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  Medicaid Vote Update via NDWA · [email protected]
May 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM

Urgent: Stop Congress from gutting Medicaid coverage for millions

National Domestic Workers Alliance The pressure has reached a boiling point, and we need everyone. UPDATE: The budget bill that could cut over $700 billion in healthcare funding is now set for a full House vote. Congress' own nonpartisan analysts say MILLIONS of Americans will lose their health …
  Medicaid Action Team at NDWA · [email protected]
May 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM

Donate: Bring care workers to D.C. to Save Medicaid

National Domestic Workers Alliance We need your help to bring care workers to the halls of Congress. John, members of Congress are racing to pass a disastrous new budget bill that guts Medicaid, increases risks to immigrant families, and undermines access to in-home care and child care for famil…
  Care Team via NDWA · [email protected]
May 11, 2025 at 4:01 PM

This Mother’s Day, let’s thank the ones who raised us — and keep fighting for them

National Domestic Workers Alliance Moms and mother figures deserve all the flowers. They also deserve a future. John - Mother’s Day can be a joyful time of love, gratitude, and reflection. It can also be complicated and heavy. For those who have lost a mother, are navigating painful relationships…
  Medicaid Action Alert via NDWA · [email protected]
May 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM

Sign the petition: Save Medicaid

National Domestic Workers Alliance The House is drafting a dangerous bill to slash Medicaid and hand massive new tax breaks to billionaires. Congress is racing ahead with a plan that could decimate Medicaid by slashing a shocking $880 billion from its budget. The House committee responsible is ab…
  Philly Organizing Team via NDWA · [email protected]
May 8, 2025 at 8:21 PM

Victory! Philly passes the POWER Act

National Domestic Workers Alliance Thanks to your voice and support, domestic workers in Philly just won BIG. John: We did it — the Philly POWER Act has passed and 750,000 workers in Philadelphia have critical new labor protections! This is a historic moment for care workers, immigrant women, an…
  Care Team | National Domestic Workers Alliance · [email protected]
May 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM

AAPI Heritage, Lobby Days & Jeanette’s Fight for Freedom

From honoring AAPI domestic workers to fighting back in D.C. — here’s how we’re taking action this May. NDWA NEWSLETTER  |  MAY 2025 HONORING AAPI HERITAGE MONTH As Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month kicks off, we are taking a moment to honor and uplift the powerful role AAP…
  Medicaid Action Alert via NDWA · [email protected]
April 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM

Re. URGENT: Protect Medicaid Before Congress Votes

National Domestic Workers Alliance The House has greenlit a dangerous bill to slash Medicaid and hand massive new tax breaks to billionaires. John, we're re-sending this email in case you missed it last week. Add your name to the petition calling on Congress to protect Medicaid before we deliver …
  Jeanette Vizguerra UPDATE via NDWA · [email protected]
April 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM

Add your name: Stand with Jeanette

National Domestic Workers Alliance Jeanette's family took their fight to Congress — now they need your voice John: For 42 days, longtime NDWA member and activist Jeanette Vizguerra has been in an ICE detention facility. On March 17, she was ripped from her children, grandchildren, and community a…
  Medicaid Action Alert via NDWA · [email protected]
April 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM

URGENT: Protect Medicaid Before Congress Votes

National Domestic Workers Alliance The House just greenlit a dangerous bill to slash Medicaid and hand massive new tax breaks to billionaires. Congress is writing the bill right now that is likely to include $880 billion in Medicaid cuts to pay for massive new tax breaks for billionaires. But her…
  Care Team via NDWA · [email protected]
April 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM

Your Words are Powering the Future

National Domestic Workers Alliance The Power Capsule is filled with your words — and your vision for the future. Last week, more than 1,500 domestic workers — nannies, housecleaners, and care workers — came together from across the country to strategize, celebrate, and build the future of our …
  Advocacy Team at NDWA · [email protected]
April 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM

Add your name: Medicaid vs. Billionaires

National Domestic Workers Alliance The House just greenlit a dangerous bill to slash Medicaid and hand massive new tax breaks to billionaires. Last week, the House greenlit a budget bill that sets the stage for devastating cuts to Medicaid. But together we are going to stop it. Congress has made…
  Care Team via NDWA · [email protected]
April 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM

Senator Sanders is standing with us

National Domestic Workers Alliance There is so much at stake for low-paid care workers right now. On Friday, over 1,500 domestic worker leaders, organizers, and partners were joined by special guest Senator Bernie Sanders at our National Assembly. The energy was electric as he delivered a clear m…
  Care Team via NDWA · [email protected]
April 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM

Share a powerful message for the future

National Domestic Workers Alliance Your words today will help carry this movement forward for years to come. More than 1,500 domestic workers from across the country are gathering to celebrate, organize, and dream together at our We Power Care 2025 National Assembly. And we have something speci…
  Care Team at NDWA · [email protected]
April 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM

URGENT: Medicaid is on the chopping block — act NOW!

National Domestic Workers Alliance We have a chance to save Medicaid, but we have to do it RIGHT NOW. It’s official: the Senate just forged ahead with a dangerous bill that would hand massive tax cuts to billionaires, while slashing over a trillion dollars from programs families rely on to surviv…
  Know Your Rights Alert via NDWA · [email protected]
April 3, 2025 at 7:32 PM

We won’t stop fighting for Jeanette Vizguerra and other care workers’s rights under attack

National Domestic Workers Alliance NDWA is fighting to protect our communities. We need your help. John, recently, longtime National Domestic Workers Alliance member Jeanette Vizguerra was ripped from her children, grandchildren, and community and detained by ICE without warning. She now faces de…
  Advocacy Team at NDWA · [email protected]
April 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM

The timeline to slash Medicaid is speeding up

National Domestic Workers Alliance Medicaid is the foundation of home care jobs, and we’ll fight to protect it with everything we’ve got. John, a new report from Yale Budget Lab has revealed that under the current budget proposal being negotiated in Congress, 70% of the benefits from the tax chan…
  Care Team via NDWA · [email protected]
March 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM

Medicaid Cuts Put Women at Risk

National Domestic Workers Alliance Anti-care elected officials want to slash Medicaid—millions of women would pay the price. Right now, anti-care lawmakers are threatening the health and future of millions of women, many of whom are care workers who keep this country running, by pushing budget …
  Care Team | NDWA · [email protected]
March 23, 2025 at 7:32 PM

ADD YOUR NAME: Don’t Cut Care to Fund Cruelty

National Domestic Workers Alliance Congress must protect care, not fund cruelty. John, for 57 days the new deportation agenda has put immigrant caregivers at risk. Families leave every morning for work and school, scared they will not all come home. To make things worse, lawmakers just passed a …
  Care Team via NDWA · [email protected]
March 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM

From Medicaid to immigration—tell us how you’re doing.

National Domestic Workers Alliance With so much at stake for care workers and families, we want to check in with you. Threats to care and our communities are escalating—and we want to check in. From mass deportation plans, to threatened Medicaid cuts, to the dismantling of policies and programs …
  Immigration Advocacy Team via NDWA · [email protected]
March 19, 2025 at 12:26 AM

URGENT: NDWA leader Jeanette Vizguerra faces wrongful detention—act now

National Domestic Workers Alliance Jeanette Vizguerra, an NDWA member and leader for immigrant rights, needs our help. John— Jeanette Vizguerra, a longtime NDWA member, worker leader and activist, was just taken by ICE without warning. Jeanette has called Colorado home for over two decades and …
  Medicaid Action Team | NDWA · [email protected]
March 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM

Save Medicaid with a phone call today

National Domestic Workers Alliance It’s Medicaid Day of Action. Can you make a phone call? John, as members of Congress return home to their districts, care workers are mobilizing across the country to save Medicaid. Our lawmakers’ job is to ensure that the 72 million people who rely on Medicaid…
  Senate Action Alert | NDWA · [email protected]
March 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM

Add your voice: Medicaid Hanging in the Balance

National Domestic Workers Alliance In hours Senators will set the tone for the Budget bill where Medicaid is hanging in the balance. John, on Tuesday evening the House passed a stop-gap funding bill that would result in cuts for programs like food assistance, child care, public health, education…
  Care Team | National Domestic Workers Alliance · [email protected]
March 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM

Women’s History Month, the Fight for Medicaid & Local Action

Honoring the domestic worker movement, stopping Medicaid cuts, and taking local action in Philly & Maryland. NDWA NEWSLETTER  |  MARCH 2025 HONORING THE WOMEN WHO BUILT THIS MOVEMENTMarch is Women’s History Month, a time to celebrate the resilience and power of women who have shaped history—inc…
  Medicaid Action Team at NDWA · [email protected]
March 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM

We are at the center of our fight to protect Medicaid

National Domestic Workers Alliance We need your help. The negotiations over the future of Medicaid are happening right now. John, domestic workers and care workers are on the frontlines fighting tooth and nail to stop the drastic cuts to Medicaid that have been proposed in Congress – cuts that w…
  Care Team via NDWA · [email protected]
March 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM

They Call It Reform—But It’s a Healthcare Purge

National Domestic Workers Alliance Millions are at risk of losing Medicaid. Tell Congress: Hands off our healthcare. Let’s be clear: this isn’t about budgets. It’s a healthcare purge. Kicking families off their healthcare is about giving tax breaks to corporations and big donors - not efficiency…
  Immigrant Care Team at NDWA · [email protected]
March 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM

John, has the deportation crackdown come to your community?

National Domestic Workers Alliance If we don’t tell our own stories, they’ll be told about us without us. John – every night news coverage of deportation raids builds up an intentionally misleading stereotype of immigrants as violent criminals. It’s a self-fulfilling cycle that’s used to justify…
  Allison Julien | NDWA · [email protected]
February 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM

Black Immigrant Workers Under Attack: Stand With Them Now

National Domestic Workers Alliance Black immigrant women caring for our families are facing unprecedented challenges. Support their fight for justice. John, when many pundits discuss immigration, Black immigrants are too often left out of the conversation. Haitian, Jamaican, Nigerian, Ethiopian …
  Care Team via NDWA · [email protected]
February 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM

URGENT: Congress is voting on Medicaid—we must act!

National Domestic Workers Alliance Lawmakers are deciding the future of Medicaid. We need a flood of voices demanding they protect families, not billionaires. Take action now! This is urgent: Congress is preparing to vote, as early as this evening, on slashing Medicaid funding and leaving famili…
  Allison Julien | NDWA · [email protected]
February 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM

Attacks on DEI directly impact Black Domestic Workers

National Domestic Workers Alliance Demand respect for Black labor by investing in their power today. John, right now we are witnessing a top-down attack on diversity, equity, and inclusion—an attack that directly undermines worker protections. These attacks are part of a larger strategy to maint…
  Advocacy Team via NDWA · [email protected]
February 21, 2025 at 5:31 PM

Public schools, healthcare, and transit are at risk—act now

National Domestic Workers Alliance Congress is pushing a bill that would hurt families and gut cities of critical funding. Fight back now! Right now, Congress is considering the "No Bailout for Sanctuary Cities" Act (H.R. 32): a dangerous bill that would strip federal funding from cities and sta…
  Care Team | National Domestic Workers Alliance · [email protected]
February 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM

John: Your name is missing 💖

National Domestic Workers Alliance Time is running out! Sign our Valentine's Day eCard and show domestic workers you care. John — It’s Valentine’s Day—and there’s still time to send a message of gratitude and solidarity to the domestic workers who care for our families, our homes, and our commun…
  Care Team | National Domestic Workers Alliance · [email protected]
February 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM

John: This Valentine’s Day, Stand in Solidarity with Care Workers💖

National Domestic Workers Alliance Domestic workers care for us every day. Show them we care this Valentine's Day. John — The anti-care movement is doubling down. They oppose fair wages. They block protections. They want care work to remain invisible, unprotected, and undervalued. That’s why thi…
  Advocacy Team via NDWA · [email protected]
February 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM

Add Your Name: Hands Off Our Medicaid!

National Domestic Workers Alliance Medicaid is a lifeline for families and caregivers. Congress must protect it. Every family deserves access to care. Some lawmakers want to take that away – that's why we need you to add your voice to today's "Hands Off Our Medicaid” National Day of Action! Medi…
  Care Team via NDWA · [email protected]
February 3, 2025 at 10:01 PM

A Bracelet that Fights for Fair Pay

National Domestic Workers Alliance Make domestic work visible this Valentine's Day with a bracelet that fights for fair pay. John, as we face a cascade of new policies coming for care workers day after day, a powerful way to show your love for the people who care for our homes, families, and lov…
  Care Team | National Domestic Workers Alliance · [email protected]
February 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM

Black History, Care Workers, and the Fight Ahead

From honoring Black domestic worker history to protecting care and immigrant workers today—here’s how we’re taking action. NDWA NEWSLETTER  |  FEBRUARY 2025 THEY FOUGHT FOR US, NOW WE FIGHT FOR THE FUTUREBlack domestic workers have always been at the heart of the fight for dignity and justice—organ…
  Advocacy Team via NDWA · [email protected]
January 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM

Chaos, confusion, and a reversal: what just happened with Medicaid

National Domestic Workers Alliance Millions of families rely on Medicaid. This week's events showed how much is at stake. Earlier this week, the White House announced a massive spending freeze on critical federal programs. The news sent shockwaves through the country, throwing hundreds of progra…
  Advocacy Alert via NDWA · [email protected]
January 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM

Re. Add your name: No Tax Cuts for Billionaires

National Domestic Workers Alliance 1 in 5 care workers live in poverty, and now Congress wants to cut their healthcare to fund tax breaks for billionaires. We're re-sending this in case you missed it! If you haven't yet, add your name to call on Congress to reject tax breaks for billionaires and …
  Care Team via NDWA · [email protected]
January 22, 2025 at 10:25 PM

How are you holding up?

National Domestic Workers Alliance Your voice shapes this movement—take our survey today. Let’s face it: These days, the weight of what’s happening around us can feel overwhelming. From the constant fights over our rights to the challenges we face at home, it’s okay to feel stretched thin—or rea…
  Jenn Stowe | National Domestic Workers Alliance · [email protected]
January 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM

No Matter What, We Will Not Back Down

National Domestic Workers Alliance Domestic workers are essential, and our movement is here to stay. John: Our movement has achieved remarkable progress. Together, we expanded access to child care, improved wages for care workers, and elevated care as a national priority. These victories were no…
  Care Team | National Domestic Workers Alliance · [email protected]
January 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM

“The fierce urgency of now”

National Domestic Workers Alliance Dr. King’s call to action resonates today—take a stand for care and dignity. The words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. remind us that the time to act is not in some distant future—it is now. Today, as we honor his legacy, his words challenge us to confront injus…
  Advocacy Alert via NDWA · [email protected]
January 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM

Add your name: No Tax Cuts for Billionaires

National Domestic Workers Alliance 1 in 5 care workers live in poverty, and now Congress wants to cut their healthcare to fund tax breaks for billionaires. John, the top of the priority-list for the brand-new Congress is to give enormous tax cuts to billionaires, and families and care workers are…
  Care Team via NDWA · [email protected]
January 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM

URGENT: Help Domestic Workers Recover from the LA Wildfires

National Domestic Workers Alliance Domestic workers in LA are in crisis—your help can make the difference. The wildfires in Los Angeles have destroyed over 12,000 homes, schools, and places of safety, leaving entire communities in crisis. For domestic workers—most of whom are Black, Latinx, or im…
  Care Team via NDWA · [email protected]
January 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM

Donate to support domestic workers during the Los Angeles wildfires

National Domestic Workers Alliance Your donation will provide urgent relief to domestic workers impacted by the LA wildfires. The devastating wildfires in Los Angeles have left entire communities in crisis—destroying more than 12,000 homes, schools, and places of safety and stability. For domest…
  Care Team via NDWA · [email protected]
January 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM

New Year, New Challenges, Same Commitment

National Domestic Workers Alliance Sign the pledge to stand for respect and resilience in 2025. 2025 has arrived, and with it, new challenges for domestic workers, our families, and our communities. While the year ahead will test our resilience, we remain clear on one thing: our commitment to p…
  Care Team via NDWA · [email protected]
January 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM

Finding hope in our progress

National Domestic Workers Alliance Despite the challenges, we made progress in 2024 that inspires hope for 2025. Happy New Year! As we step into 2025, we do so after a year that brought its share of challenges. These times haven’t been easy, but they’ve also shown the strength of our community.…
  The NDWA Team · [email protected]
December 31, 2024 at 10:17 PM

Trying one last time for John

National Domestic Workers Alliance This is it. We are just hours away from the end of the year — the cut-off for our fundraising deadline to help us support in-home care workers, nannies, and housecleaners before 2025 begins. We don't have a gift recorded from you yet, and we are still SHORT o…
  Jenn Stowe | National Domestic Workers Alliance · [email protected]
December 31, 2024 at 5:46 PM

We’re running out of time for domestic workers

National Domestic Workers Alliance We haven’t received your donation yet, John. As we count down the final hours of 2024, your opportunity to make a monumental impact is slipping away. The deadline is midnight tonight, and we urgently need your help to reach our goal. We have not yet receive…
  NDWA Fundraising Team · [email protected]
December 31, 2024 at 3:34 PM

⌛ Countdown Alert: Your chance to double your impact ends at midnight

National Domestic Workers Alliance You’re almost out of time to DOUBLE your impact for domestic workers. MIDNIGHT FUNDRAISING DEADLINE 2X MATCH CHALLENGE Help us reach our $20,000 goal Complete your gift now >> John — the year is almost over, and we're still short of our year-end fundrais…
  Donation Shortfall Alert via NDWA · [email protected]
December 30, 2024 at 9:41 PM

Re. Sorry to say we are NOT on track

National Domestic Workers Alliance Starting 2025 with one hand tied behind our back. We’re re-sending our email from earlier today in case you missed it. The hard reality is that we’re coming up short on our goal of raising $20,000 before 2025. And, unless we reach it before midnight tomorrow, we…
  Donation Shortfall Alert via NDWA · [email protected]
December 30, 2024 at 4:17 PM

Falling short

National Domestic Workers Alliance Starting 2025 with one hand tied behind our back. John, we need to show you this graph. It shows that we are off-track to meet our end of year fundraising goal. There are less than 48 hours until the deadline to raise $20,000, and I’m sorry to say that grassr…