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“All you will feel is sadness and mostly depression.” 14-year-old detained child at the Dilley detention center “The only thing they tell you is to drink more water… and it seems the water is what makes people sick.” 12-year-old detained at Dilley These are just a few of the testimonials of children detained at the Dilley Detention Center in South Texas. [1] Liam Conejo Ramos, the boy in the bunny hat, and children as young as two-months-old have been held in these facilities, exposed to...
Black Maternal Health Week calls us to be rooted in justice and joy. It requires us to imagine and build a world where Black mothers and families are not only surviving but thriving. A world where care is accessible, support is abundant, and joy is not interrupted by preventable harm. To get there, we must be honest about what stands in the way.
After five years of showing up — at the Capitol, in committee rooms, through hundreds of calls and emails — West Virginia families have won a major victory for child care. On April 2, 2026, House Bill 4191 became law, and it's the most comprehensive child care legislation our state has ever seen.
As the 2027 budget proposal threatens deep cuts to health care and child care to fund military spending, MomsRising is launching a national receipts campaign. We are collecting the real monthly costs families pay for essential needs to create a giant visual record for lawmakers this Mother’s Day.
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April 13, 2026
The administration has released a 2027 budget proposal that threatens to slash funding for essential family programs like health care and child care. MomsRising is mobilizing to stop "Reconciliation 2.0" — a legislative process that would divert taxpayer dollars away from our communities to fund historic military increases and human rights abuses.
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April 13, 2026
Welcome to the April Dispatch! Thank you for being a part of our growing, powerful Moms Next Door program! What’s the Moms Next Door Dispatch? Each month, you’ll receive the Moms Next Door Dispatch (Scroll down!)—a monthly toolkit that will arrive in your inbox to provide you and your community with ideas on how to self-organize and take action; as well as to process and make sense of all that’s going on; AND also ways to remain calm, find joy in community, and recharge as we build a brighter...
This Medicaid Awareness Month, MomsRising is fighting to protect Medicaid Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS). These essential services allow older adults and people with disabilities to live and age with dignity in their own homes rather than in costly institutions. With federal funding under attack, your voice is needed to tell Congress to safeguard this critical care infrastructure.
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April 6, 2026
Between March 28 and April 12, 2026, MomsRising is organizing nationwide Spring "Admin Party" Hangouts to strategize and address the family affordability crisis. We are gathering our "receipts" — from grocery bills to child care costs — to show Congress and the administration the real-world financial pressure on American families.
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April 6, 2026
My youngest daughter and I took time to celebrate Women’s History Month and join MomsRising.org last week. We met with some amazingly powerful women from the Democratic Women's Caucus to mark Equal Pay Day—the day in the year when the average American woman makes the amount the average American man made in the LAST calendar year. It took an additional 84 DAYS to reach pay parity this year! Some facts we learned: Women working full time, year round, on average earn 81 cents to every dollar paid...
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April 1, 2026