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Dear Friend,
Greetings. We hope your week has gone as well as possible, and you'll have
some time to relax and recharge this weekend. We're sharing our latest
list of top actions from the past week, featuring important items on
taxes, healthcare, and SNAP. You can also sign up to mail postcards
encouraging moms to vote, and to join a special #KeepMarching meeting
focused on small-group dialogue. Scroll down to find out more, and please
share this list with family and friends too.
Together we are powerful! Here's the list:
1. Tell the Senate: Tax cuts for working families, not millionaires!
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BACKGROUND: The House of Representatives just passed the HEROES Act!
Included in this important COVID-19 relief legislation is an expansion of
the EITC and Child Tax Credit to struggling families and the repeal of the
#MillionairesGiveaway—a provision previously included in another COVID-19
relief bill that has NOTHING to do with coronavirus or helping our
shattered economy but gives a whopping $135 billion tax cut to only 43,000
U.S. millionaires. Now it's up to the U.S. Senate to vote on the HEROES
Act. We need our elected leaders to support families living
paycheck-to-paycheck, not give no-strings-attached windfalls to the
already mega-rich! [ [link removed] ]***SIGN OUR LETTER NOW calling on your U.S. Senators
to repeal the #MillionairesGiveaway and instead pass working family tax
credits that boost our families!
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2. Quick Signature: COVID-19 shows why we all need health care!
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BACKGROUND: No matter where we come from, or what our color, all of us
should be able to access health care when we get sick. Now more than ever,
the COVID-19 crisis has shown us that our health depends on the person
next to us, and the person next to them. Ensuring that we all can access
health care is how we take care of ourselves. Join us to ask President
Trump and Republican State Attorneys General to drop the lawsuit asking
the courts to strike down the entire ACA as unconstitutional. If they
succeed in your lawsuit, at least 20 million people would become uninsured
and millions more could be charged more or denied coverage due to a
pre-existing condition. [ [link removed] ]Add your name now!
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3. Send a Letter to the Editor to Speak Up for Hungry Families!
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BACKGROUND: We need our elected leaders to prioritize the nutrition needs
of our families. They must guarantee that anyone who needs nutrition
assistance is able to access it and increase SNAP (food stamp) benefits to
better serve struggling families. Congress is about to enter tough
negotiations on the next COVID-19 relief bill. The House of
Representatives have passed their bill, but Senate Republican Leader Mitch
McConnell and his allies have come straight out and said multiple times
that they don’t want to boost SNAP in any way. We want to raise the
profile of this issue by placing Letters to the Editor in local papers
around the country so Congress feels pressured to take action as soon as
possible! [ [link removed] ]***Send a letter to your local paper calling on Congress to
boost nutrition assistance and SNAP in their next COVID-19 relief package!
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4. Sign up for "Alone: Solitude or Isolation?" - An extra-special
#KeepMarching online meeting with Living Room Conversations, May 28, 8pm
ET/ 5pm PT
Your Action Status: NOT YET SIGNED UP ->
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BACKGROUND: In guided, structured Zoom conversations, groups of four to
seven people will gather for about 60 minutes to listen to and be heard by
each other, sharing thoughts and personal experiences about aloneness. Our
social nature is part of our humanity. People tend to like being with
other people, and many of us need other people in order to be healthy and
happy. The feeling of being alone can weigh heavily on an individual. Yet,
for some people, solitude is tranquil, relaxing, and even spiritually
rewarding. The current need to physically isolate ourselves from others is
putting limits on our social connections. What is this experience like for
you? [ [link removed] ]Join us to discuss!
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5. Help Us Send 1,000,000 Voting Reminder Postcards to Moms!
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BACKGROUND: Help us send 1,000,000 voting reminder postcards to moms who
haven’t always voted in the past to help them exert their voting power
this November. Sign up to receive free packets of 10 pre-stamped,
pre-addressed, gorgeous, eye-catching postcards for you to fill out in a
jiffy, which, a few weeks before the Nov. 3 elections, we’ll release in a
tidal wave of heart-felt mom-to-mom messages to vote. [ [link removed] ]Get your free
postcards now!
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Thank you for all you do, and have a good weekend.
--- Karen, Kristin, Elyssa, Sara, Felicia, Gloria, Anita, Jordan, and the
rest of the Momsrising / MamásConPoder.org Team
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