Issues & actions
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Featured actions
Highlighted campaigns that need extra visibility right now.
- Featured #Hands Off our Healthcare! Since 2025, hundreds of thousands of Americans have lost their health insurance. Trump is attacking people on Medicaid, Medicare, & even private insurance, by g…
- Featured Help Fight Against Assisted Suicide On October 31, 2025, around 3:00 a.m., the Illinois legislature passed SB 1950—an assisted suicide bill disguised as a food safety amendment. For the disability…
- Featured No Kings Goes Virtual! 10 Minutes A Day & our partner nonprofit, DIYabled are disability community led & focused groups that have teamed up for #HandsOff & other events, making them v…
- Featured Celebrate our Birthdays & Protect Disability Rights! August is the birthday of the Board members from 10 Minutes A Day & DIYabled, two disability led & focused nonprofits. The 27th &29th are the founders'/EDs' spe…
Campaigns & action areas
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- It's Our Birthday!!! The founders and board members of 10 Minutes A Day & our partner, DIYabled, have August birthdays! Here's how you can help us celebrate!
- Celebrate Disability Pride Month! July is Disability Pride month, and we're so proud of our diverse, beautiful, & vibrant community! Here are some activities & things you can do to celebrate Dis…
- LGBTQ+ & Disabilty Pride Months! June is LGBTQ+ Pride month, and July is Disability Pride month, so we have a lot of exciting events planned or that we've found to celebrate two traditionally d…
- Tell the Illinois Senate or Your State to Vote NO to Assisted Suicide! The Illinois legislative session isn't over, and a bill that would allow for patient assisted suicide (PAS) with, from our view, no real guardrails, could be vo…
- Tell the Senate to Vote No on the GOP Budget Bill In May the GOP-controlled House voted for a budget bill that is over 1,000 pages, but the bottom line is that it increases spending, except for vital social ser…
- Mental Health Awareness Month May is mental health awareness month, and many people have been struggling to manage in light of this administration's cruel and relentless behavior. Here are s…
- #HandsOff: We Have a Virtual Event for You! On April 5, 2025, millions of individuals participated in protests to defend vital social programs. However, the disability community—a historically and systemi…
- Protect Ukraine & Its People! Trump & the GOP have enabled Putin's horrific war against Ukraine, cozying up towards Russia & refusing basic humanitarian Ukraine needs to rebuild its infrastr…
- Protect Our Rights--Get Involved! We've been bombarded by cruel executive orders & a GOP that wants to harm the welfare of 80 million Americans by gutting Medicaid. The Supreme Court has enable…
- Keep Your #HandsOff! On April 5, 2025, over 3 million people attended #HandsOff events to protest the GOP's plan to gut life-saving services by $880 billion dollars! Although the GO…
- National Day of Mourning Hi everyone! We hope you are safe and well today, and for those of you who celebrate the holiday, enjoy it and your loved ones. However, our nation's history an…
- National Day of Service: A Seat at the Table: Raising Important Voices Since its inception, our organizational mission has been to support and advocate for disenfranchised communities. After giving this a great deal of thought, har…
- National Day of Service: A Seat at the Table: Raising Important Voices Since its inception, our organizational mission has been to support and advocate for disenfranchised communities. After giving this a great deal of thought, har…
- Laura Lombard for KS-4! Laura Lombard is running to flip a US House seat in Kansas's 4th congressional district (KS-4), and this is a race we can win! Laura is a fifth-generation Kansa…
- Get Out the Vote for Wisconsin! Attribution: Ec13328 / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) In 2016, Wisconsin was one of the three states that cost us the election. This…
- It's National Disability Voter Registration Week! National Disability Voter Registration Week (NDVRW) is this week! This event is particularly important for the 61 million Americans with disabilities, who repre…
- World Refugee Day The Trump administration has capped the number of refugees that are allowed into the US at the lowest numbers since 1980, and he has targeted marginalized gro…
- Commemorate Juneteenth Today is Juneteenth, which commemorates the legal abolition of slavery in 1865 (three years after the 1862 Emancipation Proclamation). Sadly, Black Americans …
- Stand Up & Help Make Sure Black Lives Matter On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a Black Minneapolis resident, was killed by police officers. Floyd was unarmed and was killed when an officer placed his kn…
- Urgent--Protect Homeowners from Predatory Practices! Across the nation, there has been a wave of deconversion, where developers have baited, harassed, coreced, been dishonest with, and otherwise tried to induce co…
- Stop Needless COVID19 Infections & Deaths: Spotlight: Illinois Urgent! During a serious pandemic, we have treated & are treating many of our most vulnerable members of our communities shamefully. As of March 31, in Chicago …
- It's Sexual Awareness Month! bcjbqqefhioaj
- Janice Park for Alaska State HD 25! Janice Park is running for state representative in Alaska's House District 25, and her race is an important one to spotlight. In her own words, Janice says, "…
- It's National Domestic Violence Awareness Month! Domestic Violence affects a staggering 10 million people every single year, and every 20 minutes, someone is physically abused by an intimate partner. So ma…
- Support the National Popular Vote Initiative! Our recent presidential elections have demonstrated the disparity between how America is voting and the outcome reached by the electoral college. These concer…
- Cal Cunningham for US Senate 2020 is a very important year for Democrats to regain control of the Senate. In North Carolina, current polls show a very close race that is within reach and fa…
- Mike Espy for US Senate! Control of the Senate in 2020 is critical to passing important legislation to ensure affordable healthcare for everyone, end the gun violence epidemic, protect …
