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10/01/18

On the #RadioShow this week, we cover the campaign to stop Kavanaugh; the latest in stopping human rights abuses in the name of immigration enforcement; the new book 'Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World'; and why voting is more important now than ever. *Special...

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Amber Dorsey

MomsRising Paid Family Leave

10/01/18

How your donation is making a difference It’s fall. Time for change! Backed by your generosity, MomsRising members are rising for change all over America — to get out the vote, stand up for kids, end family separation and so much more. Thank you for being a part of it. We couldn’t rise without you...

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Anita Sarah Jackson

Childcare & Early Education MomsVote

09/29/18

It's been a powerful week. Yesterday we delivered over 1.5 million signatures from people like you opposing the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Tens of thousands of us have called, written and emailed our Senators asking for the same. And many more gathered outside Senate offices yesterday to...

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Karen Showalter

Politics & Policy

09/28/18

Yesterday was heart-wrenching, nauseating, and sad; and it was devastating for many sexual assault survivors across the country. A GOP-appointed prosecutor tried—and failed—to discredit the testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in front of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. This courageous...

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Felicia Burnett

We Are MomsRising!

Families & The Federal Budget MomsRising Near You

09/28/18

In today’s installment of We Are MomsRising, we talked to Nikki in Pennsylvania about raising little activists. Read her story below. To learn more about the We Are MomsRising campaign, check out this blog post . I started getting involved with activism around Proposition 8 in 2009. After the 2016...

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Abbie Gately

Senator Klobuchar (left) and Sarah Smarsh (right) at the Rural Summit

Family Economic Security Politics & Policy

09/28/18

Ms. Smarsh was describing the isolation she felt growing up poor in rural Kansas. Her mother was 17 when Sarah was born. There was no Family and Medical Leave Act, no help from the Violence Against Women Act, and long miles to travel to get to medical care.

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Debbie Weinstein

Immigration

09/28/18

“We can’t let people drive wedges between us … because there is only one human race.” –Dolores Huerta, Co-founder, United Farm Workers July 26 was the deadline set by a court for the Trump administration to reunite all children and parents who were cruelly separated from each other at the border by...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Childcare & Early Education

09/28/18

“I can make a difference!” Every July thousands of students from Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) Freedom Schools® sites across the country participate in the CDF Freedom Schools National Day of Social Action. This year’s action focused on the need to vote for children and the fact that every vote...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Health Care Maternal Justice Politics & Policy

09/27/18

Below is testimony submitted by MomsRising to the hearing of the Subcommittee on Health as part of the House Energy and Commerce Committee held on September 27, 2018. Click here to take action and encourage your member of Congress to support this bill. Hello, my name is Smita Nadia Hussain. I am...

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S. Nadia Hussain

Health Care Politics & Policy

09/26/18

The uninsured rate for low-income adults has decreased in the last several years across America, thanks in large part to the Affordable Care Act. But small towns and rural areas of states that have expanded Medicaid have seen the sharpest decline in uninsured rates. That’s one of the findings of a new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families and the University of North Carolina Rural Health Research Program.

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