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Join our VIRTUAL Teach-In: Supporting Immigrant Students and Families in Hostile School Environments!

May 21, 2025
In today’s polarized political climate, supporting immigrant students in public schools is more critical than ever. As national debates around immigration grow increasingly heated, schools, which should be safe places of learning and belonging, can unintentionally mirror the hostility, fear, and...
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Breaking Through: Moms Equal Pay Day, Families Over Billionaires, How Medicaid Supports Rural Moms.

May 19, 2025
On the radio show this week, we discuss how the wage gap moms experience impacts our families and our economy, with May marking not just Mother’s Day, but also Moms Equal Pay Day. We talk about how the Trump administration is using our tax dollars for human rights abuses against immigrant families...
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Mental Health Month
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Love Demands We Speak: A Call to Break the Silence Around Suicide

May 7, 2025
Today marks six years since my dad died by suicide. In the months following his death, I wrote an article about the weight of suicide, the grip of shame, and the power of silence. It was my attempt to make sense of something that felt impossible to understand. I wrote about love, pain, and the...
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Breaking Through: Saving Democracy, Protecting Medicaid, Advocating for Immigrant Families, Defending Public Education.

May 5, 2025
On the radio show this week, we dive into the overwhelming attacks on democratic institutions coming out of this White House and DOGE, and local actions you can take to protect democracy that really make a difference nationally. We discuss the huge economic benefits of Medicaid, including job...
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Breaking Through: Motherhood Medals? No Thanks!

April 28, 2025
On the radio show this week, we dive into Donald Trump's latest round of harmful, racist executive orders and outlandish ideas, like providing medals for motherhood and classes about menstrual cycles to increase the birth rate — instead of policies that moms and families really need to thrive!
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Breaking Through: Why Everyone from Domestic Workers to Birth Workers Needs Medicaid. Organizing Locally & More.

April 21, 2025
On the radio show this week, we dive into how your health care stories have helped sway Republican – yes Republican — lawmakers to protect Medicaid, and why everyone needs to be in this fight for Medicaid Next, we hear about a campaign in New York to rally state and federal efforts to improve child care. We cover Meals On Wheels, and how even a program considered the “gold-standard” for private-public partnerships and cost-savings is under threat because of the Trump administration’s reckless cuts. Finally, we discuss Black Maternal Health Week and why this is yet another occasion to call your lawmaker about protecting Medicaid.
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Electing Women is Protecting Women, Medicaid Matters to Moms, Busting Myths About Immigrant Families, Black Maternal Health Week.

April 14, 2025
On the radio show this week, we dive into the importance of electing women, and how political parity protects us from dangerous policies, like the current move by Republicans to strip millions of women of our right to vote. We hear about how MomsRising is bringing the over 1.2 million voices of our...
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Breaking Through: Busting Negative Republican Myths About Immigrant Families. How Care Policies Boost Our Economy. Saving K-12 Education. Glimmers of Hope on the Horizon.

April 7, 2025
On the radio show this week, we bust the negative myths that Republicans are pushing out about immigrant families; we discuss how care policies (like childcare, healthcare/Medicaid, and paid family/medical leave) boost our economy; we cover how K-12 education is under attack and the ways to fight...
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Breaking Through: Medicaid and Childcare Under Attack. Addressing The Maternal Health Emergency. Direct File Tool for Your Taxes

March 31, 2025
On the radio show this week we cover the problems with the damaging effects of the proposed cuts to Medicaid; the latest with the maternal health emergency in America; how access to childcare is under attack; and how to use a no cost direct file tool for your taxes. Special Guests include: Joan...
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Pennsylvania Juvenile Justice Reform Advocacy Day

March 28, 2025
For Black, Brown, Indigenous, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ youth, the rates of incarceration are alarmingly higher than their white peers. Not because they commit more crimes but rather because they are criminalized at higher rates for the same infractions as their white peers. Nationally, Black youth...
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