As racist groups like League of the South, the American Guard, and the Proud Boys made their way to Virginia to descend on the streets of Richmond alongside hordes of other white men armed with rifles and AR-15s, an entirely different kind of pro-gun gathering was unfolding at an office…
When I walked into Washington, D.C.’s Omni Shoreham Hotel for the Values Voter Summit (VVS), I was on the verge of tears. Outside of hotel workers, I was the only person of color in sight and almost immediately upon entering the building, I spotted a Catholic priest wearing a MAGA…
“The only thing getting me through this is my will to survive. My head is just above water. I’m trying to get through the best that I can, but it is agonizing. Any way you cut it — mentally, physically, emotionally — this is painful,” Sza Sza quickly says into…
It may sound like a gross simplification, but immigration is really just about sovereignty, land, and borders. No one knows this better than Native Americans. Strangely, journalists, activists, lawmakers, and legal advocates working to combat the Trump administration’s draconian immigration policies almost never defer to Native communities. But Native communities…
Tina Vasquez is a journalist covering immigration and reproductive injustice. Her work has appeared at Rewire.News, NPR, and the New York Review of Books.
