Get Involved: Build the #ProgressiveWave

This year’s primary election is critical. We need leaders in office who truly represent us. That’s why we’re building a #ProgressiveWave—and it’s going to take all of us.

Throwdown Thursdays Phonebanks
Join us starting Thursday, April 23 at 6 PM, and continuing weekly through Primary Election Day. Sign up for one or more shifts → 

Canvassing Opportunities
We’re hitting the ground in Baltimore, Prince George’s County (Upper Marlboro) and Montgomery County (Rockville) starting this weekend. Join us to knock doors, talk to voters, and build the #ProgressiveWave:

• Prince George’s County (Upper Marlboro) →
• Montgomery County (Rockville) → 
• Baltimore City → 

Come out, bring a friend, and help us connect with voters across the region!

Issue Campaigns Updates:

Healthcare Justice: MOVING FORWARD!!

We’re building a movement to end the corporate control and capture of our health care system here in Maryland and across the country. Current polling shows that health care is the #1 or #2 top concern of voters and that they’re fed up with insurance company greed. They believe that we will have a better health care system if we get rid of middlemen insurance companies and Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) who put their profits ahead of our care. 

We need to harness this growing public support to build our ground game, make health care a game changing election year issue and to get champions elected. 

Take a few minutes now to:

• Volunteer with us

• RSVP for this Wednesday’s Town Hall

Join us this Wednesday to share your concerns about health care, hear from health care leaders about what we can do and to meet Wala Blegay who is running for Congress to succeed Steny Hoyer. Wala has taken the pledge to put People Over Profits in our healthcare system. Details here.

Local Chapter Updates:

Oxon Hill: Community Meeting

Join us on Thursday, April 23 from 6–8 PM at the Birchwood Community Center (1331 Fenwood Ave) for a community meeting focused on rising electricity and water costs, public safety, and housing conditions. Come share your experiences and help shape solutions for Oxon Hill. Sign up to attend →

Gaithersburg: Tenant Union General Body Meeting

Join the Gaithersburg Tenant Union on Wednesday, April 29 from 7–8:30 PM (101 Education Blvd) to discuss key issues impacting the community, including the city budget, utilities, rent stabilization, and upcoming actions. Make your voice heard. RSVP here →

Temple Hills: Community Union Meeting

Join us on Thursday, April 30 from 7–8:30 PM at Hillcrest Heights Elementary School (4305 22nd Pl) for a community meeting on local elections, housing conditions, public safety, rising utility costs, and more. Connect with neighbors, share your concerns, and get involved in building solutions. Sign up to join →

Harford County: How to Start A Union and "Union" Documentary Screening

Saturday, May 2, from 2 – 5 pm at Charm City Books, 426 W Franklin St, Baltimore, MD 21201

Join our partners with the Working Families Party Maryland Wolf Pack for a presentation on how to start a union at your workplace by Progressive Harford County founder and union organizer Zack Frink, followed by a screening of Union. Register Today

We’ll continue adding more May Day events to this section next week—stay tuned!

MAY DAY EVENTS: 

Washington, DC 

Join the MD Living Wage for All Coalition, workers and allies on May 1 at 12 PM at the Washington Monument for a major rally featuring federal bill sponsors and movement leaders. Stand in solidarity and push for policies that uplift working people across the country.

Baltimore 

Join the organized labor movement and allies for rallies on May 1 in Baltimore's Druid Hill Park. Community programming starts at 2:30 pm, followed by a rally/march starting at 4 pm. We demand an end to the US's endless wars. We demand ICE out of our communities. We demand money for people's needs instead of the US war machine.

Register here.

Session’s Over: How much rubble, how much accomplished? It’s News You Can Use

Maryland is characterized as a Blue state, but getting people-centered laws through our General Assembly, with supermajorities of Democrats in both chambers, can be a years-long grind. As Progressive Maryland's recap of the session (see more below) observes, "Although we cracked the Senate for immigration protections and secured a few additional wins, the fact remains that the state's political landscape remains hostile towards people-centered policies. It should not have taken the Maryland General Assembly so long to enact these immigrant protection policies and in this current climate, defined by a worsening crisis of affordability, rollback of civil rights, and white ethnonationalist sentiments, we need elected majorities that will act swiftly and in favor of working people, not corporate actors… A legislature that continues its legacy of stalling on people-centered policies or a legislature should be replaced by one that is responsive to the needs of everyday Marylanders."

And it’s an election year. There is a countable, name-able number of Assembly members who are shirking their duties to their constituents and instead listening too closely to well-paid, and well-paying, lobbyists. Find out who they are and replace them. 

Progressive Maryland BlogSpace:

We value creating space for our members to express their thoughts on any issues related to our campaigns. Have an idea for a blog post? You can submit writing, film, graphic design, etc., to be published on our website to the blog moderator, Woody. 

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