This year, Democrats saw successful midterms results across the country, but that has proven to be particularly true in the nation’s most populous state. In Orange County especially, the results of the elections have inundated once-Republican areas, making the GOP more of a political idea than a reality in... Continue »
View the polling here View the presentation here A recording is available here Today, the NAACP and Advancement Project national office joined with the African American Research Collaborative to provide the first comprehensive analysis of how Black voters voted this cycle and why. The new poll of mid-term voters,... Continue »
Did President Trump’s strategy of making the 2018 election about immigration work? We have been documenting the growing chorus of experts and analysts who have concluded that Trump’s ugly exploitation of racial grievance and caravan hysteria backfired. Here are some of the latest takes:   Writing in the New... Continue »
America’s Voice Veterans and National Security Experts Call on Administration to Bring Troops Home from the Border In 2018, Orange Is The New Blue NEW POLLING: Voting Behavior and The Impact of The Black Vote in 2018 Midterm Elections Experts Agree: In 2018 Midterms, Xenophobia Backfired and Latino Voters... Continue »
Trump’s effort to make 2018 a referendum on immigration mostly didn’t work. Trump demonized immigrants and Democrats in an effort to mobilize his voters, peel off independents and depress Democratic turnout. If it had worked, Republicans would have swept most of the Senate races in Trump states, held the... Continue »
A Is For America podcast
*** * On this episode of our podcast “A is for America”, we spoke to Sylvia Manzano, a principal at Latino Decisions, about the new American vote from this year’s midterm elections, how ballots are still being counted in some locations, and how the progressive movement can continue to build... Continue »
The news that Rep. Mimi Walters (R-CA-45) has lost her re-election to Democratic challenger Katie Porter is the latest reminder of how Orange County, the former epicenter of American conservatism and Republican strength, has been transformed by the combination of Trump and Republican nativism and increased political engagement of... Continue »
During Senate HSGAC Committee Hearing, Vitiello Can’t Defend Consorting with FAIR; Tries to Defend the Indefensible of Family Separation Policy Yesterday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on the nomination of acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Ronald Vitiello to become ICE’s... Continue »
America’s Voice Listen to the “A is for America” Podcast with Sylvia Manzano of Latino Decisions “An Obituary for the Old Orange County” – GOP Extremism, Engagement of Diverse Electorate Transform Traditional Republican Bastion Ronald Vitiello’s Nomination to Head ICE Must Be Voted Down English YubaNet Frank Sharry: Enough... Continue »
Durante su visita a la frontera sur de Estados Unidos, el Secretario de Defensa, General Jim Mattis, hizo una comparación histórica poco afortunada para justificar el despliegue de tropas destinadas a “contrarrestar” el arribo y posterior “ingreso” a territorio estadounidense de los miembros de la caravana de migrantes centroamericanos... Continue »