For much of our country's history, native people weren't permitted to vote. Now there are a historic number of indigenous women running for office — and they come from both sides of the aisle.https://nyti.ms/2GGjaG8
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@TrahantReports has been tracking that information.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/1sbC9E1WW-5BuFlqsOcs7LOU2Zq3N_trB37H6H32mdB0/edit#gid=0 …Show this thread
“American Indians have been invisible for so long, in so many sectors in society,” said Denise Juneau, who is among the only native women to have been elected to a major state position. "To be able to make inroads in the political world is huge.”
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Notably, these candidates are only partly driven by the liberal energy and
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More broadly, they are part of a decades-long shift in which native communities, long marginalized by U.S. voting laws, are moving into mainstream politics.
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Many of these candidates are running on a liberal platform fueled by opposition to the Trump administration. But some are like Sharon Clahchischilliage, who led Mr. Trump’s Native American coalition and is running on a platform she calls “fighting the environmentalists.”
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