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We need to expand the idea of choice to be about all the choices we make in our lives: including which country we choose to live in so we can be whole and full women.
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This is the country that we are turning over to young people, and there is going to be no country left at this rate because Trump is destroying the soul of who we are.
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Destroying
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No Country
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I have a little yoga ritual that I do just to move my body around. Whatever I do, it's usually very fast because often I don't have the kind of time that I would like to.
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We the people are sick and tired of the criminalization of immigrants, sick to our hearts to see Trump's family separation policies rip families apart across our country.
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Immigrants
Rip
Separation
Hearts
Policies
Sick And Tired
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OneAmerica worked over the course of a decade to bring the movement of immigrants and communities of color together with the movement for marriage equality in Washington.
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Immigrants
Marriage Equality
Decade
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President Trump has harnessed the fear and prejudice that have accompanied every wave of immigrants in United States history, and stoked those fears to further his own agenda.
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Immigrants
Prejudice
Wave
Accompanied
Fears
President Trump
Stoked
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If there is one thing that resonates for women, it is that regardless of where we come from or what we look like, we want to be fully recognized for the breadth of our contributions.
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Breadth
Contributions
Recognized
Regardless
Resonates
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There's nothing normal about graduating with massive student debt, where you live in fear of predatory debt collectors and wage garnishers even as you are starting to live your life.
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Collectors
Massive
Predatory
Life Fear Your
Graduating
Wage
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Certainly there are many Congress members who have been arrested in the past on immigration issues and will continue to because we all understand that staying silent is not an option.
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Arrested
Immigration
Silent
Staying
Option
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Getting a college degree used to be free or low cost because, as a society, we saw providing higher education to young people as an investment - in them and in the future of our own country.
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College Degree
Higher Education
Investment
Providing
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If you look at the future of the Democratic Party, things like raising the minimum wage - Democrats need to get behind raising the minimum wage and be clear on where we stand on trade deals.
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Deals
Democratic Party
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Democrats
Wage
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I would attend a State of the Union by a president with whom I disagree if I felt she or he was otherwise respectful and adhered to basic moral values or basic tenets of civility and respect.
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Civility
Disagree
Moral Values
Respectful
Attend
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There isn't really precedent for asylum seekers' being criminally prosecuted at the border before they've had a 'credible fear' hearing. You come seeking asylum. Seeking asylum is not illegal.
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Credible
Illegal
Precedent
Seekers
Asylum
Border
Prosecuted
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I'm an organizer at heart. Organizers know that giving information, being in front of people, talking to people, to build our movement for the kind of country that we see is the most important thing.
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Giving
Information
Organizer
Talking
Build
Front
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
The Most Important
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I am not a woman on Monday, an immigrant on Tuesday, a worker on Wednesday, and a mom on Thursday, I am all of those things all of the time, and I am going to fight for all of those things all of the time.
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Monday
Thursday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Worker
Immigrant
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Before running for the Washington State Senate in 2014, I had spent 20 years as an activist. I had always believed that we needed to push for change on the outside, through community organizing and advocacy.
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Advocacy
Needed
Senate
Believed
Washington
Organizing
Push
Spent
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I am grateful for my family, friends, and all those who send constant love and support - you are my energy and my hope. You teach me, love me even when I'm wrong, and let me ride the challenges and come out whole.
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Constant
Love Me
Ride
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Civil rights icons, famous journalists, big-time movie producers may all have credits to their name that we can recognize and be grateful for, but their record of good works cannot excuse their harassment of women.
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Be Grateful
Civil Rights
Excuse
Harassment
Icons
Credits
Good Works
Journalists
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Those who have the most power - whether famous TV anchors, rich Hollywood moguls, judges, Members of Congress, or the president of the United States - must decide how to exert that power: for corruption or for good.
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Anchors
Exert
Judges
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For immigrant women, the very act of immigration is about opportunity, equality, and freedom. Women immigrants come to America to care for their families, escape gender-based violence, or express their sexual identity.
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Equality
Opportunity
Women
America
Care
Identity
Immigrants
Violence
Come
Freedom Equality Opportunity
Act
Escape
Express
Sexual
Immigrant
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When bosses, leaders, and powerful men and women ignore or deny the accounts of harassment victims, they reinforce the idea that harassers are playing the game as they should and that the rest of us should fall in line.
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Accounts
Deny
Harassment
Men And Women
Men Women Game
Bosses
Women Men Game
Ignore
Reinforce
Victims
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Regardless of who is elected president in 2016, we all still live together. Each of us has a different role to play, but we all have to hold the collective space for movement-building together. It's the only way we move forward.
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Collective
Move Forward
Regardless
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We have to have a planet to pass on to the next generation, and these issues of climate change and climate justice and the disproportionate burdens that communities of color actually bear from our damaging climate is a huge issue.
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Climate Change
Color
Bear
Burdens
Communities
Damaging
Disproportionate
Generation
Issue
Pass
Planet
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My grandmother was whip smart as well as an incredible athlete. She played tennis in her sari, cheered on the Indian team in cricket matches, and tried to convince us that her made-up words were real so she could win a Scrabble game.
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Athlete
Convince
Cricket
Grandmother
Indian
Real
Scrabble
Smart
Team
Tennis
Words
Played
Game
Could
Her
Incredible
Matches
Well
She
Tried
Whip
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Having a strong race lens means you understand racism is threaded through and institutionalized in all of our systems and our very perceptions, threaded through how someone looks at you, treats you, thinks about you and your potential.
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Racism
Treats
Institutionalized
Lens
Perceptions
Systems
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The immigration system is broken and it needs to be fixed. And it needs to be fixed comprehensively, because this country depends on immigrant workers, but we don't have a system that reflects that. Our system is absolutely antiquated.
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Broken
Country
Immigration
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When women are told that sexual harassment is 'part of the job' or when assistants of both sexes enable harassing behavior, they have bought into the culture that says such behavior is not just permissible, it is a desirable expression of power.
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Assistants
Desirable
Harassment
Enable
Sexual
Permissible
Sexes
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Every hour that goes by with family separation policies in effect is another hour that mothers weep thinking of their children, another hour that kids are fearfully wondering where their parents have been taken, another hour that trauma deepens.
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Separation
Mothers
Policies
Weep
Wondering
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I became an immigrant, civil and human rights advocate, then the first South Asian elected to the Washington State Legislature and the only woman of color in the Washington State Senate, and then was elected in 2016 to the United States Congress.
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Human Rights
Legislature
Senate
Washington State
Advocate
Immigrant
State Legislature
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We can never be afraid to stand up for what is right, no matter what others may say. And sometimes, if that means taking a lonely road, if what we are standing for is true, then perhaps moonlight or sunshine will light our way and make it less lonely.
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Light
Lonely
Matter
May
Moonlight
Sometimes
Sunshine
Way
Will
Then
Stand
Afraid
Make
Never
True
Less
Say
Others
Perhaps
Right
Stand Up
Taking
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After 9/11, I had just become an American citizen, and I remember sitting in front of my TV set watching the news of the attacks, in tears. I remember thinking to myself, 'Nothing is ever going to be the same in this country for people who look like me.'
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Tears
Myself Thinking Me
American Citizen
Attacks
Myself Thinking Look
Citizen
Tv Set
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As difficult as my story is, it's nothing compared to the people I've worked with. And so I just want to do everything I can to make sure that America continues to be a land of opportunity and hope for people and refuge for people from all over the world.
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When I was a little girl, my dad always said to me that I was going to be this great businesswoman, that I was going to be the CEO of IBM. So that's what I came into the world thinking, that I was going to go into the business world and make my mark there.
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Business World
Ceo
Ibm
Business Great Dad
Businesswoman
Little Girl
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Districts are really different across the country, but the more that people on the progressive Left show power at the ballot box - and reclassify some of the ideas that we've called 'progressive,' but that are really mainstream ideas, like college for all - the better.
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Power Better People
Ballot
Ballot Box
Districts
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I came to the United States by myself when I was 16 years old. My parents had about $5,000 in their bank account, and they used it all to send me here because they truly believed that this country was where I was going to get the best education and have the best opportunities.
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Bank
Bank Account
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There were not that many people who were willing to come out and stand up for Muslims or stand up against the abuses of the Bush administration. That was post-9/11, so I think there was a lot of fear at the time about exactly what that meant - were they unpatriotic if they stood up?
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Unpatriotic
Time Fear People
Bush Administration
Exactly What
Muslims
Stand Up
Stood
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We [Americans] really need a system that comprehensively looks at the fact that we need these workers in the United States, we need to be able to provide a pathway to citizenship. We need to be able to allow them to be here legally and to do the work that they are doing and that we need.
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Needs
Pathways
United States
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The vast majority of immigrants - regardless of the conditions of war and poverty that may wrack their home countries - come and contribute to their new home country: building our roads, caring for our homes, children, and elders, and serving as doctors, lawyers, employers, and innovators.
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Caring
Conditions
Elders
Employers
Immigrants
Innovators
Serving
Contribute
Vast
Homes
Regardless
Roads
Vast Majority
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Corporations and special interests have their voice in Congress, and they have too many members scared of their power. What Congress needs is a progressive voice who is unafraid to take on these powerful interests - who is willing to fight for all Americans, not just the wealthiest 1 percent.
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Corporations
Special Interests
Unafraid
All Americans
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The fact that the immigration issue was the first thing Trump took aim at was a good thing for me, because it's what I spent my life working on. It became a place to see what we've become as a country, and how overreach can actually serve to bring those of us on the Left and Democrats together.
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Aim
Immigration
Life Good Together
Democrats
First Thing
Good Thing
The First Thing
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Fundamentally, I've always been a fan of actually looking at our whole state tax system and really figuring out how we reform our tax system so that everyone's paying their fair share but we don't have a lot of nickel and diming with 100 taxes that end up hitting people that maybe can't bear it the most.
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Fair Share
Hitting
Tax System
Bear
Figuring
Fundamentally
Nickel
Paying
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Gays and lesbians gained rights in this country though activism and organizing, creating political space and demanding change so that lawmakers and justices could do what they knew was right. That organizing allowed Americans to get to know gays and lesbians as our daughters and sons, our neighbors, and our friends.
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Activism
Demanding
Organizing
Gained
Gays
Justices
Lesbians
Neighbors
Sons
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What Republicans so cynically refer to as 'chain migration' is actually family-based immigration - a humane and compassionate policy of reunifying families. It allows spouses to be together, siblings to support each other, and children to be with their parents. It allows the immigrants who are already here to be successful.
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Compassionate
Humane
Immigrants
Migration
Sibling
Chain
Cynically
Refer
Spouses
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I was on the committee that helped raise the minimum wage here in Seattle. I introduced a statewide bill to raise the minimum wage in Washington state my first year in the state senate, and I really believe that raising the federal minimum wage, while not the answer to everything, addresses a lot of the issues at the very bottom.
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Bottom
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Seattle
Senate
Washington State
Committee
Introduced
Wage
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