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12/05/22
The fight for environmental sustainability and health equity is a pressing concern worldwide. Mothers have a unique role in ensuring the future of our planet and its inhabitants are safe, healthy, and secure. As health equity and green practices become increasingly necessary to prevent the worst...
Dorthea Thomas's picture
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12/05/22
Moms and women turned out in force in this last election, now let’s use that same energy to turn up and turn out for Washington State’s upcoming legislative session. Let’s let our lawmakers know what matters to us! WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OLYMPIA? The 2023 Washington State legislative session begins in...
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12/05/22
Looking for something FREE, FUN, and IMPACTFUL to do with the family? Join MomsRising, mom lawmakers, and families from across Washington for a virtual statewide town hall on December 10th at 11 am PT. Moms powered the 2022 election, now it's time to power the 2023 legislative session! Take action...
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12/04/22
MOMentum banner.gif What a month for mom power! When democracy needed it most, MomsRising supporters like you stepped up in a MASSIVE way to get out the Mom Vote for the midterm elections – including handwriting nearly a million postcards to give moms who are infrequent voters the information they...
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12/02/22
Today (Friday, Dec. 2) is the last day of early voting for the Georgia Runoff election. I thought about waiting until election day, but with three kids, there’s always a chance that something will come up and I didn’t want to take any chances on securing my vote. The first time I voted in a major...
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12/02/22
Tell U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that we need a Senate vote NOW on banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines! The University of Virginia. Club Q in Colorado Springs. The Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia. That’s three horrific and heart-breaking mass shootings, one after the...
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12/01/22
Childcare prices have exploded over the last decade, and with the pandemic, options have diminished. My husband and I are both public elementary school teachers. We are able to live comfortably but not extravagantly. Affording daycare for our toddler son has pushed our budget to the limit-- we make...
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11/30/22
We have long known that air pollution has a detrimental effect on our physical health, but only recently have we begun to understand its profound impact on mental health. As environmental injustice and health equity continue to be issued in many parts of the world, women, and kids are often most at...
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We need to redefine the concept of boundaries because they're not about drawing a line in the sand one day and everything changes.
11/29/22
With the upcoming holiday season and its related demands, let's talk about boundaries. Whether at work or home, boundaries begin inside you when you sense a need and decide to care for yourself. You know something’s got to give. You can’t keep doing life this way. But you might not know what needs...
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11/28/22
I was a homeless preteen for an amount of time that trauma won’t allow me to properly timestamp. For years I blamed my mother for her “bad decisions.” I had a hard time not examining myself as a spawn of irresponsibility. But, life experience has allowed me to reclassify this memory. My mother was...
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