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Terror Babies! (revisited)

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State Representative Rafael Anchia on the anti-Latino rhetoric and policies coming from Republicans and what you can do to fight back. www.promesaproject.com

Meet the Texas Promesa Fellows

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These are the participants in the 2012 Promesa Project Fellowship Inaugural class. Here they discuss the reasons they applied to become Fellows, offer their thoughts on the reasons why young people should get involved in politics and discuss the potential effects of this project.

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Joaquin Castro on Higher Education Accessbility

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State Representative Joaquin Castro presents the stark differences between the Democratic and Republican approaches to higher education.

Favorite Quotes

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am nothing.
I was a teacher of special needs children, so I can speak of the power and magic of education.
I have been married for 42 years so I can speak to President Obama's commitment to marriage equality.
I am a small business owner so I can speak to the Presidents jobs plan.
I held my 25 year old son in my arms as he died of cancer, uninsured.
I can speak to the financial devastation to families even aside from their unimaginable emotional devastation before the Affordable Health Care Act. I can speak.
It is not Obamacare. It is Obama Cares.
By choice, I live in the most racially diverse county in this state so I can speak to the Voter Rights Act.
I can speak because I have charity and love. And, like ALL Democrats, that makes me something.

Texas Democratic Convention - June 8, 2012
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