Top Actions of the Past Week: Friday, March 7, 2025
SIGN NOW! Families Over Billionaires!
Last week the far-right House Republicans' plans became crystal clear when they passed by the narrowest of margins their budget resolution. In it they started the process to pass a law that will give massive ($4.5 TRILLION) tax breaks to billionaires and to mega-corporations, while forcing everyone else (like me and you) to pay the price.
Republicans in Congress want to give tax cuts to the super rich (think Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg) and mega-corporations, and pay for them by making massive cuts to Medicaid and raising taxes on the tens of millions of Americans who get their health care from the Affordable Care Act. In addition, they plan to slash funding for food stamps (SNAP), K-12 education, and other vital programs that help families, small businesses, and our economy in order to fund these tax cuts.
We need to speak out now and we need to speak out loud!!
Stop the dismantling of federal agencies & unjust mass firing of employees
Elon Musk, acting on Trump’s illegal overreach to slash programmatic funding through mass firings and shut down government agencies, is playing a dangerous game with the lives of federal workers, their families, and also the American public at large.
Musk and Trump’s actions have led to the layoff of thousands of federal workers – everyone from those who help run Head Start to air traffic controllers who help keep air travel safe to federal workers in charge of safeguarding our nuclear weapons. The Trump Administration’s illegal actions in shuttering agencies is not just a bureaucratic nightmare - they are a direct threat to the lives of everyday families.
QUICK SIGNATURE: We need an increase, not a decrease, in police accountability. Congress must act now!
URGENT! President Trump removed a national database tracking police misconduct, a dangerous move that weakens police accountability and transparency and undoes the progress our movement has made.
The police officers responsible for the deaths of Tamir Rice, Breonna Taylor, Sandra Bland, Philando Castile, and Eric Garner all had histories of troubling and inappropriate behavior, including complaints of unnecessary use of excessive force. In 2023, President Biden created the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD) to flag these histories and to save precious lives.
Among a flurry of concerning actions to remove important government functions, Trump’s Department of Justice has removed this database.
Moms want to raise our kids in safe and peaceful communities. Congress must step in and reinstate the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database (NLEAD) and give police departments a centralized resource to prevent future tragedies.
Gun Violence is a Civil Rights Issue: Webinar
This webinar offers a new frame – a counter-narrative to reduce the hate by talking about gun violence from a civil rights perspective. Our panelists are all members of communities disproportionately impacted by gun violence including Asian American, Latin@, Jewish, Black and Brown, LGBTQ+, and other communities. They will deliver civil rights messages that counteract pro-gun policy makers, framing the debate by arguing that civil rights are being lost to the idol-worship of gun rights.
Stop Trump’s Tariff War on Families!
On Tuesday, the #TrumpTariffWarOnFamilies went in to full effect! President Trump has instated a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico and a 20% tariff on imports from China. Canada and China have already announced that they will retaliate with their own tariffs on U.S. goods, including a wide array of U.S. farm exports. These tariffs will increase the cost of almost everything–food, gas, computers, cars, clothes, and more. We are officially in a tariff war that is harming our families, our small businesses, rural communities, and our economy!
Instead of this chaos, our elected leaders should be cracking down on price gouging, fixing our tax code to make billionaires and mega-corporations pay their fair share, and investing in American workers and small businesses with care policies that lift our families.
Tell Congress to intervene NOW and stop Trump’s Tariff War on Families!
MomsRising Monthly Community Meeting: Organizing to Build a Better Future
The times are unprecedented, and we – you – are the leaders we need right now. That's why in 2025 MomsRising has launched our series of mass community meetings to lift that leadership.
MomsRising is calling on moms, dads, grandparents, family members, and everyone who cares to join us, check in, and power up, in order to:
- Build a better future...
- Protect our families and the people we love...
- Fight for truth, justice, and equal opportunity for all...
- Defend our institutions that serve We The People and the common good...
- Support one another, commit to each other, realize our collective power, organize, and take action!
*The RSVP page will be updated with the most recent program details.
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