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Washington Post reporter, TX-based. I cover red states. Tips: 202-890-9669; 213-265-8572(Signal) Mollyjhf Instagram/Threads molly.hennessy-fiske @washpost .com

Houston, TX
Joined October 2007
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Minnesota State Patrol just fired tear gas at reporters and photographers at point blank range.
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I talked to several #Texas college students this week who said they and their friends planned to drive 4+ hours each way to vote, but this is by far the farthest I've heard: Her mail-in ballot didn’t arrive, so she drove 20 hours to vote
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David Hogg, 17, head of the student TV station, described filming classmates during shooting "in case they died" #browardshooting
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If you value what we do - and by we I mean all of us reporters and photogs - please subscribe @latimes and to your local paper. Many of my colleagues have been furloughed during #COVID19 a deal @latguild worked out to save jobs. But I know other places have had layoffs.
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Update: We are safe. Just filed the story of what happened @Latimes
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Emerged from #Kenosha hotel to put parking pass in car, saw police restraining guy, went over with colleague and officers shouted get back in hotel or we’d be arrested. Reporters are not exempt from curfew, he said, no matter what the mayor says. #Journalismisnotacrime
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My statement below: L.A. Times reporters attacked by Minnesota troopers will settle lawsuit for $1.2 million
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Going to pick up my coworker from the hospital - hope police honor my press badge and let me through. @MinneapolisPD @CityMinneapolis
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I spoke with migrants as they crossed the Rio Grande, scrutinized objects they left behind and used them contact their families to learn more: The things migrants carried — and dropped — as they crossed the border
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I got hit with a rubber bullet I think, maybe two
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So grateful for good Samaritans Mai Candiotti and Trish Lundburg, who claimed to be “Minnesota nice” but actually is for real
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19 women allege medical abuse in Georgia immigration detention
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Story posting soon here:
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Got to hospital to get @Carolyn_Cole and they’re on lockdown treating a shooting victim. She apparently photographed the whole thing so stay tuned for an update from her tomorrow @latimes
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@MnDPS_DPS @MnDPS_DPS @MnDPS_MSP did this to me and other journalists. They have yet to contact me to apologize, be transparent and take corrective action.
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Thread: A day in the migrant camp of about 14,000, mainly Haitians, near the border bridge in Del Rio, Texas.
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We also posted video with this story from the border as migrants crossed and left things behind: Subscriber exclusive: ​The things migrants carried — and dropped — as they crossed the border
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Nex Benedict family statement re autopsy report:
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Federal judge slams U.S. Postal Service and orders search for mail ballots in Texas facilities
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Vaughn Dickerson speaking at Yates High tonight #Houston about his friend #GeorgeFloyd “I never figured this would be my last time splitting out with him” for more, check out George Floyd’s Houston memorial reminds friends what they survived
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I spent the day out talking to people about the mismanaged police response. Then I experienced it. Minneapolis is center stage for a nation’s turmoil and rage
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#GeorgeFloyd arrived at Houston's IAH airport at 9:40 p.m. Saturday. At his family's request, the arrival was private. His body was escorted to Fort Bend Memorial Planning Center by #Houston police. Public viewing starts tomorrow at 10:30 a.m.; family funeral and burial Tuesday.
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#BlackLivesMatter protesters converging on exit of #TulsaRally for ⁦ @realDonaldTrump
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In mountains of Guatemala, searching for parents deported from U.S. without children
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What happens when a reporter and photographer move to the Texas border for a few months to write about life at the edge of the Rio Grande? Our first story appears today on @latimes with help from valley native Verónica G. Cárdenas. Here’s why we did it, in a few tweets.
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A year ago, I met transgender migrant Mayela Villegas, 27, in a Mexican border tent camp before she crossed legally to claim asylum in Texas. At the end of May, a friend contacted me to say Mayela had died.
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Manuel and Patricia Oliver, parents of Parkland shooting victim Joaquin Oliver, will protest #NRAAM18 #Dallas Saturday @ChangeTheRef - check @latimes for updates
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If you’ve received a letter from the Texas attorney general’s office requesting medical records of transgender Texas youth treated at your out of state facility, I’d like to talk to you. The office is refusing to release these public records to the press.
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@RobertDinTulsa I’m a reporter - I’m not stay home. This is America. Btw, none of the government advisories said press had to stay home. If they had, we would have challenged them.
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To all the misinformed people saying reporters should stay home after curfew @MinneapolisPD @CityMinneapolis NEVER said that. If they had, we would have challenged it. We’re essential workers. Residents told me the only way they located fires was reports. #FactsMatter
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3/ I told the officer, respectfully, that media are not mentioned as subject to curfew, and since there’s a #FirstAmendment and #FEMA deemed us essential workers, if they don’t mention it, we’re exempt. If they do mention, it would trigger litigation. #1A
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Some news:
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. @mollyhf joins The Post as Texas correspondent
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3:30 a.m four asylum seekers came to the Laredo bridge for the first full day of "tent court." This Honduran single mom brought all her belongings, assuming she wouldn't return. She has $5; no phone.
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2/ I’ve covered @realDonaldTrump rallies and this has never happened to me before. Here’s some of what he said after following me down the street. I try to listen to everyone, and went on to talk to several other #Trump supporters.
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@engineco16 @Fotogodterry I had credentials around my neck, was waving a stenographer’s notebook and was standing next to a photographer with an enormous camera wearing credentials and a flak vest that said “Press” #FactsMatter
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1/ Quick update thread: Revisited the scene outside #Minneapolis police Fifth Precinct today to see where Minnesota State Patrol fires at us with tear gas, rubber bullets and pepper spray. These were recovered by @brianstelter crew at the scene
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This is what I now have to wear to cover news in #Tulsa
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4/Some clinic staff cried. In addition to the 27 patients they turned away Friday, they had to notify another 45 scheduled for next week that they could not be seen.
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What’s it like to be a child migrant and grow up helping others? We visited Nora Sandigo in Miami to find out: ‘La Gran Madre’ helps child migrants separated from their families — because she was one
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@myopicmcgee @jaketapper So that people can say we made up the footage? No thanks. My job is to be there, talk to people and document. #FactsMatter
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@MnDPS_DPS @MnDPS_MSP @MnDPS_MSP @MnDPS_DPS @MSPPIO It has been nearly a week since your officers fired at and chased me and other members of the press. Do you intend to investigate, apologize and take corrective action? You did this. You pepper sprayed my colleague, a photographer, in the eyes.
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I'm attempting to observe immigration court at Port Isabel detention center courtroom - which is public - but have been turned away twice by guards because reporters must have ICE approval
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#Minneapolis now - an hour past curfew
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Two Phoenix survivors #OregonWildfires2020
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3/Clinic staff consoled patients, gave them handouts directing them to out of state clinics and web sites that distribute abortion medication by mail.
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1/Just spoke with @MayorFrey about #Minneapolisprotest and he assured me that reporters are EXEMPT from the curfew. Just getting that on the record @MnDPS_MSP @MnDPS_DPS If you detain, arrest or shoot at the press, YOU are in violation of the curfew.
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4/ Does #kenosha curfew bar press coverage? I’ll be following up with officials tomorrow. Curious what the mayor thinks. Streets were quiet, many more police out than civilians, no protesters in sight. #kenosha
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More Spiderman at #houston convention center with evacuated kids #HarveyFlood
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The latest: U.S. Customs officer loses job and citizenship over his Mexican birth certificate
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If you appreciate what we do - and by we I mean all of us reporters and photogs - please subscribe to @latimes and your local paper. Many of my colleagues are furloughed, a deal our union @latguild worked out to save jobs during the #COVIDpandemic but others have lost their jobs.
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2/We were both wearing credentials and clothing that said “Press.” We were not arrested. An officer inside the hotel said media are not mentioned as exempt from curfew.
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Fact check based on state and federal stats: from 2011 to 2018, 5,580 illegal aliens were charged with sex offenses and held in Texas prisons, 797 a year average.
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Thousands of illegal aliens who have committed sexual crimes against children are right now in Texas prisons. Most came through our Southern Border. We can end this easily - We need a Steel Barrier or Wall. Walls Work! John Jones, Texas Department of Public Safety. @FoxNews
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The #COVID19 nurse we shadowed, Flor Treviño, messaged to say she appreciated the article after her shift ended yesterday - at 10 p.m. Technically, she works 7 am to 7 pm.
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HHS confirmed today that a sixth migrant child died last September in federal custody after arriving at the border. Here's the statement from Mark Weber, an HHS spokesman:
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I was just harassed and called a “psycho cunt” for telling a young man at my neighborhood grocery store #HEB in #Texas to wear a mask as required by local ordinance and signage in the store. #COVID19 cases are spiking in #Houston #Texas
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5/just fyi, the reporter I was with was shot with “less lethal” weapons by police while covering protests in #Portland . I was shot in #minneapolis . #Journalismisnotacrime
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Thanks to @latimes for giving us space to tell these stories from the border
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I filed a public records request with @KenPaxtonTX office after the Seattle clinic lawsuit requesting any and all similar requests sent to other clinics. All they supplied was the Seattle request. Now its' public that they wrote to a Georgia clinic, too. Similarly, when I
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@DanNassimbene @jaketapper They were peacefully protesting. I was reporting - that’s my job, not “associating.” I was reporting on police, too. I wouldn’t say what they did was restore order. #FactsMatter
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CBP agents wrote fake court dates on paperwork to send migrants back to Mexico, records show
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I’ve spent a couple nights on the Rio Grande with @Carolyn_Cole walking up from the river with migrants and the past week talking to asylum seekers on both sides of the border
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@MichaelMinasi captured the moment I was singled out at the @realDonaldTrump #Austin protest and harassed yesterday for being a reporter. Another #Trump supporter told the guy to stop. The rest watched.
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Thanks @ratemyskyperoom for this and to folks in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley for sharing their #covid stories - the Alamo art is by my husband; fruit bowl is from #RGV
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Fruit bowl. Love a hanging plant. Art. Travel books for the win. 10/10 @mollyhf
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“The unmasked guy shrugged at him and was like, ‘It’s a free country. The virus isn’t real. I can do what I want,’” Ms. Milliken said. “The masked guy then says, ‘I work in a hospital. I’ll be seeing you soon, buddy.’” #COVID ー19
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Not just yelled at - an @HHSGov official ripped a page out of my notebook during a tour of Carrizo Springs after I refused to stop writing. I demanded it back. I got it.
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There was also the time when @mollyhf got yelled at for, IIRC, writing things down during a tour of a kids’ facility?? Biden admin is being opaque, sure, but “Stephen Miller always wanted the press to cover the border as a crisis” didn’t translate into actual access
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We went inside a COVID-19 unit to see how they're saving patients - and why some are leaving before they finish treatment: This small Texas hospital is finding ways to save COVID-19 patients
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@MnDPS_DPS @MnDPS_MSP @latimes It’s been nearly a week. I’ve worked every day, injured, because you cannot stop the free press protected by our Constutution by shooting us. @MnDPS_MSP @MnDPS_DPS
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The latest, based on records I got here in #Texas for @washingtonpost and info from those in the know. Many thanks to those who helped bring this to light. Reminder: You can always call or send tips to contacts above or Signal ^^
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A #Houston boy between the ages of 10 and 19 is the city's first pediatric #COVID19 death without underlying health conditions, the Houston Health Department announced Thursday.
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1/A thread about how I went to #arizona with a question: It's illegal to destroy saguaro cacti. So why are they being removed for Trump’s border wall?
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Fifth precinct just after curfew. Chanting. Pan pipes. Spray paint. Looted piles. #MinneapolisRiot
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A veteran with scripture in his profile chided me for being dramatic about getting shot at with rubber bullets by police. I’m not a combatant. 2 Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. #JournalismIsNotACrime
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@BobbieVSpeaks @brynstole They’re also home watching the news. Did you? If so, you’re welcome. Freedom of the press is enshrined in the Constitution. #FactsMatter
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2/ @CBP doesn’t allow press to enter the camp from the U.S. and closed the border bridge, so I crossed to the East, drove through Mexico and waded across the Rio Grande.
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I spent time in small town #Texas with @AverieDanielle aka #MissTexas who handles rattlesnakes, eats Texas-shaped waffles and posts videos on her viral TikTok about her controversial platform: Diversity and inclusion. With @sflores photo, my video n links:
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Teachers lined up to see ⁦ @VP #Houston
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I just visited the Border Patrol center where immigrant families are separated. Check out what I saw on @latimes Facebook live. Story posting soon. Then there's the general media tour, which I'm also doing. Will try to do a Facebook live after and update the story.
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2/Colorado was the first state to legalize abortion in 1967 (California did later that year) well before the Roe v. Wade ruling in 1973.
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Love tuning in to @npr and hearing @LeilaFadel in the morning
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#WomensMarch #Houston police estimating at least 6,000 people here
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4.Hern was at the Supreme Court for Roe oral arguments. Lawyer Sarah Weddington, 26, faced a male opponent. “He made some sort of smart remark about being up against a pretty woman,” Hern said. “Nobody laughed.” Weddington died last year.
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@daningo @jaketapper I’m an essential worker.
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3/This week, Nora Sandigo and volunteers from her Miami-based foundation helped Mexican migrant Catalina Aviles reunite with her daughters, ages 5 and 3, who were in a federal shelter for a month. They were separated from an older sister at the border who was expelled.
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Look who showed up for #TrumpTulsaRally - #COVID19
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Bless you @BillPlaschke for spreading the word: "Nobody tells you about the dread. From the moment my doctor phoned me with the test results, to the moment I am writing this column, I have been scared out of my mind."
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