Saturday, December 28, 2019

Some Tweets from Lucy Flores


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    The best candidate has emerged. That candidate is . Join me in helping to turn Senator Warren into President Warren. 💪🏽
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    I have spent over a decade fighting on behalf of working Texans. While was taking in millions from the construction industry, I was at , helping pass laws that protect the rights of workers. I’ll keep fighting alongside .
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    This wk I testified to the House Armed Services Committee in their hearing on diversity recruitment/retention in the US With the top Army, Navy, Marines & USAF generals/personnel chiefs sitting behind me, it was the biggest full circle moment I’ve ever had
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    Fixed on winning a seat in the U.S. Senate in the 2020 election, Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez () is taking power for herself and the Latino community.
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    If you enjoy poetry, memoirs, novels and illustrations then check out these amazing books written and selected by Latinx writers! 📚
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    This is why I’m all in for 2020. Our communities are under attack. It doesn’t matter if they’re DREAMers or have DACA or if they’re children at the border. This administration doesn’t care. My people are
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    Abstinence-only education is sexist & homophobic; it promotes dangerous tropes that fuels toxic masculinity. Do u know NYS does not mandate age-appropriate, medically-accurate & culturally competent sexuality education? Let’s change that
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    That man could have just sat back and collected his Netflix checks and pats on the back from respectable Black folks from now until eternity. But NO! He needed to directly shame dark skinned Black people who are rightfully pointing out an obvious blind spot his projects have.
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    Buttigieg’s polling with black voters remains consistently catastrophic. But as I argue, white privilege isn’t just about being let into doors that others aren’t. It allows certain people to stay and go about their business—all while being taken seriously.
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    There are 607 billionaires in America. There are 328,000,000 people in America. Right now those 607 people have more access and power in our democracy than the 328m combined. This isn’t about the dollar amount that people donate; it’s about what they get in return.
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    61 percent of Latinas are participating in the labor force and we are still paid dust! 😡
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    I’m stuck on this risible notion that Warren bringing up the wine cave fundraiser was somehow a “purity test.” Seems to me she was trying to show that she had learned from experience how corrosive and corrupting a force big money can be in politics. There should be room for that.
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    In less than a decade, many organizers who first cut their teeth fighting "show me your papers" are now lawmakers, campaign managers and directors of civic engagement groups like Puente and Mi Familia Vota, write and 
  • And yet these ppl who create hateful laws like CA’s prop 187 never seem to learn their lesson. Oppression will always be met with resistance, creating new generations of leaders from the communities they attempt to degrade.
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    In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me, there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus ✨
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    She just deleted this and I will never stop laughing