Happy Monday! We’re sending you all the good vibes as we dive into a new week! With so much uncertainty swirling around our state and nation’s political landscape, we encourage everyone to lean into the spirit of the holiday season that’s quickly approaching. It’s a time for reflection, connection, and determination to keep building the future we believe in.

As we look ahead, we’re gearing up for Giving Tuesday, a day that reminds us of the power of community support. At Progressive Maryland, we’re more determined than ever to strengthen our issue campaigns—fighting for economic justice, education policies that uplift our children, environmental sustainability, health equity, support for returning citizens, and so much more.

While you’re mapping out your holiday plans, why not add us to your calendar? By making a Giving Tuesday donation, you can help us safeguard democracy and advance our progressive agenda during this pivotal moment in history. Make Your Early Giving Tuesday Donation Here!

Read on for updates on our campaigns, local chapter activities, and ways you can take action. Plus, catch the latest in some very important state and national news.

In solidarity,

The Progressive Maryland Team

Here’s what’s in today’s memo:

• Quick Actions
• Issue Campaign Updates
• Local Chapter Updates
• Events From Allies
• State & National News
• PM Job Openings

QUICK ACTIONS:

Sign the Petition to Index the Minimum Wage in Prince George's County!

We need your support to ensure that every Prince George’s County worker earns a wage that keeps up with the rising cost of living. With a crucial public hearing on November 19th, we need to show the County Council that the community is behind this initiative.

Add your name to the petition today to help us secure fair wages for all!  

Sign Here

Every signature counts! Let’s make sure the council knows we’re standing together for economic justice and equity.

Task Forces & Issue Campaigns Updates: 

Healthcare Justice Campaign: Time to Fight Back and Push Forward!

We have work to do! On the national level we’re joining the Resistance against theTrump MAGA agenda on healthcare. We can’t let his nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to the Department of Health and Human Services succeed. A broad national coalition of advocacy groups, public health organizations, and community and labor organizers has come together to educate the public and the Senate about the threat that RFK’s dangerous views pose to public health, children’s health, and to scores of medical advances. Sign up to join the effort here: pgmd.us/hcvolunteer  

We also urge you to get involved in our exciting campaign to win progressive healthcare legislation in Annapolis next session! The survey (above) gives you options for participating in that and in our Healthcare Task Force. Please take a few minutes to fill it out. Email  [email protected] for more details or if you would just like to talk. We need you in this fight!

Local Chapter Updates:

Oxon Hill / South Prince George’s County:

We continue to push for better schools in Oxon Hill and Prince George’s County through our Power Our Schools Campaign, because we know that our campaigns and our organizing are the answers to the uncertainty of a Trump presidency. We CANNOT let the money that the IRA offers to better our schools and fight educational inequities and climate change go down the drain and unused for our students. We are going to the Superintendent’s office on Thursday, November 21st to DEMAND that we band together to fight for the students, faculty, and communities of PGCPS. Sign up here!

EVENTS FROM ALLIES:

LIfe After Release:Community Healing And Justice Townhall

“Join us for a community-focused town hall event aimed at advocating for compassionate, culturally sensitive, and community-based mental health care in Prince George's County.” 

Maryland preps for rough budget times, especially if Fed workers are shed

Well, the new folks in DC (currently broadcasting from Mar-a-Lago) are not (at all!) clarifying what the next few years look like, but they are keeping everyone on their toes as their flurry of supposed appointments shows just how uncertain civic life will be for all the states, Maryland definitely included.

Maryland houses over 138,900 civilian federal workers and roughly 50,000 active-duty and reserve service members (30,000 at Ft. Meade, the state's largest single employer). All are vulnerable to job loss or threatened relocation of agencies outside the DMV. Still, the state holds out hope that some high-profile projects (the Key Bridge replacement; possible new Bay Bridge spans, the new FBI building) may attract federal fund participation and coat-tail other projects. But serious cuts or "revenue enhancements" definitely loom for Maryland.

Both our state and others are fussing to adjust to the (sometimes surprising) local outcomes from the election, as we see as well, and plenty of organizations working with those newly under fire brace against the somewhat vengeful approach of the future administration. As Megan E.'s national report (below) points out, the House will vote tomorrow on a measure threatening any nonprofit not totally in step with the TrumpWorld line with charges of supporting terrorism (!). It sounds ridiculous -- until it passes.

So we have to toughen up. We are ready, and we know our allies will be too. Keep up with what's important to Marylanders with News You Can Use.

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