Jazmine Ulloa
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I write about national politics for the @nytimes . Hecha en El Paso. No shrinking violet. I’m a desert rose. Past: @bostonglobe , @latimes , & more.
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It’s official! Thrilled to be writing a book about my hometown. I’ll be exploring race and immigration, identity, belonging, and the power of myth from the place that made me, El Paso, Texas.
Grateful to
@canavas
for the push +
@jlparsley
@DuttonBooks
for seeing the vision.
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AOC telling Instagram viewers tonight that she had “a close encounter” during the Capitol insurrection in which she thought she might die makes this detail from Ayanna Pressley’s chief of staff in our rebuilding of events all the more chilling.
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Our neighbor sells used bikes, and last week he met a customer at a Petworth Pizza Hut. He said he was waiting for the person when a couple of black government SUVs pulled up and then a couple more — and then, out pops Pete Buttigieg.
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I was surprised by how many young people in Iowa brought up Andrew Yang last week.
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He sold a hybrid commuter to the US secretary of transportation that evening. Turned out my neighbor had been talking to Buttigieg’s husband, Chasten, all along.
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Landed in San Diego this morning. California AG plans to sue the Trump administration over US-Mexico border wall.
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Mary Peltola, a Democrat who defeated Sarah Palin in a special House election to become the first Alaska Native in Congress, is on track to do it again in November, according to a new poll by the Anchorage-based pollster Dittman Research.
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One year after Jan. 6, Sarah Groh, Representative Ayanna Pressley’s chief of staff, still does not know what happened to the panic buttons torn from their office. It’s one of many details still under investigation, and a memory that continues to haunt her.
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“If we can’t move with urgency on critical domestic spending in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic, there’s no reason we should move this way on military spending,” Representative
@AyannaPressley
tells us.
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Capitol is on lockdown as protesters storm front entrance of the Capitol. They are banging on the door. They have broken the glass window.
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Election deniers have been defeated in four top Colorado races: governor, Senate, secretary of state and the Eighth Congressional District. This comes against the backdrop of today’s special House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
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The most any opponent had raised against Devin Nunes in 16 years was $400K. Andrew Janz raised $4.3m in three months in a district written off as a long shot.
#CA22
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Marjorie Taylor Greene is leaning hard into Republicans’ “invasion” rhetoric and the racist great replacement theory at Trump’s Arizona rally, telling the audience that immigrants are “replacing your jobs,” “replacing your kids in schools,” and “replacing your culture.”
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We’ve been told rioters have breached the third floor of the Capitol. Here’s the view from the windows.
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“Do you feel responsible for what happened today? Are you going to continue to object?” — questions that Senator Ted Cruz ignored from reporters today as we’re all on lockdown.
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Yang: Our senior citizens are working until the day they die. Our kids are addicted to smartphones or drugs. We're seeing record high levels of depression, suicides, overdoses. Our companies are reporting record profits while our people are literally dying younger.
#demdebates
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Big news! Making this move and leaving the Boston Globe has been so bittersweet, but I’m excited to join such a brilliant team at such an important time.
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A dense group of protestors has shattered the windows of the Capitol. We can hear roaring chants of “USA” outside.
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ST. LOUIS, MO — The scene at Kiener Plaza Park where Joe Biden is slated to make an appearance ahead of Tuesday's tightly-contested primary. Biden holds a slim lead in Missouri over Bernie Sanders.
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I wrote about the lone Latina on the Supreme Court and how she has become “a voice of one” on issues of systematic racism and discrimination.
#scotus
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It’s a cool, breezy night in Wilmington. The Delaware Democratic Party has set up a drive-in movie theater of sorts outside the convention center. People are sitting on their cars with American flags and Joe Biden signs. Lots of honks of approval for Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
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Thank you for all the love, thoughts, prayers, messages. We’re okay and in a secure undisclosed location.
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At Iowa State, students at one Joe Biden event said the "Yang Gang” was so hyped up, they sometimes chanted through campus, "Secure the bag," a play on a meme alluding to his $1K basic universal income plan. Here’s
@JamesPindell
on his lasting power:
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Beto O’Rourke shares the stories of immigrant children in detention at the Lights for Liberty Rally in Peterborough. He’s was of several Democratic presidential candidates out in New Hampshire this weekend.
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90-day waiting period has expired. Federal judge rules Trump must reinstate
#DACA
within 20 days.
READ: D.C. District Court opinion that Trump
@realDonaldTrump
has failed to justify the ending of DACA program.
(h/t
@courtneyknorris
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It really doesn’t get any less annoying to watch CNN talk about Latinos without a single Latino at the table.
#ElectionNight
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"We are not a virus, we are human beings."
I spoke with
@AndrewYang
,
@RepJudyChu
, and other Asian-American leaders about their push back against Trump’s China bashing and a rising tide of racism and xenophobia.
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This was about the time I was driving to a small convention center in the middle of Uvalde, where families were receiving the news that their children were dead. The moans I heard last night were from parents whose pain was so deep they struggled to walk back to their cars.
I'm at the Herschel Walker victory party and President Biden's address is being broadcast. As he asked, "When is God's name are we going to do something about the gun laws in this country," moans and boos rise from the crowd.
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I don't know how many times now I've been reminded of the employees I met at the El Paso Walmart where a white supremacist killed 23 people.
We were heroes after the shooting, we were heroes at the start of the pandemic, they said, now we’re fighting with people over masks.
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Re-upping this now that Mary Peltola has officially won the special election for Alaska’s lone congressional seat.
Meet Mary Peltola, a former state lawmaker, who surprised even some of her own supporters by taking the lead over Sarah Palin for an open House seat. If elected, she would become the first Alaska Native in Congress. My last dispatch from Anchorage.
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🚨 Listen up, some bittersweet news people. It’s official. Excited to announce I’m joining the Washington bureau of The
@BostonGlobe
. 🚨
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Up now in the Senate:
#NetNeutrality
rules for California. This is the final vote before it can head to the governor. It passed the Assembly 61-18 yesterday.
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Beto O'Rourke hits at something a lot of Latino families are feeling ahead of this election -- straight up fear.
#demdebate
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When the architect of a policy to separate children from their mothers at the border — and whose leaked emails promoted white nationalist ideologies of white genocide, immigrants as criminals and eugenics — is your source...
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One is a longtime Republican strategist, the other was a top adviser to Bernie Sanders. Now
@madrid_mike
&
@ChuckRocha
have found new common ground: spurring Latino voters to defeat Trump. My latest.
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“Uvalde spent 40 percent of its budget on its police force last year. In January, the Uvalde P.D. got a half-million dollars from Governor Greg Abbott’s “Operation Lone Star,” a program designed to show how tough Abbott is on border issues.”
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I leveled up. I have two stories on the front page today—and my inbox this morning is a mix of angry, thoughtful, and appreciative emails from antivaccine activists, doctors, and people of faith.
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O’Rourke talked immigration, healthcare, public education, income inequality and Trump. “Everything else that we want to do only becomes possible once he's defeated, and we're guaranteed that he will not serve a second term as president,” he said.
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We're still in a secret location inside the Capitol. No word yet on when we'll be allowed to leave, but we've been handed little dinner trays (chicken, Brussels sprouts, and polenta), so it doesn't seem like anytime soon.
@CPrignano
and I on the lockdown:
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The removal of panic buttons from Representative Ayanna Pressley’s office is being reviewed by a House committee, as Congressional Democrats push to determine whether the mob had inside help. The latest w/
@jessbidgood
:
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“If we do anything, we should make sure that the 2018 election is more secure than the 2016 election” -
@RepSwalwell
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Press gallery and senate chambers have been evacuated. One Capitol security officer said he wasn’t sure if rioters had weapons but he said they had plenty of bear spray, pepper spray, — and “lots of sharp objects.” His face had been doused with pepper spray.
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That didn’t take long.
The DOJ has filed a lawsuit against California over net neutrality bill: "Under the Constitution, states do not regulate interstate commerce — the federal government does.”
#SB822
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My dispatch on a wild, chaotic day from a secret location deep inside the Capitol. Today’s development has been surreal — and unsurprising after weeks of conspiracy theories and false claims from the president about a rigged election.
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I have the latest polling numbers from Dittman Research, a highly respected Anchorage firm, on the race for Alaska’s lone congressional seat.
They show Representative Mary Peltola, a Democrat, ahead of her two Republican competitors Sarah Palin and Nick Begich.
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An exclusive interview with Rep. Pressley: “I do believe that any member who played a role in this should be expelled,” she said. “They’re a threat to Congress as an institution. They’re a threat to democracy. They’re a threat to me and my colleagues.”
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It has been such a dark week. Here’s my letter to the place that made me. Really appreciate the
@BostonGlobe
for encouraging me to tell the story in my own voice.
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Bit of new news here: The Mass. delegation, led by Sen
@EdMarkey
and Rep
@AyannaPressley
, have sent a letter to Vice President Mike Pence and FEMA Administrator Peter Gaynor calling on them to provide regular and detailed updates on shipments of equipment and medical supplies.
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@JamesPindell
Also worth noting that many of Yang’s plans have been tried or talked about in California.
Read
@anitachabria
on universal basic income ().
Me on the California privacy act () + the data dividend idea ().
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We’re finally on our way out. One of the federal officers told us to watch the walls once we get to the Capitol building because of the tear gas.
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Exclusive: In wake of president’s assassination, Representative
@AyannaPressley
and leaders of the House Haiti Caucus call for deportation moratorium for Haitians
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One year after a mass shooter stormed an El Paso Walmart in the bloodiest terror attack against Latinos in US history, we went back to my hometown — a place that, like the rest of the nation, is caught between two vastly different visions of itself.
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Katie Hobbs struggled to compete against her Trump-endorsed Republican rival, the charismatic and pugilistic Kari Lake. But she has defied expectations and continues to hold a narrow lead.
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It's so strange for me, having watched so many criminal trials, to see this type of prosecutorial questioning of a sexual assault victim and not a defendant.
#KavanaughHearings
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Few legislators can say they’ve had as whirlwind of a first term in Congress as Representative
@AyannaPressley
.
Starting 2021 with a look at the pivotal role she will play in charting her party’s path under Biden in a narrowly divided House.
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California Assemblywoman
@LorenaAD80
from San Diego: We don't need other structures. We need relationships.
#borderwall
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Police presence has faded. Protestors shouting victory: "When Nazis come to town what do we do? Shut them down."
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In response to whether he supports a border wall, Becerra doesn't deflects: You want to do something different, do it according to the law.
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AG
@XavierBecerra
takes some shots at Trump: He hasn't made the transition from candidate to president.
#borderwall
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Gehadi Fadi, 27, a student at Iowa State University, said there was a lot of interest to caucus because Rep. Ilhan Omar visited Des Moines and encouraged the community to become politically active. For too long, she said, “we’ve sat back and let things go as they’ve gone.”
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Done and done.
My first WH press briefing and pool duty under the Biden administration.
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“I have personally lost my parents to the disinformation pandemic.” I talked to Latino voters, political organizers and researchers about the rise in disinformation connected to authoritarian and right-wing movements in Latin America and across the globe.
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This is the first time Pedro Dominguez, 63, a construction worker, joins a caucus. There’s too many people today who think that because they have money they can humiliate Latinos, immigrants, the poor,” he said of why he was motivated to come out to support Bernie Sanders.
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Katie Hobbs, who as Arizona’s secretary of state stood up to efforts by allies of former President Donald J. Trump to overturn the 2020 election, has clinched a victory in the state’s race for governor, according to The Associated Press.
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O’Rourke on why he chose to write back to President Trump after Trump made fun of his name on Twitter this morning: “Because he's trying to intimidate this community, make us afraid of one another, of our differences, of the border, of immigrants, and we will not stand down.”
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In the Arizona governor’s race, Katie Hobbs has struggled to compete against Republican Kari Lake, who is running on border security and election fraud conspiracy theories. Then came a judge’s ruling that resurrected an 1864 ban on nearly all abortions.
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Uvalde officers had their last school drill shooting two months ago. The guidelines are clear: Time is of the essence and innocent lives come first. “A first responder unwilling to place the lives of the innocent above their own safety should consider another career field."
I have spent the past few days researching the training of Uvalde officers, including the tactics they were expected to use to halt school shooters.
The documents are jarring. Here’s a thread of our findings so far.
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More than 1 million voters across 43 states have switched to the Republican Party over the last year, signaling a political shift playing out in virtually every region in the country but nowhere as pronounced as in the suburbs, per a new
@AP
analysis.
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“When you add up all those children and all the Border Patrol stations and all of the detention centers, you have the largest mass incarceration of children who have not committed a crime since the mass internment of Japanese Americans in the Second World War.” Someone gasps.
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Hi, it’s Inauguration Day 👋
I’ll be covering from the West Front of the US Capitol.
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Meet Mary Peltola, a former state lawmaker, who surprised even some of her own supporters by taking the lead over Sarah Palin for an open House seat. If elected, she would become the first Alaska Native in Congress. My last dispatch from Anchorage.
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Many tears in the audience as O’Rourke addressed the Lights for Liberty vigil tonight. Organizers say they were happy he stuck to only speaking about the issue — this was a nonpartisan rally, not associated with any of the other campaign events going on. “Beto was a bonus.”
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Gabriela Cruz, who was brought to the country illegally when she was 1, can’t vote. But weeks before the 2018 election, she moved to California’s Central Valley to push people to the polls. For Dreamers like her, flipping the House was a personal quest.
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Black Voters Matter Fund co-founder
@MsLaToshaBrown
said she felt proud to be part of a long line of Black women who have pushed democracy forward, though their roles have often been undermined, ignored, or forgotten. “This is about collective power.”
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CNN needs more Latino commentators analyzing the Latino vote. Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger only minutes ago pitted Latinos voting for Sanders against black and moderate white voters going for Biden.
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Capitol staffer Jennifer Kwart: “What happened to me happened hundreds of miles from the Capitol.”
Kwart has said she was 19 when Sen. Tony Mendoza invited her to his hotel and offered her alcohol during the 2008 Democratic state convention.
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Sonia Gutierrez says she was told that she could report on immigration, an issue about which she cares deeply, but only if she were to state her own immigration status on air in every story on the subject.
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He’s the canary in the coal mine on tech and the economy.
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Minutes after giving a speech telling reporters he was confident about the election results, Representative Madison Cawthorn has called State Senator Chuck Edwards to concede the race, per Cawthorn spokesperson.
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On the trail, Beto O’Rourke gets back to the basics, talking about what he knows and where he’s from. My one regret — not asking him where he falls on Chico’s Tacos.
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Overwrought “invasion” language echoed by Republican officials plays into white supremacist tropes and has approached the mainstream before. But it’s now coming at a time when few, if any, Republican elected officials are pushing back. My latest.
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Two years ago just yesterday, a white supremacist spouting this racist theory online killed 23 people in El Paso.
Newt Gingrich is the latest on Fox to go full great replacement theory: The left is bringing immigrants to the United States “to get rid of the rest of us” (ht
@EricKleefeld
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My first Sunday A1 story is a look at the history and political evolution of a nearly 100-year-old idea weighted with meaning and memory.
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“Everything that I've learned about resilience. I've learned from my hometown of El Paso, Texas.” — Beto O’’Rourke
#DemDebate
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The first text I received from my mom about this historic election result. Translation: “This is the little dog who is going to live in the White House.”
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Thinking back to this interview from earlier. Elijah Johnson, 24, lives 15 minutes away from where Stephon Clark was shot in his own backyard. “You think, ‘Man, that could have been me, that could have been my brother, that could have been my sister,” he said. “You hurt.”
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"I’m proud that I always told the truth, stuck to my principles, and did what I knew to be best for our country." Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Trump, concedes her race.
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Nikki Haley isn’t going anywhere. She has said as much at fund-raisers, in interviews and on the stump. On Tuesday, just days before the Republican primary on her home turf, Ms. Haley said it again. "I feel no need to kiss the ring."
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We reconstructed the armed insurrection at the US Capitol through the eyes of staffers and members of the Massachusetts delegation. The traumatic events of a day now etched in history are the backdrop for tomorrow’s House impeachment vote. w/
@steveannear
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Advocates for L.G.B.T.Q. rights on Friday sounded the alarm over Justice Clarence Thomas’s concurring opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, calling it a potential assault on the legal doctrine protecting a wide array of Americans’ civil rights.
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We got this little guy over the weekend, and it’s just been nonstop adventures over here. He’s a mini dachshund and his name is Rodo, short for Rodolfo. Roll the R.
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In the first one-on-one interview with the Times since the summer, Nikki Haley blasted Donald Trump for his backroom effort to skew delegate and primary rules in his favor, calling it "ironic."
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Representative Ruben Gallego has announced his long expected run for the Senate in 2024, setting up a likely fierce face off with Senator Kyrsten Sinema over her seat. In case you somehow missed it.
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