I have incredible news to share:

In a major victory for our movement, we just got word that we won our campaign calling on Rep. John Garamendi (CA-03) to support Medicare for All! He has officially agreed to sign on as a cosponsor of the Medicare for All bill in Congress. 

While Rep. Garamendi is a Democrat who previously co-sponsored Medicare for All legislation in past sessions of Congress, he hadn’t agreed to sign back onto the legislation until now. This victory is the direct result of months of dedicated organizing, with hundreds of volunteers like you working hard to get Rep. Garamendi on the bill.

Together we:

• Texted 103,773 voters in Rep. Garamendi’s Congressional district, where we identified nearly 2,000 new, local supporters
• Called every single one of those supporters and sent them all personal, handwritten postcards asking them to call Rep. Garamendi’s office
• Partnered with ten local unions in Sacramento to send a powerful letter to his office, urging him to sign on in support of Medicare for All
• Organized a massive car caravan with the help and leadership of our CA-03 volunteer district leader, Dillan. Together, over 50 cars and a mobile billboard truck drove through downtown Davis, where we ended at Rep. Garamendi’s district office 
• Projected large-scale images calling for Garamendi to cosponsor Medicare for All on buildings throughout Davis, including onto his district office
• Successfully sent hundreds of powerful tweets and compelling letters to his office
• Appeared in local news outlets amplifying the call for health care justice in Garamendi’s own community
• Worked with local organizations and activists in Sacramento to pass a resolution in support of Medicare for All
• Finally, local union leaders and our very own NNU President, Deborah Burger, RN, met with him on Thursday, December 9th — where he finally told us that he would commit to cosponsor.

This victory required months of perseverance, creative organizing tactics, and a profound determination that we needed to win — and now that Rep. Garamendi is on board, we want to thank him for joining our fight for guaranteed health care.

Will you take one minute and sign our thank you card to Garamendi for stepping up and co-sponsoring the Medicare for All Act of 2021? With his support, ​​we are one step closer to passing Medicare for All in Congress and achieving a single-payer health care system.

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Our campaign proves once again that consistent organizing at the local level works. A major goal of our fall campaign was to reach 119 cosponsors for HR 1976 — one more than we had on last session’s Medicare for All bill. With Rep. Garamendi’s co-sponsorship locked in, we are thrilled to share that we’ve officially hit our goal. 

It’s clear our strategy is working. Now, it’s up to us to keep organizing and replicate this success in CA-03 all across the country. 

Thank you for taking the time to sign our thank you card to Rep. Garamendi — we can’t wait to see the kind of impact your continued activism has across the country!

Onwards,

Jasmine Ruddy
Organizer
Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All