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Top #5Actions of the Past Week: September 29, 2018

September 29, 2018
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
Childcare & Early Education

Children on the Front Lines

September 28, 2018
“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
#BelieveSurvivors
Politics & Policy

Today! Protests Happening Across the US!

September 28, 2018
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

We Are MomsRising, Nikki from Pennsylvania

September 28, 2018
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

How to help rural America: Senate Democrats hold a Rural Summit

September 28, 2018
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

End Cruelty to Immigrant Families and Children

September 28, 2018
“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
Health Care Maternal Justice Politics & Policy

Testimony for The Preventing Maternal Deaths Act House Subcommittee on Health 9.27.18

September 27, 2018
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
Immigration

Go to your local Wells Fargo or JPMorgan Chase bank today

September 26, 2018
Today is the day we SHOW UP! There are too many families depending on us. This is our chance to tell Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase to stop financing Geo Group and and CoreCivic, two of the largest for-profit prison and detention corporations, that are profiting off taking parents away from...
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Xochitl Oseguera
Immigration

PHOTOS: What happened when I delivered a letter to my local Wells Fargo & Chase branch

September 26, 2018
Below, we share just a few of the many, many emails we received from MomsRising/MamásconPoder supporters today who participated in our nationwide action to deliver letters and baby toys or blankets to local Wells Fargo and Chase bank branches. The letters express outrage that these banks are...
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Xochitl Oseguera
Health Care Politics & Policy

Fact of the Week: Drop in uninsured rates for low-income rural residents is three times larger in Medicaid expansion states

September 26, 2018
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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Lecia Imbery

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