limits of Reform in the Daughters of the American Revolution · Part 3 · First published 13 October 2026 Updated 22 October 2026 When people outside the DAR hear that its members voted on who counts as a woman, a fair first question is: who gets to change the rules of a 136-year-old society, and how? The answer says a lot about what happened in June 2026. The machinery The DAR governs it