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3 weeks ago | 
19thnews.org | Mel Leonor
Published MILWAUKEE — When Yessenia Ruano walks through the door of her home after work, her husband, Miguel, is in the kitchen, shredding chicken with two forks, and her twin daughters are in the living room, playing on an iPad. The sound of “Primer Impacto” fills the background. Ruano opens the fridge to keep the dinner prep going. On the top shelf, there are more than 150 corn tortillas lying flat in their plastic bags.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
19thnews.org | Mel Leonor Barclay |Mel Leonor
The 14th Amendment has long been interpreted to establish birthright citzenship and the order was quickly challenged in court.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
19thnews.org | Mel Leonor Barclay |Mel Leonor
Published MILFORD, N.H. — Tally McBride came to see Nikki Haley at Grill 603 already set on supporting her in Tuesday’s primary. The local independent voter described herself as a “never, ever, ever Trumper” who sees the rest of the GOP field as too conservative and President Joe Biden as too liberal. With three kids in tow, McBride sat in a back booth and watched as Haley greeted voters over a skillet of s’mores.
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Jan 21, 2024 | 
19thnews.org | Mel Leonor Barclay |Mel Leonor
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Jan 15, 2024 | 
19thnews.org | Mel Leonor Barclay |Mel Leonor
Published Sarah Bowman and her husband have participated in the Iowa caucuses for years, and she’s made a tradition of bringing her children, now ages 8 to 18, to witness a slice of American democracy. They’re planning to do it again tonight, that is, to slog through the remnants of a blizzard and weather record-low temperatures to caucus as a family at an elementary school in Waukee, Iowa, west of Des Moines. “We ran the snowblower,” she said.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
19thnews.org | Mel Leonor Barclay |Mel Leonor
Published In the thick of campaign season, Susanna Gibson seemed well on her way to clinching a competitive Virginia district on her very first run for office. For the nurse practitioner and mom of two, meeting the demands of campaigning came naturally.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
19thnews.org | Mel Leonor Barclay |Mel Leonor
Published ORLANDO, Fla. – Former U.S. Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell took the stage during Florida Democrats’ annual gathering this fall to “La Gozadera,” a boisterous party anthem, and paired it with a message about the possibility of a long-awaited statewide victory for Democrats in the Sunshine State. “Floridians, you know it’s true, you have been living in ground zero for attacks against our democracy,” said Mucarsel-Powell, who is challenging Sen.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
coloradonewsline.com | Mel Leonor Barclay |Grace Panetta |Mel Leonor
This story was originally published by The 19th. When it comes to training and recruiting Democratic women to run for office, no organization comes close to Emerge America. By the 2016 election, Emerge’s fingerprints were all over victories for Democratic women in almost two dozen states. And fueled by a backlash from women to former President Donald Trump’s election, its leaders wanted to go even bigger.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
19thnews.org | Mel Leonor Barclay |Mel Leonor
Published Congress doesn’t have any members who identify as Afro-Latina, lacking representation for a key segment of the nation’s Latinx population. Changing that reality is the goal of a new initiative formally launched Thursday by Latino Victory, an influential progressive group working to increase Latinx representation in public office.
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Nov 7, 2023 | 
19thnews.org | Mel Leonor Barclay |Mel Leonor
Published Your trusted source for contextualizing the results from Election Day 2023. Skip the algorithm and sign up for our daily newsletter. HENRICO COUNTY, Va. — Virginia voters denied Republicans full control of the state’s government, blocking the GOP’s efforts to restrict abortion in the state. Just over three hours after polls closed, Decision Desk HQ projected that Democrats would retain control of the state Senate — and the ability to block Republican Gov.
