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Christel Allen (she/her)

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PDX ➡️ DC. Childless cat lady. Political Director bsky.app/profile/childcareforeveryfamily.org (opinions are my own).

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Christel Allen (she/her) @christelevized.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We absolutely can win #childcareforall! @childcareforallnow.bsky.social Kicking this campaign off with the most incredibly dedicated partner organizations has been the most hopeful and joy-inspiring work of my career. Join us: childcareforall.com
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Home | Child Care for All
Free, universal child care means a better future for all kids—and our country. Together, we can build a child care system that works for everyone....
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Center for Law and Social Policy @clasp.org · 07/10/2026
We’re excited and proud to announce that we’ve joined the Child Care for All campaign! Child Care for All is a campaign of partners from across the country who have come together to win free, universal child care for everyone. Learn more at childcareforall.com and @childcareforallnow.bsky.social.
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Home | Child Care for All
Free, universal child care means a better future for all kids—and our country. Together, we can build a child care system that works for everyone....
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Child Care for Every Family @childcareforeveryfamily.org · 05/06/2026
The House Republican majority just voted to pass the “Stop Child Care Scams Act of 2026,” which would deny support to children & families while doing absolutely NOTHING to strengthen our child care system or help families that are struggling. More here: childcareforeveryfamily.org/press-releas...
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Child Care for Every Family @childcareforeveryfamily.org · 17/06/2026
Attacks on democracy are also attacks on child care. From Louisiana to Ohio to the Supreme Court, we've seen how those in power are determined to diminish OUR power by undermining our right to vote. And without access to voting OR child care, many of us can't participate in our democracy.
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Child Care for Every Family @childcareforeveryfamily.org · 17/07/2026
We're thrilled @mayor.nyc.gov understands that child care helps parents rest and take care of themselves too!
nyc.gov
Mayor Mamdani Announces First-Ever NYC Parks “Parents’ Night Out,” Giving Parents and Caregivers a Free Evening Off
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Christel Allen (she/her) @christelevized.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Free and universal child care is the big structural change this country needs. When we invest in young families, everyone benefits. 🩷🙏🏼 @warren.senate.gov
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Anali Alegria @analialegria.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Making my BlueSky debut to say..... #ChildCareforAll It's LONG past time we "take care of daycare" and fix our broken child care system. Any politician that says we can't is failing families, plain and simple.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 25/03/2026
President Trump has called mail-in (postal) voting "cheating" Yet in this week's special election in Florida, in which he had a vote, he voted...by mail. Something he's done at least once before. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...
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Trump, Who Calls Mail-in Voting ‘Cheating,’ Just Voted by Mail
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The Century Foundation @tcfdotorg.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
With all of the recent progress that states have made on moving toward publicly funded child care options for all families, what models provide the best lessons for other states and the federal government for how to expand child care? tcf.org/content/repo...
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States Leading on Child Care Affordability as Trump Administration Tries to Take Funds Away
After years of organizing and advocacy by parents and child care policy advocates, state and local leaders have finally begun to make universal child care
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Christel Allen (she/her) @christelevized.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
For those looking to do more to support communities most harmed by everything happening in Minnesota. #fuckice www.standwithminnesota.com
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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
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Democratic Women’s Caucus @demwomencaucus.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Child care providers are receiving death threats, facing armed interrogations, and closing their services out of fear. Why? Because Republicans sent a MAGA influencer to harass child care workers about claims of fraud that are unsubstantiated.  Women are not safe in Trump’s America.
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Mia Sato @miasato.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
A 23 year old larping as a journalist made a misleading and inaccurate YouTube video that the administration full of chronically online shitposters used to justify the “largest immigration operation ever” and now someone is dead
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/01/2026
Mamdani: "The cost of childcare will no longer discourage young adults from starting a family, because we will deliver universal childcare for the many by taxing the wealthiest few"
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Christel Allen (she/her) @christelevized.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Horrifying footage of a child care provider being detained by ICE in Chicago outside her center. No one should be violently ripped from their place of work. Child care providers are deeply important to the well-being of kids and our communities. Please give if you are able: gofund.me/9efc0639d
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Donate to Help support our teacher illegally detained by ICE, organized by Erin Horetski
Our beloved teacher, who was not just an educator but a central part … Erin Horetski needs your support for Help support our teacher illegally detained by ICE
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Julie Kashen @kashenj.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The taking of neighbors in communities around the country is so horrific. And, right here - how can anyone justify this - violently taking a child care teacher out of her classroom? Enraging is too weak a word to describe this. #Momsky activate.
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Katherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Republicans were already gutting Head Start programs across the country. Now, their shutdown is tearing child care away from even more families. All because they refuse to prioritize anything but tax cuts for billionaires. apnews.com/article/head...
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Some Head Start preschools shutter as government shutdown continues
The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving many working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of presch...
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KFF @kff.org · 03/10/2025
New KFF polling finds most Americans say they want Congress to extend the enhanced ACA tax credits that help make Marketplace coverage more affordable. on.kff.org/4q7ElGy
KFF graph showing that more than 3 in 4 adults (78%) support extending the enhanced premium tax credits for Affordable Care Act Marketplace coverage, based on a KFF Health Tracking Poll from September 23-29, 2025.
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Lea Woods @lea9223.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
State and local policymakers looking to increase child care affordability, supply, and compensation must continue expanding public funding. Tri-Share does not build supply or substantively improve wages and benefits, making it a poor solution to the child care crisis. tcf.org/content/comm...
tcf.org
The Tri-Share Model Is Not a Solution to the Child Care Crisis
Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called child care a “textbook example of a broken market.” The problems plaguing this broken market were aptly
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Little Lobbyists @littlelobbyists.com · 26/06/2025
"Medicaid has been essential for keeping David alive, but also for our whole family. The ability to rely upon #Medicaid when we needed it was what allowed us to recover from the initial financial distress we experienced with David." #ProtectMedicaid
littlelobbyists.org
David's Story: Medicaid is a Lifeline in Our Rural Community
Our close-knit Alaskan community knows it takes a village — and Medicaid — to raise a child.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 25/06/2025
A Morning Consult survey released in April found that Collins is the second most unpopular Senator behind only Mitch McConnell. The quarterly update found that 51% of Maine voters disapprove, compared to 42% who approve. Her net approval declined more than any other Senator since the previous report
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Susan Collins' Approval Rating Is in the Toilet 3 Years After 'Dobbs'
The Maine Senator, who single-handedly sealed the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, faces a tough re-election battle next year.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Over 10 million people would lose health care under Medicaid if Trump's budget bill passes. Mitch McConnell says we'll "get over it." Think he's right?
Newsweek headline: Mitch McConnell says people worried about Medicaid cuts will "get over it"
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill could increase the country’s medical debt by $50 billion. Some families’ medical debt could increase by over $20,000 due to the lack of coverage. And it’s all to finance tax cuts that overwhelmingly help the rich. Reverse Robin Hood.
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 25/06/2025
Republicans are not immune to public pressure.   Everybody hates this Big Ugly bill—and for good reason. Keep speaking up so that everyone knows what this bill actually does.   NO cuts to Medicaid. NO cuts to SNAP.   Every Senator should vote NO on Trump's Big Ugly Bill.
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Tracy Jan @tracyjan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Georgia is the only state with such a mandate. Its experience shows that the federal effort could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans & cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It.
GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and c...
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Paid Leave for All @paidleaveforall.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
NEW POLL finds men in America are still hopeful, they link taking care of their families with their masculinity, they want government solutions—and more than 90% of them want paid leave and affordable care policies. #MenCare #PaidLeaveForAll globalstrategygroup.com/wp-content/u...
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Melissa Boteach @mboteach.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
In my first op-ed for @zerotothree.bsky.social I underscore that Medicaid, SNAP, and other supports for families “are lifelines that give kids a solid start, esp families who face extra hurdles.” The Senate must reject these dangerous cuts. www.the74million.org/zero2eight/w...
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What Babies Need from Congress Right Now
Boteach: Babies can’t speak for themselves, so families and early childhood advocates are demanding that Congress to invest in our youngest kids.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/05/2025
here's the full clip of RFK Jr losing his shit at Patty Murray today during a hearing so badly that Republican Sen. Capito had to step in and tell him to "hold back"
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 20/05/2025
I don't want this to get lost: after RFK Jr. finished with his tantrum, he ADMITTED he is blocking BILLIONS in federal child care funding. That needs to change IMMEDIATELY.
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Dawn Huckelbridge @dhuckelbridge.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
“The real crisis is one of care… The answer to the real crisis is not what we can gut and burn and take away from people, but what we can give them, the world we can create.” My piece in @usatoday.com. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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We're worrying about the wrong thing. Low birth rate isn't the crisis: Child care is. | Opinion
Making more babies by threat, faux incentives, or even force is not a goal or a solution. And it ignores the desperate, real needs of families.
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Mia Ives-Rublee @seemiaroll.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
The bill to cut Medicaid just passed through committee. But we haven't lost yet. It now goes for a House vote. There are several republicans weary of this bill. Call your Representatives now! (202) 224-3121 #ProtectMedicaid #disabilitytiktok #HandsOffMedicaid
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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I’m proud to fight alongside families like Victoria and Cole - families whose entire lives are at stake as Congress plans to cut Medicaid to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. Rep. Bresnahan: We’re watching, and we won’t back down. Do the right thing and #ProtectMedicaid #CareCantWait
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Christel Allen (she/her) @christelevized.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Childcare shouldn’t be a luxury. Families are struggling to afford care, put food on the table, and save for the future — while billionaires rake in tax breaks. On May 12th, we’re saying: Fund families, not billionaires. #DayWithoutChildCare
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National Women's Law Center @nwlc.org · 03/04/2025
We have the power to stop Medicaid cuts. With the Senate voting soon, now is the time to act. Tell your senators: NO cuts to Medicaid. Put families first. #ProtectMedicaid act.nwlc.org/a/tax-cuts?m...
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Tell Congress: No More Tax Breaks for the Ultra Wealthy
The rich don’t need to get richer.
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National Women's Law Center @nwlc.org · 03/04/2025
Medicaid is a lifeline. It funds long-term care, pays care workers, & supports families. But Republicans in Congress want to gut it, risking jobs and leaving millions without support — all so billionaires can get even richer. nwlc.org/resource/med...
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Medicaid Cuts Threaten Direct Care Workforce - National Women's Law Center
Direct care workers—like home health care workers and nursing assistants—provide essential long-term care to disabled people and older adults so they can live full, dignified lives. Medicaid is the pr...
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Julie Kashen @kashenj.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Thank you @shaheen.senate.gov for cosponsoring the Building Child Care for a Better Future Act! Always appreciate your leadership on child care solutions that make life better for children and families. www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-ne...
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Wyden, Warren Lead Colleagues to Introduce Legislation to Improve Access to Quality, Affordable Child Care for American Families | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden, Warren Lead Colleagues to Introduce Legislation to Improve Access to Quality, Affordable Child Care for American Families
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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025
I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.
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Congresswoman Nikema Williams @repnikema.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Another round of reckless cuts at the #CDC. With every firing, Trump reminds the world he does not care about public health. Anything to give a tax break to his billionaire friends.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.
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Christel Allen (she/her) @christelevized.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Time to call some Senators. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Congress: Stay out of DC’s Budget // Call Script
Congress: Stay out of DC’s Budget Call Script Wednesday March 12, 2025 Contents Priority Members to Call: Wednesday March 12 1 Call Script for DC Residents 2 Call Script for Allies Outside DC 3 Pri...
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Child Care for Every Family @childcareforeveryfamily.org · 11/03/2025
Barbaric and disgusting. www.npr.org/2025/03/07/g...
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President Trump brings back practice of detaining families together
President Trump also detained families during his first term in an effort to deter migration through the southern border.
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Christel Allen (she/her) @christelevized.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This is a fight for our families. Medicaid covers doctor visits, prescriptions, care for millions of children, veterans, people with disabilities and working adults. Don’t stay silent—demand Congress votes “NO” to Medicaid cuts. Call NOW: 866-426-2631. #HandsOffMedicaid
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Christel Allen (she/her) @christelevized.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
ICYM: @murray.senate.gov “Trump, Musk have made child care crisis worse.”
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Murray: Trump, Musk have made child care crisis worse
The senator said President Donald Trump and Elon Musk “have absolutely zero clue on why child care is so important to families and to our economy.”
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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner @rowefinkbeiner.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Thank you to Mary Beth, a @momsrising.org member, for sharing why Medicaid & SNAP are so important to our families, economy, and country on the steps of the U.S. Capitol today alongside Leader @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, @demwomencaucus.bsky.social & many others. *Video: youtu.be/YO6vdwEXbLM?...
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Mary Beth Cochran on the Republican Budget Scheme
YouTube video by Rep. Jeffries
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Christel Allen (she/her) @christelevized.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
@allcaz.bsky.social hi mom!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2025
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
There's a Crisis of Masculinity in this country and the only way to solve it is to let me act like a cross between a baby and a movie villain
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Julie Kashen @kashenj.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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Child Care for Every Family @childcareforeveryfamily.org · 04/02/2025
We deeply oppose Vought's leadership and urge lawmakers to uphold their sworn oath to our kids, families, and communities by doing everything in their power to stop his nomination. Learn more and take action: childcareforeveryfamily.org/press-r… #CareNotCuts #FundChildCare
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
BREAKING: Senator Ron Wyden says his staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following the Trump funding freeze.
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Axios @axios.com · 23/01/2025
Sen. Lisa Murkowski said that she can't "in good conscience" vote for Pete Hegseth as Defense secretary.
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Murkowski says she's "unable to support" Hegseth
"Mr. Hegseth's nomination to the role poses significant concerns that I cannot overlook," Murkowski wrote in a post on X.
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