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!
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
In Nevada, the strategic and people-driven organizing from @makeroadactNV @TheLMurrieta @MiFamiliaVota @Hesanche @ceciaalvaradoNV led to tens of thousands of Latinx voter contacts that will undoubtedly have made a difference in what will end up being a very close final tally.
The growing Latinx electorate in Georgia is being organized in a big way by @ConMijente; @marisa_franco @_LaTania @PoderLatinx @YadiraSanchezPL - keep funding them for the runoff!!
In Wisconsin, major congratulations to Christine Newman and @VDLF_Action who made 765k calls to 200k potential voters, knocked on 56k doors in heavily Latinx wards and invested in both English and Spanish TV, radio and digital in Latinx and rural counties.
A special shout out to our Florida peeps - who have had their hearts broken too many times, but who keep fighting tirelessly. @DREAMERcado @Vilar2020 @lachicamayra @YadiraSanchezPL
And Pennsylvania!!! Victory would not be possible without the work of @CASAinAction and @MakeTheRoadPA! Their grassroots work resulted in 2.8 million calls and 2 million text messages sent to Latinx voters.
Oh, and let's not forget Texas. We will turn you blue. And our inroads are because of the great work of @MtremilloT @OscarVivoSilva @BGTX @TXOrgProject @TFN @torygavito
And to our Equis team for all of their work to arm our partners with the best data, analysis and tool: @carlosodio @RachelMStein1 @frenchica @Ino_Chavez @caitlinopperman @Jacobo_Licona @klortiz14 @LatinoDecisions @GBAOStrategies Sky Gallegos, @danrsena Nery Espinosa
I am sure that unintentionally left off many people -- but this is just the beginning of our work. Today is our victory. And I am so proud of all that we have collectively accomplished this year. What a group to be in the trenches with.👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽

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7 Nov
This tweet is dedicated to the many Biden campaign team that have worked tirelessly to get us to this moment!

@CristobalJAlex one of Biden's earliest and tireless staff has been on the trail for a very long time and sacrificed a lot, esp time away from Tai + Baby Boss
I think it's so important to lift up the 4 Latinx state directors of the new soon to be blue wall in the southwest
@thejessicamejia in Arizona, @alanamounce in Nevada, @ErnieApreza in Colorado and #RaulAlvillar in New Mexico.
To @JulieR2019 who joined post primary after being on the road at @KamalaHarris side. She has been a total #GSD soldier and proud of her as a history making Deputy CM.

@pilitobar87 @JenMolina_v @munozka315
and the comms team
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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
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
✅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
Read 6 tweets
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.
Read 6 tweets
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.
Read 5 tweets
4 Apr
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/
Read 9 tweets
28 Aug 19
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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