Reproductive Freedom for All: The Movement Is Now — Here’s How to Join It

Every day in 2026, reproductive freedom is being defined by who has power and who is denied care. In Pennsylvania, a court struck down the ban on using Medicaid funds for abortions and affirmed a state constitutional right to abortion. At the same time, reporting shows red-state abortion bans are not ending abortions so much as blocking lifesaving care in medical emergencies. And at the federal level, the DOJ met with anti-abortion advocates just hours after firing staff accused of ties to abortion-rights groups.

These are not isolated fights. They reflect a broader strategy: deny care to people with the fewest resources, expand political control over private medical decisions, and protect systems that punish the vulnerable while shielding the powerful. Real people are paying the price. This is a national battle over bodily autonomy, dignity, and freedom.

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What’s Happening: Four Stories Exposing the Coordinated Attack on Reproductive Rights

The assault on reproductive justice rarely announces itself plainly. It arrives as a quiet regulatory rollback, a closed clinic, a law passed and handed to a prosecutor. Each story looks like policy. Together, they reveal a national playbook — and it is dangerous.

Pennsylvania court strikes down ban on use of Medicaid funds for abortions

• When healthcare depends on income, rights are already under attack. A Pennsylvania court struck down the state’s ban on using Medicaid funds for abortions and said the state constitution guarantees a right to abortion. That is what people power looks like: refusing a system where low-income women are denied care because politicians decided their freedom costs too much. The Guardian

Red States Thought They Could Stop Abortions. They Ended Up Stopping Only the Lifesaving Ones.

• Abortion bans were sold as stopping abortions. Instead, they are stopping lifesaving care. Slate reports the bans are failing at their own stated goal while putting pregnant people in danger when emergencies hit. Freedom over fascism means rejecting laws that treat women as disposable and defending the right to survive pregnancy, not just the right to be judged by politicians. Slate

DOJ hosts anti-abortion advocates after it fired staff for work with abortion-rights orgs

• This is what authoritarian power looks like when extremists get the keys. NBC News reports the Justice Department met with anti-abortion advocates just hours after firing staff accused of ties to abortion-rights groups. When government punishes one side and welcomes the other, rights are not being protected. People power means defending bodily autonomy and stopping the state from becoming a weapon for ideological control. NBC News

Dozens of US lawmakers have been accused of sexual harassment, study finds

• Power without accountability becomes abuse. A new study found 53 workplace sexual harassment allegations against at least 30 members of Congress, and most victims were staffers. Survivors deserve more than another resignation and a forgotten headline. People power means changing the rules, protecting workers, and ending the culture that lets the powerful prey on those with less power. The Guardian

Why These Stories Matter

These stories show how reproductive freedom is shaped by power. When a state denies Medicaid coverage for abortion, it tells low-income people their rights matter less. When abortion bans block emergency care, they expose the lie that these laws are about protecting life. When the DOJ appears to sideline one side while welcoming the other, it raises the danger of government becoming an ideological weapon.

That is why reproductive freedom is not a side debate about values. It is about whether people can make decisions about their own bodies without coercion, abuse, or political interference. It is about whether the law protects freedom or reinforces control.

💔 Who Is Harmed — and Who Is Fighting Back

The people harmed first are the ones already carrying the most: low-income patients, pregnant people facing medical emergencies, workers vulnerable to abuse, and communities with the least access to care. When abortion access depends on income, geography, or political favor, freedom becomes conditional.

But these stories also show people are not giving up. Patients, providers, organizers, attorneys, and survivors are still pushing back. Courts can still be moved, truth can still expose cruelty, and communities are still fighting to make care real and power accountable. Bodily autonomy survives because people refuse to surrender it.

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

People Power United members believe change is possible because we have seen ordinary people rise, organize, and be a force for progress. Real change does not come from waiting politely, staying quiet, or hoping those in power suddenly grow a conscience. It comes when people speak out, show up, and demand action—because our communities and families cannot wait, and every moment we delay gives injustice more room to tighten its grip on our communities.

🔊 Take Action Now — Because Waiting Is Not an Option

The prochoice movement needs you, and it needs you today. Here’s how to show up:

• 🏥 Take action: Stop attacks on Planned Parenthood and community clinics

• 🛡️ Take action: Oppose attempts to dox abortion patients or expose their medical records to hostile third parties

• 🔍 Take action: Demand an investigation into crisis pregnancy centers that mislead patients with inaccurate or incomplete medical information

• 💊 Take action: Learn about Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill available without a prescription or ID, and share that information with people who need it

• 💚 Take action: Support organizations on the front lines, including Bans Off Our Bodies and your local abortion fund

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

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What Comes Next: The Women’s Health Protection Act

The path forward is through the courts, the ballot box, and Congress — and there are concrete legislative tools available right now.

The Women’s Health Protection Act: A Federal Shield for Abortion Rights

The Women’s Health protection Act (WHPA) would establish a federal statutory right to provide and access abortion care — one that cannot be overridden by state-level bans or restrictions. Under former Leader Pelosi, it has already passed the House. It is currently blocked in the Senate by Republican opposition.

What the WHPA does:

• Protects abortion access nationwide with a binding federal statutory guarantee

• Prevents state bans from interfering with the patient-provider relationship

• Restores bodily autonomy as a legally enforceable right — not merely a precedent subject to reversal

• Has already passed the House; blocked by Republicans in the U.S. Senate

Passing the WHPA requires electing senators who will vote for it — which means registering voters, turning out voters, and building the sustained civic infrastructure that converts political will into electoral outcomes. That work is already happening, and it is making a measurable difference.

⚖️ Take action: Urge your members of Congress to co-sponsor and support the Women’s Health Protection Act

Together, we can defend our rights, freedoms, the rule of law, and democracy, hold leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

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Reproductive Freedom for All: The Movement Is Now — Here’s How to Join It

Every day in 2026, reproductive freedom and direct democracy are under pressure at the same time. After voters used ballot measures to protect abortion, expand Medicaid, and raise wages, Republican lawmakers in several states are moving to make citizen initiatives harder to pass; in Texas, a woman once jailed over an abortion has now seen most of her claims against officials dismissed, even as a federal judge has left telehealth abortion in place for now and urgent care providers in rural Michigan are trying to fill gaps left by clinic closures.

These are not isolated fights. They point to a broader strategy: make it harder for people to protect their rights at the ballot box, harder to hold power accountable after harm is done, and harder to access care unless communities build new lifelines themselves. Real people, real consequences, right now. This is not a series of isolated local disputes. It is a national strategy — and it demands a national response.

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What’s Happening: Four Stories Exposing the Coordinated Attack on Reproductive Rights

The assault on reproductive justice rarely announces itself plainly. It arrives as a quiet regulatory rollback, a closed clinic, a law passed and handed to a prosecutor. Each story looks like policy. Together, they reveal a national playbook — and it is dangerous.

Stung by Voters, Republican Legislators Move to Curb Citizen Initiatives

• After voters used ballot measures to protect abortion, expand Medicaid, and raise wages, Republican lawmakers in several states are trying to make citizen initiatives harder to pass. That matters because when politicians lose at the ballot box and then change the rules, they are not defending democracy. They are trying to outrun it. The New York Times

She Was Put in Jail in Texas for an Abortion. Blame the Supreme Court for What Happened Next

• A Texas woman was jailed after ending a pregnancy, and years later a federal judge dismissed most of her claims against the officials involved. The bigger warning is that the system can punish someone first and then shield power afterward. When that happens, reproductive freedom and basic accountability both get weaker. Slate

Telehealth abortion will remain available for now, after a federal judge’s ruling

• A federal judge has left telehealth abortion in place for now, pausing a Louisiana challenge to the FDA rule that lets mifepristone be prescribed by mail. That matters because medication abortion is a critical access point, especially where clinics are closing or abortion is banned. For now, patients still have that option, but the legal fight is far from over. NPR

Abortion clinics are closing nationwide. Could urgent care help fill the gap?

• Abortion clinics are closing, and one rural Michigan urgent care stepped in after the region’s only clinic shut down. That matters because when clinics disappear, patients are left driving farther, waiting longer, or going without care. If urgent care centers can help fill that gap, they could become a lifeline for people losing local access. NPR

Why These Stories Matter

These stories are not separate. They show a coordinated strategy to make reproductive freedom harder to protect, harder to access, and harder to defend after harm is done. When lawmakers try to curb citizen initiatives after voters use them to protect abortion rights, they are attacking democracy itself. When a woman can be jailed over an abortion and then watch the system shield the people who harmed her, accountability gets weaker. When telehealth abortion remains under legal threat and clinics keep closing, even basic care becomes more fragile and more unequal.

💔 Who Is Harmed — and Who Is Fighting Back

The people harmed first are the ones already carrying the most: low-income patients, rural communities, and people without the time, money, or ability to travel for care. But these stories also show that people are not giving up. Voters keep using direct democracy to protect reproductive freedom, providers are working to preserve telehealth access, and local health systems are stepping in where clinics have closed. That is what hope looks like in this moment: people refusing to let care, freedom, and dignity disappear.

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

🔊 Take Action Now — Because Waiting Is Not an Option

The prochoice movement needs you, and it needs you today. Here’s how to show up:

• 🛡️ Take action: Oppose attempts to dox abortion patients or expose their medical records to hostile third parties

• 🔍 Take action: Demand an investigation into crisis pregnancy centers that mislead patients with inaccurate or incomplete medical information

• 🏥 Take action: Stop attacks on Planned Parenthood and community clinics

• 💊 Take action: Learn about Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill available without a prescription or ID, and share that information with people who need it

• 💚 Take action: Support organizations on the front lines, including Bans Off Our Bodies and your local abortion fund

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

What Comes Next: The Women’s Health Protection Act

The path forward is through the courts, the ballot box, and Congress — and there are concrete legislative tools available right now.

The Women’s Health Protection Act: A Federal Shield for Abortion Rights

The Women’s Health protection Act (WHPA) would establish a federal statutory right to provide and access abortion care — one that cannot be overridden by state-level bans or restrictions. Under former Leader Pelosi, it has already passed the House. It is currently blocked in the Senate by Republican opposition.

What the WHPA does:

• Protects abortion access nationwide with a binding federal statutory guarantee

• Prevents state bans from interfering with the patient-provider relationship

• Restores bodily autonomy as a legally enforceable right — not merely a precedent subject to reversal

• Has already passed the House; blocked by Republicans in the U.S. Senate

Passing the WHPA requires electing senators who will vote for it — which means registering voters, turning out voters, and building the sustained civic infrastructure that converts political will into electoral outcomes. That work is already happening, and it is making a measurable difference.

⚖️ Take action: Urge your members of Congress to co-sponsor and support the Women’s Health Protection Act

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

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Reproductive Freedom for All: The Movement Is Now — Here’s How to Join It

Every day in 2026, reproductive rights hang in the balance — not as a future threat, but as an active, unfolding reality. The Trump administration has quietly rescinded the federal rule requiring pharmacies to stock and dispense mifepristone, misoprostol, and methotrexate — green-lighting pharmacy-level discrimination against patients seeking abortion medication, miscarriage care, and ectopic pregnancy treatment. In states from Kentucky to Maryland, prosecutors are weaponizing centuries-old laws — statutes written to shame unwed mothers in the 1600s — to charge women experiencing miscarriages and stillbirths with "concealing a birth" and "abuse of a corpse." And Planned Parenthood has been forced to drop its Medicaid lawsuit after courts upheld the funding cuts that have already shuttered more than 50 clinics across 18 states. Real people, real consequences, right now. This is not a series of isolated local disputes. It is a national strategy — and it demands a national response.

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Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

🔊 Take Action Now — Because Waiting Is Not an Option

The prochoice movement needs you, and it needs you today. Here’s how to show up:

• 🔍 Take action: Demand an investigation into crisis pregnancy centers that mislead patients with inaccurate or incomplete medical information

• 🛡️ Take action: Oppose attempts to dox abortion patients or expose their medical records to hostile third parties

• 🏥 Take action: Stop attacks on Planned Parenthood and community clinics

• 💊 Take action: Learn about Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill available without a prescription or ID, and share that information with people who need it

• 💚 Take action: Support organizations on the front lines, including Bans Off Our Bodies and your local abortion fund

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

What’s Happening: Three Stories Exposing the Coordinated Attack on Reproductive Rights

The assault on reproductive justice rarely announces itself plainly. It arrives as a quiet regulatory rollback, a dropped lawsuit, a 400-year-old statute dusted off and handed to a prosecutor. Each story looks like policy. Together, they reveal a national playbook — and it is dangerous.

💊 Trump Rescinds Rule Requiring Pharmacies to Carry Abortion Medications — Nationwide

• The Trump administration has withdrawn a 2022 federal rule requiring pharmacies that receive federal funding to stock and dispense mifepristone, misoprostol, and methotrexate. The rescission gives pharmacists legal cover to refuse prescriptions for all three drugs — including misoprostol, routinely used in labor and delivery, and methotrexate, used to treat ectopic pregnancies and autoimmune disorders. With this protection gone, patients in states hostile to reproductive health now face a new chokepoint: a pharmacist who can simply say no. Mother Jones

Why This Matters: Mifepristone, misoprostol, and methotrexate are not fringe medications — they are essential tools for managing miscarriage, treating ectopic pregnancies, and providing abortion care. Allowing pharmacists to refuse to stock them doesn’t eliminate the medical need; it eliminates the ability of low-income patients and rural residents to meet it. This is medication access being dismantled, one pharmacy counter at a time.

🏥 Planned Parenthood Drops Medicaid Lawsuit as Clinics Close Across America

• Planned Parenthood has voluntarily dismissed its legal challenge against the Trump administration’s Medicaid defunding after a federal appeals court ruled that the administration could continue withholding funding from abortion providers. More than 50 clinics have already closed across 18 states — with nearly half of all Planned Parenthood patients relying on Medicaid for basic reproductive health care, including contraception, STI testing, and cancer screenings. Seattle Times

Why This Matters: The Medicaid defunding of Planned Parenthood was never solely about abortion — it targeted a health care infrastructure that millions of low-income patients depended on for basic services that no other local provider offered. The closure of more than 50 clinics is not an abstraction: it is a concrete gap in care, concentrated in communities that already had the fewest alternatives.

⚖️ Prosecutors Are Using 17th-Century Laws to Criminalize Pregnancy Loss

• Across the country, police and prosecutors are applying laws dating back to the 1600s — statutes originally written to punish unwed women for concealing pregnancies — to charge women who experienced miscarriages and stillbirths. At least 161 people have been prosecuted in the last 20 years for how they handled pregnancy loss, with 24 criminalized in just the first two years after Dobbs. In 19 states, disposing of pregnancy loss remains is classified as a crime — leaving grieving women facing felony charges for not knowing what else to do with a stillborn they delivered alone, in grief, without a roadmap. HuffPost

Why This Matters: Criminalizing pregnancy loss is not a bug in the post-Dobbs legal landscape — it is a feature. The women most targeted by these prosecutions are poor, young, Black, and rural — the same people who already bear the heaviest burden of abortion restrictions and clinic closures. These laws are old, but the political climate is newly emboldening prosecutors to use them.

Why These Stories Matter

These stories are not independent events. They are the coordinated outputs of a single strategy: clear the pharmacy shelves, defund the clinics, and criminalize the aftermath of pregnancy loss — until every avenue for reproductive care is harder to access and easier to prosecute. The people most harmed are always the same: low-income patients who cannot travel, rural residents with no clinic nearby, Black women who face higher rates of pregnancy loss and are disproportionately targeted by prosecutors. And yet the movement is not waiting. People Power United and reproductive justice organizations across the country are exposing these attacks for what they are — not isolated policy choices, but a deliberate effort to make bodily autonomy inaccessible. Ballot initiatives protecting abortion access have passed in state after state since Dobbs. When voters get a direct say on reproductive freedom, they vote to protect it. Every time.

💔 Who Is Harmed — and Who Is Fighting Back

And yet the movement is not waiting. People Power United and reproductive justice organizations across the country are still championing reproductive freedom for all. Ballot initiatives protecting abortion access have passed in state after state since Dobbs. When voters get a direct say on reproductive freedom, they vote to protect it. Every time.

What Comes Next: The Women’s Health Protection Act

The path forward is through the courts, the ballot box, and Congress — and there are concrete legislative tools available right now.

The Women’s Health Protection Act: A Federal Shield for Abortion Rights

The Women’s Health protection Act (WHPA) would establish a federal statutory right to provide and access abortion care — one that cannot be overridden by state-level bans or restrictions. Under former Leader Pelosi, it has already passed the House. It is currently blocked in the Senate by Republican opposition.

What the WHPA does:

• Protects abortion access nationwide with a binding federal statutory guarantee

• Prevents state bans from interfering with the patient-provider relationship

• Restores bodily autonomy as a legally enforceable right — not merely a precedent subject to reversal

• Has already passed the House; blocked by Republicans in the U.S. Senate

Passing the WHPA requires electing senators who will vote for it — which means registering voters, turning out voters, and building the sustained civic infrastructure that converts political will into electoral outcomes. That work is already happening, and it is making a measurable difference.

⚖️ Take action: Urge your members of Congress to co-sponsor and support the Women’s Health Protection Act

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

Subscribe now

Reproductive Freedom for All: The Movement Is Now — Here’s How to Join It

Every day in 2026, reproductive rights hang in the balance — not as a future threat, but as an active, unfolding reality. In Washington, the Trump administration’s HHS has launched investigations into 13 states — including California, Illinois, and New York — threatening to strip federal funding from every state that dares require insurers to cover abortion care. In Congress, Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois has introduced the so-called “Clean Water For All Life Act,” a bill built on debunked junk science that would ban telehealth abortion, mandate humiliating “catch kits,” and impose up to five years in prison — using environmental language to criminalize bodily autonomy. In Florida, advocates rallied at the Capitol pushing the Reproductive Freedom Act to repeal the state’s devastating six-week ban, facing a Republican supermajority that has cut access to approximately 20,000 fewer abortions in a single year. Real people, real consequences, right now. This is not a series of isolated local disputes. It is a national strategy — and it demands a national response.

Subscribe now

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

🔊 Take Action Now — Because Waiting Is Not an Option

The prochoice movement needs you, and it needs you today. Here’s how to show up:

• 🛡️ Take action: Oppose attempts to dox abortion patients or expose their medical records to hostile third parties

• 🔍 Take action: Demand an investigation into crisis pregnancy centers that mislead patients with inaccurate or incomplete medical information

• 🏥 Take action: Stop attacks on Planned Parenthood and community clinics

• 💊 Take action: Learn about Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill available without a prescription or ID, and share that information with people who need it

• 💚 Take action: Support organizations on the front lines, including Bans Off Our Bodies and your local abortion fund

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

What’s Happening: Three Stories Exposing the Coordinated Attack on Reproductive Rights

The assault on reproductive justice rarely announces itself plainly. It arrives as a federal investigation letter, a bill dressed in environmental language, a grassroots rally facing an immovable supermajority. Each story looks local. Together, they reveal a national playbook — and it is dangerous.

🏛️ Trump’s HHS Opens Investigations Into 13 States for Protecting Abortion Coverage

• The Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services has launched investigations into 13 states — California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington — claiming they are violating the Weldon Amendment by requiring insurers to cover abortion care. States have 20 days to respond; those that fail to comply face federal funding cuts or referral to the Department of Justice. Every single targeted state voted for Kamala Harris in 2024. Reproductive rights advocates are calling this what it is: federal coercion against the states working hardest to protect their residents. The Hill

Why This Matters: The Weldon Amendment has been on the books since 2005, and prior administrations read it narrowly. The Trump administration is now stretching it to threaten the abortion coverage mandates that millions of patients — many of them low-income, many of them in states with no other safety net — rely on for care. As one reproductive rights attorney put it, this is not conscience protection; it is federal coercion. If the funding threat succeeds, the damage will be felt in every doctor’s office and insurance plan that serves the communities most at risk.

🚰 Rep. Mary Miller’s “Clean Water” Bill Is a Junk-Science Assault on Abortion Pills

• House Republican Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois has introduced the “Clean Water For All Life Act,” which would ban telehealth abortion care, require anyone using abortion medication at home to collect fetal remains in a “catch kit” and transport them to a physician as medical waste, and impose fines of up to $50,000 and five years in prison for noncompliance. The bill is built on the claim — advanced by anti-abortion group Students for Life — that abortion pills are contaminating America’s drinking water. There is no scientific evidence to support this. Researchers at the Guttmacher Institute have confirmed that there is no evidence medication abortion impacts U.S. waterways, and that the bill relies on false claims to undermine access. HuffPost

Why This Matters: This is the playbook in action: dress an abortion ban in the language of public health, borrow talking points from MAHA-adjacent pseudoscience, and give it an innocuous name. The bill would effectively end mail-order abortion care — the lifeline for rural patients, survivors of abuse, and anyone who cannot safely reach a clinic — and create a criminal surveillance system around one of the most private healthcare decisions a person can make. It is unlikely to pass. But it is gaining institutional backing. Every week it sits in Congress, the window shifts.

🌴 Florida Advocates Rally for the Reproductive Freedom Act — and Refuse to Back Down

• Abortion rights advocates gathered outside the Florida Capitol, demanding that lawmakers pass the Reproductive Freedom Act (SB 1308/HB 1151) and repeal the state’s devastating six-week abortion ban — a restriction that has contributed to approximately 20,000 fewer abortions performed in Florida in 2025 compared to the year before. Planned Parenthood Florida Action’s director of policy and government affairs, Michelle Grimsley Shindano, told the crowd that reproductive health care is a human right — and that the fight will not stop. The legislation faces near-impossible odds in a Legislature controlled by a Republican supermajority aligned with Gov. Ron DeSantis. WUSF

Why These Stories Matter

These stories are not independent events. They are the coordinated outputs of a single strategy: use federal agencies to punish states that protect abortion access, dress junk science in the language of public health to criminalize medication abortion, and keep six-week bans in place while the movement fights on every front simultaneously. The people most harmed are always the same: low-income patients who cannot travel, rural residents with no clinic nearby, people managing miscarriages without safe medication options.

💔 Who Is Harmed — and Who Is Fighting Back

And yet the movement is not waiting. Florida advocates are showing up at the Capitol. Governors and attorneys general in all 13 targeted states are fighting back against HHS overreach. People Power United and reproductive justice organizations across the country are making sure voters know exactly what is on the line. Ballot initiatives protecting abortion access have passed in state after state since Dobbs. When voters get a direct say on reproductive freedom, they vote to protect it. Every time.

What Comes Next: The Women’s Health Protection Act

The path forward is through the courts, the ballot box, and Congress — and there are concrete legislative tools available right now.

The Women’s Health Protection Act: A Federal Shield for Abortion Rights

The Women’s Health protection Act (WHPA) would establish a federal statutory right to provide and access abortion care — one that cannot be overridden by state-level bans or restrictions. Under former Leader Pelosi, it has already passed the House. It is currently blocked in the Senate by Republican opposition.

What the WHPA does:

• Protects abortion access nationwide with a binding federal statutory guarantee

• Prevents state bans from interfering with the patient-provider relationship

• Restores bodily autonomy as a legally enforceable right — not merely a precedent subject to reversal

• Has already passed the House; blocked by Republicans in the U.S. Senate

Passing the WHPA requires electing senators who will vote for it — which means registering voters, turning out voters, and building the sustained civic infrastructure that converts political will into electoral outcomes. That work is already happening, and it is making a measurable difference.

⚖️ Take action: Urge your members of Congress to co-sponsor and support the Women’s Health Protection Act

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

Subscribe now

Reproductive Freedom for All: The Movement Is Now — Here’s How to Join It

Every day in 2026, reproductive rights hang in the balance — not as a future threat, but as an active, unfolding reality. In Georgia, Alexia Moore — a 31-year-old Army veteran — has been charged with murder for taking abortion medication at home, making her one of the first women in the country to face criminal prosecution for ending her own pregnancy. In Texas, Attorney General Ken Paxton has closed three community health clinics, suspended a license, and imposed a $1.6 million bond on Latina Houston midwife Maria Margarita Rojas — the first healthcare provider criminally prosecuted under the state's near-total abortion ban — even as his case appears to be crumbling. And in Virginia, Gov. Abigail Spanberger has signed a proposed constitutional amendment guaranteeing reproductive freedom, sending a historic protection to voters this November. Real people, real consequences, right now. This is not a series of isolated local disputes. It is a national strategy — and it demands a national response.

Subscribe now

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

🔊 Take Action Now — Because Waiting Is Not an Option

The prochoice movement needs you, and it needs you today. Here’s how to show up:

• 🛡️ Take action: Oppose attempts to dox abortion patients or expose their medical records to hostile third parties

• 🔍 Take action: Demand an investigation into crisis pregnancy centers that mislead patients with inaccurate or incomplete medical information

• 🏥 Take action: Stop attacks on Planned Parenthood and community clinics

• 💊 Take action: Learn about Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill available without a prescription or ID, and share that information with people who need it

• 💚 Take action: Support organizations on the front lines, including Bans Off Our Bodies and your local abortion fund

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

What’s Happening: Four Stories Exposing the Coordinated Attack on Reproductive Rights

The assault on reproductive justice rarely announces itself plainly. Each story looks local. Together, they reveal a national playbook — and it is dangerous.

⚖️ Georgia Woman Charged with Murder for Taking Abortion Pills — A First in the Post-Dobbs Era

• Alexia Moore, 31, an Army veteran in Camden County, Georgia, was arrested March 4 and charged with murder after police say she took misoprostol — a medication used in abortion and miscarriage care — to end her own pregnancy at home. Under Georgia’s 2019 heartbeat law, an embryo is a legal person once cardiac activity is detected, which means a woman who intentionally ends her own pregnancy could be charged with killing a person — exactly as defense attorneys warned before the law passed. Advocacy group Pregnancy Justice called the charge “an unprecedented murder charge for an alleged abortion,” and noted that at least 210 women nationwide were criminally charged for pregnancy-related reasons in the single year following Dobbs — the highest tally ever recorded. NBC News

🏥 Ken Paxton Targets a Latina Midwife — and the Case Is Already Falling Apart

• Maria Margarita Rojas, a Houston midwife who served low-income, uninsured, Spanish-speaking patients across three community clinics, is the first healthcare provider criminally prosecuted under Texas’s near-total abortion ban — facing 15 felony counts and the possibility of a life sentence. Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office filed both civil and criminal charges against Rojas, resulting in the closure of all three of her clinics and a $1.6 million bond that has kept her from her patients for nearly a year. But in a February appellate hearing, her legal team revealed the state’s central evidence — the presence of misoprostol — is a drug routinely used in labor and miscarriage care, not proof of illegal abortion; her attorney called the prosecution “a sloppy investigation” that represents the state “grasping at straws.” Slate

🗳 Virginia Sends a Reproductive Freedom Amendment to the Ballot This November

• Gov. Abigail Spanberger has signed a proposed constitutional amendment establishing a “fundamental right to reproductive freedom” in Virginia’s Bill of Rights — covering abortion care, contraception, fertility treatment, prenatal and postpartum care, and miscarriage management — and Virginia voters will decide its fate in November. Abortion is currently legal in Virginia through the end of the second trimester, but those protections exist only in statute, meaning a future governor or legislature could remove them without a constitutional vote. ACLU of Virginia attorney Geri Greenspan warned that other states moved quickly to ban abortion after Dobbs, noting that Texans alone accounted for nearly one-fifth of all U.S. out-of-state abortion patients in 2024. WHRO

🌍 The Faroe Islands Just Overturned One of Europe’s Strictest Abortion Bans

• The parliament of the Faroe Islands — a self-governing Danish territory of 56,000 people — voted 17 to 16 in December 2025 to legalize abortion through 12 weeks of pregnancy, dismantling a 1956 law that had banned most abortions and forced women to travel to Denmark for care, at their own expense. The victory was built over years of grassroots organizing by advocates who once met in secret in a public library, afraid to speak publicly about reproductive rights in a society where abortion had long been taboo. The new law takes effect July 1, 2026, and stands as proof that even the most entrenched bans can fall — when people refuse to stop fighting. New York Times

Why These Stories Matter

These stories are not independent events. They are the coordinated outputs of a single strategy: criminalize the patient, silence the provider, and make every avenue for abortion — pharmaceutical, legal, self-managed — harder to access and easier to prosecute. The people most harmed are always the same: low-income patients who cannot travel, rural residents with no clinic nearby, immigrant women whose community health centers have been shuttered, and people like Alexia Moore who obtained medication legally available in most of the democratic world and now face a murder charge for it.

💔 Who Is Harmed — and Who Is Fighting Back

And yet the movement is not waiting. Virginia voters will have a direct say on reproductive freedom this November — and when voters get that chance, they protect it. Organizers across the country are making sure Virginians know exactly what is at stake. Meanwhile, the Faroe Islands just proved that decades of silence can be broken, that taboo can be overcome, and that a single vote of the margin can change everything. People Power United and reproductive justice organizations are building that same grassroots power — election by election, ballot measure by ballot measure. When voters get a direct say on reproductive freedom, they vote to protect it. Every time.

What Comes Next: The Women’s Health Protection Act

The path forward is through the courts, the ballot box, and Congress — and there are concrete legislative tools available right now.

The Women’s Health Protection Act: A Federal Shield for Abortion Rights

The Women’s Health protection Act (WHPA) would establish a federal statutory right to provide and access abortion care — one that cannot be overridden by state-level bans or restrictions. Under former Leader Pelosi, it has already passed the House. It is currently blocked in the Senate by Republican opposition.

What the WHPA does:

• Protects abortion access nationwide with a binding federal statutory guarantee

• Prevents state bans from interfering with the patient-provider relationship

• Restores bodily autonomy as a legally enforceable right — not merely a precedent subject to reversal

• Has already passed the House; blocked by Republicans in the U.S. Senate

Passing the WHPA requires electing senators who will vote for it — which means registering voters, turning out voters, and building the sustained civic infrastructure that converts political will into electoral outcomes. That work is already happening, and it is making a measurable difference.

⚖️ Take action: Urge your members of Congress to co-sponsor and support the Women’s Health Protection Act

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

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Reproductive Freedom for All: The Movement Is Now — Here’s How to Join It

Every day in 2026, reproductive rights hang in the balance — not as a future threat, but as an active, unfolding reality. In Missouri, Sen. Josh Hawley has introduced a federal bill that would strip the FDA's 25-year approval of mifepristone and make distributing the medication a federal crime in every state in the country. In Kansas, Sen. Mike Thompson is attempting to rewrite the state constitution to establish that life begins at conception — while labeling the measure an "equal rights amendment" on official Senate calendars, counting on voters not to read the fine print. Real people, real consequences, right now. This is not a series of isolated local disputes. It is a national strategy — and it demands a national response.

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Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

🔊 Take Action Now — Because Waiting Is Not an Option

The prochoice movement needs you, and it needs you today. Here’s how to show up:

• 🔍 Take action: Demand an investigation into crisis pregnancy centers that mislead patients with inaccurate or incomplete medical information

• 🛡️ Take action: Oppose attempts to dox abortion patients or expose their medical records to hostile third parties

• 🏥 Take action: Stop attacks on Planned Parenthood and community clinics

• 💊 Take action: Learn about Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill available without a prescription or ID, and share that information with people who need it

• 💚 Take action: Support organizations on the front lines, including Bans Off Our Bodies and your local abortion fund

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

What’s Happening: Three Stories Exposing the Coordinated Attack on Reproductive Rights

The assault on reproductive justice rarely announces itself plainly. It arrives as a Senate bill, a constitutional amendment filed under a misleading name, a parliamentary vote across an ocean. Each story looks local. Together, they reveal a national playbook — and it is dangerous.

💊 Sen. Josh Hawley Introduces Bill to Revoke FDA Approval of Mifepristone — Nationwide

• Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley has introduced federal legislation directing the FDA to withdraw its approval of mifepristone — a drug approved more than 25 years ago and now the most common method of abortion in the United States. The bill would make distributing mifepristone a violation of federal law and allow individuals to sue abortion drug manufacturers. Hawley’s legislation is backed by major anti-abortion organizations, including the Ethics and Public Policy Center, whose disputed paper claiming serious adverse events in nearly 11% of users was directly contradicted by the FDA’s own label and by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, who found the agency’s approval decisions were grounded in science, not ideology. State-level legislation targeting medication abortion is simultaneously advancing in Alaska, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Mississippi, South Dakota, and West Virginia. Truthout

Why This Matters: Mifepristone accounts for more than half of all abortions in the United States and is also used to manage miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies. Revoking FDA approval would not end abortion — it would end safe abortion and eliminate critical miscarriage care. This bill is doing exactly what it is designed to do: normalize the idea that a medication approved by scientists and used safely by millions should be subject to a Senate vote. Every day this sits in Congress, that window shifts. That is the strategy.

🎭 Kansas Republicans Are Disguising a Personhood Amendment as an “Equal Rights Amendment”

• Kansas Sen. Mike Thompson introduced Senate Concurrent Resolution 1623 — formally calling it an “equal rights amendment” in the bill text and in official Senate calendar listings, with no language clarifying it is an anti-abortion measure. What it actually does is amend the Kansas Constitution to declare that equal rights apply “beginning at conception,” establishing personhood at fertilization and opening the door to a total abortion ban. In 2022, Kansas voters defeated a nearly identical attempt by 59% to 41% — the first state to vote on abortion rights after Dobbs, and one of the most decisive rejections in the post-Roe era. Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes called the new resolution exactly what it is: proof that these politicians believe Kansas voters are either not paying attention or too naive to understand what is in front of them. Truthout

Why This Matters: Labeling a personhood amendment an “equal rights amendment” is not an oversight — it is a deliberate strategy. It mirrors what lawmakers in Missouri did when they framed a 2026 ballot measure to repeal existing abortion protections as though it expanded them. When direct attacks on reproductive freedom fail at the ballot box — and they have, repeatedly — the playbook shifts to misdirection. The antidote is exactly what Kansas organizers deployed in 2022: an informed, mobilized electorate that reads the fine print and shows up.

Why These Stories Matter

These stories are not independent events. They are the coordinated outputs of a single strategy: attack the medication, disguise the ballot measure, and make every avenue for abortion — pharmaceutical, legal, self-managed — harder to access and easier to prosecute. The people most harmed are always the same: low-income patients who cannot travel, rural residents with no clinic nearby, people managing miscarriage without safe medication options.

💔 Who Is Harmed — and Who Is Fighting Back

And yet the movement is not waiting. Kansas voters defeated this before and can defeat it again — if they know what they're voting on. People Power United and reproductive justice organizations across the country are making sure they do. Ballot initiatives protecting abortion access have passed in state after state since Dobbs. When voters get a direct say on reproductive freedom, they vote to protect it. Every time.

What Comes Next: The Women’s Health Protection Act

The path forward is through the courts, the ballot box, and Congress — and there are concrete legislative tools available right now.

The Women’s Health Protection Act: A Federal Shield for Abortion Rights

The Women’s Health protection Act (WHPA) would establish a federal statutory right to provide and access abortion care — one that cannot be overridden by state-level bans or restrictions. Under former Leader Pelosi, it has already passed the House. It is currently blocked in the Senate by Republican opposition.

What the WHPA does:

• Protects abortion access nationwide with a binding federal statutory guarantee

• Prevents state bans from interfering with the patient-provider relationship

• Restores bodily autonomy as a legally enforceable right — not merely a precedent subject to reversal

• Has already passed the House; blocked by Republicans in the U.S. Senate

Passing the WHPA requires electing senators who will vote for it — which means registering voters, turning out voters, and building the sustained civic infrastructure that converts political will into electoral outcomes. That work is already happening, and it is making a measurable difference.

⚖️ Take action: Urge your members of Congress to co-sponsor and support the Women’s Health Protection Act

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

Subscribe now

Reproductive Freedom for All: The Movement Is Now — Here’s How to Join It

Every day in 2026, reproductive rights hang in the balance — not as a future threat, but as an active, unfolding reality. In Texas, the Trump administration is deliberately transferring pregnant immigrant girls — some as young as 13, most survivors of rape — to a medically inadequate shelter specifically to deny them abortion access under the state's near-total ban. In Maine, a Democratic Senate primary is forcing a hard reckoning over whether the prochoice movement will fight for the legislative tools — including ending the filibuster — needed to pass federal abortion protections. And in Washington, Gov. Bob Ferguson signed a law to finally unlock a mifepristone stockpile that bureaucratic red tape had nearly rendered useless. Real people, real consequences, right now. This is not a series of isolated local disputes. It is a national strategy — and it demands a national response.

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Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

🔊 Take Action Now — Because Waiting Is Not an Option

The prochoice movement needs you, and it needs you today. Here’s how to show up:

• 🛡️ Take action: Oppose attempts to dox abortion patients or expose their medical records to hostile third parties

• 🏥 Take action: Stop attacks on Planned Parenthood and community clinics

• 🔍 Take action: Demand an investigation into crisis pregnancy centers that mislead patients with inaccurate or incomplete medical information

• 💊 Take action: Learn about Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill available without a prescription or ID, and share that information with people who need it

• 💚 Take action: Support organizations on the front lines, including Bans Off Our Bodies and your local abortion fund

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

What’s Happening: Three Stories Exposing the Coordinated Attack on Reproductive Rights

The assault on reproductive justice rarely announces itself plainly. It arrives as a federal housing directive, a Senate endorsement, a bureaucratic fee schedule. Each story looks local.

🚸 Trump Is Sending Pregnant Migrant Girls to Texas to Strip Their Abortion Rights

• The Trump administration has ordered that every pregnant unaccompanied minor in federal custody be transferred to a single shelter in San Benito, Texas — a facility that the administration’s own health officials have flagged as medically inadequate for the specialized care these children require. More than a dozen girls have been placed there since July; some are as young as 13, and at least half became pregnant as a result of rape. In Texas, abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances, including cases of rape and incest. Federal officials who spoke out — all anonymously, fearing retaliation — said the intent is explicit: concentrate pregnant children in a state where they cannot access abortion care. The Guardian

Why This Matters: A former federal official who ran this same program during Trump’s first term confirmed on the record that this move is “100% and exclusively about abortion” — a strategy he described as a 2017 dress rehearsal now being executed with fewer obstacles. These are children in government custody, with high-risk pregnancies, in a region with some of the worst healthcare access in the country. Trapping them in Texas isn’t a placement decision. It is the government using its power over the most vulnerable people imaginable to enforce forced pregnancy. That is the destination every abortion criminalization bill points toward.

🗳️ The Maine Senate Primary Could Decide the Future of Federal Abortion Protections

• Maine’s June 9 Democratic primary has become a national flashpoint in the abortion rights movement. Abortion advocacy groups including Reproductive Freedom for All have endorsed Gov. Janet Mills over challenger Graham Platner — despite Platner leading in polls and explicitly supporting the elimination of the Senate filibuster, the procedural barrier that has repeatedly prevented the Women’s Health Protection Act from becoming law. Mills, who would be the oldest freshman senator ever elected, supports preserving the filibuster. The race has turned sharply negative, with the Mills campaign airing ads targeting Platner over decade-old Reddit posts on sexual violence. Slate

Why This Matters: The Women’s Health Protection Act has already passed the House. The Senate filibuster is the wall between that bill and law. The Maine primary is a direct referendum on whether the prochoice movement is willing to fight for the tools it needs to win federally — not just defend what’s left at the state level. Voters deserve a clear-eyed conversation about what it will actually take to restore federal abortion protections, and which candidates will vote to make that possible.

💊 Washington Signs a Law to Unlock Its Mifepristone Stockpile — and the Timing Couldn’t Be More Critical

• Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson signed Senate Bill 5917 on March 14, removing the requirement that the state recover its purchase cost before distributing mifepristone from its stockpile. The old fee structure — which required the state to charge at least the purchase price plus five dollars per dose — had left 30,000 doses sitting unused until they nearly expired. The new law allows free distribution, directs the Department of Corrections to coordinate with the Department of Health to identify providers, and takes effect immediately, with advocates hoping to rescue a batch expiring this month. Seattle Times

Why This Matters: Washington built its mifepristone stockpile because lawmakers anticipated a federal assault on abortion pill access — and that assault is now underway, with Louisiana’s federal lawsuit threatening to ban telehealth abortion prescriptions nationwide and Sen. Josh Hawley pushing legislation to revoke FDA approval of mifepristone entirely. A cost requirement nearly made Washington’s preparation worthless. Fixing that in real time, while the national attack intensifies, is exactly the kind of state-level shield work that keeps abortion access alive for the people who need it most.

Why These Stories Matter

The Trump administration is not hiding what it is doing to pregnant immigrant children. A former federal official said it plainly. The machinery of the federal government is being used to confine pregnant rape survivors — children — in a state with an extreme abortion ban because the people in power have calculated that these children cannot fight back. That calculation is part of the same strategy driving the Louisiana mifepristone lawsuit, the filibuster that blocks the Women's Health Protection Act, and every other mechanism designed to make abortion access structurally impossible without ever having to defend a ban at the ballot box.

💔 Who Is Harmed — and Who Is Fighting Back

The harm falls on immigrant children with no legal standing. On rural patients who cannot travel. On people in states where every clinic has closed and every telehealth option is now under legal siege. That asymmetry is a design feature, not a side effect. And yet: Washington's shield law is working. Ballot initiatives protecting abortion access have passed in state after state since Dobbs. People Power United and advocates across the country are pressing every lever available — the courts, the states, the ballot box. The Maine primary is messy and real and worth the fight precisely because the filibuster question is not abstract: it is the difference between a law that exists and a law that doesn't. When voters get a direct say on reproductive freedom, they vote to protect it. Every time.

What Comes Next: The Women’s Health Protection Act

The path forward is through the courts, the ballot box, and Congress — and there are concrete legislative tools available right now.

The Women’s Health Protection Act: A Federal Shield for Abortion Rights

The Women’s Health protection Act (WHPA) would establish a federal statutory right to provide and access abortion care — one that cannot be overridden by state-level bans or restrictions. Under former Leader Pelosi, it has already passed the House. It is currently blocked in the Senate by Republican opposition.

What the WHPA does:

• Protects abortion access nationwide with a binding federal statutory guarantee

• Prevents state bans from interfering with the patient-provider relationship

• Restores bodily autonomy as a legally enforceable right — not merely a precedent subject to reversal

• Has already passed the House; blocked by Republicans in the U.S. Senate

Passing the WHPA requires electing senators who will vote for it — which means registering voters, turning out voters, and building the sustained civic infrastructure that converts political will into electoral outcomes. That work is already happening, and it is making a measurable difference.

⚖️ Take action: Urge your members of Congress to co-sponsor and support the Women’s Health Protection Act

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

Subscribe now

Reproductive Freedom for All: The Fight Is Now — Here’s How to Join It

Every day in 2026, reproductive rights hang in the balance — not as a future threat, but as an active, unfolding reality. In Tennessee, lawmakers proposed the death penalty for abortion. In Louisiana, a federal lawsuit is targeting the right to receive abortion medication by mail. And in Zambia, a woman who was denied a legal abortion went to prison for ending her pregnancy in the only way left to her. Real people, real consequences, right now. This is not a series of isolated local disputes. It is a national strategy — and it demands a national response.

Subscribe now

Why the Grassroots Resistance Can’t Wait

🔊 Take Action Now — Because Waiting Is Not an Option

The prochoice movement needs you, and it needs you today. Here’s how to show up:

• 🏥 Take action: Stop attacks on Planned Parenthood and community clinics

• 🔍 Take action: Demand an investigation into crisis pregnancy centers that mislead patients with inaccurate or incomplete medical information

• 🛡️ Take action: Oppose attempts to dox abortion patients or expose their medical records to hostile third parties

• 💊 Take action: Learn about Opill, the first over-the-counter birth control pill available without a prescription or ID, and share that information with people who need it

• 💚 Take action: Support organizations on the front lines, including Bans Off Our Bodies and your local abortion fund

• 🗳️ Bonus action: Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• 👑 Bonus action: Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

What’s Happening: Three Stories Exposing the Coordinated Attack on Reproductive Rights

The assault on reproductive justice rarely announces itself plainly. It arrives disguised as a procedural motion, a state legislative bill, or a funding rule applied in a quiet new context. Each story looks local. Together, they reveal a national playbook — and it is dangerous.

⚖️ Tennessee Tried to Make Abortion a Death-Penalty Offense — and It’s Not Over

• Two Tennessee Republican legislators pushed an amendment that would have applied the state’s full homicide framework to abortion — from fertilization forward — making anyone who obtains, performs, or assists with an abortion eligible for murder charges and, in some cases, the death penalty. The amendment contained no exceptions for rape or incest. It failed in the House Population Health Subcommittee on March 10, 2026 — but sponsor Rep. Jody Barrett called the outcome a failure of Republican principles, and said similar legislation is advancing across the country. The Hill

Why This Matters: The death penalty for abortion is the loudest version of this attack — designed to shift the Overton window and make the quieter bills look reasonable by comparison. Barrett said the momentum is building. He’s right that similar bills are spreading. Defeating the loudest version is not the end of the fight. It’s the beginning of the next one.

🌍 This Is What Criminalization Looks Like: Violet Zulu’s Story

• Violet Zulu, a 26-year-old mother and house cleaner in Zambia earning $40 a month, was denied a legal abortion at a public clinic and couldn’t afford the $43 cost of medication at a private pharmacy. In desperation, she ended her pregnancy using an herbal remedy. She was sentenced to seven years in prison, represented herself in court without understanding the legal consequences, and was separated from her two children for nearly two years. After international rights groups intervened and helped her appeal, she was freed — but she is still rebuilding her life. Seattle Times

Why This Matters: Violet Zulu’s story is not a foreign policy issue. It is a warning about what happens when abortion is criminalized and poverty determines outcomes. The person who cannot afford care becomes the person who goes to prison. That is the design. That is the destination every “homicide” bill points toward.

💊 Louisiana’s Lawsuit Could End Telehealth Abortion Nationwide

• Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill — backed by 60 Republican members of Congress, 21 GOP attorneys general, and major anti-abortion organizations — is pursuing a federal lawsuit seeking to reinstate the in-person dispensation requirement for mifepristone, which would effectively ban abortion pills from being prescribed via telehealth or mailed to patients. Nearly 30% of all abortions in the first half of 2025 were provided through telehealth. About 15,000 abortions per month are currently provided by physicians protected by shield laws in states where the procedure is legal. Sen. Josh Hawley has simultaneously introduced a bill to revoke FDA approval of mifepristone entirely. Truthout

Why This Matters: Telehealth abortion is not a convenience feature — it is a lifeline for patients in rural areas, low-income communities, and states where in-person care has been eliminated. Reinstating the in-person requirement doesn’t stop abortions for people who can travel. It stops them for everyone else. That is the point.

Why This Is Not a Values Debate — It’s a Fight for Bodily Autonomy

When Rep. Jody Barrett proposed applying Tennessee’s homicide framework to abortion — including the death penalty — he wasn’t articulating a values position. He was attempting to use criminal law to execute people for a medical decision. The bill failed, but identical legislation is advancing across multiple states. The tools shift. The goal doesn’t. The Louisiana mifepristone lawsuit is the quieter version — technical, targeted, and still advancing. It doesn’t send anyone to prison directly. It simply removes the only abortion option available to the person in a rural county, the person without a car, the person who cannot travel. Violet Zulu tried every legal option, found every door closed, and spent two years in maximum-security prison. That is not a hypothetical. That is the documented, predictable consequence of criminalization applied to poverty.

💔 Why These Stories Matter

These policies do not harm everyone equally. That asymmetry is a design feature. Low-income patients, rural residents, people of color, and immigrants absorb the greatest consequences — every time. And yet the reproductive justice movement is not waiting to be legislated out of existence. Shield laws are holding. Rights groups fought for Violet Zulu across international borders and won. Ballot initiatives to protect abortion access have passed in multiple states since Roe fell. When voters get a direct say on reproductive freedom, they vote to protect it. Every time. Step back and the shape becomes clear: Tennessee’s death-penalty bill, Louisiana’s telehealth ban, Zambia’s prison sentence — these are the coordinated outputs of a single strategy. When you cannot determine what happens to your own body, you haven’t just lost a healthcare benefit. You’ve lost a form of political agency. Reproductive freedom and democratic freedom are not two separate causes. They are the same cause — and People Power is that movement.

What Comes Next: The Women’s Health Protection Act

The path forward is through the courts, the ballot box, and Congress — and there are concrete legislative tools available right now.

The Women’s Health Protection Act: A Federal Shield for Abortion Rights

The Women’s Health protection Act (WHPA) would establish a federal statutory right to provide and access abortion care — one that cannot be overridden by state-level bans or restrictions. Under former Leader Pelosi, it has already passed the House. It is currently blocked in the Senate by Republican opposition.

What the WHPA does:

• Protects abortion access nationwide with a binding federal statutory guarantee

• Prevents state bans from interfering with the patient-provider relationship

• Restores bodily autonomy as a legally enforceable right — not merely a precedent subject to reversal

• Has already passed the House; blocked by Republicans in the U.S. Senate

Passing the WHPA requires electing senators who will vote for it — which means registering voters, turning out voters, and building the sustained civic infrastructure that converts political will into electoral outcomes. That work is already happening, and it is making a measurable difference.

⚖️ Take action: Urge your members of Congress to co-sponsor and support the Women’s Health Protection Act

Together, we can champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests) Leader, People Power United

People Power United | In this community, we will always speak out against racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, homophobia, misogyny, sexism, ageism, ableism, sizeism, elitism, transphobia, misogynoir, and bigotry!

This is our moment to rise, resist, and reclaim our rights, freedoms, rule of law, and democracy. Millions of Americans are already refusing to back down — in the streets, at the ballot box, and in their communities.

Every movement that was ever won started with people who refused to quit. We are those people.

The future is not lost. It is being built — by us, right now.

Subscribe now

Reproductive Freedom for All: The Fight Is Now — Here’s How to Join It

Every day in 2026, reproductive rights hang in the balance — not as a future threat, but as an active, unfolding reality. Across emergency rooms, pharmacies, courtrooms, and kitchen tables, real people are being denied health care that was legal just years ago. In Mississippi and South Dakota, legislators are moving to criminalize abortion medication. In Washington, the Trump administration is threatening to strip Medicare and Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to minors — a financial weapon powerful enough to end that care nationwide, regardless of what state laws allow. Meanwhile, the European Commission just opened €147 billion in social funding to expand abortion access, treating reproductive healthcare as the public health issue it is. The contrast could not be sharper: one government is manufacturing a crisis. Others are solving one.

From Iowa’s push to criminalize abortion pill access by mail, to Idaho’s ongoing legal battles over its near-total abortion ban, to the quiet erosion of gender-affirming care in hospitals that can’t afford to fight back — the assault on reproductive freedom for all is advancing on multiple fronts at once. Abortion rights, reproductive justice, and bodily autonomy are not abstract policy debates. They are lived experiences. This is not a series of isolated local disputes. It is a national strategy — and it demands a national response.

🔊 Take Action Now — Because Waiting Is Not an Option

The prochoice movement needs you, and it needs you today. Here’s how to show up:

• Stand up for change Stop Attacks on Planned Parenthood and Community Clinics

• Take a stand Urge your members of Congress to co-sponsor and support the Women’s Health Protection Act.

• Drive the change Demand an investigation into Crisis Pregnancy Centers that mislead patients with inaccurate or incomplete medical information.

• Champion what’s right Oppose attempts to dox abortion patients or expose their medical records to hostile third parties.

• Be the change Learn about Opill — the first over-the-counter birth control pill, available without a prescription or ID — and share that information with people who need it.

• Act for change Support organizations on the front lines: Bans Off Our Bodies and your local abortion fund.

• Make your voice heard Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• Drive the change Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

If MAGA extremists cannot control your vote, they try to control your body. The answer to both is the same: organize, vote, and refuse to be silenced.

What’s Happening: Three Stories Exposing the Coordinated Attack on Reproductive Rights

The assault on reproductive justice rarely announces itself plainly. It arrives disguised as a procedural motion, a state legislative bill, or a funding rule applied in a quiet new context. Each story looks local. Together, they reveal a national playbook — and it is dangerous.

⚖️ Homicide Bills Stall, But the Fight Over Abortion Medication Continues

Republican-backed bills in Illinois, Tennessee, and South Dakota that sought to classify abortion as homicide have stalled or collapsed entirely — facing resistance not just from Democrats, but from national anti-abortion organizations unwilling to defend the political fallout. That is genuine progress.

But the quieter battles are still advancing. Proposals to criminalize abortion medication are moving forward in Mississippi and South Dakota. Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers in Oregon and New Hampshire are working to strengthen shield laws that protect providers and patients from prosecution originating in restrictive states. Truthout

Why this matters: The most extreme criminalization measures are losing momentum — but targeted attacks on abortion medication and interstate access are filling the void. Shield laws have become a critical line of defense for the prochoice movement, protecting the infrastructure of care in states where abortion remains legal.

🌍 The EU Opens Funding to Guarantee Abortion Access

The European Commission announced that member states may draw on the bloc’s existing €147 billion European Social Fund Plus to support women seeking safe abortions — including covering travel costs for those from countries like Poland and Malta where abortion access is heavily restricted. The decision came in direct response to the “My Voice, My Choice” citizens’ initiative, which gathered over 1.2 million signatures across all 27 EU member states. The Guardian

Why this matters: With an estimated 500,000 unsafe abortions occurring across Europe every year, this commitment reframes reproductive healthcare as a matter of public health and social justice — not personal morality. At a time when women’s rights are being rolled back globally, the EU is taking a concrete, funded stand to ensure that geography and income do not determine whether someone receives safe care.

⚕️ Science on Sex and Gender Is Being Misrepresented by Federal Officials

The Trump administration has moved to prohibit gender-affirming care in federal prisons and proposed sweeping rules that would bar any hospital providing gender-affirming care to minors from participating in Medicare and Medicaid — programs that fund nearly half of all hospital care in the United States. These actions have already prompted dozens of hospitals to halt gender-affirming services for young patients, even in states where such care is fully legal. Every major medical association opposes these measures. The Guardian

Why this matters: By threatening the loss of Medicare and Medicaid funding, the administration has found a powerful lever to effectively end gender-affirming care nationwide — regardless of what individual state laws permit. The chilling effect on healthcare providers poses serious, documented risks to the mental and physical health of transgender youth and adults. This is reproductive justice in its broadest sense: the right to make decisions about your own body, free from government coercion.

Why This Is Not a Values Debate — It’s a Fight for Bodily Autonomy

Call it what it is. When Republican legislators in Illinois, Tennessee, and South Dakota introduced bills to classify abortion as homicide, they weren’t articulating a values position — they were attempting to use criminal law to punish people for a medical decision. Those bills stalled. But the machinery shifted. Quieter proposals to criminalize abortion medication are advancing in Mississippi and South Dakota, while lawmakers in Oregon and New Hampshire race to strengthen shield laws protecting providers and patients from out-of-state prosecution. The tools change. The goal doesn’t.

Values don’t force doctors to leave a state. Values don’t send patients to emergency rooms because a miscarriage couldn’t be legally treated. What is playing out across this country is a coordinated campaign to remove bodily autonomy from half the population — and use the full power of the state to enforce that removal. When the Trump administration threatened to strip Medicare and Medicaid funding from hospitals providing gender-affirming care to minors, it wasn’t making a medical argument. It was pulling a financial lever. Dozens of hospitals have already halted services. That is not a values disagreement. That is government coercion.

Meanwhile, the European Commission opened €147 billion in social funding to expand abortion access — treating 500,000 unsafe abortions a year as a public health emergency. In the United States, that same reality is being treated as a political opportunity. The data is unambiguous: the majority of Americans believe abortion should remain legal. These laws do not reflect public consensus. They reflect the capture of institutions by a well-funded ideological minority — and the consequences are documented, in every state where strict restrictions have gone into effect.

Who Is Harmed — and Who Is Fighting Back

Abortion restrictions don’t harm everyone equally. That asymmetry is a design feature. The people absorbing the heaviest consequences are those who already face the greatest barriers to care: low-income patients who can’t travel out of state, rural residents whose nearest clinic has closed, people of color navigating systemic health disparities, and immigrants for whom seeking care carries additional legal risk.

Iowa’s abortion pill ban doesn’t target the person who can book a flight. It targets the person in a rural county for whom a mailed prescription was the only option. Idaho’s OB-GYN exodus doesn’t hurt patients with access to private out-of-state care — it devastates the patients left behind. The Medicare and Medicaid funding threat works the same way: wealthy families absorb it. Everyone else loses their provider.

And yet — the reproductive justice movement is not waiting to be legislated out of existence. Providers are operating across state lines. Shield laws are being built. Ballot initiatives to protect abortion access have passed in multiple states since the fall of Roe, including in states trending politically rightward. When voters get a direct say on reproductive freedom, they vote to protect it. Every time.

The Bigger Pattern: Abortion Bans Are an Attack on Democracy Itself

Step back and the shape becomes clear. Iowa’s abortion pill bill, Idaho’s legal battles, the Medicare funding threat — these are not isolated disputes. They are the coordinated outputs of decades of deliberate movement-building, executed through the systematic capture of state legislatures, federal courts, and ultimately the Supreme Court.

Abortion restrictions follow the same playbook as voter suppression and gerrymandering: use government machinery to lock in minority rule by stripping citizens of consequential decisions about their own lives. The homicide bills were the loud version — overextended, easy to oppose. The abortion pill ban, the funding threat, the shield law fight: that version is still advancing.

When you cannot determine what happens to your own body, you haven’t just lost a healthcare benefit. You’ve lost a form of political agency. Reproductive freedom and democratic freedom are not two separate causes. They are the same cause.

What Comes Next: The Women’s Health Protection Act

The path forward is through the courts, the ballot box, and Congress — and there are concrete legislative tools available right now.

The Women’s Health Protection Act: A Federal Shield for Abortion Rights

The Women’s Health protection Act (WHPA) would establish a federal statutory right to provide and access abortion care — one that cannot be overridden by state-level bans or restrictions. Under Leader Pelosi, it has already passed the House. It is currently blocked in the Senate by Republican opposition.

What the WHPA does:

• Protects abortion access nationwide with a binding federal statutory guarantee

• Prevents state bans from interfering with the patient-provider relationship

• Restores bodily autonomy as a legally enforceable right — not merely a precedent subject to reversal

• Has already passed the House; blocked by Republicans in the U.S. Senate

Passing the WHPA requires electing senators who will vote for it — which means registering voters, turning out voters, and building the sustained civic infrastructure that converts political will into electoral outcomes. That work is already happening, and it is making a measurable difference.

Rise Together: Build People Power

Join us in building the grassroots advocacy infrastructure that reproductive justice demands. Together, we champion rights, freedoms, and democracy — holding leaders accountable and inspiring voters to make a meaningful difference.

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Every day in 2026, politicians in state legislatures and federal courts are making decisions that belong to patients and their doctors — and the consequences are not hypothetical. They are playing out in emergency rooms, in pharmacies, in courtrooms, and in the lives of people who needed health care and were told by their government that they could not have it. Abortion access in 2026 is not a future risk. It is an active, coordinated crisis.

From Iowa’s attempt to ban the mailing of abortion pills to Idaho’s ongoing legal battles over its near-total abortion ban, the assault on reproductive freedom is moving on multiple fronts simultaneously. MAGA politicians are not merely passing restrictive laws — they are using the full machinery of government to silence providers, intimidate patients, and dismantle the infrastructure of reproductive health care piece by piece.

Here is what is happening, why it matters, who it harms, and — crucially — what we can do about it.

What Happened: Four Stories That Expose the Coordinated Attack on Reproductive Freedom

The assault on reproductive rights rarely announces itself as what it is. It arrives as a bill in a state legislature, a procedural motion from an attorney general, a law being applied in an unexpected new context. Taken individually, each story might seem like a local dispute. Taken together, they reveal a pattern — one that is national in scope, deliberate in strategy, and dangerous in consequence.

🩺 Lawsuit Accuses California Doctor of Violating Texas Anti-Abortion Laws

• A California doctor is facing legal action under new Texas anti-abortion laws, which may set a troubling precedent for healthcare providers across state lines. This lawsuit underscores the increasing reach of restrictive abortion legislation, challenging the rights of both patients and healthcare professionals in their pursuit of reproductive freedom. The Seattle Times

⚖️ Judge Strikes Down Old Arizona Abortion Restrictions That Clash with Voter-Backed Guarantees

• A decision by a judge has invalidated previous Arizona abortion restrictions, affirming the rights guaranteed by voter-approved measures and empowering individuals to make their own healthcare choices. This ruling represents a significant victory for reproductive rights and underscores the power of the people to shape legislation through direct democracy. Seattle Times

🤰 Pregnant Migrants in Minnesota Have Postponed Abortion Appointments to Avoid ICE

• Facing the threat of ICE detentions, pregnant migrants in Minnesota are delaying critical abortion appointments, reflecting the intersection of reproductive rights and immigration laws. The heightened fear among these individuals showcases the urgent need for policies that protect both their bodily autonomy and safety against oppressive systems. Truthout

🛡️ ‘I was violated and put in extreme danger’: women denied abortions sue over Arkansas ban

• A lawsuit filed in Arkansas is contesting the state’s strict abortion ban, arguing it unlawfully penalizes women who experience miscarriages. As the case unfolds, advocates are calling for a re-evaluation of laws that restrict reproductive rights and threaten women’s autonomy. The Guardian

Why It Matters: This Is Not a Debate About Values — It’s a Fight for Bodily Autonomy

The framing that abortion is a “values issue” — a matter of sincere disagreement between people with different moral frameworks — has always obscured what is actually at stake. Values do not force doctors to leave the state. Values do not land people in emergency rooms because their miscarriage could not be treated. Values do not sentence people to carry pregnancies that endanger their lives because a politician decided that a law should override a physician’s medical judgment.

What is happening in Iowa, Idaho, and across the country is not a policy debate. It is a coordinated effort to remove bodily autonomy rights from half the population and to use the power of the state to enforce that removal. The mechanism varies — bans on abortion pills, restrictions on providers, procedural obstruction in courts — but the goal is consistent: eliminate access, eliminate the infrastructure, eliminate the legal pathways to challenge the elimination.

The data does not support the political narrative driving these laws. Survey after survey shows that the majority of Americans believe abortion should be legal, particularly in the first trimester and in cases of rape, incest, or threats to the pregnant person’s health. The MAGA abortion agenda is not a reflection of public consensus — it is an imposition of minority extremism through the capture of legislative and judicial power.

And the consequences are not abstract. Abortion bans delay care. Doctors are silenced by fear of prosecution. Patients experience preventable suffering. Lives are put at risk. These are not talking points — they are the documented outcomes in every state where strict abortion restrictions have gone into effect.

Who Is Harmed — and Who Is Still Fighting Back

Abortion bans do not affect everyone equally. That is not a coincidence — it is a design feature. The people most harmed by the erosion of abortion access are the people who already face the greatest barriers to health care: low-income people who cannot travel to another state, rural residents whose nearest clinic has closed, people of color who face systemic disparities in reproductive health outcomes, and immigrants whose legal status makes seeking care an additional source of vulnerability.

When Iowa moves to ban mail-order abortion pills, it is not targeting wealthy people with flexible schedules and the means to fly to a state where care is legal. It is targeting the person in a rural county who relied on a telehealth appointment and a package in the mail because that was the only option available. When Idaho’s abortion ban drives OB-GYNs out of the state, the people who suffer are not those with access to private care in other states — they are the patients left behind in a health care desert.

But here is what the MAGA abortion agenda cannot legislate away: resistance. Providers are still showing up — operating across state lines, offering telehealth consultations, navigating legal uncertainty to ensure patients can access care. Advocates are still organizing — in state legislatures, in federal courts, in communities, and at the ballot box. In several states, ballot initiatives to enshrine abortion protections in state constitutions have passed with significant margins, even in states that have otherwise trended politically rightward. That is the reproductive justice movement at work — and it is working.

The Broader Pattern: Abortion Bans Are an Attack on Democracy Itself

It would be a mistake to read the stories in this post as isolated incidents. Iowa’s abortion pill bill, Idaho’s legal battles, the broader legislative assault on reproductive rights — these are not uncoordinated coincidences. They are the product of decades of deliberate movement-building by anti-abortion organizations, funded by a small network of ideological donors, executed through the capture of state legislatures, federal courts, and eventually the Supreme Court.

As Democracy Docket has documented, abortion restrictions follow the same playbook as voter suppression, gerrymandering, and other anti-democratic tactics: use the machinery of government to lock in minority rule by removing from citizens the ability to make consequential decisions about their own lives. When you cannot decide what happens to your own body, you have lost something more fundamental than a health care benefit — you have lost a form of political agency. That is not incidental to the goal. That is the goal.

Laws are not neutral tools — they are applied according to the priorities of whoever holds power. In the current political environment, the question is not only whether specific rights are protected, but whether the institutions meant to protect them are being systematically hollowed out. Reproductive freedom and democratic freedom are not separate causes. They are the same cause.

What Comes Next: The Women's Health Protection Act and the Power to Fight Back

The picture is serious. But it is not hopeless — and it will not remain serious indefinitely if enough people act. The path forward runs through the courts, the ballot box, and Congress, and there are concrete tools available right now for every person who refuses to accept the erasure of reproductive freedom as inevitable.

The Women’s Health Protection Act: A National Shield for Abortion Access

The Women’s Health protection Act (WHPA) would establish a federal statutory right to provide and access abortion care — one that cannot be overridden by state bans or restrictions. Under Leader Pelosi, it has passed the House. It is blocked in the Senate by Republican opposition. Passing it requires a Senate majority willing to protect reproductive freedom over partisan obstruction.

• Protects abortion access nationwide with a federal statutory guarantee

• Stops state bans from interfering with the patient-provider relationship

• Restores bodily autonomy as a legally enforceable right, not merely a precedent

• Passed the House — blocked by Republicans in the U.S. Senate

Passing the WHPA requires electing senators who will vote for it — which means registering voters, turning out voters, and building the kind of sustained civic infrastructure that transforms political will into electoral outcomes. That work is already happening, and it is making a measurable difference. The reproductive freedom ballot initiatives that have passed in multiple states since the fall of Roe are proof that when people vote on abortion access directly, they vote to protect it.

In the meantime, there are actions we can take today:

• Stand up for change Stop Attacks on Planned Parenthood and Community Clinics

• Take a stand Urge your members of Congress to co-sponsor and support the Women’s Health Protection Act.

• Drive the change Demand an investigation into Crisis Pregnancy Centers that mislead patients with inaccurate or incomplete medical information.

• Champion what's right Oppose attempts to dox abortion patients or expose their medical records to hostile third parties.

• Be the change Learn about Opill — the first over-the-counter birth control pill, available without a prescription or ID — and share that information with people who need it.

• Act for change Support organizations on the front lines: Bans Off Our Bodies and your local abortion fund.

• Make your voice heard Register to vote, vote in every election, and help your community do the same. Reproductive freedom is won and lost at the ballot box.

• Drive the change Sign up for the next national No Kings Day of Action and show up in solidarity with everyone whose rights are under attack.

If MAGA extremists cannot control your vote, they try to control your body. The answer to both is the same: organize, vote, and refuse to be silenced. The reproductive justice movement is not finished. It is fighting — in courtrooms, in clinics, in communities, and in the streets — and it needs every person who understands what is at stake to be part of that fight.

Medical decisions belong to patients and their doctors. Not to politicians. Not to ideologues. Not to the state. That principle is worth fighting for — and there are hundreds of thousands of people already fighting for it. Join us.

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(paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests)

Leader, People Power United

Representing America’s largest grassroots organization with over 300,000+ members, driven entirely by the energy and commitment of everyday people. We are proudly 100% independent, powered by people — not special interests.

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• Abortion access is under coordinated attack

• The consequences are immediate and dangerous

• People power is the antidote

Medical decisions belong to patients and doctors—not politicians.

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🚨 Reproductive Freedom Headlines: What You Need to Know

⚖️ Trump wields abortion clinic law against church demonstrators, providers still fear violence

• In a troubling escalation of state power, former President Trump is leveraging a controversial law to target demonstrators and reporters who were at a immigration-related church protest in Minneapolis last month, raising alarms about the chilling effects on free speech and peaceful protest. — News From the States

Why This Matters:
This situation underscores the urgent need to protect the freedoms of expression and assembly, as the rights to protest are vital in safeguarding democracy against authoritarian tactics aimed at quelling dissent.

🗳️ Abortion Bans Have Always Been Part of the Attack on Democracy

• The ongoing efforts to impose strict abortion bans are not merely issues of healthcare but deeply rooted attacks on democratic values that empower individuals to make choices about their own lives. This alarming trend highlights a broader assault on personal freedoms, illustrating how the fight for reproductive rights is intertwined with the struggle for a just and equitable society. — Democracy Docket

Why This Matters:
Abortion rights are fundamental to individual liberty, and the push against them threatens to undermine democratic principles by sacrificing personal freedoms for authoritarian control. We must mobilize in defense of not just reproductive rights, but all freedoms essential to a thriving democracy.

📬 Iowa bill seeks to crack down on mail-order abortion pills

• A new bill in Iowa proposes to crack down on the mailing of abortion pill by out of state providers. This legislation comes amidst ongoing national discussions about abortion rights, access, and whether individuals can make informed choices about their bodies. — Iowa Public Radio

Why This Matters:
This bill is dangerous in the ongoing struggle for reproductive rights, as it denies individuals access necessary healthcare services.

⚖️ Judge Denies Idaho Attorney General’s Attempt to Dismiss Abortion Lawsuit

• A federal judge has ruled against Idaho’s attorney general, allowing a lawsuit challenging the state’s restrictive abortion laws to proceed, highlighting the ongoing legal battles over reproductive rights in the state. This decision underscores the role of the judiciary in protecting individual freedoms against legislative overreach in the face of rising authoritarian trends. —
  Idaho Capital Sun

Why This Matters:
The ruling is a beacon of hope for those fighting to uphold reproductive rights and exemplifies the importance of judicial independence in safeguarding democratic values against the tide of restrictive legislation.

Tools for Reproductive Freedom: What You Can Do Right Now

• Click here to Don’t Let Anti-Choice Extremists Dox Abortion Patients

• Click here to Investigate Crisis Pregnancy Centers for Misinformation

• Click here to Restore Roe v. Wade Protections Now

  

• Urge Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA)

• Click here to learn more about Opill-an over-the-counter birth control pill with no prescription or ID required.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure reproductive freedom for all. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Sign up for the next national NO KINGS day of action

The Truth MAGA Won’t Say Aloud

• Abortion bans delay care

• Doctors are silenced

• Patients suffer

• Lives are put at risk

Abortion is essential health care—and the majority of Americans agree.

Here is the good news:

• Providers are still showing up

• Communities are still fighting back

• Resistance is working in some states

🏛️ The Women’s Health Protection Act: A National Shield for Abortion Access

WHPA would protect abortion access nationwide, stop state interference in medical care, and restore bodily autonomy—yet it remains blocked in the U.S. Senate.

• Protects abortion access nationwide

• Stops state bans that interfere with care

• Passed the House, blocked by Republicans in the Senate

If MAGA extremists can’t control your vote, they try to control your body.

✊ Who We Are—and Why Your Voice Matters

People Power United is a people-powered, grassroots movement built by everyday Americans who believe freedom, dignity, and democracy belong to all of us—not to politicians, billionaires, or extremist ideologues.

We don’t answer to corporate donors. We don’t chase profit or power. We organize for people—because lasting change has never come from the top down. It comes from communities rising together.

💥 Why You Matter

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re helping protect health care.
You’re defending bodily autonomy.
You’re standing up for freedom over fascism.

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

“We must stand united to protect reproductive justice… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

We’re powered by people, not corporations. Subscribe for free to stay informed — or go paid to help build grassroots change and fuel people-powered resistance.

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But here’s the truth they don’t want you to remember: there is no power stronger than the people when we act together.

• Abortion access is under coordinated attack

• The consequences are immediate and dangerous

• People power is the antidote

Medical decisions belong to patients and doctors—not politicians.

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🚨 Reproductive Freedom Headlines: What You Need to Know

🕵️ Anti-Abortion Groups Try a New Intimidation Tactic: Make Abortion Records Public

• Abortion-rights opponents are seeking to force disclosure of abortion records in Indiana, a move critics say is designed to intimidate providers and patients rather than serve any legitimate public interest. Advocates warn that exposing even anonymized data could increase harassment, stalking, and violence historically directed at people connected to abortion care. Truthout

Why This Matters: Efforts to publicize abortion records risk weaponizing personal medical information and chilling lawful healthcare access. Protecting privacy is central to safeguarding both patient safety and reproductive freedom.

⚖️ Arizona abortion laws struck down

• A judge ruled that several Arizona abortion restrictions must be halted because they conflict with a 2024 voter-approved constitutional amendment guaranteeing abortion rights, finding the laws imposed undue burdens without health benefits. State officials supporting abortion access praised the decision, while Republican lawmakers plan to appeal. The Hill

Why This Matters: Court rulings enforcing voter-approved abortion protections show how state constitutions are becoming decisive battlegrounds for reproductive rights nationwide. The outcome could influence similar legal fights in other states.

💊 Texas man sues California doctor for allegedly sending abortion pills to state

• A Texas resident has filed a civil lawsuit against a California physician under a new state law allowing private citizens to seek damages from anyone who mails abortion medication into Texas. The case underscores escalating legal clashes between states that restrict abortion and those that protect providers through shield laws. The Guardian

Why This Matters: Cross-state legal battles over abortion pills are reshaping the national landscape of reproductive healthcare and could set precedents affecting access across the country.

📰 How Trump Used a Law Meant to Protect Abortion Seekers to Arrest Members of the Press

• “Last week, Don Lemon, an independent reporter, and two protesters were arrested on federal charges arising out of an anti–Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest at a Minnesota church. One of the key charges involves the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, legislation passed in 1993 to protect access to reproductive health facilities and places of worship.” Critics argue the use of such laws against reporters threatens First Amendment protections and democratic accountability. Slate

Why This Matters: Arresting journalists in the context of politically charged protests raises profound concerns about free speech, press freedom, and the boundaries of government power in a democracy.

The Truth MAGA Won’t Say Aloud

• Abortion bans delay care

• Doctors are silenced

• Patients suffer

• Lives are put at risk

Abortion is essential health care—and the majority of Americans agree.

Here is the good news:

• Providers are still showing up

• Communities are still fighting back

• Resistance is working in some states

🏛️ The Women’s Health Protection Act: A National Shield for Abortion Access

WHPA would protect abortion access nationwide, stop state interference in medical care, and restore bodily autonomy—yet it remains blocked in the U.S. Senate.

• Protects abortion access nationwide

• Stops state bans that interfere with care

• Passed the House, blocked by Republicans in the Senate

If MAGA extremists can’t control your vote, they try to control your body.

Tools for Freedom: What You Can Do Right Now

• Click here to Stop Attacks on Planned Parenthood and Community Clinics

• Click here to Investigate Crisis Pregnancy Centers for Misinformation

• Click here to Restore Roe v. Wade Protections Now

• Click here to Tell Conservatives: Hands Off Birth Control

• ICE Accountability

  • Tell Congress: It’s Time to Defund ICE

  • Tell Democratic Leaders: Don’t Cave on ICE Accountability

  • Hold Corporations Accountable for ICE Violence

  • Kristi Noem must go

  

• Urge Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA)

• Click here to learn more about Opill-an over-the-counter birth control pill with no prescription or ID required.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure reproductive freedom for all. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Sign up for the next national NO KINGS day of action

✊ Who We Are—and Why Your Voice Matters

People Power United is a people-powered, grassroots movement built by everyday Americans who believe freedom, dignity, and democracy belong to all of us—not to politicians, billionaires, or extremist ideologues.

We don’t answer to corporate donors. We don’t chase profit or power. We organize for people—because lasting change has never come from the top down. It comes from communities rising together.

💥 Why You Matter

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re helping protect health care.
You’re defending bodily autonomy.
You’re standing up for freedom over fascism.

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

“We must stand united to protect reproductive justice… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

We’re powered by people, not corporations. Subscribe for free to stay informed — or go paid to help build grassroots change and fuel people-powered resistance.

Subscribe now

But here’s the truth they don’t want you to remember: there is no power stronger than the people when we act together.

• Abortion access is under coordinated attack

• The consequences are immediate and dangerous

• People power is the antidote

Medical decisions belong to patients and doctors—not politicians.

Subscribe now

🚨 Reproductive Freedom Headlines: What You Need to Know

📊 Majority of Idahoans back proposed ballot measure on abortion access, poll says

• A new poll finds that a majority of Idaho voters support a proposed ballot initiative that would protect abortion access in the state, showing growing public support for reproductive rights even in traditionally conservative regions. The survey indicates that Idahoans are increasingly rejecting strict bans and seeking to secure legal access through voter-driven measures. The Seattle Times

Why This Matters: Public opinion shifting in conservative states underscores the widening divide between voters and state legislatures on abortion rights, signaling that reproductive freedom could become a winning issue for ballot campaigns and influence broader political dynamics in upcoming elections.

🌍 Trump expands policy banning aid to groups abroad that discuss or provide abortions

• The Trump administration has reinstated and expanded the Mexico City Policy, a foreign aid restriction that bars U.S. global health funding for groups that provide or promote abortion services, a move that critics say will undermine reproductive healthcare access worldwide. The policy reversal reverses Obama-era liberalization and intensifies global debate over the role of U.S. aid in international family planning. NPR

Why This Matters: Expanding the Mexico City Policy has far-reaching consequences for global health programs, cutting funding to organizations that deliver essential services beyond abortion — including HIV prevention, maternal care, and vaccination — and affecting millions of people in vulnerable communities.

⚖️ Trump’s abortion strategy is to do nothing — but his base has other plans

• The Trump administration’s current approach to abortion policy has been largely passive, avoiding major new federal restrictions even as state bans and limits proliferate, leaving the issue to unfold largely at the state level. However, Trump’s political base is pushing for much stricter federal action, creating tension between grassroots activists and the administration’s strategic restraint. Mother Jones

The Truth MAGA Won’t Say Aloud

• Abortion bans delay care

• Doctors are silenced

• Patients suffer

• Lives are put at risk

Abortion is essential health care—and the majority of Americans agree.

Here is the good news:

• Providers are still showing up

• Communities are still fighting back

• Resistance is working in some states

🏛️ The Women’s Health Protection Act: A National Shield for Abortion Access

WHPA would protect abortion access nationwide, stop state interference in medical care, and restore bodily autonomy—yet it remains blocked in the U.S. Senate.

• Protects abortion access nationwide

• Stops state bans that interfere with care

• Passed the House, blocked by Republicans in the Senate

If MAGA extremists can’t control your vote, they try to control your body.

Tools for Freedom: What You Can Do Right Now

• Click here Congress Must Investigate FBI’s Georgia Election Center Raid

• Click here to Put the Minneapolis Killers on Trial

• Click here to Stop Trump’s DOJ from Punishing Dissent

• Click here to Stop Attacks on Planned Parenthood and Community Clinics

• Click here to Investigate Crisis Pregnancy Centers for Misinformation

• Click here to Restore Roe v. Wade Protections Now

• Click here to Tell Conservatives: Hands Off Birth Control

  

• Urge Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA)

• Click here to learn more about Opill-an over-the-counter birth control pill with no prescription or ID required.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure reproductive freedom for all. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

• Sign up for the next national NO KINGS day of action

✊ Who We Are—and Why Your Voice Matters

People Power United is a people-powered, grassroots movement built by everyday Americans who believe freedom, dignity, and democracy belong to all of us—not to politicians, billionaires, or extremist ideologues.

We don’t answer to corporate donors. We don’t chase profit or power. We organize for people—because lasting change has never come from the top down. It comes from communities rising together.

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Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re helping protect health care.
You’re defending bodily autonomy.
You’re standing up for freedom over fascism.

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

“We must stand united to protect reproductive justice… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

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But here’s the truth they don’t want you to remember: there is no power stronger than the people when we act together.

• Abortion access is under coordinated attack

• The consequences are immediate and dangerous

• People power is the antidote

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🚨 Reproductive Freedom Headlines: What You Need to Know

America Has No Kings. And We Are Rising Again.

This is a defining moment for our democracy. Across the country, extremist forces are trying to seize power, gut health care and reproductive freedom, starve essential programs, tear families apart, and funnel public money to billionaires while everyday people pay the price. They want silence. They want fear. They want obedience.

We are giving them none of it.

America was never meant to be ruled by strongmen, oligarchs, or would-be kings. Power does not flow from crowns or bank accounts — it comes from the people. And the people are standing up.

The No Kings movement is growing because millions of us refuse to bankroll cruelty, normalize authoritarianism, or look away as our freedoms are stripped piece by piece — while citizens are killed, our neighbors are illegally detained, and brutality is inflicted in our name. We are workers and seniors, parents and students, nurses, teachers, veterans, and neighbors — united by a belief in dignity, democracy, and the rule of law.

That’s why we are mobilizing again for the largest No Kings national day of action yet.

📅 Saturday, March 28, 2026
📍 Thousands of peaceful actions nationwide

History is on our side. On June 14, 2025, five million people rose up to say “No Kings.” On October 18, 2025, seven million more made it unmistakable: America does not do dictators. On March 28, we rise again — stronger, broader, and more united than ever.

Every No Kings event is rooted in nonviolent action. We de-escalate conflict, act lawfully, and never bring weapons. When People Power United says “fight,” we mean fierce advocacy — never violence. Our work is grounded in peaceful protest, free speech, voting, and collective action to defend our rights, freedoms, and democracy.

If there’s an event near you, sign up and show up. If there isn’t, step forward and organize. One corner, a few signs, a handful of neighbors can spark real change.

Fascism thrives on silence. Democracy survives through participation.

No thrones. No crowns.
Only people — and we are rising.

📢 The Complete Guide to the No Kings Day of Action - March 28, 2026 just launched

Guide to NO KINGS Mobilization

The Truth MAGA Won’t Say Aloud

• Abortion bans delay care

• Doctors are silenced

• Patients suffer

• Lives are put at risk

Abortion is essential health care—and the majority of Americans agree.

Here is the good news:

• Providers are still showing up

• Communities are still fighting back

• Resistance is working in some states

🏛️ The Women’s Health Protection Act: A National Shield for Abortion Access

WHPA would protect abortion access nationwide, stop state interference in medical care, and restore bodily autonomy—yet it remains blocked in the U.S. Senate.

• Protects abortion access nationwide

• Stops state bans that interfere with care

• Passed the House, blocked by Republicans in the Senate

If MAGA extremists can’t control your vote, they try to control your body.

Tools for Freedom: What You Can Do Right Now

• Click here to Stop Trump’s Attempts to Intimidate the Federal Reserve

• Click here to Pass the War Powers Resolution to Stop Trump’s Warmongering

• Click here to Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal War in Venezuela

• Click here to Stop Attacks on Planned Parenthood and Community Clinics

• Click here to Investigate Crisis Pregnancy Centers for Misinformation

• Click here to Restore Roe v. Wade Protections Now

• Click here to Tell Conservatives: Hands Off Birth Control

  

• Urge Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA)

• Urge Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Restoring Essential Healthcare Act — a bill to repeal the “defund” of Planned Parenthood health centers by the Trump administration and its allies in Congress led by Sens. Tina Smith (MN) and Patty Murray (WA) and Reps. Laura Friedman (CA-30), Nikema Williams (GA-5), and Chris Pappas (NH-1). Check to see which senators and representatives have already co-sponsored. If they haven’t yet, ask your supporters to urge them to support!

• Click here to learn more about Opill-an over-the-counter birth control pill with no prescription or ID required.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure reproductive freedom for all. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

✊ Who We Are—and Why Your Voice Matters

People Power United is a people-powered, grassroots movement built by everyday Americans who believe freedom, dignity, and democracy belong to all of us—not to politicians, billionaires, or extremist ideologues.

We don’t answer to corporate donors. We don’t chase profit or power. We organize for people—because lasting change has never come from the top down. It comes from communities rising together.

“We must stand united to protect reproductive justice… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

🌱 What We’ve Built—Together

Because of this community, People Power United has grown into one of the largest people-powered grassroots movements in the country, combining independent news reporting with real-world action.

• ✅ Thousands of bold actions taken daily to defend reproductive freedom, civil rights, and democracy

• ✅ Hundreds of thousands of members across all 50 states—showing up, speaking out, and organizing

• ✅ Top 100 on Substack in U.S. Politics for both On the Rise and Bestseller

• ✅ Zero outside funding—powered entirely by people, not special interests

This isn’t just a newsletter. It’s a movement fueled by courage, care, and collective action.

💥 Why You Matter

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re helping protect health care.
You’re defending bodily autonomy.
You’re standing up for freedom over fascism.

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

👉 Subscribe for free to stay informed. Go paid to help us to continue this work to fuel people-powered change. This movement exists because of you—and it wins because we act together.

Subscribe now

But here’s the truth they don’t want you to remember: there is no power stronger than the people when we act together.

• Abortion access is under coordinated attack

• The consequences are immediate and dangerous

• People power is the antidote

Medical decisions belong to patients and doctors—not politicians.

Subscribe now

🚨 Reproductive Freedom Headlines: What You Need to Know

🗳️ Virginia voters to decide on amendment to protect abortion rights

• Virginia lawmakers have advanced a constitutional amendment that would guarantee the right to reproductive freedom, including abortion care, for voters to decide in the November 2026 election, keeping the issue at the center of the state’s political landscape. Supporters see this as essential to solidify protections, while opponents criticize the language and campaign dynamics. — The Guardian

Why This Matters: This proposed ballot measure would enshrine reproductive rights in a key swing state, setting up a high-stakes vote in 2026 that could influence national discourse ahead of the presidential race.

🧑‍⚖️ Trial over Missouri abortion regulations may affect access across Midwest, South

• A court case challenging Missouri’s abortion regulations could influence access far beyond the state’s borders. Advocates say the outcome may shape how aggressively states can restrict abortion care throughout the region. — Truthout

🏥 Trump administration restores federal funding for family planning after ACLU lawsuit

• Federal funding for family planning programs has been reinstated following legal action challenging its removal. The restoration reopens access to family planning services that had been disrupted nationwide. — The Seattle Times

📊 How abortion coverage threatens to prevent a congressional deal on health care subsidies

• Congressional leaders are struggling to reach a bipartisan agreement to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies, largely because Republicans insist on language that restricts abortion coverage in exchange for Democratic support — a stance Democrats say jeopardizes market stability and coverage for millions. “Republicans were seeking stronger curbs on abortion coverage for those who purchase insurance off the marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act.” This dispute adds to broader legislative gridlock over healthcare policy as critical subsidies are set to expire. — The Seattle Times

Why This Matters: Healthcare affordability for millions hinges on these subsidies, but abortion coverage has become a flashpoint in Congress, illustrating how reproductive rights are influencing unrelated national policy negotiations.

These fights may look local—but their impact is national.

The Truth MAGA Won’t Say Aloud

• Abortion bans delay care

• Doctors are silenced

• Patients suffer

• Lives are put at risk

Abortion is essential health care—and the majority of Americans agree.

Here is the good news:

• Providers are still showing up

• Communities are still fighting back

• Resistance is working in some states

🏛️ The Women’s Health Protection Act: A National Shield for Abortion Access

WHPA would protect abortion access nationwide, stop state interference in medical care, and restore bodily autonomy—yet it remains blocked in the U.S. Senate.

• Protects abortion access nationwide

• Stops state bans that interfere with care

• Passed the House, blocked by Republicans in the Senate

If MAGA extremists can’t control your vote, they try to control your body.

Tools for Freedom: What You Can Do Right Now

• Click here to Stop Trump’s Attempts to Intimidate the Federal Reserve

• Click here to Pass the War Powers Resolution to Stop Trump’s Warmongering

• Click here to Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal War in Venezuela

• Click here to Stop Attacks on Planned Parenthood and Community Clinics

• Click here to Investigate Crisis Pregnancy Centers for Misinformation

• Click here to Restore Roe v. Wade Protections Now

• Click here to Tell Conservatives: Hands Off Birth Control

  

• Urge Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA)

• Urge Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Restoring Essential Healthcare Act — a bill to repeal the “defund” of Planned Parenthood health centers by the Trump administration and its allies in Congress led by Sens. Tina Smith (MN) and Patty Murray (WA) and Reps. Laura Friedman (CA-30), Nikema Williams (GA-5), and Chris Pappas (NH-1). Check to see which senators and representatives have already co-sponsored. If they haven’t yet, ask your supporters to urge them to support!

• Click here to learn more about Opill-an over-the-counter birth control pill with no prescription or ID required.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure reproductive freedom for all. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

✊ Who We Are—and Why Your Voice Matters

People Power United is a people-powered, grassroots movement built by everyday Americans who believe freedom, dignity, and democracy belong to all of us—not to politicians, billionaires, or extremist ideologues.

We don’t answer to corporate donors. We don’t chase profit or power. We organize for people—because lasting change has never come from the top down. It comes from communities rising together.

“We must stand united to protect reproductive justice… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

🌱 What We’ve Built—Together

Because of this community, People Power United has grown into one of the largest people-powered grassroots movements in the country, combining independent news reporting with real-world action.

• ✅ Thousands of bold actions taken daily to defend reproductive freedom, civil rights, and democracy

• ✅ Hundreds of thousands of members across all 50 states—showing up, speaking out, and organizing

• ✅ Top 100 on Substack in U.S. Politics for both On the Rise and Bestseller

• ✅ Zero outside funding—powered entirely by people, not special interests

This isn’t just a newsletter. It’s a movement fueled by courage, care, and collective action.

💥 Why You Matter

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re helping protect health care.
You’re defending bodily autonomy.
You’re standing up for freedom over fascism.

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

👉 Subscribe for free to stay informed. Go paid to help us to continue this work to fuel people-powered change. This movement exists because of you—and it wins because we act together.

Subscribe now

But here’s the truth they don’t want you to remember: there is no power stronger than the people when we act together.

• Abortion access is under coordinated attack

• The consequences are immediate and dangerous

• People power is the antidote

Medical decisions belong to patients and doctors—not politicians.

Subscribe now

🚨 Reproductive Freedom Headlines: What You Need to Know

💊 F.D.A. Decisions on Abortion Pill Were Based on Science, New Analysis Finds

• Political and scientific debates are intensifying in Washington over the abortion drug mifepristone, with Republicans pushing for tighter FDA restrictions amid safety questions, while major medical groups and studies emphasize the drug’s long track record of proven safety. “A study of more than 5,000 pages of agency documents on mifepristone over 12 years found that agency leaders almost always followed the evidence-based recommendations of scientists.”— New York Times

Why This Matters: Mifepristone is used in the majority of U.S. abortions, so proposed regulatory changes could dramatically affect access to medication abortion nationwide — especially in states with bans on surgical procedures.

🇺🇸 Trump’s first year weakened abortion rights even further

• A report from the Center for Reproductive Rights details how President Trump’s second term has seen numerous federal actions that restrict abortion access, from removing emergency abortion guidance to defunding clinics and limiting family planning resources. — Reproductive Rights

Why This Matters: These federal policy shifts are reshaping reproductive healthcare access across the U.S., affecting not just abortion but broader services such as contraception and pregnancy care, with long-term impacts on health equity.

🌿 RISE Collective clinic is continuing Boulder’s long abortion legacy

• After the historic Boulder Abortion Clinic closed last year, former staff launched RISE Collective to continue providing reproductive health services, including abortion care, maintaining Boulder’s legacy as a destination for later-term procedures. The clinic’s cooperative ownership model reflects a community-focused response to dwindling access in the wider U.S. landscape. — KNGU

Why This Matters: As abortion access shrinks nationwide, RISE Collective represents a proactive effort to preserve essential reproductive care and equity in a community with a long history of providing it.

These fights may look local—but their impact is national.

The Truth MAGA Won’t Say Aloud

• Abortion bans delay care

• Doctors are silenced

• Patients suffer

• Lives are put at risk

Abortion is essential health care—and the majority of Americans agree.

Here is the good news:

• Providers are still showing up

• Communities are still fighting back

• Resistance is working in some states

🏛️ The Women’s Health Protection Act: A National Shield for Abortion Access

WHPA would protect abortion access nationwide, stop state interference in medical care, and restore bodily autonomy—yet it remains blocked in the U.S. Senate.

• Protects abortion access nationwide

• Stops state bans that interfere with care

• Passed the House, blocked by Republicans in the Senate

If MAGA extremists can’t control your vote, they try to control your body.

Tools for Freedom: What You Can Do Right Now

• Click here to Stop Trump’s Attempts to Intimidate the Federal Reserve

• Click here to Pass the War Powers Resolution to Stop Trump’s Warmongering

• Click here to Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal War in Venezuela

• Click here to Stop Attacks on Planned Parenthood and Community Clinics

• Click here to Investigate Crisis Pregnancy Centers for Misinformation

• Click here to Restore Roe v. Wade Protections Now

• Click here to Tell Conservatives: Hands Off Birth Control

  

• Urge Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA)

• Urge Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Restoring Essential Healthcare Act — a bill to repeal the “defund” of Planned Parenthood health centers by the Trump administration and its allies in Congress led by Sens. Tina Smith (MN) and Patty Murray (WA) and Reps. Laura Friedman (CA-30), Nikema Williams (GA-5), and Chris Pappas (NH-1). Check to see which senators and representatives have already co-sponsored. If they haven’t yet, ask your supporters to urge them to support!

• Click here to learn more about Opill-an over-the-counter birth control pill with no prescription or ID required.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure reproductive freedom for all. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

✊ Who We Are—and Why Your Voice Matters

People Power United is a people-powered, grassroots movement built by everyday Americans who believe freedom, dignity, and democracy belong to all of us—not to politicians, billionaires, or extremist ideologues.

We don’t answer to corporate donors. We don’t chase profit or power. We organize for people—because lasting change has never come from the top down. It comes from communities rising together.

“We must stand united to protect reproductive justice… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

🌱 What We’ve Built—Together

Because of this community, People Power United has grown into one of the largest people-powered grassroots movements in the country, combining independent news reporting with real-world action.

• ✅ Thousands of bold actions taken daily to defend reproductive freedom, civil rights, and democracy

• ✅ Hundreds of thousands of members across all 50 states—showing up, speaking out, and organizing

• ✅ Top 100 on Substack in U.S. Politics for both On the Rise and Bestseller

• ✅ Zero outside funding—powered entirely by people, not special interests

This isn’t just a newsletter. It’s a movement fueled by courage, care, and collective action.

💥 Why You Matter

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re helping protect health care.
You’re defending bodily autonomy.
You’re standing up for freedom over fascism.

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

👉 Subscribe for free to stay informed. Go paid to help us to continue this work to fuel people-powered change. This movement exists because of you—and it wins because we act together.

Subscribe now

But here’s the truth they don’t want you to remember: there is no power stronger than the people when we act together.

• Abortion access is under coordinated attack

• The consequences are immediate and dangerous

• People power is the antidote

Medical decisions belong to patients and doctors—not politicians.

Subscribe now

🚨 Reproductive Freedom Headlines: What You Need to Know

🎬 Oscar film Belén exposes the injustice that helped transform Argentina’s abortion laws

• The Argentinian film Belén, shortlisted for an Academy Award, tells the true story of a woman wrongly charged with aggravated homicide after a miscarriage under restrictive abortion laws and the ensuing public outcry that helped push the country toward legalizing abortion in 2020. — Ms. Magazine
  
  Why This Matters: The film highlights how individual injustice can fuel broader legal and cultural change, underscoring the global stakes of reproductive rights debates and how art can shape public understanding.

⚖️ One of the Most Significant Texas Abortion Bans Might Be Facing a Major Loss in Court

• Texas’ near-total abortion ban is being challenged in the state’s highest court, with plaintiffs arguing it violates constitutional protections and endangers patients. The ruling could determine how much authority states have to enforce sweeping abortion restrictions after Dobbs. — Slate

💊California refuses to extradite doctor over abortion pill: ‘Not today. Not ever’

• A California physician is facing criminal prosecution for sending abortion pills to a patient in Louisiana, directly testing interstate shield laws. The case highlights growing legal conflict between states protecting abortion access and those enforcing bans. — The Guardian

🏛️ Patty Murray says GOP abortion pill hearing is really about a nationwide ban

• Sen. Patty Murray warns that Republican-led hearings targeting abortion medication are a step toward imposing a national abortion ban. She argues the focus on the pill is part of a broader strategy to restrict access across all states. — Mother Jones

These fights may look local—but their impact is national.

The Truth MAGA Won’t Say Aloud

• Abortion bans delay care

• Doctors are silenced

• Patients suffer

• Lives are put at risk

Abortion is essential health care—and the majority of Americans agree.

Here is the good news:

• Providers are still showing up

• Communities are still fighting back

• Resistance is working in some states

🏛️ The Women’s Health Protection Act: A National Shield for Abortion Access

WHPA would protect abortion access nationwide, stop state interference in medical care, and restore bodily autonomy—yet it remains blocked in the U.S. Senate.

• Protects abortion access nationwide

• Stops state bans that interfere with care

• Passed the House, blocked by Republicans in the Senate

If MAGA extremists can’t control your vote, they try to control your body.

Tools for Freedom: What You Can Do Right Now

• Click here to Stop Trump’s Attempts to Intimidate the Federal Reserve

• Click here to Pass the War Powers Resolution to Stop Trump’s Warmongering

• Click here to Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal War in Venezuela

• Click here to Stop Attacks on Planned Parenthood and Community Clinics

• Click here to Investigate Crisis Pregnancy Centers for Misinformation

• Click here to Restore Roe v. Wade Protections Now

  

• Urge Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA)

• Urge Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Restoring Essential Healthcare Act — a bill to repeal the “defund” of Planned Parenthood health centers by the Trump administration and its allies in Congress led by Sens. Tina Smith (MN) and Patty Murray (WA) and Reps. Laura Friedman (CA-30), Nikema Williams (GA-5), and Chris Pappas (NH-1). Check to see which senators and representatives have already co-sponsored. Click here to urge your member of Congress to support!

• Click here to learn more about Opill-an over-the-counter birth control pill with no prescription or ID required.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure reproductive freedom for all. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

💥 Why You Matter

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re defending progress and power to the people.
You’re standing up for reproductive freedom for all!

“We must stand united to protect freedom over fascism… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

👉 Subscribe to Reproductive Freedom for All for free to stay informed. Go paid to help us to continue this work to fuel people-powered change. This movement exists because of you—and it wins because we act together.

Subscribe now

But here’s the truth they don’t want you to remember: there is no power stronger than the people when we act together.

• Abortion access is under coordinated attack

• The consequences are immediate and dangerous

• People power is the antidote

Medical decisions belong to patients and doctors—not politicians.

Subscribe now

🚨 Reproductive Freedom Headlines: What You Need to Know

🚨 US woman charged with fetal homicide after allegedly inducing own abortion

• A Kentucky woman’s arrest following an abortion has drawn national attention to the criminalization risks patients now face. “Kentucky state police arrested the woman, Melinda S Spencer, 35, on charges of fetal homicide in the first degree, abuse of a corpse and tampering with physical evidence, according to a local Kentucky news outlet. Spencer reportedly ordered medication online to end her pregnancy, then buried the remains of her pregnancy in her backyard.” The case underscores confusion, fear, and uneven enforcement in states with strict abortion bans. — The Guardian

💊 F.D.A. Decisions on Abortion Pill Were Based on Science, New Analysis Finds

• “A study of more than 5,000 pages of agency documents on mifepristone over 12 years found that agency leaders almost always followed the evidence-based recommendations of scientists. ’We found that F.D.A. staff and scientists were basing the recommendations on the evidence, and that’s how it’s supposed to be,’ said one of the study’s authors, Dr. Caleb Alexander, a professor of epidemiology and medicine at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. ‘The F.D.A. wasn’t making decisions that suggest that they were on one side or another of larger societal debates governing mifepristone regulation.’” — The New York Times

⚖️ How an Attack on Obamacare Saved Abortion in Wyoming

• A legal challenge aimed at dismantling the Affordable Care Act unexpectedly became the basis for protecting abortion access in Wyoming. The 2012 Health Care Freedom amendment intended to protect individual choice against federal government intervention (Obamacare) became a shield protecting individual choice against state government intervention (abortion bans). Consequently, abortion remains legal in Wyoming. — The New Yorker & Slate

These fights may look local—but their impact is national.

The Truth MAGA Won’t Say Aloud

• Abortion bans delay care

• Doctors are silenced

• Patients suffer

• Lives are put at risk

Abortion is essential health care—and the majority of Americans agree.

Here is the good news:

• Providers are still showing up

• Communities are still fighting back

• Resistance is working in some states

🏛️ The Women’s Health Protection Act: A National Shield for Abortion Access

WHPA would protect abortion access nationwide, stop state interference in medical care, and restore bodily autonomy—yet it remains blocked in the U.S. Senate.

• Protects abortion access nationwide

• Stops state bans that interfere with care

• Passed the House, blocked by Republicans in the Senate

If MAGA extremists can’t control your vote, they try to control your body.

Tools for Freedom: What You Can Do Right Now

• Click here to Stop Trump’s Attempts to Intimidate the Federal Reserve

• Click here to Pass the War Powers Resolution to Stop Trump’s Warmongering

• Click here to Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal War in Venezuela

• Click here to Stop Attacks on Planned Parenthood and Community Clinics

• Click here to Investigate Crisis Pregnancy Centers for Misinformation

• Click here to Restore Roe v. Wade Protections Now

• Click here to Tell Conservatives: Hands Off Birth Control

  

• Urge Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA)

• Urge Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Restoring Essential Healthcare Act — a bill to repeal the “defund” of Planned Parenthood health centers by the Trump administration and its allies in Congress led by Sens. Tina Smith (MN) and Patty Murray (WA) and Reps. Laura Friedman (CA-30), Nikema Williams (GA-5), and Chris Pappas (NH-1). Check to see which senators and representatives have already co-sponsored. If they haven’t yet, ask your supporters to urge them to support!

• Click here to learn more about Opill-an over-the-counter birth control pill with no prescription or ID required.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure reproductive freedom for all. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

✊ Who We Are—and Why Your Voice Matters

People Power United is a people-powered, grassroots movement built by everyday Americans who believe freedom, dignity, and democracy belong to all of us—not to politicians, billionaires, or extremist ideologues.

We don’t answer to corporate donors. We don’t chase profit or power. We organize for people—because lasting change has never come from the top down. It comes from communities rising together.

“We must stand united to protect reproductive justice… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

🌱 What We’ve Built—Together

Because of this community, People Power United has grown into one of the largest people-powered grassroots movements in the country, combining independent news reporting with real-world action.

• ✅ Thousands of bold actions taken daily to defend reproductive freedom, civil rights, and democracy

• ✅ Hundreds of thousands of members across all 50 states—showing up, speaking out, and organizing

• ✅ Top 100 on Substack in U.S. Politics for both On the Rise and Bestseller

• ✅ Zero outside funding—powered entirely by people, not special interests

This isn’t just a newsletter. It’s a movement fueled by courage, care, and collective action.

💥 Why You Matter

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re helping protect health care.
You’re defending bodily autonomy.
You’re standing up for freedom over fascism.

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

👉 Subscribe for free to stay informed. Go paid to help us to continue this work to fuel people-powered change. This movement exists because of you—and it wins because we act together.

Subscribe now

But here’s the truth they don’t want you to remember: there is no power stronger than the people when we act together.

• Abortion access is under coordinated attack

• The consequences are immediate and dangerous

• People power is the antidote

Medical decisions belong to patients and doctors—not politicians.

Subscribe now

🚨 Reproductive Freedom in 2026: What You Need to Know

• Abortion Access Depends on Geography
  A growing state-by-state divide means some people retain rights while others are stripped of care entirely. — Axios

• Veterans Targeted by Federal Abortion Restrictions
  The Trump administration quietly moved to deny abortion care through the VA—even in cases of rape or health risk. — Truthout

• Wyoming Court Blocks Abortion Bans
  A state court ruling temporarily halts enforcement, showing how courts remain a critical line of defense. — Mother Jones

• Wyoming Supreme Court Case Could Reshape States
  Legal experts warn the outcome could influence abortion rights nationwide. — Vox

These fights may look local—but their impact is national.

The Truth MAGA Won’t Say Aloud

• Abortion bans delay care

• Doctors are silenced

• Patients suffer

• Lives are put at risk

Abortion is essential health care—and the majority of Americans agree.

Here is the good news:

• Providers are still showing up

• Communities are still fighting back

• Resistance is working in some states

🏛️ The Women’s Health Protection Act: A National Shield for Abortion Access

WHPA would protect abortion access nationwide, stop state interference in medical care, and restore bodily autonomy—yet it remains blocked in the U.S. Senate.

• Protects abortion access nationwide

• Stops state bans that interfere with care

• Passed the House, blocked by Republicans in the Senate

If MAGA extremists can’t control your vote, they try to control your body.

Tools for Freedom: What You Can Do Right Now

• Click here to Pass the War Powers Resolution to Stop Trump’s Warmongering

• Click here to Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Illegal War in Venezuela

• Click here to Stop Attacks on Planned Parenthood and Community Clinics

• Click here to Investigate Crisis Pregnancy Centers for Misinformation

• Click here to Restore Roe v. Wade Protections Now

• Click here to Tell Conservatives: Hands Off Birth Control

• Urge Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Women’s Health Protection Act (WHPA)

• Urge Members of Congress to co-sponsor the Restoring Essential Healthcare Act — a bill to repeal the “defund” of Planned Parenthood health centers by the Trump administration and its allies in Congress led by Sens. Tina Smith (MN) and Patty Murray (WA) and Reps. Laura Friedman (CA-30), Nikema Williams (GA-5), and Chris Pappas (NH-1). Check to see which senators and representatives have already co-sponsored. If they haven’t yet, ask your supporters to urge them to support!

• Click here to learn more about Opill-an over-the-counter birth control pill with no prescription or ID required.

• Donate to these champions doing the heavy lifting for our rights and freedoms:

  • Bans Off Our Bodies

• Register to vote, vote, and help elect leaders that will ensure reproductive freedom for all. Share ballot and voting information with friends and family.

✊ Who We Are—and Why Your Voice Matters

People Power United is a people-powered, grassroots movement built by everyday Americans who believe freedom, dignity, and democracy belong to all of us—not to politicians, billionaires, or extremist ideologues.

We don’t answer to corporate donors. We don’t chase profit or power. We organize for people—because lasting change has never come from the top down. It comes from communities rising together.

“We must stand united to protect reproductive justice… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

🌱 What We’ve Built—Together

Because of this community, People Power United has grown into one of the largest people-powered grassroots movements in the country, combining independent news reporting with real-world action.

• ✅ Thousands of bold actions taken daily to defend reproductive freedom, civil rights, and democracy

• ✅ Hundreds of thousands of members across all 50 states—showing up, speaking out, and organizing

• ✅ Top 100 on Substack in U.S. Politics for both On the Rise and Bestseller

• ✅ Zero outside funding—powered entirely by people, not special interests

This isn’t just a newsletter. It’s a movement fueled by courage, care, and collective action.

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When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re helping protect health care.
You’re defending bodily autonomy.
You’re standing up for freedom over fascism.

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

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Reproductive Freedom for All Resources

Opill:

From Our friends at Planned Parenthood we are sharing information on Opill. Information provided by Planned Parenthood for educational purposes only and not as medical advice.

• What it is: Opill is a progestin-only birth control pill approved for over-the-counter (OTC) use for people of all ages—no prescription or ID required.

• How it works:

  • Stops ovulation so no egg is released.

  • Thickens cervical mucus to block sperm from reaching an egg.

• Effectiveness:

  • 99% effective with perfect use; about 93% effective in typical use.

• Safety: Safe for most people, including those with high blood pressure, migraines, or who smoke over age 35.

  • Do not use if you currently have or recently had breast cancer.

• How to take it: Take every day at the same time (within 3 hours of the previous dose) to stay protected.

• Side effects: Possible temporary headaches, nausea, sore breasts, spotting, or changes in periods—usually subside in 2–3 months.

• Access & cost: Available at many pharmacies, online, or the Opill website. Suggested price is about $19.99 per month; buying in bulk online may reduce cost. Planned Parenthood health centers can help you find affordable birth control options.

Information provided by Planned Parenthood for educational purposes only and not as medical advice.

✊ Who We Are—and Why Your Voice Matters

People Power United is a people-powered, grassroots movement built by everyday Americans who believe freedom, dignity, and democracy belong to all of us—not to politicians, billionaires, or extremist ideologues.

We don’t answer to corporate donors. We don’t chase profit or power. We organize for people—because lasting change has never come from the top down. It comes from communities rising together.

“We must stand united to protect reproductive justice… There is no power like that of the people.” — Laurie Woodward García, People Power United

🌱 What We’ve Built—Together

Because of this community, People Power United has grown into one of the largest people-powered grassroots movements in the country, combining independent news reporting with real-world action.

• ✅ Thousands of bold actions taken daily to defend reproductive freedom, civil rights, and democracy

• ✅ Hundreds of thousands of members across all 50 states—showing up, speaking out, and organizing

• ✅ Top 100 on Substack in U.S. Politics for both On the Rise and Bestseller

• ✅ Zero outside funding—powered entirely by people, not special interests

This isn’t just a newsletter. It’s a movement fueled by courage, care, and collective action.

💥 Why You Matter

Every share, every heart, every comment, every call to action, every vote, every subscription strengthens our ability to advocate for progress—and to move forward.

When you’re here, you’re not just staying informed.
You’re helping protect health care.
You’re defending bodily autonomy.
You’re standing up for freedom over fascism.

Power grows when people participate. And together, we are proving—day after day—that the future belongs to those who refuse to stay silent.

👉 Subscribe for free to stay informed. Go paid to help us to continue this work to fuel people-powered change. This movement exists because of you—and it wins because we act together.

Subscribe now