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Melissa Morales

@Melissa_In_DC

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Power in our voices. Power in our diversity. Power in our unity. Founder and National President of @SomosVotantes and Somos PAC. Tweets are my own.

Washington, DC

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Joined June 2015

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@Melissa_In_DC

Melissa Morales

2 months

Elections are won & lost on the margins. If we want to win on the margins we are going to have to actually listen to & talk to voters on the margins -- including Latino voters who may be less likely to vote. The polling is telling me we need to INCREASE our efforts. Not decrease.

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“For decades, Democrats have built their electoral strategies on a common assumption: the higher the turnout, the better their chances of winning. But that familiar equation may no longer apply for President Joe Biden in 2024.” My take

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Melissa Morales

6 years

1. They handcuffed Stephon Clark's lifeless body after shooting him 20x. 2. Dylann Roof was calmly taken into custody after massacring 9 people - and then taken to get Burger King because he was hungry. But what you choose to get upset about is that NFL Players are kneeling.

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5 years

Me trying to find the part of Article 2 that gives the President unlimited power.

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It's WILD to me that we're litigating whether Joe Biden can do the job when he is ACTIVELY DOING THE JOB & has done so for the past 3 1/2 years with massive policy wins that have provided our families & our communities with the tools and opportunities to build a good life. Wild.

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5 years

Trump’s Staff every time he mentions Article 2 - knowing Article 2 contains the Impeachment Clause.

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Melissa Morales

8 years

I guess Trump really is creating jobs. Because I'd imagine this is the first job Three Doors Down has had in awhile. #TrumpInauguration

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2 years

Kevin McCarthy when he finally wins the #SpeakerVote with a fractious Party and in the most embarrassing way possible:

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Melissa Morales

5 months

Them: "Sleepy Joe" President Biden during #SOTU2024 :

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Melissa Morales

8 years

I'm staying up until 11:59, because I want to soak up every second of life before a Trump presidency. #TrumpInauguration #ThankYouObama

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4 years

Is there anyone who seriously still gives a #royal f*ck what Piers Morgan thinks?

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Melissa Morales

3 years

Maybe Mr. I'll-do-my-own-vaccine-research-Djokovic should have done more research on which type of visa he needed.

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2 years

Any Dolly Parton slander will result in immediate blocking. I said what I said. #SuperBowl

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Melissa Morales

6 years

@elias_julie @johnoneillnyc @Serial_Tragedy @love_teach_run Agreed. The semantics of whether Dylann Roof's meal was dine in or carry out doesn't negate the fact that he was allowed due process while Stephon Clark was killed on the spot.

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2 years

@MediumSizeMeech I died laughing at "stop or I'll scream." Perfectly delivered line/character/relationship development right there.

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6 years

@johnoneillnyc @Serial_Tragedy @love_teach_run I retweeted with the correction that he was FED Burger King - not taken there. The point stands.

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2 years

Pelosi watching Kevin McCarthy try to strong-arm his own party into voting for him:

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Melissa Morales

6 years

The most offensive part of Michelle Wolf's #WHCD speech was when she asked "Are there any Hispanics in the room?" as the crowd jeered & then proceeded to bash immigrants. Oh. Wait. That wasn't Michelle Wolf. That was Donald Trump the same night at a rally in Michigan.

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Melissa Morales

7 years

April Ryan is my hero. I've just been WAITING for a reporter to look at Sean Spicer and say, "No." during a press briefing.

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Melissa Morales

4 years

Y’all. Piers Morgan just tried to @ & embarrass me bragging he has more followers than I do. He’s in the entertainment industry. I’m just an average person. The fact that he even responded is laughable. He’s just mad another woman of color won’t bow to his outdated opinions. 😂

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Melissa Morales

2 years

Senator Rubio loves posting Bible Quotes. I wonder why he hasn't tweeted about how the book of Deuteronomy says we should forgive debts every 7 years and the book of Exodus says if you loan money to the poor YOU SHOULDN'T CHARGE INTEREST. This is a tweet about Student loan Debt.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

@PressSec @POTUS All I'm getting out of this story is that it sounds like the owner of Red Hen doesn't condone caging children and then lying to the American people about it.

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1 month

There he is. That’s my President. Get knocked down. Get up, dust yourself off, and get back to work. Yes Sir, Mr. President. 🫡🇺🇸

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Melissa Morales

3 years

Helpful tip since Spotify is making it hard to cancel your premium subscription: If you use PayPal to make your recurring payments, you can cancel them through the PayPal app. I just did.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

@EMPIRE02320162 @TrumpHasGot2Go @guavate86 I didn't realize vandalism was punishable by death without due process in the United States. Also @TrumpHasGot2Go - for an account that claims to be progressive, that sure is a troll/bot like statement.

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Melissa Morales

5 years

@cmclymer I call my dad everyday at 5:15am. On the dot. We chat for a few minutes while he has his coffee. He's at work by 6am. He works all day at his blue-collar job cleaning & sanitizing semi-trailers. His paychecks aren't enough to make ends meet. My dad is 10x the man Ben Shapiro is.

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Melissa Morales

2 years

@cmclymer Madison Cawthorn: “Cry more, Lib.” Me, a Lib, on the night of his defeat, crying more:

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Melissa Morales

6 years

I was the first in my family to graduate from college. I then went on to graduate from law school. But I had to use credit cards to help me pay my living expenses through both college and law school. Last month, I finished paying off my credit card debt. #HumbleBragAboutSomething

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Melissa Morales

3 years

@NoraPrinciotti Forever 21’s PR person right now:

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Melissa Morales

6 years

For sake of accuracy, 1.) They shot AT Stephon Clark 20x. 2.) Dylann Roof was FED Burger King. My apologies for those inaccuracies - but the point that the police shot and killed an unarmed man without due process and then handcuffed his dead body stands.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

1. They handcuffed Stephon Clark's lifeless body after shooting him 20x. 2. Dylann Roof was calmly taken into custody after massacring 9 people - and then taken to get Burger King because he was hungry. But what you choose to get upset about is that NFL Players are kneeling.

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Melissa Morales

7 years

@DannyZuker @realDonaldTrump He ad-libs comments that take us to the brink of a nuclear war but "KKK is bad" takes days to put together.

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Melissa Morales

3 years

Justice Thomas saying Supreme Court Justices don’t make decisions based on personal or political preferences, like:

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Melissa Morales

2 years

Imagine being more upset by the fact that the @Yankees used the term "Latinx" than you are about the lives lost every year - EVERY DAY - to gun violence. You're not actually outraged about the term Latinx. You're just trying to avoid an uncomfortable truth.

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Each year, more than 4,100 Latinx people die from gun violence in the U.S. and 13,300 are shot and wounded.

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2 years

Timeline cleanser: He’s equal parts upset by the cold and the fact that I put a jacket on him 😂

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2 years

Nobody prepared me for how much I would miss my dog while I'm away on work trips.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

To everyone who said Trump's comments about Mexicans, Muslims, Black People, the Disabled, Gold Star Families, and Women were just "calling it like it is" -- SPARE ME your faux outrage over Michelle Wolf's truth-to-power comments last night. #WHCD

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Melissa Morales

3 years

My apologies to everybody in this incredibly nice restaurant who just listened to my husband and I loudly debate East Coast vs. West Coast oysters like it was Biggie vs. Tupac. 🤦🏽‍♀️

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Melissa Morales

7 years

Hearing #PresidentObama speak then reading Trump's AP Interview transcript is like the "this is your brain/this is your brain on drugs" ads.

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Melissa Morales

7 years

@boilerroom481 @DannyZuker @realDonaldTrump Yes, and we all know he was reading someone else's words because the response was constructed in full, coherent sentences.

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Melissa Morales

4 months

@Meowsportsmeow I took it like if she hugged Lisa she woulda lost it and she didn't want to breakdown in front of everyone. It's like if some random person shows you sympathy and you're alright but when it's one of your family or close friends and you just breakdown.

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Melissa Morales

2 years

I have no words right now. Just tears and pride and gratitude. Congratulations to La Senadora @CortezMasto . We f*cking did it, y’all.

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PROJECTED: Democratic U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is projected to win re-election, earning a second term representing Nevada in the nation’s capital.

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Melissa Morales

7 years

The only thing that could make Rachel Maddow's news of Trump's tax returns better would be if Melania was the one who leaked them.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

There's a clear difference b/w undocumented immigrants and MS-13. There's a clear difference b/w Muslims and terrorists. Trump is effective at painting the entirety of a group in a negative light under the ruse of fighting a narrow threat. This is dangerous. Don't be fooled.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

America needs Unions for good healthcare. America needs Unions for fair, living wages. America needs Unions for worker rights. This isn't the first time worker rights have been under attack & it won't be the last. I'm sticking with the Union. #WeRise #Janus #Union #UnionStrong

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Melissa Morales

4 years

@rosemarysugarbb Exactly. Her calculated comments did exactly what they were supposed to do. When I first saw "Alison Roman" I thought it was a type of lettuce.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

Can we stop acting like John Kelly the "voice of reason and logic" in the White House already? Just because he can string coherent sentences together doesn't make him any less culpable for the cruel and inhumane acts being committed against immigrants.

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Melissa Morales

3 years

Ridley Scott, we are old. Leave us alone.

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Melissa Morales

2 years

I swear to Dios Mio they will find a way to blame Meghan for this.

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The Independent

2 years

Spider spotted on top of Queen’s coffin at Westminster Abbey funeral

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Melissa Morales

6 years

@tvisgreat @clt92 I retweeted with the correction that he was FED Burger King - not taken there. The point stands.

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Melissa Morales

4 years

How dare women get paid for their expertise?! #JanetYellen

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Melissa Morales

6 years

Reminder that Melania Trump is not a hero. My concern is that we are beginning to equate basic human actions and decency with hero status. And not wanting to hold Trump's hand is a basic human action.

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Melissa Morales

4 years

I saw Candace Parker trending and thought maybe she was a surprise VP pick. Nothing she can’t do.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

Remember when people were like, "OMG I think Hillary is hiding her true health from us?!" and questioned her physical fitness for the presidency? Now, it turns out that Trump completely dictated the physical report his doctor gave...but crickets from the audience. Got it.

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Melissa Morales

9 months

Yes, I saw the New York Times poll -- this is the only statement I'll be making on it:

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Melissa Morales

2 years

It’s that time of the Electoral Cycle again:

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2 years

People will scream "SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED" while conveniently forgetting about the "well regulated" part.

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Melissa Morales

7 years

The #FyreFestival was basically built on the same model as the Trump Campaign: Promise everything. Deliver on nothing.

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Melissa Morales

3 years

@jordainc I'd rather Senator Roger Marshall read the Senate Bills on his desk (which is what the people of Kansas are actually paying him to do) instead of categorically rubber stamping "no" and continuing with these publicity stunts.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

@realDonaldTrump But I thought Mexico was paying for the wall.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

@sher_wr You can't edit tweets. But I retweeted with the slight correction. The point I was making stands and I don't want to take away from it with inaccuracies so thank you.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

Vanessa Trump files for divorce from Donald Jr. Anyone else suspicious that is just a way for them to transfer assets to her in order to protect them should Donny Jr's get seized or frozen in the Russia investigation? Seems convenient given Mueller's subpoena today.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

So we call the cops on a child selling bottled water in her yard but POISONING children with water in their own homes we accept as a societal reality? That's where we're at? #Flint #PermitPatty #ThisIsAmerica

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Melissa Morales

3 years

Before you engage in the Hispanic vs Latino vs Latinx debate, please ask yourself if you've done ANYTHING recently to actually INVEST in Hispanic/Latino/Latinx communities and voter outreach efforts. Time? Money? Energy? No? Then just shhh please. Some of us are trying to work.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

@realDonaldTrump I know you didn't write this tweet yourself because there's an appropriate use of a possessive apostrophe on a plural word and a surprising use of the Oxford comma.

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2 years

@cmclymer So I guess trading Herschel Walker away is once again the best trade Texas ever made?

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Melissa Morales

6 years

1. Multiple male actors have jumped from acting to political careers (Reagan & Schwarzneggar for example). Cynthia Nixon is getting shit because she's a woman. 2. That was a damn good campaign ad.

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Melissa Morales

3 years

The Latino urge to open all the presents on December 24.

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Melissa Morales

2 years

Me: I hate drama. Also me, watching the #SpeakerOfTheHouse vote, like:

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Melissa Morales

6 years

#Roseanne is back? I guess they needed something equally as awful as The Apprentice to replace it on TV.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

Last night, I dreamt I woke up to find the Zombie Apocalypse had hit, but all I was worried about was how I was going to make it to my 8am meeting through all the chaos. And honestly, it's a good illustration of what living through the Trump Admin has felt like. #TuesdayThoughts

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Melissa Morales

6 years

Double rainbow. Fitting on the 2-year anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting. Rest in power. #WeWillNotLetHateWin

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Melissa Morales

3 years

Less conversation about the term "Latinx" and more conversation about actual investment in our people/communities and what it's going to take to reach us, please.

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Melissa Morales

4 years

@therecount @jeneps And got the plug in for the Affordable Care Act. 😂

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Melissa Morales

3 years

So is everyone still quoting MLK today or are they back to opposing Voting Rights Legislation?

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Melissa Morales

3 years

@metzgov @nytimes @tressiemcphd @kyrstensinema I’m completely convinced @SenatorSinema uses her outfits to distract from her votes. Every single key piece of legislation where she’s taken a bad vote has been marked by a statement outfit that moves part of the conversation that way.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

"DO NOT CONGRATULATE." National Security Advisers should have known better than to use a multi-syllable word in Trump's briefing if they were trying to get him to read and understand it. #TrumpRussia #Putin

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Melissa Morales

6 years

Your right to own a gun is not greater than my nephew's right to spend a safe day at Kindergarten. #NationalWalkoutDay #NeverAgain #NeverAgainMSD #WalkoutWednesday

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3 years

@TMZ ALMOST bully? So she DIDN’T bully them. Got it. 🙄

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Melissa Morales

7 years

@realDonaldTrump Shhhh! Keep it down. We're trying to read. #FireAndFury #FireAndFuryBook

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6 years

@notcapnamerica I'm sure there's a reason, but I can't quite put my uterus on what it could be.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

I was 10 years old when Columbine happened. For a few years after that, our School District mandated that all backpacks had to be clear. Guess what? That didn't fix the problem. We need a better solution than clear backpacks. I support the #NationalSchoolWalkout .

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Melissa Morales

2 years

Criticize George Santos all you want -- but do it without resorting to anti-drag, anti-gay, and anti-trans attitudes or rhetoric. Just stop.

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3 years

My #BadArtFriend is the kid who put an "F" in front of "art" on my "Melissa's Art" sign taped to my desk in 2nd grade.

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Melissa Morales

3 years

Can we talk about how rude it is for my iPhone to not recognize my puffy morning face?

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Melissa Morales

2 years

Thank you to La Senadora Cortez Masto for coming to our @SomosVotantes Las Vegas celebration! It was an honor to be part of the effort to re-elect the FIRST and ONLY Latina ever elected to the U.S. Senate. So proud. Can't wait to see what we can do next. Together.

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Me liking everyone’s statements on The Biden Administration’s huge immigration announcement:

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Melissa Morales

3 years

@cmclymer Ugh. Now do bras.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

It's amazing how many people in this country have to hate other people (undocumented, Muslims, Mexicans, Latinos, Blacks) in order to compensate for their own weaknesses.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

America needs Unions for good healthcare. America needs Unions for fair, living wages. America needs Unions for worker rights. I'm sticking with the Union. #WeRise

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Melissa Morales

6 years

Apparently a #Sinkhole has appeared on the White House Lawn. Didn't this happen in front of Mar-a-Lago last year, too? Either the universe has a sense of humor or the Russians are still trying to build that back channel to Trump.

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Melissa Morales

7 years

Just read Trump's #SaturdayNight twitter rant about everything from Kim Jong-Un to Russia to Hillary. In the words of @chrislhayes : For the love of God, someone take his phone away.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

The next time Sarah Sanders refers to Donald Trump as The President in a press briefing, I really want a reporter to ask "Which President? Putin or Trump?" #Treason #ImpeachTrump #TreasonSummit

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Melissa Morales

4 years

When you're enjoying the #SuperBowl coverage and all of a sudden Trump pops up.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

Can we STOP calling them white nationalists? Call them what they are. Racists. White Supremacists.

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3 years

@MittRomney I just feel like Mitt is more Nate than Ted.

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Melissa Morales

6 years

I turned 30 today. If my 20s were about learning who I am and growing into that woman, then my 30s will be about unleashing that woman on the world. #ShePersisted

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7 years

Gonna start ordering pizza from a different non-Papa Johns place every Sunday, taking a selfie with it, and tweeting it at Papa Johns. #NFL

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Melissa Morales

2 years

Yesterday was a a very special day indeed. This little Tejana from the barrio made it all the way to a #WhiteHouse visit. ❤️

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6 years

Dying. 🤣

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6 years

Bill Clinton literally won the popular vote twice, Melanie.

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6 years

When I was in college I went to a "crisis pregnancy center." Before they would give me my results they lectured me on how children are a gift from God & should be cherished. But it's funny b/c I haven't seen groups of these workers raising hell for these kids being held in cages.

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