National Director, @gnd_network. Co-founder @OurHawaii808. Former Legislator.
Joined March 2009
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BIG! A bill passed in Hawaii to effectively convert 10,000's of illegal Airbnb's to local housing. Incredible work from @OurHawaii808 and Lahaina Strong. The winning strategy was uniting fire survivors, advocates, and unions – then going all out. hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/04/24…
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Federal TAX SPENT on undocumented immigrants:
~$27 billion
Federal TAX CONTRIBUTED by undocumented immigrants:
~$96.7 billion
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ICE agents are “illegal immigrants” in Hawaii.
Untrained wannabe cops, telling Hawaiian law enforcement to step aside.
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But it’s our ancestors’ courage that allowed us to exist.
Before ICE, there were the “Honolulu Rifles.” Dole, Thurston, and other corporate/missionary thugs.
And our Kūpuna fought back. They put their reputations, pride, and bodies on the line.
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7 Oct 2025
The deportation industrial complex is the love child of weapon contractors and mass incacertion.
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3 Oct 2025
How are MAHA moms (and dads) ok with shutting down rural hospitals?
Expanding rural health care is probably the #1 policy for improving public health.
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30 Sep 2025
Listening to this @ezraklein episode with Ta-Nehisi Coates…and Ezra…is just not…listening.
Shocking because I’ve been listening to his show for years, and it’s unlike him.
And they are supposedly friends. Doesn’t seem like “politics the right way.”
Weird man.
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30 Sep 2025
Ezra’s point about “the left can’t draw the line…”
Yes it can, MAGA did. It moved the line. It defined the terms.
But MAGA isn’t majoritarian. They are 12% at best.
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30 Sep 2025
The rest of the 30% of Americans who voted for Trump did so DESPITE him stepping over the line.
Because they wanted big change and was willing to take the risk.
They are still persuadable. We can win them back while isolating the hard opposition
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29 Sep 2025
Working people are more united than the elites tell us—
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