Care Is Power: A Mother’s Day Call to Action
Honoring moms means protecting children and families from cruel cuts to health care, food aid, schools, Head Start, and immigrant safety.
On this special day when we honor Mothers and all those who fill that role, let us continue to honor them with our words and our actions.
Take Action: For all mothers who deserve civil rights
Take Action: For all the mothers who deserve to vote without partisan gerrymandering
Take Action: For all the mothers who deserve their fair share of their earnings
Take Action: For all the mothers who deserve to make their own medical decisions
Take Action: For the mothers who deserve to live in a community free of gun violence
Protect Mothers. Protect Children. Protect Families.
Happy Mother’s Day weekend to every mother, grandmother, auntie, caregiver, teacher, neighbor, mentor, and loved one who nurtures, protects, guides, and loves in that sacred role.
But honoring mothers must be more than flowers, cards, brunches, and speeches. Honoring mothers means protecting the children they love. Honoring mothers means defending the families they hold together. Honoring mothers means refusing to let politicians praise motherhood with one breath while using the power of the state to harm children, punish families, and abandon the most vulnerable people in our communities.
Our children are our future. They are the real gift. And if we truly believe that, then we must say plainly what is happening: children and families are under attack from the highest levels of power in this country.
This is not just “budget policy.” This is not normal political disagreement. When leaders cut health care, slash food assistance, freeze school funding, threaten immigrant families, and deny children the resources they need to survive and thrive, that is violence. It is violence by paperwork. Violence by budget line. Violence by cruelty dressed up as policy.
Mother’s Day itself has roots in protest, public health, and care work. In 1858, Ann Reeves Jarvis organized “Mother’s Work Days” to improve sanitation and help prevent deaths from disease and polluted water.1 Mother’s Day was connected to the labor of women who refused to accept preventable suffering as normal.
That is the spirit we must reclaim now.
The Trump administration and MAGA Republicans have pushed policies that threaten the health, safety, dignity, and stability of millions of mothers and families. Medicaid and CHIP are lifelines for children, pregnant people, disabled people, seniors, and low-income families. Yet the 2025 reconciliation law cuts $990 billion from federal Medicaid and CHIP spending over ten years, with estimates showing 7.5 million people becoming uninsured because of those cuts by 2034.2
That means children missing checkups. Mothers delaying care. Families skipping prescriptions. Disabled children losing services. Communities forced to absorb the pain of political choices made by people who will never have to choose between rent, groceries, and medicine.
Trump and MAGA Republicans are attacking food security, too. SNAP is one of the most basic promises a country can make: children should not go hungry because their families are poor. Yet new restrictions are expected to reduce SNAP participation by roughly 2.4 million people in an average month and reduce child nutrition support for tens of thousands of children. 3
Let us be clear: legislative hunger is violence. A mother skipping dinner so her child can eat is not a personal failure. It is a policy failure. It is a moral failure.
Trump and MAGA Republicans also froze about $6.8 billion in congressionally approved K-12 education funding, threatening support for migrant students, English-language learners, teacher training, academic enrichment, and after-school and summer programs.4 They withheld Head Start funds, with about $825 million less disbursed in early 2025 compared with the year before.5 These are not luxuries. These are programs children and working families rely on.
They have also spread fear into schools, hospitals, churches, and neighborhoods by weakening protections against immigration arrests in sensitive locations. A Guardian analysis found that during the first seven months of 2025, the Trump administration arrested parents of at least 27,000 children, including parents of at least 12,000 U.S. citizen children.6
That is family separation. That is trauma. That is children wondering if their mother or father will come home.
We all deserve to live in communities free from violence.
That includes mothers.
That includes children.
That includes immigrant families, poor families, disabled children, and every family struggling to survive policies designed to punish them.
So yes, celebrate mothers. Honor mothers. Love mothers. Remember mothers. But do not stop there.
Honor mothers by defending Medicaid. Honor mothers by protecting SNAP. Honor mothers by funding schools. Honor mothers by protecting Head Start. Honor mothers by demanding safe communities, reproductive freedom, paid leave, affordable housing, child care, clean water, and health care for every family.
Care is not weakness. Care is power.
This Mother’s Day, let us honor mothers with more than words. Let us honor them with action.
Honoring moms means stop harming our children and families.
The violence must end. The cruelty must end. The abandonment must end.
Our children deserve care. Our families deserve dignity. Our communities deserve safety. And mothers deserve more than flowers. They deserve a country that stops hurting the people they love.
Today’s Calls to Actions
Take Action: For all mothers who deserve civil rights
Take Action: For all the mothers who deserve to vote without partisan gerrymandering
Take Action: For all the mothers who deserve their fair share of their earnings
Take Action: For all the mothers who deserve to make their own medical decisions
Take Action: For the mothers who deserve to live in a community free of gun violence
Thanks for taking action!
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