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Net Neutrality is Internet freedom.
We are not strangers to poverty in New Mexico.
We only have one earth. Let's take care of it.
I was a chairwoman of my state Democratic party.
We - our children need a quality public education.
If we don't have a planet, we don't have anything.
It's always really great when your hard work pays off.
Trump continues to diminish the office of the Presidency.
Any type of anti-Semitism in any form needs to be soundly rejected.
We have to move toward renewable energy in a big way here in America.
We don't have time to play politics with people's lives or the planet's future.
It would be nice if every state were like New Mexico and cared about the Indian vote.
Loss of natural areas threatens our water supply, national security, farms, and health.
None of us want to ever face a choice between putting food on the table or paying rent.
I think it's important that we have different perspectives. We need more diversity in Congress.
My dad was a 30-year career Marine. He was stationed in Quantico Va., and another military base.
As a country, we should be moving forward, but instead conservative lawmakers keep dragging us back.
Native American activists have been present as long as the Europeans have been working to colonize us.
We're a matrilineal society, as Pueblo women, and there are a lot of tribes across the country who are.
Look, there are people hurting in this country. We have to find solutions to make their lives better, right?
On this 50th Earth Day, we face a crisis unknown to those who gathered on the first Earth Day - the climate crisis.
The immigration policies that Donald Trump and the Republicans are pushing are downright hateful and must be stopped.
I have spent my life fighting for the underrepresented and I am working tirelessly to be New Mexico's champion in Congress.
My first job was at a local bakery, and when I graduated from high school, I was promoted from retail sales to cake decorator.
Time and again, it has been proven that SNAP benefits are the most valuable government stimulus we can have for local economies.
Like many New Mexicans, I enjoy spending time outdoors and understand how important New Mexico's natural beauty and resources are.
I know what it's like to have to put back food at the checkout line because you don't have enough money and those kinds of things.
Growing up in my mother's Pueblo household, I never imagined a world in which I would be represented by someone who looked like me.
In New Mexico, we're very lucky that we have laws in place that really help ensure that Native Americans' right to vote is unencumbered.
I believe Native Americans, women, and all of us deserve representation, and that we all need to fight with everything we have to make it so.
I want every young Indigenous girl to think about getting involved in their communities. You're never too young to help with community efforts.
There is no justifiable reason why our electricity, heating and cooling and transportation needs aren't powered by 100 percent renewable energy.
Moving to 100 percent renewable energy is a good economic opportunity, one that the U.S. must seize before other nations take full advantage of it.
We have a government-to-government relationship with tribes, and they should have that opportunity to weigh in on important decisions that affect them.
The GOP wants to cut funding for birth control, place undue burdens on clinics that serve low income women and families, and defund Planned Parenthood.
Every American has a right to food, housing, and health care - and we can afford to provide it if billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.
We must be welcoming to those who flee their country because of violence and abject poverty in hopes of a better future - that's who we are as Americans.
We need more people in office who understand struggle. In Congress, I want to take my experience and fight to expand support for families who are hurting.
It's taken over 240 years for there to be a Native American woman elected to congress, so it's definitely significant that we were able to accomplish that.
I think Nancy Pelosi is extremely qualified to be speaker of the House, because she has been speaker of the House. I trust her leadership. I trust her judgment.
The Violence Against Women Act didn't have specific provisions for Indian country until 2013, which is really sad. It's Native women who are the most vulnerable.
If we're not protecting our women and we're not protecting our girls and we're not protecting the most vulnerable people in this society, who are we as a country?
I want to double down on our commitment to clean energy into New Mexico - that way we'll create good paying jobs by harnessing the power of our natural resources.
My mother was an extremely strong Pueblo woman. My grandmother was the same. I had strong women in my life. My aunties who were there for me every step of the way.
In Indian communities, it's a separate sovereign government, so you have to get permission from the tribal leadership before you can start campaigning on their land.
I'm concerned that if we don't do more to protect our open spaces and reduce climate change, there will be devastating and lasting impacts on us and future generations.
In 2008, I was a full-time volunteer for Barack Obama's first election. I'd take a carload of people and we'd go and canvass in a Native American community every evening.
Racism and bigotry should never fuel any administration's policies. Calls to send anyone 'back' contradict who we should be as a country and the ideals for which we stand.
If Trump wants to appeal to protectionism, the president should be protecting Americans from global warming and the accompanying extreme weather that's becoming more common.
Whenever the Republicans have an opportunity, they've tried to make New Mexico into a right-to-work state, and so I've been on the front lines fighting that for a long time.