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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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…

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  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 …

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  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…

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  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 …

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  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…

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  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…

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  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 …

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  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…

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  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 …

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  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…

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  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 …

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

August 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM

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

Donald Trump has deployed the National Guard to the streets of DC. John, Our nation’s capital is under siege. Last week, Donald Trump announced that he was taking control of Washington, DC’s police force. His excuse? The city was overwhelmed with crime. But the…

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  Dominique Espinoza, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

August 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM

re: They’re sabotaging Social Security so they can hand it over to Wall Street

Instead of cuts and privatization, Congress should be protecting and expanding Social Security for generations to come. John, Throughout Social Security’s 90 years, we’ve strengthened and expanded the program so that it now includes people with disabilities, sur…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

August 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM

They’re sabotaging Social Security so they can hand it over to Wall Street

Instead of cuts and privatization, Congress should be protecting and expanding Social Security for generations to come. John, For 90 years, Social Security has been a collective promise: we pay in with every paycheck we earn, and our earned benefits will be ther…

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  Dominique Espinoza, CHN Action · [email protected]

August 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM

RE: 90 years later and Social Security is at risk

Ninety years after its creation, Social Security is at risk like never before. John, We are facing a national crisis. Since his inauguration, Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented assault on Social Security. Elon Musk and Donald Trump have deliberately des…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

August 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM

90 years later and Social Security is at risk

Ninety years after its creation, Social Security is at risk like never before. John, Ninety years ago today, on August 14, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law, radically changing how Americans afford retirement. Before …

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  Dominique Espinoza, CHN Action · [email protected]

August 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM

RE: The National Guard doesn’t belong in our streets

The Posse Comitatus Act exists for a reason: to protect the American people from military occupation and political crackdowns masquerading as “law enforcement.” John, President Trump crossed a line that has stood for nearly 150 years. Back in June—without Gover…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

August 12, 2025 at 7:22 PM

The National Guard doesn’t belong in our streets

The Posse Comitatus Act exists for a reason: to protect the American people from military occupation and political crackdowns masquerading as “law enforcement.” John, In a brazen move, even for him, Donald Trump is deploying the National Guard to the streets of…

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  Dominique Espinoza, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

August 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM

Re: We can’t give in to authoritarianism

Trump’s attacks on our democracy won’t stop us from doing our work. John, The 2026 midterm elections are less than a year and a half away, and they may be at risk. Since the beginning of his second term, Donald Trump has taken steps to put his thumb on the bala…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

August 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM

We can’t give in to authoritarianism

Trump’s attacks on our democracy won’t stop us from doing our work. John, Our democracy is under attack. According to the U.S. Constitution, Congress has the power of the purse - the authority to approve funding for programs it chooses to support. But the Trump…

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  Dominique Espinoza, CHN Action · [email protected]

August 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM

Elections are the foundation of our democracy. They must be fully funded

Congress must allocate $825 million in the FY26 budget towards election administration. John, Elections are the foundation of our democracy. But right now, that foundation is cracking. Cyberattacks. Disinformation. Threats and harassment targeting election work…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

August 7, 2025 at 8:17 PM

[TELL CONGRESS] Pass the No Ban Act

The Muslim Ban 2.0 is worse than before John, Just like in 2017, Trump is once again targeting people from Muslim-majority and African nations under the pretense of “national security.” He has revived the same cruel, discriminatory travel ban that devastated tho…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

August 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM

Millions more could lose health insurance

Congressional inaction will cause insurance premiums to skyrocket John, Almost everyone with insurance through the Affordable Care Act Marketplace will see their premiums skyrocket in 2026, forcing millions of people to drop their health insurance entirely. Bec…

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  Dominique Espinoza, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

August 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM

Re: This is inhumane

ICE is breaking our due process laws, illegally kidnapping and deporting residents with legal status. John, ICE must be held accountable. This lawless agency, which got a massive infusion of funding from the just-passed Big Ugly Bill, is spreading fear and traum…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

August 4, 2025 at 4:59 PM

ICE received a 600% budget increase

ICE is breaking our due process laws, illegally kidnapping and deporting residents with legal status. John, ICE raids are spreading fear and trauma in immigrant communities—and people across the country are rising up to protest the return of Trump’s xenophobic, …

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  Dominique Espinoza, CHN Action · [email protected]

August 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM

This cruelty towards immigrants must end

More immigrants are detained now than at any other time in U.S. history. John, A bombshell report from Human Rights Watch, titled “You Feel Like Your Life Is Over,”1 exposes horrifying conditions at ICE detention centers in Florida. Immigrants suffer routine med…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

August 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM

Law enforcement must have accountability

Legislation has been introduced in Congress to unmask ICE. John, Across the country, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are carrying out arrests and raids while wearing masks and hiding their identities. These secretive tactics don’t belong in a de…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

July 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM

We’re demanding Congress undo harmful cuts to Medicaid and Medicare

Thank you for never giving up, holding Congress accountable to the American people. John, Earlier this summer, Congress passed and the president signed the largest cut to health care in American history. As a result, 15 million people are expected to lose their …

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  Meredith Dodson, CHN Action · [email protected]

July 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM

Re: The largest health care cuts in U.S. history

As we celebrate the birthday of Medicaid and Medicare, the programs are under great threat. John, Last week, CHN staff joined allies on Capitol Hill for a 60 hour vigil to protect Medicaid in honor of Medicaid's 60th anniversary. We read stories from those who p…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

July 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM

The largest health care cuts in U.S. history

As we celebrate the birthday of Medicaid and Medicare, the programs are under great threat. John, Sixty years ago this week, Medicaid and Medicare were established when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Amendments into law. The programs were…

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

July 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM

Re: Not one more

Join a Families First rally near you. John, Yesterday, we rallied in communities across the country to reject right-wing attacks on our families—our health care, nutrition, education, and our very right to exist. Together, we will not stay silent as our due pro…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

July 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM

We’re standing up for American values

Join a Families First rally near you. John, Today, we gather to say: Not One More. Not one more child goes hungry. Not one more family denied care. Not one more community abandoned. Congress chose billionaires, while we’re choosing each other. They’re gutting …

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  Dominique Espinoza, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

July 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM

Re: Saturday: Find a rally near you

We’re demanding care over cruelty and love over hate. John, Not one more child without lunch. Not one more older American without health care. Not one more immigrant abducted. This Saturday, the Coalition on Human Needs and our allies are coming together for …

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

July 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM

Saturday: Find a rally near you

We’re demanding care over cruelty and love over hate. John, With our communities under attack, we’re coming together this Saturday for the next big national day of action―Families First. Whether it is ripping health care away from 17 million people, cutting cri…

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  Meredith Dodson, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

July 23, 2025 at 8:12 PM

Re: Fight back against Trump’s funding attacks

The funding attacks against human needs programs must end. John, For decades, right-wing reactionaries in Congress have tried and failed to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and its two most popular programs: PBS and NPR―and this time they finally d…

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  Deborah Weinstein, Coalition on Human Needs · [email protected]

July 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM

Fight back against Trump’s funding attacks

The funding attacks against human needs programs must end. John, Millions of children are at risk of losing out on the educational services they were promised―not because of a funding shortfall, but due to political attacks. In March 2025, Congress approved and…

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  Meredith Dodson, CHN Action · [email protected]

July 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM

Stop the attacks on public education

John, Last week, Congress voted to rescind $9 billion in previously appropriated funds including funds for NPR and PBS. That is just the latest attack on funding for local communities that Congress has already approved—and the Administration has tried to claw ba…

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  Deborah Weinstein, CHN Action · [email protected]

July 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM

Inhumane and Cruel

Congress must investigate human rights violations at Alligator Alcatraz. John, Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis have taken a decommissioned airstrip in the Everglades surrounded by the Big Cypress National Preserve and illegally built an ICE detent…

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