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I hope Congress acts asap to make this guidance ultimately unnecessary, but until then, offering some guidance and tips if you or a loved one’s care access is being impacted due to federal inaction.

Will we see you at the Kansas Capitol Rotunda in 1️⃣2️⃣ days? Attend the Human Needs are Human Rights rally Wednesday, January 14th, to demand people-centered policy in Kansas 🌻 @ksmainstream.bsky.social @loudlightks.bsky.social @50501-kansas.bsky.social @aclukansas.bsky.social @kairoscenter.org

HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎉 A reminder that millions of Americans are starting 2026 facing steep increases in their health insurance costs BECAUSE Congressional "Republicans cut more than $1 trillion in federal health care and food assistance with Trump’s big tax and spending cuts bill."

Message from our founders: We launched Boots without a roadmap—just a spark and a sense that something had to change. What we found was extraordinary: a community of people who care fiercely about protecting our democracy and showing up for one another. Still searching for your place? Come join us.

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Let's get after it! Join us: votesaveamerica.com

Leavenworth County Residents👇 Winter Community Support Drive January 10th from 10am-2pm 711 Marshall St Leavenworth, KS See the list below for needed items 💙

New Years resolution #1 >> Be at the Kansas State Capitol on January 14th ✊

Want to squeeze in one last protest for the year? Join @indivisiblekc.bsky.social for a pop up protest TODAY at 3:30pm. More info here ⬇️ www.mobilize.us/indivisiblek...

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So many signs, so much resistance. 🪧 Thank you for resisting with us this year! We’re excited to keep this energy going in 2026. ✊💙🌻 @indivisiblekc.bsky.social @50501kansascity.bsky.social @50501-kansas.bsky.social @aclukansas.bsky.social

One hour for democracy, one bag for the hungry. Meet at 75th & Metcalf this Saturday, Jan 3rd, from 9:30-10:30am, with peanut butter & jelly for Peggy’s Pantry KC. 💙🌻🪧

Join a Boots on the Ground Midwest Community Hub! 🌻 Community Hubs give you specific ways to engage with people and projects in your own backyard. Meet like-minded people and get plugged in to specific pro-democracy actions each month. More info and a list of Community Hubs at the link below!

What's a better way to start 2026 than a training on knowing your constitutional rights?? Learn how to be an effective witness to ICE activity and how to be helpful to victims on Wednesday, January 7th at 6:30 pm in Overland Park, KS. Sign up here ⬇️ www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

💡 Did you know... that from May to October 2025, Missouri’s food banks lost out on 𝟭.𝟲 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗿𝘆, due to budget cuts from the Trump Administration? Call your reps TODAY and say #ISayNO. Use https://ow.ly/9tee50XNiBw. Source: https://ow.ly/u9pT50XNiBx

New Years resolution #1 >> Be at the Kansas State Capitol on January 14th ✊

2025 signs from the heartland of America. The work continues in 2026. 💙

Are the Kansas City Chiefs moving from Missouri to Kansas to make Trump seem less stupid?

Boots on the Ground Midwest weekly protest at 75th and Metcalf in Overland Park, KS | Saturday 12.27.25 💙🪧🌻 (More photos in comments! ⬇️)

Feeling overwhelmed by the season? Trade holiday stress for a protest sign. Join us this Saturday, 9:30-10:30am at 75th & Metcalf, and bring cereal to support Peggy’s Pantry KC. 💙🪧🌻

Democracy supporters protested ICE arrests today at the #KCMO immigration court. More from @KCTV5.com "Those seeking legal status lured to hearings for ICE arrest, attorneys say" https://www.kctv5.com/2025/05/27/tossed-immigration-cases-leading-in-court-ice-arrests-attorneys-say/#KCMO

Feeling overwhelmed by the season? Trade holiday stress for a protest sign! 🪧 Join us this Saturday from 9:30-10:30am at 75th & Metcalf. Bring boxed cereal to support Peggy’s Pantry KC! 💙🌻💙

Missouri Residents!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Join @respectmovoters.org next Monday and Tuesday, December 29-30th, at the Waldo Public Library from 2-4pm for more chances to sign petitions. End 2025 by making sure your voices and votes are heard and respected!

Neighbors kidnapped, public schools weakened, healthcare access lessened, but what's first on the docket for KS legislators in 2026?? Gerrymandering 👎 Charlie Kirk Day 👎 Stripping trans kids of their rights 👎 Let's fill the rotunda on January 14th to remind them THEY WORK FOR US. Link below.

Looking for ways to volunteer and/or keep tabs on what’s going on in the Kansas City area? Subscribe to the Boots on the Ground Midwest weekly newsletter! Enter your email at the link below and you’ll be subscribed. 💙🌻⬇️ bootsonthegroundmidwest.substack.com

Still have some holiday shopping to do? Stick it to the plutocracy and shop local this holiday season. ✨🛍️ Check below for our crowd-sourced list of Kansas City area shops you can feel good shopping at! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Join us December 21st for this free panel event, open to the public! We will be joined by: MO Rep Wick Thomas, Cara Hile Abortion Action MO, and Heru Amen-Ra, with Decarcerate KC. Discussions of bodily autonomy, immigration, incarceration, transgender justice, abortion, and more in our organizing

SANTA IS WITH US! Neighborhood pop-up protest: Merry Resistmas Protest and IKC Bridge Brigadiers - bring your signs to promote democracy and fight fascism! 3:30 TO 5:30 pm Tuesday Dec. 23rd on the 15th and Walnut Bridge over 670 in downtown Kansas City www.mobilize.us/indivisiblek...

Democracy Needs You Now Protest | Overland Park, Ks | Saturday, December 20, 2025 💙🪧🌻

🚨TAKE ACTION🚨 Yesterday, HHS announced TWO proposed rules that aim to severely restrict access to best-practice health care for trans youth. Starting today, the public has 60 DAYS to comment on the rules. Take action now: hrc.im/comment

Everyone should take a couple of minutes and watch this, because it's a perfect illustration of how ICE disappears people by making it almost impossible to communicate with family, friends, and lawyers.

Join us tomorrow morning at 9:30 for the weekly Democracy Needs You Now protest in Overland Park, KS! Reminder! The location has changed to the corners of 75th and Metcalf for the winter. 💙🪧🌻

Join federal government employees, union leaders, stewards, and community members for Solidarity Happy Hour, today and every Friday from 4-7pm at The Ship (1221 Union Ave KC, MO). Anyone can attend! 🍻

The Boots on the Ground Holiday Happy Hour was a blast!! Thank you to each and every person that volunteered their time, money, and gifts to further the cause of defending democracy with us this year. We exist because of YOU. 💙🌻💙 P.S. Look at that huge pile of donations for the Truman ER!

Boots Book Club!! 📖 Wednesdays | January 21st and February 18th from 6:30-8:00 pm Join us for a two-session discussion of On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder, facilitated by Dr. Andrew Stuart Bergerson, a historian at UMKC. More info and sign up here ⬇️ www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

We are making a big push to try and get halfway to our signature goal by the end of the year! Can you help? Sign up at respectMOvoters.org/join today! Also check out our web store to snag one of our new yard signs! store.respectMOvoters.org is the place to go!

"On this International Migrants Day, let us stand together for the rights of every migrant, and make migration dignified and safe for all” - António Guterres, UN Secretary-General

This past weekend, Matt Gaetz was at Hope Alive Church in Overland Park, KS for the “Kansas Reckoning” event. Read the linked article for an inside look into what happened at the event. Spoiler—it was a three hour therapy session for the Christian nationalist/stolen election/January 6th crowd. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?

On Monday night, the Prairie Village City Council voted 8-2 in favor of the voting language resolution! @aclukansas.bsky.social Constituent engagement was a deciding factor. One council member stated, "If my community supports it, then I support it." This win belongs to YOU! Our voices matter. 💙

Will we see you tonight?? 🙂

The Boots on the Ground Holiday Happy Hour is TOMORROW! Join us at Brew Lab in downtown Overland Park from 5-7pm for light appetizers and holiday cheer. ✨ We will be collecting boots, gloves, and socks for a local ER. You can also donate monetarily! Ways to donate are listed below. 💙⬇️

One month from today, we will fill the Kansas State Capitol Rotunda and remind our state lawmakers that they work for and represent us. Together, we’ll raise our voices to affirm that housing, healthcare, education, safety, and economic security aren’t privileges—they are human rights. Join us!

Heartbreaking and horrifying to go to bed reading about the mass shooting at Brown University and wake up to read about the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach. Thinking of the victims, their loved ones, and those affected by the hate that drove these attacks.

It has been 13 years since the lives of 20 children and six educators were taken in minutes by a gunman armed with a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle and high-capacity magazines at Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut. Two other people were wounded. 🧵

There’s still time to sign up and attend the last Know Your Rights training of 2025! Join us at 4pm this afternoon. Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Prairie Village residents!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ secure.ngpvan.com/N_cEt2ZCwEmN... @aclukansas.bsky.social

There are a ton of great things happening in the next few days! 🌻 Weekly Protest at 75th and Metcalf | Sat @9:30am 🌻 Community Toy Drive and Voter Rights Event | Sat @1pm 🌻 Know Your Rights Training | Sun @4pm (Last one of 2025!) 🌻 BotG Happy Hour Meet-Up | Mon @5pm

If you’re around the Springfield, MO area, you should follow @smialliance.bsky.social 💙