Dear Friend,
As we head into the holiday season and share our final weekly memo of 2025, we’ve been thinking about what’s at the very top of our wishlist — winning bold, people-first legislation in the upcoming Maryland General Assembly legislative session, which is now less than a month away. In the new year, Progressive Maryland will be fighting to: -
Protect and improve healthcare, including reclaiming Medicaid from insurance company profiteering and advancing safe staffing standards for healthcare workers
- Win real housing protections, like good cause eviction and increased funding to keep families in their homes
- Advance environmental justice, holding polluters accountable, stopping harmful development in overburdened communities, and pushing back against rising utility costs
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Support our allies in strengthening worker and immigrant protections, including fair wages, ending ICE collaboration, and expanding labor rights
- Defend our democracy, leading the charge to ensure fair congressional maps in Maryland as red states try to rig future elections
Before we officially close out the year, we have one last event we’d love to see you at. Tomorrow at 9:00 AM, we’re hosting a pep rally to celebrate and welcome Maryland’s incoming House Speaker. If you’re able to join us, we’d love to have you there — RSVP here.
Please note our offices will be closed from December 20 through January 5. We’ll be back in the new year, energized and ready to keep building a better Maryland together. Thank you for being part of this movement — for your time, your support, and your belief in what’s possible when we organize. We’re wishing you joy, rest, and peace this holiday season.
Until next year,
The Progressive Maryland Team |
Here’s what’s in today’s memo: - Quick Actions
Campaign Updates - State & National News
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LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE NOW: |
Override the RENEW Veto
Climate disasters are already costing Maryland families millions — from flooding and extreme heat to storm damage. Governor Moore vetoed the RENEW study that would calculate the true cost of these impacts and hold polluters accountable. Now it’s up to the General Assembly to act. Take one minute to email your Maryland lawmakers and urge them to override the RENEW veto and stand with families, not polluters. 👉 Send your email here |
Override the Reparations Bill Veto
Governor Moore vetoed the Maryland Reparations Study Bill — a critical step toward developing a real, actionable plan to address the historic and ongoing harms of systemic racism faced by Black communities across our state. Overriding this veto is about moving Maryland forward with a serious strategy for reparations and long-term structural repair. Take one minute to email your legislators and urge them to override the veto and advance reparative justice in Maryland. 👉 Send your email hereSend your email here |
Task Forces & Issue Campaigns Updates: |
Healthcare Task Force: They’re Taking Our Healthcare! We Must Take Action!
Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress have passed a $1 trillion funding cut to Medicaid and now they’re refusing to extend tax subsidies to keep health insurance premiums affordable. Republican Senators voted last week to prevent premiums from doubling and tripling in cost. Meanwhile, Dr. Oz has rammed through a pilot program that starts next year in 6 states that will let insurance companies start using AI to deny doctor recommended care for Medicare patients. Our response: Organize!
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Call Speaker Johnson’s office now to express your anger. We’re paying for his healthcare and the health coverage of all Members Of Congress-tell him to do the right thing and protect OUR health care. (202)-225-2777
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Share your story - if you or a loved one use Medicaid or if you’re a provider who will be affected by the cuts to Medicaid please answer our survey. We’ll run a campaign on the state level next year to protect Medicaid and we need your voice!
To join our growing campaign against the transfer of our healthcare and tax dollars to billionaires and learn more about the upcoming state legislative session, contact Patty. Now that Sen.Van Hollen and Rep. McClain Delaney are sponsors of the Medicare For All Act, PMD and our allies are reaching out to other Maryland House Members to do the same. You can be part of that effort, too!
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>>>>>>Note: no News You Can Use blog until January so practice your info-scavenging skills...<<<<<<<
A no-tax pledge from Moore as budget-tinkering accompanies slight revenue improvement. So, it's Money Week
It'll be money week in several respects. The General Assembly will have a special session to elect Del. Joseline Peña-Melnyk (D-Prince George’s) as new House Speaker -- but it will also be a flurry of veto overrides. Gov. Moore, who has promised no new taxes to overcome a $1.5BN budget deficit, is juking around with minor budget items to take some of the sting out of what will be pretty rugged overrides. Meanwhile, many states are thumbing their noses at Trump's EO forbidding existing or future state laws that restrict AI, largely on the grounds that the feds have done zilch on this pressing subject. The Maryland Assembly won't have a regular session until January but they are almost guaranteed to have a better 2025 than Congress, which is about to slink home without having done anything about skyrocketing health care premiums for the Affordable Care Act (see Megan E's holiday post below).
It's News You Can Use. See you in 2026. |
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Largo, MD 20792
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