Gun Safety

Families & The Federal Budget Gun Safety Health Care Politics & Policy

July 14, 2017

Even though it's summer, we can't take a break from speaking out on important issues that matter to parents and families -- like healthcare, gun safety, and net neutrality. We resist, and we persist. Guess what? It's working! Voices like yours have successfully stalled the very-bad Senate...

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Karen Showalter

Join This March!

Gun Safety

July 10, 2017

The NRA is using dangerous language to rally their members against progressives and people of color. In a vicious and incendiary recruitment ad , filled with images from recent demonstrations, NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch tells viewers, “They use their media to assassinate real news. They use their...

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Gloria Pan

Food! Gun Safety Health Care Maternal Justice

July 6, 2017

Nothing says summer more than long days, sunshine, and taking action on "hot" issues that really matter to moms and families! And we're here to help. Below please find this week's list of top-priority actions, sure to make you "cool" this week. (We're being a little playful; after all, it's summer...

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Karen Showalter

Gun Safety

June 29, 2017

I never thought that I’d serve in Congress; never thought that my name would be on the ballot. But life happens and things change. When I look around my community, I saw people dying every day from senseless gun violence. I watched mothers bury their children; watched young people take bullets...

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Congresswoman Robin Kelly

Gun Safety Maternal Justice

June 27, 2017

Charleena was pregnant. A mother of four, struggling with a mental health crisis, she called the police to report a robbery. Charleena needed support and help. Instead she was killed by police in front of her young children. There is no question that the Seattle police department could have and...

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S. Nadia Hussain

Gun Safety Maternal Justice Politics & Policy

June 19, 2017

Yesterday, Seattle police officers shot and killed Charleena Lyles, a black 30-year-old mother of four having a mental health emergency, in front of “several children.” According to the Seattle Times , Lyles had a history of mental health struggles and was three months pregnant with her fifth child...

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Radio!

Family Economic Security Gun Safety Paid Family Leave Politics & Policy Podcast

June 19, 2017

On the radio show today we cover how now’s the time for everyone work together and how we can lift each other; hear from a U.S. Senator on how to have the biggest impact; get the inside scoop on a new study showing the incredible number of people covered by Medicaid in our nation (70 million people...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Gun Safety MomsRising

June 14, 2017

We are sending comfort, healing, and peace to all those hurt and affected by this morning's shooting at the GOP congressional baseball practice. The moms of America once again mourn that yet more people were added to the ranks of those victimized by our country’s gun violence epidemic.

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Gun Safety

June 14, 2017

Estamos enviando consuelo, sanación y paz a todos los heridos y afectados por el tiroteo de esta mañana en la práctica de béisbol de los miembros del Congreso Republicano. Las mamás de Estados Unidos una vez más lloran porque se han agregado más gente a las filas de las víctimas por la epidemia de...

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