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Selena Herrera’s political awakening began last summer when, horrified by the police killing of George Floyd, she organized a protest for racial justice in Tifton, Ga.“It was a big thing for a lot of people to know that even here in the Deep South that we hear everyone and they know that they have somebody there that can support them,” Herrera said, adding that the need to be seen and heard was especially important for the Black and Latino communities in her rural hometown of 16,000, about 180 miles south of Atlanta.Herrera, 22, became more attuned to injustices around her and wanted to fight for the rights of LGBTQ individuals and undocumented immigrants, some of whom are in her own family. She started knocking on doors as a paid community organizer to get out the vote during last year’s general election season as part of a grass-roots effort by the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights (GLAHR), a nonprofit that supports immigrant rights....“My reaction was just like, ‘We’ve got to get on it, we’ve got to move,’ ” said Herrera, who said she led a team of 21 young Latino and Black canvassers during the runoffs. “I felt like it gave us a chance to do what we had to do for change.”...“No doubt the Latino vote could have made the difference, potentially the difference between winning and losing,” said Adelina Nicholls, the executive director for GLAHR, which partnered with Mijente, a national organization that advocates for Latinos.The number of eligible Hispanic voters in the Atlanta metro area is expanding. There were 60 percent more Hispanic registered voters in 2020 compared with 2016, up from 106,000 to 170,000, according to the Pew Research Center.Organizers are tapping into demographic changes that are transforming the state. The median age of Latinos in Georgia is 27, according to census data, with many of them born in the United States to parents who are undocumented.While foreign-born Latinos first immigrated to the Atlanta metro in the 1980s in search of work in construction and other industries, most of the new growth in the Latino population in the city in the past 15 years has been driven by U.S.-born Latinos, according to a report from the Atlanta Regional Commission. Atlanta projects its Latino population will grow from about 12 percent in 2015 to 21 percent by 2050....GLAHR helped elect Keybo Taylor as the first Black sheriff of Gwinnett County in November. In one of his first acts as sheriff, Taylor fulfilled his campaign promise to eliminate the 287(g) immigration program, which allowed the county jail to collaborate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement....“So many of these kids all these years have been witnesses to ICE outside of their door, or they have been witnesses of the arrest of their parents, or they have been stopped by the police several times,” Nicholls said. And that “has had deep repercussions in our communities, very, very, very deep.”Voto Latino, a national organization that focuses on voter registration, tapped into the 18- to 39-year-old demographic and partnered with Stacey Abrams’s Fair Fight Action initiative. Ahead of the general election, Voto Latino registered 36,000 voters over the course of the year, said María Teresa Kumar, Voto Latino’s founding president. They registered 11,528 more between Nov. 30 and Dec. 7 for the Senate runoffs.“You are seeing a shift in young people of color aging into the population, and engaging them in the process early is critical,” Kumar said. “You can say that that was the reason why Arizona flipped this year as well. … That was why Virginia flipped four years ago, that was why Nevada flipped, and Georgia is part of that trend.”“When we started Voto Latino [in 2014], 30,000 Latinos were turning 18 every single year. A Latino turns 18 every 30 seconds now, and that will be the case for the next 10 years,” Kumar said.Herrera, from Tifton, says that she is hopeful young voters of color like herself will stay engaged and become more influential in upcoming elections.“Now we know why it’s so important, and we’ll have a big impact on future elections,” Herrera said. “Black and Brown solidarity is huge, and I think our young generation knows that.”
Governor Pedro Pierluisi told Axios on HBO he expects statehood legislation to be proposed in the House by mid-March.“What I anticipate is that there will be considerable support for a statehood bill in this Congress,” Pierluisi said....Pierluisi, who was elected governor in the November election and sworn in last month, ran on a promise to gain statehood for the territory, the Associated Press reported.US Virgin Islands Delegate Stacey Plaskett is also pushing the idea of statehood: “It wasn’t until the territories … had predominantly brown people that the United States decided that we would remain territories in perpetuity.”
Texans punked Senator Ted Cruz after he punked Texas.
An amendment that would have lowered the federal voting age from 18 to 16 as part of the H.R. 1 voting rights package failed to pass the House on Wednesday but received support from a majority of House Democrats....“Beginning at the age of 16, young people are contributing to both the labor force and their local economies by paying income taxes, and yet they are deprived of the opportunity to exercise their right to vote,” the Massachusetts congresswoman said on the House floor in 2019. “In this country, we affirm that when a person walks into the voting booth and pulls that lever, there is no meritocracy or hierarchy. The booth is the equalizer.”Pressley, a member of the progressive “Squad” said last month during a Facebook Live chat with Representative Barbara Lee (D., Calif.) and author Ibram X. Kendi that she was “shocked” that lowering the voting age is a “polarizing” topic.Kendi argued that lowering the voting age is an example of “anti-racist” policy.
It was at one time but has been overrun with Californians and other other newcomers who have turned it into a blue state....the "other newcomers" include, apparently, Syrian immigrants, and Colorado is now 20 percent Hispanic.
On Wednesday morning [April 14], US Representative Scott Perry (R-PA) echoed Fox News Host Tucker Carlson’s concerns that immigrants are coming here to replace native born Americans for the benefit of the Democrat Party. In a subcommittee meeting this morning, dedicated to trying to understand the root cause of Central American migration, especially in recent months, Perry took the floor and explained “For many Americans, what seems to be happening or what they believe right now is happening is, what appears to them is we’re replacing national-born American — native-born Americans to permanently transform the landscape of this very nation.”
In December 2019, Perry was one of 195 Republicans to vote against both articles of impeachment against President Trump.[37]In October 2020, Perry was one of 17 Republicans who voted against a House resolution to formally condemn the QAnon conspiracy theory.[38]...After the 2020 elections, Perry promoted false claims of fraud in the elections.[41][42]...On January 6, 2021, Perry joined Missouri Senator Josh Hawley in objecting to the counting of Pennsylvania's electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election.[47] During the storming of the U.S. Capitol that day, Perry and many congressional colleagues were ushered to a secure location. Video footage shows that Perry and five other House members refused surgical masks offered by a colleague in the safe room.[48]
Sen. Ron Johnson claims the administration “wants complete open borders and you have to ask yourself why. Is it really, they want to remake the demographics of America to ensure their — that they stay in power forever? Is that what's happening here?”
Johnson is a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump.[38][39][40] As chairman of the Senate homeland security committee, he launched several investigations into Trump's political opponents, including Joe Biden.[38] In September 2020, after having for months boasted that he was undertaking an investigation that would demonstrate Biden's "unfitness for office", Johnson released a report that found no evidence of wrongdoing by Biden in relation to Ukraine. Johnson's report reiterated allegations that have remained unproven, many of which had been part of Russian disinformation campaigns.[41]...After Biden won the 2020 presidential election and Trump refused to concede, Johnson promoted false claims of widespread electoral fraud that courts around the country had repeatedly rejected.[46] While ballots were counted during the 2020 election, he said that half the country would not accept a Biden win, and made erroneous, unsubstantiated claims of "voter fraud that the mainstream media and, unfortunately, many officials just simply ignore."[39] Johnson made baseless claims that Democrats had "gamed the system" in Wisconsin.[39] As chairman of the Homeland Security committee, he used it to broadcast Trump's allegations of fraud.[38][47]
While those top Fed officials are “overwhelmingly white, overwhelmingly male,” the report said, the problem also extends into the boards of directors at the local operations, where “we find a staggering homogeneity among them, with only recent signs of diversification.”
“There is also a sense that these principals are overwhelmingly promoted from within, creating a risk for groupthink and intellectual homogeneity,” Conti-Brown and Nygaard wrote.
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