Last week, three days after my father passed away, I was notified of phone calls in my district speaking in support of
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I knew from the moment I heard this that somehow the story of my very mild encounter with Devin Nunes on the flight from Salt Lake City to DC had made its way to Trump.
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DemCast USA has joined with Common Cause and other progressive organizations in calling on the Senate to quickly confirm President Biden’s three nominees to the USPS Board of Governors. Only the Board
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At the beginning of this year, Political Charge readers told me in our annual survey that their top two priorities this year were protecting voting rights and our democracy. The fight for
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I am seeing a welcome attention on the portions of SB 202 related to suspension and takeover of county superintendents. Let’s take a deeper dive into what exactly a county election superintendent
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Events this week show the urgent need to continue on Biden’s path of building back better. Another mass shooting. Georgia’s elected leaders going full Jim Crow 2.0. Full GOP hypocrisy over the
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On March 24, 2018, more than a million people peacefully protested for sensible gun laws to end our seemingly never-ending gun violence. They gathered for the March for Our Lives in the
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Sometimes, after a Zoom meeting like I had today, I feel ill at the thought of how much more difficult life would be if Trump had won in 2020. It was my
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As I have said before, the demographics of our country are changing, and the change is tilting toward a greater number of Democratic or Democratic-leaning voters. According to the Gallup organization, as
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Just one blade of grass One small voice preaching for change To spark a movement What do you do when you’re a California kid and a pandemic is keeping you and your
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My husband Daniel and I were born in the same year to Cuban parents. But the stories of our childhoods are very different. My parents were upper-middle class from Havana and able
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March Madness started this week in a bubble made up of quarantined players, empty arenas and Covid testing. It’s an example of how we are slowly moving towards normal, but also an
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