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Latino voters shifted dramatically toward Trump in the last election. Reading, Pennsylvania offers a clue to how Democrats can claw them back. Both campaigns saw Reading as strategically critical and it happens to be nearly 70 percent Latino.

Reader Comments: Dictatorial Coup Unfolds; Resistance and Protests Grows; Federal Workers Mobilize; What You Can Do To Fight This Coup - A Guide; No Tax On Tips Will Harm More Workers; Role of the Labor Movement in Defending Immigrant Rights; more;

It's on

Reader Comments: Dictatorial UnConstitutional Power Grab; Anti-Trump Protests Brake Out; USDA IG Refused To Leave Was Investigating Elon Musk; Nightmare Over Washington (and in the Capitol); ICE Raids and Resistance; People's Guide to Project 2025

Trump’s promise of widespread deportations won’t happen without defining a wave of new ‘illegals’ into existence. Immigration detention has become a $3 billion industry fusing for-profit prisons with immigration policies built to “secure” the border.

Reader Comments: Stop the Deportations, Stop the Layoffs, Stop the Administrative Coup!; Here Are 10 Things You Can Do To Resist; Longtime ‘Loyal’ Dem Voters Fed Up With Party’s Inaction; "Innocent Gesture"; 16 Million Workers Were Unionized in 2024;

The forces of Trumpian repression and neofascism would like nothing better than for us to give up. Then they’d win it all. But we cannot allow them to. Protect the vulnerable, organize boycotts and keep fighting.

The president’s latest salvo against the Constitution shouldn’t survive the judiciary’s scrutiny. But these days, you never know.

Reader Comments: WHAT TO DO IF ICE COMES TO YOUR DOOR; KNOW YOUR RIGHTS; Israel Intensified Its Violence Against Palestinians in the West Bank; Author Sara Paretsky Betrayed by Vote on Laken Riley Act; LA Burned, Karen Bass; José ‘Cha Cha’ Jiménez;