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María Teresa Kumar

MSNBC columnist

María Teresa Kumar is an MSNBC columnist, contributor and the president and CEO of Voto Latino, a digital-first organization dedicated to educating, engaging and empowering the Latinx community to register to vote and make its voice heard at the polls. 

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Immigrants seeking asylum at ICE detention center in Texas; Maria Teresa Kumar.

The devastating reality of Trump’s mass deportation plan is settling in

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Democrats have policies that can help Latinos. But they failed to message that.

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The Covid misinformation pandemic is in your inbox, too

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How Trump did what Democrats couldn’t

Alex Padilla, California's secretary of state, speaks in San Francisco in 2018.

Padilla’s California nomination helps heal America’s historical omission of the Latino experience

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Trump’s DHS symbolized cruelty. But there’s no easy fix for Alejandro Mayorkas.

Image: Three hands with red overlays hold up torn signs that read 'Latinos for Trump'

Latinos fled corruption at home to come to the U.S. Trump seems to think we forgot that.