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🗓️ 2 November 2018
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Just days ahead of the midterms, birthright citizenship is challenged and white supremacist rhetoric continues to plague the country. Maria and Julio talk to Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr., a James S. McDonnell Distinguished University professor at Princeton University. They discuss the role POC communities will have in the upcoming election.
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0:00.0 | My name is Carmen Vela from Lidel, Texas. I will be voting in this midterm elections. |
0:12.0 | What's important to me are the women, men, children, families that are in detention centers |
0:20.8 | all around me and all around this country. I translate telephonically for a group of |
0:27.4 | lawyers and these women's stories have changed my life and now with the Brett Kavanaugh thing are these women going to be raped, |
0:41.2 | sexually assaulted while they're being held, and no one is going to be |
0:46.4 | legal. |
0:47.4 | Hi, my name is Uvo Macias. |
0:49.4 | I live in Garland, Texas just outside of Dallas. I am voting in these midterm elections because my |
0:55.5 | vote as a first-generation Latino American. My parents are immigrants from Mexico. I think it's important to use our voice and you know with the |
1:05.4 | state with the lowest voter turnout especially on Latinos and younger voters here |
1:10.0 | in Texas I think it's important for me to vote for our best interest. You know, I will be voting for best o'eroric because it gives me hope. |
1:16.7 | And you know my wife being an undocumented immigrants, you know, she has DACA and seeing that Republicans in the state don't have |
1:26.1 | our best interests in mind and I'm going to be using my voice and we'll be bringing those |
1:31.9 | other Latinos with me to the polls. |
1:34.0 | Hi guys, my name is Roxanne and I live in the Kansas City metropolitan areas and yes, my husband and I, |
1:40.5 | we are voting in the midterms. |
1:42.9 | We are in the third district for state representative. |
1:46.7 | Sheerice David and our state representative |
1:50.8 | in the 22nd district is actually really great. Nancy Lusk and |
1:55.0 | the time she's running and opposed. State governor is kind of a big deal. |
1:59.2 | Chris Kobach is running and we are voting for Laura Kelly. |
2:05.0 | Hi yes, I'm voting in the midterm elections because every single vote counts. |
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