*** * On this week’s episode of our podcast, we sat down with the America’s Voice politics team — Mario Carrillo from Texas, Viridiana Vidal-Gonzzali from Nevada, and Adriana Ruggiero from California — to talk about the midterm elections this year and the respective organizing challenges they face in...
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It’s eight weeks until Election Day, and Republicans have a problem. They can’t run on health care because they’re dismantling it. They can’t run on education because they are defunding it. And they can’t run on tax cuts because their policies are just lining the pockets of those already...
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America’s Voice Record Numbers of Immigrant Children in Federal Custody Due to Trump Policies That Fail to Consider Best Interests of Children Maribel Hastings: “Yes, Mr. President, your response to María was as ‘successful’ as your chaotic presidency” Listen to the “A is for America” Podcast with the America’s...
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The America’s Voice en Español team, Maribel Hastings and David Torres, both former veteran Spanish-language journalists, penned the following article, originally published in La Opinón, after seeing first hand how on the ground canvassing work is mobilizing Latino voters of Central Florida ahead of the upcoming election on November...
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But, other separated families continue to face a tough road ahead After more than a year of an informal and formal family separation policy — marked by the separation of almost 3,000 children from parents with no system to eventually reunite them, the prosecution and detention of parents for...
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ORLANDO, Florida – With the midterms approaching, Maribel Hastings, America’s Voice en Español Director, wrote the following article as a part of the series Voz y Voto 2018, which was originally published in La Opinión, focusing on the on the ground alliances between groups in Florida looking to mobilize...
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KISSIMMEE, Florida – Maribel Hastings, America’s Voice en Español Director, published a new article in La Opinión, as a part of the election series Voz y Voto 2018, shining a light on the growing resentment towards President Trump from Puerto Ricans, not only because of the administration’s irresponsible reaction...
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New campaign Is refreshing antidote to the cynical, “morally bankrupt” tactics of Paul Ryan and the entire GOP New reporting from Nevada Public Radio highlights Mi Familia Vota’s newest bilingual campaign to mobilize Latinx voters in Nevada, one of the key battleground locations where the Latinx vote could again...
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In a scathing piece for Daily Kos, Gabe Ortiz focuses on the Republican party’s divisive and ugly campaign strategy of attacking immigrants and the Democrats who stand up for immigrants. The article is below and available here. Since Republicans can’t run general election campaigns on gutting the safety...
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English Daily Kos Desperate Republicans lying about immigrants as election strategy. Don’t let them get away with it By Gabe Ortiz September 12, 2018 Washington Post Settlement reached in family separation cases: More than 1,000 rejected asylum seekers to get second chance if court approves By Fred Barbash and...
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