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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 ...

Virginia Organizing and VICPP Hold Eleven Media Conferences to Call for Medicaid Expansion

Virginia Organizing and VICPP Hold Eleven Media Conferences to Call for Medicaid Expansion

What: Eleven Media Conferences around Virginia calling for legislators to expand Medicaid, presented by Virginia Organizing and the Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy Wh ...

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Trans Day of Remembrance

Trans Day of Remembrance

Today is Trans Day of Remembrance, when we honor the lives of those who have been killed in violence against transgender people. We also ask you to take action to protect the righ ...

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Governor McAuliffe Statement on Virginia Air Board Approval of Clean Energy Virginia Initiative

Governor McAuliffe Statement on Virginia Air Board Approval of Clean Energy Virginia Initiative

Governor Terry McAuliffe released the following statement today after the Virginia Air Pollution Control Board voted to approve regulations to limit carbon emissions from Virginia ...

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Statement on Tax Reform Proposal

Statement on Tax Reform Proposal

NEW HOUSE TAX BILL GUTS HEALTH CARE FOR WORKING FAMILIES TO GIVE TAX BREAKS TO WEALTHY AND BIG CORPORATIONS Charlottesville, Va. — After the House Ways and Means Committee release ...

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Healthcare.gov Enrollment Opens November 1, 2017

Healthcare.gov Enrollment Opens November 1, 2017

Open enrollment is back and healthcare.gov is open for business! Do you qualify for lower prices on health insurance for 2018? Visit healthcare.gov now to explore your options and ...

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CFPB Launches New Mortgage Performance Trends Tool for Tracking Delinquency Rates

CFPB Launches New Mortgage Performance Trends Tool for Tracking Delinquency Rates

Newly Available Data Shows Lowest Mortgage Delinquency Rate Since the Financial Crisis WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today announced the launc ...

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Virginia Voter Instructions (ASL Interpretation)

Virginia Voter Instructions (ASL Interpretation)

The Staunton/Augusta/Waynesboro Chapter filmed a helpful video with information about the upcoming statewide election. Watch this video, make a plan, and vote on November 7! ...

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Bath County school becomes first 100% solar powered school in Virginia

Bath County school becomes first 100% solar powered school in Virginia

Published by WSET. BATH Co., Va. (WSET) — Bath County is now home to the first school in Virginia that's 100 percent solar powered. Valley Elementary in Bath County has solar pane ...

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Shame on Them!

Shame on Them!

These U.S. representatives from Va. just voted to cut $1 trillion from Medicaid: Brat, Comstock, Garrett, Goodlatte, Griffith, Taylor, Wittman. Do they represent you? Let them kno ...

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Sen. Booker Announces Landmark Environmental Justice Bill

Sen. Booker Announces Landmark Environmental Justice Bill

Bill would strengthen protections for communities of color, low-income communities and indigenous communities Culmination of months-long drafting process with input from dozens of ...

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