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Friend, 2023 is almost a wrap!

I wanted to bump the WINS e-mail we sent last week that highlights our
incredible power together and ask you: [ [link removed] ]Will you support our movement
for moms and families with a matched end-of-year gift? Your support will
turbocharge our 2024 mom voter turnout projects, advance our narrative
shifting efforts (i.e. making sure the contributions and needs of moms and
kids aren’t ignored), and fuel our legislative change programs. Thank you!

Together, we can (and DO!) accomplish so much. Scroll down to see our 2023
wins highlights below.

2024 is going to be such an important year for this movement, and whether
or not you can donate, we deeply appreciate you being a part of this
movement and standing up for moms and families each and every day. 

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Together we’re a powerful force!

- Kristin, Donna, Gloria, Monifa, Ruth, Nate, Xochitl and the entire
MomsRising Team

 

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From: Kristin, MomsRising.org
Date: December 22nd, 2023
Subject: SPREAD THE WORD: Share our Wins, Grow our Power

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! [ [link removed] ]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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The more people who know about our wins, and who get involved, the bigger
the impact we’ll have together in the future. [ [link removed] ]So let’s share far and
wide! 

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.

1. WIN - Making History With Biden/Harris EO Action on Care

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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.

2. WIN - Advancing Affordable Child Care

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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.

3. WIN - Defeating Book Bans and Censorship

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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.

4. WIN - Securing Abortion Rights In Ohio

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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. 

5. WIN - Advancing the Rights of Pregnant and Breastfeeding Workers

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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
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pregnant, nursing, and/or in postpartum recovery how to access the new
protections.

6. WIN - Expanding Access to Health Care

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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.

7. WIN - Organizing for Paid Family and Medical Leave

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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!

8. WIN - Enlisting Powerful Support for Gun Safety

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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.

9. WIN - Making O-Pill Available Over-The-Counter

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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. 

10. WIN - Generating Massive Coverage, Building a Movement, Shifting the
Narrative

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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 [ [link removed] ]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!

Click one (or more than one!) of the icons below to like and share our top
wins of 2023 together!

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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
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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
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gift to support MomsRising’s life-changing, nation-lifting work. Right now
you can double your impact, as all gifts through December 31 are matched
dollar-for-dollar. Together, we’ll keep WINNING for moms and families.

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