John — on June 19, 1865, enslaved Black people in Galveston, Texas learned they were free, two full years after the Emancipation Proclamation had been signed. This wasn't an oversight. White landowners clung to the exploitation of Black labor, while the federal government was too slow and too indifferent to uphold freedom for people it considered less than human.

Juneteenth marks that day. Not just as a moment of liberation, but as a reminder that freedom has always required a fight. Today is no different.

Right now, some leaders in Washington are trying to dismantle Medicaid—a program that tens of millions depend on to survive. A proposed cut of $800 billion would gut one of the last remaining lifelines for poor, working-class, and uninsured people. And once again, Black families, who are nearly 60% more likely to rely on Medicaid than white families, are being forced to defend the most basic right of all: to live.

This fight to protect Medicaid isn’t just about budgets. It’s about values. It’s about who this country chooses to protect and who it allows to suffer. And ultimately, once again, it’s about our freedoms.

That’s why we need you to act now. Because fighting these cuts is about more than policy, it’s about standing with those who’ve always had to fight for the right to survive. Take action today and urge the Senate to reject these proposed Medicaid cuts.

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Domestic workers, most of whom are Black, Latina, and immigrant women, care for our families while struggling to access care for themselves. Paid under the table, denied health insurance, and excluded from basic protections.

That exclusion isn’t accidental. After emancipation, Black women were pushed into domestic work and then deliberately left out of the New Deal labor laws that built the modern safety net. That cruel legacy continues today.

From slavery to Jim Crow to today, the health of Black communities has never been treated as a national priority.

Medicaid was created to protect the most vulnerable: low-income families, children, seniors, and people with disabilities. But now, the very communities it was meant to support are being targeted.

For millions of Black families and domestic workers, Medicaid isn’t optional… it is essential. It’s how a domestic worker can afford a mammogram. How a grandmother pays for long-term care. How a child sees a doctor without the family skipping meals to cover the cost. It’s how Black women survive childbirth in a country where they are still three times more likely to die giving birth than white women.

If these elected officials gut Medicaid, it will be a generational betrayal. That’s why we’re using Juneteenth to do more than remember the fight for freedom…we’re continuing it. Join us. Stand with Black domestic workers and Black families across the country. Say no to Medicaid cuts. Say no to a system that treats our survival as optional.

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Thanks for all that you do,