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BY NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA | The holiday season always spells out a lot of “debate” at the dinner table. This guide walks you through how to talk about abortion—with fellow voters or at your dinner table—and how to avoid anti-choice traps. We figured this would be a helpful resource this fall and beyond. Originally published in 2018, this piece has been updated to reflect NARAL’s newer guidance and our new post-Roe reality.

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Voto Latino president and CEO María Teresa Kumar speaks during the Women’s March ‘Power to the Polls’ voter registration tour on Jan. 21, 2018, in Las Vegas. Voto Latino is a grassroots political organization focused on educating and empowering a new generation of Latinx voters. (Ethan Miller / Getty Images)

BY ROXY SZAL | In the last several years, a popular narrative has emerged: The rise of right-wing extremism has been fueled by a surge in Latino support. María Teresa Kumar, head of Voto Latino, says this is simply untrue. 

I spoke to Kumar last week to try to understand the proliferation of the ‘Latino Republican voter’ myth. As the head of an organization focusing almost exclusively on engaging young Latino youth in the U.S. political process, she helped me make sense of the election aftermath, the messages she thinks Latino voters sent through the way they voted, and why it’s time for progressives to double-down on Texas.

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This article originally appeared in The Conversation on Nov. 25, 2015.

BY SARAH B. SHEAR | The Thanksgiving story many of us grew up learning in school neglects the voices and experiences of the Indigenous nations whose lands were invaded by Europeans, including the Pilgrims.

How do state-mandated history standards represent Indigenous peoples in social studies education? In this season of “Thanksgiving,” should we revise curriculums to be more accurate and culturally relevant?

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