Phone Bank Opportunity

When:

June 24–June 26, 5:00–7:00pm CDT

Where:

Virtual event — Join from anywhere

WI and MN friends -

If you can, please join one or more of the phonebanks this Monday-Thursday at 5pm (Central time) to help stop Medicaid cuts.

I’m doing three of the phonebanks.

ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONAL OR IF YOU KNOW ONE YOU CAN TALK TO & FORWARD THIS INFO - below is an email from a strategy session held in Twin Cities - stories are being requested, to be sent to our federal representatives.

MN people can contact Republican Representatives listed — those of us in WI can use the info to contact at least Van Orden and Tiffany...among others...

Rural hospitals are threatened, and people’s lives are at stake.

Minnesota Budget Project

Impacts on Minnesotans

"The so-called 'Big Beautiful Bill' making its way through Congress is anything but. The huge reconciliation bill that passed the U.S. House last month and is being debated in the Senate, would raise costs on Minnesota families, taking health coverage, food assistance, and other essentials away from Minnesotans who are already struggling to make ends meet. Those cuts to public services would pay for extending large tax cuts that will primarily benefit Minnesota's wealthiest households."

The Minnesota Budget Project has a track record of successfully combining sound research and analysis with advocacy, engagement, and communications strategies to enact policy change towards a more just and equitable Minnesota. They recently posted a study of how the bill passing through Comgress would impact MN families.

The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" is a budget reconciliation bill which means it only needs 60 votes to pass in the Senate. It allows Congress to bypass the usual filibuster rules in the Senate, making it a powerful tool for the majority party to enact their agenda…so lobbying senators is critical. The bill will then need to return to the House for a vote, so lobbying Representatives remains important.

Information on Medicaid cuts to rural hospitals

from The American Hospital Association (AHA)

Some printable resources on Medicaid in MN from Duluth Indivisible

Cash-strapped Minnesota hospitals scramble for $1B in Medicaid money

MN's recently passed state budget includes the implementation of a DPP plan (Directed Payment Program) which would bring in an additional $1 Billion in federal Medicaid funds for MN hospitals. This plan requires federal approval and is on the clock as the BBB places a moratorium on new DPPs.

This is an immediate and specific MN impact above and beyond the overall attack on medicaid.

from the Star Tribune

The race is on for Minnesota to net as much as $1 billion in federal Medicaid support and help some of the state’s vulnerable hospitals stay open.

Soon, that opportunity could close. For good.

Minnesota lawmakers greenlit the effort last week when they finalized the state budget. That gave the Department of Human Services (DHS) permission to pursue a directed-payment program that would boost federal payments to hospitals without raising costs on patients or the state.

Trouble is, they left hospital and DHS leaders with only three weeks to apply for the program before Congress’ self-imposed July 4 deadline to approve a federal budget. The House version of that budget prohibits new directed-payment programs; the Senate and Trump administration are considering cuts that could make these programs less valuable.

5calls: Stop US Involvement in the Israel-Iran Conflict

a quick & easy action opportunity

Indivisible: Tell Your Senators: No War With Iran

a quick & easy action opportunity

Stop the War Buildup in Iran

Call the president and our senators.

Please contact President Trump and our Congressional Reps to say:

• No more bombs dropped on Iran!
• No war with Iran!
• No more FOREVER WARS!
• Peace not war!

Trump campaigned on being a 'peace president' that would end America's fascination with endless war.

• Didn't we learn the lessons from our misadventures in Iraq?
• Hasn't America had enough with our fascination with ‘forever wars' — that always exacerbate the problems rather than resolving them?
• Trump continually berated President Bush for his costly calamity in Iraq, a conflagration that was initiated, based wholly on false intelligence.
• It looks like Trump could be poised to make the same ruinous mistake, again without considering the law of unintended consequences.

Let's STOP TRUMP from dropping more bombs in Iran.

CONGRESS needs to reclaim the WAR POWERS authority vested in it:

The War Powers Resolution is a federal law enacted in 1973 intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to any military action or armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. It is a mechanism to maintain the constitutional balance of power between the executive and legislative branches in matters of war and peace.

Contact Senator Tina Smith

Phone: (202) 224-5641

Contact Senator Amy Klobuchar

Phone: (202) 224-3244

Contact Congressman Pete Stauber

Phone: (202) 225-6211

The good news is that a bipartisan group in the Congress opposes the war and is working to stop it.

• Bernie Sanders (D-VT) introduced the Senate No War Against Iran Act.
• Thomas Massie (R-KY) & Ro Khanna (D-CA) introduced the War Powers Resolution.
• Tim Kaine (D-VA) introduced a War Powers Resolution, with a likely vote next week.

Please call your Senators and your congressional representative to demand they support these efforts and keep America out of this disastrous conflict.

June 22, 2025

some background from Heather Cox Richardson

"For the first time in history, the United States dropped its 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOPs)—twelve of them—on another country."

Their Iran Narrative Is Unraveling

Jay Kuo

"On Saturday night East Coast time, the White House, without first obtaining authorization or even consulting with any Democrats in Congress, committed an act of war against Iran by dropping bunker buster bombs and firing Tomahawk cruise missiles at three of its nuclear facilities.

"It was a serious escalation that ended all ongoing diplomatic efforts, and it marked the entry of the U.S. into Israel's war with Iran."

Postcards & Zines! Indivisible

Join us for some fun

When:

Wednesday, June 25 and July 2, 4:00–5:30pm

Where:

Stillwater area location (get the address after registering)

We will introduce our postcard writing, distribute "Justice Cards" and make some cool Zines (for those who don't know: Zines are folded pocket messages used for outreach.)

A Remarkable Message

from: Robert Reich

A stirring call to action for the Democratic Party.