Take Action to Stand Up for Healthcare Rights!

 

Call Senators to Extend ACA Tax Credits!

Members of Congress have failed to act, and now there are less than 30 days left to address the expiring Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") tax credits, putting 22 million Americans at risk of major hikes to their health insurance premiums. These individuals currently rely on subsidies to reduce their monthly premiums; without them, average costs could rise sharply, in many cases doubling.

 

The Senate may hold a vote on extending these tax credits as early as next week (the week of December 8).

 

Why Do Calls

We need Congress to extend these tax credits NOW!

Democrats are already on board, but it will need some Republican support.

 

Members of Congress need to hear what impact this will have on their state and our country. This step in our strategy is to call Republican Senators who have expressed openness to extending the tax credits.

 

Everyone of us should call all these Senators, so please share this action far and wide.

 

Who to Call & Recommended Script

 

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC)  (202) 224-6342

 

“We need you to step up for North Carolina where 63,000 additional individuals will become uninsured due to ACA subsidies disappearing. For those able to keep their insurance plan, cost of coverage will skyrocket - combine this with the impact of the Big Beautiful Bill and we will have 300,000 more uninsured in North Carolina. Thank you for your support on this matter - we need you to talk to your colleagues now and convince them - Extend the ACA Tax Credits!”

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) (202)-224-6665

 

“We need you to step up for Alaska where 2,400 more individuals will become uninsured due to ACA subsidies disappearing. For those able to keep their insurance plan, cost of coverage will skyrocket on average by 125% - combine this with the impact of the Big Beautiful Bill and we will have 25,000 more uninsured in Alaska. Thank you for your support on this matter - we need you to talk to your colleagues now and convince them - Extend the ACA Tax Credits!”

Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) (202) 224-3004

 

“We need you to step up for Alaska where 2,400 more individuals will become uninsured due to ACA subsidies disappearing. For those able to keep their insurance plan, cost of coverage will skyrocket on average by 125% - combine this with the impact of the Big Beautiful Bill and we will have 25,000 more uninsured in Alaska. Thank you for your support on this matter - we need you to talk to your colleagues now and convince them - Extend the ACA Tax Credits!”

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO)  202-224-6154

 

“We need you to step up for Missouri where 26,000 more individuals will become uninsured due to ACA subsidies disappearing. For those able to keep their insurance plan, the cost of coverage will skyrocket on average by 108%. Combine this with the impact of the Big Beautiful Bill and we will have 163,000 more uninsured in Missouri. Thank you for your support on this matter - we need you to talk to your colleagues now and convince them - Extend the ACA Tax Credits!”

 

 

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) (202) 224-2523

 

“We need you to step up for Maine where 3,000 more individuals will become uninsured due to ACA subsidies disappearing. For those who will keep their insurance plan, the cost of coverage will skyrocket. Combine this with the impact of the Big Beautiful Bill and we will have 32,500 more uninsured in Maine. Thank you for your support on this matter - we need you to talk to your colleagues now and convince them - Extend the ACA Tax Credits!”

 

Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) 202-224-5744

 

“We need you to step up for Alabama where 28,000 more individuals will become uninsured due to ACA subsidies disappearing. For those able to keep their insurance plan, the cost of coverage will skyrocket on average 92%. Combine this with the impact of the Big Beautiful Bill and we will have 49,000 more uninsured in Alabama. Thank you for your support on this matter - we need you to talk to your colleagues now and convince them - Extend the ACA Tax Credits!”

 

Senate Majority Leader Sen. John Thune (R-SD) (202) 224-2321 

 

“We need you to step up for South Dakota where 2,400 more individuals will become uninsured due to ACA subsidies disappearing. For those able to keep their insurance plan, the cost of coverage skyrocket will on average 116%. Combine this with the impact of the Big Beautiful Bill and we will have 12,000 more uninsured in South Dakota. Thank you for your support on this matter - we need you to talk to your colleagues now and convince them - Extend the ACA Tax Credits!”

2025 Gaithersburg City Election

The #PoorPeoplesCampaign principles state "the need to organize at the state and local level," so it's important that people vote at the local level; this year, the city of Gaithersburg has an election this coming Tuesday, November 4, for the Mayoral race and 2 City Council seats.

While the PPC is also non-partisan – and thus we cannot endorse specific candidates – our principles also state the following that remind us we should lift impacted leaders and support issues such as housing justice, food justice, and universal healthcare:

• We are committed to lifting up and deepening the leadership of those most affected by systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, and ecological devastation and to building unity across lines of division.
  
  
• We believe that people should not live in or die from poverty in the richest nation ever to exist. Blaming the poor and claiming that the United States does not have an abundance of resources to overcome poverty are false narratives used to perpetuate economic exploitation, exclusion, and deep inequality.
  
  
• Whereas the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism blames poor and oppressed people for our poverty and oppression, our deepest religious and constitutional values insist that the primary moral issues of our day must be how our society treats the poor, those on the margins, women, LGBTQIA2S+ folks, workers, immigrants, the disabled and the sick; equal protection under the law; and the desire for peace, love and harmony within and among nations.

We ask that Gaithersburg residents review the candidates as published by Bethesda Magazine or progressive sources; and make your choice for whom to vote as you find most fitting to the principles listed above.

Forward Together! Not One Step Back!

Candidates are presented in the images in reverse-alphabetical order.

It's Tri-Chair Mike's Birthday! Please RISE UP! Oct 25 with Mike and others!

Would you like to abolish poverty for your birthday? 

My name is Mike Puskar. I am both an impacted member of the Maryland Poor People's Campaign and one of its Tri-Chairs.

Today, October 23, is my 48th birthday. I would like nothing more than to abolish poverty for my birthday, yet instead we have a president literally destroying the People's House, after this entire year of destroying lives and livelihoods.

So, for my birthday, I ask that you RISE UP! this Saturday, October 25, with me, my fellow Tri-Chair Linnell, Westside Church of Christ, and many more who are frustrated, worried, or even fearful of the sheer destruction to our Constitution — and I'm not talking about a piece of paper but of #WeThePeople.

We must demand the continuation of SNAP, Medicaid, and other programs facing cuts due to the Big Ugly Bill; and demand an end to all of the detriments besieging our poor and low-wage friends and family.

So come one, come all, to stand with us... and please share this far and wide. The more we have attend, the greater the gift will be, not just to me to but to everyone. We must break this ring of pain. We Won't Be Silent Anymore!

Forward Together! #143

Mike ( @mbpuskar )

RSVP at mdppc.org/westside