Omigosh. This is turning into a wild midterm election on many, many levels.
This is a great development. The Democratic Party is growing a new generation of leaders and I am glad this person won her primary.
Jaw, meet floor.
Another one! Non white, non male, non xian (probably). Funny how the efforts of racist, misogynistic, xenophobic extremists to keep America white, male, straight and xian is accomplishing the exact opposite by driving the very people they hate into elected office.
Wazir’s family fled Afghanistan in 2007 as the Taliban consolidated power. She arrived in Concord that same year.
Great qualification. This is a young woman who learns quickly, adapts quickly, and moves forward. Very heartened by this news.
Well, that Soucy fellow is likely just another son or grandson, at a guess, of immigrants, from, gasp, Canada! Time for the “establishment” to move aside.
The face of the America we seek to become.
All the tweets in the world won’t stand up in the end to Emma Lazarus if we keep this up and GOTV.
Wanna know something funny? This is a return to historic norms.
Right-wingers like to pretend that history began around 1950 and what happened in 1950 was normal and right and it was always like that, but it was a massive historical aberration with the lowest percentages of foreign born people in the country. The population before massive immigration restrictions starting in the early 1900s had always been at least 10% foreign born, and there were plenty of stories of people coming off the boat with nothing but the clothes on their backs, and ten years later they were elected to the state legislature or even Congress. True stories. They came from nothing, arrived in search of their fortune, and found it, and in the process made this country better and richer.
MAGAchodes don’t understand the meaning of the phrase they parrot. If they actually want the US returned to its prior greatness, this story is symbolic of it happening, not the delusions of mediocre white people wanting to return to aberrant times.