Nice shoutout to @castrocountry from one of the authors of #ForgetTheAlamo on today’s #FreshAir on @NPR. Rosie was right, “the ‘heroes’ of the Alamo were a bunch of drunks and crooks and slaveholding imperialists who conquered land that didn’t belong to them.” #VivaLaRaza
Vice President Kamala Harris swore in three new senators on Wednesday: Jon Ossoff and the Rev. Raphael Warnock of Georgia, and Alex Padilla of California. Democrats now have officially claimed control of the Senate. https://t.co/igO4KJggfq
I believe we must put diplomacy at the center of our strategy to achieve a more open, peaceful and just world.
Let’s have a real debate about the future of U.S. foreign policy.
That’s why I’m running for Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
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Interesting.
Joaquin Castro: "I think too often Palestinian voices have been excluded. If the United States is going to be an arbiter of peace, it has to be willing to hear from the different sides, and in my estimation we’ve not always done that.” https://t.co/NrsnoZEY1B
I spoke with @JulianCastro about life since the campaign, the pandemic’s effect on housing, the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, and his continued efforts to fight for social justice in America. Watch the full video here: https://t.co/O4CiqnWcIg
In LA we have a 12 month payment plan following the expiration of the Local Emergency Period. This plunges unpaid renters into debt and will make it more difficult for them to rent elsewhere if they are evicted.
Julián Castro, the only Latino to run for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, said he was right to push a platform that sought to level inequities and #economic gaps that are now being exacerbated by #coronavirus. https://t.co/t7rVFcw2Ew