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Alex Padilla: Will we allow fear to divide us, or will we use our power to organize and to mobilize to defend our democracy that…

On the recordJuly 15, 2026
Will we allow fear to divide us, or will we use our power to organize and to mobilize to defend our democracy that generations before us fought so hard to build?
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Alex Padilla
Democratic · California

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Keynote address at NALEO Annual Conference

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