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Is it possible to turn Texas Blue? Especially considering the large Latino, and Black voters in the state who share political interests like climate justice, housing justice, and immigration reform. Brianna Brown of the Texas Organizing Project, or TOP, joins Jen Taylor-Skinner, on The Electorette, to discuss how they are using collective organizing to build community, grow political power, and build unstoppable coalitions in Texas. We also discuss how the organization seeks to repair fissures created between Black and Latino communities that were widened during the 2024 election cycle. In this Episode Texas Organizing Project Listen to All Electorette Episodes https://www.electorette.com/podcast Support the Electorette Rate & Review on iTunes: https://apple.co/2GsfQj4 Also, if you enjoy the Electorette, please subscribe and leave a 5-star review on iTunes. And please spread the word by telling your friends, family, and colleagues about The Electorette! WANT MORE ELECTORETTE? Follow the Electorette on social media. Electorette Facebook Electorette Instagram Electorette Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Soros funded Texas Organizing Project previously provided the money to bail out of jail, on misdemeanor assault charges, the man who is now alleged to have gone on a killing spree this week in Texas. The man had warrants outstanding; had cut off his ankle monitor, and; had had contact with Bexar Co. law enforcement while those warrants were active and yet they did not arrest him. There is much to this story and I'll cover the key points using mostly these press reports: Suspect in deadly attacks in Bexar County, Austin was previously bonded out of jail by Texas Organizing Project Texas progressive group previously bailed out suspect charged in deadly Austin, San Antonio shooting rampage Soros nonprofit donated over $1M to group that previously bailed out suspect charged in deadly Texas shootings The Texas Organizing Project helped get Shane James Jr. out of jail last year. Here's why. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.Gov. Abbott comes out against state Rep. Drew Darby of San Angelo and Rep. Travis Clardy of Nacogdoches – two RINOs if ever there were such creatures. HD72's Stormy Bradley gets Abbott's endorsement to challenge fake-conservative Darby. Here is a Pratt on Texas episode in which I interviewed Stormy Bradley when she made a fun for state senate.We hope: Property tax cuts, retired teacher pensions appear safe after Texas election challenges.I explain the problems with the abortion news out of Texas: Texas judge allows Kate Cox to abort/kill her baby Attorney General Ken Paxton Responds to Travis County abortion law TRO Texas' economy expands faster than U.S. 4 quarters in a row.We remember the attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor in sound.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

Listen now (2 mins) | Quick announcement: Drop Your Lawsuits, Drop Your Prices! Hightower is joining Public Citizen Texas, the Texas Organizing Project, Families USA and many more organizations on Wednesday, August 16th at the Federal Courthouse in Austin to demonstrate against Big Pharma’s greed. The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association sued to prevent the Inflation Reduction Act from taking effect; many cities around the country are holding a series of actions calling on pharmaceutical corporations, PhRMA, the U.S. Chamber and other chambers of commerce to drop their lawsuits and instead negotiate lower drug prices.

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas race baiters just can't let go of their fantasy of race being at the center of every bad happening. The leftist Texas Organizing Project insists the black police officers beating a black man in Memphis, Tennessee is due to racism.Meanwhile a more clearheaded Andrew McCarthy points out the folly of this racism-in-everything line of non-thinking and also points out the disingenuousness of Biden's DOJ opening a Civil Rights investigation over the issue. He says the move essentially calls the profession of policing inherently racist. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.Texas manufacturing sector continues to lose steam says Dallas Fed.Good movement forward on settling the disputes in the Rio Grande Compact with New Mexico and Colorado. It looks as if the Biden Administration is not going be get away with forcing secrecy in the matter.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates. www.PrattonTexas.com

11.1.2022 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Black Voter Bulletin, Texas & Voter Suppression, Relaxers & Uterine Cancer, Black Girl Sunscreen one week away from the midterm elections. Black to the Future Action Fund teamed up with HIT Strategies to find out the political and economic outlook of 1,200 Black voters in Georgia, California, and North Carolina.  I'll talk to Alicia Garza, the principal of Black Futures Lab and Black to the Future Action Fund, about the results.  Texas Republicans are pulling out all of the stops to keep people of color from voting.  We'll find out what Texas Organizing Project is doing to ensure everyone can cast their ballot.  A black woman files lawsuit against L'Oréal, claiming her uterine cancer is linked to chemical hair straightening products.  Her attorneys will join us to provide details about the case.  The Supreme Court blocks the release of Trump's tax returns and rules that Lindsey Graham must testify before a Georgia grand jury investigating the 2020 presidential election. In our Marketplace segment, sunscreen for black folks, made by a black woman.  I'll talk to the creator of Black Girl Sunscreen. And Halloween is no longer for kids.  I'll give my take on how the holiday has evolved.   Support RolandMartinUnfiltered and #BlackStarNetwork via the Cash App ☛ https://cash.app/$rmunfiltered PayPal ☛ https://www.paypal.me/rmartinunfiltered Venmo ☛https://venmo.com/rmunfiltered Zelle ☛ roland@rolandsmartin.com Annual or monthly recurring #BringTheFunk Fan Club membership via paypal ☛ https://rolandsmartin.com/rmu-paypal/ Download the #BlackStarNetwork app on iOS, AppleTV, Android, Android TV, Roku, FireTV, SamsungTV and XBox

Texas Housers, alongside community members and Texas Organizing Project, have strongly declared together that San Antonio needs a Tenant Bill of Rights. We outlined on our blog what the items in a Tenant Bill of Rights in San Antonio would be, but what does that look like in detail? On this episode of A Little Louder, John is joined by Texas Housers' advocacy director David Wheaton and Texas Organizing Project's Geoffrey Okolo to explain how a Tenant Bill of Rights could effect real, practical change in the city of San Antonio.

This week I interview Nono Osuji, a first-generation American whose parents immigrated from Nigeria. Nono is a writer, producer, and actor. She is living with lupus, which is hard enough. She’s also living with being “Broke, Gifted, and Black,” the title of her podcast. We had a gritty, deep-down conversation about race in this country. Nono is the youngest in her family, born to her parents after they’d immigrated with their three  children to the U.S.  She had a huge desire to assimilate, so she adopted an English name, Cynthia, because teachers  would botch her name. For much of her childhood, she shunned being Nigerian because it made her different. When Nono was in grad school, she got diagnosed with lupus. She sought help from eastern medicine and began getting expensive injections and paying for them out of pocket. That could not last long as a grad student living in New York, so after two years when her hair started falling out, she moved home to Texas so her parents could help. “Less than a year later, I was hospitalized for the first time with kidney failure due to lupus.” She was put on high-dose steroids, which caused her to develop severe edema.“I felt like this thing had robbed me of the life I wanted. I was supposed to be working in film and media...I wasn't supposed to be frequenting doctor’s offices and taking 67 pills a day…that wasn't supposed to be my life and it just put me in a very deep depression.”Although Nono’s lupus is not currently active, it has ravaged her kidneys, with only 16 percent kidney function. Her best hope is a kidney transplant. She’s found solace in being part of a community of artists and starting her “Broke, Gifted, and Black” podcast.  I asked her about generational trauma and the latest trauma facing Black people.First we talked about the death of Prince Philip and how he was part of the colonization of Nigeria. Because of its oil interests, Britain supplied Nigeria with weapons and military intelligence, used to slaughter a million Igbo people, Nono’s tribe, and created a nation that never should have been a nation.Nono had some passionate thoughts about policing in America. “There can be no good cops in a system that does not allow it...When your job is literally to protect state property, whether it is a person or a thing, it is not meant to have good cops when the other part of your job is to build revenue, it is all about money and power and systemic racism…the history of policing in America is simply continuing what we see today.”Nono and I agreed that the system needs to be dug out from its core, completely redone.  “We have police living above the law with qualified immunity. We have police that don't face any financial repercussions because the payouts come from the city taxpayers. So how do you have a system where you don't go to jail and you don't pay anything?”Nono volunteers with an organization called Texas Organizing Project, which works to better the lives of black and Latino communities. Nono shared her experience of being pulled over because she had Texas license plates. She challenged the cop on why, so he arrested her for outstanding parking tickets.After discussing racism and policing in America, we moved onto “Lovecraft Country.”  We concluded by talking about Nono’s podcast, “Broke, Gifted, and Black,” about the entertainment industry and interviews with gifted people who turned their art into a living. “Just think of what it would actually be like if we had equity, just think of how much better our world would be and when you help to lift the least among us, all of us get better. It's our responsibility. There's no other choice.”

Today, we're talking to two great Texas organizers from the Texas Organizing Project. Not only have they done amazing work helping flip formerly red counties around Austin, Dallas, and Houston to the Democrats, but their advocacy work has ensured that those Democratic victories have led to critically important local reforms. We'll talk about those victories, and what needs to be done to flip Texas Democratic at the statewide level.

what up we're back after a brief hiatus with some rip roarin' content folks. after describing his current look as "approachable charles manson," jake rambles about post-covid airports, fat iguanas, conspiratorially inclined taxi drivers, a "gust of wind" that blew a giant ship off course, another set of reasons why we should saw florida off the continent and let it drift into the sea, RIP jessica walter aka lucille bluth, amazon's attempts to subjugate the human race, and a palate-cleansing story about some chill af rhinos. >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

The Texas blackouts last month were the perfect example of why the go-it-alone mentality can only be viable when things don't go wrong...like when a huge winter storm hits. Then you need help. We talk with a Texas native and the co-host of the Broke, Gifted, and Black podcast Nono, about the perils of Texas politics and how it royally screws over Texas citizens over in times of crisis. She works at the Texas Organizing Project and tells us about how Texas isn't a red state, it's a voter suppressed state. Did you know, whenever a state house seat flips blue, they lower the number of votes required to introduce a bill to the floor to the number of Republicans present (used to be 21, now they have lowered it to 18)? Did you know the story of Fred Hampton, a Black Panther who was targeted by the FBI? Did you know the story of the Tulsa bombings, when one of the most prominent, affluent Black communities in American history got bombed by the government? In this episode, we learn about these stories you don't read about in high school history and what this Texas organizer thinks it is going to take to get us to have a racial reckoning in America. Links: Broke, Gifted and Black Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/broke-gifted-and-black/id1528040868 Texas Organizing Project: https://organizetexas.org/ Vox Explainer Video on Texas Outages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcrsgdl_hP0 Music is The Beauty of Maths by Meydän. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/im-the-villain/support

we're back my duuuuuuuuuuudes and jake is talking all sorts of nonsense about kid-punching youth pastors, the absurd implication that our students are in an way “behind,” how he'll probably be fine if he gets the ‘rona, how everyone loves telling their wisdom teeth story (then tells his wisdom teeth story), encourages strangers to come cough in his mouth, and gets into some news that's important: twitter adding a paid feature (plus a sneak peak of potential paid tweets from jake), you should definitely ask some questions when your dog walker gets shot, the ill-advised attempt to automate k-9 units, and how the potato head controversy is just a ploy to sell your children more plastic. sorry for the random little mic pops. just pretend you're listening on a shitty radio frequency. >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

a classic episode of your favorite podcast! jake is cooped up with his family on a “snow” day and sits down to talk how terrible texans are at driving in adverse conditions, recounts being walked in on in the bathroom at work (along with all of the ethical questions that come with such misfortune), lays a framework for his budding fitness imfluencing career after reading an email from an interested (if grossly misinformed) new influencing platform, shows you this video of the world's least chill professor, talks the suberbowl and that weeknd fella, implores you to join the rallying cry of #freebritney, and explains one of many reasons why craig ferguson was the best late night host and the ones that are left kinda suck. >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

an action-packed, extra long episode! jake talks his recent misadventures in donating to goodwill (never again), the satisfaction that comes with seeing rich people cry, the physical impossibility of trying to make sense of the stock market, some techniques and reminders for prepping, cooking, plating, and serving the rich for your next dinner party, and a spicy news that's important including: a call-in from our horsefeathers gaming correspondent Shay to give insight into the newest cyberpunk scandal (leave keanu alone!), why you shouldn't leave your octogenarian, racist aunt in charge of your cemetery, revisiting the loudest/longest blink, creepy congressman wants to look at your kids' junk, and meanwhile, in science: anal swabs! >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

it's a little late but worth the wait! jake talks getting triggered by a ted cruz sign, breaking new ground by doing the first ever (probably) standing podcast, the health horrors that await long-term sitters according to webmd, and a thiccq section of news that's important: a brief overview of inauguration performances, garth brooks' chaotic hair game, the trump pardon list and jilting of the tiger king, someone needs to be checking on ben affleck, gweneth paltrow's bootleg exploding vagina candles (celebrities: they're just like us!), and under a new segment “meanwhile, in science…” we cover pablo escobar's lasting hippo legacy and of course, take a DEEP, DEEP dive into the exciting discovery of a “perfect” and “unique” dinosaur butthole. >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

it's our greatest episode yet! jake's flying solo as he rambles about Texas “snow,” leaving skateboarding kids alone, the totally clear and not at all confusing rollout of the vaccine, the dicey campaign to make America read again, and some news that's important: the international scandal surrounding joe the pigeon, more talk of aliens searching (in vain) for intelligent life, and something to make conspiracy theorists worldwide shit their britches. >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

well push me down and mace me, it's a new episode! jake rants with marshall about the fiasco at the capital. this ep has it all: people losing their jobs, in-studio screams, revolutionary karens, both amen AND a woman, this fuckin' guy, influencer baby (or baybi) beefs, and so much more! >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

It’s a new year indeed. We’re just seven days into 2021 and the country’s New American Majority has wasted no time flexing its political muscle. While Republicans and Trump supporters make dangerous and desperate last-ditch efforts to overturn the will of the people, Georgia voters clapped back with a resounding “time’s up” and handed Democrats the reins to the U.S. Senate by electing Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff. Their victory is the result of a 10-year effort led by Stacey Abrams, the first guest on our “Democracy in Color with Steve Phillips” podcast. To kick off this episode, we reflect on how Steve and Stacey met and how her vision transformed the state, and the country. But we also remind folks that the New American Majority is just getting started, and there are so many “Staceys” leading the way to turn the country’s demographic revolution into a political and electoral revolution. In this episode, we highlight seven people who are leading the way to real, systemic change in racial equity, immigration, and voter rights. [17:55] References: 7 People to Watch Jessica Byrd, @JessicaLBYRD, Founding Partner, Three Point Strategies https://threepointstrategies.org Anathea Chino, @anatheabc, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Advanced Native Political Leadership https://advancenativepl.org Maurice Mitchell, @MauriceWFP, National Director, Working Families Party https://workingfamilies.org Alejandra Gomez, @Gomez_Alex07, Co-Executive Director, Lucha Arizona https://luchaaz.org Andrea Guerrero, @guerreroandi, Executive Director, Alliance San Diego https://alliancesd.org Vanita Gupta, @vanitaguptaCR, President and CEO, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights https://civilrights.org, and United States Associate Attorney General Nominee Michelle Tremillo, @MtremilloT, Executive Director, Texas Organizing Project https://organizetexas.org Other References Stacey Abrams, @staceyabrams, Founder, Fair Fight Ayanna Pressley, @AyannaPressley, Massachusetts Congresswoman Nse Ufot, @nseufot, CEO, The New Georgia Project “Democracy in Color with Steve Phillips” Podcast - Georgia: What Winning Looks Like https://democracyincolor.com/podepisodes/2020/12/9/georgia-what-winning-looks-like Tweet - Stacey Abrams on Election Night https://twitter.com/staceyabrams/status/1346668456675061760

for this very special first episode of 2021, we're joined by our first guest co-host, the lovely MRS. horsefeathers herself, lauren! recorded live from our marital bed! SCANdalous! we reflect on the year and talk putting pressure on the holidays, dodging unrealistic expectations, surviving vs. thriving, people trying to expose a white woman who's trying to be spanish but is, in fact, kinda spanish, and we include a close reading of 2009's biggest cultural achievement: "boom boom pow" by the black eyed peas. thanks for listening! here's to surviving another year. >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

episode 25! like the 25th! like christmas! it's a miracle! jake's alone again as he works out the possibility that the holidays aren't so cheerful for some folks, driving in adverse conditions, cursed work holiday traditions (including the cursed “pajama day” and zoom work parties), whether lord of the rings is a christmas movie, and some news that important: the LIFE CHANGING stimulus check coming to a grateful proletariat, a mall santa who needs a damn reality check, and we lend vocal support to young trevor, a fella who just wants to have awesome nails. >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

welcome back sweet marshall! we spend some time catching up, talking raising puppies and pigs, the busted macy's thanksgiving day parade, making our kids watch “big mouth” instead of having the talk, dinosaur boners, marshall's trip to the penis museum, and then we get into some news that's important: the cursed marriage of florida needs and oklahoma ingenuity, come godforsaken idea called “vaccination tourism,” the hungarian right making some political missteps, and bob dylan sells out “selling out.” we end with an impassioned plea for the executives at spotify to kindly eat bags full of glass until they pay artists fairly. enjoy! >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

hey dudes did you survive thanksgiving?? we're talking little joys of dog ownership, reaching out to our international listeners, giving you what you really came here for: fitness advice, getting yelled at by coaches, we ask the burning question: can you catch a cold form being cold? seeing dog farts, keeping your droplets to yourself, longing for the before times, mountain lions infiltrating dallas, santa's innate immunity, and much more! >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

another brilliant dive into the human condition! jake talks adventures in DIY shelving, a salute to the women who work at home depot, watching teacher-related shows, justin beiber's pastor in trouble (and why you should never be hot), ben "DAP" shapiro's bad take on masculinity, stopping sexually related covid spread, the ushering in of the end of humanity thanks to denmark, and we end with an uplifting message from the dhar mann. >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

jake talks coming out of s.a.d., childhood pets, important differences in cat and dog ownership, and brings you news that's important: another race fakin' white lady, the black gay guy who's actually a straight white guy, coping with loss with kenneth copeland, and denmark's quiet but brutal war against minks. >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

a (mostly) apolitical election week escape/encouragement! we're talking about old guy contests, the biden bus bandits in texas, the innate joy of the lazy river, the unspoken social structure of water parks, kanye's sneaky “genius” on joe rogan (our only real podcasting competition), the completely relatable shenanigans of the kardashian/west crew, recreating family members as hologram ghosts, the worldly wisdom of kim kierkegaardashian, remaining hopeful through this week/subsequent months, and we end with an EXCLUSIVE interview with the creator of the universe himself, God! Keep your head, folks! >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

we back my duuuuudes! jake returns to fill your mind hole with nonsense such as but not limited to Halloween safety warnings, his childhood godzilla obsession and costume, being particular as a kid, ramblings about his time building fence and the joys of working with your hands, toobin' with toobin, the distant voice of reason, shiner's sweet interaction with a guy under an overpass, jake's deep-seated issues with being accosted, and we wrap up with a good, long look at matthew mcconaughey: minister of culture. >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

this episode was made hot ‘n' ready with vine-ripened california tomatoes and 100% REAL mozzarella! we're talking the best of trashy pizza, the state of rock music today, predictions of the rest of 2020's terrible news, rooting on jimmy butler and the heat, endorsing claudia conway to be our next secretary of state, sean feucht and toxic charismatic evangelicals, and we cleanse our palates with another meaningful dhar mann lesson. visit saveourstages.com insta: @horsefeatherspod // twitter: @horsefeatherpod >>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

this one's a whole rack of spice! jake reads more fanmail, talks "dated" references in old cartoons, recalls hearing bad words for the first time, introduces our new segment "WWCDWTWWI" (still working on the acronym), and lets don tr*mp jr's attack on teachers roll right off his back. >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

our spiciest episode yet! jake gives you a little taste of the patreon content (as a treat), reads our first-ever fan mail (write us a letter! especially if it's hate mail! email it to us!), talks about his scalpel-precision trolling of a local megachurch, provides more evidence that white women can do whatever they want with impunity, reviews a new police billboard (it's bootlickin' good!), decries f*c*b**k as being the new qanon headquarters (zucks to zuck), and we end with an uplifting message from our new life coach dhar mann. >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

it's an spicy one! we talk mike pence's meat (don't take it!), jake sings an old family folk song, #GenderRevealPartiesAreOverParty, the amount of crap firefighters have to deal with, the epic battle between trump supporters and wave physics, now former-professor jessica "para bailar la bamba" krug proves that white women can do whatever they want with impunity at all times, some quality scottish journalism, jake reveals his REAL ethnicity, we stumble through a new segment: "old videos", and jake ends reminding you that we need not panic; this is nothing compared to the twig of '93. >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

we're back in studio with a nice 'n' spicy one! we're talking squeaky voiced adult woman, the next chapter in the falwell saga, drug induced dinosaur sightings, a mystery safe in a field, the confusion of modern social politics, the lengths to which we are willing to go to take down the top 30 podcasts, being so very done with "the office," and we get serious for a bit about racial disparity, journalism, and america's collective goldfish brain. should be fun! >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

ooooo spooky number 013! in this quiet, sultry ep, we come at you lively recorded in tennessee to talk about vacationing among the neurotic elderly, the inherent perils of gazebos, the stupidity of drum circles, the simple joy of a loud bathroom fan, becoming a cursed travel blogger, the advanced redneckery of tennessee, christians making hell look badass, and sir anthony hopkins' brilliant performance in "silence of the lambs." >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

a packed ep! we introduce the audience to sweet marshall, our new producer and partner in greatness. we call out spotify greed, exacerbate (and then squash) beef with the michelle obama pod, rail against gender reveal parties, discuss the implications of sitting vs. standing to pee, sharpen our political philosophy, imagine what living with a penis on your arm might be like, and call out jerry falwell jr. for the creep he is. >>insta: @horsefeatherspod>twitter: @horsefeatherpod>email: horsefeatherspod@gmail.com

To be Latino during an election season can feel like landing on a movie set of a suspenseful, high-stakes drama. It's a story of contradictions. You are a star of the show — Latinos are projected to become the largest, nonwhite racial or ethnic electorate in 2020 — but it is usually set to a predictable, one-note soundtrack: “immigration, immigration, immigration.” An audience of pundits dissects the “Latino vote,” while advocates recite well-rehearsed lines: “Latinos are not a monolith. Ignoring the Latino vote will cost candidates at the polls.”And perhaps the only reason the Latino vote narrative captivates political writers, pundits and especially candidates is because they want to know: “How does the story end?”Related: Getting out the vote for the 2020 election: Lessons from Bernie Sanders' Latino outreachSure, action sequences turn on whether Democrats can rally Latinos or whether an incumbent president, whose political emblem is a border wall, has alienated Latinos who vote for Republicans. But it's a story that comes down to the question: Will they show up on Election Day?The answer depends, in part, on whether our stars feel like heroines on camera or specimens under a microscope, and whether they feel they are part of the US electorate or outsiders: “them,” “the other.”“It matters a great deal, especially for those who are not politicized who have not developed an interest to engage or desire to engage with politics.”Angela X. Ocampo, author “It matters a great deal, especially for those who are not politicized who have not developed an interest to engage or desire to engage with politics,” said Angela X. Ocampo, author of the forthcoming book, “Politics of Inclusion: A Sense of Belonging and Latino Political Participation.”Before our stars became Latino voters, say researchers and voting rights advocates, daily experiences informed their enthusiasm for casting a ballot. To reach the ballot box, Latinos often must first traverse a battlefield of messages from the political left and right that casts Latinos as the perennial outsider. They will have shielded themselves from media coverage often portrays Latinos as rootless newcomers and asks that all-too-familiar question: “Where are you from?” Which presumes that the answer is: “Not here.” They will have faced a barrage of rejecting encounters, with nearly 38% of Latinos reported to the Pew Research Center in 2018 that they had been told to “go back,” chastised for speaking Spanish, or been on the receiving end of offensive slurs in the previous year. They will have pushed through the psychological impact of violent events, such as the 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, which was provoked by racist backlash against Latinos as a growing political force in Texas.Related: The pandemic upended this Latino teen's senior year. Now it's upended his politics.“After that terrible event, we were left at the mercy of a fear created for us,” writes Ilia Calderón, a national news anchor for Univision, in her new memoir, “My Time to Speak: Reclaiming Ancestry and Confronting Race.” The fear extended far beyond El Paso or Texas, beyond Mexicans and Mexican Americans, reaching Calderón, an Afro Latina thousands of miles away in Miami and but to Latinos across the country.“We already had to deal with how the color of our skin makes some look at us a certain way when we walk into a store, what it means to be a woman walking around certain areas at certain times, but now we have to add our papers, last names, or nationality to the mix,” Calderón said.From these experiences, “many Latinos in the U.S. learn that their standing in the U.S. social fabric is limited and below that of others,” writes researcher Ocampo, adding that it holds true for people whose roots run generations deep, or who arrived decades ago and raised their children.A sense of belonging — meaning, how society perceives you — along with feeling respected and valued — can be powerful forces to mobilize or discourage voting. In his eulogy for the late civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis on July 30, former President Barack Obama said a central strategy to voter suppression is to convince people to “stop believing in your own power.”Though Latinos possess a strong American identity, researchers have found Latinos register a lower sense of belonging than whites but slightly higher than Blacks. And given the nation's racist hierarchy, Latinos, who can be of any race, with darker skin have a more tenuous sense of belonging than lighter-skinned Latinos. In 2018, the Pew Research Center found that following the election of Donald Trump, 49% of Latinos had “serious concerns” about the security of their place in the US. The implications can be significant. Ocampo found that a strong belief in belonging to US society can change the probability of voting by up to 10%, translating into tens of thousands of votes.Demographics, though, seem to have little effect. Even in a state like Texas, where Latinos will soon become the largest demographic, they are underrepresented in nearly all areas of leadership. A forthcoming, statewide study by the Texas Organizing Project about Latinos' relationship with the electoral system turned up a solid strain of unbelonging, particularly among working-class Latinos in urban areas.“We are an ‘other.' We still feel it,” said Crystal Zermeno, director of electoral strategy for the Texas Organizing Project.That perception becomes a challenge when trying to convince eligible voters that the ballot box belongs to them.“A lot of times working-class Latinos, they feel like voting is for other people. It's not where they belong.”Crystal Zermeno, Texas Organizing Project“A lot of times working-class Latinos, they feel like voting is for other people. It's not where they belong.”Political campaigns may run on promises of better access to health care, tighter border security and help with college tuition. But to get the message across, candidates and parties need to make an authentic connection.“I needed to make an emotional connection with an old, angry, white, Jewish man from Vermont [Sanders] with a demographic with an average age of 27, to say, ‘I understand your plight,'” said Chuck Rocha, a senior adviser during Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign effort to turn out Latino voters and recently released the book, “Tío Bernie: The Inside Story of How Bernie Sanders Brought Latinos into the Political Revolution.”Sanders' immigrant roots may have opened a door. But the connection comes from communicating, “You are part of our community and we're part of your community,” Rocha said.Related: Trump, Biden boost efforts to reach Texas Latino votersBelonging, or at least the semblance of it, is a tool that Republicans use — including President Trump. With Trump's “build that wall” chant; fixation on border security, and derogatory references to asylum-seekers and other migrants, Trump has drawn clear and powerful boundaries on belonging. Contained within his rhetoric, rallies and campaign videos is a choreography for performing American identity, patriotism and citizenship.“Who do you like more, the country or the Hispanics?” Trump asked Steve Cortes, a supporter and Hispanic Advisory Council member, during a 2019 rally in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. During his 2020 State of the Union Address, Trump momentarily paused his typical vilification of asylum-seekers and other migrants to recognize one Latino: Raul Ortiz, the newly appointed deputy chief of the US Border Patrol  — a servant of surveillance.“He's putting forth a clear version of what it means to belong and not to belong and who is a threat and not a threat,” said Geraldo Cadava, author of “The Hispanic Republicans: The shaping of An American Political Identity from Nixon to Trump.”In the long term, Cadava says, Trump's strategy is untenable because of the demographic direction of the nation. But in the immediate term, it is meant to rally his base and solidify support among voters in key states. Inviting Robert Unanue, CEO of Goya Foods, a major food brand favored by Latinos, to the White House in July, provoked backlash when the CEO praised the president. Still, for Latino Republican voters, it suggested that the White House is open to them.This, combined with a weeklong, Hispanic outreach campaign that centered on promises to play up Latino business opportunities, in the eyes of Trump's supporters, Cadava said, “he looks like a perfectly electable candidate.” It's an image tailored for an existing base, which stands in contrast to the scene of Trump tossing rolls of paper towels to survivors of Hurricane Maria.Overtures of belonging can also be seen in a move by Sen. John Cornyn, a Republican of Texas, who is up for reelection, to co-sponsor legislation to fund a National Museum of the American Latino. But advocates warn such messages ring hollow when matched with policies. Cornyn, a Trump supporter and lieutenant to Sen. Mitch McConnell, has aggressively backed repealing the Affordable Care Act even though his state has the highest uninsured rate in the nation — 60% of the uninsured are Latino. With news coverage of Latinos generally centered on border and immigration issues, and 30% of Latinos reported being contacted by a candidate or party, according to a poll by Latino Decisions, the lasting image is likely a photograph of a museum. This may explain why Cornyn is 10 points behind his Democratic challenger. To this, some say Democrats have failed to summon a vision of the nation that includes Latinos.“We [Latinos] are part of the America, the problem is we haven't made them part of the public policy and politics of our country because we don't spend the time to reach out and make the connection to that community.” Chuck Rocha, senior adviser during Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign“We [Latinos] are part of the America, the problem is we haven't made them part of the public policy and politics of our country because we don't spend the time to reach out and make the connection to that community,” said Rocha, who led a campaign by Sanders that scored record turnout among Latinos.Related: This young Afro Latino teacher and voter wants to be a model for his studentsMissing in American politics for Latinos is “a showman, somebody who stands up and who isn't afraid of consequences to stand for our community the way [Trump] stands for racist rednecks. We haven't seen that.”Left is a roadmap of patriotism, of citizenship that positions Latinos in a neverending border checkpoint, not located in South Texas or Arizona, but built around the notion of an American.“There are these tests being administered to see where these people are going to fit in the greater scheme of things if we have to deal with them,” said Antonio Arellano, acting executive director of Jolt Institute, a voter mobilization organization in Texas. “Patriotism can be displayed in many different ways, this administration has tainted nationalism by dipping it into the red cold racist filled paint that has been emblematic of America's darkest moment in history.”In a scathing opinion piece for The New York Times, Alejandra Gomez and Tomás Robles Jr., co-founders of Living United for Change in Arizona (LUCHA) accused political leaders of deserting Latino Arizonans, leaving them as scapegoats to a right-wing political agenda that was built on excluding and attacking immigrants and Latinos.“The thing is, people want community. They want to belong to something that helps them make sense of the political world,” they wrote. “But they don't trust politics or Democrats because both have failed them.” While unbelonging may drive some people from the polls, it can also be a mobilizing force.Following the 1990s' anti-Latino and anti-immigrant campaign in California, that resulted in policies, such as denying education and housing to undocumented imigrants political groups harnessed the outrage and pain among Latinos in that state. In the 2000s, facing deportation, the young Latinos known as the “Dreamers” transformed their noncitizen status into a political asset and became a reckoning force across the nation. Millennials, in particular, reported to Ocampo their outsider status was a catalyzing force for political participation.LUCHA and other advocacy groups have provided something candidates and parties have not: belonging. “We are reminding them and they are true leaders in our community, creating spaces to be themselves authentically in the world,” Gomez told me.These advocacy groups have become a political force in Arizona, backing progressive candidates and galvanizing Latinos, not by stoking party loyalty but as “independent power organizations,” Gomez told me. In a state where Latinos are nearly a quarter of eligible voters, LUCHA and other groups helped roll back anti-immigrant laws and elected community leaders and Democrat Kyrsten Sinema to the US Senate by promoting a platform created not by a party, but by their community.In late summer, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, made belonging a central feature in “The Biden Agenda for the Latino Community.”“President Trump's assault on Latino dignity started on the very first day of his campaign. … Trump's strategy is to sow division — to cast out Latinos as being less than fully American.” “The Biden Agenda for the Latino Community”“President Trump's assault on Latino dignity started on the very first day of his campaign. … Trump's strategy is to sow division — to cast out Latinos as being less than fully American,” it says.Biden's agenda includes a host of policy offerings including a public option for health care, immigration reform and addressing climate change. It remains to be seen if that's enough, if the strategy will amount to policies wrapped up in an anti-Trump message. And this brings to mind a critical point that Rocha made about appealing to Latino voters: Latinos changed Sanders himself, by courting them he gained a more complete portrait of the nation. Belonging, after all, is reciprocal.Come Election Day, whether someone coming off a double shift or mourning family members who died in a pandemic, or a student facing down a deadline for a paper will take a few hours — Latinos stand in lines that are twice as long as whites — a ballot cast will be the end result of a long journey, an epic drama that began long before a campaign season. 

www.organizetexas.org Click here to donate. Join the Texas Organizing Project, or TOP for a conversation about the racial bias that still exists within the health care system and what we can do to help take racism out of health care! The system isn’t broken. It is working the way it was designed to work. For years now, we have heard about the poor access to medical care that Black and Brown families are subjected to. We talk about the price of healthcare and how unaffordable it is for black and brown communities. We also hear about maternal mortality cases increasing, particularly in communities of color, particularly with black women. But have you ever asked yourself why? How being black or brown puts us at a higher risk of being dismissed, incorrectly treated, or with a wrong diagnosis or even an incorrect prognosis, regardless of income. Serena Williams, a fantastic and world-renowned tennis player, almost joined this statistic when she gave birth to her daughter, Olympia. ***************************************** El sistema no está roto. Está funcionando de la manera en que fue diseñado para funcionar. Durante años, hemos escuchado sobre el pobre acceso a la atención médica a la que están sometidas las familias de color. Hablamos sobre el precio de la atención médica y lo inasequible que es para las comunidades Afroamericanas y Latinas. También escuchamos acerca de casos de mortalidad materna que aumentan particularmente en comunidades de color, particularmente con mujeres afroamericanas. ¿Pero alguna vez te has preguntado por qué? Cómo ser gente de color nos pone en mayor riesgo de ser tratados incorrectamente o con un diagnóstico incorrecto o incluso un pronóstico incorrecto, independientemente de la cuenta bancaria. Serena Williams, una tenista increíble y reconocida mundialmente, casi se unió a esta estadística cuando dio a luz a su hija, Olympia. ¡Únase a nosotros en una conversación para hablar sobre el prejuicio racial que todavía existe dentro del sistema de salud y sobre lo que podemos hacer para ayudar a eliminar el racismo de la atención médica! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/southernfriedsocialist/message

www.organizetexas.org To donate click here. Join the Texas Organizing Project or TOP for a conversation about the racial bias that still exists within the health care system and what we can do to help take racism out of health care! The system isn’t broken. It is working the way it was designed to work. For years now, we have heard about the poor access to medical care that Black and Brown families are subjected to. We talk about the price of healthcare and how unaffordable it is for black and brown communities. We also hear about maternal mortality cases increasing, particularly in communities of color, particularly with black women. But have you ever asked yourself why? How being black or brown puts us at a higher risk of being dismissed, incorrectly treated, or with a wrong diagnosis or even an incorrect prognosis, regardless of income. Serena Williams, a fantastic and world-renowned tennis player, almost joined this statistic when she gave birth to her daughter, Olympia. ***************************************** El sistema no está roto. Está funcionando de la manera en que fue diseñado para funcionar. Durante años, hemos escuchado sobre el pobre acceso a la atención médica a la que están sometidas las familias de color. Hablamos sobre el precio de la atención médica y lo inasequible que es para las comunidades Afroamericanas y Latinas. También escuchamos acerca de casos de mortalidad materna que aumentan particularmente en comunidades de color, particularmente con mujeres afroamericanas. ¿Pero alguna vez te has preguntado por qué? Cómo ser gente de color nos pone en mayor riesgo de ser tratados incorrectamente o con un diagnóstico incorrecto o incluso un pronóstico incorrecto, independientemente de la cuenta bancaria. Serena Williams, una tenista increíble y reconocida mundialmente, casi se unió a esta estadística cuando dio a luz a su hija, Olympia. ¡Únase a nosotros en una conversación para hablar sobre el prejuicio racial que todavía existe dentro del sistema de salud y sobre lo que podemos hacer para ayudar a eliminar el racismo de la atención médica! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/southernfriedsocialist/message

www.organizetexas.org To donate click here. Join the Texas Organizing Project, or TOP for a conversation about the racial bias that still exists within the health care system and what we can do to help take racism out of health care! The system isn’t broken. It is working the way it was designed to work. For years now, we have heard about the poor access to medical care that Black and Brown families are subjected to. We talk about the price of healthcare and how unaffordable it is for black and brown communities. We also hear about maternal mortality cases increasing, particularly in communities of color, particularly with black women. But have you ever asked yourself why? How being black or brown puts us at a higher risk of being dismissed, incorrectly treated, or with a wrong diagnosis or even an incorrect prognosis, regardless of income. Serena Williams, a fantastic and world-renowned tennis player, almost joined this statistic when she gave birth to her daughter, Olympia. ***************************************** El sistema no está roto. Está funcionando de la manera en que fue diseñado para funcionar. Durante años, hemos escuchado sobre el pobre acceso a la atención médica a la que están sometidas las familias de color. Hablamos sobre el precio de la atención médica y lo inasequible que es para las comunidades Afroamericanas y Latinas. También escuchamos acerca de casos de mortalidad materna que aumentan particularmente en comunidades de color, particularmente con mujeres afroamericanas. ¿Pero alguna vez te has preguntado por qué? Cómo ser gente de color nos pone en mayor riesgo de ser tratados incorrectamente o con un diagnóstico incorrecto o incluso un pronóstico incorrecto, independientemente de la cuenta bancaria. Serena Williams, una tenista increíble y reconocida mundialmente, casi se unió a esta estadística cuando dio a luz a su hija, Olympia. ¡Únase a nosotros en una conversación para hablar sobre el prejuicio racial que todavía existe dentro del sistema de salud y sobre lo que podemos hacer para ayudar a eliminar el racismo de la atención médica! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/southernfriedsocialist/message

Episode 5 get HYPE! Jake talks wild dreams in which he is a witch, the perils of package tracking, mask etiquette, the resurgence of the Dallas bar scenes, how to do the "midnight hustle" during a pandemic, Spongebob's historic coming out, little Sippy Boye Trump, and plenty of horsefeathery Karens to ridicule. Come for the Bachelor hot goss, stay for the horrible kiwi accent. All proceeds for June and July go to Texas Organizing Project! Check 'em out at OrganizeTexas.org. patreon.com/horsefeatherspod insta - @horsefeatherspod twitter - @horsefeatherpod email stories, comments, questions, and violent complaints to horsefeatherspod@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jake-hall2/message

Episode 4, my dudes! We figure out what happens when Jake's dog George eats random garbage off the street, the stupidity of anti-protest protests, and the lax requirements for what it actually takes to become a cop. 50% of all proceeds from Horsefeathers will always go to local Dallas/Texas charities. The next few weeks, we're donating to the Texas Organizing Project's efforts to support Black and Latino communities in Dallas, Harris, and Bexar counties, particularly with COVID-19 complications and bail. Become a patron at patreon.com/horsefeatherspod to get an extra episode every week! Follow us! Tell your friends! Twitter: @horsefeatherpod Insta: @horsefeatherspod Email us at horsefeatherspod@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jake-hall2/message

It's episode 3 of Horsefeathers, and boy, what a time for a white guy to start a podcast! Jake discusses the subtle nuances of being an ally online, calls his brother on the phone to ask how long he's been a racist, and exposes the inner politics of instagram thots' relationships with their boyfriends. 50% of all proceeds from Horsefeathers will always go to local Dallas/Texas charities. The next few weeks, we're donating to the Texas Organizing Project's efforts to support Black and Latino communities in Dallas, Harris, and Bexar counties, particularly with COVID-19 complications and bail. Become a patron at patreon.com/horsefeatherspod to get an extra episode every week! Follow us! Tell your friends! Twitter: @horsefeatherpod Insta: @horsefeatherspod Email us at horsefeatherspod@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/jake-hall2/message

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The United States is one of just 11 countries around the world that don’t guarantee workers paid time off to stay home if they’re sick – one of the surest ways to slow the spread of infection. Jody Heymann, director of the World Policy Analysis Center at UCLA shares insights from a new report on paid sick leave policies around the world. We’ll hear stories of the harrowing choices faced by essential workers in Texas — where paid sick leave is especially hard to come by. We'll hear from Joleen Garcia, an organizer with the Texas Organizing Project, and from Marilyn Washington, a home health worker in San Antonio. And... we invite you to join us on Friday, May 22 at 1 pm Eastern time, for the live recording of our next Crisis Conversations episode. It'll be a 30-minute interactive conversation on elder care – a population hard hit by the virus. The pandemic has shown just how essential the home health workers are who care for our aging loved ones. Yet many of these care workers struggle with no benefits on the brink of poverty. Except in Washington state. We'll hear stories of how an innovative arrangement there could be a model for the rest of the country - now and after the pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The United States is one of just 11 countries around the world that don’t guarantee workers paid time off to stay home if they’re sick – one of the surest ways to slow the spread of infection. Jody Heymann, director of the World Policy Analysis Center at UCLA shares insights from a new report on paid sick leave policies around the world. We’ll hear stories of the harrowing choices faced by essential workers in Texas — where paid sick leave is especially hard to come by. We'll hear from Joleen Garcia, an organizer with the Texas Organizing Project, and from Marilyn Washington, a home health worker in San Antonio. And... we invite you to join us on Friday, May 22 at 1 pm Eastern time, for the live recording of our next Crisis Conversations episode. It'll be a 30-minute interactive conversation on elder care – a population hard hit by the virus. The pandemic has shown just how essential the home health workers are who care for our aging loved ones. Yet many of these care workers struggle with no benefits on the brink of poverty. Except in Washington state. We'll hear stories of how an innovative arrangement there could be a model for the rest of the country - now and after the pandemic.

The corporate mainstream media is always on call. They were successful on Super Tuesday but with groups around the country like TOP, grassroots action must ultimately win.

Found In Translation Episode 348: Host Ray Collazo is joined by activists and surrogates around the Super Tuesday map to discuss the miraculous night for Vice President Joe Biden and what this means for Senator Bernie Sanders. Doug Chavez, Tania Del Rio and James Garcia analyze what Biden’s comeback means for the race and the Latino community moving forward. California Congressman and Sanders surrogate Ro Khanna joins the show to discuss impact of Latino vote on Super Tuesday and what Sanders now needs to do moving forward to win the Democratic nomination. Michelle Tremillo of Texas Organizing Project joins from Houston to share how TOP is organizing communities of color and what the Presidential and down ballot races teach us about the changing Texas landscape. Texas State Representative Victoria Neave updates us on how Biden mobilized voters down the stretch in Texas. Neave also shares issue priorities for Latino state legislators going into next year’s state legislative session.

You can listen to this week’s episode of NEXT QUESTION with Ernie Manouse in the audio above. Below, you can find audio, video and photos of the various stories discussed on the show. Beyond the Story: A rally outside Houston City Hall. Can A Candidate With A Felony Conviction Stay On The Ballot In Houston? - Listen above, and read Jen Rice's full report HERE On The Beat: Read Craig Cohen's interview with himself HERE From... Read More

For our last episode before the LIVE FINALE (!!!) we sat down with immigration activist Joshua Rubin to talk about what makes someone decide that they need to be on the front lines of an issue, no matter the cost. Josh, founder of Witness: Tornillo and a major reason why they closed those camps, believes that love is what kept his fire burning even after his hope was gone. We also learned about swing states (ahem, TEXAS) from Swing Left, and got revved up to make another push to protect DACA. COME TO OUR SEASON FINALE LIVE SHOW NOVEMBER 19!: Join us at The Riveter in Austin on Tuesday, November 19 from 7 - 9pm for our season finale live show. Special guests include Texas State Rep. Gina Hinojosa; Emily Ramshaw, Editor-in-Chief of the Texas Tribune; Royce Brooks, Executive Director of Annie's List; Dyana Limon-Mercado, Chair of the Travis County Democratic Party; and more! With surprise performances, jokes, sequins, prizes + more. This ain't Texas politics as usual! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-rabble-podcast-season-finale-spectacular-tickets-77364347847 PRESENTING SPONSOR - THE RIVETER CO-WORKING The Riveter is a co-working space built by women for everyone. Rouser has been officing at The Riveter for the past couple months, and we literally cannot say enough nice things about it. The space is great, we love having events there, we love the free mentoring sessions they offer, and we love all the incredible folks we've gotten to meet at neighboring desks, from campaign staffers to entrepreneurs to innovators of every sort. If you're looking for an office or co-working space, check them out! https://theriveter.co/coworking-locations/austin/ ADDITIONAL SPONSORS If you need a little extra help prepping for those hard holiday conversations…. Lucky you! Citizen Discourse offers trainings that help folks grow listening skills, develop more self awareness and engage in authentic conversations. AND their restorative workshops support a more connected and trusting community. Check them out: https://www.citizendiscourse.org Circle Brewing Company, local beer that's tasty, clean and progressive. No chemicals, stabilizing or clarifying agents, cheap additives or gimmicky flavors. https://www.circlebrewing.com/ The Austin Chapter of APAPA (Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs), who are doing a lot of work for the 2020 Census. https://www.apapa.org/chapters/austin-texas/ Margaret Chen Kercher for Judge in Travis County Court at Law #4 https://margaretforjudge.com/ Pritesh Gandhi for Congress in Texas's 10th district https://www.gandhifortexas.com/ Maria Cantú Hexsel for Judge in Travis County's 53rd District Court https://www.mariaforjudge.com/ Flip the Texas House: 17

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."  - (U.S. Const. amend. II) What has the second amendment meant for and to Black people in America? Professor Akinyele Umoja gives us the history and context of the Black power of guns. #SistaToWatch Shetamia Taylor shares how her relationship with guns changed after a tragedy and Maj Toure shares how Black Guns Matter is bringing firearm safety to Black communities. Show Guests Akinyele Umoja is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Georgia State University where he teaches courses on the history of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements and other black political and social movements. He is the author of “We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance and the Mississippi Freedom Movement” Shetamia Taylor didn't consider herself an activist when she showed up to a Black Lives Matter protest on July 7th 2016 with her sons. That protest in Dallas ended with gunfire and Shetamia herself was shot. Since then, after healing from her physical woulds Shetamia has continued to use her voice for change. she has worked as a campaign canvass manager with Texas Organizing Project and is even considering a run for public office. “Sitting on my hands was just not something I could do any longer...to just in any shape form or fashion help to open the mindset of my people, my black community, my brown community and including law enforcement because they’re my people too” Shetamia Taylor “It was very much a part of our tradition and culture to be able to have a capacity to defend ourselves and protect ourselves” Prof. Akinyele Umoja Maj Toure was compelled to create the grassroots organization Black Guns Matter in 2015 after traveling across the country as a musician hearing stories over and over of Black people facing gun charges or having gun rights revoked due to not being educated to the rules of gun ownership. Black Guns Matter brings trainers to urban areas to educate citizens of all races and genders on gun ownership, use and safety. On L. Joy's Book Shelf Our reference text for this episode was Prof. Akinyele Umoja's book "We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement". Grab a copy and learn more of the history that armed resistance played in the civil rights movement and if you have a book club or students of your own, check out this discussion guide.

Activists in Houston were galvanized by events in Ferguson in 2014 following the death of Michael Brown. First, they took to the streets in protest. Then they started organizing. Not long after, they found a kindred spirit in the most unlikely person: a candidate for the DA office. 70 Million reporter, Ruxandra Guidi, chronicles how activists and reformers are succeeding in cutting the jail population, diverting drug arrests, and increasing accountability for local police.  Featuring:  Durrel Douglas, co-founder of Houston Justice; Shekira Dennis, co-founder of Houston Justice; Kim Ogg, Harris County District Attorney; Sandra Guerra Thompson, legal rights advocate at the Criminal Justice Institute – University of Houston; Terrance “TK” Koontz, organizer with Texas Organizing Project; Debra Schmidt, Assistant Chief at Harris County Sheriff's Department; Joseph Gamaldi, Houston Police Officers' Union.  Credits:  70 Million is made possible by a grant from the Safety and Justice Challenge at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.  Reporter: Ruxandra Guidi  The 70 Million podcast is a production of Lantigua Williams & Co.  Editor: Jen Chien Audio Engineer: Luis Gil Associate Producer: Oluwakemi Aladesuyi Marketing Specialist: Kate Krosschell Resource Guide Writer:  Amy Alexander Production Assistant: Paula Mardo Creator and Executive Producer: Juleyka Lantigua-Williams Series Host: Mitzi Miller.   Making Contact staff…   Executive Director: Lisa Rudman Staff Producers: Anita Johnson, Monica Lopez, Salima Hamirani Host: Monica Lopez Audience Engagement Manager: Sabine Blaizin Outreach and Distribution Assistant: Dylan Heuer   Image Credit:   Ruxandra Guidi.   Image Caption:   A bail bonds agency welcomes business next door to the Harris County District Attorney's Office. A federal judge recently ruled the county's bail practices unconstitutional.   For More information:   https://70millionpod.com The post 70 Million – Reform Activists and a New DA Find Common Ground appeared first on KPFA.

Rays Talk Show Episode 287: Host Ray Collazo is joined by Michelle Tremillo of the Texas Organizing Project and Florida political analyst Elbert Garcia to share their thoughts on the upcoming mid-terms. Collazo also shares his predictions for Tuesday. Go Vote Familia!

Rays Talk Show Episode 287: Host Ray Collazo is joined by Michell Tremillo of the Texas Organizing Project and Florida political analyst Elbert Garcia to share their thoughts on the upcoming mid-terms. Collazo also shares his predictions for Tuesday. Go Vote Familia!

Host Gilbert Garcia and a team of San Antonio Express-News political reporters talk with Michelle Tremillo, executive director of the Texas Organizing Project, about paid sick leave, the firefighters’ ballot propositions and midterm voter turnout. Read more at https://www.expressnews.com/politics/.

This week we're doing the first of a recurring series on how activists and organizers on the ground are trying to move the needle with regard to District Attorney races. Our first installment: Dallas County. An appointed conservative DA, Faith Johnson, has flown mostly under the radar in the notoriously red state as activists there, including our three guests–Dominique Walker of ACLU Texas, Reverend Edwin Robinson of Faith in Texas, and Joe Estelle of The Texas Organizing Project––have been working to raise awareness and educate voters on just how powerful District Attorneys are.  

This week, Adam sits down with Jacqueline Patterson, the Director of the NAACP's Climate Justice Program, and Basav Sen, the Climate Justice Project Director at the Institute for Policy Studies to discuss the intersection of ongoing environmental crises and systemic bias along the lines of race, gender, and social class. Subscribe to the Next System Podcast via iTunes, Soundcloud, Google Play, Stitcher Radio, or RSS. A quick note before we begin our conversation. This podcast was recorded soon after Hurricane Harvey made landfall off the coast of Texas and weeks before Hurricane Irma made landfall in Florida. The Next System Project encourages those who are able to assist relief efforts, consider doing so with the locally-based organizations like the Texas Organizing Project, the New Florida Majority, and other organizations that are very much on the front line of climate change.

Ashindi is an independent strategist and donor advisor in democracy reform, social and racial justice. She has developed funding strategies informing more than $100 million in investments from some of the largest foundations and individual donors in the United States  - including the Democracy Alliance, the Ford Foundation, The Women Donors Network, the Sandler Family Foundation, and PowerPAC. Ashindi co-founded the Emergent Fund, a post 2016 election rapid response fund supporting organizing in the most impacted communities where Muslim, Black, immigrant, Latino, Asian, women, and LGBTQ leaders took the lead in decision-making and were the primary recipients of over $1 million raised in the first 100 days of the new Administration. In May of 2016 she also co-authored, with Urvashi Vaid, the first comprehensive report on high net worth donors of color titled, “The Apparitional Donor: Understanding and Engaging High Net Worth Donors of Color”. She also piloted voter engagement projects geared at Asian American voting, voter registration in community health clinics and ran a witness search and data collection effort which proved to be pivotal in overturning the Pennsylvania voter ID law in 2012.  Prior to all of this, Ashindi worked in education. She was the principal of an elementary arts charter school, a Spanish bilingual fifth grade teacher, and a policy fellow to the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Education. She was also a Fulbright Scholar to the Dominican Republic where she published the first national study on race consciousness in Dominican children. In addition to her work in philanthropy, Ashindi has served as the National Policy Director of the NAACP and the National Director of Political Partnerships for SEIU International. Ashindi serves on the boards of the Texas Organizing Project and Free Speech TV. She has been listed three times to Washington Magazine’s “Young and the Guest List” of forty and under geniuses, visionaries, crusaders and innovators shaping Washington's future” in addition to the “NAACP Power 40” list of most influential African-Americans under forty. Ms. Maxton is a graduate of Vassar College and has a Masters degree in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. It's hard to think of someone more accomplished in her field.  So grateful that she carved out time for us today.  Enjoy the show!

We discuss the Texas Organizing Project event held in downtown Dallas, TX on August 1, 2016 featuring a statement from John Fullinwider, one of the founders of Mothers Against Police Brutality. Listen to The Community Connection Radio Show ft Jacey Tuesdays at 12p est / 11a cst / 9a pst on the GET GLOBAL NETWORK stations like SoMetro Radio, SoMetro Talk, Yessurr FM and Oak Cliff Nation Radio

We discuss the Texas Organizing Project event held in downtown Dallas, TX on August 1, 2016 featuring a statement from John Fullinwider, one of the founders of Mothers Against Police Brutality. Listen to The Community Connection Radio Show ft Jacey Tuesdays at 12p est / 11a cst / 9a pst on the GET GLOBAL NETWORK stations like SoMetro Radio, SoMetro Talk, Yessurr FM and Oak Cliff Nation Radio

We discuss the Texas Organizing Project event held in downtown Dallas, TX on August 1, 2016 featuring a statement from John Fullinwider, one of the founders of Mothers Against Police Brutality. Listen to The Community Connection Radio Show ft Jacey Tuesdays at 12p est / 11a cst / 9a pst on the GET GLOBAL NETWORK stations like SoMetro Radio, SoMetro Talk, Yessurr FM and Oak Cliff Nation Radio

It took 40 years to build ACORN, the national community organization which at its peak had more than half a million members.  But it took just a few months to bring it down.  Now, local organizers are trying to rebuild from the ground up, while not forgetting the lessons they learned.*  *On this edition, the assassination of ACORN.  And a look at how the groups' absence is affecting elections, poverty, and the continuing housing crisis? Special thanks to Demos, and to Race, Poverty & the Environment. Featuring: *Steve Kest, *former ACORN executive director*; John Atlas, *author of *‘Seeds of Change', *the *Story of ACORN*, *America's Most Controversial Anti-Poverty Community Organizing Group;** **Annie McKinzie & Bill Chorneau*, former ACORN Oakland members; *Bertha Lewis*, former ACORN CEO and chief organizer; *Morris Hilter,* *Denise Hilton, Travis*, ACORN Tampa members; *John McCain*, US Senator; *Ina Gutierrez*, Interfaith Worker Justice deputy director of operations; *Tasha Alberty, *Oakland homeowner facing foreclosure*; Martha Daniels, *Oakland ACORN organizer;* Vivian Richardson, *San Francisco homeowner facing foreclosure*; Grace Martinez, *San Francisco ACCE community organizer;* Nealie Yarbrough, Ian Haddow*, San Francisco ACCE members. For More Information: Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) www.calorganize.org Texas Organizing Project www.organizetexas.org/ Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment www.organizemo.org/ New England United for Justice www.neunited4justice.org/ John Atlas http://open.salon.com/blog/john_atlas Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Antipoverty Community Organizing Group by John Atlas http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/books/387/seeds-of-change The People Shall Rule: ACORN, Community Organizing, and the Struggle for Economic Justice http://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/books/354/the-people-shall-rule Demos http://www.demos.org/ Race, Poverty and the Environment http://urbanhabitat.org/rpe Wade Rathke: Chief Organizer Blog http://chieforganizer.org/ Interfaith Worker Justice www.iwj.org/ Articles/Blogs/Videos/Audio:  The fall of ACORN: A timeline – The Week http://theweek.com/article/index/200161/the-fall-of-acorn-a-timeline Can Obama Win Without ACORN? – Molly Ball – The Atlantic http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/can-obama-win-without-acorn/262761/ Who Needs ACORN? http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/victory_lab/2012/08/obama_get_out_the_vote_efforts_how_the_voter_participation_center_is_picking_up_where_acorn_left_off_.single.html Anti-ACORN Messages Threaten Staff and Obama (AUDIO) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/m.s.-bellows/anti-acorn-messages-threa_b_136222.html Transcript of Interview with Bertha Lewis http://urbanhabitat.org/node/6926 The post Making Contact – COINTELPRO 101 (Part 1) ENCORE EDITION appeared first on KPFA.