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07/28/17

WE WON! Health care was just saved in an extremely close vote in the U.S. Senate late last night! Never doubt that your voice, your stories, and your phone calls, can make a difference. It does. Last night's health care vote is the proof. **We want to take a moment to say something important to you...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Health Care Politics & Policy

07/28/17

“It was a generation ago that Harry Truman said, and I quote him: ‘Millions of our citizens do not now have a full measure of opportunity to achieve and to enjoy good health. Millions do not now have protection or security against the economic effects of sickness. And the time has now arrived for...

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Marian Wright Edelman

Health Care Politics & Policy

07/27/17

The health care insanity continues! In good news, in no small part due to people like you making phone calls, the U.S. Senate Republicans have yet to get enough votes to repeal health care for tens of millions of people. In bad news, they’re still trying to take away health care. *Can you call...

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Felicia Burnett

Immigration

07/27/17

Most Americans live in communities that look different today than in the past. Our neighbors and our children’s classmates come from across the globe; in fact, one in four kids in America today hails from an immigrant family. But whether we were born here or elsewhere, we all want the same things,...

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Rachel Peric

Gun Safety

07/27/17

Anita Sanchez was 13 years old when her father was killed in a bar because an angry man with a gun mistook him for someone else.

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Anita Sanchez, Ph.D.

Health Care MomsRising Politics & Policy

07/27/17

Below is the story submitted by PA MomsRising member Jill Cammarata My son Anthony was born with profound bilateral sensorineural hearing loss—which means he has been completely deaf from birth—in 2014. I had a totally healthy pregnancy and natural delivery, and by all accounts Anthony was a...

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S. Nadia Hussain

Health Care

07/25/17

Today, Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate continued their grossly irresponsible, shameful assault on our economy and the health care families rely on by approving a Motion to Proceed to a vote on a mysterious health care bill. Republican U.S. Senators have not read the bill, experts have not...

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07/25/17

Four civic engagement groups, i America Action, Indivisible, Mi Familia Vota (MFV) and MomsRising, unveiled on Tuesday the “Raise Your Hand” initiative to strengthen the voices of communities of color who often feel disenfranchised by national political leaders. Through“Raise Your Hand,”an...

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Immigration

07/25/17

On the introduction of the DREAM Act of 2017 by U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham: Treating immigrants fairly and with respect is not only a moral imperative, but also a way to make our nation strong and prosperous. U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) took a...

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Health Care Politics & Policy

07/25/17

This is absolutely insane! U.S. Senate Republican leadership announced late yesterday that they’ll be voting on a Motion to Proceed to take health care away from millions of people TODAY—and we don’t actually know what will be in the bill that they’re voting on! Is this any way to deal with our...

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Felicia Burnett