What's Happening in Your Community? What Gives You Hope? TAKE ACTION

Friend - Can you believe it’s November? We can, because we spent October counting down the days until November 7th, Election Day! We’ve been hard at work, fighting in Ohio for our children to not have fewer freedoms than we did, and mobilizing mom voters across the country to stand up for kids and against the toxic agenda of groups like Moms for Liberty. We are feeling GREAT about the results!

How are things in YOUR community? Are you facing local efforts to ban books? What’s giving you hope? What are things like for you right now?

Moms, dads, and caregivers are a powerful force together!! In fact, in this last election, we not only WON on establishing a constitutional right to abortion in Ohio (where we reached out to encourage 75,000 moms who are irregular mom voters to VOTE), we also won school board elections all around the country¹. Voters stood up for kids and repudiated in a big way Moms for Liberty, along with its bigoted agenda of book bans, discrimination, and the taking away of our choices.

What we’ve always known was clearly on display last week: Moms for Liberty has never represented America’s mothers and families – and its effort to ‘mom-wash’ an agenda of hate is failing.

At MomsRising, we’re fired up to keep protecting our children and communities from hate and harm. We’re fighting with you for the issues that truly matter to moms and families, each and every day. We know District of Columbia is unique, even as parents across the nation are also facing similar struggles. We also know that we’re the most effective when we hear from YOU, how you’re doing and what’s giving you hope – and, importantly, when we can share your experiences and what’s giving YOU hope, in order to inspire others to join us in a powerful movement! Can you help?

Take a moment to share with us your MomsRising story. How did you get involved with this movement? What’s giving you hope? What’s happening in your community right now?

As we approach 2024 (yes it’s an election year - a big one!!!), we are hard at work planning (and yes we’ll be doing postcards!). We can’t always respond individually to everything shared with us, but know that we read everything you submit, and we deeply appreciate all you do to engage and make change with us.

We want to understand what is happening near you, and what’s giving you hope, to help us make decisions about where to organize online and on-the-ground. We want to learn more about how, together with moms and families like you, we can best organize and build power in this moment. We’re excited about the future, and we need your voice.

Let us know: What’s happening in your community? What’s giving you hope? What’s on your mind?

While our national work is often more in the spotlight, we’ve also had some HUGE state-level victories this year:

• In Washington State we fought for and WON free or $15 a month child care for low-income workers with the passage of Senate Bill 5225.

• In North Carolina, we spoke up, loudly, that everyone deserves access to health insurance coverage and cheered as Governor Roy Cooper signed Medicaid Expansion into law, improving healthcare access for over 600,000 people.

• In New Hampshire, MomsRising and partners celebrated a HUGE win with the indefinite postponement of the New Hampshire parental bill of “wrongs” – SB 272 – which was a direct attack against our LGBTQ+ kids.

We’ve grown our movement, our power, and our organizing programs in many states and local communities over the last decade, including training hundreds of mom-organizers through our local Beacon and Fellowship programs, deepening our engagement opportunities, and expanding our State Moms Force programs. This is how we win. We are doubling-down on these initiatives - we want to keep getting local, identify and empower mom leaders, and achieve more wins for moms and families.

We need your help to shape our future and keep the wins rolling. Will you take a second and let us know what’s happening in your community and what’s giving you hope?

Friend, we are so glad to be in this movement with you. Thank you for all you do.

- Nate, Selina, Kristin, and everyone else at MomsRising.org

P.S. We’ve launched BRAND NEW MomsRising merch that we are excited to share with you! Get ready to show off your “Big Mom Energy”  or opt for the re-imagined MomsRising classic – “Using Our Outside Voices.” Whether you pick something for yourself or a thoughtful gift for a fellow change maker, we deeply appreciate YOU. We (and our whole community) are in this together, so grab your MomsRising gear and proudly declare: We Are MomsRising. All proceeds benefit MomsRising Together, so you can grow the movement and stay warm. Prefer to make a direct end-of-year donation? Click here. 

[1] https://action.momsrising.org/go/76297?t=18&akid=19014%2E2840598%2EFCxZoe

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