Act Now

• Become a citizen co-sponsor of Medicare-for-All legislation in the House
• Check out the Poor People Campaign’s Action Tool Kit
• House Republicans proposed drastically cutting food assistance for millions. Call now to say, “Hands off SNAP!” 844-241-1141
• Tell Congress to support the Medicare public option
• Get involved with the Coalition for Human Needs & Social Security Works
• Check out and share the Center for American Progress Budget Fact Sheets
• Check out and share reports from the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
• Learn about actions you can take to continue defending the Affordable Care Act (here and here)

Educate Yourself

• Why Republican Cries of Socialism Won’t Work, Paul Waldman, The Nation
• WATCH: The real reason American healthcare is so expensive, Ezra Klein, Vox
• WATCH: The Next Big Fight: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Robert Reich
• Social Security and the Deficit, Nancy Altman, The American Prospect
• MEDICAID EXPANSION IS THE KEY TO A PROGRESSIVE REVIVAL, Way, McElwee, Wendell, and Gans; Crooked
• Truthout series on Medicare-for-All , Truthout
• In sickness and (for the wealthy) in health, Randi Weingarten, AFT
• The Road to Medicare for Everyone, Jacob S. Hacker, The American Prospect
• Reforming Welfare and Controlling the Poor, Kalena Thomhave, The American Prospect
• How to Keep Social Security Secure, Henry Aaron, The American Prospect

In the News

• The Special Interests Behind Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s Medicare-for-All Bill Not the Usual Suspects, Ryan Grim, The Intercept
• More than 100 House Democrats to unveil ‘battle ready’ Medicare-for-all plan as 2020 looms, Jeff Stein, The Washington Post
• Democrats Shouldn’t Abandon Medicare-for-All Over a Misleading Survey, Richard Eskow Common Dreams
• Now that everybody is for Medicare for all, opponents says let’s dilute it, Michael Lighty, CommonDreams
• 70 percent of Americans support ‘Medicare for all’ in new poll, Megan Keller, The Hill
• House GOP 2019 budget calls for deep Medicare, Medicaid spending cuts, Niv Elis and Peter Sullivan, The Hill
• The 2018 Social Security Trustees Report Confirms that Expanding Social Security is Fully Affordable, Social Security Works
• Some Good News — Seriously — About Politics, David Leonhardt, The New York Times
• Trump’s Drug Pricing Scam, Robert Reich, The American Prospect
• Tax policy is a bore, until they take your Social Security and Medicare away, Edward Kleinbard
• Social Security Plan to Shutter Field Office Prompts Street Protest, Charles S. Clark, Government Executive
• Public support for ‘single payer’ health coverage grows, driven by Democrats, Jocelyn Kiley, Pew Research Center
• President’s Budget Would Cut Food Assistance for Millions and Radically Restructure SNAP, Rosenbaum et al., CBPP
• The GOP Tax Plan is A Major Assault in Their War Against Social Security, Medicare And Medicaid, Nancy Altman and Linda Benesch, Huffpost