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Joaquin Castro

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Joaquin Castro is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 20th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he has focused on issues such as immigration reform, healthcare, and education. Castro has been an advocate for policies that support the Latino community and has worked to address economic disparities in his district. He is known for his vocal opposition to certain policies of the Trump administration, particularly regarding foreign aid and disaster response.

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Feb 16, 2021

It’s been very tough, Joy. There are still hundreds of thousands of people in San Antonio without power, a lot of people without water.

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Feb 16, 2021

If you pick people who are more committed to modernizing the grid and perhaps integrating in a better way, then certainly you could, you know, solve that issue.

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Feb 12, 2021

Donald Trump spent months inciting his base to believe that their election was stolen.

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Feb 11, 2021

The public gloating in exploitation of the attack by our enemies, countries like Russia saying the attack proves democracy is over because look at the smoking hulk we`ve made of it here.

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Feb 11, 2021

Donald Trump tried to overturn the election by any means necessary. He tried again and again to pressure and threaten election officials to overturn the election results.

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Feb 11, 2021

On January 6, President Trump left everyone in this Capitol for dead.

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Feb 10, 2021

After Donald Trump lost, he became even more desperate and incited his base even further.

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Feb 10, 2021

On November 5th, he tweeted in all capital letters as if shouting commands, quote, stop the count! Stop the fraud! The same day as those tweets, around 100 Trump supporters showed up in front of a Maricopa County election center in…

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Feb 9, 2021

Even when President Trump knew what his words were causing, he didn't do any of those things to stop the crowd. In fact, he did the opposite. He fueled the fire.

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Jan 13, 2021

Donald Trump is the most dangerous man to ever occupy the Oval Office. Madam Speaker, I want to take you back 1 week ago today when people were barging through these doors and breaking the windows with weapons, armed, pipe bombs, coming…

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Jan 13, 2021

It was not only a matter of President Trump's words, he told a big lie that the election was being stolen from him, that he won in a landslide.

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