Happy Earth Day! Let’s Make Polluters Pay! 🌎💰

“I’m not willing to say that our lawmakers are bought and paid for,” Rose said. “But the money obviously lends itself to a strong voice at the Capitol and a voice that smaller groups and, quite frankly, I think, a lot of the average citizens don’t have.”

“There’s absolutely no doubt that the utilities and the health care industries have way too much power at the State Capitol,” Swan said, asserting that Connecticut citizens pay higher health care costs and utility costs because of the sway those monopolistic industries hold.

More money, more influence? Here's who spends the most paying lobbyists in CT Do the companies or groups that spend the most have an outsized influence in Hartford?

www.ctinsider.com/politics/art...?

Thank you @ctnewsjunkie.bsky.social for covering CCAG's private equity forum last week. Lots of great quotes from panelists in this article.

ctnewsjunkie.com/2026/04/17/c...?

📢 The latest @sierraclub.org scorecard ranks 33 major U.S. public pensions and reveals most are failing to adequately manage the climate-related financial risks to their investments through proxy voting.

See how your state stacks up here: www.sierraclub.org/hidden-risk-...

This is beyond fucked up

"The healthcare inequities in our state are a moral outrage, and it is unconscionable that Connecticut allows them to continue," Swan said. "The top 25% of our taxpayers got a $3.4 billion tax break *every year* from Trump."

CCAG joins ACLU CT, Common Cause in CT, 100% Democracy, Responsive Gov, and LWV CT in urging Gov. Lamont to fully fund the Secretary of the State’s FY27 budget. Expanded voting rights need voter education, municipal aid, audits, and real implementation support. Democracy needs funding.

Two bills, SB 3 and RB 496, will begin to create a basic health plan, help prevent medical debt, and address Medicaid rates to providers.

CCAG's Tom Swan joined Comptroller Sean Scanlon, Senator Matt Lesser and others at Health Equity Solutions' kickoff of Health Equity Week.

"We have the ability and the resources…We need the will."

Happy No Kings Day! ❤️💙

Join me at the next No Kings Day

March 28 will be the biggest protest in US history. Find your local No Kings event to make it clear that America rejects the regime’s brutality at home and abroad. app.sosha.ai/s/7dmDhybu

Connecticut (and others) beat Trump. If we don’t fight we won’t win but when we fight a better world is possible. Thanks @agwilliamtong.bsky.social @ctcag.bsky.social

We are on Substack! Check out our first article - Happy Birthday Affordable Care Act: What does the future of the ACA look like in Connecticut?

ctcag.substack.com/p/happy-birt...

Thank you to all the advocates and legislators who attended today’s press conference on SB 3. Let’s get this bill passed and make healthcare affordable!

Read more: www.ctinsider.com/politics/art...

SATURDAY, MARCH 28 IN HARTFORD
COME SEE YOUR BEST FRIENDS AT CCAG!
WE’LL BE THERE TABLING AND SPREADING THE GOOD WORD OF DEMOCRACY.

No Kings gatherings will be happening throughout the country. Not up for traveling to Hartford? An event near you can easily be found by visiting nokings.org

UPDATE: A critical public hearing on healthcare 4 all CT residents is scheduled for 3/17. Join us for a workshop to submit testimony here:
Bit.ly/HJNWorkshop

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SB 3 Testimony Writing Workshop . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Everyone in Connecticut should have health coverage they can afford that lets them get quality care when they need it. Washington budget cuts have made healthcare affordability and access even worse. ...

We expect a possible public hearing next week that will move forward some of our Health Justice NOW priorities.

Join us 3/7, 10-11AM to learn more about solutions CT is considering to protect residents' access to health care in light of federal

Spanish interpretation available.

Your testimony needed Tuesday at the Insurance and Real Estate Committee. Visit here for details: tinyurl.com/yzb42j9v

They are perverting the ACA to be more expensive than retail individual insurance.

NEW: Alongside 16 other Democrats, @warren.senate.gov is introducing the American Homeownership Act of 2026.

This bill takes private equity's chokehold on housing head on — ending major federal tax deductions & other unfair benefits for Wall Street landlords, while reinvesting in families.

Haven’t we made clear?

NO KINGS

It was good the governor lifted up CT’s response to HR1 and called for the extension of the fund. We disagree that CT can’t fill the holes, especially if we reclaim the Trump tax cuts for the wealthiest amongst us. We can do better.

Very good to hear the Governor emphasize efficiency, to call out Eversource and UI’s lobbying while calling for PURA to not be bullied

Also glad to hear the Governor call for universal affordable healthcare. We still need to help LOI’s with more than just primary care and need to see if the CT option really moves the needle on this front

@ctcag.bsky.social Governor Lamont opening his speech talking about about Minnesota and concluding contrasting it to CT while exclaiming ICE OUT was powerful and appropriate for these timed.