Dear Friend,

What a week! Please find our most recent list of top actions below, and make sure you've added your name to important calls-to-action around family detention and surprise medical billing. You can also take your activism to the next level by signing up to send MomsVote postcards, to join our September Keep Marching virtual meeting, and/or to write a letter to your local paper about the importance of securing our elections.

** Be sure to scroll down for a photos of MomsRising staffers talking about immigration on Capitol Hill this week, and co-hosting a Facebook Live about tax credits with U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown. As always, sharing this list with family and friends quintuples your impact. Fact: Together we are a force to be reckoned with!  

Here's the list of top #5Actions =>

1. Get Out the #MomsVote!

Your Action Status: NOT YET SIGNED UP -> Sign Up for your Postcard Packet

BACKGROUND: MomsRising is making it super easy (and FREE) for you to help in a powerful Get-Out-The-Vote effort before Election Day in Virginia. Sign up now to send just 5 postcards to registered voters who haven't always voted on Election Day in the past. We'll send you a packet of pre-addressed, pre-stamped postcards. All you need to do is write a quick note of encouragement and drop them in the mail. Can you help? Sign up here to get your postcard packet now. Here's what the postcards look like:

2. Quick Signature: Tell Congress to Ban Surprise Medical Bills!

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BACKGROUND: For the first time ever, Congress has an opportunity to pass bipartisan legislation that will ban surprise medical bills, and would protect patients while reducing health care costs and premiums. That’s right—bipartisan legislation that would have a huge positive impact for families across the country is within reach of passage! **But dark money from provider groups is pouring into ad campaigns to stop it, so we need everyone to speak out to support this bipartisan legislation. When you click this link we'll automatically sign you onto this important petition telling Congress to pass legislation banning surprise medical bills!

3. Write a Letter to the Editor to Speak Out to #SecureOurVote!

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BACKGROUND: The entire national security community agrees that election interference in 2016 was only a preview of what's to come unless Congress acts. Our Senators need to know that we demand immediate action to secure our vote ahead of upcoming elections. Join us in writing a letter to the editor speaking out to secure our elections! #SecureOurVote

4. Join our September #KeepMarching Virtual Meeting: Abortion

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BACKGROUND: Now more than ever — reproductive health care is under attack across the country. This war on women, mothers, and our daughters particularly harms women in low-income families and communities of color, who face more barriers accessing reproductive health care. Our September #KeepMarching meeting is Thursday, September 26, 8 PM ET / 5PM PT, and we’ll be talking about attacks on women’s reproductive health care, including abortion. When abortion rights are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back, and JOIN US on 9/26 at 8pm ET/5pm PT for our September #KeepMarching virtual meeting!




5. Raise Your Voice to Shut Down the Berks County Family Detention Center!

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BACKGROUND: Babies are being held in detention. Families seeking asylum--many of which are led by moms--are being held in prison-like facilities. Human rights abuses in the name of immigration enforcement are not okay. Pennsylvania is home to the Berks County Family Detention Center (BCRC), a facility where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holds immigrant and asylum-seeking families. The Berks facility is currently one of three family detention centers in the United States where children as young as two-weeks-old are being held. Join us to raise our parent voices to demand Pennsylvania Governor Wolf finally Shut Down Berks! ->

INSPIRATION OF THE WEEK!

MomsRising was on Capitol Hill this week asking U.S Senators hold immigration enforcement agencies accountable by cutting funding for policies and programs that separate and incarcerate children and families. Thank you to all who signed the petition! 

 

We also co-sponsored a #WorkingFamilies Townhall on Facebook Live featuring U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown speaking with North Carolina mom Katie to discuss working family tax credits like the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC). (Click the photo to watch a replay!)

Thank you for all you do, 

- Karen, Kristin, Elyssa, Felicia, Gloria, Dorie, Sara, and the rest of the MomsRising.org / MamásConPoder.org Team

 

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