Dear Friend,
WOW. WOW. WOW. We have some very good, sadness-busting, uplifting, year-end news to share with you: As 2023 comes to a close, we took a moment to look through all we’ve done and accomplished together this year – and it added up to BIG. HIGH IMPACT. INSPIRING. MOM. POWER.
* Now there's one very important thing about good news: When you spread good news, it somehow creates MORE good news! So will you help us spread the good news of our top ten wins through social media about how powerful moms have been in 2023 so we can grow our movement and get even MORE powerful in 2024? (This is a big deal. In fact, when you like, comment, and/or share MomsRising content on your social media, it not only pushes MomsRising into more feeds in a way that builds a broader movement, it’s also a key building block for shifting the culture toward what we need to have healthy, safe, and thriving families, communities, and economies).
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We know you’re busy, stretched, working to balance the impossible, and we’re so inspired that through it all, you’ve made time to take action, sign a petition or an open letter to Congress, call a legislator, attend a meeting, share your story, spread the word on social, or to take action in any way.
So… without further delay (drumroll please): Our Top Ten Wins of 2023 are wrapped, mapped, and ready to show the power of MOMS! You can read the full list of our 2023 top ten wins together below. The summary is that all told, against weighty odds, we were able to win big legislative battles, move mom voters, shift the national narrative, and ultimately to build an even stronger, deeper, powerful movement of over a million people.
President Biden signed an Executive Order on Increasing Access to High-Quality Care and Support Caregivers with MomsRising’s Executive Director by his side. With 50 key actions, it is the most sweeping EO to improve care in our nation’s history. This victory is in no small part due to the powerful, persistent activism of the over a million MomsRising members.
MomsRising members from every state advocated for quality, affordable child care; and MomsRising brought moms from 20 states to a Boot Camp/Training where we met with leaders in the White House and rallied with members of Congress at the U.S. Capitol. Subsequently, the White House asked Congress for the $16 billion in child care stabilization funds we requested. Our child care wins in key states, including Washington, are benefiting countless families including those who are child care workers, undocumented, and navigating the therapeutic court system.
MomsRising helped defeat the extremist, harmful, mis-named “Parents Bill of Rights” – the federal legislative framework to advance book bans and censorship that extremist Republicans were pushing. We also helped moms protect local school boards and push back against Moms “For” Liberty across the nation, including in Florida where we successfully defended a Duval County health program serving over 11,000 families from right-wing attacks.
MomsRising helped get out the vote that resulted in a historic victory to ensure our children don’t have fewer rights than we do by passing Ohio’s Issue 1, a ballot initiative that protects the right to abortion in the state.
The MomsRising community joined with allies to help ensure equitable implementation of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which MomsRising helped pass and was enacted earlier this year. We generated thousands of comments to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), ran public outreach campaigns so more people know about their new rights, and joined partners in Time Square to launch the #NewRights4Parents educational campaign to tell workers who are pregnant, nursing, and/or in postpartum recovery how to access the new protections.
MomsRising led a campaign that resulted in a monumental victory when the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reinforced that states must provide 12 months of continuous coverage for children under Medicaid and CHIP, ensuring uninterrupted care for millions. We helped win Medicaid expansion in New Hampshire and North Carolina, benefitting 600,000 people in North Carolina alone.
Thanks to continuous pressure from moms across the nation, including our Mother’s Day event at the U.S. Capitol featuring more than 20 members of Congress and 100 moms from across the nation, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee held the first-ever hearing on paid family and medical leave. Witnesses shared two MomsRising member stories. MomsRising continued to build momentum for paid family and medical leave at the state and local levels, including winning passage of the Family First Paid Leave Policy in Durham County!
In response to and in solidarity with moms and caregivers across the country who are demanding safety from gun violence, the Biden/Harris administration established the first-ever White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention.
Following years of advocacy by MomsRising leaders and members and our allies, the FDA approved O-Pill, the first-ever over-the-counter birth control drug for all. This victory is a landmark achievement for reproductive health that wouldn’t have been possible without nearly two decades of work by our partners in the Free the Pill coalition, along with grassroots pressure, powerful testimony including from MomsRising, and more.
MomsRising vastly exceeded our goals for engaging our million members and generated more than 1,600 media moments about our top policy priorities with an audience reach that exceeded 1.2 billion. In addition, more than 50 local MomsRising members powerfully shared their stories with the media – and those stories were carried by an additional 665 outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, ABC News, and NPR.
The MomsRising movement has grown in strength and depth too: MomsRising now has members and activations in every state in the nation, as well as 14 states with deep state-specific work; and also more than 21 states with strong, local on-the-ground, long-term leadership development programs. In short, moms are rising in the states and in representing other moms in the U.S. Capitol. For instance, dozens of moms and kids from across the country joined one of our 2023 speak outs at the US Capitol, which also celebrated the reintroduction of the FAMILY ACT and the Healthy Families Act, and was covered by Good Morning America, Yahoo News, NBC stations, and others.
We also delivered many stories and story books directly to members of Congress in 2023 in order to shift the narrative, as well as to spark legislative action that reflects and respects parents and kids. Our stories are powerful because they let leaders know what’s really going on in our lives and needs to be solved, lets the media know what should be covered in the local and national narrative, and lets each of us know we’re not alone — and that when a lot of people are experiencing the same types of crisis at the same time, we don’t have an epidemic of personal failures; instead we have national structural issues that we can solve together through legislative change. One such storybook that was delivered in 2023 was the Honor Moms Every Day storybook (pdf), featuring personal stories demonstrating the need for our top policy priorities, which was delivered to every single member of Congress.
All told, in 2023, the MomsRising movement pushed forward legislation at the state and federal levels, helped shift the narrative with our stories and our voices, moved mom voters to action, and grew into an even stronger, more impactful grassroots force. We still have a long way to go to get to the transformational changes our nation’s families need so every child can thrive; so we’re committed to doubling down in 2024 to get to the future we know is possible when we all rise. Thank you!
* Together we can make even BIGGER wins happen in 2024! Don’t forget to help spread the word about how powerful moms have been in 2023 so we can grow our movement and get even MORE powerful in 2024 because after all, every single bit of our power is more than needed to help build a nation where every child and family can thrive!
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* If you aren't on social media, help spread the word by forwarding this e-mail to friends and family, or sharing the link to our wins list on our blog. Here's the link to the wins list on our blog share:
https://MomsRising.org/2023Wrapped
The more people who know about our wins, and who get involved, the bigger the impact we’ll have together in the future. So let’s share far and wide!
THANK YOU for building a much-needed movement with us that’s building a nation where every child and person can thrive!
– Kristin and the whole MomsRising.org & MamásConPoder Team
P.S. Want to read about all our wins in one place that you can share? They're here on our blog: https://MomsRising.org/2023Wrapped
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