For as long as I can remember, my hometown of Yorba Linda, California, was something of a Republican haven. Former President Ronald Reagan himself once said “all good Republicans go to die” in Orange County. He was place on Earth and raised right in my district, CA-39. As soon as we first moved to Yorba Linda over 15 years prior, most of them of our neighbors were white; today, m..

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At least nine people were killed and numerous others were injured by an alleged far-right extremist at around 10 p.M. On Wednesday (February 19) in Hanau, Germany. The gunman died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound immediately following the attack, the BBC reported; his mother’s body was also noticed at the scene. According to authorities, the suspect targeted two shisha bars, or ho..

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The clock is ticking down to the presidential election on November 3, 2020 — do you suggest who you’re tapping as your +1 to your local polling place? Another, similarly question: do you suggest where your polling place is? there's a good chance, you do: According to a recent poll conducted by YouGov and MTV News, 80 percent of Gen Z respondents and 91 percent of millennial respo..

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Throughout the ninth Democratic presidential primary debate on Wednesday (February 19), one of the moderators asked former Mayor Pete Buttigieg — the lone millennial presidential candidate — if he was "out of touch" with his own generation because he didn't embrace democratic socialism, a slight jab at Buttigieg's high school essay about his competitor, Senator Bernie Sanders. "..

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How several houses do the 2020 Presidential candidates own? Follow-up: Is this going to sway your vote? The topic came up while in the ninth Democratic presidential primary debate, once former Mayor Michael Bloomberg attempted to swipe at Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for owning three homes. It was a fact that Sanders conceded as a matter of practicality: He has one in Washington, ..

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Welcome to the ninth Democratic presidential primary debate, where the candidates converged on the stage to talk about the issues voters care about. And, apparently, one of these issues was how thoroughly every other candidate could verbally clothesline the race's late-starter: former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. It started with the very first question of the night, in wh..

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By Raven Douglas, Political Director of MOVE Texas I’ll never forget the initial time I voted. It was a 2015 Texas constitutional election (riveting, I know) and I was willing to create my voice heard immediately after an organizer at The University of Texas at San Antonio registered me to vote and got me to the polls. I come from a family member that never discussed about politics..

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The same week that Michael Bloomberg’s campaign tapped several aggregator accounts to unfurl a series of sponsored memes across social media, the presidential hopeful earned digital notoriety for an entirely different reason: The progressive podcaster Benjamin Dixon surfaced an audio recording of Bloomberg defending stop-and-frisk, a practice used by police officers that marked his ..

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Helisa Cruz is frustrated. Two years back, on February 14, 2018, a perpetrator carried out an attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida; he killed 17 people and injured 17 others. It wasn’t the initial time mass violence has upended lives, and it also wouldn’t be the last: In 2019, there were more mass shootings than days. Even so, little has been done l..

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Welcome to Got Issues?, MTV News’s candidate-by-candidate breakdown of your biggest concerns and questions about the 2020 race. The climate crisis is no mere buzzword — as far as existential threats go, the fact that the planet keeps getting hotter and hotter is becoming increasingly tough to don't think about. Young people have regularly showed up to the frontlines to demand ma..

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By Lily Herman For several people, makeup is an integral segment of identity that builds confidence and provides new avenues for self-expression. Cosmetics are equipment to create a statement about who you are and why you visualize the world. Some people use concealer to buff over blemishes; others tap highlighter and winged eyeliner to explore their gender expression. And for some, ..

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Polls closed on Tuesday (February 11) in New Hampshire, and delegates are beginning to add up. With 87 percent reporting, according to the Associated Press, Sen. Bernie Sanders came out of the state's primary election because the leader, with 25.7 percent of the vote, followed closely by former Mayor Pete Buttigieg who garnered 24.4 percent of the vote and Sen. Amy Klobuchar who acqu..

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