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'Insurance godmothers' sign up Latinos for Obamacare in pro-Trump areas as he threatens to repeal it Salsa music blares from the food court in a rundown Miami shopping center as Latinos head to a kiosk and an office showing signs for “ Obamacare ,” where they hope to renew their health coverage ...
by Associated Press
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on Sun Dec 17, 2023 at 11:00 AM PST
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From the late 1950’s through the 1960’s, residents of Palm Springs California, playground of the stars and home of the rich, were kicked out of their homes and had their homes bulldozed, burned down or destroyed in other ways. For some people this...
by izqu
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on Sun Sep 24, 2023 at 09:26 PM PDT
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By�Mel Leonor Barclay
Originally published by The 19th
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by The19th
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on Sun Aug 06, 2023 at 02:45 PM PDT
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By Hector Sanchez Barba, CEO of Mi Familia Vota For decades, marketers have used the commercialized version of Cinco De Mayo to sell alcohol, salt, and casual celebration to tens of millions of Americans. For decades, Mexican-American leaders and...
by Mi Familia Vota
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on Thu May 04, 2023 at 03:01 PM PDT
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One would think that a party that openly campaigns against immigration would not find favor with people who have immigrated legally or illegally. I know that legal immigrants are not in favor of people gaming the system that they legally followed. The...
by aPauledInNJ
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on Wed Nov 09, 2022 at 12:58 PM PST
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To honor cultural heritage, Daily Kos will be celebrating diversity each month. This month join us in celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month. National Hispanic Heritage Month, which started in 1968 as Hispanic Heritage Week, begins Sept. 15 and ends Oct....
by Aysha Qamar
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on Fri Sep 16, 2022 at 09:46 AM PDT
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Years after parents and advocates argued that an initiative by New York City officials violated the Equal Protection Clause, a federal judge dismissed the lawsuit Wednesday. According to NBC News, Judge Edgardo Ramos denied the request from two Asian...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Mon Sep 12, 2022 at 11:40 AM PDT
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by izqu
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on Wed Sep 07, 2022 at 06:03 PM PDT
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On August 12, California Governor Gavin Newsom asked the State Legislature to end neighborhood oil drilling as part of a climate package he’s trying to pass before the end of the year’s legislative session on August 31. In language sent to the...
by Dan Bacher
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on Tue Aug 16, 2022 at 04:01 PM PDT
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Being Part Hispanic, Part Japanese, Long Ago When I was a little girl in elementary school The other girls would gang up on me. They would all move away when I sat down At the table at lunchtime. They made fun of the food I brought from home What kind...
by Paul Frea
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on Mon Jun 13, 2022 at 01:52 PM PDT
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The clearest and most obvious schism in the Democratic Party is an ideological one, pitting upstart progressives against the centrist and conservatives that have long controlled how the party governs. But over the past year, an even starker and more...
by Blue Tuesday
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on Mon Apr 18, 2022 at 08:31 AM PDT
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Oh, no, not another “Democrats are doomed” post! We are all sick of seeing predictions of disaster looming this fall for Team Blue. I don’t believe in scaring people into getting involved, or always pretending we’re 10 points down, but when data points...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Fri May 20, 2022 at 06:29 AM PDT
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On Sunday March 13th, 2022 at around 6:05 PM, deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) fatally shot a Hispanic man in Palmdale, CA. They do not say that he was armed. According to an updated press release from the department,...
by VPSReports
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on Mon Mar 14, 2022 at 01:50 PM PDT
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Race or class? Democratic campaigns, pundits, and researchers have long been arguing about whether emphasizing one over the other—and which one?—is the right approach to winning elections. We know that the Trumpist right is going to continue its...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Tue Feb 15, 2022 at 01:00 PM PST
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On this week’s Thursday Kos, Markos and Mark discuss the controversy around the identification, LatinX. You can hear Thursday Kos on Make It Plain with Mark Thompson wherever you get your podcasts, or by going to mip.today/player.
by Make It Plain
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on Thu Dec 09, 2021 at 06:23 AM PST
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Liberal, Kansas, is home to about 20,000 people. At last count, about 62.6% were Latinx. And another 5.3% African American, 2.9% Asian, and so forth. Liberal’s elected City Commission consists of Taylor Harden, Mayor; Tony Martinez, Vice Mayor (kudos...
by grim determined indolent
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on Wed Sep 01, 2021 at 04:52 AM PDT
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As if police officials weren’t making headlines enough for being racist, a recent incident sheds light on the ongoing hate immigrants receive from not only the Department of Homeland Security but local law enforcement. Controversy surrounds the Arizona...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Wed Jun 16, 2021 at 07:55 AM PDT
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Republican Structural Advantages Republicans have huge structural advantages in our federal government. Two US Senators represent each state regardless of population so that Wyoming with a population of five people, two chickens and one dog has the...
by Dem
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on Wed May 05, 2021 at 01:53 PM PDT
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Let’s take a quick look at Republican support for President Biden’s nominees for cabinet-level positions. Here’s how much support nominees have garnered from GOP Senators: White male nominees (5): 33 vote average White female...
by tremayne
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on Thu Mar 18, 2021 at 11:41 AM PDT
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North Carolina is home to an estimated 325,000 undocumented immigrants. Although the state is on track for all adults to be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine by May 1, undocumented residents face ...
by Tina Vasquez
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on Thu Mar 18, 2021 at 05:30 AM PDT
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