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Empowering Our Volunteers & Growing Long-Term Local Leaders Through the Power of Storytelling

March 24, 2023
As humans, we live in and through stories. Neuroscience shows that our brains like stories —we actually crave stories—and when we hear a well-told story, it helps us to cut out distractions, helps people remember concepts with greater accuracy, and as hearts are changed as stories are told and...
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¡Dile al Congreso “hagan que las ricas corporaciones paguen impuestos” este Día de los Impuestos!

April 15, 2024
Hoy es el Día de los Impuestos (¿Te acordaste de enviar tu declaración de impuestos? Tienes hasta la medianoche de hoy.) y queremos enviar un mensaje alto, fuerte y poderoso al Congreso de EE.UU. para decirles que deben entrar en acción hoy para asegurar que las personas y las corporaciones ricas...
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Truly Free Tax Help is Here!

April 11, 2024
The countdown to Tax Day is on! If you live in Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Texas, Tennessee, South Dakota, Washington, or Wyoming and, like many of us, have not yet filed your taxes, I have some good news for you: you might be eligible to use a new...
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Top Actions of the Past Week: Saturday, April 6, 2024

April 6, 2024
Tell Congress to fund programs that boost families! We’re excited that President Biden has listened to the voices of moms and families and is planning to make major positive investments in his FY2025 budget including: child care, paid family and medical leave, the Child Tax Credit, maternal health...
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What in the IVF is Going On? Moms Are in Crisis: The GOP Wants to Keep Them There.

March 15, 2024
The battle for mom votes broke through in our national consciousness again last week with a dystopian State of the Union response by Alabama Republican Senator Katie Britt. She centered herself in a kitchen that looked like a stage set, using her motherhood to peddle her fear-based vision of America. Rife with misinformation, Britt used words and a delivery that served to increase viewers' anxiety in an already anxiety- and despair-saturated America. A place where women's freedoms are evaporating.
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The Top 10 Policies Every Leader Should Support Right Now

March 13, 2024
Moms For Freedom Agenda A Vision to Lift Our Nation We value our freedoms. The freedom to be there for our children and families when we’re needed most, to choose what’s best for our families, to send our kids to schools where every child belongs and can thrive, and to be able to earn equal pay and...
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Our Stories, Our Power: 2024 Legislative Session Recap

March 7, 2024
The 2024 Washington State legislative session just wrapped, and we are celebrating some mom-umental wins. None of these would have been possible without MomsRising members meeting with their lawmakers , speaking out , testifying , testifying some more , and even mobilizing in Olympia (kiddos and...
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It's #SOTU #CareCantWait Bingo Time!!!

March 6, 2024
Join us for #CareCantWait #SOTU BINGO at 9pmET/6pmPT on Thursday, March 7! Get your card, check off important victories for the care movement as President Joe Biden speaks, and celebrate as policies that are important to us make it onto center stage during the State of the Union! Download your...
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¡Es hora de jugar a la Lotería del Estado de la Unión!

March 6, 2024
¡Únete a nosotros para jugar Lotería durante el Estado de la Unión a las 9pmET/6pmPT el jueves 7 de marzo! Consigue tu cartón, marca las importantes victorias para el movimiento de cuidado mientras el presidente Joe Biden habla, ¡y celebra cuando las políticas que son importantes para nosotros...
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Breaking Through: IVF, Abortion, WIC, Child Tax Credit, & More

February 26, 2024
On the radio show this week, we cover the outrageous Alabama Supreme Court IVF decision and the fight for access to IVF, abortion care, birth control, and to not have fewer freedoms than our children; the incredible power of Ai-jen Poo’s care infrastructure vision and how you can make a difference; the latest with the inside the Beltway battles for WIC and the CTC; and how corporations can (and must) work to build a care infrastructure too in order to retain employees and prosper.
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