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Nigel Duara CalMatters As Fresno Resistance co-founder Alfred Aldrete awoke from uneasy dreams one morning last month, he found himself the focus of community gossip and, he believes, a target of the local police department. Aldrete and a small group of volunteers escorted about 50 high school students on...
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Nigel Duara CalMatters Cuando Alfred Aldrete, cofundador de Fresno Resistance, despertó de sueños intranquilos una mañana del mes pasado, se encontró en el centro de los chismes de la comunidad y, según él, en el punto de mira del departamento de policía local. Aldrete y un pequeño grupo de...
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La Ley de Cuidado de Salud Asequible acaba de cumplir 16 años, y los líderes de California están pidiendo al Congreso que revierta los recortes masivos a la atención médica que los republicanos aplicaron el año pasado. La medida permitió que 20 millones de estadounidenses más pudieran acceder a...
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The Affordable Care Act has just turned 16, and California leaders are calling on Congress to reverse massive cuts to health care made by Republicans last year. The measure opened up Medicaid to 20 million more Americans, allowed adult children to stay on their parents’ policies until age 26, and banned...
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With 54 votes in favor and 45 against, the incoming Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS)—Republican Senator from Oklahoma Markwayne Mullin—was confirmed this week. Prior to his political career, Mullin distinguished himself as a successful entrepreneur in the plumbing services sector and as a former mixed martial arts fighter with...
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Por 54 votos a favor y 45 en contra fue confirmado esta semana el entrante secretario de seguridad nacional (DHS), el senador republicano de Oklahoma Markwayne Mullin. Antes de su carrera política, Mullin se destacó como un exitoso empresario en el sector de servicios de plomería y ex luchador...
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Ryan Sabalow, Jeanne Kuang, Nadia Lathan & Yue Stella YuMarch CalMatters César Chávez, el legendario activista californiano por los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas e ícono de los derechos civiles de los mexicoamericanos, ha sido durante décadas una figura estrechamente ligada a la política demócrata, tanto a nivel estatal...
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Ryan Sabalow, Jeanne Kuang, Nadia Lathan & Yue Stella Yu CalMatters César Chávez, the legendary California farm-labor activist and Mexican-American civil rights icon, has for decades been a figure intertwined with state and national Democratic politics. Former President Joe Biden had a bust of Chávez inside the White House....
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For most Americans, the passport has long been a document of convenience: a small blue booklet associated with travel abroad. It sits tucked away in a drawer, used for vacations or business trips, and then disappears again. But an ongoing political and legal shift could be redefining what that...