First and foremost, we want to celebrate and honor our incredible Lead Healthcare Organizer, Patty Snee, as she begins her retirement after an extraordinary 45 years in the movement. Since joining Progressive Maryland in 2020, Patty has helped shape and strengthen some of our most impactful work. She launched our Maryland People’s Leadership Institute (MPLI), helped lead our COVID response…Read More

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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…Read More

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Right here in Maryland, the slow-building catastrophe of Trump retribution against Blue states adds up, as our legislature works to manage its way through Gov. Moore’s proposed tough-love budget. Federal pullbacks in a wide variety of public benefits, from medical care to food assistance to education to the loss of hundreds of thousands of federal jobs by state residents, leave…Read More