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  • #StoriesMatter – VO Medicaid Stories Video

    #StoriesMatter – VO Medicaid Stories Video

    We asked and our communities answered! Watch our video of our members sharing how Medicaid has impacted them. https://youtu.be/HoAxfv3ANvs?feature=shared ...

  • Featured Community Partner | Cville ID Team

    Featured Community Partner | Cville ID Team

    To be without an ID in the United States is to be illegible to the state, which can mean tumbling into a netherworld of nonexistence, locked out of basic services like jobs, housin ...

  • Newport News/Hampton Chapter Update – June 2025

    Newport News/Hampton Chapter Update – June 2025

    Have a sun-sational summer with your Peninsula chapter and join us for our upcoming events in Newport News and Hampton! We're moving the needle on local issues like housing, educat ...

  • Leader of the Month – May 2025

    Leader of the Month – May 2025

    Dreame Boyd - Richmond Chapter Dreame is an active and contributing member to the Richmond Chapter and the statewide Housing Strategy Committee. She has participated in several wor ...

Medicaid Expansion Celebrations!

Medicaid Expansion Celebrations!

We held nine celebrations around the Commonwealth after the General Assembly voted to expand Medicaid in their special budget session this spring. We also plan to spread the word ...

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Jackson: Farm bill hurts some families

Jackson: Farm bill hurts some families

Published by The Roanoke Times. Jackson is a leader in the Danville Chapter of Virginia Organizing and a member of Virginia Organizing’s State Governing Board. As we approach the ...

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Coastal Flooding Report

Coastal Flooding Report

From the report in DelMarvaNow. Thousands of homes in Accomack County and the Hampton Roads area of Virginia are at risk of tidal flooding by 2045 due to sea level rise, according ...

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Want to Sign Up for Medicaid on January 1, 2019?

Want to Sign Up for Medicaid on January 1, 2019?

On July 1, the new state budget will expand Medicaid! It will cover a much larger group of people than it did before. If you need it, please see this link to Cover Virginia. It ex ...

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Medicaid Expansion Passes!

Medicaid Expansion Passes!

There have been many good articles online about Medicaid expansion passing the General Assembly on May 30. Here's a passage from an article in the Washington Post: "RICHMOND — The ...

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Virginia Will Expand Medicaid at Last! (Message from Chairperson Del McWhorter)

Virginia Will Expand Medicaid at Last! (Message from Chairperson Del McWhorter)

On May 30, Virginia expanded Medicaid! Virginia Organizing members have worked to bring affordable health care to all Virginians for more than 10 years. Let’s celebrate this victo ...

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Medicaid Expansion Passes General Assembly Senate!

Medicaid Expansion Passes General Assembly Senate!

Richmond, Va. — Today Virginia's Senate voted to expand Medicaid. Virginia Organizing leaders and supporters celebrated the decision as a great victory for the people of the Commo ...

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We need to have Medicaid expansion in Virginia!

We need to have Medicaid expansion in Virginia!

Virginia Organizing supporter and volunteer, Dave Redding has some good questions for our senators: We need to have Medicaid expansion in Virginia! One repeated argument in opposi ...

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Climate Change and Housing Woes in Norfolk

Climate Change and Housing Woes in Norfolk

(Michelle Cook stands on the path children from Tidewater Gardens take to get to school. It frequently floods during storms. Credit: Nicholas Kusnetz/ICN) In this article from Ins ...

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Join us in Richmond on May 29 for Medicaid Expansion Rally

Join us in Richmond on May 29 for Medicaid Expansion Rally

(Image: Eunice Haigler, Virginia Organizing leader from Fredericksburg at a May 22 Medicaid Expansion rally in Richmond.) The General Assembly is on the verge of passing Medicaid ...

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