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Elena Hung (she/her)

@elenahung.bsky.social
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@littlelobbyists.com Executive Director & Co-founder advocating for children with complex medical needs and disabilities. I ❤️ Medicaid. Fighting for disability justice, health equity, and tater tots for all.

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Little Lobbyists @littlelobbyists.com · 01/09/2026
On Thursday, Sep 3rd @ 7:00 p.m. ET, the Haitian community will come together for a national prayer service in honor of Pierre Damas Bel REGISTER HERE —> bit.ly/4xA9tSl If you or someone you love is struggling, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available 24/7 by call or text, in ENG & SPA
"Memorial graphic for Pierre Damas Bel, shown in a blue graduation cap and gown with an honor cords and medals, holding a plaque. Text reads: 'In Loving Memory of Pierre Damas Bel — National Prayer Call, Thursday, Sep. 3rd, 7:00 p.m. ET.'"
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Little Lobbyists @littlelobbyists.com · 01/09/2026
This was an incredibly difficult read on the impact #immigration enforcement is having on children, teens, and families across the country... Our well wishes to Pierre's family 💙❤️
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Fatima Goss Graves @fatimagossgraves.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I am sending my support and solidarity to Congresswoman LaMonica McIver as she continues to fight the Trump administration's chilling attacks on her. This administration fears Black women, and they have shown they will go to terrifying lengths to silence us.
nytimes.com
Judges Reject Plea to Toss Federal Charges Against Democratic Lawmaker
An appeals panel ruled against Representative LaMonica McIver, a Democrat accused by the Justice Department of assaulting immigration agents outside Delaney Hall. No one was injured in the clash.
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Casey Doherty @caseydoherty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the DC premiere of Take Me Home! I encourage you to check out the film, which balances independence, interdependence, family, caregiving, and community.
A group of smiling people on a CAP-branded stage.Casey is speaking into a handheld microphone to panelist Liz on a CAP-branded stage.A wide shot of the Take Me Home panel in an event space, with the audience in the left side of the image and the panelists on stage in the right side of the image.
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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My copy of "All my dead cats and other losses" by @sesmith.lol just arrived in the mail! As someone who's been forever changed by death and continues to be surrounded by ongoing loss, I can't wait to dive into this book where grief and mourning have a chance of being normalized.
Selfie photo of me smiling at the camera and holding s.e. smith's book "all my dead cats and other losses"
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Caring Across Generations @caringacross.org · 21/07/2026
We all depend on care. Today’s the day we talk about it. Join us for the Day to Have Your Say and be one of 1 Million Care Conversations: caringacross.formstack.com/forms/1_… #1MCare
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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 21/07/2026
Despite being eligible for #Medicaid, Marie was denied coverage in 2025 because of an error with the state's benefits system. It took months of pushback before the state reversed its mistake. Even as a "tech-savvy" former bank manager, Marie she wanted to give up several times along the way.
npr.org
Deloitte-run systems denied Medicaid to disabled people. New laws could make it worse
Complex computer systems that decide whether people get Medicaid benefits have a history of errors. Now, changes to comply with Trump's tax and domestic policy law are inundating those systems.
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Little Lobbyists @littlelobbyists.com · 21/07/2026
Happy to catch a pre-release screening of “Take Me Home” 🎬 — a beautifully directed film by Liz Sargent following Anna, a young disabled woman, and her family navigating caregiving, health care, and structural barriers. ❤️💙🩵 @americanprogress.bsky.social @aapd.com @caringacross.org
Group photo of nine people at the Center for American Progress, including a child wearing a Little Lobbyists t-shirt, smiling together in front of an American flag and a Center for American Progress backdrop. Several people use wheelchairs, and one child has a medical tube. Everyone is smiling warmly for the camera.
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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Here with @protectourcare.org this morning on behalf of @littlelobbyists.com families again fighting for affordable quality health care, fighting for our children. We are #SickOfIt Join us live! 👇 www.youtube.com/live/Wy3OmUT...
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Sick of It! Fix Health Care Now in Washington, DC (LIVE at 10:30AM ET)
YouTube video by Protect Our Care
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/07/2026
On Monday, Joan Sebastian Guerrero was shot and killed by ICE agents in Biddeford, Maine. Reports say Guerrero was authorized to legally work in the US and not even ICE's target. @annayeo.bsky.social was on the ground Tuesday in Biddeford and spoke with locals—including one man who knew Guerrero.
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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
XIOMARA IS 12 TODAY! 🥳 When birthdays are not guaranteed, we celebrate every moment and fight like heck for many more. We are forever grateful and proud that Xiomara has made such a meaningful difference, not just for our family but to an entire nation that relies on access to healthcare. 1/3
collage of four photos of Xiomara (left) baby in the NICU (right top to bottom) joyful 6 yo enjoying life (and popsicle!), mischievous 6yo definitely about to cause some trouble, 12 yo this morning on the way to summer school
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Little Lobbyists @littlelobbyists.com · 18/06/2026
there’s “no money” for #Medicaid but there’s money for whatever this is
“Video still showing a hand pulling a large sheet of dark blue material out of murky green water, with splashing droplets around it. Bold blue overlay text reads ‘Reflecting Pool $14 million dollar paint job update…’ with a search icon in the top corner.”
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Little Lobbyists @littlelobbyists.com · 12/06/2026
Hello BlueSky, We're raising funds to support all kids with disabilities—mobility, sensory, mental health, intellectual, developmental, and chronic conditions. If every follower donates $1.00, we will meet and surpass our goal! PLS SHARE 👇
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Little Lobbyists is turning 9!
For 9 years, families of medically complex & disabled kids have been showing up to Capitol Hill — kids, wheelchairs, ventilators, and all — to make sure their children are seen & protected. Help us c...
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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
When birthdays are not guaranteed, we celebrate every moment and fight like hell for many more. We want medically complex kids to celebrate more birthdays. 🥳 Can you help us? If you are in a position to do so, please support our work. Your donation is greatly appreciated. www.tinyurl.com/ll9years
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Little Lobbyists @littlelobbyists.com · 16/05/2026
"A sweeping federal spending package signed by President Donald Trump last year — his “big, beautiful bill” — is expected to slash Medicaid funding by about $1 trillion over the coming decade, just as many states are already struggling with rising costs." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
nbcnews.com
Families caring for disabled relatives face unthinkable choices as Medicaid cuts loom
President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” state budget turmoil and new attacks on paid family caregiving have people fearing financial ruin as they fight to keep loved ones out of institutions.
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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 17/05/2026
She was deported without her toddler. Then ICE blamed her for his killing. 
ICE accused Wendy Hernandez Reyes of leaving her child with a violent uncle, but she says her son would still be alive if officers hadn’t detained and deported her.
washingtonpost.com
She was deported without her toddler. Then ICE blamed her for his killing.
ICE accused Wendy Hernandez Reyes of leaving her child with a violent uncle, but she says her son would still be alive if officers hadn’t detained and deported her.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 22/05/2026
The rural hospital crisis is killing people and rapidly escalating. The Republican cuts to Medicaid are basically going to be the end of hospital services in the rural US.
npr.org
'We'll never know if he could have been saved.' The gaps in Trump's rural health fund
Republicans promise that $50 billion in new health funding will help rural America. But it's not expected to aid the years-long effort in North Carolina's Martin County to reopen its only hospital.
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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
What moms want this Mothers' Day is affordable housing, affordable healthcare, affordable childcare, and affordable groceries. 💐
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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The hardest part about grief is the loss of all the memories you didn't get to make. There is so much about my life I wish I could have shared with my mom these past 21 years. May Mothers' Day land gently for those who find today bittersweet. 💕
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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
That's my emotional support Hungarian election result.
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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Those are my four emotional support astronauts. 🌖🌎❤️
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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
In other news: THIS is way better news...
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Rafael Agustín @rafaelagustin.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Proud to stand with Stacey Abrams, Mychal Threets, Jenn Stowe, and all the #ReadThemHome national partners, as we continue our national online vigil to end the inhumane detention of children and families.
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Alan Rosenblatt @drdigipol.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
While Trump is destroying the Middle East and our NATO alliance, these folks won't ever let anyone forget that what matters first to everyone is whether they can feed their families, pay their bills, afford health care, provide child care, buy clothing... the stuff we all need. go.bsky.app/FpeMh5Y
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Little Lobbyists @littlelobbyists.com · 03/04/2026
Happy to have joined the #ReadThemHome crew in this effort — many thx to @staceyabrams.com, @domesticworkers.bsky.social, @aft.org, @seiu.org, @neatoday.bsky.social, and all partners Special s/o to @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social & all the volunteers The work continues —> bit.ly/readthemhome
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🚨 Call To Action-APRIL 2 📍Live Stream Online 🛑 Stop Detaining Children & Families ⏰ 12 Hour Vigil- 8 a.m. CDT Join the protest using reading of children’s books as an act of care, resistance, & demand for change 📕 #ReadThemHome Join the live stream on readthemhome.org
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David Bowles @davidbowles.us · 02/04/2026
Tomorrow (April 2nd, International Children's Book Day), I will be in Dilley, Texas, outside the South Texas Family Residential Center, where children and families are being held indefinitely. At 5 pm, I will be reading from my books as part of a poignant vigil. #ReadThemHome #EndFamilyDetention 1/
Tune in. National Vigil to End Family Detention. Dilley, Texas. Watch the livestream. Read them home. End family detention. www.readthemhome.org
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Rafael Agustín @rafaelagustin.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I’m outside the Dilley detention center today reading my book out loud to help #EndFamilyDetention ❤️‍🩹 Do your part. Read aloud. Share your video. Tag #ReadThemHome. Help us bring these kids home. @domesticworkers.bsky.social @fwd.us @neatoday.bsky.social @seiu.org
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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 02/04/2026
Today, SEIU members are joined with our partners in Dilley, TX where children & families are being held indefinitely. We’re launching the #ReadThemHome campaign—reading children’s books aloud for kids in Dilley and across the country who aren’t allowed to just be kids. Tune in: www.readthemhome.org
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Little Lobbyists @littlelobbyists.com · 02/04/2026
A msg from @elenahung.bsky.social — who is outside the Dilley Detention Center as part of #ReadThemHome The trauma children in detention carry doesn't disappear when the cell door opens. The anxiety, regression, loss of language — that damage is real and it is lasting. END FAMILY DETENTION!
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Mychal Threets @mychal3ts.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Kids should be kids. Close Dilley ❤️‍🩹 Join the #ReadThemHome campaign: read aloud, share your video, and take action. readthemhome.org 📖🏡
TUNE IN
NATIONAL VIGIL TO END FAMILY DETENTION DILLEY, TEXAS WATCH THE LIVESTREAM READ THEM HOME END FAMILY DETENTION
www.ReadThemHome.org
HANDS HOLDING BOOK
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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
I am in Dilley, Texas right to help draw attention to the fact that children are currently locked up and detained at the Dilley Detention Center. That’s right: CHILDREN. DETAINED. #ReadThemHome 1/
photo taken outside Dilley Detention Center, open field behind a fence with a "no trespassing" sign
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Little Lobbyists @littlelobbyists.com · 02/04/2026
HAPPENING NOW: @elenahung.bsky.social reads children's books as part of the #ReadThemHome campaign. Reading aloud offers a powerful contrast between the horrors of the Dilley #Immigration Detention Center and the beauty of letting kids be kids. LEARN MORE: bit.ly/readthemhome
A woman wearing a blue Little Lobbyists t-shirt reads aloud from a book in front of a branded step-and-repeat backdrop featuring the Little Lobbyists logo. A large teddy bear wearing a "Read Them Home" vest sits behind her. A sign reading "End Family Detention" is visible on a bookshelf to her left. A sign language interpreter appears in a small inset window in the upper right corner. Captions at the bottom read: "to the bakers. She bought a loaf of brown bed and five"
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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Children should not be detained, ever. Not really sure how else to say that... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Wormy food, intimidating guards, sick kids: Inside ICE’s only family detention center
First-person accounts paint a bleak picture of the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas.
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
As my colleague Andy Schneider explained there is a complex administrative process CMS has to follow to preemptively withhold or retrospectively disallow federal #Medicaid funding for a state like MN. It would be unlawful to just unilaterally halt federal funding: ccf.georgetown.edu/2026/01/16/c...
ccf.georgetown.edu
CMS Weaponizes Fraud Against Medicaid in Minnesota
On January 6, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator, Dr. Mehmet Oz, sent a letter to the Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, notifying him that his state’s Medicaid agenc...
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Joan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Disgusted by this Administration’s ongoing attacks on the state of Minnesota - now an unlawful act to withhold federal Medicaid funding preemptively. Medicaid serves children, people with disabilities etc.
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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Very few people will get me to leave my warm, comfy bed and go outside in this icy snow; @mariatown.bsky.social & @lachimusic.bsky.social did! Thrilled I got to spend the evening listening to their conversation on all things disability, including Lachi's new book "I identify as blind."
Photo of (L to R) Maria, me, and Lachi with her sparkly Glam Cane; we are all smiling at the camera and looking gorgeous AF. I am holding a copy of Lachi's book "I identify as blind" in my hand.
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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 30/01/2026
Hello, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social! My name is Juan Escalante, and I am an immigrant rights advocate 👋 I am still up and working on the West Coast, so I'd be more than happy to give you a crash course on why this is a bad ask Let's talk
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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We could have health care and help people survive and thrive or ... Americans shot and killed in broad daylight by masked officials. 🤔
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
NEW — ICE violence has spread well beyond Minneapolis, with agents landing in small cities like St. Cloud. I spoke with Alice Valentine, a local queer trans woman, who protested ICE on Monday and was pepper sprayed, beaten and jailed as a result, along with her girlfriend. This is Alice's story:
thehandbasket.co
Queer trans ICE protester in small Minn. city recounts agents' violence and humiliation
Alice Valentine of St. Cloud was pepper sprayed and jailed by ICE for trying to protect immigrant neighbors.
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Little Lobbyists @littlelobbyists.com · 16/01/2026
“Denying disabled people accommodations is denying their basic rights. On multiple occasions, ICE has engaged in inhuman treatment when apprehending people who are disabled.”
nonprofitquarterly.org
The Danger ICE Poses to the Disabled Community | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
Disabled people face increased rates of violence, abandonment, and medical neglect in ICE custody.
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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 13/01/2026
Meme from The Simpsons shows a bus driver saying “Don’t make me tap the sign.” The sign he taps reads: “The money funding masked ICE agents is the same money that could’ve funded Medicaid for medically complex and disabled children.”
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Little Lobbyists @littlelobbyists.com · 13/01/2026
THE MONEY FUNDING MASKED ICE AGENTS 👇 IS THE SAME MONEY THAT COULD’VE FUNDED #MEDICAID FOR MEDICALLY COMPLEX AND DISABLED CHILDREN
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Elena Hung (she/her) @elenahung.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
** Periodic reminder ** First they came for ...
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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
What could the physician have done? Checked vital signs. Sometimes a pulse is slow or thready or there are subtle signs of life. Administer CPR. Open the airway. Staunch the bleed. Why the %#*^ would you keep a doc away?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Naming a police officer is not doxxing. We aren’t supposed to have secret police in America.
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Juan Escalante @juanescalante.com · 08/01/2026
Where does Venezuela go from here? No one seems to know—including the Trump Admin While Trump clearly stated his desire for the U.S. to commandeer Venezuela’s oil, the actual future of the country under U.S. influence doesn’t give Venezuelans self-determination My latest via @prismreports.org
prismreports.org
No one seems to know what's next for Venezuela—including the Trump administration
While Trump clearly stated his desire for the U.S. to commandeer oil in Venezuela, the actual future of the country under U.S. influence doesn’t give Venezuelans self-determination
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Federal immigration agents have now shot and killed multiple people since Trump took office a year ago. Today alone marks the second deadly ICE shooting IN A WEEK. An off-duty shot and killed a 43-year-old father in CA on Dec. 31.
latimes.com
Emotional vigil held for man killed by off-duty ICE agent on New Year's Eve
Sunday evening, a crowd of about 50 gathered at the Village Pointe apartment complex in Northridge to grieve Keith Porter Jr., who was fatally shot on New Year's Eve by an off-duty ICE agent.
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Since Noem became head of DHS and ICE further reduced standards for joining the agency while White House officials such as Stephen Miller demanded enforcement quotas, there has been a huge uptick in horrendous violence from ICE. This was predictable, yet it remains shocking and unacceptable.
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