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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 Releases Statement on Federal Budget Compromise

Virginia Organizing Releases Statement on Federal Budget Compromise

For Immediate Release: December 12, 2013Petersburg, Va.—In response to the budget deal announced Tuesday, December 10, Virginia Organizing Chairperson Sandra A. Cook release ...

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Virginia Main Street Alliance Update #72

Virginia Main Street Alliance Update #72

The website for health care reform is clearly working better. The White House reports that the site can now handle 50,000 visitors at one time. Plus, the success rate is now ...

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Constituents to Deliver Letters to U.S. Rep. Wittman’s Office in Support of Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Constituents to Deliver Letters to U.S. Rep. Wittman’s Office in Support of Comprehensive Immigration Reform

For Immediate Release: December 5, 2013What: Letter Delivery for Immigration Reform When: Friday, December 6 at 10 a.m., 12 p.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m., and 5 p.m. Wh ...

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Virginia Organizing Releases Job Gap Report, Explores Solutions for Living Wage Including Medicaid Expansion

Virginia Organizing Releases Job Gap Report, Explores Solutions for Living Wage Including Medicaid Expansion

Richmond, Va.—On Wednesday, December 4, Virginia Organizing released a report authored by the Alliance for a Just Society detailing the living wage “job gap” in ...

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BREAKING: U.S. Capitol Police Berate Children Singing at Speaker Boehner’s Office

BREAKING: U.S. Capitol Police Berate Children Singing at Speaker Boehner’s Office

If you thought the Grinch was the meanest guy around this season, think again. A group of immigration activists that included children went to U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehn ...

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Forums to Help Danville Residents with Health Insurance Marketplace

Forums to Help Danville Residents with Health Insurance Marketplace

For Immediate Release: December 4, 2013 What: Forums on Health Care and Health Insurance Marketplace When: Thursday, December 5 at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Where: 10 a.m.—American Natio ...

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Update: MIRC Meeting Scheduled for December 17

Update: MIRC Meeting Scheduled for December 17

Great News! After the action alert sent to our supporters this morning, we discovered the Medicaid Innovation and Reform Commission (MIRC) hasscheduled a meeting for Tuesday, ...

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MIRC Needs to Schedule a Meeting

MIRC Needs to Schedule a Meeting

The 2014 General Assembly session begins on January 8, 2014 and will last 60 days. This year, like last year, one of the most important issues facing our legislators is ...

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Marroni: Low Prices, High Cost

Marroni: Low Prices, High Cost

By Ed Marroni We have been programmed to look for lower prices (and why not) in our society. Our search for low prices sparks the economy because we are inclined to make more purc ...

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Pressure and Passivity on Immigration

Pressure and Passivity on Immigration

Originally published by The New York Times Editorial Board on November 26, 2013Click here to view original articlePresident Obama made the case for immigration reform again o ...

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