This is not freedom. This is not “the land of the free.” This is fascism.
We either defend everyone’s civil rights, or our rights mean nothing. Enough.
Over 435 (‼️) anti-LGBTQ bills are moving in 37 states right now.
9 discriminatory bills have passed this year and 9 more are on governor's desks awaiting signature.
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WE DID IT!
WE WON BY 23 POINTS!
• FIRST CPA as City Controller
• FIRST Filipino elected official in LA
• FIRST AAPI citywide elected official
• FIRST POC as City Controller in over 100 years
more to come!
ALT group photo of Kenneth Mejia campaign at election night party
To put this in context, what's happening in America is exactly how we've fomented coups and overthrown democracies elsewhere. We start by funding far-right, radical leaders. We arm them. We give them kill lists of liberals and intellectuals who might oppose them. And (thread)
Marjorie Taylor Greene calling on the Supreme Court to end hundreds of thousands of happy same-sex marriages because of “the Bible” while her and her husband are divorcing is one of the best summations of Republican hypocrisy I’ve ever seen.
Educating on and discussing anti-Black racism and white supremacist ideology and practices, which have devastated peoples and cultures across the globe, is not “anti-whiteness.”
If we center our efforts in truth and love, we can defeat injustice.
If you don’t want that, why?
My opponent says he's a Democrat, but he only became a Democrat 3 weeks before he launched his campaign.
My opponent says he's a builder, but he's never built a single unit of affordable housing.
Rick Caruso simply does not tell the truth.
#LAMayorDebate
The poll also indicated that Texas voters may consider immigration a more important issue than abortion. About 31 percent of respondents said immigration was their top concern ahead of the midterms, while 22 percent said the same for abortion.