nearly 600,000 covered

ELON MUSK, RAMASWAMY & MAGA WANT TO END MEDICAID THAT PROVIDES HEALTH CARE FOR SO MANY AMERICANS....THE U.S. IS THE ONLY INDUSTRIALIZED NATION THAT FAILS TO PROVIDE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE....

PLEASE SPEAK OUT TO PROTECT ALL AMERICANS!

As Governor of North Carolina, one of Roy Cooper’s top missions has been to get people healthier. That’s why he prioritized expanding Medicaid from Day One — and just over a year ago, after years of twists and turns, Medicaid expansion was finally enacted.

It wasn’t easy, but we never gave up on our goal of leveling the health care playing field to get working North Carolinians the care they deserve.

After trying to expand Medicaid during his first week in office, the Republican legislature sued Gov. Cooper in federal court. But in 2023, some of those same legislative leaders joined him to sign the Medicaid expansion bill we needed for so long. It was a bold step that will have a positive impact on our state for generations to come.

We are proud and grateful that nearly 600,000 North Carolinians have already enrolled in Medicaid through the expansion just one year later. That’s the number we originally hoped to see in two years!

Passing expansion also unlocked more than $830 million in new investments in mental health and addiction treatment that we know go hand in hand with staying healthy.

Not only will it make our state healthier, Medicaid expansion will also help North Carolinians achieve greater educational and employment opportunities. People need to be healthy in order to get educated and to work at good jobs to make money for their families. This is a big win for all of North Carolina — and we couldn’t have done it without you.

You joined us in tirelessly advocating for this outcome. Your support moved the needle to get Republicans on board. Thank you.

There is still more work to do for our state. More progress to achieve. We’re counting on you to be with us.

Thank you,

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POLITICO Nightly: Is RFK Jr. going mainstream?

By Marcia Brown Presented by  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. takes the stage during a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump in Warren, Michigan. | Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images RFK JR is a long term HEROIN addict, with the BRAIN WORM or MERCURY POISON that fried his brain. He has no SCIENCE background/education & BLABBERS, frequently contradicting himself & LYING. He blamed VACCINES for causing AUTISM & when disproven, blamed 5G with no proof. Caught on video claimed COVID was bioengineered to spare JEWS.  RFK JR has profited generously from his PROPAGANDA...caused high death tolls from his LIES in SOMOA about MEASLES VACCINES. Children's COFFINS shipped from overseas because of RFK JR's LIES!  Look it up!  RFK JR recently promoted RAW MILK. Have you seen the RECALLS due to AVIAN FLU?  READ THE ARTICLE...  RFK Jr. says COVID may have been ‘ethnically targeted’ to spare Jews NY POST VIDEO WINNING FRIENDS AND INFLUENCING PEOPLE — When he was first tapped by Donald Trump to become secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination was greeted with shock and revulsion by Democrats and public health officials who blanched at his unorthodox views, vaccine skepticism, and habit of trafficking in conspiracy theories. Less than a month later, however, some of Kennedy’s other views — especially on food — are surprisingly taking root on Capitol Hill. There’s still considerable resistance to Kennedy — and no certainty that he gets confirmed by the Senate. But his attacks on Big Ag and Big Pharma are resonating and RFK is finding allies among some populists who share the goal of taking on big corporate interests. On the campaign trail and as part of his Make America Healthy Again movement, Kennedy spoke passionately about how large-scale, industrial agriculture operations and major multinational pharmaceutical companies are making Americans sicker and poorer. He railed against big corporations repeatedly, which resonated with a public reckoning with a byzantine healthcare system, strangled access to healthy food and a sense of powerlessness to do anything about it. The next Trump administration’s embrace of Kennedy signals a broad recognition of how well Kennedy’s message worked. If confirmed as secretary of HHS, which oversees the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, his supporters will expect him to be a counterweight to powerful food and beverage industry interests working overtime to block new policies on issues like ultraprocessed foods and toxic food additives that have bipartisan support. Kennedy’s rapid ascension “reflects the failure of recent Democratic administrations to really fix broken food markets both at USDA and FDA where you seeded the ground for an extremist like him to flourish,” explained Austin Frerick, author of ‘Barons,’ a book about how monopolies reshaped food systems. It’s the same reasoning that propelled a blustery Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to spar with FDA officials in a hearing today. “Even now, when you’re getting out of office, are you prepared to tell us that this committee, this Congress, needs to take on the food and beverage industry whose greed is destroying the health of millions of people?” Sanders asked. “I’m not going to castigate the people in the food and beverage industry,” said FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf. “Why not? That is your job!” Sanders responded. If Kennedy is really allowed to pursue the path suggested by Sanders on food and healthy policy, he will face the well-resourced lobbyists from some of the biggest companies in the world, many of whom are already preparing to parry his opening volleys. Marion Nestle, a nutrition professor at New York University and a vocal critic of the food system, rejects Kennedy’s positions on raw milk and vaccines, yet she has expressed astonishment at how he has elevated issues she’s pushed for decades. “Here is the president-elect of the United States talking about the industrial food complex,” said Nestle recently, referencing Trump’s announcement of Kennedy’s nomination. “The mind boggles. You can’t make this stuff up.” During his campaign, Kennedy visited dozens of farmers all over the country, building rapport with a constituency that views large seed, pesticide and fertilizer companies as rapacious. “He built a lot of trust by getting out there, listening and incorporating what he heard into this policy provision,” said Angela Huffman, president of Farm Action, a group that supported President Biden’s hawkish anti-monopoly policies. “I think people are just ready.” But Huffman is also among many farmers who feel fed up with empty rhetoric, pointing to two Democratic administrations — Obama and Biden — where the White House made big promises about going after agricultural titans, only to come up short of serious transformation. In addition to scrambling traditional ideological dividing lines between right and left, Kennedy appears to be bolstering the GOP’s growing populist orientation — his stances on food and health policy are a rejection of big corporate influence over federal policy. To win back rural voters and run up their numbers, Democrats must abandon the corporate donor class and embrace a style that hews closer to Kennedy’s messaging, write Bryce Oates and Jake Davis in a recent newsletter on rural issues . “It would require hearing about how the meatpackers JBS and Smithfield are polluting our water. Or how Big Agriculture is colluding in a sham government-funded carbon pipeline scheme through the Midwest. Or how big pharma created an opioid crisis that still plagues many small towns,” they write. At the moment, Democrats and public health advocates are treading lightly with Kennedy’s rhetoric, fearful that too close a relationship could threaten vital public health advances, like policy discouraging raw milk consumption and trust in vaccinations. If Kennedy is the standard-bearer, some who agree with him on individual issues fear that he could undermine the serious, long-term efforts to build lasting reform in food and drug regulatory systems, rendering an already-wary public even more cynical. Lawmakers on the right and left still resist Kennedy’s anti-vax views, his fringe theories and doubt his commitment to driving through real change in the food and drug industries — which will require technocratic, unglamorous work. It doesn’t help that his wife, Cheryl Hines, recently hawked products from her wellness company while he showered naked behind her in a social media post. Or when he advertised Black Friday sales of Santa, “MA HA HA” mugs, referencing the logo of his movement, Make America Healthy Again on his Instagram story. Even so, it’s hard to miss Kennedy’s recent traction in the policy arena. Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), a longtime advocate for healthy food and a pointed critic of ultra processed foods, recently name-checked several policies that Kennedy has also embraced in a speech to public health experts. And Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who figures to be a key confirmation vote, also noted some common ground. “When it comes to food itself and good, healthy food, he is raising an issue that has needed to be raised for a long, long, long time.” said Murkowski, who hasn’t yet met with Kennedy and said she disagrees with him on vaccines “very very strongly.” Welcome to POLITICO Nightly. Reach out with news, tips and ideas at nightly@politico.com . Or contact tonight’s author at marciabrown@politico.com or on X (formerly known as Twitter) at @Marcia_Brown9 .   A message from Instagram: Instagram Teen Accounts: automatic protections for teens Parents want safer online experiences for their teens. That's why Instagram is introducing Teen Accounts, with automatic protections for who can contact teens and the content they can see. A key factor: Only parents can approve safety setting changes for teens under 16. Learn more.   What'd I Miss? — House GOP opposition signals trouble ahead for Johnson on a spending deal: Speaker Mike Johnson is in talks with his own conference about how to fund the government. But he’s got at least two “no” votes no matter what he does . Reps. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) and Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), two House Freedom Caucus members, told POLITICO they would oppose any short-term government funding bill, known as a continuing resolution or a CR, regardless of whether Johnson attaches disaster aid to it. The Freedom Caucus took an official position this week that any disaster relief needs to be paid for and limited to what is “absolutely necessary” right now. President Joe Biden requested nearly $100 billion in emergency disaster aid. GOP aides already expect there are enough Republicans who will vote against a CR no matter that Johnson will need to depend on Democrats to avoid a shutdown. The deadline to pass funding legislation is Dec. 20. — Former Georgia election workers ask yet another judge to hold Rudy Giuliani in contempt: The two Georgia women who won a $148 million defamation verdict against Rudy Giuliani asked a federal judge today to hold him in civil contempt and impose “severe” sanctions for thwarting the court’s orders. In their request, the women, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, say Giuliani has failed to turn over even a single document in response to court orders requiring him to share information about a Palm Beach condo the women are seeking to seize from him. They argue that monetary penalties would be insufficient, but don’t specifically ask for jail time, writing that the court should “impose whatever coercive sanction it deems appropriate in its expertise.” — Secret Service head acknowledges ‘failure’ in House task force hearing: Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe Jr. used an hourslong appearance before House lawmakers to outline sweeping changes the agency is making after its “failure” during the attempted assassinations of Donald Trump . The hearing is the second, and final, public meeting by a bipartisan House task force that is investigating the attempted assassination at a Pennsylvania rally in July, as well as a second attempt in Florida. In addition to the hearing, the panel also voted today to release its final report, detailing its findings and recommendations.   Billions in spending. Critical foreign aid. Immigration reform. The final weeks of 2024 could bring major policy changes. Inside Congress provides daily insights into how Congressional leaders are navigating these high-stakes issues. Subscribe today .     THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION THE HEGSETH CHRONICLES — Sen. Joni Ernst isn’t ready to throw her weight behind Pete Hegseth’s bid to lead the Pentagon, she said today on Fox News. Ernst (R-Iowa), who had a “frank and thorough” conversation with the Defense Department pick on Wednesday, was asked on “America’s Newsroom” if she’s not ready to vote yes on Hegseth amid allegations of sexual misconduct and troublesome drinking. She replied: “I think you are right.” SOS OR BUST — As Richard Grenell made a bid after the election to be Donald Trump’s secretary of State, a flurry of social media posts from MAGA influencers started popping up, advocating for the president-elect to pick him. Around the same time, an associate of Grenell had approached conservative social media influencers, according to two people with knowledge of the situation, offering paid contracts of as much as five figures to post favorably about Grenell. One such contract, obtained by POLITICO and not previously reported, outlined that the influencer would do so during “peak posting times,” that “content must appear genuine,” and it could not “appear as an overt advertisement or promotional message.” The proposed paid social media campaign, which the organizers told POLITICO never took off, illustrates the lengths to which people close to Grenell went to ensure he got the job . And Grenell, who typically goes by Ric, had made no secret in private conversations over the last three years that he wanted to serve as Trump’s next secretary of State. He told people in Trump’s orbit that it was secretary of State “or bust,” as one person close to the president-elect said.   A message from Instagram:     AROUND THE WORLD Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te (center) is greeted by Prime Minister Feleti Teo as he arrives in Tuvalu during his Pacific trip Dec. 4, 2024. | Taiwan Presidential Office via AP CHINA’S WATCHING — Taiwan’s leader is visiting Guam today in his second stop in U.S. territory on an ongoing overseas trip. President Lai Ching-te arrived late Wednesday night from the Pacific Island country of Tuvalu. Photos posted by broadcaster KUAM showed him walking off a private jet in a tropical-themed shirt. He visited Hawaii last weekend at the start of his trip. Such visits typically anger China, which views Taiwan as part of its territory and says that the self-governing island must come under its control. The United States is the main overseas supplier of arms for Taiwan’s defense. Earlier this week, China’s Foreign Ministry said it “strongly condemned” U.S. support for Lai’s visit to Hawaii and lodged a complaint with the United States. LESSON LEARNED — Keir Starmer really doesn’t want to end up like Joe Biden. After a bumpy five months in office, the U.K.’s center-left prime minister used a major speech today to try to shift focus from the abstract goal of boosting U.K. economic growth to the more tangible target of making voters feel better off. In doing so, his administration has one eye on the fate of the U.S. president, who could boast enviable GDP figures — but still faced the wrath of voters, pinched by high inflation, who instead backed the return of Donald Trump.   Write your own chapter in the new Washington. From the Lame Duck Congress Series to New Administration insights, POLITICO Pro delivers intelligence across 22+ policy areas to help you anticipate and navigate change. 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ACTION ALERT: Show up 12/9 to support requests re PFAS

 SUSTAINABLE MIDDLEBOROUGH!

There are two opportunities for local action you can take in the coming week that could make a real difference.

Our friends at Citizens for a Healthy Middleboro have been closely following the issue of PFAS in our local water supply. They have made three requests of our local Health Board (a role of our Select Board), which you can read about here, and are on the agenda Monday night.

Can you show up in support at 7 pm Monday, 12/9, in the Select Board room at Town Hall?

It has been Sustainable Middleborough’s experience over the past 7 years that when we can get supporters sitting in the room in these local meetings—you don’t even have to speak—it makes a real difference. You can come just for that agenda item, which is letter G under New Business.

Watch for this in spring 2025: Sustainable Middleborough will be cosponsoring a workshop on How to Reduce PFAS in Your Home and in Our Town. Let us know if you'd like to help put it on.

We are also partnering with Sierra Club Massachusetts to support another local action alert that will go out tomorrow. Watch for it in your inbox!

Citizens for a Healthy Middleboro

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Please check out our first request for action to reduce forever chemical consumption by Middleboro residents until PFAS filtration comes to Middleboro in 2025. Also check out Kelsey (one of our founders) beautiful farm in the background!

Visit/bookmark our website, HealthyMiddleboro.org (under heavy construction), for future resources and to join our mailing list.

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