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  Deborah Weinstein CHN Action · [email protected]
September 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM

Voting rights are under attack

This National Voter Registration Day, our right to vote is under attack. John, Today is National Voter Registration Day, and while federal midterm elections aren’t until next year, there are still thousands of local and municipal elections occurring throughout t…
  Meredith Dodson, CHN Action · [email protected]
September 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM

Re: Tell Congress: take back the power of the purse

Trump has canceled or frozen $410 billion in Congressionally-approved funding. Congress must stop him in his tracks. John, Congress has until September 30th to pass a bill before the federal government shuts down and millions of workers are furloughed. In addi…
  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]
September 13, 2025 at 2:21 PM

Trump has illegally withheld more than $410 billion for local communities

Trump has canceled or frozen $410 billion in Congressionally-approved funding. Congress must stop him in his tracks. John, We’re halfway through September, and Congress only has until the end of the month to pass spending bills to avert a government shutdown. An…
  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]
September 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM

Health care costs for millions of people are about to skyrocket

Why can Congress always seem to find funding to pad the pockets of weapons contractors, but it can never seem to find enough to ensure adequate health care and nutrition for vulnerable families? John, Health care costs for millions of people are about to skyrock…
  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]
September 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM

Re: Inequality will only get worse thanks to program cuts

The Census Bureau released the 2024 data for poverty, income, and health insurance—showing Congress must reverse course to protect basic needs. John, On Tuesday, the Census Bureau released the 2024 data on poverty, income, and health insurance and it only confi…
  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]
September 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM

Inequality will only get worse thanks to program cuts

The Census Bureau released the 2024 data for poverty, income, and health insurance—showing Congress must reverse course to protect basic needs. John, Last week, we held a webinar to train hundreds of folks on how to use the Census Bureau data on poverty, income…
  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]
September 8, 2025 at 8:29 PM

Demand Congress reject the National Defense Authorization Act

We’re demanding Congress invest in vulnerable people, not further Trump’s attacks. John, Donald Trump is illegally deploying the military into our cities. While, today, the Supreme Court at least temporarily approved the Trump administration’s indiscriminate IC…
  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]
September 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM

Re: CHN is fighting back against Trump’s authoritarianism

Our coalition has consistently opposed the Trump administration’s autocratic overreaches. John, Ever since returning to office, Donald Trump has pushed the limits of executive authority. He has illegally detained and deported thousands of people—including childr…
  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]
September 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM

We’re fighting back against an authoritarian takeover

Our coalition has consistently opposed the Trump administration’s autocratic overreaches. John, Donald Trump thinks he is a king. In less than eight months back in office, Donald Trump and his administration have seized power to deny millions of people health c…
  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]
September 5, 2025 at 6:16 PM

We must save access to mental health care

Congress is negotiating funding bills right now, and mental health care is on the chopping block. John, Right now, there are multiple attacks on mental health care in America. The Trump administration announced in June that it will not enforce a mental health p…
  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]
September 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM

BREAKING: Trump moves to send National Guard to Chicago

Trump continues to abuse his power to occupy cities. John, Donald Trump’s military occupation of Los Angeles and Washington, DC were just test runs. This week, Trump announced that he’s expanding his authoritarian power grab and sending troops to Chicago, and p…
  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]
September 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM

Webinar: Using Poverty and Health Insurance Facts in Hard Times

CHN’s webinar will teach you how to find state and local as well as national data, to help you show the connection between federal and state policy choices and numbers of people in poverty or uninsured. John, Join the Coalition on Human Needs this Friday for our…
  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]
September 1, 2025 at 2:04 PM

Fight for workers this Labor Day

Donald Trump is waging the biggest attack on unions in history. John, As we take today to celebrate Labor Day with our friends and family, we cannot forget that this day was brought to us by workers who fought to secure the 40-hour work week, a minimum wage, an…
  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]
August 31, 2025 at 2:25 PM

Re: This is not a normal Labor Day weekend

We cannot stay on the sidelines as so much of what we have built together is being torn apart. John, Tomorrow, working people and their allies in every state will come together to demand “Workers Over Billionaires” at Labor Day rallies across the country. But th…
  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]
August 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM

This is not a normal Labor Day weekend

We cannot stay on the sidelines as so much of what we have built together is being torn apart. John, Donald Trump ran on a promise to improve the lives of working people. But since taking office, he has gotten Congress to pass a tax and budget bill that slashes …
  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]
August 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM

Fight against the billionaire agenda and stand with workers and families

People across the country will join more than 1,000 Workers Over Billionaires protests this Labor Day. John, We are in the midst of a billionaire takeover. In just a few short months, Donald Trump and his billionaire friends have slashed social services, gutted…
  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]
August 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM

Trump just nominated a Project 2025 architect to the Bureau of Labor Statistics

The commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is supposed to be nonpartisan. Trump has nominated an architect of Project 2025. John, Donald Trump hates facts. He seeks advantage and attacks  opponents; truth doesn’t come into it. He doesn’t want the public …
  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]
August 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM

RSVP: Join us Thursday for a special webinar on Trump’s criminalization of unsheltered people

What are the likely outcomes of the criminalization of unsheltered people, in DC and elsewhere? John. When Donald Trump federalized the Washington, DC police and sent troops into the streets of our nation’s capital, he also destroyed encampments of unhoused peopl…
  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]
August 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM

Save the Affordable Care Act

Millions will lose coverage if Congress doesn’t act. John, Every family deserves access to affordable, quality health care. But unless Congress acts now, millions of Americans will lose the coverage they count on when the enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) premi…
  Meredith Dodson, CHN Action · [email protected]
August 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM

Re: [TAKE ACTION] Demand Congress keep health care affordable for millions

Congress must extend the ACA Premium Tax Credits now. John, The threat to affordable health coverage is immediate and severe. In addition to the largest cuts to Medicaid in history, a recent letter from Senator Jeanne Shaheen and colleagues underscores that the …
  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]
August 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM

Insurance premium hikes could force millions to lose health care

Congress must extend the ACA Premium Tax Credits now. John, Health insurance companies just requested premium increases averaging 20% for 2026.1 This is, in part, due to congressional Republicans’ refusal to extend the Affordable Care Act enhanced premium tax cr…
  Dominique Espinoza, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]
August 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM

Re: One power grab after another.

Trump’s authoritarianism didn’t start and doesn’t end with sending the military into our communities. John, The Trump takeover of Washington, DC is horrifying. ICE agents are kidnapping people off the streets. Federal agents and the federalized police force are …
  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]
August 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM

Los Angeles, Washington DC … what city is next?

Trump’s authoritarianism didn’t start and doesn’t end with sending the military into our communities. John, One power grab after another. When Donald Trump took control of the California National Guard and sent U.S. Marines into the streets of Los Angeles to si…
  Dominique Espinoza, CHN Action · [email protected]
August 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM

Re: [TAKE ACTION] End the Trump takeover of Washington, D.C.

Donald Trump has deployed the National Guard to the streets of DC. John, I wanted to make sure you saw Deborah’s email from yesterday. Not only has Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to the streets of Washington, DC and taken over the Metropolitan Police …