Hello, hello, breathing, rather T J, finding trying four hundred and three I sort of under appreciate how it is nearly October and still a hundred degrees every single day from the New York Times. This is the field and generating it in Phoenix Arizona. So we are in a seven park, predominantly latino, predominantly mixed. Can american neighbourhood pretty working class, so we are seeing canvasses with LUCA Luca? Is a progressive social justice organism

and there is only one that really in the last few years helped get many local Democrats elected office guys. So we walk up to a group of about half a dozen young, letting o canvasses standing under the shade of a tree. Could I ask her old near me: fifteen, like really young canvasses to seventeen, I'm also seventeen most of them. Can you though, but the preparing to go door knocking and supported Joe Biden John, you might have we tag along with you. We just need. We shattered a seventeen year old, New Nancy rolled on very apparent immigrants, yeah I'm from Mexico. She heads up into the neighbourhood with the clipboard and a stack of fires and upon our phone tells her, which has

to go to that, for they give us our list, and our peoples of Andalusia has already identified what they call occasional voters. They try to get the people that have embodied in a really long time. Those voters are the target the debates on their daily lives here Nancy as our script, hi. My name is Nancy and Uncle Lucius and we're just going to run the community asking what has been your guys's biggest concern of twenty slash, twenty and who you guys are planning to vote on. We canvas with Nancy for two hours and then was common concerns. Why-

where, in the mouth of light to be made of the virus and as you might expect Palestine you have about them Nor is the majority of people. Do you know we are voting for this are divided by violence.

The already no one body or a guide and already support Biden. Progressive groups like which I know that lieutenant communities and other communities of color in the Phoenix area Lean democratic. Their goal is not really to convince undecided voters or Trump supporters to go for binding for then sending these teenagers out in a hundred trickery heat for hours every day. It's part of a year's long effort to fully energize the let you know, vote in Arizona

Over the last decade, national races have been tightening in the traditionally republican stronghold of Arizona Obama lost by about nine point they're, both in two thousand and eight and two thousand and twelve, but Clinton lost only by three and one slash, two points in twenty sixteen and in the twenty eighteen midterms Democrats want to send it to for the first time in three decades, and also for the House Sea will this year president tramp has visited the state five times we are going to win Arizona referred to hire personal ready.

charms, chaotic divisive Biden has only visited once, and that was just a few weeks ago really gets this virus under control. A real, yet polls show Biden with the lead. Part of that is the trend that were set

nationally of white, suburban women moving away from Trump and part of it? Is this activation of the latino vote, but will it be enough and do enough latino voters actually want bided as their present, so where are we were now to work for a central, Phoenix on a kind of mean, drag and we're about to meet tomorrow, but who is the coach executive director of literature in late September? I went with producers, Ostend Mitchell and Robert Jemison to leeches Headquarters in Phoenix to mark the thirty year old CO executive director of the group Tomas Robust Junior poles in eight months,

our use, decked out only just slag bleach, a t, shirt, bluechip hat on backwards, even thick grim, glasses, a matching shade of blue right now, we're the Alhambra neighbourhood, densely latino, lemmings populated Tomas, often uses the gender neutral, turn Latin annex one, one of the highest concentrations Atlantic waters to one of the highest infection rates of coordinating mistake. This is one of those districts where its democratic district, but people dont participating as history. We can lose a state or the presidency as a whole country to mass, takes us inside the office which no one is working out of these days, because it calls for herself and we sit down in an empty meaning, written answers.

A distance chairs at any starts to tell us the story of how he got intact in his hand. On the oldest of four kids, I would want to some areas on the single market and then immediately move back to a small town called knock, whereas on the border, Arizona, Mexico, My family for generations went back and forth. some were minors somewhere construction workers other was where farmers, and so Sir Thomas his parents are born in Mexico. the growing up first in Rural Arizona, those schools were predominantly so I wore wrangler genes and tucked in pole, I look like a goblin, and then you move the Phoenix and then in Phoenix. So I changed my name to the Tommy in high school, so I could avoid the spanish part of it to masted Nazi, himself as Mexican, because I didn't know what to identify, as I just knew I'd do not identify is

again or even a mexican American in some people's eyes in obviously as to how to figure out what well, I was gonna be around Where was the Marines when I join the Marines, it wasn't until two thousand and one went to Mass join the Marines TAT he started. I feel connected to some kind of larger identity, our station, what a ton of LA makes mines from different backgrounds or weaken cuban venezuelan with oil and they immerse me in language, culture and honest Maxine culture, but man next culture, and so I saw a lesson to the music. I certainly read about the history as our debate about: U S, relations wit, american countries and I started to learn how how many bad periphery things the? U S is done to countries color, there has been so much colonialism that you start to see. Just what exactly it is

so I started really again acquainted about the political structures, the systemic racism an understanding, even in the military. How that seeks through and then send a militant seventy happens comes this moment at was huge, for tomorrow is political awakening. It was also probably the single most important catalyst for the political shift that we ve seen in Arizona. The passage assented bill. Ten. Seventy this is one of the top. Is immigration reform bills on the books? In? U S, history, though, it's hard to build. Ten, certainly is a bill that pass in two thousand and ten Arizona state legislature. The new law allows police to question a person's immigration status if they have. The original law basically stated that if you see somebody that could be undocumented, any person living in the state had an obligation.

The question that individuals, citizenship and that police officers would be forced to do that. Any time they came in contact with anybody whether it be a victim of a crime or a perpetrator, overcrowded teachers, would being hers ass, their kids of their documentation status, some of the most fervent backers of the bill or politicians, America County were Phoenix sense, including the county sheriff, I'm not going to turn on average age, Joe, our pile. I'm going to turn pilot been the sheriff since ninety? Ninety two? Ninety? Ninety three, I put up three and war and he is probably most famous for setting up an outdoor tent city, a sort of extension of the county jail or in

its were given pink, underwear and forced to work on chain gangs, lands twenty five hundred, it turns out from here in Amerika are pile and other supporters attend? Seventy claim that it was simply meant to support existing federal immigration laws but to mass and many others. Clearly that was a racial profiling lock. It was nothing more than a legal mandate for racial profiling bags. That passage about policy brought me right back to China and its. personal for me, a resonated so much, and although I have moved to the back of my memory bank when this begins Nah says he was reminded about an experience he had had as a kid when his family was in the car together locations you and I we were driving back from Morocco to Phinis person affront theirs

me my brother, my sister, my sister's form umbrellas, eight, I'm twelve and they get a couple. Fat tyres, So was ninety ninety four, as you can imagine, there's no cell phones there's no way for us to contact anybody can so we're Lily start waiting for about an hour and a half hour. Listen at cop pulls up behind us and to this day like he was a redhead. Yet those aviator re ban on that the ones with the black as soon as he comes out, but that's I'm glad you're here we're stuck and the second he starts to try and talk to officer, says Imma. Need you to back up, puts his hand on on his holster in the gun and says I need to know if you have drugs or weapons in the car. My dad's, like a family of four, like

we're stuck with the guy then pulls out his gun. It doesn't put on them but says I need to put your hands on under hood and my dad doesn't want to lose a hundred six degrees out here. Bonnie says if you don't put their hands on them, but I'm going to have to rescue so he puts his hands on it. It's hot as hell he's my dad, and then he opens the trunk of our car without permission and starts to search through our whole stuff. So I'm witnessing this whole thing right and I'm a twelve year old This guy's, looking strong shit on the ground is going to close toys. Diapers everything is going to be finding my dad is yelling his like why the hell are you doing this? Would you be doing this if I was white and the coptic

The glass is anyone's. Looking back down is a guide you as a good kids back in this current rise. He didn't ask you how you didn't ask me why he may mother for, like a criminal, render rest on a short term basis we are because we're stuck in the room and so s pretence every made those racial profiling moment, a necessity in the eyes of the law, because my dark ass might be indicated, and so the same The governor signed the bill into law, Tomas, went to the capital and signed up to do voter registration and farmers from the type of service at a one do and a couple years later, Sheriff Pio is up for reelection,

I took a job is organizing director of Lucca at the time the organisation had three Toto employees, including myself, and I was charged the build up and organizing programme to vote our share of european I join the other. Was it didn't work out higher one reelection came, but its margin of victory was the lowest it had ever been and to Martha other encouraging signs We want a couple campaigns that years of very small local campaigns, but we were a good to lose. A warm and sold in twenty fifteen Tomas was promoted to help lead their job and the next year. In the midst of a presidential election, they went after our Pio again. The most talked about raced back here in the van this time,

November ain't sure miracle account a share of your pile loses his seat, Democrat Paul pens. It won't think spies for about ten minutes on election night we were a cloud of powers, is loaded with just one more It's in the state legislature, we outside chance of winning the presidency for states are still too close to an end. Number one I saw Virginia numbers come out You were gonna lose a presidency and it was where this feeling of joy, coupled with fear anxiety. This is where a cocktail of mixed emotions that,

that you just ended up. None by the end of the presidency for to mass and nurture. The only thing to do was to keep working the elections the finish line. The elections are simply a marker and that we need to keep Goin and keep organizing and that's why we created which a lobby in the twenty teammates turns Denmark had some big gains in Arizona, including the first senator elected in the state since nineteen eighty eight year. The strategy that was voter registration get these people out and then we can change yeah. We had a build, a foundation of borders. We have to build. If I tell us the frustrating series of losses from twenty two and twenty sixteen, it was a time.

crucial foundation building that has led to this moment. No six years we added around six hundred thousand people to the early voting list. So if you were gonna got about in those same six years, we registered about three hundred fifty thousand since that year, since twenty sixteen we put a total of eight hundred thousand people in the permanent early boldness and registered almost six hundred thousand people. So it's without that. You don't have to make up. We have in the state right now enormous I didn't realize that much maybe can do if you in sixteen hours were mostly a now

fact, areas owner has the kind of mobilized registered, but you know vote that could make a real difference. Ten years ago lacking, I mean up eating percent of eligible voters in this day, and now that number has grown to twenty five percent. How do you feel now today this moment the nervous? I feel a sense of urgency. I feel a sense of worry to losses about how effective all this work will have been in getting people to turn out in the middle of a pandemic is their excitement

I find it I think. In the beginning of the year there was not an everything in terms of exciting candidate status would have been Bernie Sanders to endorse, and for us is talking about why biting from has ties the military to his ties to family healthcare being a major issue him coming from a working class background. We hope resonates well, but he's also got another concerns, but by the means to get better at talking up an economic message woodland next week. especially land next men and worry than letting on men, and many coloured generally are starting to be paid, peeled off many colorable majority support by the much higher ratio and white males, but any peeling off of any constituencies that could well for binding could spell victory for trouble.

Ashley and states like ours is worried about latino men voting for Trump. Are you able to kind of articulate how you're seeing that happening?. the way that my personal relationships and impelled off is through conspiracy theories through social media, so here that the Cologne or in Cuba there is especially rub. Pedophilia has been major that most of my friends are parents also uncommonly concerned that there is little pedophilia happening alone. Liberal circles he's talking about human on central conspiracy, cabal of Satan, worshipping pedophiles is running a global child, sex trafficking rings and the trunk is trying to stop them

Misinformation and conspiracy theories had been spreading beyond fringe groups and into the latina community this year, so that one major where they killed him off circuit is tromp almost comes offers the last person to be proud of masculinity. Some of these man he's loud he's of noxious. He poured in court, takes what he wants. He does the come the political correctness and in a way it's almost like being and high school in liking, the cork. It again. if you really unpack the layers there, still this belief that there is a economic and color caste system that, if you keep moving up in terms of socio economic, you will be able to pacify yourself as well. And do believe that as an American as long as you pull yourself about Bruce Strata, you can be successful in this country

This is a phenomenon that I started hearing about more than a year ago and honestly at first, I was sceptical of how, for a number of latino. Men were feeling this way, but he knows it turned out for Trump in a surprisingly high number and twenty sixteen about one in four voters. But the thinking had been that, after all, the rhetoric and policies of the past four years and with Biden rather than Clinton, is the nominee the Filipino vote, which solidify into a solid democratic vote en bloc. More like the black foe. but this view of trump that he is a symbol of economic success. I have now heard it again and again from the Tino men I've spoken to covering the election this year. I've heard it in Texas, for it a new Mexico, Nevada and in Arizona by them not being able to put out a message that makes Lennox and who are filling insecure about their economic realities. He's an

message is now resonate with them to the point where they can believe that he can lead them into economic prosperity at a level hired and trumpet, for a lot of male annex voters who are directly impact. The boys policies the economically. What matters most the latest Pauline suggests that something like thirty percent of Light Tino voters plan to support trump this year and that same point suggested. Their primary motivation is its economic progress. Member just last night I got into a facebook debate when my friend Lennox he's a real estate guy here and when it came to the trumps taxes he lad said men. I need to get his account so like he saw as they see themselves as read your billionaires,

we're just stuck in a non berliner situation. Would you be willing to read a couple of those exchanges with your friends? You got to say who is anything, but I want a proper that this is a facebook. and so these aren't gonna like be dies the, but I can read a couple to mass, pulls out his phone and start scrolling. He picks out another exchange with a friend him Jesse and think his dad was an emigrant, but their business people, and so he posted this wearing this tonight during a debate, allow Trump twenty twenty, and so you can see it s, shirt that has binding and transfers it's photoshopped onto the bodies of two wrestlers trump is basically behind a kneeling, Joe Biden when she has them in a headlock. On top of that image. That says night night sleepy Joe and the bottom, it says four more years trump, twenty slash twenty his cousin,

responds funny cousin. What about all the women who were violated then Jesse, respond by saying cousin, Joel likes, touching kids are pass on the pillow bite in So then I responded. I said you just stay believing lies. How about you show a reference that this is actually true, a reference abiding appeal failure, but you're in a cold. So I can see why you can't clearly he sees you s sheep. So as you can tell him that nice to some of these

people and then Jesse, respond by Damascene drinking a communist lies, a free stuff and social justice. Bs be american, be proud, get pay and get rich. It's the only way message, vaccinating rich, get aid and forget everybody,

He offered time alone. Two hours is often what Tomas his friends in mind. We set off to find these voters. Can you either text me warm messenger me it's him for anybody else is going to talk to them today, so you can have your facebook it in a nutshell. I walk you allow them from America's most reliable network comes the five g. Business has been waiting for Verizon five g overdue,

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but people with a lot of power also have the means to make sure there secret stay hidden. So you need organizations like the New York Times to say: let's investigate this: let's put resources behind, uncovering the truth and that's what I do. It's a twenty four seven commitment, and it means that sometimes I can't publish until I spent months or even years following every lead and checking every fact all those resources that are available to us because of New York Times subscribers. If you'd like to support this kind of work, you can subscribe and my time struck com slash subscribe so before we left him ass. He agreed to reach out to two of his trumps supporting facebook friends and ask if they be willing to talk with me for the story just a few hours later. He texted me their responses. One friend said, but love to talk, but not in this environment and with the way things are a simple comment, mistaken or written out of context would not be good for me on my family, the other simply wrote

Our motto na brow for that's, ok, I got to an event in Phoenix, hosted by a campaign to combat tenors for trap where the hell is under featuring appearance by air from the media. They didn't, even after that, and there I met a charming guy named palm next my grandmother, who agreed to meet up with me again, but

reached out miss out many many times. I might add, he told her posted. We go in arson, Robert and I decided to just go to the less units per tonne office and asked them directly, They had any one in mind who they thought would be great for us to talk with you. How are you I'm sorry? Are you weren't, if you're, not inviting over reported for this here to talk to the people he ass? If he were not invited, cannot be kept as anybody here? I can speak with there's nobody here who would be willing to talk to a reporter, so its press in general. The third like it was pressed in general that she was the first

I'm fine used in this kind of thing. The selection season, as we were, standing outside the Lehtinen for trumped up as though we noticed people coin up, having inside the meal. So we started talking to them. I mean for what about what brought you out here today. I am lucky enough and I am for tromp. Why? Because I am for God, for life for family. That's it flew as a catholic, shelter worker in Phoenix tell you one thing. My father was one of the founders of the Democratic Party, Jane Eyre. When he came here, he said to me. Unfortunately, the Democrats have dropped dad and believe me, there was a long time and so has the pandemic.

acted. You were people yeah. We have to be cautious. I think it has been exploited for the leftist reasons. You know, I know, just about open and we don't have any extra, albeit I think it's a land there make in many ways you know she's. Referring to, the information that circulated on social media a couple of months back that the pandemic was orchestrated as a power grab by global elites. Anybody who has got sick, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I gave me they're a worker and this minds decided to go back home start using all the natural remedies of these mom. meaning boiling vein. Embracing and you know, did all this these

The things that they mom underground I used to use at home in Mexico and they're all side. We walk he'll natural, cs. We baby seen em all merit sixty seven years, oh good, run along time. It makes me feel good to see Hispanics in blacks represent public reporting. Myron is about as minister his dreams.

Work right now. Drug sees these in the real world reality. It was really really was gonna. Do you know they do? Blacks and whites were rather hard on it and do nothing about it, jobs in an echo harp on it, I'm gonna do for you, but Democrats said they would do and never done. I will give you the opportunity to do something for yourself Republican, say: I'm not going. I'm not gonna, give you a fish, I will teach you how to fish and you got kids would have a day. Officially. Won't. If you want a middle class, the middle. We want a sharp together, they catch, you shall go Goggins bomb catches Ebay's, but the limit is yours. Democrats say we can give you a canned tuna crackers and be satisfied with then given into practice alone is already won't alone.

a large pickup truck with several Trump Bumpersticker zone. It pulls up and a man hops out your name reached through greater crews. The pair stressed in full trumps supporter gear get mad at that. I got a line every about Droplet America. This is actually Bangladesh, but he's got a bright red mark, a hat, a mask that reads: keep America Grief and a Trump Qichen he's also wearing a t shirt rubbing his local guns door after a picnic brought me back today more, but wish to be remembered that it nothing else, I'm using gifted stolen how many sites that he had stolen several I've got a job is biting sizeable. They rode didn't get stolen. What are you consider yourself? That's your nasty

I'm a mexican say: static, merriment American first, that's gonna have visited, but from here from your meaning phoenix. I put my family in Europe since before was a territory yeah. My grandmother was born in a year before we can state are left over. I was a military black therefore read my father was born here is hit. My grandfather was one extra when I'm curious added like Dean Mexican is an important EU does have the all important EU that identity utility? Yes, yes, it does so clearly and fishing to understand how crews reconciles his mexican american identity with his support for the president. What I like about you, gifts, skin stuff, that is against a pragmatic and

results, oriented version. He asked me this man who can be sitting here where's he gives me the job is enough money to influence people. If that's, what you wanted to do in politics is not taken salivating things. One hour here here again is the idea that Donald Trump is a man who knows how to get rich and wants you to have the chance to get rich to row. I want Well, I want you to american dream. I mean I want to pursue. Wife, liberty should happiness, that's it! Basically, in a nutshell, I don't get complicated with do you feel, like you, ve changed your miracle dream.

I think, as I think I see that I've been here. I also certainly for question, having attained in question, to have the opportunity to first and foremost numeric drew is the opportunity to pursue the opportunity to go for what you want. You want fiscal financial security. Hold you kids. Why pick is that on a jazz, regardless of yours is a mansion on the hill or yours. Just that double. Why some point we're you're comfortable in secure in your government, for instance, right I've found a lot about this now and I think, ultimately, it's about two very different views of the american dream. With analysing a community one is about making this kind

tree a better more just version of itself as Tomas came of age and as many and latino voters have come of age, they ve been activated impart around their identity as Latinos. They are voting on behalf of the community that they see themselves and the they believe is marginalized and subject to systemic racism in the form of policies like the one sheriff our pious supported in Arizona through. That lends its very difficult to understand a vote for Donald Trump. You're like crews, and you see your primary identity as an American that the american dream is about me individual being able to go after what they want and to get it. Then you can see how Trump might be an attractive candidate, but these are such phenomena.

slightly different ways of you in the world that it can be very difficult for the first group to see the actions of the second as anything other than a betrayal. You can drive burrito. Yes, it is, so they hold the sheep. Thirty six wherein the conversation like the demon you're, not, are you able to go back and forth with her the other day? Actually, it's actually about having a conversation, several different time zones, that one day, I have no doubt that topics of limit what that guy, that's not fair crew, says when he tries to talk with you. democratic daughter about politics. She won't even go there, though I remain civil. The that doesnt have enough. I think

but it is one have an open discussion about it. Disrespect to abortion in level decisions, spectral, chubby stories that mutual nobody else about your personal life and is then- and I do not share the stuff, but when it comes to this light off, I find that that's that's horrible. You can have that kind of relationship and then all of a sudden it because politics sure you show them what point my life people had pretty much the same goals. There might be different stuff, like Rover, swayed worsen, there's a couple of divine and bells ring will loudly, but for the most part. Yet what are the same thing? We just had different ideas on how to get there, and now it doesn't seem like anybody wants the same thing,

Your daughter has said some version of this before that, like dad the President's racists and needs racist again. Fourteen a shopping for my wife, my daughter to my grandson to go shopping business mother's day. We sneak out, he kills people to palm oil. So the shop and we're toddlers, many other animals on radio stickers Sub is natural and your he's racist, a big, party migrations path, lagging you just have to grow up in that is lacking in him a sweet. What what why we have an answer, much more than the indoctrinated somehow I believe so as the one before us, Anna There are a lot of things and its listen ethical, dissuaded, bathwater sessile, Romano de favour. This thing. Look. It won't find out why first things off.

Republican with Gay daughter, a black grounds. I mean I'm beginning to better gotta talk to you. I believe that there is such a thing is racism overall. No, I believe that this should part of our population came that black water, whatever that needs to be if it helps people to restate our time, I've actually racism. I drew up a notary basis when I was younger and she's been off of off base, in particular white neighbourhood. I ask all the way home to transport people so Mexican, as he's top

I'm starting to think of Tomas and how he came to think about events like this at his own childhood experiences experience racism against yourself personally myself large Angelo movie explanation, even looking at it because a video move you so what's on racism is inexperienced, is implied without inferred. It's funny. You said it is the first part of my head was a pleasure, but it was tat. Was thirty years ago I was asking for help to be reasonably do I cannot Hobson's now know that as a jerk as media shovel, somebody and thousands of really really for deeply like Michael Apparent spoke,

Thank you so much I give as it were, yeah stolen, sir, if you're signed it stolen signs everyday after I left Phoenix, I got a message from trees. His yard signs only lasted for days before they were ripped up and thrown in the street,

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