Cora Neumann

Tuesday was a very good day for Montana.

We confounded the cynics. Defied the national narrative. Proved, once again, that this state has a stubborn, beautiful streak of independence, and a deep commitment to bipartisanship and to putting people over party, running straight through it.

Read more ➡️ open.substack.com/pub/coraneumann/p/montana-is-still-purple-and-last

When a Republican Governor and a Democratic Senator agree there’s a plan worth fighting for!

I’ll be moderating a conversation about The Montana Plan with Marc Racicot and Senator Jon Tester on June 12 starting at 12:30 PM at the Emerson Center.

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Being a Democrat right now is hard. The exhaustion is real. But I’ve come to believe something deeply, we are doing more than we know, and it is working better than it looks.

When I need motivation, I think about Anna Walentynowicz, a crane operator in Poland who got fired five months before retirement, and whose coworkers walked off the job. Ten million people followed. Nine years later, the wall came down. She never knew the end was coming. She just refused to disappear quietly.

That’s the energy I brought to the Flathead Democrats last week, and the story of what Montana Democrats accomplished this past session is one worth telling.

Medicaid expansion, permanent. Nearly a billion dollars for working families. And we’re just getting started.

Full remarks on Substack. https://open.substack.com/pub/coraneumann/p/there-is-light-at-the-end-of-this?r=1bcvp&utm_medium=ios

I wear alot of hats, but being a mother is the most treasured.

Thank you and Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers and caregivers out there, and to the beautiful, talented, empathetic, independent women who raised me.

The Supreme Court just gutted the Voting Rights Act and in Montana, that’s not abstract.

Reservation communities spent decades fighting to be heard after being carved across eight legislative districts to dilute their votes. We won that fight. We built a national model for Native representation.

We will not stop fighting. Read at Bozeman Daily Chronicle + my substack for even more at substack.com/

Had the privilege of touring the new Bozeman Health & Billings Clinic facility in Bozeman — a great example of two of Montana’s leading health systems coming together to better serve patients across the state.

As Montana faces ongoing uncertainty from federal policy changes threatening healthcare funding, our providers and facilities need our support and collaboration more than ever. It’s why we voted to reauthorize Medicaid expansion: to stand behind our hospitals and health facilities and ensure they can continue to serve Montana families.

This work doesn’t end when the session does.