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Moms’ Night Out for Democracy: Mt. Vernon Moms Will Gather to Write Postcards Reminding Other Moms to Vote to Lower Care Costs

October 13, 2026

Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1996

Gather for MomsRising Together Postcard Party Ahead of Midterms

Nearly two dozen Knox County mothers and their children will gather Tuesday evening for a grassroots effort focused on mobilizing mothers who vote infrequently around issues hitting families hardest: the soaring costs of child care, health care, and everyday essentials.

Participants will record personal “Why I Vote” videos for a national voter mobilization campaign and write handwritten messages to fellow mothers about what’s motivating them to vote in November. The postcards read: “Our grandmothers voted. We won Medicare and Social Security. Our vote can make health care and child care affordable for all!”

Organized by MomsRising Together, the postcard campaign will reach mothers in competitive districts who don’t always make it to the polls. Similar gatherings are taking place nationwide this month, with MomsRising members sending over a million mom-to-mom postcards this election season. 

  • WHAT: MomsRising Together Postcard Party to remind moms their votes can help lower care costs

  • WHO: Knox County-area MomsRising Together members and their children 

  • WHERE: Private home of MomsRising Together member in Mt. Vernon, Ohio

  • RSVP for Media: Please email Magen Eissenstat at magen@momsrising.org to RSVP to cover the event or request photos. 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, stop discrimination against women and moms, and build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: www.MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.