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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 ...

Washington Post features Virginia Organizing Leader, Terry White

Washington Post features Virginia Organizing Leader, Terry White

Terry White, known to his friends as "Bean," tells his story about needing affordable health care in this Washington Post piece by Laura Vozzella. Thank you for speaking out, Bean ...

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Virginia Nurses Association Appeals to Senator Norment

Virginia Nurses Association Appeals to Senator Norment

In an open letter to Senator Thomas K. Norment in the Virginia Gazette, Christine Payne of Williamsburg calls on the state senator to allow Medicaid expansion to come to a vote. P ...

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Expand Medicaid to Help Treat Opioid Addiction

Expand Medicaid to Help Treat Opioid Addiction

Virginia Organizing supporter Eric Blevins in Marion, Virginia writes in the Richmond Times Dispatch about his journey to recovery from a substance use disorder. He argues that Me ...

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Washington Post Editorial: Expand Medicaid VA!

Washington Post Editorial: Expand Medicaid VA!

Photo: Virginia Organizing leaders at a Lynchburg health care rally Just ahead of the General Assembly special session on Wednesday, April 11, the Washington Post published this e ...

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Virginia Organizing Thanks Senators Warner and Kaine for Support of the CFPB

Virginia Organizing Thanks Senators Warner and Kaine for Support of the CFPB

For Immediate Release: Monday, April 2 Richmond, Va. — Last week, Senator Mark Warner and Senator Tim Kaine, along with 41 other senators, sent a letter to Consumer Financial Prot ...

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Sea-Level Report Cards

Sea-Level Report Cards

From the Virginia Institute for Marine Science. Want to know how sea level in your area is changing due to global warming and other factors? Our 'report cards' can help. Updated b ...

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Chairperson Del McWhorter on the Tax Scam

Chairperson Del McWhorter on the Tax Scam

From the Daily Progress. If you are struggling to get by, even a small tax cut makes a difference. If the Trump tax cut were just a boost in pay for workers, no one would be compl ...

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Virginia Organizing’s Chapters Stand Up for Immigrant Rights

Virginia Organizing’s Chapters Stand Up for Immigrant Rights

All of our chapters are working this month on immigration reform. We want to see Congress pass a clean Dream Act to protect recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival ...

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Stop S. 2155–No More Help for Predatory Lenders!

Stop S. 2155–No More Help for Predatory Lenders!

From our friends at @StopTheDebtTrap: With all the news to worry about these days, Virginia voters might not have noticed our two U.S. Senators getting behind a major new bank giv ...

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Senator Warner Should Reconsider Predatory Lending Bill

Senator Warner Should Reconsider Predatory Lending Bill

Charlottesville leader, Valerie Washington, has published this fierce op-ed about predatory lending in the Roanoke Times. We hope Senator Mark Warner will listen! To contact his o ...

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