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Stephanie Valencia

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7 Nov

This tweet is dedicated to the progressive mvmt leaders who after many years of tireless organizing, year and year out (not just election years) build power for our community. They left their hearts on the field over the last many months and will continue to fight!

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@MiFamiliaVota

Arizona’s success comes from strong Latinx-led organizing for over a decade. This win has to be credited to orgs + leaders like @MiFamiliaVota @Hesanche @esgsainz @PoderLatinx @YadiraSanchezPL @LUCHA_AZ @TomasRobles14 @Gomez_Alex07 @UNITEDWEDREAM @GreisaMartinez @CrisAlexJimenez

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Stephanie Valencia

@stephanievalenc

6 Nov

I’m sick of ppl trying to cast Latinos as the reason Biden lost FL + TX:

✅FL + TX aren’t the only Latinos in America

✅In both states white swing voters swung back to Trump

✅HISTORIC WIN IN ARIZONA

✅Latinos in MI + WI helped put Biden over top

@carlosodio

Pls don’t write just one chapter of this story. It requires much more nuance. Including:

✅only 3% of the entire Latino electorate in US is Cuban. Yet based on many headlines, they are driving an entire narrative about all latinos in 2020

follow @carlosodio for more on this

@UCLAlatino

✅Only 15% of TX latino voters live in RGV and there was ecord turnout + support in the urban centers @UCLAlatino has great data on this

✅Record turnout in Arizona, especially from LATINAS will put Biden over the top

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Stephanie Valencia

@stephanievalenc

4 Nov

We've long said Latinos aren't a monolith. Tonight proves just that: the promise and the peril of the Latino vote.

Miami + FL are just a small share of Latino electorate that will shape the outcome of this election.

There is a lot of the Latino story that is yet to be written

Florida goes first and always grabs our attention but there is a lot more to be written tonight and the rest of the week.

As I’m in the middle of writing this, Arizona was already called for Biden on the strength of Latino voters in Maricopa County and Tucson.

Remember when we Colorado was a battleground state? Remember when we still needed to keep an eye on New Mexico? Years of organizing and the strength of the Latino vote in those states has taken them out of the spotlight but they are still an important part of the story.

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Stephanie Valencia

@stephanievalenc

25 Aug

What last night's RNC convention made clear: The GOP is making an effort to go after voters of color. We've been saying for ages that this election will be won and lost on the margins.

Their strategy is not to actually win the majority of these voters, but rather to shave enough off the margins or get enough of us to stay home. We've seen this plain + simple in how they've tried to discredit Biden with voters of color - seeding doubt and "both sidesism"

They are using race and nativism as a cudgel to divide black and brown voters. These small margins can add up to to a path to victory in critical states like NV, AZ, FL, NC.

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Stephanie Valencia

@stephanievalenc

4 Apr

@EquisResearch

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are felt globally and by all kinds of people. But they aren’t landing equally across the population here in the US.

@EquisResearch reviewed recent public polling to see how Latinos are faring. THREAD (1/)

1. On key economic questions Latinos report higher levels of concern and hardship at this early stage. 2/

2. Latinos also appear to be taking public health warnings to heart, expressing less comfort being in public places.

Notice Latino discomfort with public venues extends to the thought of polling places. Which is why so many are talking about alternatives to in-person voting 3/

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Stephanie Valencia

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28 Aug 19

@Medium

Read my new @Medium piece
Solving for X: Here’s How the LatinX Electorate Will Define the Next Election
link.medium.com/zX1rAnOSwZ
Some hot takes here
[THREAD] 1/

The largest + fastest growing group in the US today is the LatinX voter: the median age of the community is 28 yrs old, with the fastest growing part of the pop under 5. There are 32 million eligible Latinx voters in 2020, making us the lgst minority group in this election 2/

Outdated tactics used to mobilize their parents won’t cut it. Yet, outdated thinking and inadequate infrastructure leaves too many potential voters disconnected from the political process — leading to lower rates of participation and less power. 3/

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