CCAG - Connecticut Citizen Action Group

08/21/2026

Health insurers are asking Connecticut families to pay even more, but where is all that money already going? 📖 Read the report to find out: bit.ly/hcgreed2026
Now insurers are asking Connecticut regulators to approve rate increases as high as 25.2%.

📣 SPEAK UP NOW BEFORE THE CT INSURANCE DEPARTMENT MAKES ITS DECISION

Send a letter to CID TODAY and demand that they reject unjustified rate hikes: https://bit.ly/ratehike2026

Healthcare dollars should pay for healthcare, not bigger profits, richer executives, and rewards for shareholders!

08/12/2026

David Cordani transformed Cigna into a $275 billion health care giant. His 17-year tenure mirrored the rise of PBMs, corporate consolidation and mounting legal scrutiny.

08/07/2026

08/06/2026

CCAGs Helen Humphreys sat down with to discuss Connecticut’s skyrocketing utility rates and how regulators are making decisions to approve these rate hikes.

Since engaging in a well-funded bullying campaign to run the lead regulator at the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority out of town, Connecticut’s monopoly utility corporations are now on the prowl for more of our hard-earned money to pad their record high profits.

We are demanding transparency and answers.

A state watchdog is demanding an ethics investigation into the regulators who decide what you pay for power.

08/05/2026

It’s Day 3 of Primary in-person Early Voting in Connecticut! We are almost at the halfway point, with 7 days of Early Voting. So, if your town is having a primary, don’t wait to have your voice heard! Polls are open today from 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. Check out who’s on your local ballot at https://portal.ct.gov/sots/election-services/town-ballots/ballots, then find your early voting location at MyVote.CT.gov.

08/05/2026

The rebellion against Todd Blanche’s nomination to be attorney general, now seemingly contained, at no point fundamentally questioned President Trump’s new protections from the I.R.S.

08/03/2026

No one should go hungry and no one should be without healthcare

An estimated 1,745 refugees and asylum seekers are expected to lose SNAP in Connecticut, a DSS spokesperson said.

08/01/2026

Connecticut Republicans are going full MAGA.

The Trump administration is stripping legal protections from Haitian, Syrian, and other immigrants who have built lives in Connecticut. When Governor Lamont proposed using $5 million from a special reserve created to respond to harmful federal actions, Republican leaders dismissed the assistance as a “giveaway” and argued that Connecticut should focus on its “legal citizens.”

That divisive rhetoric comes directly from the MAGA playbook. Our immigrant neighbors are part of Connecticut, and protecting families from federal cruelty is exactly what state government should do.

Gov. Ned Lamont is proposing spending $5 million from a special state reserve to assist immigrants losing Temporary Protected Status.