Friend,

November has been a challenging month. We know it’s been quite a month for you too. Through it all, we are grateful to be in this together and to be working with you Friend, alongside our 82,000 Moms Vote volunteers, and our over one million members.

→ Our MomsRising community is in this work for the long-haul. Part of the strategy of persistence is listening and learning. Our work together is needed MORE THAN EVER. We’d love to hear your ideas for RISING to expand our movement in 2025 and beyond!

The heartbreaking loss of Vice President Harris at the top of the ticket is one we still think about every day. The headlines are still just, well, awful. Those Trump cabinet nominees are shockingly unqualified.

Fortunately, despite this major loss at the top of the ticket, there still were significant wins across the nation that happened in no small part because of the powerful work YOU did getting out the mom vote. And on this day of gratitude, we want to share those wins with you.

Together, your efforts helped achieve groundbreaking victories in 2024: 

• Helped 51 Congressional candidates who support moms and care policies win their elections;
  
  
• Elected two Black women to the United States Senate at the same time for the first time ever – Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE) and Angela Alsobrooks (MD);
  
  
• Played a role in winning care victories on the ballot in red, purple, and blue states, including Alaska, Missouri, Nebraska, and Washington State;
  
  
• Helped secure wins on 7 out of 10 state abortion ballot measures – Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, and New York;
  
  
• And just in: We helped defeat the appointment of a terrifyingly unqualified Matt Gaetz from becoming the United States Attorney General.

This is the power of moms in action. Thanks to incredible members like you, mom voter engagement reached record-breaking levels this year – and made these big differences in positive ways across the country. You hand-wrote five million postcards, sent twenty million mom-to-mom texts, held over 2,050 local events, supported one another, and inspired moms to vote in key areas.

THANK YOU for being an unstoppable force for change. Your work, along with the work of over 82,000 MomsRising volunteers, and our over 1,076,000 active members across the nation, helped advance some really powerful wins on Election Day. We are so grateful to be working with you.

→ Our work together is needed MORE THAN EVER. We’d love to hear your ideas for RISING in 2025 and beyond! MomsRising is made up of over 1,076,000 members of diverse backgrounds, experiences, cultures, geographic locations, and ages. We all experienced this election differently. All ideas on how we can continue to expand as a community and as a movement are needed and welcome!.

Here’re more details on the wins:

• The Moms Power Elections and Moms' Seal of Approval on Child Care candidate programs won big: 51 of our endorsed and supported candidates won! Through these programs, MomsRising supported candidates that champion affordable child care, reproductive freedom, paid family and medical leave, maternal health equity, accessible aging and disability care, gun safety, and other policies that lift our families and businesses, our economy and our country – and 2 will serve as Governors, 40 will serve in the US House, and 9 will serve in the US Senate come January!
  
  
• This is a 73% win rate – Of 70 candidates supported through the Moms Power Elections and Moms’ Seal of Approval on Child Care candidate programs, 51 candidates won.
• Moms’ Seal of Approval on Childcare: 38/49 candidates won (78% win rate)
  
  
• Care also won big on the ballot in key states. In addition, importantly, care infrastructure policies and abortion protection measures won at the ballot box in blue, purple, and even red states. This is proof of what we already knew: Care is bipartisan (more than 70% of Trump voters support care policies). Care is universal. Child care, home care, paid family/medical leave, fair pay for care workers, maternal health equity, reproductive freedom, and more are essential to families being able to thrive across America. There is bridging power in the care agenda. More details on some of these wins include:
  
  
• We handily beat back measures that would have rolled back our progress on child care and long-term care in Washington State.
• Voters backed ballot measures to boost the minimum wage and provide paid sick time to working people in Alaska and Missouri. 
• Nebraska voters approved a ballot measure giving workers the right to earn paid sick leave.
• And of course, we and so many organizations, helped win 7 of the 10 state abortion ballot measures and had majority support in 8 of them: Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New York (and the abortion ballot measure in Florida got more votes than Trump but 60% of votes are needed in Florida for passage). 

We’re so grateful for the power and persistence in our community. Evidence of that persistence is that since the election, MomsRising members are still rising in big ways. More than 3,000 of our members got on a Post-Election Community Zoom together recently to rise in next steps together — and thousands have already signed up to help Stop Disinformation since the election. So we’re doing another Community Zoom! Our next MomsRising Community Zoom meeting is on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024, starting at 8:30 pm ET/ 5:30 pm PT, over 900 people have already signed up – and you’re invited to join us. *RSVP here to say you’re interested and get details.

→ We’re so grateful for your actions and your expertise. We’d love to hear your ideas for RISING in 2025 and beyond! A key part of the strategy of persistence is listening and learning from you! Please share ideas on how we can continue to expand as a community and as a movement.

And make no mistake, persistence is very much a key part of the strategy moving forward. Part of the strategy of persistence is listening and learning; part is sharing our real stories & core values in more strategic ways (MomsRising members have shared over 66,000 personal stories with us in the past couple of years alone); part of the persistence is standing up and protecting key policies and programs (and communities); another part of the persistence is finding out where we can be proactive; and yet another part is creating strategic pathways to stop disinformation, and more. 

During this really difficult time, we recall that we still can have victories even when situations seem impossible. For instance, when Trump last took office, like now, the leadership in the House and Senate were Republicans — and all leaders agreed that the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which covers tens of millions of people, should be overturned. But all was not lost. MomsRising, along with partner organizations, engaged locally, shared our stories with leaders, the media, and the public; called leaders; delivered story books; engaged local and regional media; held local events and town halls; and so much more…. And against all odds, we won. Twice.

Our over 1,076,000 active members are prepared to rise again in those trusted & effective ways— and also in new ways too.

And the volunteer movement that we strengthened in the election, who signed and mailed more than 5 million handwritten postcards to mom voters, who sent over 20 million text messages, and who held more than 2,300 local events in October and November, are not giving up. Together, we are stronger than ever.

Our work isn't done yet. 

→ We’re incredibly grateful to be in this with you, for the time you take pushing key policies forward, as well as for all you do advancing important candidates and ballot measures. Every single one of us is still needed. We’d love to hear all ideas on how to grow even bigger as a movement.

Thank you for all you do, for your community, and for your persistence. Let's keep making history together!

We deeply appreciate you.

- Kristin, and the whole MomsRising.org & MamásConPoder Team

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