MARIA TERESA KUMAR 🌻
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2016 taxes:
Trump paid $750.00
Undocumented workers paid $27,000,000,000.00
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I was on set for
@MeetThePress
- all my fellow panelists stared at each other in disbelief as Senator Kennedy spun the very disinformation that Fiona Hill, a Putin and Russia expert, warned us about.
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Most under reported story about midterm Florida, Ron DeSantis gerrymandered his way to victory.
#Election2022
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A budget is our social contract Trump’s $4.8 trillion budget
CUTS:
Medicare by $850b
Medicaid by $920b
Social Security by $30b
Food stamp by $181b
Education by 8%
Health & Human Services by 9%
EPA by 26%
Interior(parks) by 13%
Housing by 15%
During booming economy & tax cuts
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.
@JoeBiden
is first presidential candidate to surpass 75,000,000 citizens who voted for him.
#Election2020results
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BREAKING:
@amazon
agrees to open in Hudson Yards in a deal without any financial incentives from New York City or state.
🤔
@AOC
@votolatino
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Canada had zero COVID related deaths yesterday.
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Will Hurd isn’t seeking re-election.
Second TX Republican to “retire” in a week.
So for the folks in the back.
Texas. Is. The. Game.
38 electoral votes.
Obama lost by 16
4 years later
Hillary lost by 9
2 yrs later
Beto lost by 2.
Still 2.5m unregistered Tejano youth👇🏽
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In the summer of 2015, Trump announced his candidacy by calling a whole people criminals.
Today, El Paso, the safest city in the country, where 80% of the population are of Mexican heritage whom Trump disparaged 4 yrs ago, were victims of a massacre he inspired.
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90% of Latinx under 18yrs are US born citizens. 1 million will become eligible to vote each yr for next 10yrs. Median age of fellow white American is 54. For a Latinx, it’s 18. President’s trumped up EO of revoking citizenship is aimed at us. He’s too late. We’re here. We vote.
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Tonight millions of children sleep feeling more secure.
Immigrant families release their breath, feeling less anxious.
Millions with the faith in our country try restored.
Gracias.
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Fixed it
@nytimes
Barr’s Department of Justice Establishes Office to Denaturalized (20million) Americans.
Pay attention folks.
@votolatino
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President Obama - your predecessor -told you not to hire Flynn. Own it.
It now seems the General Flynn was under investigation long before was common knowledge. It would have been impossible for me to know this but, if that was the case, and with me being one of two people who would become president, why was I not told so that I could make a change?
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For the record: EVERY President is new at this.
“The President’s new at this”: House Speaker Paul Ryan defends President Trump's interactions with James Comey
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Julia Medina is nine & a US citizen. She was detained for 36hrs by border patrol without her mother present. Her brother was coerced to sign a document promising her release. A foreign government had to get involved to get her released. This is foul.
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A failed coup is still a coup. Trump is attempting a coup and our elected officials, our military, judicial system and our press should frame it as such.
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Eisenhower deported 1m individuals under Operation Wetback. American citizens where also caught in the snares.
Under Trump, for-profit detention system has flourished. Detention centers in the middle of America are being built.
Detention is the objective - not deportation.
President Trump threatens to begin “removing the millions" of migrants in the US illegally "next week."
@jacobsoboroff
's fact check on
@Morning_Joe
: This would be “family separation by another name," but “operationally impossible.”
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Gracias
@maddow
for having me on to discuss
@votolatino
’s
#AdiosSinema
The people of Arizona deserve a Senator willing to fight for democracy and protect the sanctity of every Americans’ vote.
Learn more here —>
BREAKING: Voto Latino announces new campaign to primary and unseat Kyrsten Sinema.
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Young Latinos are showing up and showing out for
@joebiden
. Tomorrow, we'll make the GOP's fears of a blue wall in Texas a reality.
@msnbc
@thereidout
@MichaelSteele
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My 7yr-old daughter just charged into the room:
@JoeBiden
just declared that his running mate will be a woman! Did you hear that?!
#democraticdebate
#2020election
@votolatino
#MicDrop
@emilyslist
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Promises made promises kept.
Latinos in AZ, NV, WI, GA, PA together w our Black sisters & brothers in WI, GA & PA ended Trump’s presidency.
He started with us. We vowed that we would end it.
Congratulations voters!
Welcome
@JoeBiden
&
@KamalaHarris
We are here for history.
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Her father puts babies in cages, deports parents, denies detained refugee moms infant to hold after birth, & places kids for adoption w/o consent.
8 kids have died in custody.
If family values is her claim, she should be asked on record every time abt family separation. 👇🏽
Watch
@margbrennan
"grill" Ivanka Trump about her White House responsibilities on
@FaceTheNation
, the premier interview show at
@CBSNews
.
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We have to stop it. Join us in
#Tornillo
, TX, June 24th at 9am. Ground zero of kids internment tents.
#Brownout
#SomosMas
RT - gente...we need the network.
I’m crying in my car listening to the wailing children begging for their mommies and daddies. This state sanctioned child abuse has to stop now
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It also needs a spiritual limpieza.
Before the Bidens move in, the White House will first undergo a Covid-19 cleansing, top to bottom, from East Wing to West Wing. The total for the amplified White House inauguration deep clean right now hovers near a half-million dollars
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Georgia’s Latino population is 4% of the electorate. It’s the same percentage as Virginia when it turned blue.
@votolatino
registered 36k Georgians this past election and is hard at work w
@fairfightaction
to register more!
Consider donating:
The balance of power in the Senate is at stake in Georgia’s runoff election. We’ve got two great candidates—
@ReverendWarnock
and
@Ossoff
—who need your support. Go to to find ways to get involved.
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After a few false starts this week, finally Texas bound w my brew in tow...Speaker Ryan finds himself on the flight. He boarded to boos and seated in the butt of the plane. Seems about right and the universe is aligned.
#HappyHolidays
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There’s no louder siren one can ring when the military is dissenting.
Vote. Him. Out.
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Breaking:
@SecNielsen
resigns. Under her watch, two children died. Families were separated - roughly 40 still not reunited, 3200 minors are being held in an internment camp in Homestead, Fl. Tested our asylum laws. So much that isn’t public.
#FamiliesBelongTogether
@votolatino
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For a sitting president to publicly threaten a democratically elected public servant is more than out of bounds - it’s an attempt to shift norms and make others cower from truth.
Senators obligation is to uphold the law and reject threats
@to
harm.
#AMJoy
@MSNBC
@votolatino
Shifty Adam Schiff is a CORRUPT POLITICIAN, and probably a very sick man. He has not paid the price, yet, for what he has done to our Country!
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What a thought - automatic voter registration for when every American turns 18?! Presidential contender Senator
@amyklobuchar
on
@MSNBC
@maddow
caught my attention. Cc:
@votolatino
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Considered the most restrictive state in the Union in terms of voting, TX GOP certified a fair election last year during record turnout.
Now their determined to prevent their voters from voting.
@votolatino
, we’re suing. Thx
@marceelias
for representing us.
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As I’ve been saying- Dems are within reach of breaking history- they shouldn’t throw in the towel just yet….
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Decorated general, some hoped John Kelly would put country first as Trump CoS. Instead he peddled nationalist policies.
John Kelly is architect of Family Separation. Forever a stain.
Revisionist about confederacy. Lied openly about black congresswoman.
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It’s just women’s locker room talk.
There should be no place in politics for language like this. Pointing out that the President also speaks crudely is no defense. We should be better.
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The story of Arizona is the story of Latinx youth, not voters using sharpies.
@votolatino
registered 67k new voters in Arizona, and they came out in record numbers to choose a new vision for our country and reject hate
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ICE Hysterectomy Doctor Wasn’t Even a Board-Certified OB-GYN
The sociopathy knows no bounds under Steve Miller and
@realDonaldTrump
.
Le Salle is the for profit prison & detention corporation behind these atrocities.
Vote.
@votolatino
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40% of Latinx voters in North Carolina who early voted were first time voters. 🙌🏽🗳
Biden is leading in North Carolina.
@MSNBC
@NBCPolitics
@votolatino
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Taxpayers are still paying her salary.
WAIT. When asked about whether Joe Biden will receive access to intelligence briefings, Kayleigh McEnany says, “That would be a question more for the White House."
Kayleigh McEnany IS the WH Press Secretary, though she is appearing on FOX as a Trump 2020 adviser.
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Pentagon shutters a newspaper that’s been around since the Civil War!
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Latino voters are having a political awakening across the country in response to
@realDonaldTrump
's hatred and giving
@joebiden
a surge in states like TX, AZ, and NV.
@nbcnews
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Ivanka has political aspirations of her own.
She calls armed mob at the Capitol who have injured Capitol police American Patriots. Then deleted it.
She’s complicit in her father’s attempted coup.
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Arizona has spoken. No more racist anti-immigrant policies. No more anti-Latinx policies.
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Good morning.
@realDonaldTrump
woke up gaslighting America.
DACA recipients have vigorous background checks; contribute billions to economy; they’re teachers, scientists, veterans & moms.
Above all else, they are self made Mr. President. Something you can’t claim.
#HomeIsHere
Many of the people in DACA, no longer very young, are far from “angels.” Some are very tough, hardened criminals. President Obama said he had no legal right to sign order, but would anyway. If Supreme Court remedies with overturn, a deal will be made with Dems for them to stay!
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Never in my 16 years running
@votolatino
have I witnessed a question about a safe transition of power. Pence can’t answer it.
Vote. Flood the voting booth. Vote early.
#VPDebate2020
@votolatino
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August 3, 2019.
The largest slaughter of Latinos killed in American history.
Carried out by a white supremacist who was inspired by Trump - an American president.
A gun was his tool but this wasn’t just another random mass shooting, this was intentionally against mi gente.
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.
@JoyAnnReid
has best analysis of all 3 networks.
Trump’s speech w WH as a backdrop is of monarchy not democracy.
For immigrant & their kids it’s dejavú. It’s what our families fled.
She’s ringing alarm. Most experts don’t believe it possible. Hubris is a dangerous thing.
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Shoutout to all the voters. Youth vote turnout making the difference. Latino youth are slaying!
#CountEveryVote
@votolatino
registered
#AZ
: 67k
#NV
: 35k
#GA
: 35k
#PA
: 9k
Every vote matters. 👇🏽🗳
#Election2020
#ElectionResults2020
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I want to know the names of these officers.
👇🏽
WOW… so this is how Ridgewood, NJ police officers make sure people wear helmets when riding bikes? The EXCESSIVE use of force against this 15-year-old Latinx bicyclist is unacceptable!! We need answers NOW.
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Here’s the statement from Sen Kennedy that blew us away - including an audible reaction from the crew. 👇🏽
@MeetThePress
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Congressmen Devin Nunes & Valadao represent Fresno. About 40% of Fresno County children live in poverty, according to a Children Now report making it the poorest county in California for kids. It’s not the taxes. It’s the representatives.
#RepresentationMatters
My daughter sees
@TuckerCarlson
report on TV saying California is becoming 3rd world and asks me why. I tell her CA has highest taxes in USA that make it hard for people to afford to live here. She responds “Don’t you get paid to fix it?”
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Sessions voted against
Matthew Shephard Hate Crimes
Ledbetter Equal Pay
Violence Against Wmn
Immigration Reform
Justices Sotomayor & Kagan
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Well earned my friend
@Acosta
!
Heads up! Starting this weekend... I’ll be anchoring
@CNNnewsroom
on Saturdays from 3-6p and Sunday’s 4-6p eastern. We even made this fancy graphic for the show... so tune in!
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Congratulations
@HispanicExecMag
for such a beautiful cover on
@VP
Harris.
Such a wonderful story on her advocacy for diversity and what her leadership means for so many people of color.
Check out the full piece:
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A lot of emotion tonight.
After 35 years of fight, House passes immigration bill w pathway to citizenship.
#DreamAndPromiseAct
@XavierBecerra
is confirmed to lead
@HHSGov
.
Gracias to 80m who voted for change especially those who doubted but 🗳
#VotingWorks
@votolatino
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Today,
@NancyPelosi
takes the gavel. For 1st time in our history 126 women will be sworn into Congress. To quote
@jfreewright
“May the election of Trump bring forth fiercest, smartest, toughest generation of ass-kicking women this country could possibly imagine.” Godspeed ladies.
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To clarify: Trunp shifted tax dollars from FEMA hurricane relief to fund $10m dollars to for-profit detention facilities - to make a private corporation richer.
Maddow: Sen. Jeff Merkley has obtained memos showing the Trump administration taking nearly $10 million from FEMA -- which deals with hurricane relief -- and giving the money to ICE for more detention centers
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BREAKING:
#SCOTUS
upholds
#DACA
giving 800k people some emotional stability & ability to work w/o fear.
Trump received a major blow to his anti-immigrant agenda.
Dreamers, we see you. Thank you for using political system, courts, protest & allies to seek justice.
@votolatino
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That morning feeling when you see
@votolatino
’s dashboard.
Registered 298,000 new voters in FL, TX, AZ, GA, PA, NC & WI - we’re not stopping
5k new volunteers who have contacted over 800k low propensity voters.
The team is on fire - stay tuned for more big news!
#Election2020
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In France, not only are grocery clerks (who earn living wages) prioritized for vaccine, if they’re immigrants, they’re being considered for citizenship bc they are risking their lives to feed their fellow citizens.
That’s what grateful nation’s do, they show grace for heroics.
America's grocery store workers risk coronavirus exposure every day. But most states haven't prioritized them for the vaccine.
"There's so many people in the store," said Eric Nelson, a veteran Kroger worker in Ohio. "You just don't know who has what."
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For 2yrs media falsely claimed Latinos defecting to GOP.
Dems won NV AZ PA, races in NC & South TX bc of Latinos.
Like 2020,
@votolatino
ran multimillion effort in these states.
I expect same same energetic headlines declaring Latinos were the firewall that saved democracy.
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TX Republicans shuttered 750 polling places btwn 2012-18, more than any other state. 52 of those polling places were closed in Harris County
TX is majority-minority state, 39 delegates & a battleground. Waiting in line for hours is voter suppression.
#SuperTuesday
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Vivek Ramaswamy who just promoted the mass deportation of millions of American Citizens just lost a path to the WH - his disregard for the Constitution and the 14th Amendment.
Latino voters say - no gracias.
#GOPDebate
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How cruel to claim Captain Khan would be a live today. Every American heart hurt. In gratitude to Khan family.
#debates
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Biden has a great sense of mission. He knows Trump needs to beaten. He pulled through.
@JoeBiden
won tonight.
36 days until dawn.
Vote.
@votolatino
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Some personal news. I will be guest hosting this weekend for
@amjoyshow
on
@MSNBC
I’m thrilled to have
@SpeakerPelosi
@CoryBooker
@BetoORourke
@JohnLeguizamo
@K_JeanPierre
@MsPackyetti
@aliciagarza
@RepRubenGallego
Among our esteemed guests.
Tune in!
@votolatino
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Shocked to learn Oliver North isn’t 💯above board. Oh wait.
#IranContra
Wayne LaPierre says NRA President Oliver North is extorting him and pressuring him to resign as CEO over allegations of financial improprieties
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In 2018, for 1st time ever, 1 in 6 voters were young voters ushering most diverse congress ever who passed: background checks, equal pay, DACA, proposed Green New Deal & more.
Also a 1st, in 2020, there will be 12m more young voters than baby boomers.
60% of Latinx are < 33.
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This. 👇🏽
There were no arrests or looting during the demonstrations in Kansas City yesterday. This incredible pic of
@kcpolice
by
@quartzkoi
is a clue as to why.
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Today a multicultural America marched & there were zero reported incidents of violence at
#WomensMarch
Don't fear the future.
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FACT: Until last week, Trump properties had dozens of undocumented workers on payroll - apparently knowingly by Trump organization employer.
#SOTU
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Proud to partner w Demi Lovato &
@lyft
to Give Latinos in Texas Rides to Vaccination Centers
We need our gente healthy and Demi - a longtime friend and advocate steps up when it matters!
#GetVaccinated
#VacunaTe
💉🙌🏽
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It’s not illegal to present enter port of entry & request asylum. A judge upheld the law. President &
@SecNielsen
didn’t like ruling so closed ports of entry, tear gas families to make it harder. 7 yr old Jakelin’s death was preventable. We can act humanly when processing cases.
@jacobsoboroff
@SRuhle
@chrislhayes
@MariaTeresa1
@TheLastWord
@Lawrence
Just so I understand what you're saying - People seeking to cross our border illegally are going to let their children die alone in the desert because our nation has laws to stop people from crossing the border illegally?
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Straight faced
#KenStarr
requests Congress to practice “oversight” of the president by a president who’s declared himself above the law and thumbed his nose at checks & balances is rich.
#impeachment
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“Gov’t ethics is a straightforward idea: public servants serve the public...Gov’t corruption is a human rights issue bc corruption steals from the most vulnerable,”
@waltshaub
recipient of
#PaulHDouglas
Ethics in Gov’t.
Grateful to know this man. Well earned my friend.
#Patriot
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Since the
@VP
’s $4.2B investment in her Central America Forward project, 4M people have gained internet access and 1M have joined a bank.
Coming home from her Africa trip, she has secured $8B for the continent: $7B to fight the climate crisis and $1B for women’s inclusion. 👏🏽
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.
@votolatino
is suing Texas thx to
@marceelias
and his team.
After a fair, certified election last year TX is trying to make it harder to vote bc Texans voted in record number.
A thriving democracy depends on fair, equal access to the voting booth.
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BREAKING:
#GuadalupeGarcia
deported. Leaves two American children behind. She came at 14 and lived here for over 22 yrs.
@votolatino
#GuadalupeGarcia
looking at her son through the window of an
#ICE
van. Protestors are blocking the van to halt her deportation
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According to Chris Wallace of
@FoxNewsSunday
who moderated the Tuesday debate, a Cleveland Clinic representative offered the Trump family masks to wear during the debate - to follow health protocols set. They waived the person away, declining the masks.
#COVID19
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A special thanks
@chucktodd
@Lawrence
@JoyAnnReid
@mitchellreports
@HardballChris
& their teams for having me join their shows as a regular guest to discuss a breath of issues. We live in historic times where news matters. Proud to be part of the team. Happy to renew w
@MSNBC
!
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Last night an opportunity was missed to inform the 19 million Americans who tuned into the
@MSNBC
#DemDebate
the stakes.
Candidates failed to address the kids in cages from NV, state w/ large mixed status families. Omission is erasure.
Cc:
@votolatino
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Today, Voto Latino endorses Vice President
@JoeBiden
for President of the United States. This is
@votolatino
's first endorsement in our history. This is not one that we take lightly. It comes at a time when the current admin continues to target and attack the Latinx community.
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Refresher: GOP failed to fund CHIP nine months ago to use as a bargaining opportunity with Democrats. Trump arbitrarily rescinded
#DACA
in September, created random deadline of March 5th & torpedoed the bi-partisan deal that he promised to sign last Thursday.
#TrumpShutdown
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“Raise your hand if you would provide insurance to undocumented immigrants.”
All hands raised.
Most undocumented immigrants are at height of their economic productivity. They’re young & healthy - allowing them to participate drives down costs for all.
#DemocraticDebate
@MSNBC
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My children’s school just sent a notice that in the event of a
#COVID2019
outbreak, they are trouble shooting how to get classmates school meals - 60% who qualify for free/reduced meals.
Little kids will go hungry if Trump’s gov’t doesn’t get it together.
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Truth. 👇🏽
@AriMelber
"Law abiding immigrants study that material on their path to citizenship, maybe Mr. Miller needs to start studying it too"
@AriMelber
on Stephen Miller's false claim that Trump's power "will not be questioned"
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For those who joined last weekend for my debut hosting
@amjoyshow
, I’m back in the chair filling in for the wonderful
@AliciaMenendez
at 6pm EST on
@MSNBC
Fires,
#COVID
&
#WoodwardTapes
Grateful for those who tuned in last week. Great ratings!
#AMJoy
#Reiders
@votolatino
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Latinos are 80% of COVID cases Zuckerberg San Francisco hospital.
My community is getting decimated while being considered essential workers.
20% of Latinx are ineligible for
#CARESAct
: racism & injustice even during a pandemic.
Gente stand up. I’m both angry & 💔
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Texas 👏🏽Is👏🏽The 👏🏽Game👏🏽
38 electoral votes.
#DemDebates
NEWS ... Texas GOP Rep. Mike Conaway is retiring after 15 years in Congress. This is the fifth retirement in two weeks.
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"America wasn't weakened by presence of newcomers...it was strengthened."
@POTUS
#ObamaFarewell
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“Iowa woman drove over teen bc she was Latina.”
This should be national news. It is not. Instead it’s filed under Latino.
This is part of the problem.
Hate crimes against Latinos have risen 42% last year. We’re 20% of US.
@votolatino
#somosmas
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