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  Ellie Smeal | Feminist Majority · [email protected]
July 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM

BREAKING NEWS: Trump’s Devastating Spending Bill Passes + Russia Recognizes the Taliban

BREAKING NEWSDear John, I'm writing to you to share two deeply concerning breaking news developments:  1. The House and Senate Have Passed Trump’s Devastating Spending Bill — And Women and Children Will Pay the PriceHere's what the bill will do: cut nearly $800 billion in Medicaid funding, leaving …
  Ellie Smeal | Feminist Majority · [email protected]
July 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM

Here's the latest from the Feminist Majority Political Report

| JUNE 2025 WELCOME TO OUR MONTHLY Feminist Majority Political ReportHERE'S THE BEST FROM THE FEMINIST NEWSWIRE   The House and Senate Have Passed Trump’s Devastating Spending Bill — And Women and Children Will Pay the PriceHere's what the bill will do: cut nearly $800 billion in Medicaid funding, …
  Ellie Smeal and Kathy Spillar, Feminist Majority · [email protected]
July 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM

URGENT: One Call Can Kill Trump’s Big Bad Bill

This morning the House of Representatives is little more than a crime scene.EMERGENCY ACTION BULLETIN This morning the House of Representatives is little more than a crime scene.Republican leaders are moving fast. So fast you can’t see it the horrors embedded in Trump’s Big Bad Bill. So fast you do…
  Ellie Smeal and Kathy Spillar, Feminist Majority · [email protected]
June 30, 2025 at 9:07 PM

Early Warning: Virginia Is the First Big Battle

We’ve won in Virginia before. Now we have to win again — or risk losing everything.Dear John, We’re writing to you with urgency—from our office in Arlington, Virginia, the state where history has been written before, and where it will be written again on November 4, 2025. Even if you don’t live in V…
  Ellie Smeal and Kathy Spillar, Feminist Majority · [email protected]
June 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM

BREAKING: Supreme Court Allows States to Ban Women’s Health Clinics from Medicaid

Dear John, This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court took another brutal swing in its war on women.In a 6–3 decision, the far-right majority sided with South Carolina in Medina v. Planned Parenthood, allowing the state to kick Planned Parenthood and all reproductive health clinics out of its Medicaid pro…
  Ellie Smeal and Kathy Spillar, Feminist Majority · [email protected]
June 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM

In Grief, We Remember. In Rage, We Organize

Dear John, Three years ago today, the Supreme Court dragged women back half a century.With the Dobbs decision, they overturned Roe v. Wade — not with regret, but with relish. They declared open season on women’s autonomy, women’s lives. They handed the gavel to state legislatures stocked with extrem…
  Kathy Spillar and Ellie Smeal, Feminist Majority Foundation · [email protected]
June 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM

She Was Killed for Defending Abortion Rights

BULLETIN: ANTI-ABORTION TERROR STRIKES AGAIN  Emergency UpdateDear John, It’s happened again.  Melissa Hortman, former Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives and staunch supporter of reproductive rights, and her husband Mark, were shot and killed in their home on Saturday.  The alleged ki…
  Kathy Spillar and Ellie Smeal, Feminist Majority Foundation · [email protected]
June 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM

They came for her…

BULLETIN: ANTI-ABORTION TERROR STRIKES AGAIN  Emergency UpdateDear John, It’s happened again.  Melissa Hortman, former Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives and staunch supporter of reproductive rights, and her husband Mark, were shot and killed in their home on Saturday.  The alleged ki…
  Kathy Spillar and Ellie Smeal, Feminist Majority Foundation · [email protected]
June 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM

Political Violence Targets Abortion - Again

BULLETIN: ANTI-ABORTION TERROR STRIKES AGAIN  Emergency UpdateDear John, It’s happened again.  Melissa Hortman, former Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives and staunch supporter of reproductive rights, and her husband Mark, were shot and killed in their home on Saturday.  The killer—Van…
  Kathy Spillar and Ellie Smeal, Feminist Majority Foundation · [email protected]
June 17, 2025 at 11:20 PM

She Faught For Us. They Came For Her.

BULLETIN: ANTI-ABORTION TERROR STRIKES AGAIN  Emergency UpdateDear John, It’s happened again.  Melissa Hortman, former Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives and staunch supporter of reproductive rights, and her husband Mark, were shot and killed in their home on Saturday.  The killer—Van…
  Ellie Smeal and Kathy Spillar, Feminist Majority · [email protected]
June 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM

Feminist Majority Action Bulletin #11: NO KINGS DAY ON JUNE 14. RISE UP

He wants a parade. He wants tanks in the streets. Soldiers marching. Helicopters in the sky. Fifty of them. Helicopters will rattle in the sky.  Boots will pound the pavement.The sounds of money wasted.  The sound of freedom mocked.  But it is Trump’s birthday and he wants the cameras rolling. He wa…
  Ellie Smeal and Kathy Spillar, Feminist Majority · [email protected]
June 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM

Feminist Majority Action Bulletin #11: NO KINGS DAY ON JUNE 14. RISE UP

He wants a parade. He wants tanks in the streets. Soldiers marching. Helicopters in the sky. Fifty of them. Helicopters will rattle in the sky.  Boots will pound the pavement.The sounds of money wasted.  The sound of freedom mocked.  But it is Trump’s birthday and he wants the cameras rolling. He wa…
  Eleanor Smeal, Feminist Majority · [email protected]
June 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM

Why Virginia’s 2025 Election Could Decide 2026

John, Help us build the wall of student activism Virginia needs to win. Dear John, I’m writing you from our office in Arlington, Virginia with a sense of urgency – the kind that comes when everything you fought for teeters on the edge of destruction.Even if you don’t live in Virginia, what happens …
  Eleanor Smeal, Feminist Majority · [email protected]
June 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM

Why Virginia’s 2025 Election Could Decide 2026

John, Help us build the wall of student activism Virginia needs to win. Dear John, I’m writing you from our office in Arlington, Virginia with a sense of urgency – the kind that comes when everything you fought for teeters on the edge of destruction.Even if you don’t live in Virginia, what happens …
  Madelyn Amos | Feminist Campus · [email protected]
June 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM

The Power of Student Activism | The Feminist Student Voice

Feminist Campus presents...THE FEMINIST STUDENT VOICEWelcome to The Feminist Student Voice—your go-to source for unapologetically feminist news, stories, and action, straight from students! Each month, we’ll bring you the latest on campus activism, reproductive rights, gender justice, and everythin…
  Ellie Smeal and Kathy Spillar, Feminist Majority · [email protected]
June 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM

THEY ARE COMING FOR MEDICARE NEXT

John,This is not politics. This is pillage.The Republicans are deceptively calling it "reform." We call it what it is: an attack on women’s lives.This week in Washington, behind closed doors, Senate Republicans revived their plan to carve up Medicare—the federal health insurance program that protect…
  Ellie Smeal and Kathy Spillar, Feminist Majority · [email protected]
June 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM

This fight is now in the U.S. Senate.

We have two months to stop these devastating cutsJohn,They didn’t just vote to gut programs.They voted to gut women’s lives. Last week, House Republicans passed a bill in the dark of night that slashes billions in spending on Medicaid, SNAP (food assistance), child care, home energy assistance, and …